basketball boulder

Chapter 18 Summer League
Needless to say, Li Lei's family celebrated after returning home.

Li Lei also called Crawford, Alston, and White Chocolate, thanked them for their help, and made an appointment to treat them to Chinese food after the start of the season.

During this period of time, Li Lei was really not free.

On July 7, the summer league kicks off, and time is tight.

After spending a day in New York with his parents, Li Lei's family returned to Los Angeles.

Su Qun still followed, and he wanted to continue to record the summer league, contract signing, preseason, and regular season after Li Lei.

At the same time, he also faxed several articles to the basketball editorial department of the domestic "Sports Weekly".

One is called "Li Lei's NBA Draft Documentary".

It is a record of Li Lei playing streetball, getting to know Crawford, White Chocolate, and Alstom, and then being spotted by scouts, participating in team trial training, being selected by the Mosaic team, and traded to the Heat. It is a documentary style.

One is called "Dreams are up, roads are down".

It is Su Qun's emotion about Li Lei's experience, which belongs to the outbreak of literati's feelings.

The general idea is: people must have dreams at the top, and they must have choices at the bottom.

Only by choosing the right path can we keep approaching our dreams and illuminating reality.

Just like Li Lei, he found his own characteristics, defense and three-pointers, and then used these two to win the attention of NBA teams.

The same is true of China's basketball path. It is necessary to take a path that suits itself, rather than copying other countries and taking the path of basketball with Chinese characteristics.

These articles attracted a lot of attention and made Li Lei a lot of popularity in China.

Chinese fans on the other side of the ocean also started a lively discussion.

In this era, the Internet is still underdeveloped, even semi-smart phones are not popular yet, and there are not many families with computers.

Fans exchange information through forums and post bars on major websites.

"Another Chinese has entered the NBA. Blessings. I hope that Chinese basketball will become stronger and stronger and reach the top soon!"

"What about dreaming upstairs? The dream team is invincible, and it is good for China to stay in the top eight."

"Dreams are always necessary, what if they come true?"

"However, Li Lei is No. 15 in the second round. This pick is very low, so it's not easy to mix."

"Yeah, Wang Zhizhi was the seventh in the second round back then, and now he can only play in garbage time, and he is almost out of luck."

"It's a pity, the Bayi team and the Basketball Association..."

"Don't mention the past, it will always get better and better, we have to be optimistic. Dayao's path is better than Dazhi's, and Li Lei's path is much better than Dayao...it will get better and better."

At the same time, Li Lei continued his training in Los Angeles, sweating profusely every day.

While training, Li Lei was groping for the rules of the system on the other hand.

Strength is 66, speed is 51, stamina is 48, reaction speed is 62, explosive power is 38, and balance is 50.

The average is 52.5.

Skill Proficiency:

Bloody Big Hat (Junior 68/100).

Precision steals (primary 99/100).

Nougat defense (primary 55/100).

Hundred steps through Yang (primary 48/100).

This is the current system panel.

It is mainly divided into two parts: physical fitness and technical proficiency.

There are two ways to improve: training and actual combat.

But whether it is training or actual combat, the difficulty of improvement is increasing.

For example training.

At the beginning, Li Lei shot 100 three-pointers, and his proficiency in Baibu Yang could be increased by 1, but now he needs 200 three-pointers to increase his proficiency by 1.

李磊可以理解：满分100分的卷子，从59提升到60很简单，从99到100却是超难。

The higher the score, the harder it is to increase by 1 point.

Travel a hundred miles, half ninety.

……

Time flies, and on July 7th, Li Lei boarded a passenger plane to Orlando.

There are three hosts to this year's Summer League.

The Heat participated in the Orlando Summer League, a total of six teams, namely: Heat, Cavaliers, Timberwolves, Bucks, Magic, Pistons.

According to the tradition of the summer league, the assistant coaches of each NBA team will serve as the head coach of the summer league and command the team.

The players are composed of rookies of the year, rookies who performed poorly in the previous year (sophomores), and undrafted picks in previous years.

Generally speaking, they are all marginal players in the NBA. If they do not play well, they may pack up and leave at any time, and if they play well, they may sign a small contract.

Li Lei soon arrived at the hotel designated by Eric Spoelstra.

Coach Spo patted Li Lei's butt: "You are the second to arrive. You just got off the plane, why don't you take a rest first?"

"No, I'm fine."

Li Lei replied.

So, the staff of the Heat team brought Li Lei to the arena rented by the team.

Coach Spoelstra will continue to stay in the hotel and wait for other players.

clap clap clap!
Before entering the arena, Li Lei heard the sound of a basketball hitting the ground.

Li Lei is not surprised. Coach Spoel said he was the second, that means the first person who arrived was already training.

Entering the arena, Li Lei saw a black player who was about the same height as Li Lei, but much stronger than Li Lei.

His training clothes have been soaked, obviously the training time is not short.

"Hey buddy. Hello!"

When the black man saw Li Lei, he stopped training and came up to say hello to Li Lei.

Kinda friendly.

"I know, your name is Li Lei, Chinese."

The black people actually knew Li Lei.

It's just that Li Lei's name is quite awkward, and it's very difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese.

Li Lei is not surprising, anyone who watched this year's draft will remember him.

After all, he is the only rookie with yellow skin, no other.

Moreover, Li Lei was traded just after being selected by the Mosaic team, which can add a lot of memories to people.

It is normal for rookies to be traded, but there are really not many who are traded before the interview is over.

Li Lei is one of them.

"Hello, you can call me Stone!"

Li Lei shook hands with the black man.

"Hello, Stone, I'm Haslem. Udonis Haslem."

The black man breathed a sigh of relief, and he also found Chinese to be extremely difficult to learn.

"Haslem, you're trying too hard."

Li Lei praised.

Haslem smiled: "No way, I was undrafted last year. If I want to stay in the NBA, I must work harder."

Haslem is in a good state of mind, and he still smiles when he talks about losing the election.

Li Lei nodded: "You will get your wish!"

This guy is very friendly, and Li Lei likes it quite a bit. People who work hard are always likable.

Afterwards, Li Lei changed into his training clothes and trained with Haslem.

After a while, Li Lei knew why Haslem lost the election.

This guy turned out to be training inside skills.

Only 2cm taller than Li Lei, the 203cm Haslem plays the fourth position, the power forward position.

The most suitable height is actually a small forward, and it is very disadvantageous to play a power forward.

Li Lei didn't know what to say, so he could only bless Haslem.

Subsequently, the Heat's players arrived one by one.

Dwyane Wade, Jerome Beasley, Kirk Penney, Russell Butler...

(End of this chapter)