Preface: I am very sorry that on August 9, a shameful day, I began to conceive and write this book. Here, I will silently support Chinese basketball in the trough, and only use this chapter to miss the Chinese giant - Yao Ming.

(Collection! Readers who like NBA history will never disappoint you. Allusions are everywhere, and history is right in front of you!)

Sometimes, Dang Lei is thinking how great it would be if his life was just a dream.

Although this dream is not a sweet and beautiful dream.

It can be seen from Dang Lei's surname that he is an orphan and grew up in the Welfare Dean. All the children in the Welfare Dean are surnamed Dang.

He had never seen his parents before. According to Aunt Jiang, who was taking care of her in the welfare home, she found Dang Lei at the gate of the welfare home one morning in 1989.

At that time, he was sleeping obediently in a bamboo basket, so Dang Lei was naturally taken in by the welfare home.

At first, people in the welfare home didn't quite understand why such a cute boy was abandoned by his parents. Later they discovered that Dang Lei had a serious congenital heart disease, which made him weak and sickly since childhood and often had colds.

According to the medical technology and the funds of the welfare home, he could not have been able to undergo surgery. At that time, there were many children with congenital defects in the welfare home, so they could not help them see them one by one.

In this way, Dang Lei and his friends from the Welfare Home grew up day by day. Some friends suddenly disappeared one day, and later he realized that these friends were adopted.

No one wants those who have congenital diseases and defects like Dang Lei.

Therefore, although the aunts in the welfare home are all very nice to Dang Lei, he is still becoming more and more lonely and withdrawn.

Until he met basketball.

That was on TV. In 2002, Yao Ming was selected by the Houston Rockets as the No. 1 pick and became the third Chinese player to enter the NBA.

Since then, Dang Lei has been in contact with basketball for the first time and the NBA for the first time.

Before that, he suffered from heart disease and basically had no chance of all kinds of sports, and he couldn't even tell whether he could eat or play basketball.

And after that, through TV, he first saw the infinite charm of basketball.

As long as there is time, school holidays, NBA games, especially the Rockets and Yao Ming games, Dang Lei has never lost any games.

Even during class, after class or after school at noon, as long as there is a broadcast, Dang Lei and a large group of classmates will go to the TV of the convenience store at the entrance of the school to watch the broadcast, and buy a bag of 50 cents of prawns as the broadcast fee for the shop owner.

Sports weekly newspapers, slam dunk magazines and other basketball books have also become Dang Lei's favorite extracurricular books.

At that time, every student didn’t have much pocket money, especially Dang Lei, who had no leftover money to buy magazines except for eating. So the boys in the same class gathered money to buy one, and the whole class circulated it.

Basically, when Dang Lei got to hand, the new magazine and newspaper he just bought was already old like he was dragged out of a dog hole. But this did not prevent him from reading it with relish.

In this way, basketball became Dang Lei’s focus in life besides studying.

However, his biggest regret was that he could not go to the basketball court in person to experience the feeling of playing basketball because of that damn heart disease.

He could only watch the classmates fighting on the sidelines, or sit in the classroom doing his homework silently.

Finally one day, at his classmate’s home, he discovered an excellent alternative - basketball game!

That's NBALIVE2004, which is an excellent basketball game with Carter as the cover - for Dang Lei.

Since then, he has been crazy about this basketball game.

However, the welfare home has no computers, and he has no money to go to the Internet cafe. He chose to work and study in the school library, where the electronic reading room has computers.

After he finishes working in the library, he will turn on the computer, not for anything else, just play in the NBA for a while

LIVE2004 this game.

In the game, he can control any team he likes, or collect his favorite players into a team, and then win the championship happily!

Although he felt a little lonely at the moment of winning the championship.

Basketball belongs to five people, and he has only one.

Later, basketball games emerged one after another, the classic NBALIVE2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and the 2K series that surpassed the NBALIVE series.

These games accompanied him to high school and college.

In college, he chose the unpopular major of sociology because he always wondered what is the difference between his life and other people's lives in this society.

Although he is an orphan, he never felt that anyone else, or this society owed him anything.

His greatest pain is that he has the heart but lacks strength.

For example, he still couldn't play a basketball game on the basketball court, but could only watch others sweat and enjoy it as a spectator.

He could only return to the dormitory, turn on the computer, start a game in the game, and easily defeat his opponent in an extremely skilled operation, and gain a trace of insignificant comfort.

The school is now on summer vacation, and after he went to college, he decided to leave the welfare home and live independently.

Although he was reluctant to part with the aunts and uncles who took care of him and brought him up, he knew that he had to be able to rely on himself to survive in this society.

So, during the summer vacation, he applied to stay in school, working near the school to make money and subsidize living expenses.

After the day of fatigue, Dang Lei, who was sweating all over, went back to the dormitory to take a cold shower, feeling that there was nothing to do.

"How great would it be if my life was just a dream. When I woke up, I found out that I was taking a nap in the bed at home. My father went to work and my mother was playing mahjong. I made an appointment with my classmates in the afternoon to play basketball. After getting up, I took the basketball downstairs and rode my bike to play basketball happily."

Dang Lei, who was lying on the bed, was silently fantasizing about a child like him who had been weak since childhood.

But at this age, fantasy can always bring helplessness and emptiness.

"I'll play with 04 again!"

Dang Lei, who was idle, decided to have another game, but this time he was going to play NBALIVE2004.

Compared with the subsequent games, LIVE04 is already far behind.

The rough pictures, slightly stiff movements, intricate models, and the invincible jumping bug all prove that this game should be eliminated.

But humans are emotional animals, and we can have feelings for anything, because we can always find our youth in these things.

In Dang Lei's computer, NBALIVE2004 is always left with a position. When he is sad, he will turn it on to re-feel his passion for basketball that has never faded.

"I'll create another player again!"

Dang Lei doesn't want to use 04 to play ordinary games anymore. Although he keeps patching the game, he can only play until the 2009 lineup, and it will be difficult to find new patches later.

Therefore, Dang Lei decided to create another player he likes and use him to play the game!

Dang Lei has created many players in the game before, from point guards to centers. He always adjusts the ability values ​​of these players to the highest to enjoy the pleasure of abuse of other players.

But this time, he decided to be a strong but reasonable player, and also full of distinctive features.

He opened the menu and arrived at the page of creating players.

In terms of appearance and hairstyle, because of patches, he can choose the faces and hair of yellow people.

In terms of height, Dang Lei chose a height of 6 feet 10 inches (2 meters 08). In Dang Lei's view, this height is a golden height, just like the shooting guard rising by 6 feet 6 inches.

It is just right to play power forwards, and you won’t suffer any loss when playing center forwards. It has both flexibility and strength, both inside and outside, and is a standard height of the position dividing line in the inside.

In terms of weight, Dang Lei chose 245 pounds (111 kg), which is also a moderate weight.

Let’s choose the number by naming.

The name Dang Lei originally wanted to use the pinyin of "DANG". But I thought it was a bit strange. This word in English is a very rare word, which means "unlucky" and "damn".

So after thinking about it, he wanted to change the word "GUN", which is also similar in pronunciation, which means gun. But if you read it in pinyin, it will become "get out" again...

Finally, he chose the word "Gump". Although it means "stupid" and "fool", Dang Lei knew that this was also the name of Forrest Gump in the movie "Forrest Gump", which represents persistence, courage, sincerity, and never giving up.

The number was not that tangled. Dang Lei chose No. 11, Yao Ming's number without hesitation.

Finally, naturally, the most important ability value is set.

The settings of LIVE04 are much simpler and clearer than the subsequent games. However, Dang Lei did not want to be too perverted, and all 99 lost their rationality, so he carefully set it up.

FieldGoals (shooting ability): 85, this is a very good value among inside players.

3Point (three-pointer): 75. Having a good three-pointer is a must-have skill for many insiders now.

FreeThrows: 80, a player with excellent shooting and good three-pointers will not be too bad.

Dunking (slam dunk): 50. As a yellow player or a center player, dunking is just a scoring method.

InsideScoring (inside scoring ability): 90, a must-have ability for a strong insider.

OffRebounds (offensive rebound): 70. As an inside core, you don’t always have so much energy to grab.

DefRebounds (defRebounds): 90, protecting defensive rebounds is the duty of every insider.

Jumping (bounce force): 65, a yellow man or a center forward, a bounce of about 60 should be the limit.

Strength: 83. Strength is the foundation of an inside line, and sometimes more important than height.

Quickness (response): 70, Dang Lei hopes he has the agility of defenders.

Speed: 70, it won't be fast, but it won't be too slow either.

Passing: 75, an inside line who can pass the ball is a real excellent inside line.

Dribbling: 70, one-stop in the whole game is not the patent of defenders.

Range (shooting distance): 70, this should be a good shooting range that a three-pointer should have.

Off.Awareness (offensive awareness): 80. The first priority of the inside is to charge.

Def.Awareness (defensive awareness): 95, but the inside should also be the final barrier.

Stealing (steal): 30, this is better left to the backcourt players to complete, not every inside player is Olajuwon.

Blocking: 75, considering his height and bounce, Dang Lei gave a relatively reasonable number.

Stamina (physical strength): 90. Physical strength is one of Yao Ming’s biggest weaknesses. Dang Lei wants to give this center forward the ability to run to death.

Hardiness (resistance ability): 80. The pain of Yao Ming for injury is always the pain of Chinese fans. Dang Lei does not want this player to be so easily injured.

Okay, that's it, Dang Lei's player is set up!

Dang Lei decided to use him to compete with Yao Ming in the game. Although he has a great disadvantage in height, flexibility and speed will be his greatest magic weapon.

A wonderful and intense game ended in superstar mode.

The result is not important, Dang Lei has been greatly satisfied.

He quit the game, opened the web browser, and logged into his favorite basketball website just like he did, and took a look at the dynamics of the long-term NBA.
To be continued...