Chapter 1: My Name Is Yes(1/2)
On the evening of January 29, 2005, the Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle, which could accommodate 10,000 people, was packed with seats.
The game currently being played is a focus game in the NCAA Pac-10 Conference, where the University of Washington faces the University of Arizona at home.
The University of Arizona has always been a strong team in the Pac-10 Conference.
The University of Washington has also risen at an alarming rate in the past two years under the leadership of Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy.
Last year, the two led the team to the finals of the Big Ten Conference Championship.
However, they lost to Stanford University led by Josh Childress, the sixth pick in the first round in 2004.
However, with Josh Childress entering the NBA and Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy growing up.
University of Washington fans can have higher expectations and greater enthusiasm for this team.
Compared with the excited University of Washington fans in the audience, the two teenagers in the front row, one black and one with an Asian face, stood out particularly conspicuously.
Most of the University of Washington fans are local Seattle fans, so these two teenagers are naturally familiar to them.
Black teenager, Martel Webster, a senior at Seattle Preparatory School and a first-team All-American high school player.
Also represented Team USA at the Nike Basketball Summit.
He is also one of the top ten high school players in the United States selected by USA Today.
Asian-faced boy, Ye Si, is a senior at James A. Garfield High School in Seattle and a star player on the Washington State High School League championship team.
Although Yes is not a nationally known genius like Webster, his popularity in Seattle is no less popular than Webster's.
As the two most well-known star high school students in Washington State, it is easy for people to have more reveries when Webster and Yes come to watch the game at the home court of the University of Washington.
I'm afraid that the next day, the media that pays attention to basketball in the United States will have such a news report: Popular high school student Martel Webster watched the University of Washington game live, and he was accompanied by Garfield High School's Ye Si. According to previous media reports, the two
He has committed to the University of Washington next season.
"It's great. The University of Washington this year is really great! Ye, I swear, as long as we join in, the University of Washington will definitely dominate the NCAA next year!"
The black boy was very excited, but the Asian boy's eyes kept flickering at the University of Washington's No. 2 and No. 3 players on the court, Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy.
After studying abroad in Seattle for four years, joining the University of Washington was naturally the best choice.
But, he is different from Webster.
Webster is a swingman, and he is a defender!
Robinson and Roy are also guards, and they are both juniors this year. If he joins, he will need to serve as a substitute for them for a year.
Although Roy was his senior, a freshman in high school, he also played as a substitute for Roy, the leading player of the team at that time, for one year, but that was insignificant during his freshman year in high school!
But now, if he wants to enter the NBA, he must show himself all the time.
Webster's talent has been recognized.
And what about him?
His scouting report reads: A speedy player with average skills and all-round talent can become a substitute for a wealthy NCAA team. The possibility of entering the NBA is extremely low!
Nate Robinson and Roy had strong combat capabilities, and other role players in the University of Washington were also quite good. Although the University of Arizona resisted tenaciously, they still lost to the University of Washington playing at home.
"Ye, Seattle's first NCAA championship trophy will be born in our hands!"
"Well, Martel, I'm not from Seattle. I don't have a historical mission like you. Well, the game is over and I'm going home."
"Go home? Ye, why don't you say hello to Brandon and the others? There are four of your high school seniors here!"
Ye's mood has been very abnormal recently. Is he reluctant to graduate from high school?
Although the black boy was puzzled, he still chased after him.
"Brandon, where are Martel and the others?"
"Let's go"
"Gone? Now?"
"Um"
"These two boys have agreed to celebrate together!"
Seattle is a big city, a big city full of entertainment and entertainment. After leaving the arena with Webster, Ye Si had no attachment to the entertainment and entertainment in Seattle.
As a minor celebrity in Seattle, he could, like Webster, sleep with a different 'easy-girl' every night if he wanted to.
However, this kind of life is not something he can enjoy now.
He didn't have Webster's talent to squander it.
He didn't come to the United States to study for these things.
Garfield High School is one of the four prestigious private boarding schools in Seattle. As the recipient of a full scholarship to the school for four consecutive years, his dormitory has always been very good.
And it’s a single room!
Open the door of the dormitory, turn on the lights, close the door, pick up the basketball on the table, and throw it to the basket behind the door. It's hollow, all in one go!
“In 2005, it’s been four years since I came here before I knew it.”
Lying on the bed, looking at the incandescent lights on the ceiling, Ye Si closed his eyes slightly.
My four-year high school career in the United States is coming to an end soon.
These four years have been a time of expectation and suffering for him.
It only took four years from being full of confidence at the beginning to feeling uneasy now.
As an ordinary Chinese high school student, he should be working hard for the college entrance examination in half a year like many Chinese high school students of the same age.
But now, he is in the United States.
All this is because of this inexplicable 'basketball superstar training system'.
Main mission: The first step of a superstar
Task requirements: Become a member of a sports school basketball team or a U.S. high school basketball team
Mission reward: draw one star card
Task status: Completed
In order to complete the so-called main task of this system, he has been preparing to study in the United States since the fourth grade of elementary school.
Why not go to a sports school in China?
He also consulted that his height was too short, and even though his basketball skills were outstanding among his peers in China, it was of no use.
He was already in the third year of junior high when he was taller, and by that time he had successfully applied to study in the United States.
In order to complete the first step of the main mission of this superstar.
He is a basketball boy who has been practicing basketball since he was a child. He scored 106 points on the TOEFL IBT and 2250 on the SSAT.
Coupled with his basketball skills, he finally received a full scholarship to the prestigious James A. Garfield High School in Seattle.
The reason why I came to this school is because it has the best reputation, has the least racial discrimination, has a basketball tradition, and has high scholarships.
"How long have you had this system?"
To be honest, he doesn't know either.
In short, this system has been with him as long as he can remember.
When he was still a toddler, he once asked his family members. After that, he knew that no one could see this inexplicable system except him.
As a child, I wanted to explore what this interesting thing was.
While other children were only interested in the little sister's Naiko, he began the arduous journey of learning to read and write.
Finally, when he was three years old, he learned that this interesting thing was a system called the 'Basketball Superstar Training System'.
It was also at this time that he learned about a gay hand-to-hand game called basketball...
From then on, other children would play games belonging to their age group, but his only game was basketball.
In addition to the task template of this main task, this system has its own attribute panel.
As a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder since childhood, he has been thinking about how to improve the numbers on the panel every day.
In order to improve his ball control, at the age of three, he spent a whole year shooting basketballs that were not much shorter than him.
In order to improve his passing, the four-year-old used a basketball to sneak attack on his father for half a year. Fortunately, he was weak, otherwise he would not have a mother.
In order to improve his balance, at the age of seven, he would lie on the floor and roll around for half an hour, regardless of the strange looks from his family and others, at home and school.
After knowing that peeing against the wind can improve strength, well, let’s not talk about it...
In short, because of this inexplicable system, his life trajectory has become completely different from other peers.
However, he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Whether it is studying hard and studying in the United States in order to complete the main task of this system.
Whether he did those seemingly silly exercises just to make the system's property panel move, it was all of his own free will.
After all, this system is his own basketball superstar development game!
To be continued...