"The sixtieth pick, the Los Angeles Lakers picked...... Robert Thackeray, Gonzaga University. ”

Li Tian looked at David Stern with a smile on the screen in a daze, bitterness spread from his mouth to his whole body, and a huge sense of loss surged from his heart.

It's over, the draft is over, his name isn't called, no team picks him. Defeated, this thing that Li Tian had been worried about inevitably happened.

When he was ten years old, he followed his father to watch Yao Ming enter the NBA, watched Jordan's retirement together, and then Li Tian had his own dream to play in the NBA and become an excellent basketball player.

After finishing high school in China, Li Tian chose to study abroad, and he was eager to train himself through high-level competition, but also because of the proximity to the NBA.

After trying unsuccessfully to join the North Carolina varsity team TarHeel, Li Tian entered the University of Kansas, a basketball school that has produced legends such as Wilt Chamberlain and Paul Pearce, and successfully joined the school basketball team, the Jet Eagles.

After a year off the bench in his freshman year, sophomore Li Tian became the team's starting shooting guard and experienced this year's March Madness with his teammates.

In that crazy March, Li Tian's Kansas Jet Eagles narrowly won all the way to the quarterfinals by eliminating the North Carolina Tar Heels in the quarterfinals, a talented team that had four players selected in this year's draft, and reversed Ohio State in the semifinals to reach the finals.

At the University of Kentucky, Li Tian and his teammates faced a team in the NCAA finals, a team with the top pick Anthony Davis, the top pick Michael Kidd Gilchrist, two first-round picks and a second-round pick, a team with more talent than North Carolina, and finally the Kansas Jet Eagles won the championship.

Li Tian, as an indispensable member of the team, has been of great help to the team in his outside defense and fixed-point shooting.

After winning the championship, Li Tian participated in the draft with teammates Thomas Robinson and Tayshaun Taylor, and two teammates were successfully selected, while Li Tian ...... Defeated.

Before participating in the draft, Li Tian knew that he was not favored, he was an excellent team player in the team, but his lack of physical talent, coupled with the discrimination of yellow people in the sport, almost no American media thought he would be selected.

However, Li Tian still holds on to a glimmer of hope, and it is his dream to enter the NBA and become a professional player, competing with the world's highest level basketball players.

At the end of the draft, Li Tian was defeated, and this cruel reality was in front of him.

After being stunned for three minutes, Li Tian came to his senses and took out his mobile phone to dial Marseille Ujjri, the general manager of the Raptors who has the 56th pick.

"Mr. Marseille, I'm Li Tian, Li Tian of the University of Kansas, I once came to your place for a tryout, and you are very satisfied with my performance......"

As soon as the phone was connected, Li Tian shouted anxiously, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a voice coming from his mobile phone.

"Oh Lee, I know what you're trying to say, sorry, we've found a better fit, so...... Oh, who's knocking on the door......"

"Doot toot!"

Listening to the busy sound coming from the receiver of the mobile phone, Li Tian was stunned again, and then let out a long sigh.

"It's so whimsical, NBA, how easy it is to join."

As a Chinese, a yellow race, it is too difficult to be taken seriously in the sport of basketball, even Yao Ming has been discriminated against at the beginning of his landing in the NBA, and then grew into a star through his own efforts.

Li Tian did not call other team managers who had tried out, the result was already doomed, the result of such a call or not will not change, and Li Tian believes that even if he did, the treatment he got might be similar to just now, and maybe someone wouldn't answer the phone at all.

"¥#@¥@#%" At this moment, Li Tian's mobile phone suddenly rang, and he glanced at the unfamiliar number on his mobile phone, Li Tian connected the phone and asked directly: "Who?" ”

Li Tian, who was in a bad mood, couldn't care about being polite or impolite at this time.

"Hey, Chinese boy, do you know who I am?" A shout came from the other end of the phone, and the strange unkind tone with a mockery made Li Tian's brows furrow.

Li Tian, who was in a bad mood, was instantly ignited by such a tone, and he said coldly to his mobile phone: "Explain the intention, or...... Get lost! ”

"Oh, it looks amazing, it sounds really scary." There was a loud laugh on the other end of the phone, and that kind of contemptuous smile was extremely harsh and disgusting. If that person stood in front of him, Li Tian would definitely knock him over with one punch.

After laughing, the person on the other end of the phone shouted proudly: "It's so disappointing, Chinese boy, can't you even hear the voice of your old friend?" ”

"Michael Kidd Gilchrist." Li Tian finally heard this not too familiar voice, this year's list of eyes, from the University of Kentucky.

"It turned out to be a defeated general, what? Is your ass itchy again and you want me to kick it up? ”

Li Tian smiled contemptuously, in the NCAA finals, the talented forward who had been booked early was trapped by Li Tian's defense, and only scored 3 points in the whole game, which was one of the important factors in the final defeat of the University of Kentucky.

"Chinese kid with a mouth full of!" On the other end of the phone, Michael Kidd Gilchrist gritted his teeth and said that it was a nightmare for him that night, and he received a lot of criticism after the game, and was even thought to be a potential loss of the top spot.

But soon he adjusted his emotions and shouted loudly with a laugh: "Defeated? Do you think that winning a game is the winner? I'm the talent everybody's eye, and I think you know very well that I've been drafted with the second pick, but what about you? A softie with no talent and a body like a, what is your priority? Oh, I don't seem to hear your name from start to finish, haha, a poor loser! ”

"NCAA championship team player? It's a pity that no team will want it. From now on, I'm going to be a rising star in the NBA that everyone is looking at, but some people don't even have the qualifications to touch the NBA floor, oh forgot, you can still go there and be a cleaner! ”

"I have long said that you Chinese are not suitable for basketball at all, and you should never want to enter the NBA!"

"Chinese boy, be jealous of me, that will make me happier......"

didn't listen anymore, Li Tian hung up the phone directly, but the piercing shout was still echoing in his ears: "You never want to enter the NBA!" ”

The loser who was defeated by himself a few months ago now comes to ridicule himself, and he is pointing directly at Li Tian's sore spot. Repression! Incomparably depressing! Li Tian felt that his whole body was about to explode, and he needed to vent.

Rushing out of the dormitory, rushing into the heavy rain, and coming to the school's sports field, Li Tian ran forward desperately, sprinting with all his might, wanting to vent the depression in his heart in this way.

Run, keep running, the rain slipped down Li Tian's cheeks, and his legs began to weaken, but Li Tian didn't stop, he didn't seem to know tiredness.

"Smack!" Li Tian, who had no strength in his body, stumbled and fell to the ground, but he didn't feel the slightest pain.

Drifting across the ocean to a foreign country, being rejected by the university of his choice, being despised by his teammates after becoming a member of the Jet Hawks, hard training finally starts, blocking opponents one by one on the court, and becoming a crazy dark horse on the NCAA court with his teammates to win the championship, and lose...... This scene drifted through Li Tian's mind.

He has been fighting for his dreams, however, dreams seem to become out of reach.

At this moment, the words of head coach Bill Self rang in his ears: "Lee, you are a great team player, but the NBA has the best basketball players in the world, and there is a focus on physical talent, and your physical talent can't even compare to the average player, so if you participate in the draft, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

Immediately after, the voice in his ear suddenly changed to Michael Kidd Gilchrist's wild laughter:

"A poor wretched creature who lost the election."

"A soft egg with no talent and a body like a."

"You Chinese are not suitable for basketball at all, and you will never want to enter the NBA!"

"Ahh Lying on the ground, Li Tian yelled with his last bit of strength, his eyes full of unwillingness.

He was not reconciled! Li Tian is unwilling to pass by the NBA like this and become an NBA player, that is his dream all along, he has persisted for this dream for ten years, but now he wants to give up, he is unwilling!

But what can you do? Li Tian licked the rain on his lips, salty mixed with bitterness.

Facing his dream, Li Tian felt like his body at this time, powerless!

For the first time, Li Tian really felt hesitation. When he was rejected by North Carolina and despised by his teammates on the Jet Eagles, Li Tian did not hesitate like this, because he firmly believed that he could change as long as he worked hard, but now? Can I change it with my own efforts?

Talent! Talent!

This is what NBA players need most, but it is something that Li Tian can't change no matter how hard he tries.

Doesn't it say that diligence can not be clumsy? Didn't you say that the emperor lived up to his hard work?

"Oh my God! You ** play with me! Gathering a little more strength, Li Tian pointed to the sky and shouted.

"Boom!" A flash of lightning flashed in the sky, as if in response to Li Tian's invective, which made Li Tian even more angry, and raised his middle finger towards the sky as black as ink, and Li Tian yelled again.

"There's a kind of you chopping me to death!"

"Boom!" After Li Tian yelled, another thunderbolt flashed in the sky, and then, Li Tian suddenly felt something hit his head, and a huge pain came from his head.

Then, Li Tian heard as if something had fallen beside him.

"Smack!"