I just play ball

Chapter 264 Insincere

As far as Christmas gifts are concerned, Li Yue feels that luxury watches are too common, and many NBA stars have given them experience.

For example, when Kobe won the MVP in 08, in order to share the joy with his teammates, he gave each of the Lakers players a watch worth 1 US dollars, and the Wizards boss Wall also planned to give his teammates Rolex watches this Christmas. Novelty, it's better not to be the same.

What's more, I also endorse Cartier watches, so I can't give other brands as gifts, and giving Cartier looks like a picky search.

The other two common choices are electronic products and earphones, which are more common than luxury watches, and each teammate has a lot of them, and they will be put in the cabinet to eat ashes after they are given away, and they may appear in the gift recycling shop that day.

Taylor replied quickly, suggesting that Li Yue give Bitcoin as a gift based on the two criteria of novelty and usefulness.

After simplifying the principle of bitcoin, Li Yue felt it was feasible, and immediately entrusted Taylor to register 14 accounts with the names of his teammates, buy ten bitcoins for each account, and then write the account password on A4 paper, with a famous saying on financial management, and package them separately in Inside the exquisite envelope, make a wooden box outside, tie a gorgeous drawstring, and ask someone to deliver it to the apartment.

Taylor said that she had to do it overnight. Li Yue returned to Ramona from the airport. On the way, she received a call from Chenxi. She had already taken off from China and arrived at [-]:[-] pm as planned. business.

At eight o'clock in the morning on the 24th, Li Yue got up to make breakfast, and turned on the TV to listen to NBA-related news.

The first piece of news was that the Rockets gave away Christmas gifts. Howard gave his teammate a Rolex watch. Li Yue shook his head and sighed. So many stars gave teammates Rolexes. The rich people’s Christmas gifts are often so simple and unpretentious.

And Harden’s choice is more interesting. Each teammate will give an XBOX ONE game console as a gift. The fly in the ointment is that the handle actually needs to use batteries, which is much worse than the USB charging experience of the PS4 handle.

But the most interesting thing is that Howard gave Harden an Audemars Piguet watch alone, which is of a higher grade than Rolex. It is one of the three top watch brands in the world along with Vacheron Constantin and Patek Philippe. Harden also tweeted that that is what he wanted The Christmas gift I want is the love from my brother, for fear that other teammates will not know that Howard is giving gifts differently.

The second piece of news is that the voting for the NBA All-Star Weekend is open. ESPN released a tweet in the early hours of the morning to make statistics. By the time the program was broadcast, a total of more than 5 people had participated in the voting. Li Yue ranked first among the frontcourt players in the Western Conference. , received more than 93% of the starting votes, followed by Durant and Griffin.

The third piece of news announced the best player of the week, LeBron won the Eastern side, and Li Yue was still the western side. Since the beginning of the new season, there has been no change. Not surprisingly, he will win the best player of the month for the second time in a row.

At about ten o'clock, Taylor called to inform that the delivery man had arrived outside the apartment gate.

Li Yue went out to hold hands. The boxes were all put in a cardboard box, which was only the size of a box of mineral water. Each package was quite exquisite, with each teammate's name engraved on it, and the font was specially designed, which obviously took a lot of effort.

After putting away the box, Li Yue went to Wal-Mart to buy daily necessities such as towels and a lot of ingredients. Then he called his second uncle and invited his family to have dinner, not for Christmas, but to get together by the way.

At 30:[-] p.m., Li Yue received Chen Xi at the airport and kissed him affectionately for [-] seconds before letting go.

Back at the apartment, the second aunt and the second uncle started to cook dinner, and the three of Li Yue played Doudizhu.

During the meal, Li Yue made a video call with his parents. His mother secretly hoped to take this opportunity to set the date of marriage. Although his father did not say a word, he was full of support. Li Yue didn't know what to say, and Chen Xi also expressed his opinion. The atmosphere changed It's a little embarrassing.

The second uncle hurriedly told jokes to ease the atmosphere. Li Zhi took the opportunity to change the subject and talked about his university major. My mother didn't continue to struggle, she said a few more words to end the video call, and the dinner ended in a slightly awkward atmosphere.

When the second uncle's family returned to Irvine, neither Li Yue nor Chen Xi mentioned this matter again, as if it had never happened.

Taking advantage of the digesting time after the meal, Li Yue logged on to Twitter to browse related reports, while Chen Xi talked on the phone with Nicole.

In this Christmas game, the league arranged a total of five duels, and the battle between the Lakers and the Heat received the most attention.

The game will be broadcast live on TNT and NBA&TV at the same time, and there will be two online platforms, Facebook and YouTube. Including Sina and CCTV5 in mainland China, it is expected that more than 4000 million people will watch it.

TMZ reported that the courtside seat at the Staples Center was as high as [-] US dollars, mainly because the Heat wanted revenge, not to mention that many commentators agreed that only the Spurs were worthy of competing with the Lakers.

The Lakers definitely want to defend their home court, and the game must be extremely fierce, it can be used as a preview of the finals.

There are photos showing that on the outer wall of the Staples Center, there are already photos of Kobe and Li Yue teaming up to pinch LeBron. They are specially prepared for this game. They don't care about wasting money, but they want to overwhelm their opponents first.

TNT released an interview video. In the video, LeBron was wearing a training vest and calmly stated to the camera that he would not take this game too seriously. The game against the Lakers was just one of the Heat’s western road trip, but standing behind him Bosh shouted at his teammates: If we still have this kind of defense tomorrow, the Lakers may score 140 points.

After Li Yue browsed through it roughly, Chen Xi also ended the call just in time, and the two of them took a bath, changed clothes, and fell asleep hugging each other.

...

Six o'clock in the afternoon on the 25th, the Staples Center, the Lakers locker room.

Li Yue returned from shooting practice. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Kobe distributing gifts to his teammates.

"Come on, you have it too."

Kobe smiled and handed over a small black square box, which looked a little heavy, with his personal LOGO printed on it. Li Yue took it in his hand and suddenly found that it was a Lenovo ideapad notebook or the latest YOGA series.

Back in April, when the Lakers struggled to make it to the playoffs, Kobe once gave away this series of notebooks, and now Li Yue felt a little amused by giving them away, but this season has many new teammates, which is also appropriate.

Anyway, the most important thing is the mind.

After Kobe was distributed, Thackeray looked at Li Yue eagerly, as if saying: Do you have any?
Li Yue nodded with a smile, walked to his closet, and dragged out the box that had been placed in advance.

"Ever heard of Bitcoin?"

"What's the matter?" Thackeray asked impatiently, his curiosity was beyond words.

"A virtual currency..." Li Yue explained bluntly, "In short, this thing may appreciate to [-] dollars each, or it may depreciate to less than [-] dollars each, I think it is one of the future trends, I give it to you for fun. "

"Sounds like a stock?" Nick Young laughed. "Is there any special meaning?"

(End of this chapter)