Chapter 1 The Most Anticipated Moment

For American middle school students who love basketball, their most anticipated moment of the year is probably the start of the NBA Finals.

Because... accompanying the Finals is often a summer vacation as long as 3 months.

Those damn capitalists!

Just thinking about the two-week vacation he had when he was in the third year of high school in his previous life, Su Feng couldn't help but secretly wipe away a tear.

Because of the previous "school encounter with a gunfight incident," the school specifically arranged an end-of-term exam for Su Feng.

The final exams in American high schools are not as strict as those in China, but they are more flexible. Of course, all of this is easy for Su Feng. After all, he was an academic master in his previous life, and he is still an academic master abroad...

"Alas, if I don't play basketball well, I can only speculate in stocks and become the richest man..." Su Feng sighed to himself.

Of course, that kind of life was definitely not what Su Feng wanted.

Because in Su Feng's view, since he had obtained a system in this life that could help him realize his NBA dream, and he had met Kobe, such a humanoid cheat, what reason did he have not to play basketball?

Moreover, unlike others, after this rebirth and obtaining the cheat, Su Feng believed that there must be an invisible hand controlling his destiny in the dark.

If he didn't play basketball, Su Feng was afraid that he might suddenly die like the supporting characters written in infinite flow novels...

Therefore, entering the NBA, becoming a basketball star, and marrying a rich and beautiful woman became Su Feng's firm goals.

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July 7th was the day of Game 1 of the 93/94 NBA Finals. According to the previous agreement with Kobe, Su Feng appeared on time at the court where he and Kobe usually practiced.

"By the way, why is it that no one else has ever come to play on this court besides us?" Su Feng asked curiously.

"Hmph, because this is my territory." Kobe raised the corners of his mouth triumphantly, looking very proud.

"If I hadn't been preparing for the exam for a while, how could you have played on my territory that day." Kobe added.

Looking at Kobe's expression, Su Feng probably guessed the truth...

That is, probably no one nearby can beat Kobe...

And with Kobe's unwillingness to admit defeat, he might pester you to play one-on-one with him all day, so... if you can't afford to provoke him, can't you just hide?

You know, in the United States, the last thing you'll ever be short of is basketball courts...

Because he had secretly observed Kobe's home last time, Su Feng knew that Kobe's home was not very far from this court, so Su Feng felt that he and Kobe were really destined.

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In '94, because Kobe had not met Vanessa yet, he naturally had not broken up with his family. The Bryant family could be regarded as a loving father and son...

Kobe's father's name was Joe Bryant, a former NBA player, but of the more unsuccessful kind...

When Kobe was a child, in order to support his family, Joe went to Italy, which shocked the Italian fans at the time, because Joe's playing style was gorgeous, especially his shooting and fadeaway, which was quite handsome...

Later, after returning to the United States, when Kobe was in his first year of high school, Joe also served as Kobe's coach. E

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"Too bloody..." As the 93/94 season Finals started, Su Feng couldn't help but sigh.

"Too brutal..." At this moment, Kobe and Su Feng reached a consensus.

The 93/94 NBA Finals are known by many in the future as the "bloody Finals" because no game in this seven-game series broke 100 points, and the highest score in a single game was 93 points...

In addition to contributing beautiful and ear-pleasing sounds of iron-clanging, the players of the two teams engaged in melee combat in the interior like wrestling, which was extremely tragic...

"Sure enough, practicing pull-up jumpers is the right thing to do..." Looking at the picture on the TV, Su Feng vowed that before the hand-check rule became the no-hand-check rule, he would never exist in the interior...

Breaking through is impossible, he can only rely on pull-up jumpers to clang iron to barely maintain his life, people who can pull-up jumpers speak so nicely, Su Feng loves pull-up jumpers so much...

As everyone knows, the reason why the defensive intensity in the NBA during this period was high is inseparable from the hand-check rule.

This rule simply means that you can put your hand on the offensive player when defending, which means that outside players can't make it if they don't have some unique skills.

Because your breakthrough will be greatly restricted by the defensive player. For example, under the hand-check rule, the difficulty of an offensive player's breakthrough is roughly equal to twice the difficulty of the no-hand-check rule...

Why did Michael Jordan work so hard to practice shooting in the later stages of his career, and develop his mid-range shot and turnaround fadeaway to perfection?

It's because shooting is the least affected offensive means by the hand-check rule.

After all, you just take the ball and throw, pull, and fadeaway, and the opponent often doesn't even have time to put his hand on you.

In Su Feng's previous life, many people echoed the claim that the reason why people in the 90s didn't like to shoot 3-pointers was because of the hand-check rule...

In fact, this is a misleading statement for newbies.

In fact, in the near future, after the NBA shortens the three-point line, will you see teams in the league shooting three-pointers or not?

You know, during that time, even Michael Jordan had a great time shooting...

To put it bluntly, during this period, the 3-point shot was a new rule that the league had just introduced, and everyone was very resistant to the three-point shot.

Take Larry Bird as an example, even Bird himself didn't like three-pointers very much, because the players at the time felt that three-pointers were just showing off skills.

Just like if the NBA adds a 4-point shot tomorrow, many teams will definitely spend some time adapting to the new rules.

Even until the Warriors won their first championship in Su Feng's previous life, many experts believed before the game that teams that could only shoot would not go far.

Therefore, the main reason why everyone in the 90s didn't like to shoot three-pointers was still the difference in the concept of the times, just like if you travel back and tell your friends in the 90s that in the future you can go out without bringing money, just with your mobile phone, they would think you are crazy...

People nowadays accept new things far less quickly than humans in the Internet age in the future.

Of course, in any case, the hand-check rule is definitely a killer for outside players during this period...

"People in the 90s... are too brutal!" Su Feng exclaimed.

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ps: Congratulations to Ming Ke Shengxue for becoming the alliance leader!