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Chapter 8 A New Beginning

After Tianyang finished speaking, everyone looked at each other and had the same question in their hearts, who is 'she'?
After a while, Aaron was the first to react. He patted Tianyang on the shoulder and said, "Brother, it's not worth it for her. A good girl is like countless stars in the sky. Why bother?"

Hearing what Aaron said, Johnny also said with some insight: "As long as you play well, the girl who wants to date you can circle the basketball court, and she is not the only beauty!"

"Who is it?" Tusk looked bewildered, Kareem and Cui Ren raised their ears, their gossip burning.

Everyone tried to dissuade them, but Tianyang didn't say a word, and his face was not very good-looking. Blount hurriedly asked with a smile: "It's okay to advertise on the website, but have you thought about the chain reaction it will bring?"

In the NCAA, only the top 30 high school students in the United States join a certain university every year, which may attract the attention of the sports media. There are almost no cases where a player is publicly welcomed to join on the school website.

Tianyang is a senior student, and he didn't receive much professional training before. He joined the team because a substitute player of the school team was injured. If he deliberately announced it on the school website, he would be turning himself into a target, and there would definitely be a lot of discussion. .

"What chain reaction?" Tianyang asked back.

"For example, the fans will expect you to be higher than average. If you do not perform well, you will definitely be ridiculed a lot, and your teammates may also be unhappy with you because of this. After all, they have not enjoyed special treatment." Blunt gave an example Said.

"I have made up my mind. I will bear all the consequences alone. Can you do it?"

"Of course it's okay, but you'd better change to a more gentle way. Don't say that you want to join the Sequoia team because you were ridiculed by that girl named Mo... or something. You can say that you want to fulfill your basketball dream." Johnny reminded.

"That's no problem. I just want her to see it. I don't care about the rest." Tianyang shook his head.

"Leave it to me, and write an emotional article for you, telling all Stanford fans that you are a person who loves basketball very much," Aaron volunteered.

"You can figure it out, I won't take care of it. If there is nothing else, you'd better go back to school tomorrow to register as a player. You are a foreign player, and the procedures will be more complicated and troublesome," Johnny said.

Tianyang was about to nod his head in agreement, but Tasker shouted anxiously: "Don't do it yet, the community competition finals haven't been played yet, and after you register as an NCAA player, you won't be able to participate in the competition with us!"

"When will the finals you mentioned start?" Johnny frowned.

"Three days later, against the Oakland Warriors, any questions?" Tusk asked.

"No problem, I just want Tianyang to receive professional training as soon as possible. He always plays field games, and his improvement is not fast... But your personal trainer must be very good." Johnny gave a thumbs up and praised.

"Personal trainer? When did you hire it? Why don't I know?" Aaron looked blank.

"That's right, I'm just saying how your muscles grow so fast." Tusker said while pinching Tianyang's arm.

"Nothing! I learned it from free tutorials on the Internet, and you can practice too," Tianyang explained.

"Send me the tutorial link, I want to learn too"

……

Early the next morning, Aaron sent Tianyang what he wrote overnight.

In the article, Aaron described Tianyang as a wild basketball lover, but due to physical reasons, he has not been able to enter higher-level competitions, but Tianyang never gave up hope and seized everything he could to participate. The opportunity to play, spend all the money earned from part-time jobs on basketball skills training.

Finally, the emperor paid off. Tianyang has made great progress recently, and performed bravely in the Northern California Community League. With an average of 20 points per game, he attracted the attention of the head coach of the Stanford Sequoia team.

After a serious and difficult assessment, the head coach invited him to join the Sequoia team, and his dream came true!

After reading the whole article, Tianyang almost didn't write him as an orphan whose parents died.

After forwarding the article to Blount, the other party replied that they could log onto the school website at 3:[-] p.m., and they could check it in the news story column, but it only stayed for two hours. If you want to do something, you have to hurry up.

Two hours to say whether it is long or short, Tianyang edited what he wanted to say in advance, and planned to publish it on Twitter, FB, and INS as soon as the article appeared.

In addition, he specially designed several sets of coping plans for Morena's reaction.

If Morena only liked it, he would pretend not to care and thank her in unison, but as long as Morena commented, he would remind her in dozens of ways: "If you practice more shooting, you can really join the school team!" .

After finishing everything, Tianyang set the alarm clock, prepared to take a lunch break, and waited for 3 o'clock.

But lying on the bed, he couldn't fall asleep at all. Before 2:5, he turned on the computer again, entered the school's official website, and kept pressing F[-] to refresh, hoping to see the article appear as soon as possible.

At 2:40, no, Tianyang continued to scan.

At 2:50, there was no sign, but Tianyang was full of expectations.

At 3 o'clock, still did not appear, Tianyang began to worry.

At 3:08, it finally showed up, and Tianyang's hands were shaking with excitement.

"Brothers and friends, I joined the Stanford basketball school team. This is my story, I hope you like it." In less than three seconds, Tianyang posted it on all social media.

Aaron was the first to comment, and he wrote: "Brother Tian is awesome, I support you!".

A few minutes later, Yulin Lude Luozan commented: "Yangge Tianxiu! NCAA! You look so good!"

One after another, Tianyang received blessings and encouragement from many friends from various social accounts, but Morena never made a statement. Tianyang refreshed over and over again, but she never saw her likes or comments.

At 4:40, Tianyang felt that he could not wait any longer. If the article was withdrawn, all his efforts would be in vain. He opened whatsapp and planned to send a message to Morena directly.

But after rummaging through the entire address book, I couldn't find Morena's profile picture.In desperation, he searched with text, but couldn't find it!

After being stunned for a while, he finally realized that he had been blocked by Morena.

Not reconciled, he opened his Twitter account again, found Morena's recent tweet, and wanted to let her know through a comment, but he saw a harsh sentence: "You have been banned from commenting by the other party!"

At this moment, Tianyang realized that deep in his heart, he still had fantasies about Morena, but Morena had already regarded him as a burden, and she didn't want to mention it, didn't want to see him, and severed all ties with him.

After sitting silently for 10 minutes, Tianyang finally came to his senses and realized how naive this series of behaviors were.

Just join the Sequoia team and prove yourself like Morena?Just don't be too stupid.

If such motives were wrong, were there other reasons for saying yes without hesitation at the time?

Just when he was puzzled, a new text message sounded, and the sender was "Dad".

"Silly son, is the article in the link in your circle of friends really about you? Are you so miserable? Is it because I didn't pay enough for living expenses? Or did you use it to pick up girls?"

"I don't know what the hell you're doing, but since you join the school team, it's the beginning of a new life. Forget the past and forget it. For your basketball dream, work hard!"

Seeing the content of the text message, Tianyang smiled. He agreed so readily at that time. Apart from wanting to prove himself in a fit of anger, the most important reason was his basketball dream.

(End of this chapter)