NBA villain

Chapter 101 Acquaintances in Minnesota

Before 01, the NBA only had the best rookie of the month, and there was no division between East and West.

However, since the 01 session, the league has divided the best rookie of the month into two parts, east and west, so there are many rookies in the league who can win this award. Before that, only Duncan and David Robinson took it all Rookie of the Month for all past seasons.

Last year, Yao Ming also won the Western Conference Rookie of the Month twice.

By this time, the data of LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony were so good that the two won the best rookie of the month in the East and West respectively.

Anthony, whose scoring soared, even surpassed James in the rookie rankings and ranked first.

Wade is a bit disappointed. He averaged 17.1 points and 4.9 assists per game this month. According to reason, he has been awarded the player of the month in the past, but this year's rookies are so good, which makes him a bit bleak.

Yang Di's rookie ranking is stable at the seventh and eighth position. Judging from this posture, this year's rookie challenge is inevitable.

In early January, after losing to the Magic, the Heat lost to the top Pacers in the Eastern Conference, and after winning the Bulls at home, they ushered in a six-game road trip.

First went to Milwaukee and defeated the Bucks after an overtime.

Then westward from Milwaukee, we arrived in bitter cold Minnesota.

Minnesota, Minneapolis.

There are clusters of lakes in Minneapolis, and the urban water system is well constructed with winding paths forming lakes, shaded by trees, and lush flowers and plants.Because it is attacked by the cold arctic air mass all year round, the average temperature in the region has always been low, especially in January today, when the cold wind gusts and bites the bones.

After back-to-back games, all the Heat generals fell into a deep sleep after arriving in Minnesota. When Yang Di woke up, it was already [-] o'clock in the morning of the next day.

It was also the first time for him to come to Minneapolis. After getting up from the hotel, he went downstairs to have breakfast, then put on a clean training coat, and went for a morning run.

NBA players are mostly muscular trainers who sweat profusely in the arena and spend a lot of energy on equipment, but there are really few people who develop the habit of morning running like Yang Di.In Wade's words, Yang Di is like an old man who wakes up at a fixed time every morning.

What Yang Di thought in his heart was that according to the systematic scientific training method, insisting on running in the morning can strengthen his physique, improve his mental state, and improve his body's immunity.

He does his own way, the team only stipulates that back-to-back games are not allowed to go to nightclubs, there is no rule that running in the morning is not allowed?

There are few pedestrians in Minneapolis in the early morning. In winter like this, the leaves are all gone. Residents generally like to hide in their warm homes. Most of the people who walk on the streets are white-collar workers who are far away from their workplaces, or live Other workers who are more difficult.

The reddish sunlight rose from the horizon, slowly climbed into the inner circle of the city, and shone on the glass of the tall buildings, reflecting an arc.

Unknown birds flew by in the sky, and when they passed by the lake, they cast black shadows backwards and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yang Di ran to the bridgehead of a lake park, stopped and stretched his waist. In the park square, there were a few children on vacation playing games and laughing.

"Is it winter vacation yet?" Yang Di leaned on the railing of the bridge, looked at the children chasing below, and thought of his younger siblings. The domestic holiday is a little later, but it's just a matter of these few days. It's a pity that I I have competition tasks on me, so I can't go home. If it's this year's offseason, I can go back.

Thinking of being able to go back in June and July, Yang Di's heart became hot, inexplicably happy, and then a little sad, it has been almost a year, time flies so fast.

He stood for a while, thinking about something wildly, then turned away and ran back by another road.

The city of Minneapolis is not particularly big. Maybe it was Yang Di’s illusion. On the way back, there were fewer and fewer high-rise buildings, and it seemed to be gradually moving away from the city center. He thought to himself, maybe the hotel arranged by the team is not a city center In the center, maybe the arena is near the suburbs?
He has a directional map in his mind, and every time he goes to a place, he will write down the map and his location. When he came to a fork in the road, he looked at the direction, and then turned right to the south.

After running along the street for a short time, suddenly the door of a shop next to it opened, and there were the roar of a man and the cry of a girl.

"You don't understand love at all!"

A petite figure suddenly rushed out from the gate, covering his face and covering his head, bumped into Yang Di head-on, and then bumped into Yang Di's body with his arms full.

"thump."

Yang Di didn't move, but the girl with disheveled hair flicked back and fell to the ground on her buttocks. She cried "wow" and cried even more sadly, cursing Yang Di in a crying voice: "Are you blind? , can't you see people? Don't you know how to hide? You all bully me!"

Yang Di was baffled by this situation, but when he heard this series of familiar voices, where did he seem to hear them?

Then he looked up again, and an old man with a white beard rushed out of the shop, looking at him angrily, the two of them stared at each other for a second, and they were stunned.

"Yang?"

"Uncle Ham?"

"Are you here?" Yang Di exclaimed in surprise.

"I didn't expect to meet you here, it's great." Ham came over and patted Yang Di on the shoulder.

"Huh?" Yang Di suddenly reacted, so the girl who fell on the ground should be?He turned his head to look, and the girl had obviously noticed this miraculous situation, and stopped crying. When she looked up, she saw the gentle and sunny smiling face in memory, still smiling at him like that, the early morning sun shining down on her face. , shining warmly on her heart.

"Jianna, long time no see!" Yang Di waved his hand.

Yang Di was left in the restaurant for lunch by the enthusiastic Ham, but Yang Di refused again and again.

Yang Di smiled wryly: "Then I'll do it. By the way, this restaurant doesn't use Chinese food anymore?"

"Since you left, I have recruited a few chefs, most of whom are not very good at it, so I returned to Western-style dishes and did not open in Chinatown."

"By the way, why did you just come here?"

"I participate in the game, you know, I am a player of the NBA Heat now, and I have to play many away games in a season, running around in various cities across the United States." Yang Di said with a smile.

"Dick Young, Dick Young, Dick Young" behind her, Angela stopped crying and called Yang Di's nickname behind her braids.

"Haha, Jaina, I haven't seen you for more than a year, you have become more beautiful!" Yang Di praised.

"Really?!" Women like to hear compliments. Jaina smiled so much that her eyes curled up like crescent moons. Although there were still tears on her face that hadn't been wiped away, she was obviously in a good mood.

Uncle Ham snorted, "Yang, you can tell Jaina well, she has been talking back to me recently."

"Obviously it's Grandpa, you're too stubborn. I'm wrong in pursuing my love. Alex is a player on our school team, and he's so handsome." Angela said unconvinced, as if A little cat with teeth and claws is worthy of the name of Zanthoxylum bungeanum.

"But he is a gangster, smokes and fights, and even got into a police station. Have you forgotten how we left Middletown?" Ham said sadly, and then he glanced at Yang Di beside him . "If there was no Yang Di at that time, we would be in danger!"

Speaking of Middletown, Jaina was also speechless, with her head turned to one side, revealing her delicate neck and jade-like skin.

Yang Di smiled wryly as he watched his grandfather and granddaughter bickering. When he was working in the Ham restaurant, he often saw the two bickering. He didn't expect the same in Minnesota.

"Little Pepper" Jaina turned her big eyes around, and then suddenly shifted the topic to Yang Di, "Dick Yang, how did you leave Middletown? What happened later, why did you suddenly become Become a professional basketball player, NBA, so cool!"

Speaking of this, Ham also pricked up his ears.

So Yang Di talked about what happened after he left Middletown, until he was selected by the Heat in the draft. The thrill naturally made the two of them exclaim. This made Jaina secretly believe that her boyfriend Alex is also an undiscovered gold, and he will definitely become a professional athlete like Yang Di in the future, and become a man who dares to take responsibility.

Yang Di obviously would not have thought that Jaina had already regarded him as a typical representative of the prodigal son, and he did not say that his key system was disabled. Besides, he just wanted to express his powerlessness in the general environment, and he had to work hard to make himself Only by continuously strengthening can the surrounding environment be changed and the fate of related people changed.

The three had dinner together in the restaurant at noon, and then Yang Di exchanged contact information with Ham and Jaina, and Yang Di made an appointment with the two of them, if there is a chance, they can come to Miami to find him.

(End of this chapter)