Chapter 1: Ten Years

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New York in March is not so cold, a little sunlight leaks from the skylight not far away, making people feel warm, there are bursts of footsteps in the distance, constantly tugging thoughts, and in the door in front of you, there are some annoying noises. This is the Presbyterian Hospital of New York, Xu Yi is sitting on a chair in the corridor in a daze, raising his head to look at the white ceiling. "This Nima's!" He suddenly laughed, but his heart was bitter.

This Nima, God treats me well, but I have failed his old man! Xu Yi complained frantically in his heart, because he made a mistake, as the assistant coach of the Knicks, he actually beat the team's star Stephen Marbury!

But when it comes to such a thing, Xu Yi can still laugh, it can be regarded as wonderful, the nurse who walked by next to her glanced at Xu Yi strangely, what she didn't know was that Xu Yi was actually laughing at fate! It's a life worth playing!

Xu Yi is a time-traveler, he has traveled to his own body ten years ago. Or to put it another way, he went back ten years. From March 1, 2014, back to March 1, 2004, and at this time, Xu Yi has spent 11 days in this time period ten years ago, in these 11 days, Xu Yi is entangled, he is not only entangled in the fact that he actually returned to ten years ago, but also entangled in his future.

In 2004, it was the most important turning point and fork in Xu Yi's life, in this year, Xu Yi followed the old coach Lenny Wilkens to join the New York Knicks, but then he was full of anger by the contradictions within the team and had nowhere to vent. Xu Yi in his previous life beat Stephen Marbury after he couldn't stand Stephen Marbury's disrespectful words, and then had to leave the New York Knicks and lose his job.

And back in the first 11 days ten years ago, Xu Yi has been struggling with whether he should restrain his temper. And in the end, Xu Yi still didn't restrain his temper. Not only because Xu Yi's temper was too impulsive, but more importantly, before Xu Yi made a move, he suddenly felt that even if he didn't make a move, fate would not treat him well.

Xu Yi, who has memories of the next ten years, knows that even if gold medal coach Lenny Wilkens leads the team, he has not been able to pull the New York Knicks back from the abyss, and it is only a matter of time before he gets out of class. As a member of the coaching staff, Xu Yi lost this somewhat heartwarming job, which is naturally a matter of time, so it is better to vent himself and get rid of it earlier.

In this way, Xu Yi beat Stephen Marbury again like in his previous life!

Xu Yi waited outside the door for a while, and saw a group of people walking out of the door, Stephen Marbury, who was beaten by Xu Yi, walked out with a blue nose and swollen face, looked at Xu Yi with resentful eyes, his lips moved slightly, as if he was saying something. Xu Yi didn't look closely, in fact, Xu Yi didn't look at it, he knew that what Stephen Marbury was talking about was nothing more than cruel words like "you're finished".

Xu Yi didn't care, but a Knicks staff member next to him leaned into Xu Yi's ear and asked Xu Yi to leave the hospital, and then went to the Knicks training gym to find Mr. Isaiah Thomas, the general manager of the team.

Xu Yi didn't say or do anything more, he went to the small room by himself, treated the only wound on his head, and left the hospital. Xu Yi now has to go to the training hall to find Isaiah Thomas, but he is not in a hurry, he knows that Isaiah Thomas must have a dismissal notice waiting for him, is he in a hurry to listen to others pronounce his "death sentence"?

The distance between the hospital and the training hall was not too far, and Xu Yi walked directly to the training hall.

Xu Yi has been working in North America for 3 years, 3 years ago, Xu Yi came to the United States as a member of the Chinese youth coaching team, and finally won the appreciation of Lenny Wilkens, stayed in Toronto, and became an assistant coach of the Raptors. The Raptors had a poor record last season, Lenny Wilkens left at the beginning of the season, and then added the New York Knicks in the middle of the season, and Xu Yi also came to New York, and then the next series of things happened.

Xu Yi walked for half an hour before arriving at the Knicks' training hall, and when he entered the training hall, Xu Yi didn't care about the strange looks from the Knicks staff he met on the road, he went directly to the second floor and knocked on Isaiah Thomas's office door.

Isaiah Thomas had been waiting for a long time, he was a little impatient, and when he saw Xu Yi walking in unhurriedly, he had long lost the temperament of a smiling assassin, and said in a cold tone: "Xu, you have been fired." The simple, crude and direct dismissal statement directly reflected Isaiah Thomas's attitude towards Xu Yi, Isaiah Thomas didn't even use a euphemistic tone or polite language, and directly announced that Xu Yi was fired.

After saying this, Isaiah Thomas nodded another stack of green bills on the table: "This is your salary this month, take it and leave!" Then he stopped looking at Xu Yi, and looked down at the blank notebook on the desktop, the meaning was obvious, this was to let Xu Yi take the money and get out of here.

Xu Yi looked at the salary of almost $1,000 on the table, held back the anger in his heart, and thought that he deserved this money, so he pinched the handful of bills fiercely and made a loud noise.

Isaiah Thomas glanced at Xu Yi dissatisfied. Xu Yi didn't even look at Isaiah Thomas, turned around and left, slamming the door shut!

Before Xu Yi left the training hall, he also went to the court. Without seeing Stephen Marbury, Xu Yi said goodbye to the old coach Lenny Wellkens, who was very reluctant to see Xu Yi's right-hand man leave, but Lenny Wellkens obviously had no way to keep Xu Yi, so he could only say a lot of words to make Xu Yi cherish.

Xu Yi also said some words of gratitude from the bottom of his heart and said goodbye to the old handsome.

Before Xu Yi beat Stephen Marbury, he was already the chief assistant coach of the Lenny Wellkens coaching staff, and Xu Yi was mainly responsible for the team's scouting work and training work, both of which are Xu Yi's strengths, and it can be said that in these two aspects, Xu Yi has helped the coach a lot. And Xu Yi's weakness is his tactics, Xu Yi has been following Lenny Wellkens, in fact, he also wants to learn some tactical knowledge from Lenny Wellkens.

In his previous life, Xu Yi also felt confused about leaving Lao Shuai, because he couldn't continue to learn Lao Shuai's tactics. But in this life, Xu Yi has a different idea, and he doesn't need to learn anymore, because Xu Yi has the memory of being 10 years ahead of the world, and these 10 years of memory make Xu Yi a big step ahead of the current NBA in tactical knowledge and experience! It can be said that learning is no longer necessary for Xu Yi now.

Now Xu Yi needs more actual combat testing, and how can he get the actual combat test? That would naturally be to become a head assistant coach in charge of tactics, or take it a step further and become the head coach of an NBA team directly! Directly become the head coach of an NBA team, for Xu Yi, his qualifications are still a little insufficient, the 27-year-old Xu Yi, only 3 years as an assistant coach under Lenny Wilkens, of which only 1 month is the chief assistant coach, in terms of seniority, Xu Yi even if he wants to become the chief assistant coach of an NBA team, there are not many teams to choose from.

There is still more than a month before the end of the season, and Xu Yi decided to get a few resumes and find a suitable team to send them out after he goes back.

Back at his rented apartment in New York, Xu Yi sat down in front of the desk a little tired, turned on the computer, opened the web page casually, and suddenly saw today's headlines, Xu Yi's originally calm face suddenly turned cold.

Xu Yi instantly understood how difficult it would be for him to find a new job in the NBA. The team's assistant coach beat up the team's leading star, this news has been on the front page of major media, and most of the content is to watch Knicks jokes, but there is a sentence in it that directly reminded Xu Yi and made Xu Yi aware of the predicament he is currently facing.

"This Asian assistant coach named Xu Yi has been fired by the New York Knicks, an assistant coach actually beat the team's leading star, maybe this assistant coach is the legendary thorn assistant coach, we have heard of the thorn head player, heard of the thorn head coach, but the thorn head assistant coach, it is really the first time I have heard of it, maybe this thorn assistant coach will not find his new job and have to return to his home country."

These words woke up Xu Yi all of a sudden, and he suddenly thought of his previous life, Xu Yi threw out 11 points of resume in a row, but all of them were rejected, at that time Xu Yi also felt that it might be that his goal was set too high, and the team he chose didn't need such an assistant coach very much, so he didn't take it to heart.

Thinking about it now, it seems that Xu Yi's thorny attribute has indeed discouraged many teams.

Xu Yi bit his lip, he suddenly felt a little desperate, didn't the NBA have a place for himself? Sure enough, impulse is the devil, Xu Yi raised his head and smiled bitterly quietly, God gave him a second chance, but he didn't cherish it! Sure enough, he is a loser! A total loser!

Sitting slumped on the back chair, the exhaustion on Xu Yi's face was unobstructed, and he seemed to be really desperate.

After lying in a daze for more than half an hour, Xu Yi suddenly jumped up, his eyes lit up, and his face showed an excited look! He thought of the last place he could go! The Last NBA Team!

That was his last chance!

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