You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 989 Maybe This Is Life
The 2018 finals symbolized the rise and establishment of a new era.

Wei Xia became the undoubted FMVP. This is the fifth championship in his career and the fourth in the Philadelphia 76ers career.

That night, Pennsylvania was both pleasantly surprised and disappointed.

The 76ers brought the championship back again, and the great legend Kobe Bryant announced his retirement after the game.

"My career should have ended two years ago, but Wish allowed me to last two more years. He promised to lead me to win a championship, so I played for two more years. Fortunately, what he said was true." Kobe said a cold joke, "Otherwise I would have lost a lot."

No retirement tour, no blessings from fans, no ceremony for him because it was an emergency.

Kobe bid farewell to the stage without regret, making his name a part of NBA history.

In the days that followed, the 76ers held a grand celebration

On the day of the championship celebration, all businesses in Philadelphia were closed except for the service industry.

Fans watching the ceremony formed a long queue.

When Bryant took the stage to speak, people in Philadelphia chanted his name, it was a soul-stirring cry, completely different from what he got in Los Angeles.

Angel City made his commercial value reach the peak, but none of his five championship experiences with the Lakers made him feel as emotional as this time.

Even if the difficulty of winning the championship this time is placed in his career, he can only be ranked second or third from the bottom.

"It's been incredible for me to play for my hometown team and I'm glad we've been successful, and while my journey has come to an end, I believe this city still has a great future because it has a great leader."

Kobe's speech was the perfect finale.

As an axis figure, Wei Xia was the last to give a speech on stage.

"I reckon, maybe. Maybe some people will say that I won the championship because of having Kobe as my teammate." Boos came from all directions.

"Wish who always needs to prove himself" has become a meme.

When he didn't win the championship with the 76ers in the early years, the championship he won in 2008 was also said to be winning the championship with Kobe's thigh.This kind of remarks became a joke after Wei Xia's three consecutive championships.

Wei Xia took the initiative to mention this matter, and everyone present could understand it, and they laughed and booed.

"It seems that I have to prove myself again, what do you think?"

Wei Xia's strong suggestion of defending the title brought the atmosphere of the scene to the peak.

At the end of his speech, he turned and kissed his wife, then saw Bryant giggling.

"What's so funny?" Wei Xia asked.

Kobe said happily: "I didn't expect that I tortured you for so many years, and I didn't know until today."

"There are many things you don't know." Wei Xia was really speechless to this guy who had no empathy.

After the championship celebration, the 76ers began to prepare for the summer league in July.

In the previous draft, the 76ers used their late draft picks to select two pieces of rough jade.

They took Mitchell Robinson with the 30th pick in the first round.

As a seven-footer, this man has beastly athletic ability and was considered a solid lottery pick in high school.But he did not take the usual path. When his peers entered the NCAA and trained themselves step by step, he did not go to college, but chose to work behind closed doors and practice by himself.

This greatly hurt his draft prospects. Since he hadn't played for more than a year, scouts didn't know his current strength. Therefore, no team in the draft was willing to select him with a high position, and he was picked up by the 76ers.

For the 76ers, Robinson's best prospect is to grow into DeAndre Jordan, and if not, that's fine.

All they want is to supplement the talent inside.

The other pick is the 30th pick in the second round, the last pick, and they took the Greek monster's younger brother Kostas Antetokounmpo.

Brother Antetokounmpo is a spider-man with unlimited potential just like his elder brother, but his skills are too rough, and it is 99.9% impossible to grow into a monster that breaks the dimensional wall like his elder brother.

The 76ers are also scratching the lottery, anyway, it is the last lottery.

If you scratch the lottery ticket, you earn it, and you don’t need to be sad if you don’t.

In summer, Wei Xia was not idle.

He joined the training camp of the Chinese team and participated in the Asian Games with Zhou Qi.

It is outrageous for a player of his level to appear in the Asian Games, and what is even more outrageous is that his average playing time is still quite a lot.

The head coach Li Ran couldn't control the excitement of holding Wang Zha in his hand, so he played Wei Xia for 26 minutes every game.

Wei Xia has done what the world's No.1 basketball team should have in a game of this level in the Asian Games.

超过70%的命中率，场均27分钟的上场时间，拿下32分12篮板6助攻。

His existence made the Chinese team crush all the way.

When South Korean journalists asked him why he would step down to participate in the Asian Games, he replied naturally: "I haven't played for the national team for several years. Of course I can take a break, but I don't want to make it a habit."

At the end of the journey of the Asian Games, Wei Xia returned to the United States together with Zhou Qi and Wang Zhelin.

After the Asian Games, the new season is about to start.

The consequence of participating in the national team is that there is no time to rest, and Wei Xia has long been mentally prepared.

Before he participated in the preseason training camp, he went to help Kobe support the field.

Kobe has not been idle after retiring, writing novels, making documentaries, making short films, and founding the Mamba Academy-his academy was founded in his hometown of Philadelphia.

On the opening day of the Mamba Academy, Wei Xia came to boost his popularity.

He met Kobe's second daughter, Gianna, who looked so much like Kobe. Wei Xia couldn't help but say a few yin and yang words when he played with her—he regarded her as Kobe—of course, the child was too young to understand.

Once Kobe heard Wei Xia spraying trash talk at her daughter, and couldn't help saying: "You control yourself, she is just a child!"

Wei Xia couldn't argue with a hundred words.

In the preseason training camp since then, Pascal Siakam has shown his progress.

Zhou Qi has become a qualified space-type fifth position. Not long ago in the Asian Games, he shot 53% from the FIBA ​​standard three-point line.

Kobe's retirement means that the 76ers have lost a star player who can average 20 points per game.

This summer, the 76ers did not sign in. They first signed a 5-year 2 million maximum salary extension with Cousins.

Then, in July, Wei Xia jumped out of the contract and also renewed a three-year, $76 million contract with the Philadelphia 3ers.

Some people say that Wei Xia did this to imitate James and put pressure on the team.

It is also said that he wants to jump out after two years, and then sign a 35-year super-maximum salary of 76 million U.S. dollars with the 5ers at the age of 2.3.

Wei Xia's idea is not that complicated, he just wants to leave the flexibility to advance and retreat freely.

It is almost impossible for him to join another team, either play in the 76ers or retire.He wasn't sure if he had the motivation to move forward after three years, so he signed a short contract.

It's not about money.

Last year, that is, in 2017, when the price of bitcoin rose to 20000 US dollars per coin, money became Wei Xia's possessions.

It's just numbers, he doesn't care anymore.

He can fully say that he doesn't like the five-year, $5 million contract.

But it is impossible to block the mouths of the world.

Before the start of the new season, Wei Xia's wife Elaine announced that she was pregnant with her third child.

Then, in the 2018-19 season, the Philadelphia 76ers started low-key.

This season, their regular starters are Teodosic, Wecha, Gallinari, Siakam, Cousins.

Although Kobe retired, their strength has not declined.

Because of Siakam's unexpected rise, it brought the 76ers the most perfect fourth position in the 41 system.

One who can sweep, shoot three-pointers, has organizational attributes, does not slow down the rhythm, has both height and width, and has outstanding athletic ability. This is the fourth position that Jay Wright has been looking for for five years!
For the first month, they were unbeatable.

Lost a game in early December, then immediately slashed the Lakers by 32 points.

Kobe often went to the Fuguo Center to watch games, and every time he came to the scene, Wei Xia's score would not be lower than 40 points.

This phenomenon is dubbed the "Kobe Bryant Effect" by fans.

In the Christmas game between the 76ers and the Celtics, Wecha "only" scored 42 points with Kobe on the scene.

Kobe was very disappointed: "Don't talk about the berserk effect anymore, do you see him' berserk'? 'Only' scored 42 points!"

Afterwards, the Celtics admitted that Kobe's words hit them hard.

But Wei Xia was even more upset. He invited Kobe to watch the game again.

Therefore, in the 2019ers' first home game in 76, the unfortunate Los Angeles Clippers became the victim of Wei Xia's 70-point night.

Kobe did everything he could to stimulate Wei Xia. This time he changed his rhetoric: "There is no defense in the game now. I am definitely not talking nonsense. At the age of 40, I could average 20 points per game last season. What if I was 20 years old? Can you imagine? 70 points is not a big deal."

This man's habit of coming as soon as he opened his mouth could not be corrected forever. Wei Xia was too lazy to compete with him. After scoring 70 points, he became low-key again.

Throughout the regular season, the performance of the 76ers can be described as riding the wind and breaking the waves.

Their unstoppable 70-win run allowed Versia to narrowly steal Giannis Antetokounmpo's MVP title
In the first round of the Eastern Conference, they easily swept. In the semifinals, they encountered the Toronto Raptors who acquired Leonard through a trade. After six fierce battles, the 76ers narrowly won and advanced.

The opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals is the Bucks led by the Greek monsters.

However, the Eastern Conference Finals became Wei Xia's personal show. Starting from Game 2, he scored 40+ in four consecutive games, leading the team to send the Greek home 4-1 for retreat.

The Greek walked towards the tunnel with an angry expression but tears in his eyes.

Later, someone told a reporter that Wish had trashed Giannis on the court.

Regarding this matter, Wei Xia refused to admit it: "They are all adults, so they won't be so fragile?"

Who knows?

The finals lost suspense before the start of the game.

The Lakers were still promoted, but Kevin Durant was injured in the Western Conference Finals. Although Chris Paul remained healthy, he and James already had conflicts in style of play, not to mention that he was 34 years old.

Durant claimed to be back in Game [-] of the Finals.

But the 76ers did not give the Lakers a chance to drag to Game [-].

No, not even five.

With an average of 76 points per game, the 16ers swept the Lakers 4-0 and won two consecutive championships.

季后赛期间，韦夏场均35分8篮板6助攻3抢断2盖帽，状态如虹，三项命中率达到了可怕的55%、52%、94%。

总决赛上则因湖人抵抗力不足，韦夏的场均数据下滑到28分6篮板8助攻4抢断1盖帽，整体命中率更高，分别是56%、54%、95%。

Although Wei Xia's data has obviously "declined", no one can shake his FMVP.

In this way, he reached the realm of the basketball gods.

Six championships, six FMVPs and five MVPs.

This year, he was 34 years old.

It seems that he has every chance to create a second three-peat at the end of his peak like Jordan back then.

However, all peace was broken after a few months.

No one can be alone.

In the 2019 NBA preseason game in China, Adam Silver rushed to China and asked the participating Lakers and 76ers to support Morey.

This move was strongly opposed by Weixia and James.

In this way, the past 11 years ago was dug up by the connecting rod.

The storm of 2008 swept over Wei Xia again, but this time he was no longer a lonely banner.

Most players in the league have no intention of taking sides in this incident, and many people believe that Morey should stand up and take responsibility for his remarks.

In the doomed 2019-20 season, the Morey incident is just an introduction.

Many ambitious teams have been completely out of shape after the rematch, including the Philadelphia 76ers.They made the playoffs, then, in seven games against the Celtics, were eliminated in the semifinals.

Obviously, everyone has different intentions.

Especially Wei Xia, who is concerned about his wife and children at home in the park. The epidemic in Pennsylvania is getting worse, and he can't concentrate on playing.

After the season ended, Wesha returned to Philadelphia to accompany his wife.

At that time, the number of confirmed cases in the United States had reached millions, and the death toll was close to 20. However, the government did nothing. No official from the two parties dared to stand up and take responsibility. They were still attacking each other every day for votes.

Out of safety considerations and social environment considerations, Wei Xia does not want to continue playing in this situation.

Therefore, he opted out of his contract and declared an indefinite truce.

This means that he left the professional league without retiring.

In 2020, which is bound to leave a mark in world history, Wei Xia's indefinite truce only occupied the sports news page for one day.

The fans sighed for a while before being distracted.

In these turbulent years, sports figures don't have that much weight in the world, even though Wei Xia has achieved results that can keep pace with Michael Jordan.

In October of this year, Wei Xia sat on the sofa at home and suddenly said to Elaine: "Kobe lost to me in a bet last time, and he promised to help me with anything. Now I really want to eat fried noodles from that Chinese restaurant in the North District. Do you think he will buy it for me?"

Elaine said suspiciously: "The epidemic is so severe now, isn't it too dangerous?"

"Believe me, after watching the final season of Game of Thrones, he's dying, and two DBs stuffed a ton of shit into his mouth through their talent!"

In the era of the epidemic, being autistic at home is a daily routine for countless people. Apart from watching TV series, watching movies, and reading books, Wei Xia can only make a living by complaining about Kobe.

But it won't work in the long run. Fortunately, he is a married man, and he has other ways to get through this difficult period.

At this moment, he had just finished talking about Kobe, and inexplicably focused his eyes on his wife.

"What do you want to do?" Elaine asked with a smile.

Just as Wei Xia was about to stretch out his hand to test his wife, he heard the cry of a child in the nursery.

"Wow~~~~~~!!!"

"Go, the child needs you." Elaine said with a smile.

Wei Xia had no choice but to walk towards the child's room with a dejected expression.

He won everything in the NBA, but now, he is in a special period and is forced to put his career on hold because he has people in his family that he cherishes so much.

He caresses the third child of himself and his wife. It is a little boy. He is still young, but he is very noisy.

Look out into the world.

Thousands of people die in the United States every day, there are millions of confirmed cases, funeral parlors have to line up for cremation, and morgues are full of unowned mobile phones. A few months ago, he declared that the virus was fake, and then advised his people to inject disinfectant when things got out of control.

Just let this shit go to hell!

Sometimes time passes quickly, and sometimes it passes slowly. Wei Xia chose to press the pause button on his career, and lived a peaceful life under the ever-changing world tide.

No sweat, no competition, no whoops, no points, no basketball.Some are just the child's shit and urine. Believe it or not, there is a lot of fun hidden in this boring and boring day, which makes him forget his troubles. Although it is a path he has never imagined, he does not regret it.

Maybe this is life.

　There are still a few chapters

　　
　
(End of this chapter)