Chapter eight hundred and fifteen the torn mask
“It’s great to be young.”
Kobe undoubtedly understands the meaning of this sentence better than Wei Xia.
A 37-year-old veteran experienced a major injury of a ruptured Achilles tendon and his competitive ability declined rapidly, and he couldn't even beat Jabbarri Parker.
"I often wonder what would it be if I wasn't injured?" Kobe muttered.
Wei Xia was very close to him, so he heard it.
This is a good question. Kobe was in the league before the serious injury in 2013, with an average of 2775 per game.
If you are not injured, what is the level today two years later?
Wei Xia said: "It should not be inferior to Carl Malone of the same age."
The 37-year-old Malone averaged 25 points and 9.5 rebounds per game, and the second team.
Considering that there are two outstanding No. 2 positions in this era, one is Weisha and the other is James Harden, Kobe, who is not injured, will probably become the third team this season.
Unfortunately, these ifs can only be ifs.
"If you didn't work so hard at that time, there would be no such things in the future." Wei Xia hoped Kobe would be more open, "It would be useless for you to think about these things now."
Kobe snorted coldly: "Wait, sooner or later, you will feel your aging like me, and sooner or later you will understand that feeling like me."
Who knows this kind of thing?
Wei Xia is also a person who likes to act recklessly, but he really feels that his peak period will be very long. Many things that were impossible in the past are possible today when sports medicine and science are more developed after the game.
There are many activities before the competition begins.
This year, New York invited James' fan Rihanna to sing.
Players have to give many interviews before the game begins.
Wei Xia was sweating all over and had to take a shower, change into a peugeot suit to face the camera and microphone.
Star players from the East and West gather here and often meet and say hello.
When Wei Xia saw Durant, his face looked bad: "kd, you look worried."
"Wish, how does it feel to treat people with masks?" Durant asked like a philosopher.
"It's pretty good." Wei Xia smiled.
Durant's smile was put away, his voice unwaveringly, like a ghost-lost man in a horror movie: "I'm sorry, I'm going to throw away my mask today!"
For some reason, looking at Durant like this, Wei Xia felt the fur on her head stand up, which was a trembling trepidation that witnessed the terrible thing happening in front of her.
He has seen such a thing.
The protagonist is not Durant.
In 2011, James betrayed his hometown in the most unbearable way, and then changed his maturity and stability that had been maintained for many years and opposed the whole world;
In 2005, Kobe broke with his family and forced the management to choose between himself and the shark, and dealt with the Eagle County incident. Therefore, he did not believe in anyone, was nervous and treated everything like a tyrant;
During the 1993 playoffs, Jordan's Law was released, and his image plummeted. When the playoffs were unfavorable, he even went to the casino all night. The example of gods turning into demons happened in Wei Xia's childhood.
In the story ahead, there is no need to say much, all changes in character design happen quietly.
Weisha noticed that Durant had called him less recently, and he hadn't paid much attention to the Thunder, and he didn't know what Durant had encountered.
Then today, he threatened to tear off his mask and let the world see his true identity.
Durant broke out when the media asked the Thunder coach, the coaching position of Scott Brooks, who was in the turbulent position.
"You guys don't know anything!"
"Honestly, buddy, I'm talking to you here just because I have to do that. So, I really don't care. You're not my friends, you can write what you want to write. You'll like us today and then hate us the next day. So, I'm just learning how to deal with you."
"I'm 26 years old this year. In the first few years of entering the league, I've been looking for myself. I think most of the time, my reaction is based on the answers everyone wants and what they think of me." Durant continued, "But now I'm learning to be myself and not caring about what others say. I'm going to make mistakes, I just want to tell kids, athletes, artists and so-called celebrities, we're not robots. We're going to have emotions, I'm just expressing my emotions as much as possible and trying to help others. But I'm not sitting here and telling you that I'm going to keep procedurally speaking the right words and giving the right answers in an official voice. I'm having enough, I'm trying to be myself and keep growing."
This is the negative point in Durant's relationship with the media.
Due to his speech today, the media have something to do.
They seized the example of Durant and Weisha being good friends and said: "KD and Wish are good friends. Unfortunately, he did not learn from wishes and instead learned to go against the media. KD is becoming the wishes in 2008. Interestingly, wishes were only 24 years old at that time, but now KD is 26 years old. I can't help but ask, is he really mature?"
Durant's speech on the All-Star can be regarded as an iconic event.
From here on, Durant is no longer the image of a boy in the schoolbag.
He was regarded as an arrogant superstar, a spoiled genius, arrogant and unscrupulous, and was not as good as Russell Westbrook of the team.
What is the most terrifying thing about this?
The most terrifying thing is that the Oklahoma media believe this set of rhetoric in the city where Durant is located. This is exactly the same as the image of the parties involved in the publishing of the "Jordan Law" by the writer of the Chicago Tribune.
By the way, we can also think of how the Magic and Orlando media broke up the penny and Sharks inside and outside.
There are also Kobe and Los Angeles media...
The most unpredictable arrows often come from behind.
Wei Xia heard what Durant said to the media, but he still didn't figure out what was going on.
But since some things are already like this, there is no room for turning back.
From this day on, Durant's image of a boy in the schoolbag was cut off from the media.
On the other hand, the new dunk king Zach Lavine said that even if James and Wei Xia participated in the dunk contest, they would be confident that they would win the championship.
Weisha and James reacted differently to these two things.
Wei Xia admits that Lavin is better than him on the stage of the dunk contest now - "I'm past the age of participating in the competition. If I were a few years younger, I might be able to compete."
The media's subsequent reaction can completely prove why Durant would rather destroy his character than pretend: "Then why didn't you participate in the dunk contest back then?"
These Xi Bazaar should be the bastard who puts his face on the wall!
"Because Zach Lavin was still a child at that time." They carried Wei Xia back as they argued.
James' response was more official. He said that if he was confident in defeating Lavine, he also learned from Wei Xia's rhetoric and said that he had missed the best opportunity. He repeatedly expressed his regret that he had not participated in the dunk contest when he was young.
The complicated interview process took an hour to finish.
Before the game begins, players will go to the stadium to find their feelings.
Some people only shoot threes, and their choices show that they will shoot a lot of threes tonight.
When the three-pointer was first released in the early years, hitting three-pointers in the All-Star Game could bring passion like dunks.
Now the star who focuses on three-pointers in the main competition can basically be beaten to death with sticks irresponsible, pure Jiba gangster.
"Stop stakes, don't stakes!"
Cousins took the ball and challenged the other stars, "Come and fight alone!"
With his body and skills, no one is the opponent if he fights one-on-one.
Bosh is the only one who comes to fight in the east.
Bosh, who defended the champion in the Shooting Stars game yesterday, felt hot and solved Cousins with the least insider.
He actually made a shot half a meter away from the three-point line.
Hayward came up and used his skills to help Cousins win back for a while.
Then, James joined in to find the place for Bosh, who started his great career in brothers basketball with him.
Then, everyone looked at Wei Xia.
Wei Xia is not here.
Long before Cousins proposed a one-on-one challenge, Wei Xia had already grabbed the ball and ran to the halftime where the Western Conference Stars were in threatening to compete with all of them.
Kobe wanted to come up, and Westbrook stopped the radical old man sensibly: "Don't worry, leave it to us, Kobe."
Although the stars in the West are youthful and energetic, everyone has to compete with Wei Xia.
But Wei Xia was not here to play. He really planned to thwart the spirit of this group of people before the opening.
Therefore, he beat Westbrook up behind his back;
When Harden played in the face, he took a step back and shot with his left hand;
It was an unreasonable eight-meter three-pointer against Curry;
At this time, Madison Garden was already boiling. Wei Xia kicked the butts of three Western stars in a row, then turned the ball he brought with his fingers, and said boredly: "It's too simple to not play anymore."
"Wish, another round!" Westbrook shouted.
"Save some effort to shoot three-pointers in the game, so what if you have another ten innings?" Wei Xia left lazily and successfully annoyed the stars in the West.
Old men in the West, like Duncan and Nowitzki, who was alternately accused All-Star, laughed out loud.
"He hasn't changed at all."
Duncan even walked up to Kobe and said, "I have been thinking about it for a few years but still can't figure out why you let the wish go?"
When Kobe mentioned this, he became furious.
Without Wei Xia, they will never have a championship again. What's the use of maintaining a healthy salary space for a long time?
But if Wei Xia can be kept and Bynum can be left, then their upper limit will be more than two consecutive championships?
Chapter completed!