It was Valentine's Day night in 1993, and a large group of black kids carried 17-year-old Iverson to the Hampton Bowling Alley, where Iverson was already a celebrity in the city, leading the varsity football team to the Virginia High School championship as a quarterback at Holy Land High School, and he led the varsity basketball team to the same honor.

One can imagine how proud Iverson is a group of black kids from the slums, who are making a lot of noise at the bowling alley, and when some white kids have repeatedly dissuaded them to no avail, a war on race has become inevitable.

A 17-year-old little white girl first walked up to Iverson and said to him, ", what do you think of the human race?" Iverson's friends quickly grabbed the girl, and a group of white kids joined the scuffle, with more than 20 people seriously wounded in the fight. The district court quickly handed down its verdict in the case: four people were sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison - all four were black!

The court found Iverson guilty of leading the disturbance and sentenced him to five years in prison, and prosecutors said in the complaint that "Iverson struck a little girl in the head with a chair." But let's look at the truth: More than 20 Caucasian witnesses said they saw Iverson smash people with a chair, but they described the chair as the murder weapon in 10 ways; Iverson is not seen in the group fight scene in the bowling alley videotape.

Eight witnesses confessed that they knew only Iverson in the group of black children, and that they believed that all black people looked alike; The judge in charge of the case was a close family friend of an injured white child; In the indictment, the prosecutor described only how the black child was rude, and did not mention the "" at all.

Until now. Iverson still insisted that he was right, "I'm going to smash a girl with a chair!" They could have been smarter, and of course I'd have smashed people with chairs. But also smash the men I think should. At the appeal of the Supreme Court's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Iverson was released on parole after only four months in prison.

Now no one knows exactly what happened that Valentine's Day, but all with a plausible attitude that Iverson was guilty, and no one wondered if a black man had been treated unfairly in the case.

Bob, who coached Iverson at a basketball summer camp after his parole. "Iverson is just very proud, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable," Williams said. He was a man of great conviction and could do anything for the sake of his own principles, but he was by no means a criminal. ”

Years later. When Iverson recalls his prison life, what touches him most is that for a black man like him, who comes from a low background, resistance is the only chance to survive. Every newcomer to Newport Prison has a special "joining ceremony" - a crowd of inmates surrounds him. Throw all sorts of feces at him.

Iverson didn't scream or cry like many new inmates, there was no hesitation or cringe in his eyes, and no matter how formidable the opponent Iverson faced henceforth, there was nothing but anger in his eyes.

Seeing this, Yu Yang took a deep breath. He summed up what happened to Iverson. The reason for the struggle: the poverty of the family, the discrimination of the ethnic group, the discrimination of the rich and the poor, the denial of height and other factors condensed in this 1.83-meter little man. Back then, with these angry moods, he kept breaking through and stealing on the court, and he had only one purpose in his eyes, do you want to beat me? No way. I want victory, victory.

Yes. That's it, thinking about what happened to Yu Yang, and Iverson found some things in common. Yu Yang was denied by Sneijder and Collins. When he stepped onto the pitch to meet his teammates, it was discrimination, and all his teammates discriminated against him. Yu Yang thought of Iverson's adversity growth, and he had no reason to be a wreck, so he clenched his fists and said word by word: "Sooner or later, I will conquer the NBA." ……”

"Click!" The door opened, and it was Alice who walked in. Alice said, "Good fellow, so you're really here, okay, let's go!" Dinner went. ”

Yu Yang smiled and said, "Okay." With that, he closed the computer and walked out with Alice, no one knows how determined Yu Yang is at this moment, and how ambitious he is. He will let the world know about the birth of another short man on the pitch.

In the following days, Yu Yang did not give up on himself because of the discrimination between his teammates, he just took that discrimination as a motivation. Everyone denies him, but there is one person who always believes in him, and that is himself. In his mind, he was rising step by step, because he thought that Iverson was a little shorter than him and could do so much, and he must be able to.

Here he has a different skin color than everyone else, but it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he is a person who wants to succeed and faces the sarcasm and ridicule of countless people. He just remembered those disdainful glances deeply, and he vowed that one day he would make everyone on the court look fearful of him and treat him as the most terrible opponent.

At this moment, in the arena of the 76ers, another Allen Iverson was born. With no strength in his arms, he insisted on a hundred push-ups a day after waking up, and his body was not strong enough, so he began to practice boxing in his spare time. Now he has no friends, no friends to guide him, he is on his own. Including practicing on the court, he was always alone, and Coach Collins only pretended to encourage him with a few words.

A pitch without friends may have thought of giving up, but he didn't, and he can't give up. Because this was his dream, a dream that had been destined from the beginning. Now, he's just living a dream.

Twenty days later, pre-season began, and it was a game to give the players a sense of feeling, a warm-up game. On the court of the 76ers, Yu Yang, like other players, put on the white jersey to welcome the first game. Of course, he was just a man, alone on the farthest side from the player.

It was a game against the Lakers, and of course, Yu Yang saw Kobe Bryant, the NBA's biggest name. If he had rushed to ask Kobe for an autograph before, but today it was different, today he was facing Kobe Bryant as a player, and they were opponents on the court at the moment. (To be continued......)