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Chapter 5 Dreams

"Today is your good day, let's have another fight!"

"Okay, Dave."

In fact, Wei Xia only knows less than ten players who retired before he was born. Dave Cowens (dave     c/pf) is not one of them. The reason why Wei Xia can name his name at this moment is entirely due to instinct. It is from Havlicek's instinct.

In 1969, Bill Russell and KC Jones retired with the most championship rings in history, Haflicecke became the vanguard, leading the team to two bad seasons of missing the playoffs alone, and then Dave Coins brought his brown hair and passionate passion and the madness of "If you don't work as hard as I do, just die on the track" to rejuvenate the Celtics' youthful vitality in the 1960s.

Coins is to Haflicecke, just as Gasol is to Kobe and Garnett is to Pierce.

The memories belonging to Havlicek surged through Wei Xia's mind. He didn't want to be distracted by these things. He wanted to know when it was now. After thinking carefully, the memories belonging to the present have appeared.

Today is April 9, 1978, the Celtics play against the Braves at home.

Today is not only the last game of John Haflicecke's career, but also the last game in the history of the Brofa Braves. After this game, they moved to Los Angeles and renamed the Clippers, which began a 30-year tragic history.

Wei Xia firmly believes that he is experiencing an uncontrolled dream.

Yes, it's definitely a dream.

If he really went back to the past like a character in a science fiction story, even if the person he possessed was Havlicek, why wasn't he who was young, but who was about to retire? It doesn't make sense.

The story told by Kub Kiefer made him feel that the NBA is very far away. Subconsciously, he believed that he might never be the second Kobe and could not score in the NBA.

So he went to bed very early, hoping to have a beautiful dream.

Isn’t it enough to do things in reality?

This dream is the feedback brought by obsession!

He firmly believed that he would follow the Red Giant into the locker room, where there were many media, and his teammates shouted and asked Wei Xia, Oh no, Haflicek to relax.

Wei Xia sat upright, trying to make himself smile. He was too nervous and ashamed. This was the moment of glory belonging to Havlicek. He was a 15-year-old... Why did a high school student from the future receive this honor? Due to embarrassment and ashamed, he made a video that was the most unpleasant in history.

When the media leaves, they also need to prepare to enter the venue to warm up.

Before that, head coach Tom Sanders walked in and shouted: "When the game is over, if Hondo's shots don't exceed 20, I'll kick all of you all in half, half to Hondo as compensation."

Some untuned black man jokingly said, "Where is the other half?"

"Put it into the mouths of you, Mr. Za, and let you spend the rest of your life to repent for tonight!" Jones shouted.

The person who just spoke was Kermit Washington (kermit        pf/c). Don’t know him? It doesn’t matter, I can use one sentence to make you know him. It’s the one who punched Rudy Tomjanovic’s brain.

Unspeakable emotions surged deep in Wei Xia's heart.

At first he thought Dream was playing with him, but in fact it didn't.

At least, it is helping the 15-year-old child complete his dream of making a debut on the NBA field.

He has everything he lacks in reality at this moment.

Height, weight, teammates' recognition, playing NBA...even if there is only one game, it is enough.

Sanders' speech confirmed two things.

Tonight belongs to Havlicek. He will let him do it many times he wants to take action. When will he get off the court, he has the final say... In short, his will determine the direction of the game.

The time was almost over, and he didn't surround the aisle like the players who later urged each other. In fact, there was a similar routine before. When Bill Russell was there, his teammates always motivated each other when he vomited before the routine. At least they had to make sure that when Russell came back, his teammates who went to the battlefield had the same full fighting spirit as him.

Wei Xialing was at the front of the team. He looked at the player passage he had never dreamed of, and at the intersection of the passage, he had imagined the scene of running out as a player countless times.

When things really happened to him, he felt it wasn't true.

In the 1970s, a generation in which later generations could only capture shadows from the stream of light.

The league entered a 10-year recession from the prosperous 1960s. It was a weird era. The ABA League attracted many geniuses with its super high salary, which led to the NBA in the 1970s becoming "very white and bright". White people would be happy about this. John Haflicecke, Rick Barry, and Bill Walton earned four championships in this chaotic decade. When ABA was overwhelmed and eventually merged with the NBA, the league turned black again. White audiences began to give up the game, the league's ratings fell to a low point, gambling and stadium violence continued, and it was almost the end of the road.

That was the funeral after Haflicek.

Wei Xia had never known this history. When he led the team into Boston Gardens, many children around him greeted him.

Just like Wei Xia imagined.

His grandfather once said that in the NBA game in the 1970s, the season ticket for high-end performance behind the bench for players was only $4 per game. Moreover, Boston Garden in that era would also let a group of children wearing team appearance uniforms sit on the sidelines, and they replaced the cheerleaders. During the game, the brave children could even chat with the players.

When Wei Xia entered the venue, the cheers at the scene were one after another, making his heart pound.

He thought it was over, but in fact it was just an appetizing snack.

Wei Xia actively participated in warm-up, shooting, layup, and jump shot after dribbling... He wanted to know what would happen after his 159 cm body rose to 196 cm.

Nothing happened. Wei Xia’s most intuitive feeling was that the basket was no longer towering in his eyes, and his shooting feel seemed to have changed qualitatively.

During this period, he wanted to try dribbling and dunking, but in the end, his dream came true and completed a two-hand dunk that seemed dull in later generations.

Boston Gardens burst into sound again.

About a hundred old Celtic fans swear that Haflichek has only one single dunk in his career.
Chapter completed!
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