180 New Year's gifts
These few people who came were already quite familiar with each other, and they were all quite free, and there was nothing other sadness when they said goodbye, and some were just sincere blessings.
Fujima is going to Osaka City University, and his grades have always been good, but to say that he can be admitted to Osaka University, it is obvious that he still depends on his mother's relationship......
His mother is a professor of business administration at Osaka University, so the major of the newspaper is also business administration, which is actually commonly known as business administration in the country of Longguo, and his choice to give up basketball, in fact, these people present have long expected.
Basketball was just his youth, and by the time he won the summer league, Fuji's dream of basketball had already come true.
The winter selection entered for a while, but he failed to get a spot in the Nike Basketball Summit, and Fujima actually knew very well in his heart that he was not suitable for the profession.
Learn from Amu, retreat bravely from the rapids, and still freeze history in his two best crowns, and then choose a logical study, not to mention Fujima, if the other people present are in his situation, they will probably make the same choice.
Hanagata is a lot more powerful, and the winter selection obviously delayed his studies, but he hurriedly prepared for the exam, and he was actually admitted to the University of Tokyo, studying tourism, and his family has a hotel by the sea in Kanagawa...... Looking at the major applied for, there is a high probability that he will return to Kanagawa to inherit the family business in the future.
Taku Ito wants to continue to stay in Xiangyang, Kitano values him very much, and with the experience of the starting five tigers selected in the winter, the next captain is almost certain.
Sakuragi Hanamichi said with a smile: "After sending you off today, I will go to Fukuoka Lloyd with my father in the afternoon to continue special training, and my father will take me to the United States at the end of March!" Haha, Brother Master, we will be teammates by then! I heard that the U.S. team is very powerful, but as long as we are together, we will definitely them! ”
"It's in Seattle, I'm going to cheer you on when the time comes." Mitsui Shou said: "I'm idle and bored anyway. ”
"It's already school in April, aren't you going to college?" Fujima asked in surprise, knowing that Mitsui was also in the third grade.
"Fukasawa sent me an invitation to enroll, but I thought about it for a long time." Mitsui Shou pouted: "I don't feel that the level of college basketball here is as high as our winter selection, and after playing with you, I don't think it's interesting to go to college to play basketball, and my brother bought me a team, oh, just the Shibuya Sun Rock of the Hitachi Group before, and I'll go to Tokyo in two days to take over, and learn to make money, anyway, did you really give up basketball?" If you want to play professionally, go to me! Mu Shenyi recommended Jun Tsuchiya to me, and I'm ready to sign him, and the new official will take office three times! I also want to get the fairy road over...... Haha, it's just one word anyway, play! ”
"Wow wow! Little San, why didn't you say it earlier? I'm going to your team too, is the salary high? See how much I'm worth?! ”
"Shut up, I'm going to get you to Shibuya Rocks, the coach will chase me and kill me, the coach has arranged it for you, you go and work hard to sprint your NBA, I'll try to play mine? Sun rocks, Japanese basketball is not for you. ”
The crowd listened with their mouths wide open and bought a team? Bossed? What a sudden turn of events...... What a man, this is!
Lin Dong had guessed Mitsui's identity early on, but Lao Lin next to him pricked up his ears.
Mitsui Shou? Mitsui? Buy a team?
"Mitsui-san, the respected father is ......," Lao Lin asked in surprise.
"Masayo Mitsui." Mitsui Shou replied politely, "My father has died. ”
Masayo Mitsui ...... One of the veterans of the previous Mitsui Group.
No wonder, no wonder!
Lao Lin had a feeling of sudden realization, and he couldn't cry or laugh.
It is no wonder that the Mitsui Group suddenly extended a helping hand to the Kanagawa branch, and the source of the original relationship was actually here...... It was my son's friend who came to save his life.
Of course, these words do not need to be pronounced.
"Thank you." He said to Mitsui Shou with a smile.
"Hey, Uncle Lin, what's there to thank you for." Mitsui Shou obviously knew what Lao Lin was talking about, and he didn't mean to break it, but just smiled and hooked Lin Dong's shoulder: "We're good buddies!" ”
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Lin Dong's return to China this time was mainly due to two things.
One is to go to the basketball association to report and prepare for the Nike Basketball Summit.
To represent the Dragon Country at the Nike Basketball Summit, you must be a registered player of the Dragon Country Basketball Association.
Lao Li has given great convenience in this matter, basically all the formalities have been done for him, just come over to take a photo and report it.
And the venue of this Nike basketball summit has also been decided, I heard that it is at the Seattle Supersonic Arena in Washington State.
At the end of last year, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz bought the NBA team Seattle SuperSonics from Boeing, and now it is the time to rush to expand the team's fame...... To put it bluntly, the influence of supersound in Seattle is not big enough.
So Schultz begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to invite the Nike Basketball Summit to his court, just to expand the influence of the SuperSonics in Seattle......
Lin Dong didn't care much about these reasons, but he was really happy that the Nike Summit was held in Seattle.
Yua is also in Seattle...... What's that school called? It's the high school that Bill Gates attended.
Frankly speaking, Lin Dong feels that he is not a womanizer, but how can young men and women not miss it when they taste people for the first time?
When I called a few days ago, Yuya had already expressed her excitement about his going to Seattle on the phone, and she was very shy to tell Lin Dong that she had bought a beautiful lace pajamas......
“……”
When he heard Yuya whisper that sentence on the phone, Lin Dong felt for the first time that the words that heroes have been sad about the beauty since ancient times would never be groundless......
The second thing besides that Lao Li arranged for him to go to the Magic City Shark Club for a 'trial'.
It's a tryout, but in fact it's just a formality.
Whether it is participating in the Nike Basketball Summit or entering the Basketball Association, you need some positive reports and influence, so it is necessary to go to an influential CBA team for a tryout, find a penalty to praise, and build momentum in the domestic basketball world in advance.
Of course, the CBA is not going to go.
Judging from the phone calls between Lao Li and Lin Dong in the past few days, although the Basketball Association has been vigorously rectifying the CBA arena, the results are slow at present, and it is impossible to break up teams such as Bayi, Guangdong Hongyuan, and Modu Sharks to rebuild in order to balance the professional league, which makes the disparity between the strength and weakness of the league still too large.
And according to the meaning that Lao Li and Lin Dong discussed before.
First play the Nike summit, and then continue to attach the student status to Xiangyang, while returning to China to prepare for the U19 World Championships and participate in the training squad here.
After playing U19 in July, I will contact high schools in the United States for him, transfer to the United States, and play in the NSAA league.
You know, American high school basketball in the United States is actually more concerned than the NBA league, and its overall standard is not below the professional basketball of many world-class teams.
Lin Dong deeply agrees with this, like Kobe Bryant, who has tyrannized NBA star-level guards in high school, and during the trial, all the Lakers players could not beat him in 1v1, and high school students are full of hard work, and there is a lot less utilitarianism and passion.
Not only can you experience high-level events here, but also further expand Lin Dong's influence in the American basketball world and lay a solid foundation for his next entry into the NBA.
Yes, NCAA doesn't think about it, American universities are still very particular about admitting students, at least you have to have a high school diploma, but you have just entered the second year of high school.
Then it depends on the height situation, if you stop growing before next year's draft, then you are choosing to strengthen physical training, gain muscle and debut in the NBA, and if you continue to grow taller, then stay in American high school for one more year, and make your debut in the 03 draft, these are all logical things.
As for where exactly......
Nowadays, several basketball states with more atmosphere, such as LeBron James in Russia, Chuck Hayes in California, Andrea Iguodala in Illinois, etc., have all been recognized as Mr. High School Basketball in their state.
After all, Lao Li's expectation for Lin Dong is not to go to gangsters.
As the saying goes, the prejudice in people's hearts is a big mountain, and when you go to those places, when the fans already belong to them, no matter how strong you are, it is difficult to really stand out.
Instead of being crushed into the second place or causing controversy, it is better to change to a state without a 'king' to be the undisputed boss, get the attention of the entire state, accumulate a fan base, and improve the national ranking.
Today's American professional basketball still adheres to the tradition of one city and one person, and this choice will greatly improve his future commerciality, and the road after entering the league will be better.
For example, Washington State.
The level of basketball in Washington State is not low, the key is that there is no recognized Mr. Basketball in the high school basketball world today, and more importantly, there are more Chinese in Washington State, which will be of great help to Lin Dong's future development in the United States, as well as the attention he receives in high school basketball.
In addition, the Nike Basketball Summit will be played at the Supersonic Arena in Seattle, Washington.
When the Nike summit comes, it will inevitably attract the attention of a large number of Washington State people, make a name for themselves here, go to high school here, and then become a Washington State High School Basketball Man, and everything will be logical.
As for the study abroad procedures at that time, etc., there is no need for Lao Li to take action or the Lin family to operate, and after the Nike summit is over, as long as Lin Dong's level plays normally, then if he reveals a little bit of his willingness to stay in the United States to play NSAA, then there will immediately be a large number of American high schools throwing olive branches to him, and among all of them, Washington State is close to the water, and the olive branches thrown out will definitely be the most, and there is no need to worry about school problems at all......
Well, anyway, when the formalities at the Basketball Association are completed and after the Spring Festival, I will go to the Magic City Sharks and train there for about a month, and then I can go to Seattle.
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Although Lin Dong in his previous life was a native of Sichuan, Yanjing was no stranger to him, and Yanjing in 01, although the high-rise buildings on the street did not look as many as he remembered, but in general it was still very different.
Especially on the side of his house, the Sanli River outside the West Second Ring Road, coincidentally, Lin Dong is quite familiar with this place.
In his previous life, when he was in the national youth, he often trained at the Wukesong Gymnasium, especially in the half year after the U19 fiasco to Serbia, he basically lived near the Wukesong Gymnasium, so he often went to the Yuyuantan Park next to it to ride or run, and the Sanlihe Community was not far from Yuyuantan Park.
After returning to China and getting off the plane, he took off his sunglasses and mask, and no one around him cast strange glances at him, at most, he felt that he was tall and looked at him more.
This feels really good compared to the scene where he will be surrounded when he goes out to take a bath in Japan now.
Returning home so early is really because there is no 'place' for him in Japan.
After leaving the airport, I first called a taxi to go to my grandparents' house, which was very close to Lao Lin's house in Sanlihe, and it was separated by the third residential area of the Ministry of Railways on Sanlihe East Road.
The old lady Lin at home is an old revolutionary, now 78 years old, but he still looks energetic, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea when he was young, and he is a meritorious soldier who rushed to the front line and came back alive, after the war, he was assigned to work in the Ministry of Railways of the Dragon Kingdom, and when he retired, he was also mixed into the middle level, plus his own red elements, in this Ministry of Railways compound, it was a very respected old man, but he couldn't sit still.
It belongs to the kind of person who usually goes for a walk everywhere when you see that he has nothing to do, and when it comes to the New Year, he is even more busy, with various year-end dinners in the unit, gatherings of old comrades-in-arms, etc., so that he will not be at home from morning to night every day.
So it was grandma who opened the door to Lin Dong.
The old man had already known through Lao Lin that his grandson was coming back, and he was already waiting at home like a pins and needles, a large table of dishes had been put on the fire in the pot and warmed, the moment he saw his grandson, the old man almost burst into tears, and he was so excited that he hugged and hugged, the kind of love and family affection that seemed to be engraved in the old man's bones, so that even Lin Dong, who saw his grandmother for the first time, couldn't help but empathize.
What could be purer in this world than a grandmother's love for her grandson?
People say that the next generation of children, parents still ask you all day long what your grades are, how you want to talk and do things, but the old people of the next generation, that is really in addition to loving you is loving you, there is no reason to have no restrictions at all.
There were more than a dozen dishes on the big table served, and after seeing the old man in his early seventies in front of him trotting all the way and happily busy, Lin Dong also quickly put down his bag and went to help.
During the meal, he talked about his experience in Japan for the past year, although many things have been heard by Lao Lin in the old man, but it still has a different flavor from the mouth of his grandson.
Grandma gave Lin Dong the feeling of a more intellectual intellectual, and her speech and demeanor were very exquisite, except for a slight gaffe when she opened the door to hug her grandson, she even had an elegant energy throughout the meal.
The Lin family is indeed different from ordinary market families......
In addition to the fact that Mrs. Lin is an old revolutionary, her grandmother is not an ordinary person, and she is even bigger than Mrs. Lin's background.
When he was young, he was a senior professor at Yenching University, teaching Chinese studies.
At that time, the professors of Yenching University were not as widespread as they are now and in later generations, and they were really masters from all sides.
My grandmother was able to participate in the Latinization program of Chinese characters, that is, the compilation and revision of 'pinyin', which was later learned by all people of all ages...... Proper master of Chinese culture, the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall at home such as 'Tranquility and Far-reaching' and 'Kindness is like water' are all from the hands of grandma.
The so-called famous family in the old era, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and a talented girl in Yanjing at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, now she is wearing an apron in the kitchen to cook for her grandson......
Up to the hall and down to the kitchen, Lin Dong felt that Mrs. Lin was really married to a treasure.
Moreover, the two suites of the Lin family mentioned in Lao Lin's mouth, and one of them is an ancestral house that grandma returned to Lao Lin's name early.
Well, a very small courtyard house, currently being rented, the rent is higher than Lao Lin's salary anyway......
"Your dad said that the cleaning aunt he was looking for has already found it for him," grandma smiled and handed over a note: "surnamed Zhang, you call according to this phone number, let her go to the house in the afternoon to clean up, your dad is really, I said let him put a key at home, go over to see for him when it's okay, he still has to take it, I know he is afraid that I will help him clean up, yes, now our eldest grandson will go to get it himself, he will always rest assured." ”
"By the way, grandma, I won't come back for dinner in the evening, so I made an appointment with a few friends." Lin Dong said: "There are some things to deal with in the past few days, and the time to go home at night is not fixed, for fear of waking you up, I will live in Sanlihe these days, and I will come to accompany you when I am busy with things a few years ago." ”
Mainly made an appointment with Sun Yue in the evening, that guy just joined the Yanjing Aoshen Club last year, and now he doesn't play much during his rookie season, but he is very idle.
Originally, I wanted to make an appointment with Zhu Fangyu and Wang Shipeng, but those two guys were in Guangdong Hongyuan at this time, but unfortunately they lacked skills.
made a phone call and asked Aunt Zhang to meet at Sanlihe so that she could give her the key, and Lin Dong twisted the bag back to the Sanlihe community.
The three-bedroom and two-living room house is good in this era, and the rooms are relatively large, but everywhere is covered with cloth covers, newspapers, etc. on Lao Lin's bag before leaving, which makes the home look a little messy.
When he got home and put his bag away, he remembered that Lao Lin said that his mother had bought him a gift and put it in the security room.
I went downstairs to the security room, explained the situation, and looked at the ID card...... Yes, you still have to look at your ID card to get a package, and Lin Dong is also speechless.
When the 'identity was confirmed', the security guard immediately took out a delicately packaged box from the cabinet with a fluttering eyebrow.
"Oh brother, let me tell you, I haven't seen a gift like this, who are you, so willing to ......"
The security guard was so excited that he was chattering next to him, but Lin Dong was a little speechless when he heard it.
A box, what else do you know what kind of gift? Have you opened it and seen it?
"Big brother, I'll see for myself, don't say it."
Lin Dong interrupted decisively, and then opened the exquisite box in the struggling expression of the security guard's eyebrows, wanting to say but holding back and not daring to speak.
An orange-yellow wooden box, which looks quite high-end, opens it and reveals a sports car model inside, the same orange and yellow, with a key to the 'Mavericks' logo.
A model Lamborghini?
"This gift ......" Lin Dong couldn't laugh and cry.
The security guard next to him was a little anxious when he heard this, and his face stopped talking, and he was quite uncomfortable.
There is also a letter pressed under the model car.
Open it and take a look.
Happy New Year to Little Dongdong! How about a gift that Mom prepared for you? If you like it, call back, don't give your mother a call all year round, don't you know that your mother is a cow? If you don't call me, I will never give you a fight! Little Dongdong self-respect!
There is also a string of transoceanic phone numbers attached to the back.
Lin Dong couldn't help but open his mouth when he saw it.
This...... Why is it so different from Lao Lin's style? No wonder the two divorced.
However, it seems to be a little different from the mother I learned from Lin Dong's diary.
I feel that my mother still has the heart of a child, but the deviation of the child's perspective is just different from Lao Lin's style.
I wanted to make a phone call, but after looking at the anxious security guard next to him, as if he had something to say, Lin Dong decided to go home and call again.
Then I took another look at the model car and the set of keys, and couldn't help but cry and laugh.
Although this gift looks more like a gift for eleven or twelve-year-old children, it still has a heart.
Well, in this life, I can be regarded as both parents.
He couldn't help but smile and pick up the set of keys and press them casually.
I thought that the car model would have a high-tech change or something, but I didn't expect to hear two 'beeps' outside the door of the security room.
Lin Dong was stunned and turned his head to look out the window.
I saw an orange-yellow Lamborghini Diablo GT parked there, with its two dazzling square headlights on.
Lin Dong opened his mouth, and then turned his head to look at the car model in the box.
This...... I can't say that it's exactly the same, I can only say that it's restored in equal proportions!
Is this a New Year's gift from an American mom?
Oh, my God...... What kind of mom do I have?
The new chapter begins, and the awards at the end of the game are all omitted, saving the number of words, anyway, the slam dunk characters will appear in the future, and there is no need to rush to explain it now.
Whether it's the Nike Summit, the World Championships, or the plot of my mother, etc., it's all to go to the NSAA in the United States to do some foreshadowing, and it won't be very long, and the entire third volume is written before entering the NBA, including the plot of the American high school, which is not too long, and it is expected to be about seventy or eighty chapters.
(End of chapter)