You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 489 The future is unknown

Wei Xia stepped out confidently. He wore a brand new suit, washed his face with facial cleanser, cleaned off his beard, and slightly styled his hair.

Apart from standing on the court, he couldn't have been more confident than he is now.

Why do you say that?Because he is confident in any moment on the court, he believes that no one is better than him.

He is free and easy on the court, but he can't hide it off the court. He is a rough old man who doesn't know how to manage himself.

The moment Elaine Trovis saw Wesha, she spoke highly of his suit.

Unfortunately, apart from the suit, there are very few positives worth mentioning.

"Why did you come dressed like this?" Trovis had obvious disgust in his eyes.

With just one sentence, Wei Xia's self-confidence shattered into invisible glass.

"What about me?"

"You're dressed like you're going on our private date." Trovis shook his head and said, "You'll be completely outmatched by Kobe."

Wei Xia looked disbelieving: "Just like Kobe?"

Kobe on and off the court is not the same person.Wei Xia is very familiar with Kobe on the court, but what about Kobe off the court?He doesn't know much.

There are very few intersections in their lives.

Kobe is a superstar, everywhere the spotlight shines, the media can't wait to follow him 24 hours a day.

Wei Xia already had the reputation of being a journalist killer. He made a big mistake of being politically incorrect and never repented. Usually, when nothing happened, the reporters walked around him.

One is being watched all the time, the other is away from the stadium and those controversial events are almost the same as ordinary citizens.

Although Wei Xia's social circle, hobbies, and Kobe have no handover, this does not affect them becoming good friends.

Wesha brought the impression of Kobe on the court to off the court. When they came to the restaurant Vanessa had booked in advance, he was stunned.

Kobe Bryant dresses elegantly like a gentleman of high society. Who can tell by his attire that he was accused of rape a few years ago?

Moreover, he spontaneously came to the restaurant's own piano and asked to play a piece for everyone.

"This guy can play the piano?" Wei Xia knew for the first time.

Vanessa smiled and said, "He learned it on purpose when he pursued me before."

Then Kobe started.

If you say he is professional, he is not that professional, but if you say he is not professional, he plays quite nicely.

An amateur pianist who has learned this skill just to pursue women, what kind of concentration and persistence is that.

For the first time, Wei Xia felt that he had lost to Kobe from the inside out.

After Kobe played a piece, accompanied by Vanessa's loud applause, he bowed from afar.

Kobe finally came to the dinner table, "Eileen, you are still beautiful."

"Wish, you're still the same jackass."

At this moment, Kobe is full of the temperament of an artist. Sitting next to him, Wei Xia feels out of place, but if he just admits defeat like this, he is not Wei Xia.

He flipped through the menu.I actually saw a dish called "Flower Sausage".

"what is this?"

"You don't know this?" Kobe introduced, "Cooked pig intestines, this is the delicacy of our black people. No matter you are poor or rich, having a bite of boiled pig intestines every night is the most beautiful thing except harmony."

Wei Xia swallowed a mouthful of bitter saliva, just thinking about the thing that he wanted to eat pigs, even if it was processed, he felt nauseated.

"I may not be able to bear it."

Vanessa took up Kobe's words and asked a sharper question: "Speaking of which, are you harmonious?"

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Bath House
Jim Buss comes with a heavy heart, every time.How he wished his father would step down from that position sooner. In recent years, the department under him has achieved great success, which has given him some illusions: I can do my best work alone!
The playoffs are about to start, and Bass Jr. got the news that after the season, in addition to continuing to be in charge of the draft department, he will return to the highest decision-making level.

In that class, there are only two people.

His father Jerry Buss and voice man Mitch Kupchak.

Today, his main purpose of coming to the Bass Building is to attend the meeting of the highest decision-making level.Kupchak will give a brief report on the future of the Lakers.

The playoffs haven't started yet, and the management is already thinking about the future, which is what a mature management should do.

Finally, he came.

In the closed office, there were only old Bass and Kupchak.

Old Buss today, far less radiant than he was in his youth, was known until the turn of the millennium as a rebellious playboy billionaire, a man who almost looked like a parody of a sports boss.

Since he bought the Lakers in 1979, professional basketball in Los Angeles has been revitalized.

Over the next few years, the Lakers were better than any team in the 20s—fiery cheerleaders, courtside celebrities, flamboyant fast breaks, real star traffic, bigger, bigger, and more commercial.

They were the hottest team at the time, the best team of the decade, and they played almost as extravagantly as their owners.

The Lakers have remained relevant over the past 30 years, reinventing their image in three different eras and winning eight championships in the process.

Even Bath Sr.'s youngest son, Jim, never thought about how underrated his father was.

Since the 80s, the Lakers have had the most obvious star effect in the league.

Not only do they find these stars and build around them, but they empower them and even make them feel part of the team's decision-making process.

Even with the league's salary cap and luxury tax stacked against him, Buss kept adding superstars to the Lakers, knowing that Los Angeles remained his greatest weapon -- the weather, the beaches, the celebrities, the beautiful women, the posh neighborhoods, the privacy, the Hollywood connections.

Players want to play for the Lakers.

They wanted to play the most beautiful piece for Dr. Jerry Buss.

"Jim, sit down, Mitch is talking about the part that interests you the most."

"Oh, really?" Little Buss showed his usual frivolous appearance, "Then I have to listen carefully."

Seeing Buss Jr. in place, Kupchak continued his words: "Wish is the future of the Lakers. His progress is exciting and worthy of our long-term investment, but some of his off-court tendencies are disturbing."

Little Buss hurriedly explained: "That's the idiot media's own trouble, and Wish didn't want to talk to them at all at first!"

"He could just keep ignoring them," Kupchak laughs.

"He could even take those words back."

"I know Wish, he won't be a problem for us, and he just said some inappropriate words, should we question his prospects because of this?" Buss Jr. and Kupchak clashed.

"We used to have players like Kareem."

Old Buzz cut them off.

"There is nothing more difficult than owning Kareem, especially in that era⑴." Old Buss said with a smile, "Now it is a new era. We used to tolerate Kareem, and of course we can tolerate Wish now, as long as he is good enough."

⑴ The LOGO man worked as a coach for a period of time after retiring in 1974, and brought the Skyhook who later joined the Lakers for several years.Then got depression.In this career, he has been defeated in the finals countless times without suffering from depression, but he has suffered from depression after coaching Skyhook for several years.Think about how much this is.

Little Buss stopped talking, and he could tell that Old Buss didn't mind Wei Xia's words and deeds off the court.

Because no matter how absurd Wei Xia's words and deeds are, no matter how politically incorrect, they are worse than Tiangou saying "If all white people die today, I will die drunk on the spot" in the era of the most acute racial conflicts.

Kupchak nodded lightly, smiling.

Dr. Bath never made perfect promises.

The phrase "as long as he is good enough" is a phrase that should not be ignored.

At least for now, Wish is good enough to become an All-Star starter in three years. The last person to achieve this result was Kobe.

The biggest difference between him and Kobe is that not many people will come to watch the game because of him. He is not the kind of box office superstar who can make the team sit at the bottom of the record.

It is this effect that Dr. Bass values.

He now regards Wish as the Lakers' long-term plan, because his existence can give the Lakers the strongest potential for the championship.Bryant's box office value has been developed to the bottom, and the only way to get to the next level is for him to lead the team to a championship and achieve revenge on the Sharks and those who didn't believe that he could still succeed without the Sharks.

From reality to economic effect, the Lakers need Kobe to lead the Lakers to the last step.

Therefore, they need Wish.

Will this tune change in the future?
No one is sure, just like Wei Xia himself could not have imagined that before last year, he was a model player with excellent popularity, but now he has become a beauty who was "born in the United States and grew up in the United States but has a Chinese heart".

"Father, please rest early."

Little Bass, who attended the top decision-making meeting, left happily. Just from his back, you can see how ambitious he is.

I just don't know if he has a way to turn his dream into reality?

(End of this chapter)