Chapter 1: A Cap Falling from the Sky
“WOW! Nene receives a pass from Wall and turns to score two more points! He's hotter than the Heat's home court today, and it looks like the Heat need a long timeout...... Charles, stop your damn mouth! What kind of stuff to eat! ”
"Relax, Kenny, it's not the two of us on the field right now," Sir Charles Barkley licked his fingers as he shoved the last cheese-stained pizza into his mouth, "Mozza garlic pizza, you deserve it." ”
"It's not advertising time, and I hate garlic so much, especially in your mouth, Charles, and it looks like I'm proposing a rule that no food is allowed to be delivered in the studio...... Let's take a look at the results of the other games, and the director cut us in...... 76 people? Well, they've been hung again, Charles, can you put on a show of eating garlic pizza one more time? I'd rather see you than they do," Kenny Smith said to Barkley with an exaggerated look of disgust, frowning, "Okay, let's take a look at the technical stats, the Hornets' Kemba Walker has scored 30 points...... He shot 13-of-23, which was a lot higher than his average shooting percentage for the season. ”
"My grandma can score against the 76ers, oh, there's 1 minute and 30 seconds left, and the Philadelphia boys can clock in and call it a day......" Barkley said with loose eyelids hanging out of breath, and at this moment, a rapid light and shadow flashed on the broadcast screen, and his eyes suddenly widened, like an owl in the middle of the night.
"Oh! Kemba Walker's steal! The 76ers have given up on defense! Oh? Who is this kid? Number 11? Does 76 have this number? He hasn't given up yet! ”
"It seems that he wants to try to make a splash at the end of the game to try to make a splash at the top five of the day...... Hey! Barkley's eyelids slowly faded again, and he took out a hot dog sausage from his pocket, and continued to feast on it, while muttering in his mouth, when he saw the two figures on the screen fly towards the basket at the same time, and his eyes lit up again.
"Oh! Both of them flew! Walker forced a twist and a layup! It's covered! Number 11 covers Walker! It's a pegboard hat! Oh oh oh! Oh! Charles, hahahaha, what is this? Sneakers or your thing? ”
"Your dick looks ......like this," Barkley said vaguely, and the broadcast picture at this time also gave a close-up of the unlucky sneaker, which was miserable and old, the patent leather on it had peeled off into pieces, and the sole seemed to burst open under the impact of the jump just now, revealing the colorful rubber inside, the triangle logo on the side side was missing, and there were a few blurred letters underneath.
"PEAK, PEAK, PEAK?" Kenny Smith pondered, "Looks like I've seen it somewhere, oh, Sean!" Sean has brought salt to this brand, it seems, China? ”
Sean Battier, a former Rockets player, is a slam dunk maniac turned defensive warrior and a Pickle-Salter.
"Oh, let's take a look at the perpetrator, oh no, kid 11." The camera finally moved reluctantly away from the strange sneakers, turning to his owner, this is an oriental face that can't see his age, saying young, the messy hairstyle and embarrassing stubble expose his vicissitudes, but said old, those eyes that are somewhat deep for Asians exude the scorching brilliance of young people, seeing the camera turn to him, he couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, grinning and making an expression that he didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and ran away in a panic.
"76ers No. 11, Ding Wei, nationality Chinese, on-court position, shooting guard, signed a 10-day short contract with the team 3 days ago, other information is unknown, what should I say? The Mysterious East? Kenny Smith habitually shrugged and muttered to himself.
"I'm suddenly very optimistic about this kid." Barkley blinked slyly, half-jokingly, but also seriously.
"Hopefully you won't perform another ass kissing ass again. Okay, okay, let's continue to follow the game between the Wizards and the Heat, the current score is still scorching......" Under Barkley's ill-intentioned eyes, Kenny Smith finally chose to talk about him, but in his heart, he couldn't help but have a trace of anticipation for the future of that mysterious Chinese kid.
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"Hah...... Ha ......"
Ding Wei sat on the bench with a towel on his head, feeling that every pore of his body was still oozing sweat, and he could even hear the gurgling sound coming from his body, as if the water was boiling.
No, that's hungry. Since this afternoon, Ding Wei hasn't eaten anything.
The reason for not eating is very simple, no money.
Ding Wei is poor because he is a stowaway.
At the age of 17, he followed his uncle from Hujian "drifting" to Southern California, all the way around, working everywhere, and finally settled in Philadelphia, his uncle has been a famous gangster in the local area since he was a child, but he can't get along in the gangster circle in Philadelphia, relying on a clever mouth, slipping whiskers and slapping horses to be a small role such as a gangster, with a few gangsters smaller than him, blackmailing students every day to support their families, a gang fight, the soles of his uncle's feet were slower to oil, was cut 7 times, and lost a leg, and since then he can only live by shining shoes on the street, said that it was a shoeshine, but also a begging, suffered a lot of white eyes, most of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the two people fell on Ding Wei, since the age of 18, Ding Wei has to be busy in the restaurant for more than 12 hours a day, no holidays, and no Sunday. Maybe it's tired, maybe it's hungry, Ding Wei inherited a good body from his parents, but he doesn't grow fat, 6 feet 5 inches (195CM) is only 170 pounds, less than 80 kilograms, and when he runs, he looks like a kite, and it looks like he is about to fly.
"Ding, Ding?"
Ding Weiqiang propped up his eyelids, which were almost together, and the short five-minute playing time almost squeezed out all his physical strength, he wanted to speak, but in the end he just gritted his teeth and squeezed out a "Huh?" from between his teeth. ”
"It's over, go back to the locker room."
"Hmm." Ding Wei snorted from between his teeth again, stood up from the seat with his hands propped up, shook his head twice and threw the towel to the ground, for fear that every time he made one more movement, he would immediately fall down and never get up again, so he mechanically followed the steps of the crowd that gradually retreated from the arena, and moved towards the players' tunnel little by little.
The crowd in the audience has long since receded, for the team that has lost 17 consecutive games at the beginning of the season, being able to watch the game is a great face, and the Hornets who are fighting away do not seem to have the passion to celebrate, and this victory has no sense of accomplishment for them.
Ding Wei smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that it is really a complete mistake to choose such a team that has made a bad plan from the beginning of the season, but he is not qualified to think about this, and he has no time to think about it, all he can do is to find a way out for himself through these 10 days of short matches and 3 games.
No, it's too early to say the way out, and it's true to get your salary and eat a full meal first.
Ding Wei interrupted the cranky thoughts in his mind and continued to move towards the entrance of the player's tunnel, and at this moment, a somewhat excited scream suddenly came from overhead:
"Ding! You're Ding, right? ”
Ding Wei raised his head a little dazedly, the headlights on the dome of the stadium shot directly into his eyes, he opened his five fingers to block the dazzling light slightly, only to see a little boy lying on the railing of the stadium, with golden curly hair and blue eyes, just like the foreign children who often appear in movies, but the two front teeth that looked a little anxious were slightly protruding, making him look a little funny, seeing Ding Wei looking at him, he rubbed his hands a little embarrassed, and said softly:
"I just wanted to say that your last cap was fantastic."
Ding Wei wanted to say thank you, but he opened his mouth, but he didn't make any sound, he thought, even if he smiled, just as he was trying to put on a sunny expression, a lightning bolt in the depths of his mind suddenly hit him, and he fell straight down with a strange expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
"Ding! Fourth! ”
The surrounding crowd suddenly stirred, but Ding Wei didn't realize it, he felt that he was slowly floating in a bottomless darkness, and a burst of electronic synthesis sound floated far away from the end of the darkness: "Di, Di, Di, your body is being repaired, please move later......"