You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 480 Departure: Desert City!

The 2008 All-Star Weekend was held in New Orleans, the first major event hosted by the desert city since Hurricane Katrina.

It has extraordinary significance for the city.

As the selected All-Star, Wei Xia needs to arrive in Desert City one day in advance.

He has been a popular figure recently, making headlines every three days. Although it is all negative news about him, Adidas feels that good reputation and bad reputation are both hot, and they should strike while the iron is hot and do their best to promote him.

Therefore, on the first day of Wei Xia's early arrival in Desert City, what greeted him was not a holiday, but endless activities and endless media interviews.

Wesha and Elaine Trovis made a phone call and arranged things at home again.

Since my sister moved back to live, she has been in charge of everything at home.Wei Xia just said that it would take a few days for him to come back, and there was nothing else to worry about.

"I think you should hire some bodyguards, just like Kobe."

Wei Chun is very sensitive to the outside situation, and Wei Xia is undoubtedly the most unpopular NBA player among ordinary people.

"Don't worry, it's fine."

Whether there is a problem specifically, Wei Xia has no idea in his mind, he just feels that nothing will happen, as for why, he can't say.

Presumably he had never seen a lunatic so crazy as to shoot at a crowd.

The night before leaving for New Orleans, Wesha slept very, very deeply.

What happened in reality made him understand Bill Russell in the old days better.

Today he just makes the mistake of being politically incorrect, whereas in the 60s Russell's complexion was incorrectness itself.

"Lars, how did you keep yourself going?"

Wei Xia asked seriously.

Russell responded lightly: "I know I'm doing the right thing, and one day, everyone will know."

Everyone will know?Perhaps, it is the struggle of several generations that made "nig" a restricted term that only black people can greet each other.Let the black people always be the selfless victims in the blockbuster.Let all kinds of black people appear in the background of the story where they should not appear.

The complexion is balanced and the skin tone is correct.

Wei Xia remembered what happened to him. He was in a worse situation than Russell.Racial discrimination is a low-level thing everywhere, and a country takes the lead in promoting negative news about another country, but he, as a member of that country, does not stand under the Stars and Stripes, it is simply a traitor.

Wei Xia found that he might never get the same understanding and support as Russell, even if he was right.

The truth of the matter is not important to Americans at all.

"Hong Duo, do you have something on your mind?"

Russell saw that Havlicek didn't speak for a while, so he asked this question.

Wei Xia smiled lightly, "It's nothing."

The Celtics from 1964 to 1965 were a year from prosperity to decline. The aging of the personnel made them deserve to give up the throne.As a result, with the monster performances of Russell, Jones, Havlicek and Tom Sanders, halfway through the schedule, they firmly occupy the first position in the league and look stronger than any previous year.

The NBA in 1965 is a year that has been forgotten by history.

There wasn't a strike like the 1964 All-Star Weekend strike, and there wasn't another Chamberlain averaging 50 points per game to define a season.

The most concerned by fans may be that Chamberlain was traded.

That was the first time since the birth of the NBA that there was a social event that the people love to see.

Chamberlain was traded, making the NBA out of the circle for the first time.

In fact, to judge whether a matter has a high degree of attention, especially in everyone's small circles, you only need to pay attention to how the elders in the family who never care about these small circles react.

Wilt Chamberlain sent the Warriors to Philadelphia, and at the same time, your mother would suddenly ask you at the restaurant: "Then who...Zhang or something seems to be sold, do you know?"

Chamberlain got a group of excellent teammates, and he and his teammates had a good spark at the beginning.They are generally considered to be the biggest obstacle for the Celtics to defend their title.

As for other strong teams, each has its own problems.

Before there was no good inside line, the Lakers wanted to challenge the Celtics, and the success rate was almost 0.

A few years ago, Elgin Baylor averaged 40+ per game in the finals, Jerry West averaged 30+ per game, and lost the tiebreaker. There is no duo in NBA history who can't win a championship after playing like this.

The lack of inside talent allowed Russell to score a legendary 30 points and 40 rebounds in that tiebreaker.

Now, Baylor appears old, West is rising steadily, and there is a faint momentum to fight against Oscar Robertson.

Let's talk about Robertson's Royals. Two years ago, they had seven bloody battles with the Celtics in the playoffs.Big O blasted every defender in Lukay, but he lost his breath in the tiebreaker.

The Royals should have been able to take on the Celtics after adding super rookie Jerry Lucas, but for some reason, they magically blew up.

As long as the Royals lose the game, if Robertson's data is the best or looks like the best on the team, he will definitely not bear a point of responsibility for the failure.He would only feel that "they are all fucking Lao Tzu Kerry, and this group of trash snacks are fucking trash".

Sometimes, he'll score 30 points on 40-30 shots, the highest on the team, and then lose.In modern times, even a star player would say that he feels bad, and he is to blame for the loss.

Robertson is different: "I have a group of teammates who can't play basketball without me. Let's see how many points I have scored? If it weren't for those idiots holding me back, this game could have been played like this?"

Big O's arrogance and blame, as well as his desire to control the team, are fully reflected in his autobiography.

He only feels a little bit responsible when the team loses and his stats aren't good, but it's mostly the fault of his idiot teammates.

Everyone can play bad games, why should he always c?Is it so difficult to count on those trash snacks to take him flying once?

On this matter, Big O and Big Dipper reached a high degree of agreement.

But Lao Zhang is kinder than Big O, he doesn’t blame his teammates when he doesn’t play well—but don’t think too much about him, for those cases where he lost the chain in key battles, his own conclusion is “I can’t, I really don’t want to”.The implication is that if he fights every game like Russell, what is it to win the key battle?Even the earth stepped on a hole for her.

(Quoting a senior fan who has finished reading Lao Zhang’s autobiography: The content of the autobiography has no sincerity at all. It is full of bragging and self-promotion. It tells you that losing so much is not because of him, not because of his opponents, but because his teammates are stupid, the coaches are stupid, the management is stupid, and he himself is so stupid that he doesn’t know how to be tough and use all his strength to destroy the world.)
In summary, the only thing that can stop the Celtics from dominating the road is the very Philadelphia 76ers.

Chamberlain, who got a good teammate, showed his ambition to overthrow the Celtics.

But history has already marked everything.

Wei Xia woke up, packed his luggage, and asked Li Zhongxian to drive him to the airport.

On the way, Li Zhongxian heard Wei Xia humming a certain tune.

"What are you singing?"

"Haven't you heard such a famous song?"

"What song is it?"

"'I Have a Friend Named Elaine'."

"I know, Shibaer, what's your girlfriend's name... Uh huh, where are you two?"

Wei Xia said helplessly: "I mean, the song I sang and hummed is called "I have a friend named Elaine". "

"Is there such a song?"

Li Zhongxian muttered unexpectedly.

Wei Xia didn't care about him, and he drove the car talking to himself.

Los Angeles International Airport

Wei Xia really saw a group of reporters, who seemed to have been waiting for him for a long time.

Wei Xia hoped that they would just wait there for Kobe's arrival instead of waiting for him on a special trip.

If it was there to wait for Kobe, their question should have been just to ask them what they thought about going to New Orleans for All-Star weekend.

If they were waiting for Wei Xia there on purpose, they would definitely ask some stomachache questions again.

Wei Xia dragged his luggage and wore sunglasses. He had never been the focus of attention, but he suddenly became the focus of media interviews.He, who never hangs a headset to isolate himself from the world like other players, suddenly wants to follow the example of those people.

It's just that he didn't prepare well in advance, and now it's too late to try to hold Buddha's feet temporarily.

Therefore, he needs to walk up to the reporters with a smile on his face.

"Hello."

After walking in front of them, Wei Xia saw the license plates on them, which seemed to be local reporters and media in Los Angeles.

He was slightly relieved that even if he was not politically correct, the California media rarely attacked him, at most they pretended nothing happened and pretended to be dead.

Do nothing but do him a favor.

"Wish, what does it mean to you to be selected as an All-Star for two consecutive years?"

Wei Xia exhaled lightly, and finally what he heard was no longer the damn Sudan question.

"It means a lot, and I'm very grateful for the support of the fans, so I will do my best at the All-Star Game and strive to bring the best performance."

Just as he thought, the reporter didn't make things difficult for him, just a few simple questions, and after asking them routinely, he was let through.

　Why am I writing about these offsites?Because very few people seem to write about it, which was important in those days.I have also written more than one plot of this era, skipping over these off-site turmoil, as if it did not exist.But this time, due to the particularity of the wish plug-in, I think it should be written.This is a linkage across time and space, and we should not ignore the impact of the current situation on athletes, especially the NBA, a professional league that encourages players to participate in social current affairs.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)