Time has been transferred to 2007, Li Chenglong was coming out of Columbia University, walking to the school gate, and many people greeted him.

"Hey Bruce, good job last night!"

"Bruce, are we going to make it to the national championships this year?"

Columbia's non-league games have been played last night, last night the Lions defeated Boston College 78-66, and the Lions won 9-3 in 12 non-league games, which is the best among the eight schools in the Ivy League, but Columbia's opponents do not have a few popular teams, only one favorite University of Connecticut, Columbia University also lost to each other, so Columbia's results did not attract attention, At most, a few sports newspapers within the Ivy League have named Columbia one of the favorites to win the Ivy League regular season this year.

Lee has performed well in 12 non-league games, averaging 21.6 points per game, and is the team's leading scorer, and in the home win over the Stanford University Crimson team, Lee scored 32 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, which is a career high in his scoring statistics.

In the slow-paced games of the NCAA, scoring more than 20 points per game are the most attention-grabbing stars in NCAA basketball, respectively, Kevin Durant, a freshman from the University of Texas in the top 12 leagues, and Greg Oden, a freshman at Ohio State University in the top ten leagues, Auden can average 18 points and 11 rebounds per game is considered very powerful, and Durant, who averages 26 points per game, has been praised by the media as a historical data, Durant has been labeled as the most powerful freshman in history at this time, and the sports media generally believes that both of them will be the favorites to participate in this year's draft.

Li Chenglong's average points per game has made him the No. 1 star of Ivy League basketball, and some local sports media in New York have begun to pay attention to him, and occasionally there will be reports on him, but in the entire NCAA basketball in the United States, he is still just an unknown boy, after all, the Ivy League is a weak chicken league, and the NCAA every year will have one or two weak chicken league players at the top of the scoring list, but in fact, he is a tall man from the short, and his strength is not outstanding.

Coming out of the school gate, Li Chenglong chose to take the subway home, which was the first time he went home since he became Li Chenglong.

Li Chenglong followed the route in his memory, took the subway from the north of Manhattan to the south, and returned to Tribeca in Lower Manhattan.

New York City has five boroughs, which are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island.

In general, Manhattan is the heart and heart of New York, the business card and face of New York, many international institutions or large corporate headquarters are here, there is the world-famous Wall Street, one-third of the top 500 companies in the United States are headquartered in Manhattan, more than 50 of the world's top 500 companies are headquartered in Manhattan, six of the seven largest banks in the United States are headquartered in Manhattan, and the United Nations headquarters is also located in Manhattan.

The Bronx and Staten Island are more like the suburbs of New York, but thanks to the fact that many Americans like to live in the suburbs, they feel that the suburbs are good and the houses are cheap, and there are many middle-class families and even rich people who settle in the Bronx, but they are all more scattered, and the Bronx also has the most famous baseball team in the United States, the New York Yankees. Staten Island, on the other hand, is home to a number of historical and cultural attractions, and is considered a tourist island and the least populated area of New York.

Brooklyn and Queens are the two most populous districts in New York, these two districts were the low-income groups in New York in the early years, especially Queens is dominated by blacks, Queens is one of the few places in the United States where the total income of local blacks is higher than that of whites, Queens always gives people a bad impression, many New Yorkers think that it is better not to go to a place like Queens after dark, otherwise any accident may happen, Joey in "Friends" is always ridiculed by his partners for coming from Queens, and the well-known Spider-Man Peter Parker was also born in Queens, and Spider-Man in Queens can have so many crimes to fight. Brooklyn was similar to Queens in its early years, but as Manhattan was packed with buildings, the neighboring borough became more and more prosperous, and thanks to the Brooklyn Bridge that connects Brooklyn to Manhattan, Brooklyn has also built a wealthy neighborhood where many wealthy people live.

There is a saying in the United States that the heart and shining point of New York is Manhattan, and several other districts are the slums that provide cheap labor for Manhattan.

Tribeca, where Lee's home is located, is a residential area in Manhattan that has emerged in recent years, and in the early years it was a food distribution center in New York, and the distribution center moved to the cheaper suburbs as transportation became more convenient, so it was developed into a new residential area, where at least middle-class families lived, many of whom were Wall Street upstarts.

Tribeca is located in a good location, with Chinatown in New York's food market to the east, Wall Street, the financial center of New York in the south, SOHO, the largest shopping paradise in New York in the north, and the famous Hudson River in the west. These have made Tribeca's housing prices remain high, and an ordinary 100-square-meter apartment can cost at least one million dollars, or in a not very good location.

Li Chenglong's house is the kind of minimum standard house, Li Chenglong vaguely remembers that his parents bought a house with a loan, and there was a quarrel because of this, Li Chenglong's father may be the stubborn idea of the Chinese, must buy a house of his own, and the mother thinks that it is better to rent a house in New Jersey across the Hudson River, just across the river, both money saving and convenience, New York and New Jersey have long been connected by subways and bridges, and it is also very convenient to go to work, but in the end they still bought this suite, As a result, I had to repay the loan every month.

As soon as he arrived at the door, a snow-white Samoyed rushed out, Samoyed shook his head and tail at Li Chenglong, and kept wanting to jump up and play with him.

"Hi Snow, I've seen you, stop licking my hands with your tongue."

Li Chenglong said as he entered the house, the dog was their family, and was named Snow because of its snow-white coat color and female sex.

When he entered the house, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old ran towards him, and her brother was still screaming.

Li Chenglong picked up his sister, who was still a little baby fat, and asked, "Alice, are you the only one in the family?" ”

It's the weekend, and of course the little girl won't be the only one in the house.

"Dad works in the study, and Mom prepares lunch."

Mr. Lee's parents both worked at York Private High School in Manhattan, his father was the school's deputy director of legal affairs, and his mother was a music teacher at the school, but as the family bought a house, his father had to work part-time at a law firm on Manhattan's East Side, and he had to spend some time on weekends dealing with the firm.

At the lunch table, Li Chenglong talked about his future arrangements.

When he heard that Li Chenglong wanted to participate in this year's NBA draft and wanted to become a professional player, his father's brows furrowed.

Instead, the mother said, "Your grandfather will be happy to know your decision, but it seems that very few people at Columbia University become professional athletes, but no matter what you decide, we will support you." ”

Lee's father, Li Mingli, is a second-generation immigrant who came to the United States with Lee's grandfather, who ran a restaurant in Chinatown in his early years. Li Mingli has a fine tradition of Chinese and strong reading ability, and later entered New York University to study law, and after graduation, he and his friends set up a law firm, but it failed due to poor management, and then entered the legal department of York Private High School, and became the deputy director for many years.

Mr. Lee's mother, Karina Rodriguez, is distinctly Mexican, but she is actually a quarter of her black ancestry.

Black blood is very strong, children of black people and other people of color will have obvious black characteristics, curly hair and black skin, but when the black blood is only a quarter or less, it will not be visible, at most only curly hair, the current NBA Celtics head coach Doug Rivers is half black blood, but he looks completely black, he found a white wife, and the daughter he gave birth to looks completely blonde and white-skinned hot girl, and the son is also white-skinned only The curls on his head are like blacks, The photo of Rivers' son and daughter spread to China, and many people thought he was green.

Lee's grandfather was half black and half Mexican, and he played in the NCAA in his early years, which is why his mother said that.

Li Mingli then asked some more questions, but he obviously didn't know much about his son, but Karina knew about her son's recent situation and told him about the recent fact that he had become a star at Columbia, which made Li Mingli feel a little more at ease.

(To be continued)