I'm teammates with Kobe

Chapter 140 The Boy and His Hero

After Chu Xiao was suspended, he was still idle, so with the help of a staff member, he went for a walk in Lake Erie.

Since Cleveland is located on the south shore of Lake Erie, the city's most famous tourist attraction is Lake Erie.

Lake Erie, known as Lake Erie in English, is one of the five great lakes in North America and the No.13 largest lake in the world.Its name comes from the Indian Erie tribe who originally settled on the south bank. The lake is shared by the United States and Canada. The east, west, and south are the United States, and the north is Canada. With a width of 388 kilometers and an area of ​​92 square kilometers, it ranks fourth among the Great Lakes, only larger than Lake Ontario.The lake is 2.57 meters above sea level, 174 meters higher than Lake Ontario.The average water depth is 99 meters, and the maximum depth is 18 meters, which is the shallowest among the five great lakes.

The urban architecture of Cleveland spreads out one by one on the south bank of the lake.

Chu Xiao liked water very much. Standing on the shore, he could really feel the ups and downs of the lake, and he could hear the sound of water and rocks colliding. This sound made him very peaceful.

The weather was fine that day. Looking down, you can see the fine and shimmering water droplets in the sun, but looking up, you can see a magnificent blue satin.

He walked along the lake all the way, blowing the lake breeze, watching all kinds of people around him playing on the beach, some people were having a barbecue, some people were playing ball, dancing, reading, chatting on a deck chair, or just doing nothing. Lie down and bask in the sun.

This is a completely different attitude towards life, and everyone is releasing themselves to the fullest.

A group of men, women and children are having a BBQ. They set up a grill on the lawn under the shade of a tree, and placed a row of wooden tables and chairs. Everyone has a clear division of labor. After a while, the roast beef on the stove emits wisps of smoke. Make a sizzling sound.

They soon discovered Chu Xiao, an outsider, and warmly invited him over to have lunch together.One of the young people named Max told Chu Xiao that they are all people in this city, and they would make an appointment to do something meaningful every weekend, enjoy the happy time of being with each other, and be grateful for the words they wrote together. Good memories... Only by spending a weekend like this will you start a new week with energy.

Chu Xiao actually had feelings for this. He was originally depressed because of being suspended, so he came out to relax, hoping to take a walk and see more.Now, after spending a pleasant afternoon with this group of interesting strangers, he can think more openly. When there is no competition, he must do more meaningful things, so that he can start a new competition with enthusiasm.

Eat and drink enough, and the depression is swept away.After Chu Xiao bid farewell to the crowd, he came to the top of a small hill, where he could see a beautiful corner of Lake Erie, and he felt extremely open-minded in his heart.

After that, he left the lake and rushed to the Quicken Loans Center to watch Kobe Bryant's "Einstein" fight Irving's "Uncle Drew", hoping to learn something and turn these gains into the power to keep moving forward.

Inside the city of Melbourne, Australia, there is a pink lake called Salt Water Lake, not far from the urban area. The high temperature and lack of rain in the southern hemisphere make the lake absorb and use the energy of sunlight to remove salt from the cytoplasm. When the substance becomes particularly salty During photosynthesis, the algae growing there produce carotene, an orange-red pigment that gives the lake its pink color.

Whenever the water of the lake turns into powder, there are many tourists, many of whom come from thousands of miles away.

20 years ago, Salt Water Lake was only located on the edge of the city. At that time, there were few tourists, and only a family of four chose to settle by the lake.

The host is an American named Derek Derek and his wife is Elizabeth. They have a daughter and a son together.

At this time, Derek was still a professional basketball player, playing in the Australian League, with superb skills, averaging 30 points per game, and being very good at educating his children.

He named the boy Kyrie Irving, which translates to king in Greek.

With his father's education and mother's love, little Owen spent the first 4 years happily and happily.Just when he was 4 years old, he lost his mother, Elizabeth forever, which made his father have to take on more responsibilities in the process of growing up little Owen, both father and mother.

It can be said that Irving's relationship with basketball mainly comes from his father, but because he lost his mother since he was a child, he was very afraid of strangers, including children.

In order to help Owen get out of his autistic state when he was young, Derek took him directly to the basketball park and asked him to play basketball with those strange children.At first, Owen was afraid and didn't want to fight, so his father, who was usually kind to him, beat him up directly, and finally scolded Owen, "You are a man, you have to fight like a man and beat them!"

Facing his strict father, little Irving clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he walked to the court, fighting to the death with a group of local children on the court before it was over.

When I mentioned this memory later, Owen felt that his father gave him a big heart on the court, which made him more frustrated and courageous, and he got out of the influence of autism.

As a child, Irving imitated his father in everything he did on the basketball court, even those little moves, such as raising his head for free throws.Not only that, but his father also repeatedly tempered Owen's dribbling skills, and created a new technique in his own basketball skills, which is to use plastic bags to train dribbling. Plastic bags are placed on the basketball, which not only affects the running track , is also very slippery, and he will let go if he is not careful. This makes Owen miserable, but he can only grit his teeth and persist.

Just like this day after day of training, his dribbling skills have been greatly improved, and he can skillfully make the ball go with others, like his arms and fingers.

Later, my father ended his career in Australia, took his sister and him back to the United States, and ended his wandering life. He thought everything was going in a good direction, but something unexpected happened. When Owen was 10 years old , New York was hit by the 911 terrorist attack. Derek originally worked on a certain floor of the World Trade Center, but later chose to leave there because he was not suitable and went to work in a nearby place, but he did not escape this. catastrophe.

Just when the first plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers, Derek happened to be in the lobby on the first floor. The sudden and harsh noise shocked and frightened everyone present. Derek said, "I only had one thought at the time. , is to go back alive to protect my child."

He didn't hesitate too much at the moment, even though the dust and smoke outside completely blinded his vision, he still mustered up the courage to rush out to the street, and when he avoided many falling bricks, broken glass and steel bars and arrived at a safe place, he raised his head Looking at the past, his office on the 105th floor has been engulfed in smoke and flames are flying everywhere...

At that time, Owen and his sister knew that something was wrong at school, because many people started to cry, and the children were picked up by their parents one after another. Only the two siblings did not leave until after school time, because the father did not come pick them up...

Owen had only one thought in his panic at the time, "It's over, my father may not be here."

After the 911/[-] incident, Irving began to look at his father again, which ignited a firm belief in him, that is, "I will bear my father's basketball dream."

The teenager began to repeatedly practice back dribbling, stepping down dribbling, changing hands dribbling, and even dribbling two balls at the same time, which became his endless self-improvement homework.

However, God always seems to like to joke with this bad-spoken boy. He seems to have never grown tall. He is only in the eighth grade and he is only less than 1.7 meters tall. With a short stature and a big head, he looks like a Little Squirrel, his classmates like to call him Squirrel Kid.

This nickname hurt Irving's self-esteem and made him suspect that he was no longer suitable for playing basketball. At this time, the boy met his hero, Kobe.

When the child encountered a bottleneck, Derek knew that his persuasion was useless, so he asked someone to contact Kobe, hoping that his son's idol could give him some advice.

Kobe not only agreed, but also met Irving in person and told him, "Don't pay attention to what others say, those who can't do it always want to tell you that you can't do it. What I want to say is, as long as you have a dream, go after it boldly .”

"I can accept failure, but I can't accept giving up."

"My child, I am optimistic about you! Bravely challenge the pressure. All these negative things are the catalysts for my success. I believe you can do it too: in order to win the game, I can do anything, whether it is Sit on the bench and hand out towels and water to teammates, or go out and take the game-winning shot."

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Kobe babbled a lot, and he didn't know if Owen listened to it, but he noticed that when he said these words, the kid's eyes were bright.

Everyone knows what happened afterwards. This boy never said the words of giving up. He practiced desperately and repeatedly studied the game videos of his hero Kobe.During that time, he thought that his life had only three words, "dad", "Kobe" and "basketball".

Because I forgot about the height problem, I finally grew to 1.91 meters (the actual height is shorter than this).

In 2011, when the league president David Stern read out that year's No. [-] pick was Kyrie Irving, he hugged his father in the audience tightly, and said with tears in his eyes, "Dad, I did it." !"

At that moment, only the father and son understood what they had gone through because of these words.

When Irving took the No. [-] lottery from Stern, he silently said, "Kobe, here I come!"

On December 2012, 12, the game between the Lakers and the Cavaliers officially started.

In the player channel, Irving took the initiative to find Kobe and said, "Kobe, here I come!"

Bryant hugged him and parted with a smile, "I'm going to score 40 on you kid."

(End of this chapter)