One Guard

Chapter 4 : I want to go to college

“You should show me these game videos early! If you did this early, I promise that kid is already in Indianapolis!” Early in the morning, Brad Steven, coach of the Bulldogs of Butler University As soon as Si walked into the office, his chief scout, Roger Harpy, rushed in excitedly.

“Damn it, Roger, you didn’t sleep last night, did you?” Stevens looked at his scout, the dark circles on his face more conspicuous than the beer belly.

“Sleep? God, his performance made me excited! A defender who can challenge John Wall was the first one of us to spot. Did you know that man, if he and Gordon Hayward can join forces, We might be able to win an NCAA trophy!” Harpy sat at Stevens’s desk, and from his eyes, he could see that this guy was still in a state of extreme excitement.

For a scout, discovering a talented player who has never been discovered by others is just as happy as winning the lottery.

“Don’t make conclusions so quickly, buddy, we will wait for him to pass our trial. Also, I heard that the kid’s studies… don’t seem to be very optimistic. If his grades are not enough to make If he enters the university, there is nothing we can do.” Stevens is much calmer than Hapi. It is not easy for a university to recruit players into the team.

“What else is trying out? I will fly back to Long Beach City tomorrow to watch his performance in the high school league for half a month, and report to you in real time. As for the results, I believe that as long as I put pressure on his mother, his mother will help us get it done. Yes. That is a very educated lady, she will definitely be willing to persuade her son’s future with heartfelt persuasion. You know, John Wall also walked over in this way. “Hapi looked confident, all night long. Over time, his attitude towards Yiyang has undergone a 180° change.

“High school league? Do you know why no university has contacted him until now, Hapi? Because the kid we were looking for was removed from the high school basketball team a month ago. I called and asked because of him. In training, he had a conflict with his teammates and discounted the bridge of a child’s nose. Therefore, he has no high school league to play. In other words…” Stevens’s expression became serious. He stared at the scout in front of him and said word by word. “We are the only chance he can continue to play basketball!”

Reminiscing about what happened to him in Long Beach yesterday, Hapi felt that it was not surprising that Yiyang did such a thing. He immediately walked out of Stevens’s office, ready to go home to arrange a wife and children.

after that? After that, Hapi will return to Long Beach City again. Maybe the kid who robbed him was not as bad as he thought?

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At noon on the weekend, the sunshine in Long Beach is very harsh. Many people will choose to go swimming at the beach at this time, or simply hide at home.

But Yiyang still came to the basketball court downstairs in the apartment with a basketball that looked old. Only in this place, Yiyang’s heart is happy. Only this place will make this unruly “bad boy” full of respect.

Although 　　Yiyang lives in the United States and studies in the United States, he is not an Asian American, but a true Chinese.

Yiyang’s father used to be a basketball player. Although he is not a star in the CBA league, he is more than enough to live by basketball.

When Yiyang was eight years old, his father had to retire due to injuries. This sudden blow made Yiyang’s father unable to fully accept it. He wanted to leave, leaving this place that made him painful.

Sadly, he brought his wife and Yiyang to the United States, hoping to use his savings for several years to start again on American soil. However, this land is far less beautiful than Yiyang’s father imagined.

One day, Yiyang had just finished school and was about to find his father who was playing on the street basketball court and waiting for him. Just when he arrived at the gate of the court, Yiyang saw that his father seemed to have an argument with a few people on the basketball court. After that, one of the black people suddenly took out a gun and squeezed the trigger at Yiyang’s father’s chest.

Yiyang, who was only 8 years old, witnessed the whole process of his father being shot and killed. The local police just handled the murder case of an Asian family casually. After all, in the Wood District, it is nothing new that non-ferrous species were shot.

That day, the basketball court was stained with blood. This place, which is always full of laughter and laughter, has since become heavy. And Yiyang has changed from a good boy to what he is now.

It was not because he was naughty that he was fighting and making trouble, but because he knew that in this land, only his fists could protect himself.

My father passed away, and my mother was too weak to work too hard. In less than a few years, all of Yiyang’s savings were exhausted. Their family can only rely on their mother alone to support them.

This is also one of the reasons why Yiyang chooses to rob now. He doesn’t want his mother to continue to work hard. He is going to be 18 years old and will be an adult soon. He also hopes to support this family like his father. Poverty is one of the biggest reasons that force people to embark on the path of crime.

Yiyang shook his head and started dribbling the ball on the basketball court. He didn’t know why he thought about this today, maybe he was thinking about how to become a father as a man.

After 　　 Yiyang ran a few laps around the court with the ball, he started shooting practice. Although he has been removed from the high school team, he still trains himself from time to time. The habit of so many years suddenly called a stop, nowhere is it so easy to stop.

Moreover, Yiyang didn’t regret hitting that teammate at all. Who made the fat man say that his mother was a lowly woman, he was completely self-reliant.

As for the future, what should I do? Yiyang doesn’t want to think about these now. In the time on the basketball court, let him enjoy the few happy moments that basketball brings him…

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Yiyang, who played basketball by himself for an afternoon, walked home sweating profusely. As soon as he walked in, he saw his mother hiding something behind her.

“What do you have on your hands? Mom.” Yiyang put the basketball on the ground and walked towards his mother, whose tears had not yet completely dried.

“No…nothing, I’ll cook for you.” Yiyang’s mother squeezed a smile, and then quickly walked to the kitchen.

Yiyang spotted the note in his mother’s hand, sprinted sharply, and easily snatched the note. For someone who can steal Wall’s basketball from behind, this is a piece of cake for Yiyang.

He opened the note and looked at it. As expected, it was the latest bill this month. And this number has exceeded the limit that their family can afford.

“Why are there so many?” Yiyang asked.

“The child you injured, I paid some of their medical expenses. It’s okay, I can go to the convenience store to do cashier work at night, and we can afford it.” The mother took the note from Yiyang and started. Cooking.

Yiyang stood there blankly. He had always wanted to help his mother share a little pressure. He hoped that this family could be supported by himself. But look now, he just messed up his mother again.

Sure enough, are you just a child? Yiyang clenched his fists. He didn’t want to live under the protection of his mother like a child.

“Mom.”

“Huh? The rice will be ready soon. Today, I have chicken curry that you like. The convenience store on the corner of the street is selling a lot of curry. I bought a lot of curry.” Yiyang’s mother’s voice is still so gentle.

“I want to try.”

“I said, I don’t want you to be a car mechanic.”

“No, I mean, I want to try Butler University.”

The whole room suddenly became quiet.

“Do you want to go to college!?” Yiyang’s mother poked her head out of the kitchen, with a smile from the heart on her face.

“I think that full scholarship should be quite a lot.” Yiyang said, remembering the bill just now.

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Early the next morning, Hapi stepped back into the place he had said the day before that he would never come again.

The Wood District of Long Beach is simply a melting pot of people of color. It is not only poor, but also very chaotic.

But today, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com Harpy is not as nervous as when he came last time. As soon as he walked downstairs to the apartment, he saw Yiyang shooting on the basketball court.

“You are here.” Yiyang said coldly, saying hello to Harpy.

“Do you know I will come?” Harpy smiled and stepped into the basketball court.

“Of course you will come again, because you haven’t taken away the best basketball players in Long Beach.” Yiyang found that this blessed man smiled and seemed not that annoying.

“Is your mother at home? Where is your father?” Hapi looked at the dilapidated apartment behind him, hoping that the child’s fate could be changed because of basketball.

“My dad is dead.”

“Oh… I’m sorry.”

“Let’s go, go up, my mother prepared toast and milk for you.” Yiyang clamped the basketball around his waist and walked in front of Hapy.

“Hey, about Butler University…”

“I will go to the trial, you guys, get the scholarship ready.” Before Hapi finished speaking, Yiyang took over the right to speak.

Hapi had prepared a lot of excuses to convince Yiyang, but unexpectedly he didn’t say anything, Yiyang agreed.

Hapi followed Yiyang, and the excitement in his heart could not be restrained.

Seventeen-year-old Yiyang desperately wants to make money so that he can take his mother to escape the dark and dark place of Wood District. If he doesn’t want to die on the street or be put in prison one day, he can only use basketball!

Hapi can even see it, for the kid Yiyang. The door to a new world seems to have been opened.

Many years later, when Harpy recalled his experience today. He never thought that this would be the starting point of a legendary story…