You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 58 Havlicek's Lifetime Regrets
Wei Xia knocked on Jay Wright's door after talking on the phone with his grandfather.

Informed Wright of his purpose, Wright did not show embarrassment, and asked Wei Xia to go back and wait for the news.

Wei Xia thanked him and went back.

He believed that Light would help him handle it. After all, he was one of the teams participating in the finals. It shouldn't be a big problem to get a front row ticket.

Wei Xia went back to the room to change into pajamas and go to bed.

He just went to bed, played for 40 minutes, and kissed the ground more times than he scored, feeling sore all over his body.

The bruises all over his body made him extremely uncomfortable, and he tossed and turned many times before he found a comfortable position and fell asleep peacefully.

Once in sleep, his consciousness would snap back at some point.This is the key for him to enter the old time. He has been lucid dreaming since he was a child, and he naturally has the ability to stay awake while sleeping.

The reason why Wei Xia thinks that the old time is not a dream is not only because the retirement battle he fought in the old time for the first time became a reality, but also because when he returned to reality from the old time, he didn't feel like he didn't get enough sleep after a lucid dream.

While he entered the old time, his body was still fully rested.

At the same time, what he did in the old days will be fed back to him.In other words, he not only got Havlicek's talent, but also had one more day of training than others.

The old time at this time is the summer of 1960.

After winning the 1960 NCAA championship, the Ohio State team was called to Denver for the Olympic selection camp.

To participate in the following Olympic Games in Rome, the US team must call up one of the most powerful non-professional teams.

Since professional players were banned from the Olympic basketball program at this time, the U.S. team consisted mainly of college players rather than NBA pros.

In the summer of 1960, the US team happened to have a large number of future hopefuls playing in college.

In addition to Ohio State University, there are also many players from NCAA, NAIA star teams, AAU, and military teams competing for the Olympic roster.At this time, the meaning of representing the U.S. team in the Olympics is not as tasteless as later generations, and the enthusiasm of the players is extremely high.

In order to select the best players, the selection team specially let Ohio State University play against NCAA star teams, NAIA star teams and other teams.

The rule is that the first five players of the winning team will be selected for the Olympic team, and then seven players will be selected from other teams to form the final representative team.

To Wei Xia's regret, when he crossed over, the game had already been played. Although Havlicek's Ohio State University was invincible all over the country, they lost to the NCAA star team and even lost their underwear.

Just look at the starters on that team: Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Jay Arnett, Terry Diszinger (future All-Star), Daral Imhoff (future All-Star).

These five people became the first batch of Olympic players.

Havlicek was the leading scorer at Ohio State University in the training camp. When Weixia came across, it happened to be the day when the list of the other seven players was announced. He thought Havlicek would be selected.

After all, he has both offense and defense without possession of the ball. What kind of team would reject him?
But in the end, the selection committee chose Havlicek's teammate Jerry Lucas to join the US team based on his reputation.

In addition, the college star team's backup center Walter Bellamy became the seventh player to be selected.

The media predicted that Havlicek would be selected for the US team, and their reasons were the same as Wei Xia's.

Havlicek is a perfect team player, both offensive and defensive, not stealing the limelight or becoming an unstable factor, and has enough strength.

But in the end it was defeated by "political factors".

Since NAIA, AAU, and the military all insisted that each and every unit must be selected, the level of the final five selected was obviously not the best five in the selection camp.

In the end, the selection committee completely ignored the actual performance and the needs of the team, and selected five centers in one go.

The moment the list was announced.

Wei Xia said angrily, "What?"

"John, do you have any objections?" the selection committee asked.

Obviously it was Havlicek's business, but Wei Xia was furious, and the indignation he had never had before was rippling in his chest.

Speaking of which, Havlicek has been with him for five years.

They will continue to influence each other in the future.

Losing the 1960 Olympics was one of the greatest disappointments in Havlicek's life.Because he only had this chance, at the end of his career, the Olympic Games did not lift the ban on professional players to participate in the men's basketball competition.

If you miss this time, it will be eternity.

The sight of the selection committee made Wei Xia furious, Havlicek's body trembled, and the anger almost set his head on fire.

The self-cultivation and family education that Wei Mingliang and Mei Chen brought to him disappeared at this moment, and Wei Xia used Havlicek to say the most un-Havlicek words; "Fuck you!"

After speaking, he turned and left.

This incident became the focus of the news for a while, and Wei Xia thought that he had changed history, and he would have to live this day again tomorrow when he traveled again.However, when he entered the old time again, he found that there was no "rollback".He really changed the history of that day, just like he changed Havlicek's retirement battle.

That's another story.

Wei Xia woke up the next day and found that his palms were full of sweat.

Apparently, his anger from the old days had worked into his real body.

His palms and backs were covered with sweat, his chest was tight, and he couldn't get angry.

He opens the window, wondering who else to get mad at, can he find some innocent person on the street to berate the idiots of the Olympic selection team from 44 years ago who would rather have a few centers who can't hit the ball than Havlicek?
By the way, are those selection committee members still alive?
Obviously he could only slowly digest this matter in his own heart.

He didn't know how long it would take.

In the afternoon, Wei Xia went to the station to pick up Jerry Wayne with the ticket given by Wright.

He soon met the old man he respected most in the world—his grandpa Jerry Wayne.

Wayne is an out-and-out white Boston American, why is he white?And Wei Xia's father is a pure Asian?

Wayne adopted Wei Mingliang, it was as simple as that.

Boston is a city with extremely serious racial discrimination. Wayne has fought against racial discrimination all his life. For this reason, he married a wife of black descent and adopted Asian children.

Over the years, Wayne has suffered a lot of bullying and grievances, but in Wei Xia's eyes, he will always be the one who is as humorous as Joe Pesci and "steals" John Havlicek on the court.

(End of this chapter)