The time was April 10, 1995.

The location is an international student apartment in Inglewood, Los Angeles. The school he attended was Inglewood High School, the first few private high school in California.

More than a month ago, he and Pierce led the team to the California High School League championship. Pierce was elected as the California Basketball Master, and he was selected as the first team of the California High School All-round Team.

Currently, just a few days after the NCAA March Crazy ended, Eddie Obanon led UCLA to win the NCAA Basketball Championship after 19 years.

Just two days ago, UCLA, who won the NCAA championship, rejected Zhang Hao's application for basketball scholarship and suggested that he enroll with his test scores.

But Zhang Hao doesn't want to worry about this for the time being.

“One more year to live?”

Zhang Hao was lying on the bed, looking at the "countdown" written on the subtitles, and was in a very complicated mood.

The memory of the "future" can be lively for a year, which is simply a blessing for him.

But the current body memory has a great impact on him. Another thought in his heart is that it is so sad. The young high school student has only one year to live!

Two complex emotions are entangled together, and the final thought is - I really want to live!

Zhang Hao recalled every bit of his coming to the United States to study, and couldn't help but smile bitterly... In the past, when the United States had the most severe era of skin color discrimination, he actually came to the United States to study, and he still wanted to bypass the domestic system and enter the American sports industry. Isn't this a joke?

I thought that my father was also a sensible person in business, but when it comes to this kind of dream about his youth reflected on his son, I was still too naive.

This is Zhang Hao looking at the current situation from the perspective of "future" memory, because the memory of the future is stronger than the memory of the present, whether it is knowledge, vision, personality, or social ability... than the memory of the present, so he naturally dominates, because both memories become part of his memory, and naturally the one who knows more "more".

It is now 1995. The second semester of high school senior year, the state high school league has already ended, and even the NCAA game has ended. The basketball teams of major universities are chasing the geniuses of major high school students, and he is already applying to enroll from major universities.

He passed various exams in his senior year of high school last year and achieved excellent results in cultural courses. He is not short of college studies, but this is not the problem before him.

Basketball scholarship! That's what he wants.

Many years ago, before he went to elementary school, the father at home who had returned from the army saw his "potential". He wanted to train him to play basketball. His father was also a basketball player in the army. He also participated in the second team trial training of the Bayi Team, but was defeated.

As for his "potential"... it is to grow tall, run fast, and jump high.

But my family’s current situation is not very good. If you want to study in a private school in the United States, the cost of studying abroad is too high for Chinese people in the 1990s.

So a scholarship is needed!

The first-tier league scholarship for the just-concluded NCAA 94-95 season is 13,772 US dollars. With the exchange rate of US dollars to Ruanmei Coin this year, it can save a lot of money for the family.

However, it is difficult to get a full basketball scholarship in the first-tier league!

The NCAA First-Level Alliance universities are limited... Although there are many, the proportion is extremely small compared to so many college students in the United States.

Although the NCAA first-level basketball team has 15 full basketball scholarship quotas, the university team is not a professional league team. It is impossible for a team to have only 15 people. First-line players and waiters from freshmen to seniors, and there are 30 to 50 people in total. There are hundreds of people in major schools. Not all first-line players are played in every game. If there are injuries or temporary leave, the waiters will naturally be given to the candidates. Therefore, the scholarship cannot be given to only those dozen players. There may be several or even dozens of full scholarship quotas assigned to everyone on the list designated by the university coach. A player who can get a full scholarship alone is not rare, but each university is estimated to have only two or three people.

All of these people are the most shining stars in high school.

For example, Pierce, who was just a chatterbox, is still a fat guy, but she is very talented and has extremely comprehensive skills. Before she could go to college, she felt that she could do everything.

However, the most troublesome thing here is not whether he plays well in high school or not. He is also well-known, among the top 30 high school students in the United States... But the key is that he is Chinese!

Zhang Hao stood up and went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water. His situation is not good now. Just as April April Clark said, he can choose to go to college directly. His SAT score is very good, but the key is money!

After washing his face, wiped the water from his face, Zhang Hao looked at himself in the mirror...

"I'm wearing a brick, it's 500 yuan a day to move bricks... No, this is the 1990s, and it's 50 yuan a day. It's tall, powerful and hard, and he's a little handsome..."

Just as Zhang Hao's thinking began to diverge, Pierce's voice came from outside the room: "Aix, your dad is calling..."

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"I understand, Dad, I will try my best to get a scholarship. I know you don't have to worry about the money. I know you will find a way, but why don't you take what you can..."

Zhang Hao hung up the phone and sighed when he thought of his experience in the past two years. Although his family gave money to study for the first-level league university, the team's status would definitely not be very good if he entered that way! Scholarships represent not only money, but also their status in the team!

Seeing that Zhang Hao had finished calling, Paul Pierce couldn't understand what Zhang Hao said, but found that the forward partner, high school friend and the honest tenant were in a bad mood. Pierce patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder: "Let's go, go to school to practice football?"

"You go first, aunt said you won't go to UCLA anymore?"

"Yes, I won't go, the coach from the University of Kansas invited me to go."

“A full scholarship is also?”

"Yes, they also gave me a full basketball scholarship."

Zhang Hao is really envious!

Is it so amazing? UCLA, the Bruins! The basketball giants! If you don’t want to go, you won’t go.

And there is an invitation from another NCAA giant team from the University of Kansas Jayhawks!

"UCLA and Kansas only provide me with study scholarships." Zhang Hao was very resentful.

"Their approach is too bad, but it doesn't matter. I believe you will definitely find an ideal university. You have such good grades and play basketball so well..."

Pierce talked again before leaving satisfied. Zhang Hao felt a hint of sadness when he thought of his current situation.

Five years ago, when he was 13 years old, the youth team of the semi-professional team of the domestic semi-professional basketball league invited him to join, but his father told him that if he entered the system, he was trapped and could not make any decisions about his own career.

Zhang Hao hoped to control his future, so he did not go to the Beijing Youth Team, but instead studied hard and practiced basketball skills while studying hard.

Three years ago, due to the arrogant or other reasons, the Blue Association rejected the invitation to the Youth Basketball Confrontation Competition from the Blue Association, and the game became an unofficial private competition.

Zhang Hao, who was 15 years old in high school in China, was recommended by the Imperial Capital Normal University to participate in the Sino-US Youth Confrontation Competition. In a miserable loss to a group of 12 and 3-year-old children, he performed well. With his height of 183 cm at the time, he grabbed 11 rebounds in 27 minutes, and had a good jump shot, scoring 14 points, and was spotted by the coach of Inglewood High School.

His family was very rich at the time. His father Zhang Weidong decisively threw away his iron job in the mid-1980s and went into business. He worked hard in the seafood industry. Seeing that his son was attracted by an American coach, he once again made a decisive choice and sent Zhang Hao to study abroad in Los Angeles to study in high school.

Who knew that in 1993, the exchange rate of the US dollar against the RMB soared from around 1 to 5.7 to nearly 1 to 9 in the second half of 1993. The price of imported seafood soared, and even more so in other import industries. Exports were smooth, but at that time, the domestic basic industry was not yet perfect, which was urgently needed for foreign materials soared, the domestic economic development fell into a bottleneck period, and the growth of national income slowed down, and Zhang Hao's father's assets also encountered great difficulties.

Fortunately, Zhang Hao's father was a decisive person. He directly abandoned the import market that was relatively cheap before, and entered the domestic seafood market and river food market to stop losses in time. However, his assets also shrank significantly and he barely maintained operations. Although he was rich in China, his tuition, living expenses, and other expenses cost tens of thousands of dollars a year also made his family short of money, income decreased, and the US dollar exchanged for soft girls also decreased, and the difficulty was more than doubled.

Zhang Hao is very sensible and tries to reduce personal expenses as much as possible. However, not only are the tuition fees for international students more expensive, but they spend more money than American locals in terms of accommodation, medical insurance and other aspects. Compared with California locals, Zhang Hao has to pay about three times the tuition fees that California locals have to pay.

When he came to the United States, Zhang Hao realized that Americans like international students because they use international students to increase their school and local fiscal revenue and provide high benefits to local students. Unlike some people, they spend money to find a group of foreign garbage to come back, and some beasts even force girls on campus to form a study group with foreign garbage.

Inglewood is one of the best private high schools in the United States, ranking fifth in California and 41st in the United States, with high tuition fees. Even if Zhang Hao received a high school basketball scholarship of $3,000 for a year with his good performance in the California League, it is only a fraction of the tuition fees of $1.3 per year for international students.

However, the family can still afford it in high school. Now two years have passed and high school is about to graduate.

Zhang Hao had no problem taking the exam. He took the SAT exam in January last year, but in his third year of high school, he got a good score of 1,316. ​​The average score in that exam was 876. His score and the admission score line for the best university in the United States were almost this score. There is no problem entering a first-class university in the United States.

In terms of basketball, his performance in high school is not only not bad, but also very good. He is one of the best small forwards in the California high school league. In the just-concluded high school season, he and Pierce helped Inglewood High School win the California championship. Many local people in California have heard of his name.

But in recent times, Zhang Hao has participated in interviews at several universities. Among them, the local UCLA in California is willing to provide study scholarships, but is unwilling to provide basketball scholarships. It is not that he is unwilling to provide full prizes, but directly treats him as an ordinary student who applies to join a college basketball club, and he is not even qualified to compete for some scholarships. The University of Southern California is willing to provide some basketball scholarships, but is unwilling to provide full scholarships, and this part of the scholarship depends on whether he can enter the front team of the school team... Almost all universities in California and nearby Arizona are willing to provide study scholarships, and basketball scholarships are provided at most.

This is a big difference. If you have a basketball scholarship and don’t use it too much, you will have enough living expenses for at least a year, which can reduce the burden on your family.

If you have to go to college by studying, even if it is a prestigious university, his high school teacher can help him write recommendation letters. He is very good at studying. Compared with the test scores, American universities value recommendation letters more, but the teachers have no effect on basketball scholarships, because the two can be obtained together. The school coach has helped to recommend basketball scholarships, but their alma mater, Illinois State University, is unwilling to give full basketball scholarships.

Currently, the per capita annual income in China is only three to four thousand. Compared with the tuition fees of international students at private universities in the United States, the study scholarship is simply a drop in the bucket and living expenses are not enough. Moreover, like high schools, American universities charge foreign students more expensive than their own.

As for the loan... As a Chinese, it was a delusion for him to lend him a loan from the Bank of America. He wanted to make money by himself after graduating from college, but the university tuition for international students is as large as that of the large expenses of American students, most American students are loans... Although my father will definitely give money, Zhang Hao wants to reduce part of the burden on his family.

Zhang Hao is in a bad mood now. Money is the source of all evil! He is really not good at making money quickly. What can he do in this part of the United States?

I recall that as the best player among Chinese players in the China-US Youth Basketball Confrontation, I was attracted by American high school coaches. As a result, I came to the United States, everything I experienced was far from what I expected and dreamed about.

In addition to being cruel, it is also cruel... Wait, Zhang Hao thought about it, and subtitles that only he could see appeared again.

"Remaining lifespan: 365 days, available lifespan: 364 days."

“……!

I only have one year left to live... Although I don't know if this really shows how long I can live, the overlap of two memories has happened... If it's just one year, would you consider so many hammers?

So what if you enter NCAA? Is it possible to pursue your basketball dream in one year? Go to your basketball dream!”

Just when Zhang Hao suddenly became furious, the subtitles changed!

"Do you want to dominate basketball?"

The sudden change scared Zhang Hao!

After looking around, there was no one. No one saw the big fool just now. Zhang Hao quickly ran back to his room and closed the door.

Looking at the "Master Basketball" written in the subtitles, although he still likes basketball, his idea of ​​dreaming of becoming a superstar like Jordan has gradually dissipated after hitting walls one after another in the past month.

Although he was ranked 22nd in the United States by Sports Illustrated after the end of the California High School League, the ranking of high school students at this time was messy and the ranking of high school students in major media was completely inconsistent. Sports Illustrated is in Los Angeles. Those college teams do not trust him or do not want to give him a chance.

Seeing basketball, Zhang Hao still loves basketball, but at this moment he feels inexplicably irritated. The aggrieved feeling of hitting walls all over the past two months has emerged.

In addition, I only have one year of living... If the countdown of lifespan of marks is real, that year, it will dominate the basketball!

All kinds of negative emotions were superimposed, and Zhang Hao couldn't help but shout: "Go to your basketball dream, I don't want to!"

After the yell, he seemed to vent his unwillingness. Zhang Hao felt that he was really stupid and was yelling at a broken subtitle. Fortunately, Pierce went to school. It was a big afternoon. Except for him, a student who had passed the cultural course exam to enter the university, everyone else was in school. It seemed that no one was alarmed by his roar and scream... I can't understand it even if I don't understand!

But when Zhang Hao came to his senses and looked at the subtitles, he seemed to feel that the words inside were closer to him.

Moreover, it seemed as if it was getting closer and closer, Zhang Hao had an illusion that the word was about to be posted on his eyes... It was really posted on!

Zhang Hao was so scared that he stepped back and leaned against the wall, but the subtitles were getting closer and closer... For some reason, he seemed to feel that the words in front of him were making the final question. Once he refused again, he would lose this opportunity.

He didn't know why he regarded this strange scene as an "opportunity", but he thought that way in his heart.

At this moment, I came to the United States with ambitions and wanted to become a person who changed Chinese basketball in the future, as if I had come back.

And he suddenly remembered that the countdown on the remaining time of his life was counting down, and it was probably only possible to break the deadlock! This may be his golden finger!

The key is that in the memory of this era, he has been working hard to become a real basketball player for more than ten years. Even if he integrates the memories of the future, he cannot erase his love for basketball.

He had an impulse in his heart, and he wanted to accept it!

Moreover, he wants to live! It’s not just one year! Although it is a blessing for him to be able to move freely for a year for a year, it is really a nightmare for the memory of this era.

At this moment, Zhang Hao became firm: "I think! I think it's OK!"

After Zhang Hao said this, the subtitles in front of him changed again, and the prompt sound came, and an electronic sound as cold as a robot came out of his mind...

"Ding... The basketball dominant system is being turned on..."

"The basketball dominance system has been opened, and the host's goal is the basketball dominant, leading his players to conquer the basketball world."

"What does this mean?" Zhang Hao didn't react at once.

The main reason is that he didn't expect that the Goldfinger was about this aspect and became the master of the basketball world. In his opinion, it was Jordan, the Magic Bird, Russell, but he didn't expect to want him to be the head coach!

"Leading my own players to conquer the basketball world? Leading my own players? Isn't this what a coach should do? Is this going to be a coach? How can I become a coach at the age of 19? This is to let me go to the sports university and become the best coach in the world? This is also a way out... But I'll live in one year! How can I have the opportunity to be a head coach after 4 years of college?"

Zhang Hao thought about those colleges who were unwilling to give him a chance, and after he hit a wall around, he had the idea of ​​giving up basketball, returning to China to go to college, becoming an office worker or selling fish.

But now he is different. He has the memory of the future and is dominated by the perspective of the future. The most important thing is that he can only live for one year... Then he has to do some things to make himself live longer.

The golden finger can definitely help you. If there is no help, then don’t worry. Live happily for a year with the mentality of future memory, and experience the two years of lying on the hospital bed waiting to die. It won’t be like that if you can live a life of one year.

At this time, the subtitles quietly changed...

"The host's basketball career is about to begin, and the mission is to become the head coach of a team or form a team by yourself and sign a player."

"I really want me to be a coach? But how do I be a coach now? No one in elementary school coach is willing to invite me! I am at my age and ability, where can I be a coach? Building a team? Where can I get the money?"

Zhang Hao couldn't help but complain wildly, and he was almost transformed into Pierce because he really didn't have a chance to open it! He just did the task. After completing the task, he would definitely have a reward, but he didn't have the conditions to complete it!

To become a basketball coach by studying in college, the American sports college, the world's most powerful basketball country, is definitely the best choice, but he will not survive to graduate from college!

The dead end is coming again!

Suddenly, Zhang Hao's inspiration appeared and a magical idea came out. After this idea came out, his heart kept pounding!

Not knowing how to communicate, Zhang Hao asked tentatively in his heart: "I want to sign me, can I? I will build a team by myself, just call it... Well, just call it Ritian Gang! Sign myself!"

After asking this question, the subtitles, which were originally just faint, suddenly began to twist, and then kept trembling, and finally... they were so scared! Zhang Hao was shocked!

Could it be that this golden finger was ruined!

Wait, isn’t that just one year to live?

As soon as this idea came up, Zhang Hao saw the "remaining life span" in the upper right corner of the subtitles, even if the screen was blurred, it still did not change. This was the rhythm of dragging him to hell if he crashed!

After a while, the subtitles finally returned to normal and new words appeared.

"The host set up a team: Ritian Gang, will sign Zhang Hao as the first signing player and become his personal coach. Is it certain?"

It's really OK!

Zhang Hao didn't know what it was for signing a contract, but he signed it first and immediately replied: "Confirm."
Chapter completed!