The toughest man in the NBA

Chapter 1 I want to play basketball

It was getting dark at night, and the hot and dry air in Phoenix stirred people's hearts.

Tu Man sat on the stone steps at the entrance of the US Airways Center arena. He cried, but the tears flowed upward and turned into sweat, which accumulated on his forehead...

There is still one hour before June 2010, 6.

This year's NBA draft has ended, and there is no Tuman on the list of 60 lucky ones.

The physical data of Tu Man in the draft report are as follows:

Name: Tuman

Nationality: Chinese

Date of birth: April 1992, 5

Institution attended: Arizona State University

Height with shoes: 207 cm
Barefoot height: 204cm
Armspan: 218cm
Weight: 108kg
Standing height: 272 cm
Bounce in place: 65 cm
Approach bounce: 78 cm
185-pound bench press: 16 reps

Four-point movement within the three-second zone (seconds): 11.81
Three-quarter sprint time (seconds): 3.60
Although this set of data is not amazing, it has no obvious shortcomings. In fact, it is also enough to meet the threshold of the NCAA first-class insider.

You can compare the main data of this year's draft pick, "NCAA No. [-] Center" DeMarcus Cousins:

Height with shoes: 210 cm
Barefoot height: 207cm
Armspan: 228cm
Weight: 132kg
Standing height: 287 cm
Bounce in place: 60 cm
Approach bounce: 70 cm
Four-point movement within the three-second zone (seconds): 11.40
Three-quarter sprint time (seconds): 3.55
It can be seen that except for the disadvantages of wingspan and weight, there is no obvious gap between Tuman and Kaoshen, and his jumping is even better.

A year ago, Arizona State University promoted Tuman in the fields. During the 2009-2010 season, Tuman scored 12.8 points, 10.6 rebounds and 3.2 blocks during the regular season.

What is also tough is that Tuman averaged 4.2 fouls per game. Others play ball, but he even plays with the ball.
But unfortunately, in the first game of "March Madness", Tu Man tripped and broke his left femur...

Without the brutality, Arizona State University was quickly eliminated.

With no record, no halo of the best team, coupled with injuries and Chinese identity, Tu Man is like a shooting star, falling rapidly in all versions of the NCAA player rankings!
But Tu Man desperately wanted to play in the NBA. The college students were too young, and he needed a wilder and more brutal stage. Therefore, knowing that the prospect was gloomy, he still sent a written application to the NBA 45 days before the start of the draft.

Tu Man is not a college student in the United States, so he can participate in the draft right now.

This summer, the other boys who submitted their draft applications are busy participating in various star training camps, recording videos, dancing to the sound of chickens, recommending themselves, Cheng Men Lixue...

Tu Man was lying in the hospital, his skin was peeled off, and steel nails were implanted. After the femur healed, the skin was peeled off, the steel nails were removed, and the skin and flesh healed...

Until yesterday, Tu Man finally got the hospital's approval——

He recovered!

However, during the re-examination, the doctor discovered another, bigger and more terrifying trouble!

In order to rule out possible terrible causes, Tu Man was ordered to undergo complicated examinations such as urine test, blood test, electromyography, and nuclear magnetic resonance, but things backfired.

Tuman was finally diagnosed. The name of the disease is:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

To put it another way -

ALS!
Are you kidding?

Tu Man was stunned. I'm a basketball player. I'm only 18 years old. I'm a rising star in the NCAA. Don't let me get cold?
At that moment, Tu Man was so desperate and helpless that he could even have faith in an instant, any god would be fine, as long as he could get rid of this disease...

The whole world was roaring and collapsing rapidly. Tu Man no longer remembered how he got out of the hospital, and the medical records were thrown into the trash can!
But he dared not go home.

Thinking of the parents who left his stable job and accompanied him to the United States to study and play basketball, Tu Man felt his chest was so heavy that he couldn't breathe——

This is ALS!
Could it be that when the parents are old and have gray hair, they still tremblingly use a wheelchair to push themselves out to breathe, and use their skinny hands covered with age spots to hug a living dead who is as painful as Professor Huo? Come out, hold in?

That picture is too cruel!

Tu Man's eyes were dull, and he stumbled all the way here like a walking corpse.

He didn't dare to think too far, but he still couldn't help thinking a lot, but he forgot what he was thinking about, but he had an obsession in his heart:
It would be great if I could play an NBA game!
Tu Man was sitting on the stone steps at the entrance of the US Airways Center arena. The draft had been over for a long time, and he was still scrolling through the list of 60 players over and over in vain, hoping to see his name...

Lost the election, Nai Ruo?
The doctor told Tu Man that the gastrocnemius muscle in his left leg had begun to suffer from disease, and it was basically unable to provide the explosive power it should have. This made his poor bounce even worse.

However, after practicing basketball for so many years, without playing a single NBA game, how could Tu Man be reconciled to just falling down like this?
For now, I can only go to the summer league to try my luck. As long as I don't have an EMG, I should be able to hide from the NBA-level physical examination, and I can play a few games!

Tu Man's heart is very hard. He would rather break his muscles on the court than watch them shrink and become stiff in a wheelchair...

Born as a human, you must stand up!
The sun rose from the horizon of Phoenix City, Tu Man rubbed the back of his head that was so painful, he fell asleep at some point last night, these stone steps are really hard...

After buying a few hamburgers for breakfast, Tu Man started jogging around the US Airways Center arena. He wanted to warm up first, and then try to impress the coaching staff of the Suns.

The head coach of the Suns, Alvin Gentry, led the Suns back to running and bombing last year, and broke into the Western Conference Finals this year. Although they did not go further to win the O'Brien Cup, it was a glorious defeat, and it was the championship that killed them. lakers.

All in all, Gentry's handsome position is very stable.

But general manager Steve Kerr resigned as an explanation to the fans. After all, he let go of the team's future——

"Small Bully" Amare Stoudemire.

Before leaving, Cole recommended his good friend Lance Blanks to take over. This guy looks very similar to Gentry, and the two of them laughed like a pair of sloths from Zootopia...

Tu Man "ran into" this pair of sloths:

"Good morning, gentlemen!"

Blanks frowned, unable to remember Tuman's name for a moment, and said:

"You are……"

Gentry took up the conversation:
"Meat Grinder, Arizona State's starting center!"

Blanks turned his head and said with a smile:

"I know you are from that school, nicknamed Meat Grinder, but I suddenly forgot your name, I'm so sorry..."

Tu Man smiled and said:

"My name is Tu Man, the real man's Tu, the real man's man!"

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(End of this chapter)