Chapter 1: Failure, Giving Up
Geneva, Switzerland, International High School Basketball League. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the basketball court, dazzling lights flashed, and LED halos of various colors shone on the podium!
On the stage, five American players held up the trophy with excited smiles on their faces, and a long-legged girl next to them opened the champagne and sprayed them with a blessing of victory!
At the center of the five is a handsome young American, who has a charming smile that makes the girls dazzle, and his eyes are fixed on another young man in the audience.
He is the core of the championship team, he is only 17 years old, and he is the real little prince of American high school basketball!
"I learned a Chinese idiom." The champion did not make a winning speech at this time, but stared at a person in the audience and said, "It's called Yiyanjiuding, please keep your promise to fail, and never touch basketball again for 2 years!" ”
The young man in the audience has black eyes and black hair, and his figure does not look strong.
In the face of the aggressive smile of the halo-covered basketball prince, he could only nod silently.
"Come, Li Dong, the talented player of the Chinese team, please smile and leave us a souvenir." The reporter and photographer walked up to the black-haired teenager and said in standard Chinese.
The black-haired youth grinned as he faced the camera.
This smile made him feel heartbreaking!
At this moment, he understood.
Many times, there is no reward for second place.
Take the battlefield, for example.
In his eyes, the stadium is a battlefield, there is no gunsmoke, no blood, but once defeated, it is like a corpse, buried in the yellow sand, waiting only to slowly decay......
This is true on the pitch, as in any field full of competition, and few people will remember second place.
His name is Li Dong, and he is the starting small forward of the Chinese team in the high school league.
But he had to step back from the professional basketball arena he loves most, and not just because of a bet with the American phenom......
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A year later
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On the terrace of an 18-storey residential building, the morning breeze blows in his face, and if the wind is not mixed with the smell of haze, it is a good morning for Li Dong.
Short black hair, white tank top, wide ball pants, a pair of flip-flops, and a standard **silk configuration.
Fortunately, that face is quite handsome, and he deliberately pretends to be melancholy, well, decadent and handsome!
Li Dong was holding an English book and was slowly memorizing words.
In fact, his English scores are quite good, especially the sentences and words that bring greetings from the other party's relatives and families, and he has an extraordinary talent for mastery.
There's no way, if you want to scold people in a foreign country, you can't use the country to scold, right?
"How can I say it, Xiaodong will definitely be able to make up for his studies, and he will be in the top 30 of school without mock exams. Xiao Dong is a genius, a genius in every aspect! A woman's voice came from the kitchen, and she could hear it with some relief and pride.
"Hmph, if you didn't support him to play basketball, his grades would be better, and it would not be a problem to be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, 30? It's still far from Tsinghua University and Peking University, and he dares to just give me an ordinary key university, and see if I don't smash his computer! A middle-aged man's voice came.
"If you dare to smash it, if you dare to smash it, I will throw all your cigarettes and alcohol in the garbage! What's wrong with playing, I've gone abroad at public expense, have you ever been abroad! The woman went crazy at once!
"You...... It's all you who spoil him, he has no future in the future, the responsibility is all on you, what future can this have! The middle-aged man said angrily.
"What's wrong with me? What do you say you do with me? ”
"I'm too lazy to tell you!"
There is still the noisy sound of the old couple and wife in his ears, Li Dong is not woken up by the alarm clock every day, most of them are chattering and arguing.
This suite is only about 80 square meters, and they can't stop their voices anywhere.
The woman is naturally Li Dong's mother, Yang Lei, a typical mother, who dotes on her son very much.
The middle-aged man is Li Dong's father, Li Wenzhong, although his tone is very stern and angry, but he is his own father, and every father is like this.
"Mom, Dad, I'm going to school." Putting away the English books, Li Dong changed into an ugly school uniform, put on his schoolbag and went to the door to put on his shoes.
"Yes, be careful on the road." Yang Lei poked her head out of the kitchen, watched her son put on his shoes and left, and then went back to brush the dishes and chopsticks.
After cleaning up the kitchen, Yang Lei went to her son's room to clean up.
When she walked to the room, Yang Lei found that her son's computer screen was still flashing, and it was obvious that she had forgotten to turn it off.
"This kid runs up early in the morning to play secretly." Yang Lei said with some reproach.
As she spoke, she quietly closed the door, so as not to let Li Zhong see it, otherwise she would lose her temper again.
Walking to the computer, Yang Lei found that the game window was still there, with "NBA2KOL" written in the upper left corner.
"What kind of game is this?" Yang Lei said with some doubts.
Then Yang Lei saw the gold 1 star again, and she didn't know what it meant, so she casually turned off the game interface with the mouse, and then clicked shut down.
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There are extra points for winning the Olympiad, extra points for winning the Academic Cup, but winning the international runner-up in the Middle School Basketball League...... Not only did it not add points.
Oh no, but there's only one way to go for sports students
Li Dong likes a lot of sports, he has won the championship in badminton since junior high school, and then he became obsessed with football, and then he liked basketball.
However, you should know that no matter what glory you achieve in this field, the vast majority of parents and elders will charge you with a crime of not doing a good job.
The high school that Li Dong studied is considered a key high school in the city, and it was also bought with several years of his family's savings. Li Dong's original high school was very bad, which gave him plenty of decadent time to become a professional athlete in his first and second years of high school.
In June of his sophomore year of high school, FIBA held the International High School Basketball League, and he went to participate, but after participating, he became a good student......
The first place in the league has a reward of 300,000 RMB, but the second place is not rewarded.
As for why, ask FIBA to go.
After nearly two years of abandonment, the family still spent a lot of money to buy Li Dong to study in a key high school.
The conditions at home were not very good, and Li Dong really couldn't bear to see Li Zhong's gloomy face, so he was angry and tried to be strong for a year.
Talented people actually have talent in many fields, and reading is also talented.
Li Dong is a talented person, in a year, he not only made up for the lost studies, but also caught up with some good students, and the results of the mock exam are the best proof.
Of course, being a good student doesn't mean he has given up basketball.
For some people in this era, there are some things that are second life.
As LOL Rigalen said: people are in the tower.
There are some things that can really be defended with everything, including basketball.
Li Dong kept his promise to the Yankee and didn't touch basketball again, but that was within 2 years.
Wouldn't it be nice to go to college and then go back to work in 2 years?