Guoshu basketball

Chapter 98

On February 2th, the Lakers' second game after returning to their home court was the second game against the Cavaliers this season, and it was also the last game of the regular season this season.

Before the game, Li Du was holding back all his strength, and wanted to compete with James again.It is a pity that before the game, the Cavaliers officially announced that James had a viral cold and would not play in this game.

The Cavaliers without James could not compete with the Lakers at all. Kobe and Li Du lacked interest in this kind of game without suspense. Kobe made 22 shots and hit 9 goals, but he made 15 free throws and hit 14 The ball finally got a high score of 36 points.Li Du simply went to play as a substitute, and finally scored 15 points steadily and hit 5 three-pointers.

After the Lakers easily defeated the Cavaliers at home 116 to 104, the Lakers ranked fourth in the Western Conference with a record of 30 wins and 23 losses, and are still a strong championship contender.

Next up is All-Star Weekend, a rare mid-season break for many players.For Kobe and other NBA superstars, the All-Star Weekend will be very tiring. They need to participate in various official NBA or All-Star organizers, and the daily schedule is slow.

The All-Star starters and substitute lists have already been determined. Kobe became the top voter of this All-Star with 289 million support votes.Although Li Du is amazing, his current style of play is basically a role player, so he failed to enter the All-Star.Moreover, he received an official invitation from the NBA to play in the rookie game. Unfortunately, his style of play is mainly defensive and running. In the almost undefended rookie game, he is destined to have no chance to perform.

Therefore, Li Du didn't think about how to perform at the All-Star Weekend. For him, this All-Star Weekend is just to experience the festival of basketball fans all over the world.What he cares most about is that he hopes to get things done with the All-Stars as soon as possible. He wants to rush back to the hospital and spend a good year with Master and the others.

New Year's Eve had already passed, and Li Du was on a road trip to the East at that time, so he had no chance to accompany Master and the others to celebrate the New Year. It was Prati who went to David Geffen Hospital to accompany Master and his wife and the others instead of Li Du.Fortunately, the Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese festivals, and it also lasts the longest. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is considered as the end of the year.

Li Du thought that he only participated in the rookie competition this time, and he didn't have much chance to perform in the rookie competition, so he might as well relax and play, and then fly back to Los Angeles the next day.

This year's All-Star Game is held in Las Vegas, which is said to be officially set by the NBA.In Li Du's heart, it was a gambling city, so Li Du didn't have a good impression of that place. In addition, it was the Chinese New Year, and Li Du was even more eager to return.

With this kind of thinking, Li Du was just going through the motions during the All-Star Weekend.His biggest achievement this time is getting to know many NBA stars, including entering the NBA in the same year as himself, and now the twin stars of the Trail Blazers, Roy and Aldridge.These two had fought against Li Du before, but they didn't talk much to each other. This time, everyone relaxed, and since they were both newcomers, they talked a lot when they got together.

In the rookie game, Li Du only played more than ten minutes and basically didn't score. Instead, he got 7 assists with his beautiful pass.Because Li Du liked to pass the ball in the game, the rookies of the same year had a good impression of Li Du.In the end, the second-year team defeated the first-year team 106 to 96, but this kind of victory or defeat is meaningless to many people, and Li Du doesn't care about such things even more.

On the second day after the rookie game ended, Li Du couldn't wait to fly back to Los Angeles. When he came to David Geffen Hospital, Li Du first asked how his brother was recovering, and then brought Priti to visit his master and wife.

Mistress now treats Priti like her own daughter, and after a while she pulls Priti aside to talk.Li Du sat beside Shang Xiaolong's hospital bed, chatting with his master and brothers.

The three of them all came from practicing Chinese martial arts, and after a while they talked about Chinese martial arts again, and this time they were talking about Li Du's cultivation.

Shang Xiaolong has been observing Li Du since Li Du entered the door. At this time, he finally asked Shang Yun in an uncertain tone: "Father, it is reasonable to say that Xiao Du has become a professional player now, and I also watched him a while ago." After watching Xiao Du's game, he has been trying to find ways to improve in basketball. But today I watched it for a long time, and found out how Xiao Du is about to break through to dark strength? Am I wrong?"

Hearing what Shang Xiaolong said, Shang Yun also looked at Li Du carefully, and then said to Li Du: "Xiao Du, give me a punch with all your strength!"

"Yes, master!" Li Du knew that this was the master's evaluation of his boxing skills, so he stood in the three-body posture, adjusted his spine, and then punched out with all his strength. With his fist, the air exploded There was a crisp sound of "pop"!
"It's hard to buy a sound, good!" Shang Xiaolong applauded Li Du loudly!
"Okay!" Shang Yun couldn't help admiring Li Du's punch, and then looked at Li Du carefully, and even closed his eyes, approached Li Du, and listened to something with his ears.Li Du knew that this was the ability only possessed by masters of Huajin level like Shang Yun. With their keen sense of hearing, they could hear the flow of the opponent's blood, and thus judge the level of this person's kung fu.

Shang Yun moved his ears, and then asked Li Du: "Xiao Du, when you practiced boxing recently, did your hands and feet seem to be wrapped by some hard things every time you exerted your full strength? Touch, but there is nothing?"

"Master, how do you know?" Li Du blurted out, and then he was taken aback. Who is the master, and the stages he has experienced, the master has naturally experienced.So he nodded, and while gesticulating, he said: "Master, you are right, especially my palm, every time I feel weird, it feels like I have a thick callus, but when I touch it , but nothing!"

Shang Yun smiled and said: "Okay, very good! With this feeling, it means that this is a sign that you are about to step into the dark energy! But it is also very strange to be a teacher. It is reasonable to say that if you distract yourself from training basketball, your martial arts cultivation will be able to improve." It’s good to keep not regressing, so how can you improve?”

Li Du spread his hands, expressing that he didn't know.However, Shang Yun didn't get entangled in this kind of issue. He said: "No matter what, it's a good thing that your kung fu can improve. One day, when you practice from the outside to the inside, when your muscles and bones are condensed, you can officially pass it on. It's national art!"

After finishing speaking, Shang Yun thought about it again, and said to Li Du: "I see that although you have been practicing the bear-ying combination, you still haven't got the point, so how about it, tomorrow you push your senior brother, and I will take your senior brother together , go to the zoo."

"Zoo?" Li Du tilted his head and asked suspiciously: "Master, I know that many movements in Chinese martial arts are learned from animals, but what's the use of going to the zoo to observe them?"

Seeing Shang Xiaolong looking at himself with the same puzzled eyes, Shang Yun said mysteriously: "You haven't reached the realm of comparing yourself with everything in the world. Tomorrow, I will tell you!"

(End of this chapter)