You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 804 The Torn Mask
"It's nice to be young."

Kobe undoubtedly understands the meaning of this sentence better than Wei Xia.

A 37-year-old veteran suffered a serious Achilles tendon rupture and his competitive ability declined rapidly. He couldn't even beat Jabari Parker.

"I often think, if I hadn't been injured, what would it be like now?" Bryant muttered.

Wei Xia was very close to him, so he heard it.

This is a good question. Before his serious injury in 2013, Kobe was in the first team in the league, averaging 27+7+5 per game.

If not hurt.Today, two years later, what level is it?
Wei Xia said: "It should not be inferior to Karl Malone in the same age group."

The 37-year-old Malone averaged 25 points and 9.5 rebounds per game in the second team.

Considering that there are two outstanding second positions in this era, one is Weixia and the other is James Harden, therefore, Kobe who is not injured will probably become the third team this season.

It is a pity that these ifs are only ifs.

"If you didn't work so hard at the time, you wouldn't have these things later." Wei Xia hoped that Kobe would think about it, "It's useless for you to think about it now."

Kobe snorted coldly: "Wait, sooner or later you will feel your own aging like me, and sooner or later you will understand that feeling like me."

This kind of thing, who knows?

Wei Xia is also a reckless person, but he really feels that his peak period will be very long. Many things that were impossible in the past are possible today when sports medicine and post-match recovery science are more developed.

There are many activities before the game.

This year, New York invited James' fan girl Rihanna to sing.

Players do many interviews before games start.

Wei Xia was sweating all over, and had to take a shower, change into a beautiful suit and face the camera and microphone.

Star players from the east and the west gather here and often meet and say hello.

Wei Xia saw Durant, his face looked bad: "KD, you seem to have something on your mind."

"Wish, how does it feel to be around people with a mask on?" Durant asked like a philosopher.

"Very good." Wei Xia smiled.

Durant's smile faded away, and his voice was unwavering, like a ghost in a horror movie: "Unfortunately, I'm going to throw away the mask today!"

For some reason, looking at Durant like this, Wei Xia felt the fur on his head stand up, it was a kind of trembling when he saw something terrible happening in front of him.

He has seen such things.

The protagonist is not Durant.

James in 2011, he abandoned his hometown in the most unbearable way, and then changed the mature and steady style that he had maintained for many years to fight against the whole world;

Kobe in 2005 broke up with his family, forced the management to choose between himself and the sharks, and dealt with the Eagle County incident, so he didn't trust anyone, was sensitive, and treated everything like a tyrant;
Jordan during the playoffs in 1993, the book "Jordan Rules" was published, the image of the flying man plummeted, and he went to the casino all night when the playoffs were unfavorable. The example of a god turning into a demon happened in Wei Xia's childhood.

In the previous story, needless to say, all changes in settings happened quietly.

Wei Xia noticed that Durant called himself less recently, and he didn't pay much attention to the Thunder. He didn't know what happened to Durant.

And today, he threatened to tear off his mask and let the world see his true colors.

When the media asked about the position of the Thunder's coach, the precarious Scott Brooks, Durant erupted.

"You guys don't understand anything!"

"Honestly, dude, I'm only here talking to you guys because I have to. So, I really don't care. Y'all are not my friends, and you can write whatever you want. You'll like us one day and hate us the next. So, I'm just learning how to deal with you guys."

"I'm 26 years old this year. The first few years in the league, I've been looking for myself. I think most of the time, my reaction is based on what everyone wants to know and what they think of me," Durant continued. "But now I'm learning to be myself and not caring about what other people say. I will make mistakes. To tell you, I will always be programmed to say the right words and bureaucratically give the right answers. I have had enough and I am now trying to be myself and continue to grow."

This was the point where Durant's relationship with the media went negative.

Because of his speech today, the media have something to do.

They seized the example of Durant and Wei Xia's friendship and said: "KD and Wish are good friends. Unfortunately, he did not learn his obvious advantages from Wish, but learned to fight against the media. KD is becoming Wish in 2008. Interestingly, Wish was only 24 years old at the time, and now KD is 26 years old. I can't help but wonder if he is really mature?"

Think of Durant's All-Star address as a signature event.

From here, Durant is no longer the image of the schoolbag boy.

He was cast as a brash superstar, a spoiled genius, cocky and reckless, unlike the team's Russell Westbrook.

What is the scariest of all?

The most frightening thing is that the media in the city where Durant is located, Oklahoma, believed this set of rhetoric.This is exactly the same as when the writer of the "Chicago Tribune" published "Jordan Rules", which greatly affected the image of the person involved.

By the way, we can also think of how the Magic and the media in Orlando worked together to break up Penny and the Sharks.

And Kobe and the Los Angeles media.
The most unpredictable arrows often come from behind.

Wei Xia heard what Durant said to the media, and he still didn't figure out what happened.

But some things, now that this is the case, there is no room for turning back.

From this day on, Durant's schoolbag boy image has been extinct from the mouth of the media.

On the other hand, newly promoted slam dunk king Zach LaVine said that even if James and Wecha participated in the slam dunk contest, he was confident of winning the championship.

Wesha and James reacted differently to the two events.

Wei Xia admitted that the current LaVine is better than him on the stage of the slam dunk contest-"I am already past the age to participate in the competition. If I am a few years younger, I may be able to compare."

The media's subsequent reaction can fully prove why Durant would rather destroy his personality than pretend: "Then why didn't you participate in the slam dunk contest back then?"

This group of Xibajiao should be the bastards who put their faces on the wall!
"Because Zach LaVine was a kid at the time." They carried Weisha back as much as they argued.

James' response was more official. He said that if he participated in the competition, he was confident of defeating LaVine. At the same time, he borrowed from Wei Xia's rhetoric, saying that he had missed the best time, and repeatedly expressed his regret that he did not participate in the dunk contest when he was young.

The complicated interview procedure took an hour to end.

Before the start of the main game, players will go to the court to find their feelings.

Some guys only shoot [-]s, and their picks suggest they're going to take lots and lots of [-]s tonight.

In the early days when the three-pointer was first introduced, hitting a three-pointer in the All-Star Game could bring about the same passion as a dunk.

Stars who are now focusing on shooting three-pointers in the main game can basically be beaten to death irresponsibly, pure jerk bastards.

"Don't vote, don't vote!"

Cousins ​​took the ball and challenged the other stars, "Let's single out!"

With his stature and technique, no one is an opponent in a one-on-one fight.

Only Bosh came to the east to challenge.

Bosh, the defending champion in the Shooting Star game yesterday, was hot and used the least insider way to solve Cousins.

He actually made a ball half a meter away from the three-point line.

Hayward came up and used his skills to help Cousins ​​​​win back for a while.

Then, James stepped in to find a place for Bosh, who with him started the great business of brother basketball.

Then, everyone looked at Wei Xia.

Wei Xia is not here.

Long before Cousins ​​proposed a heads-up, Wei Xia had already grabbed the ball and ran to the half of the Western Conference Stars, threatening to compete with all of them.

Kobe was thinking about it, Westbrook stopped the aggressive old man sensiblely: "Leave it to us, Kobe."

The stars in the West certainly have youthful vigor, and everyone has to compete with Wei Xia.

But Wei Xia didn't come here to play, he really planned to severely frustrate this group of people before the opening.

Therefore, he blasted Westbrook with his back;
When Harden's face played, he stepped back and shot with his left hand and hit the board;

Against Curry, he made an unreasonable eight-meter three-pointer;

At this time, Madison Garden was already boiling. Wei Xia kicked the buttocks of three western stars over, then twirled the ball he brought with his fingers, and said lifelessly: "Don't play, it's too simple."

"Wish, another game!" Westbrook yelled.

"Save your energy and shoot three-pointers in the game. What about another ten innings?" Wei Xia left lazily and successfully annoyed the stars in the West.

The old men in the West, like Duncan and Dirk Nowitzki, who was an alternate All-Star, laughed out loud.

"He really hasn't changed at all."

Duncan walked up to Kobe and said, "I've been thinking about it for a few years and I still can't figure it out. Why did you let Wish go?"

Mentioning this incident made Kobe furious.

Without Weixia, they no longer have a championship. What is the use of maintaining a healthy long-term salary space?

But if they can keep Wei Xia and let Bynum leave, then their upper limit is more than two consecutive championships?

Every time he thinks of this, Kobe gets annoyed, and on the surface he has to maintain a coquettish and pretentious look of "the days without Master Wei Xia are getting more and more comfortable".

(End of this chapter)