You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 510 The Lone Boat
(This chapter and the next chapter are better served with pure music, personal recommendation: Bright Like Stars-Epic Soul Factory)

The suspense of the game disappeared bit by bit. Halfway through the fourth quarter, Wei Xia had been sitting on the bench for a long time.

Sitting with him on the court was Kobe.

After the third quarter, the Lakers' winning momentum was unstoppable. Winning Game 3 and pushing the Spurs to the edge of a cliff was a certainty.

"It's not over yet, cheer me up!" Kobe sitting below chattered, expecting the Lakers' bench to expand their lead.

Since 1999, the Lakers and Spurs have been the kind of old rivalry that will kill each other.

The Spurs swept the Lakers in the lockout season, and Iverson was swept by the Lakers in the season of the gods. In 2003, the Spurs wiped out the Lakers' dream of four consecutive championships, and the smooth transfer of power between the OKs failed. They met again in 2004. Duncan hit one of the most critical goals of his playoff career, but was shot by Derek Fisher for 0.4 seconds.After that, the grievances between the Lakers and the Spurs stopped accumulating, O'Neal was traded, and the Lakers fell from the championship ranks to an ordinary team. It was not until Wei Xia joined the Lakers in the second year that they regained the strength to challenge the Spurs.

In the 2007 Western Conference Finals, the Lakers were eliminated by the Spurs in five games, and once again allowed the opponent to avenge the blood in 2004.

Have you noticed?Every time the Lakers and Spurs have a bloody battle in the playoffs, the winning side will often win the final championship.

You give me a knife, and I return your sword. The two sides formed a weird turn-based game.

After tonight, the Lakers lead the Spurs 3-0, and they are about to repay their revenge for last year.

It is the accumulation of grievances and grievances for nearly ten years that made Kobe still ask his teammates to go all out even though the chances of winning are certain.

Wei Xia just sat, not as excited as Kobe.

He knows he won't be playing again, so he should relax.However, he didn't get even a second of relaxation, and winning the Spurs was just the finale tonight.

The last program is also the most important program. He will go to the interview room at the end of the game to face the media from all over the world, express his words and express his attitude.

He knew that would push him completely against Merika, but for him, that was the only way to make things happen.

He's had enough of being criticized, and he's had enough of being chased and ridden like a bitch in heat, he wants to end all the noise, and before the finals, he wants to stop the waves outside the court-does anyone think the Spurs are in the game?
The Spurs have many questions, and their biggest question is why the Lakers and themselves have changed so much in just one year.

Are the Lakers stronger, or are they weaker?

The defending champion a year ago was led 4-1 (immediately) by the Lakers who had been sent out 3-0 by them a year later.

They lost Odom and got Gasol.Is Gasol that strong?His arrival only makes the Lakers' lineup more reasonable, and the insiders have the capital to compete with other behemoths.

The Spurs are incomprehensible.

Tony Parker was blocked, Manu Ginobili suddenly fell into a slump, and the overall aging—Horry, Finley, Barry and others are all experienced veterans, but their aging speed makes them no longer able to rely solely on experience to teach young people.

A team that intends to compete for the championship must have veterans.

The veteran's experience and aura can set the tone when the team is dizzy.

The problem for the Spurs is that there are too many old men, enough to rust the entire team.

111 is better than 82
By 29 points, the Spurs lost to the Lakers.

With a big score of 3 to 0, their hopes and dreams were gone with the wind, and the goal of defending the title was ruthlessly crushed by the iron hooves of the Zijin Army.

As soon as the game was over, Wei Xia got up and walked towards the player channel.

Before the reporters at the scene had time to ask questions, his figure had disappeared into the ATT center.

All that is left for the stadium is the statistics on the big screen.

16投10中，24分8篮板6助攻3抢断3封盖，全面高效的数据。

The top scoring rebounds and assists data show his influence, and the 3+3 steals and blocks show that he is a dominant defender.

"Young people are terrible. I have no patience with young players, because they are often immature, arrogant, selfish, don't know how to think about the team, and often need to learn some serious lessons to grow up-but, Wish is not the kind of young people we often see." Popovich gave Wei Xia all his praise. "He is like Kobe and other players. There is a switch in his body that only he can touch. As long as he encounters a critical game, he will press that switch, and then play a stunned performance."

"Mature Kobe is scary," Duncan added. "At the same time, he has a fast-improving Wish standing behind him, which is scarier than Kobe himself."

The Spurs home commentator made a judgment that seemed to be a curse and a prophecy: "The combination of 'W/Mish', plus Pau Gasol and the rest of the Lakers, they will rule the West for five years. No, if Wish maintains the current rate of improvement, in Kobe's style, he can extend his peak period to the same length as Kareem. Come on, like the 'Show time' Lakers of the '80s."

The Lakers got a lot of praise, and Wei Xia was especially sought after.

The turmoil he caused off the court did not seem to affect the fairness of professionals' evaluation of him.

While everyone was bragging about him, he went back to the locker room alone, took a quick shower, changed into clean clothes, and waited to attend the press conference with Jackson and Kobe.

He closed his eyes and just waited.

Wei Xia thought seriously, what am I doing all this for?
To prove that I am very dialectical?Prove I'm rebellious?Prove that I am a traitor who eats America but loves China?Proving them wrong and me right?Prove to everyone how brave I am?
No, if he thought so, he was wrong.

His eyelids trembled, and his thoughts were flocking to further places.

His determination was like sailing on an invisible sea in a boat, the sails were raised and lowered, and that was the answer he had never been sure of.

Almost everyone is telling him that by being smart, he can keep this shit away from him.

But no one ever told him, why should he be smarter?No one ever asked him what it meant to him.

The complexity of the human heart is infinite, and no one can guess it.

Wei Xia just clearly knows why he lives, why he persists, and why he fights. He will never succumb to the oppression of public opinion, never bow to the dark hearts, and never bow down for political correctness. That is the way he lives.

His sails may fall, his boat may leak, his spirit may be attacked, his personality may be insulted, but his faith will become stronger every day.

If he doesn't persist, he is no longer himself, he will die, just like the thousands of people who have lost themselves, at the mercy of orders, living like a puppet without a soul.

Wei Xia saw his road, a road that was wide but could not accommodate everyone.

On the left side of that road is the dark heart, on the right side is the sinful desire, behind him is full of kneeling people, and he decided to go to the end.

There must be a beautiful scenery at the end of this road.

He is no longer confused, that is the meaning of life, its true face is so ugly, but it still needs to do its best to survive.

"Wish, are you ready?"

asked Phil Jackson.

Wei Xia saw the door of the locker room that had been opened, which was where the hope was.

"Anytime." He stood up.

Kobe is by his side. Although their relationship is very close, they have received different educations since they were young, and they have known different worlds. On this road, the other party will not stand by his side.

However, that's fine too.

Wei Xia walked in the front and was the first to leave the locker room.

At the end of the long corridor was the interview room, and he walked faster and faster, as if he was in a hurry to meet relatives whom he hadn't seen for many years.

"He seemed excited," Bryant said unexpectedly.

Phil Jackson looked straight at Wei Xia's back: "No matter what happens tonight, don't be too surprised."

"What else can happen?" Until now, Kobe still regarded the upcoming matter as an ordinary press conference.

He didn't know what kind of struggle and struggle Wei Xia was going through, because like Wei Xia before him, he had always been indifferent to these sensitive events.Since the incident in Eagle County, he has hired a professional public relations team to ensure that his image does not suffer.

Once they encounter sensitive issues, they will tell Kobe how to answer to avoid greater controversy.

But Wei Xia did not.

That's why he made such a big fuss, but after today, any American can clearly see what's in him.

Then, no one will have expectations for his political orientation, his label will be killed, and his attributes will be fixed. From then on, any reporter who tries to make him jump into the minefield is just a waste of effort.

He walked quickly into the interview room, and when he saw the group of reporters and media who made him feel embarrassed, he almost burst into anger.

(End of this chapter)