On the night when he lost to the Grizzlies, Wei Xia and her family spoke on the phone.

Dad and mom basically don’t talk about the game because the Lakers lost. What they talked more about is the game where the Lakers will go to Philadelphia in a few days.

Wei Mingliang and Mei Chen both went to the frontcourt to watch the game, and what Wei Xia had to do was arrange the best seats for them so that they could see their performance clearly.

"Where is grandpa? Are grandpa coming?" Wei Xia asked expectantly.

"Since you joined the Lakers, he has stopped watching the NBA..." Mei Chen said with a funny look, "He thinks God is blind."

Weisha's grandfather Jerry Wayne is probably one of the oldest Celtic fans on earth. He saw Paul Pierce from Bill Russell, and from eight consecutive championships, he saw the dilemma of not even making the playoffs.

He is a Celtics fan, and Wei Xia is not.

For Wei Xia, the least thing that should have happened to him was being selected by the Celtics. When he participated in the draft, many people wanted him, including the Celtics. The Celtics were one of the teams he made it clear that he would not want to go to anyway.

Wayne understood his idea. Wei Xia could not come to the Celtics. As long as the team he went to was not the Lakers, Weaver would definitely be willing to become a "traitor" and become a loyal fan of Wei Xia's team.

What a pity, it's a pity that he went to the Lakers.

For Wayne, this is the worst news.

Wei Xia was traded to the Lakers, and Wayne didn't even call him to congratulate him. So far, he has not inquired about the game from Wei Xia.

The only time I called was the discussion about whether Wei Xia was interested in applying for a deal to leave that ghost place in Los Angeles in the future.

Wei Xia, who had just started her career, had no intention of discussing too much about his future, so Wayne could only continue to scold God on the other end of the phone to blind him.

After Wei Xia finished talking with her family, she called her home in Los Angeles again.

Since Li Zhongxian moved here, Dick Long has often come to visit the house. The three of them ran around the game room and the family cinema all day long, like the living dead who was missing. Wei Xia was worried that they would die inside one day.

After leaving home for three days, he didn't know what was going on now. He called and Wei Qiu told him that everything was fine.

Judging from his tone, Wei Xia guessed that his family should be so good that it would get moldy.

Finally he called Selinda Swan, hoping to get some comfort from Swan because he was treated unfairly by the referee.

"Bibi, I've been filming a scene outside for a day, and it's really no longer possible. I know you're in a difficult situation... Let's talk about it tomorrow, okay?" It seems that Swan needs more rest than him.

"All right..."

Wei Xia made all the calls she could make and decided to go to bed.

He struggled in bed for half an hour and couldn't sleep. He also wanted to find Celtic celebrities to slap in the old days, but his consciousness was unable to fall asleep.

Wei Xia struggled until 1 a.m., suddenly kicked the quilt away, changed into clothes, and came to the gym provided by the hotel.

He thought that he should be the only one who still has the energy to go to the gym after the game.

Unexpectedly, Kobe, who scored 18 points on 6 of 20 shots against the Grizzlies, was also here.

Wei Xia was shocked when she saw Kobe, but she had no communication.

Kobe was practicing legs, and his previous hits Bathir and Eddie Jones on the back showed a short word.

He shot all kinds of shots, as if he was going to play games without getting enough.

Will training your legs alone improve the situation? Wei Xia is not very sure.

Kobe's biggest difficulty at present is his lack of effective helpers. Smash Parker is proficient in helping him out. Odom has the strength but is always distracted. Chris Mim can add icing on the cake and cannot help him in time. Sprewell gradually proves that his current strength is really not qualified to receive a salary that can support his family. Weisha Bynum and others are just rookies, so there is no need to mention others.

His teammates, except Odom and the rookie who are also proving their own rookies, don't even have any chances to play in the team. Only because the Lakers are rebuilding can they gain a place in the down-and-out Purple and Gold Army.

Teammates are not good, this is a big problem.

Another problem is that the triangular offense he was familiar with suddenly couldn't kill anyone.

Back then, he played a triangle attack with the Sharks and stood on the outside, and the latter beat his opponent who dared to defend himself in every minute. Except for the Spurs, which had double towers, almost no team could withstand the Sharks.

If the sharks are double-teamed too much and the ball is passed outside, Kobe will solve it.

Now, he took over the shark's position as he wished, but when he encountered double-team, he saw Parker, Odom and others standing outside, so he wouldn't mention the bitterness.

Moreover, in terms of low-post offense alone, he is far from comparable to the Sharks.

Jackson wanted to take on the role of Sharks, but he did not consider that his low-post offense did not have the shark's ability to destroy.

What suits him the most is to let go, and the team's current system does not support him to do that.

He practiced his legs worriedly, and looked at Wei Xia speechlessly.

Wei Xia didn't know how long Kobe had been practicing here, but he felt sleepy after practicing for about 70 minutes.

So I put down the equipment in my hand, said good night to Kobe, and left directly.

The second before Wei Xia left, Kobe also put down his equipment.

He just made sure he was the last one to leave.

Not bad, he has to fight for such a small matter.

Thanks to the 70-minute consumption, Wei Xia went back to take a shower and went to bed and fell asleep smoothly.

The next day, the Lakers took a special plane to Philadelphia.

They will rest for two days in Philadelphia and play with the 76ers.

Although Jackson ordered all players to stay in the hotel on two days offseason, and Wei Xia could not go home and went home to meet her parents when she was not training.

Mei Chen made a lot of specialty snacks, which made Wei Xia bloated and asked him to bring back the team to his teammates.

Wei Xia promised her mother that she would take the snacks back to the hotel, but she would not share them with her teammates. Because according to the team's regulations, these are all junk food, so let him fall alone.

On the eve of the game, Bynum discovered his dim sum, and in one bite and a half, roughly ate no left of the nearly expired and spoiled dim sum.

"Wish, you are so unfriendly. If you have such delicious snacks, you won't ask me to join me." After eating, Bynum patted his stomach and even complained to Wei Xia.

The person on the whole team who should stay away from junk food is Bynum, whose figure is obviously beyond the standard for a newly-adult child.

"Before I say this next time, go to a nearby hospital to take a heart CT scan." Wei Xia teased seriously, "I suspect your heart is dark."

Bynum muttered a few dissatisfied words, not feeling guilty for eating most of the British snacks.

November 11, 2005, match day.

Wells Fargo Center

The last time Wei Xia played here represented Villanova.

He won two Big East League Champions League Championships here, as well as the Pennsylvania AAAA High School Basketball Championship.

It is these honors that make him the well-known son of Philadelphia and the Light of Binzhou. He is the most popular basketball player in Pennsylvania after Kobe.

When the Lakers stepped into the Wells Fargo Center, the fellow villagers did not give Kobe a face, as if they wanted to shatter the booing of the man's eardrums throughout the audience.

Last year they booed Kobe here to cry.

Kobe could accept booing from any region, but he could not accept his fellow countrymen's booing him from beginning to end in the national live game.

After that summer of 2003, after the embarrassment in 2004, and after the failure in 2005, the pressure from the outside world and the ubiquitous booing made the most successful Jordan successor a villain.

Since everyone regards him as a bad person, he is an enemy of everyone.

He listened calmly to the boos from his fellow villagers.

Wei Xia is used to the booing sounds when she appears on the court. He knows that the fans are not booing him... He is thinking this way, but he feels that this idea is wrong. Kobe is his teammate, and they fight side by side. Fans booing Kobe, their boss is not the same as booing him? There is no end to the collapse of the nest. If Kobe is humiliated, the entire Lakers team will be lost.

They have lost to the Grizzlies and must win the game against the 76ers.

He found his parents in the front row.

He could not get a front seat ticket, after all, the game was about to begin, the Lakers and the 76ers' generational blood feud, and the showdown between Kobe and Iverson was full of topics. Not to mention the front seats, it was difficult to get a middle-level seat.

For this reason, he asked the organizer for help.

Unexpectedly, the organizer was very generous and helped him get two precious front-row tickets. Wei Xia wanted to pay, but the other party disagreed.

"You not only brought back the Pennsylvania championship to Philadelphia, but also brought back the lost national championship to Philadelphia. You are the hero of this city."

This is their reason not to charge money.

If Wei Xia knew that the two front row tickets they sent were season tickets that lasted 10 years, he would have to pay the money no matter what.

When he found out that the other party gave the season tickets for the front row of 10 years ago, Wei Xia was grateful for this and returned to Philadelphia to hold training camps every offseason, and frequently participated in charity activities that helped the community.

"Philly, don't be sent off today." Mei Chen joked loudly.

Wei Xia smiled helplessly. Although she had only played six regular season games, she had already made a record of graduation twice. Even her mother knew about it, which was really embarrassing.
Chapter completed!