Chapter 1 I want to play basketball
The night is getting dark, and the dry and hot air in Phoenix City stirs people's hearts.
Tu Man sat on the stone steps at the entrance of the National Airline Center Arena. He cried, but his tears flowed upwards, turning into sweat, and piled up on his forehead...
There is still an hour left before June 25, 2010.
This year's NBA draft has ended, and there is no Tuman on the list of 60 lucky people.
The physical test data of Tu Man in the draft report are as follows:
Name: Tu Man
Nationality: China
Date of birth: May 1, 1992
School of study: Arizona State University
Height of shoes: 207 cm
Naked feet height: 204 cm
Arm-span: 218 cm
Weight: 108 kg
Standing touch height: 272 cm
Bouncing in place: 65 cm
Running and jumping: 78 cm
185 lb bench press: 16 times
Four points move (seconds): 11.81
Three quarters of the sprint time (seconds): 3.60
Although this set of data is not amazing, it does not have obvious shortcomings, and it is actually enough to be at the threshold of NCAA's first-class insider.
You can compare the main data of "NCAA No. 1 center" DeMarcus Cousins in this year's draft:
Height of shoes: 210 cm
Naked feet height: 207 cm
Arm-span: 228 cm
Weight: 132 kg
Standing touch height: 287 cm
Bouncing in place: 60 cm
Running and jumping: 70 cm
Four points move (seconds): 11.40
Three quarters of the sprint time (seconds): 3.55
It can be seen that in addition to his arm span and weight loss, Tuman is not very obvious from the Kao Shen, and his bounce is even better.
A year ago, Arizona State University had a keen eye and promoted Tu Man to the field. In the 2009-2010 season, Tu Man scored 12.8 points, 10.6 rebounds, and 3.2 blocks during the regular season.
What is equally tough is that Tu Man averaged 4.2 fouls per game. Others played basketball, but he even played with the ball. He blocked the gods and killed the Buddhas. He was known as the "meat grinder"!
But unfortunately, in the first game that began in March Crazy, Tuman was tripped and broke his left leg femur...
Without Tuman, Arizona State University was quickly eliminated.
Without record, no halo of the best lineup, coupled with injury and Chinese identity, Tu Man is like a meteor, falling rapidly in various versions of the NCAA player rankings!
But Tu Man was eager to play in NBA. The college students were too young and needed a more wild and cruel stage, so even though he knew the prospects were dark, he still sent a written application to NBA 45 days before the start of the draft.
Tuman is not a native American college student, and can participate in the draft at the age of eighteen.
This summer, other young men who submitted draft applications were busy participating in various star training camps, recording videos, dancing with chickens, recommending themselves, Cheng Men Lixue...
Tu Man was lying in the hospital, with flesh peeled off and steel nails implanted. When the femur healed, the flesh peeled off, the steel nails removed, and the 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 the possible terrible cause, Tu Man was arranged to undergo complex examinations such as urine tests, blood tests, electromyography, nuclear magnetic resonance, etc., but things went against their expectations.
Tu Man was eventually diagnosed, and the name of the disease is:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Another popular saying -
Absent-Longitus!
Just kidding, isn't it?
Tu Man was completely confused. I am a basketball player, and I am only 18 years old. I am the star of the future of NCAA. Is it okay if I don’t want to freeze my absent-freezing me?
At that moment, Tu Man was so desperate that he could even have faith in an instant. Any god is good, as long as he could prevent this disease...
The whole world was roaring and collapsed rapidly. Tu Man could no longer remember how he came out of the hospital, and his medical records were thrown into the trash can!
But he didn't dare to go home.
When Tu Man thought of leaving behind his stable job and accompanying him to school in the United States, he felt that his chest was so heavy that he could not breathe.
This is ALS!
When parents are old and have white hair, they still have to push themselves out in a wheelchair to breathe, and use their thin, old-fashioned hands to carry out a living dead person who is as painful as Professor Huo and carry them in?
That picture is so cruel!
Tu Man's eyes were dull, and he stumbled here like a walking corpse.
He didn't dare to think too far, but he still couldn't help but think a lot, but he forgot what he thought about again, but he just had an obsession in his heart:
It would be great if I could fight a NBA!
Tu Man sat on the stone steps at the entrance of the National Airline Center Arena. The draft has been over for a long time. He is still brushing the 60-person list over and over again, hoping to see his name...
What can I do if I lose the election?
The doctor told Tu Man that the gastrocnemius muscle in his left leg had begun to develop and could not provide the explosive power it should have, which made him jump, which made him worse by not having any wealth.
However, after practicing basketball for so many years, if you don’t play an NBA game, you will fall down like this, how could Tu Man be willing to do so?
For the sake of the present, I can only try my luck in the summer league. As long as I don’t do an electromyography, I can hide the NBA-level physical examination. I can play a few games!
Tu Man's heart was very hard. He would rather break his muscles on the court than watch them shrink and stiffen in a wheelchair...
Born as a human being, you must stand!
The sun rose from the horizon of Phoenix City. Tu Man rubbed the back of his head, which was so painful. He didn't know when he fell asleep last night. The stone steps were so hard...
After buying a few burgers, he had to make breakfast. Tuman started jogging around the National Airline Center Arena. He wanted to warm up first and find a way to impress the sun's coaching staff later.
Suns head coach Alvin Gentry led the Suns to run and play last year and entered the Western Conference Final this year. Although he did not go further and won the O'Brien Cup, he was still honored even though he was defeated. The champion Lakers were defeated.
In short, Gentry's coaching position is very stable.
But general manager Steve Cole resigned, which is an explanation for the fans. After all, he let the team go.
"Little Overlord" Amare Stoudemire.
Before leaving, Cole recommended his good friend Lance Blanks to take over. This guy looks very similar to Gentry. The two of them smiled like a pair of sloths from Zootopia...
Tu Man "meets" the pair of sloths:
"Good morning, gentlemen!"
Blanks frowned, unable to remember Tu Man's name for a moment, and said:
"Who are you……"
Gentry took over the conversation:
"Meat grinder, Arizona State's starting center!"
Blanks turned his head and smiled:
"I know you are from that school, nicknamed Meat Grinder, but I suddenly forgot what your name is. I'm so sorry..."
Tu Man smiled and said:
Chapter completed!