After the Spurs won two consecutive home games, the results of other games were also out. The Mavericks won two home games in a row, just like the Spurs. It seems that sweeping the Grizzlies four to zero is no problem. The Denver Nuggets, ranked third in the West, were defeated by the sixth-ranked Los Angeles Clippers, lost their home advantage, which made people very worried about their playoff road. The Phoenix Suns, ranked second in the West, ranked seventh-ranked Los Angeles Lakers were not as one-sided as everyone imagined. After winning the first game very easily, the Suns relaxed their vigilance, and the second game was a little relaxed, but the Lakers took away a home game.

The Detroit Pistons, the number one in the East, invested too much energy in the goal of 72 wins. At the end of the playoffs, they exposed the problem of physical weakness. Then they started to have a discord between the coaches, and they were actually defeated by Youlu, who ranked eighth in the East. The old enemy of the Cavaliers and Wizards also won two home games. The Pacers, who were seriously injured, lost to the New Jersey Nets in two games, while the Miami Heat easily won the Chicago Bulls with big scores in two consecutive games, showing the style of a team that won the championship.

After the second game with the Kings, the league announced the best head coach of the season. The Dallas Mavericks' head coach "Little General" Avery Johnson won the award, and Sanders missed the award again. When he was the most successful Timberwolves, he met the more magical Hubi Brown. Out of comforting nature, the league gave this award to Hubi Brown. Although he led the Pistons to almost achieve the best record in the league this time, because the Pistons were already good and the team's overall strength was high, he did not bring any transformation to the Pistons, so he lost the election again and was won by Johnson.

Following the winner of the Best Head Coach, the next day, the league announced the fastest-progress player of the season. Boris Dior of the Phoenix Suns replaced his role well after Stademire Jr. was seriously injured and reimbursed for the entire season, and kept the Suns still in the championship group. He won 489 points of votes, averaging 13 points, 6 assists and six rebounds per game was his biggest gain for this award, and there were four triple-doubles.

Stephen asked others that the best rookie basically won’t be announced after the second round of the game begins. There are still several days left. Stephen puts this aside and concentrates on preparing for the third game. According to the playoff rules, he will have to go to Sacramento to play in the third and fourth games. Stephen followed the team on the plane and flew to the distant Sacramento.

Sacramento is the seat of the state capital of California, and it is also called the second port by Chinese and overseas Chinese. San Francisco is the main port. Bu is the place of residence. This is the second place after the Chinese and overseas Chinese have been from their distant homeland and crossing the dangerous Pacific Ocean. When Stephen was a child, he heard his father say that his grandfather seemed to have been here for a few years early, but at that time, he was just an ordinary gold digger.

After coming to Sacramento, Stephen suddenly thought that his father and mother didn't know how it was going, so he took out the phone and called and asked. After chatting with his mother for a while, Stephen asked his father how it was going. It took nearly a month to hear that Stephen calculated that he might be able to catch up with the finals.

Speaking of Sacramento, Stephen's father suddenly told Stephen an address and asked him to go to a place to find out if there was a "Liu Ji Restaurant". This is an address left by Stephen's grandfather before his death. He said that there was a friend there, so that Shi Xiangdong could go there if he really couldn't get through. Although Shi Xiangdong didn't really go there, he still remembered the address in his heart.

Grandpa’s old friend? Stephen recorded this address, but he still didn’t know if he was alive. But as my father said, no matter what, this is the only person who may be related to his family. It is better to go and take a look.

Stephen took a lot of time to find the address his father mentioned. It was not surprising that Stephen was indeed like the place where Stephen lived in Charlotte. It was a residential area for people who were never poor or rich. Most of the people living here were people of color, either Chinese or other Asians.

The streets exist and the house numbers also exist. This Liu Ji Restaurant no longer exists. It was replaced by a Western fast food restaurant. After so many years, Stephen had no hope and was about to leave when he saw this. Who knew that an old man, who was also a Chinese, came over enthusiastically and asked Stephen if he was the Stephen on TV and the one who played the ball.

"Yes, old man, are you doing something?" Stephen really didn't know how to respond when he was said like this. He was a little star after all. He played football and sounded unpleasant, but when facing an old man who was older than his father, Stephen was quite respectful.

"It's you, I just said, "Do you look familiar to me?" My grandson posted your posters all over the house. But I heard that you play basketball very well and it's awesome for us Chinese. Why do you come here?" The old man didn't seem to understand basketball very much, but he looked very happy when talking about it.

"How old is your grandson? Where is the position you play? I forgot that you don't understand basketball. I came here to play games." Anyway, there was nothing wrong. I finally met someone who spoke Chinese. Stephen felt very kind, and the old man was a kind-hearted person, so Stephen stood there and chatted with him.

The old man's surname is Dong, and his name is Dong Zhixin. His grandson is only fourteen years old. He is Dong Qiang. He likes basketball the most. It turns out that the person he admires the most is Yao Ming. Stephen fell in love with Stephen as soon as he came out. He wished he could hold Stephen to sleep every day and sleep with Stephen's poster.

Stephen left his phone number to Mr. Dong and asked him to take his grandson to contact him, and got him a few tickets for him so that they could go into the stadium to watch the game seriously at night. Mr. Dong said that his grandson had said many times, but even the cheapest ticket costs 451, which is affordable.

This was a slight meaning for Stephen. He just didn't ask for it from the team, but he could buy a few for them. In the end, Mr. Dong asked Stephen what he came here to do. Stephen told him his purpose. The old man smiled and told Stephen that he used to work at the Liu Ji Restaurant. Now the Liu family has moved the Liu Ji Restaurant to Chinatown in San Francisco. If Stephen wants to see them, he can go to Chinatown to find it. They also call the name Liu Ji Restaurant in San Francisco.

When he heard that the old man had worked in Liuji Restaurant, Stephen asked him if he knew about his grandfather. Stephen said a lot, and the old man thought about it. He seemed that he heard that the owner of Liuji Restaurant had said that there was such a distant cousin, but he didn't know the details very well.

Distant cousin? Stephen was a little confused. He had never heard of this. Stephen called his father and said, "The father didn't know how he kissed him or how much he was. No one knew about this anymore. Let's go back and have time to go to San Francisco to have a look."

After Stephen returned to the team, he asked the staff. The staff quickly brought Stephen three tickets for tonight, but they were still in the front seats. At the beginning of the afternoon, Mr. Dong really contacted Stephen and brought his grandson to come over.

As soon as he saw Stephen, a child next to Mr. Dong rushed over excitedly. He held Stephen's hand and didn't want to let go. Stephen struggled for several times before he broke free. After the child letting go of Stephen, he still said excitedly that he had never believed what his grandfather said, thinking that his grandfather was lying to him.

The child named Dong Qiang looked only 1.4 meters high at most, and his body was not too strong. Stephen touched his head and encouraged him a few words, and then handed over the ticket. Dong Qiang was very happy to see the ticket. After seeing three tickets, he waved to the back and walked over from the corner.

This child is much taller than Dong Qiang and is also very strong. Even when he comes here, he is holding a basketball that is about to be worn out. What surprised Stephen was that this black child actually looked exactly the same as Wick, just like a children's version of Wick.

Stephen asked a black child's name, Ken Pobuck. The name had nothing to do with Wick, otherwise Stephen would have thought it was Wick's younger brother. After giving the tickets to them, Stephen returned to the middle of the team and prepared for the game tonight with his teammates.

Before the game, Stephen heard a news that he was ruled out of the starting lineup and became a member of the substitute lineup again. Stephen knew that this was the punishment from head coach **Vicci to himself. Although Stephen was depressed, there was no way to solve this problem. There was no way. Not to mention the Spurs, even other teams were the most authoritative of the head coach. Unless you are the core of the team and the star of the team, the head coach would not need to consider your psychological feelings at all.

Robert Horry stood beside Stephen and patted Stephen on the shoulder after seeing this. No one could do anything about it. However, after **Vic left, Robert Horry told Stephen that at most it would be a small punishment for a game and would not do anything you would do. Remember in the future, don't do anything rashly that way that would annoy the coach.

Stephen nodded helplessly. Although Stephen didn't care much about the identity of substitute and starter, the feeling of being punished by the coach was not very pleasant. Moreover, Stephen did not feel that the mistakes he made were unforgivable. Just scold him for a moment, and if he had such a punishment, Stephen felt unnecessary.

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Chapter completed!