The Whip of the God of Basketball

It has been almost four months since he became a scout, and Leon has traveled all over the major cities in the United States. Although the NBA is offseason, basketball games, large and small, have never stopped in the United States.

Leon not only went to watch the confrontation games of the top NBA stars in the summer training camp, but also went to the wild field on the street to watch those low-level guys play low-level games.

Basketball changed from a pile of vague data and images to a concrete sport with soul. Its image became clearer and clearer in Leon's heart, and he was convinced that he loved this sport more and more.

Now he has his own home in Boston, living in an apartment on Hancock Avenue in the North District, half of the rent is paid by himself, and half is reimbursed by the Celtics. This is the official scout for the Celtics. One of the last benefits.

That's right, he became an official scout for the Celtics. After the temporary contract ended, Pitino signed a new official contract with him without hesitation. Although Pitino knew that he was from Auerbach and set up some troubles for Leon at work, he still admitted that Leon was an excellent scout, a basketball worker who was good at learning and constantly improving.

Every morning, Leon does not need to rush to work. As long as the team does not notify him of a business trip, his time in Boston during the offseason is free and free. At this time, he would choose to read books at the Massachusetts State Library, which is less than one kilometer away from his apartment.

The State Library and the State Council are in the same large building, which houses a large number of books, especially works on law, medicine, and mathematics. It’s just that what Leon really cares about is sports kinematics and statistics. There is a fairly advanced information retrieval system at that time, and he can search a large number of kinematics and statistics papers he wants to read on the computer.

After having lunch at noon, he will go to the Celtics headquarters, where he can get access to a lot of NBA internal materials. Although he does not have his own office yet, the data room on the fifth floor is open to him. , He often sat there for three or four hours at a time.

When it was almost dinner time, Leon would choose to watch a ball game, maybe watching a boring regular game in the 1970s in the video analysis room, maybe watching a high school basketball league at the Umass Arena, or maybe going to Boston College visits to Boston College basketball practice. In short, a full game per day is a must.

In the evening, he would choose to have dinner at Khomeinis' house. Khomeinis's cooking skills are not bad. After all, she lives by herself all the year round, but she is much worse than Leon. Khomeinis asked Leon to come and teach her how to cook many times on the grounds of learning cooking skills, and gradually Leon got used to eating at Khomeinis' house when he was in Boston.

Except for a few old-fashioned families who still retain the traditional lifestyle of immigrants, most urban Americans are not used to cooking at home. They would rather go to a restaurant to eat two hamburgers than worry about heating up the stove at home. hot.

It was the same with Khomeinis in the past, never having a meal at home. But since Leon often came to eat, she fell in love with the feeling of eating at home. After all, a complete family brings her too little warmth. Eating with family has always been a luxury in her life in the past, although Pagliuca's new wife is not bad to her, but she still can't accept the reorganized family, and stubbornly lives alone early.

At the end of September, as the Boston Celtics' team training camp is about to start, Leon will spend more and more time in Boston. After the training camp has fully started, he will follow Auerbach's instructions and follow up the training throughout the process Camp dynamics. The role of scouts is not only to dig out talents outside the team, but also to observe the players of their own team.

Michael Reid arrived in Boston in mid-September. He reported to the Celtics and began to adapt to the environment here. He visited Leon and was surprised that he lived alone in an apartment. The married family lives in a single-family house with a two- or three-year-old son or daughter. After all, Leon impressed Reed deeply. His keen observation, superior persuasion ability, and meticulous attire made Reed think that he was a guy with a successful career.

Unexpectedly, like himself, his professional basketball career has just begun, which makes the friendship between Reed and Leon deepen.

On the evening of September 24th, there were four days left before the opening of the training camp. Today, Leon went to the library as usual, and then went to the Celtics headquarters in the afternoon to submit two scouting reports to Pitino. The report is some forward-looking analysis on overseas players. He evaluated the possibility of developing the overseas free agent market. Although it is just some castle-in-the-air ideas, it is undoubtedly very predictable.

When it was over, he went to the video room to watch a game. It was a regular season match between the Boston Celtics and the Chicago Bulls in 1997. It was the opening game in Boston. They upset the defending champion Bulls.

In the evening, he went to Khomeinis’ home for dinner. Tonight, Khomeinis sent a text message to say that he bought crayfish. In his previous life, Leon always thought that Chinese people would eat this kind of crayfish. Unexpectedly, many people in the United States love this food very much. A delicious and juicy food.

Of course, Leon also knows that the reason why Khomeinis sent him a short message early is to hope that he will cook a meal of crayfish for her. After eating lobster, she can no longer eat crayfish in other flavors.

A lobster feast lasted until nine o'clock in the evening, and Khomeinis' roommate, Morena, a hot girl from Brazil, was having dinner together. After she saw Leon for the first time, she winked at him shamelessly. Every time Leon came to eat, she would change into low-cut silk pajamas and walk around the house. After the results, the guy who has no patience for feelings quickly gave up trying.

Recently, she broke up with her boyfriend and stayed at home for a long time. Leon also found that when she was not coquettish, she was still a caring girl, and she never talked in a word. Let Leon treat her differently.

The three of them played poker until eleven o'clock. Even though Leon released the water, he still won twenty-five kisses from Khomeinis and a chance to perform a striptease from Morena, but he chose to save it temporarily. down.

Just when Leon decided to leave and go home, Morena proposed to go to the bar to play until tomorrow. Leon shook his head and said that he still had important work to do tomorrow.

But Morena said: "You know Leon, tomorrow is Khomeinis's birthday, and she really hopes that you can be with her from the first second of her birthday."

Khomeinis obviously did not expect Morena to say this, and it was too late for her to react, her face was a little red, and she couldn't help squinting at Leon, for fear that he would shake his head and say, "Let's talk about tomorrow." It was a mantra that Leon often said, but now she didn't want it to appear.

Finally, Leon nodded and agreed, and Khomeinis almost jumped up from the sofa. At this time, she really wanted to kiss Morena. If it was herself, she would not dare to make such a slightly willful request anyway. Maybe she should be more capricious towards Leon in the future.

Since meeting Leon, Khomeinis hadn't been to a nightclub for a long time, and the hustle and bustle and psychedelia there could no longer attract her. But going with Leon is different. Her sisters will always bring a man to or leave with a man in the nightclub, but she always comes and goes alone no matter what, even if there are many handsome men The child fired electricity at her, but it couldn't break the thick shell in her heart.

Now she can also take the man she likes to the land of love and moon, which is undoubtedly an exciting feeling.

Finally, Khomeinis discussed with Morena for a while, and decided to go to the Buzz-Club (Buzz-Club) at 51 Stuart Street in the South District, where Khomeinis used to go. The nightclub has three floors, two of which are dance floors, and the first floor is a bar and teahouse. Many young people in Boston love to go there to release excess hormones.

Hearing that he was going to the South District, Leon hesitated for a moment. Since he was released by MCI and returned to Boston, Leon would avoid going to the South District. He felt that he might still be watched by Frank's people, especially since he started working in Kyle. After the special people work, there are more and more opportunities to appear in the media, and it is difficult not to be discovered by Frank and the others.

He's pretty safe as long as he's in the North, but going to a bar in the South in the wee hours of the morning isn't so reassuring.

In the end, Leon decided to go, he didn't want to disappoint Khomeinis, and he was not afraid of those gangsters, even if they had guns.