NBA: Magic Johnson opens the season, crowned MOP

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After completing the team's professional physical therapy, Joey immediately opened the system.

""Master of the first step, upgrade!"

Then, he added the five free attribute points awarded by the system to free throws and three-pointers, reaching 84 and 80 attributes respectively.

After feeling a spasm in his body, tens of thousands of sweaty shooting basic trainings suddenly appeared in his mind...

He put on his training clothes and went to the training hall.

He didn't expect that it was almost midnight, and there were people like him who didn't want to go home to sleep after the game and stayed in the training hall to play!

Turning on the lights on the other side of the half court, Joey could see clearly who the player with a similar body shape was -

Kawhi Leonard!

The No. 15 pick of the Spurs who traded George Hill to the Pacers last year.

The two"talkative" people noticed each other at this moment, without any communication.���They nodded in tacit understanding as a greeting.

Then they each occupied half of the court to train.

An hour later, it was one o'clock in the morning.

Joey was already sweating all over, and even his training clothes were soaked and turned into"underwear".

After finishing the last set of three-pointers, he packed up and wanted to leave, but found that Leonard had finished training and was standing on the sidelines watching him.

The two looked at each other, each feeling a little embarrassed, not knowing what to say.

"You... your three-point shooting percentage seems to have improved a lot?"

Leonard said in a muffled voice.

Joey was stunned for a moment, then forced a smile:

"Maybe, practice more!"

He didn't know how to answer this question. He couldn't just tell Leonard that I was cheating, right?

Then there was another silence in the training ground. A few minutes later, just when he couldn't help but want to pick up his bag and leave, Leonard's words pulled him back:

"November 1st, against the New Orleans Hornets... What kind of player was your college teammate?"

Davis?

Joey was stunned, wondering why Leonard would ask this question.

Leonard saw his confusion and explained:

"Coach is going to let me start as the power forward in the first game of the new season. I think... I must know the players I will be facing... so"

Joey was relieved and answered after thinking for a while:

"His offensive skills are very crude, he is often fooled, his face-to-face ability is not very good except for catching the ball, his confrontation ability is too disadvantaged in the NBA level inside, and his ball-handling ability is average……"

Recalling his childhood friend, Joey can point out many of Davis' shortcomings that scouts did not see."

"But his top physical talent covers up these shortcomings of his. When playing against him, you only need to pay attention to creating space on the offensive end, constantly harassing his ball handler on the defensive end, and giving him enough physical confrontation.……"

Leonard listened very carefully, and even took out his old flip phone to record the video.

Joey seemed to have opened up a"chatterbox", and he kept explaining to Leonard the"problems" of Davis's playing during this period. He became more and more excited, and later he even started to tell Leonard the story of how he and Davis stole money from their parents when they were young to buy the latest AJ13.

"……Then guess what, he was hung on the oak tree in the middle of the Campbell block by Elena (Davis' mother) and beaten for a whole afternoon, hahahaha……"

Leonard, who was listening attentively, was somewhat envious of the friendship between Joey and Davis.

Because of his father, he had been alone since he was a child. His lonely and introverted personality and unusual body shape had made him"bullied" by his friends in the neighborhood where he lived.

So he envied the sincere and pure friendship between Joey and Davis.

"The relationship between you two is really enviable.……"

Leonard's dull face showed a trace of inexplicable loss.

Joey, who was not very emotionally intelligent, naturally didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

He just looked at his teammates' backs:

""Kawhi, don't you have such a friend?"

Leonard lowered his head and remained silent.

Joey then realized that he had said the wrong thing - as a fake fan in his previous life, how could he know the life experience of Leonard, the most low-key superstar in the league?

His father was shot and killed, his mother raised him alone, and his uncle and other relatives have been sticking to him and"sucking blood" after he entered the NBA."……

It can only be said that Leonard's first twenty years of life were indeed too tragic.

Joey still thought that it was because Leonard really had no friends around him since he was a child that led to his lonely and eccentric personality!

He hurriedly spoke to comfort him:

"It doesn't matter, we will be on the same team in the future, we can train together, improve together...we will be friends, Kawhi!"

Joey, who obviously didn't notice Leonard's thoughts, didn't get to the point.

But Leonard actually felt much better.

He patted Joey's shoulder beside him:

"It's already past three in the morning. I'm sorry to have kept you so long. Joey, here's the key to the training hall. You can come here to train anytime in the evening.……"

Leonard pulled out a key from his bag and handed it to Joey with an ugly smile.

Joey was stunned. He asked the team staff for a long time and they said there was only one spare key and some fool gave it to a player in the team... So you have it?

"Thank you for staying with a boring person like me for so long. Goodbye, Joey!

Leonard and Joey waved goodbye.

The latter frowned, thought for a moment, then raised his head and shouted:

"Can we train together in the future, Kawhi?"

Leonard, who had just walked to the entrance of the training hall, suddenly stopped and his shoulders, which were carrying a bag, shook unconsciously. He did not respond and slowly walked into the dark passage outside the training hall.

"What a weird guy.……"

Joey muttered to himself.