I really play basketball

Chapter 4 The Next Phase of the System
On the court, Lin Xing won the California Championship trophy amidst cheers.

Immediately afterwards, amidst another round of cheers, he won the 1992 California Mr. Basketball trophy.

At this moment, his high school career was completely complete.

With a trophy in each hand, he aimed at the microphone held by the beautiful host and announced loudly:

"I'll skip my senior year and join an NCAA Division I college before the new semester arrives!"

Teammates and coaches showed the expected looks, but the fans were surprised.

What was even more surprising was the middle-aged white man in the stands: "He's only a senior in high school?"

"That's right, third year in high school, born in 1975, not yet 17 years old."

The information on the white-haired old man was very complete. After a brief introduction, the middle-aged white man couldn't hide his surprise.

"If I remember correctly, Jason Kidd was born in 1973 and is now 19 years old. He was defeated by an opponent in the same position who was almost three years younger than him, and this talented opponent was rejected by UCLA just because of his skin color and unpleasant style of play?"

"If I remember correctly, UCLA had previously aggressively pursued Jason Kidd, but he turned him down..."

The bald black man and the white-haired old man were very helpless. They all knew that Lin Xing had strength.

However, Jim Harrick believed that the team had Teus Edney, who was also a star player in high school, and didn't care about Lin Xing, a talented point guard in high school.

"They are about to leave, at this time, it's time for us to appear..."

On the court, Lin Xing, holding "Mr. Basketball in California", ran into this combination of two whites and one black, old, middle-aged and young.

"Hello, Lin Xing."

The leading middle-aged white man habitually extended his right hand towards Lin Xing.

Lin Xing stretched out his left hand and shook the middle-aged white man in front of him.

After the middle-aged white man hastily changed hands and shook hands, he introduced himself:
"John Hall, admissions coach for the UCLA Bruins."

Lin Xing nodded, and looked sideways at the two people beside him.

"David Heduza, scout for the Bruins."

"Larry Dumont, like him."

Lin Xing continued to nod, and continued: "So, do I need to introduce myself?"

"No, no need, we all know you, Lin Xing, the head star of Crossroads High School, we watched the game from beginning to end, your performance is very good, the talent is about to overflow, so, I decided..."

"Decided to recruit me?"

"Uh……"

John Hall, who was interrupted by Lin Xing, didn't catch his breath. He paused for a second before telling Lin Xing intermittently: "No, it's just an invitation for a trial training."

"Tryout?"

At some point, the old boy Kidd stood aside.

On behalf of Lin Xing, he asked a surprised rhetorical question.

Then, he turned his head and pointed at the California Mr. Basketball trophy in Lin Xing's hand:

"Honestly, Star, I've never heard of a player with this trophy needing a tryout to get into an NCAA school...  

If I were you, I would directly refuse and wait for other colleges to come to recruit! "

At first, when Lin Xing heard the word "trial training", he frowned.

He also felt strange when Kidd said that.

But he's not Kidd, not this old kid who's already confirmed for Cal.

At this moment, he is still free, facing the invitation of UCLA, it is impossible to say that he is not tempted.

But if it was a trial training, it would be a bit insulting to him, the new California basketball player.

Lin Xing's first reaction was to explore the root cause behind this——

"Can you tell me why it's a trial and not a direct invitation, Mr. John Hall?"

"..."

John Hall could only be silent, he really didn't know what to say.

Shaking his head, Lin Xing rejected the trial invitation, passed the three of them, and entered the long player tunnel.

"Why do you tell them so much, just refuse it and it's over. You have to understand that you are Mr. Basketball in California now, and the school chasing you will appear at your door, line up in a long line, one by one..."

Kidd babbled, and Lin Xing was not surprised. Although he didn't know what kind of personality the old Kidd would have in the future, he could be sure that Kidd was a slob when he was young or young.

Lin Xing also felt that the schools that recruited him would form a long queue.

But he still wanted to tease Kidd, who is still very immature now: "What if, I mean what if, there is no so-called long line chasing me, and there is not even a person in front of my house?"

"how is this possible!"

Kidd shook his head, Lin Xing refused to let go: "I've already said it's what if, if there is really no school chasing me, will you stand up and help me?"

"Help you, how can I help you?"

"Convince Cal's head coach to recruit me?"

"..."

Kidd said nothing, but Lin Xing smiled narrowly.

Sure enough, let him try it out.

This old boy is not willing to join forces with Lin Xing, just think about it:

Jason Kidd has a strong desire to control. When he was a freshman, he teamed up with his teammates to force the school, forced away the head coach who recruited him, and became Cal's Fujima Kenji.

After entering the NBA, he forced the palace team again, kicked away Byron Scott, and became a veritable coach killer.

The coaches are incompatible with him, let alone a teammate who may take away his core position.

Of course, Lin Xing never thought of being teammates with Kidd, why...

One is the famous "Jibugong", and the other is the core point guard who uses Ben Simmons as a template at this stage.

Really want to join forces, the scene is really unimaginable.

After patting the silent Kidd, Lin Xing quickened his pace and left the long tunnel.

But soon, at the door of the locker room, he met a elusive figure——

"Larry... Mr. Dumont?"

The gray-haired old man in the UCLA trio that had recruited him a few minutes earlier.

emmm... Lin Xing is not sure.

Dumont smiled and said, "It seems that your memory is very good."

"You just weren't..."

Lin Xing pointed to his back. He had just seen this guy at the entrance of the player tunnel. In a blink of an eye...

"Yeah, I was there just now, but now I'm here because I know the Pyramid stadium well..."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Don't talk about that, I came back to you just to tell you why UCLA gave you trial training instead of direct recruitment."

"why?"

"Because the head coach of the Bruins doesn't like you."

Lin Xing was even more puzzled: "Then why did John Hall recruit me?"

"Because he's new here, he doesn't know that Jim Harrick actually doesn't like you. Moreover, he was directly installed by the school board, and he is not on the same level as Jim."

"Well, I also want to know why Jim Harrick doesn't like me?"

"Because your style of play is not pleasing, and because you are of yellow race..."

"Playing style? Yellow race?!" Lin Xing chuckled, "Racist?"

Larry Dumont just smiled, as if agreeing with Lin Xing's judgment on "racial discrimination".

At this time, Lin Xing felt strange again.

It's strange why Larry Dumont is telling himself this.

So: "The last question, why are you telling me this."

"I just think you should know what's going on behind the scenes."

Larry Dumont was still smiling, but in the next second, Lin Xing caught him off guard——

"Tell John Hall, I accepted his invitation to try out!"

"received?"

"Yes, accepted!"

It wasn't that Lin Xing had a brain twitch when he accepted the trial training invitation.

Instead, he has always believed in a principle, that is: if there is a grievance, it must be avenged, and if there is a grudge, it must be avenged!
Now that he knows, the reason why UCLA does not recruit him, but only try him out is that the head coach Jim Harrick looks down on him, and even suspected of racial discrimination.

Then he has to go to UCLA. If Jim Harrick is really a race knight, he will smash the face of the race knight.

By the way, let's see what John Hall, who insisted on inviting himself to try out, can play against a head coach who may be a race knight.

As for the possibility of not being broken?Lin Xing thought it was impossible.

He has always been extremely confident in his own strength.

Even the little emperor of California is already defeated by him, and the rotten fish and shrimps of UCLA are not worth mentioning.

……

After the final, Lin Xing's high school career was over.

The system can finally enter the next stage.

In the last game, he entangled Jason Kidd throughout the entire game, or was entangled by Kidd, and gave Kidd a few real elbows, thus filling up the last 100 blood points.

For the 100 blood points, he chose the steal talent.

With the talents of short-range shots, free throws and steals that have not yet been converted, Lin Xing directly found the [End High School] button in the system, and pressed it without hesitation!

The system interface immediately began to shake, the screen was broken and reorganized, and finally a brand new interface appeared.

[The host's high school stage is over, and the talents that have not been converted are now forcibly converted. 】

[Close shots: 60, free throws: 81, steals: 55. 】

[The conversion is complete, the new host data interface is as follows——]

【Name: Lin Xing】

[Date of Birth: September 1975, 9]

[Position on the field: point guard]

【Height: 200cm】

【Armspan: 215cm】

【Weight: 88kg】

【进攻属性：控球80、传球71、突破69、上篮66、扣篮70、近距离投篮60、罚球81】

[Defensive attributes: single defense 62, steals 55]

【身体属性：速度80、爆发80、灵活79、力量65、弹跳75、耐力78】

[Note: Only attributes with a value higher than 50 are displayed]

[Badge: None]

[The NCAA stage is officially open! 】

Therefore, the above are the attributes of Lin Xing at the beginning of the NCAA stage.

Talents are all converted into attributes, which means that the growth method of the system has also changed.

[From now on, the host can accumulate blood points through confrontation on the court. 】

[Every time the blood value reaches 100, 1000, 10000... the system will undergo a small upgrade. 】

[Each minor upgrade, the host's acquired attributes can be slightly increased. In addition, the host will also obtain random attribute points with variable values, which can be used to add points independently. 】

Seeing this system description, Lin Xing rubbed his chin: "So, this system has become a point-adding system, but the core has not changed."

The core has not changed, and it can be upgraded by confrontation.

Then, the two rules he explored before: rougher confrontation and stronger opponents should not have changed.

"Since it hasn't changed, then this summer, if you want to become stronger faster, you have to go to Seattle..."

……

After leaving Long Beach, Lin Xing did not go directly to Seattle, but went home first.

Lin's father and Lin's mother live in the United States, and they are engaged in foreign trade business. Simply put, they are dumping domestic handicrafts to the United States.

Then turn around and import luxury goods and high-consumption products from the United States to China to do middle-end business.

Therefore, in general, the life of Lin Xing's family can be regarded as middle class and above.

An affluent life has allowed Lin Xing to eat a reasonable diet since he was a child, and he has built a solid body, laying the foundation for his current path of rough basketball.

Lin's father and Lin's mother are actually not very supportive of Lin Xing's playing basketball. They think it is not doing his job properly.

But Lin Xing did not fail in his studies, so Lin's father and Lin's mother did not stop Lin Xing from playing basketball.

Seeing Lin Xing returning home with the trophy, they didn't say anything.

Mother Lin who was dragging the ground raised her head and asked:

"Are you back? I heard that after the finals, you can stay at home for a while, right?"

"I can't stay, Mom, I'm going to go to Seattle for a while after I decide where to go to college."

Hearing this, Father Lin, who was reading the newspaper, raised his head, frowned and asked, "Seattle? What are you doing there?"

"I have a friend over there, and I went to play for a few days."

"It's just right, I'm going to Portland on a business trip in a while, and I can take you there..."

Lin Xing knew that this was because his father was worried about his long-distance travel, so he wanted to follow him to see if he went to Portland on business, that was his reason.

However, he still nodded and responded, "Okay!"

After some conversation, Lin Xing entered the room, changed his clothes, picked up the trophy again, turned around and was about to go out.

"Where are you going?"

"Uncle Qin's house!"

"This child, how long has it been since he came back, and went out again..."

Mother Lin shook her head, watching Lin Xing fly away helplessly.

Behind him, Lin's father didn't care much: "Leave him alone, boy, it's better to be wild!"

(End of this chapter)