When Bai Wenkai asked about the details of the beating incident that happened in the training hall in the morning, Ding Wei hesitated, and finally chose to confess, even if he didn't say it, Bai Wenkai only needed to run and ask any coach or player, and he could get the answer he wanted, he sat on the stool next to the bed for changing shoes, confessed the truth like a statement of evidence, and then lowered his head like a schoolboy who made a mistake, honestly waiting for the other party's verdict.

"Oh." Unexpectedly, the answer Bai Wenkai gave him turned out to be like this.

Ding Wei was a little surprised, in his imagination, Bai Wenkai would definitely scold him in a rage after hearing the news of him beating people in the stadium, and then call the coach, teammates, media, and even Jakar Sampson one after another, trying to minimize all the impact, which now seems to be completely different. You must know that when he decided to tell Bai Wenkai the truth, he did have a mischievous mentality in his heart that made the other party crazy and collapsed, so he was disappointed.

And when he opened the refrigerator to get some snacks to fill his empty mind, this disappointment suddenly turned into despair: the refrigerator was stuffed with all kinds of dried fruits sealed in vacuum bags and bottles of various flavors of Gatorade, but the snacks and drinks that were originally placed in it were gone, he thought he was hallucinating, "slammed" the refrigerator door, and slammed it open, but no.

"Where's the fridge?" Ding Wei asked Bai Wenkai with the last trace of luck, his voice trembling a little.

"I gave it to the waiter in the housekeeping department, and that junk food won't do you any good anyway." Bai Wenkai replied without raising his head.

"Heavenly ...... Ah......" Ding Wei suddenly felt that this was the biggest bad news he heard today, in comparison, it was simply weak to knock someone down on the court.

"I thank you." He glared at Bai Wenkai viciously.

"No thanks, yes."

"......" Ding Wei, who was speechless, finally opened the refrigerator door and took out a bag of nuts, sat on the bed and nibbled on it, in the face of such a person, he could only turn his grief and anger into appetite, "Can I watch TV?" ”

"Of course."

"That's pretty much it." Ding Wei muttered and turned on the TV, and immediately a familiar voice came, "This is the CCTV sports channel, and now it is the ...... of the American Men's Basketball Professional League that is broadcasting live for you."

Ding is a change of channel.

"Now that the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers game is in the third quarter, LeBron James is getting ...... right now"

Change the channel.

"Welcome to this episode of ESPN's Top 10 Balls, Ball 10, please watch Lakers rookie Jordan Clarkson ......"

"Well, is there anything else besides basketball?"

"Yes."

"Well, I already know." Ding Wei's hand holding the remote control finally put it down after changing the stage again, a man and a woman sat in the huge LED screen, and the rich baritone voice said: "The main content of today's news is ......"

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Ding Wei, who spent the whole afternoon and evening in all kinds of boredom, held on until about 11 o'clock before he heard the slight snoring he had been looking forward to for a long time, he gently lifted the quilt covering his body, picked up the sports suit that had been placed at the head of the bed a long time ago, tiptoed to the door, sneakily stretched his neck and looked back for a while, seeing that Bai Wenkai who was sleeping on the sofa still did not have any movement, then he gently opened the door lock of the room with his little finger, held the doorknob and pulled the door in quickly- It was a trick he had learned while reading a novel about a thief, and when he slowly pushed open a door or window, it would creak and squeak, but not when he was fast—and then he peeked around the sides of the hallway, and after making sure that no one was passing, he rushed out of the room with lightning speed and closed the door. When he finally appeared in front of the elevator door of the hotel in full clothes, he realized that his back was soaked.

"It's my own room, how can I go in and out like a thief?" Ding Wei complained while rushing to the front, he had been eating vegetarian for three days and his mouth was about to fade out, and when he thought of countless delicacies on the wide street in front of him, he couldn't help but move his index finger and trotted all the way under his feet.

"A steak, a large portion." Ding Wei casually found a store and rushed in, and when he entered the door, he opened his throat and shouted, which immediately attracted everyone's sideways eyes, but fortunately, his erected collar blocked most of his face, otherwise it might cause some kind of commotion.

Seeing that the waiter behind the bar seemed to recognize himself, Ding Wei hurriedly made a "shhh" gesture on his lips, took the menu on the bar, pretended to order a dish and asked for a signature pen, signed his Chinese name on it, and then handed the $20 tip to the waiter along with the signed menu, and the waiter took it happily, made an "OK" gesture towards Ding Wei, and pointed to the seat in the corner.

"It's like an underground transportation station." Ding Wei shook his head, he felt that after this toss, his whole temperament had become obscene, which made him even more unhappy, so that he was even more determined to tear open his belly and eat a big meal, otherwise he would have paid such a big price in vain.

The steaming, sizzling steak soon came up, Ding Wei picked up the juice at hand and drank it in small sips, and finally waited until the sound on the steak gradually subsided, and was about to wave his knife and fork to feast, but he caught a glimpse of another figure outside the door probing his brain and burrowing in, even a little more obscene than his posture just now.

"Maybe it's a celebrity." Ding Wei stared with interest at the figure who was sneakily approaching the bar, and now his heart was much more balanced, "It seems to be an old man...... Why is it so familiar? He lowered his head slightly, but his eyes were still looking up, and anyone who saw this dignity would immediately think of the very lucrative profession of porter of other people's belongings.

The old man seemed to be muttering something to the waiter, and he couldn't really hear it from a distance, only to see the two people nodding in the direction of Ding Wei, and gesturing with each other with an "OK" gesture, and then Ding Wei saw that his coach was wearing a gray top hat, wearing a cool trench coat, the collar was raised high, and a pair of quite trendy sunglasses were on the bridge of his nose, and he slowly paced over with square steps, and finally sat down opposite him.

"Uh, Boss......"

"Shh......h My wife is the owner of this shop, but she doesn't seem to be here today, hehe, I ordered the biggest steak and the strongest wine, how about it, would you like to have a drink later. Coach Brown still refused to take off his hat and sunglasses, and it seemed that even sitting in the corner did not give him much security, and he peeked at the crowd around him with his eyes, and at the same time lowered his voice to Ding Wei.

"Boss," Ding Wei reminded him in a volume that only two people could hear, "you better take off this outfit, I bet it's because you're dressed like this that so many people look at you." ”

Coach Brown nodded, gently took off his hat and sunglasses and put them aside, and then chuckled softly at Ding Wei: "Don't you want to know the final decision of the coaching staff on your punishment?" Although his voice was still very soft, he was still in a normal state of speech.

"I don't think or don't want to think about it," Ding Wei couldn't wait to swallow a piece of steak, the tender taste and fragrant gravy overflowed his mouth in an instant, and his taste buds, which were tortured to the point of numbness, woke up almost instantly, at this time, he didn't care about any red tape such as dining etiquette, and replied vaguely while chewing hard, "In short, I will accept any punishment." ”

"Assaulting a teammate, one game ban, absenteeism without permission, two games." Coach Brown smiled and looked at Ding Wei's lowered gaze, he could see that it was impossible for Ding Wei to be indifferent to the result of the punishment, after all, this kind of thing can be big or small, even if it leads to the termination of the contract, it is not completely possible to rule it out, after all, there is a precedent for this.

Sure enough, Ding Wei showed a surprised expression in his expectation, and his eyebrows were twisted into a big "? ”。

"You should know who I used to be."

Ding Wei nodded and shook his head again, he only knew that Brett Brown had served as an assistant coach in the Australian Super League for the Melbourne Tigers and the Australian national team.

"You must have thought I was going to tell you about my coaching career in a country where kangaroos were running everywhere, right?" Coach Brown smiled and shook his head, he knew that Ding Wei would always have some understanding of his past as a coach, but what he was going to talk about today was an incident that happened even earlier, when he was a high school player.

"South Portland High School, of course you haven't heard of its name, because it's in Maine, and 38 years ago, this team won the All-State Championship with a 29-0 record, and I was the core player on that team."

Ding Wei's eyes widened, he was not born 38 years ago, so it was naturally impossible for him to know that his head still had such a peak moment.

"But we had a tough first game, no, it wasn't hard, it wasn't because the turning point wasn't on the field, it was in the locker room," Coach Brown couldn't help but laugh at this, and he looked even more smug than he had just talked about how he led his school to a 29-0 record, "I hit our captain at the time, and it was like this, a punch, a punch to his chin, so that his chattering mouth could no longer speak." He gestured with some excitement as he did his boxing moves.

Ding Wei looked at his head with some surprise.

"I was scared after all of this because I suddenly realized that I could be banned or even expelled from the team, but no one was talking about it at the time, and the media couldn't have had the same nose as it is in the '70s, and by the time people started to know about this little episode, I was already out of high school, thanks to my teammates and my high school coach, but I didn't regret my impulses even without them."

Ding Wei nodded, in fact, after the fight, his mood was not as calm as it seemed on the outside, when he heard that the coach actually had the same mental journey as himself, he was completely relaxed, at least he didn't have to worry about what happened next.

"Calm may win more games, but you can't be calm all the time, that's no different from a machine. A lot of people only see the league in its glory today, but forget that this glorious history was made by a bunch of bad boys: Jordan, Kobe, or the former AI, they are not the humble gentlemen people see on and off the court, let alone the feud between the Magic, Big Bird Bird and Isiah Thomas, even the Spurs when I was an assistant coach, I don't think I need to say who their most important players are besides GDP. ”

"Bruce Bowen." Ding Wei nodded.

"He may not be the strongest, but he's always going to be the biggest headache for you, but I would say that if he had a career in the late '80s or early '90s, he would have been scrapped by Bill Ranbier on the other side of the game as soon as he met the Pistons."

"Times are changing, the way of playing is changing, but that doesn't mean erasing the personality of the players," Coach Brown cleared his throat and continued, "Of course, if that personality conflicts with the team, I think the punishment for you has shown that, you can target someone, but you can't target our team, any black sheep, I will kick them out without mercy." ”

Ding Wei couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to Jakar Sampson: "Then you plan to give him ......"

"The five-game ban starts tonight, but I'd like to hear from you."

"Then ...... Why don't you ban one game, just tonight? ”

"You go on." After listening to Ding Wei's words, Coach Brown suddenly wanted to know what made Ding Wei make such a decision.

"Boss, you also said that players are not robots, and there will always be times when they can't control themselves, so I want to ......"

Coach Brown suddenly smiled and interrupted Ding Wei's words: "I understand. ”

Ding Wei, who was confused, didn't know if the leader recognized his reason, he held a fork in his hand and flicked the small tomatoes on the plate, and suddenly thought of tonight's game: "By the way, how is the game?" ”

The 76ers' opponent tonight is the Hawks, and the head coach of the Hawks, Budenholzer, also has experience as an assistant coach with the Spurs, ranking one place higher than Brett Brown, and it is still a matchup in the field.

"It's like you think, but everybody is working the field." Coach Brown took the cup in his hand and drank it down.

"I'm sorry, Boss......" Ding Wei apologized, he could imagine how much Brett Brown valued this match.

"A game is not a big deal, what I'm really worried about is that you guys get used to losing and losing," Coach Brown gave Ding Wei a deep look, "and I want to thank you for that, because you hate losing in your bones, and the more times like this, the more the team needs such people." ”

"Forehead......" Hearing the leader's praise, Ding Wei was at a loss.

"Hehehehe......" Feeling Ding Wei's embarrassment, Brett Brown poured the last bit of residual wine from the glass jug into his glass, stood up and patted him on the shoulder, "I'll consider your opinion just now, but it's a little late now, and you should go back early after drinking this cup." ”

"Chief, you haven't finished eating yet—"

Brett Brown waved his hand at Ding Wei without looking back, and disappeared out of the door as fast as he could.

"Hello sir, may I ask if you bought the gentleman's order......

Just when Ding Wei wondered if he was blackened by the leader, an old female voice came from his ear: "I'll pay for the order of this table." ”

"Yes, boss." The waiter obediently stepped back, and by the way, he made a "self-begging" expression to Ding Wei.

"Margaret Brown," said the gray-haired woman, gracefully leaning sideways in front of Ding Wei, and smiling at him, "please tell the old man who ran out just now that I have already drained him of the vodka he hid in the middle of the refrigerator." ”

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