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Chapter 4 Historic moment, heading to training camp

Throughout the afternoon, Woody felt like "a cent stumped the hero".

In the evening, Wu Erzhuang told him that he had signed up for the "and1 High School Student Training Camp" this summer.

Woody wants to say that he is not moved, that is fake.

Wu Erzhuang also revealed his thoughts: "Xiaodi, you know that the second uncle always wanted to make a fortune in the United States and then return home in a glorious manner..."

But in fact, Wu Erzhuang is very clear that with his own ability, it can even be said to be a luxury to fulfill this dream. Unless it is really a great fortune from heaven, it will be almost impossible.

Compared to him, Woody has a good basketball talent. If he can enter the NBA and his net worth is not a problem, then as Woody's second uncle, he can naturally benefit from it.

"So, Xiaodi...you can work hard, and the second uncle will rely on you to support him in the future!"

It was a warm night.

But the registration fee for the And1 high school student training camp should be not cheap, because the next morning, just dawn, Wu Erzhuang knocked on Woody's door: "Wake up quickly, stop sleeping, we should get up and exercise!"

“???”

Woody opened the door in a daze. The training camp was in late June. Where can I practice this training?

Wu Erzhuang urged him to brush his teeth and wash his face, and then showed him his "results" from the second half of yesterday: a homemade training plan.

"Although your second uncle can't teach you basketball, he still knows a little about physical exercise. During this period, we can carry out intensive training for your endurance!"

Then, without waiting for Woody to respond, he brushed his teeth and washed and finished breakfast at Woody, and then took him to the park downstairs to run a circle.

only……

"Ho, ho, ho... Xiaodi, this endurance is really good!"

At first, Wu Erzhuang wanted to run with Woody, but when he couldn't hold on, he cheered him up next to him. As a result, he ran around the park for two and a half laps. Woody's breathing had just changed a little, and Wu Erzhuang was already out of breath.

Finally, it turned into Woody cheering Wu Erzhuang: "Uncle Second, hold on for a while and you will arrive at the door of your house immediately."

After the third lap, Woody asked Wu Erzhuang to go back and rest first and continue to complete Wu Erzhuang's subsequent endurance training plan.

Looking at Woody's back, Wu Erzhuang, who was still breathing heavily, smiled: "Ho~ho~, I'm really talented!"

During the next period, Woody continued to conduct endurance training according to Wu Erzhuang's training plan. At the beginning, he made his second uncle happy and let him see his determination. After half a month, Woody found that this plan was really useful.

His current physical fitness has increased from 65 to 67.

In just two weeks, it has increased so much, and my second uncle still has a little water in his stomach.

On June 25, the annual NBA Draft was held as scheduled at Madison Garden Plaza.

A historic scene was born:

The Houston Rockets used their "No. 1 pick" to select a player from China Yao Ming.

The first foreign "top scholar" in NBA history and the first "top scholar" in China" in NBA history was born.

For Chinese basketball, this is also an important moment.

Woody checked the information about Yao Ming and found that it is not easy for him to become the "No. 1 Scholar" of NBA. Just this height of 2.26 meters is already a rare physical talent for NBA.

In the history of NBA, only four players are taller than Yao Ming, and now only one player named "Shaun Bradley" is taller than Yao Ming.

In addition to his height, Yao Ming averaged 41.2 points, 21 rebounds, 3 assists, 2.5 steals, and 3.2 blocks in the just-concluded domestic CBA Finals. There was a player named Chamberlain in the ancient NBA, known as the "Basketball Emperor". Yao Ming's performance in CBA is like Chamberlain's performance in NBA. Therefore, Yao Ming also has the nickname "CBA Chamberlain".

Such talent and such professional league performance are the basis for him being won by the Rockets as the "No. 1 pick" this year without hesitation.

On the same day, Woody took the living expenses given by Wu’s father and mother, the remaining money after selling his laptop and follower man, as well as the extra money given by Wu Erzhuang, which cost a total of US$2,000 to set out for the "Big Apple City" to participate in the And1 one-month training camp.

In the past half month, Woody has read a lot of news about NBA and has gradually become an NBA "cloud fan".

The most impressive comment about New York is:

If you love a player, send him to New York; if you hate a player, send him to New York.

There, there were the biggest cheers and the most vicious curses.

Wu Erzhuang also has his own evaluation of New York. He went to "Gold" first, and then went to the small place of Akron.

"There are people with abilities who can live better and better. There are opportunities everywhere, if you don't have abilities..."

When Woody stood in the center of New York, looking at the towering buildings and the traffic on the road, he also truly felt the prosperity of New York.

Turning his head and looking at the most conspicuous billboard, there was a handsome black man on it.

Woody knows this black man, Alan Houston, currently the star of the New York Knicks and the darling of the entire city.

Looking at his billboard, Woody felt a sense of pride. Sooner or later, on the same bustling streets and on the same billboards, his posters will be posted so that everyone coming and going will see them!

Then Woody returned to the hotel arranged by the training camp and stayed.

This time, the flight ticket from Akron to New York, plus the fare from the airport to the training hall, had already cost Woody $100.

Fortunately, the training camp is equipped with food and accommodation, and the hotel arranged by the training camp is not far from the basketball court rented by the training camp, and it can be reached in 10 minutes. Otherwise, in a month, the 2,000-bits on him would probably have been spent on the fare.

However, since food and accommodation were all settled, Woody thought of bringing back the remaining 1,900 dollars.

He can't become rich by the end of this training camp. He will have to lose money for a long time. 1,900 yuan is a huge sum of money for him.

Bored, Woody thought of just reporting in the training camp, and gave him a list of members of the training camp. Anyway, he was idle, so he took out the list of members of the training camp and looked at them one by one, just thinking that they looked familiar.

There were 50 students in this and1 training camp.

Among them, 5 members are invited high school students from And1 Training Camp.

Not only do they not need to spend 1 cent, they can also get the sneaker contract provided by And1. They usually provide free sneakers for one year.

Woody took a look at the information of the five invited high school students, two of whom were the most powerful, one was Travis Outro and the other was Kendrick Perkins.

The former can rank 45th in the "National High School Student Rankings" of ESPN and belongs to the "4-star high school student"; the one named Kendrick Perkins is "National High School Student 78th in the United States" and belongs to the "3-star high school student".

The other three are also a bit famous, but none of them are among the top 100 in the United States.

From this we can also see that although And1 has a fierce development momentum, it is still far from Nike and Adidas. A group of more talented high school students in the United States still mainly participate in the training camps of those two brands.

But this has nothing to do with Woody.

It is probably difficult to get into a training camp of that size, so he should not think about it.

Besides, in his case, Ben Wallace should be the most suitable mentor for him, not even one.
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