Chapter 1 The Streets of New York
Although New York in March gets rid of the coldness of winter, it will still make people feel a little cold.
Even if it's afternoon, you won't get much heat from the sun to warm your body.
But in this city with a population of nearly 20 million, you will never feel lonely.
Just like those who walk by on the bustling streets, most people always look so in such a hurry that the next second will be the end of the world.
Many people choose to subconsciously speed up their pace and go to their destination in this slightly cold weather.
Feel the pressure. This is the way of life in New York. Here you can feel the suffocating living environment, but you can't stop groups of people from flocking to New York.
However, the "Tango Duke" standing in the most standard stadium stand in Rock Park at this moment is not in the mood to experience the pressure of living in the metropolis.
Who is the "Duke of Tango"? He is just a local snake who has been in Rock Park for nearly 30 years, a guy who has witnessed the past history of Rock Park street ball.
His identity is just a commentary on the sidelines, a live DJ who is very famous in the streetball industry in the United States. He has been doing this job for nearly 30 years, and no one has ever replaced him.
This bloated guy, like his music, is known to everyone in Rock Park.
Whether it is a ruffian who often comes to the park to hang out, or those street celebrities who have been written into the history of Rock Park, they will remember this guy and his slightly noisy DJ music.
The Duke can be so prosperous in Rock Park. In addition to being a local snake, and because the nicknames of those street superstars, such as "goat", "helicopter", or "jumping soul", are called by this not-looking guy.
It can be said that it was this guy who spread the name of those street superstars. His existence is like a living fossil of a street basketball.
He knows everything. Sometimes, he can even say how long those street superstars can toss around every night. This guy is simply a street know-it-it-knowing thing.
But today, this local snake-like guy doesn't have the usual kind of commentary.
His pressure comes more from the scoreboard standing in front of him. The information brought by the numbers on it makes him feel much colder than this damn weather.
60:48, there are less than ten minutes left in the game, but the difference has lasted for nearly 20 minutes.
The rules of street competition are generally very simple, three to three, five to five.
Or simpler, it is a one-on-one one-on-one.
Five balls, ten balls, this is the most common way. In fact, there are not many full games like this.
In the whole game, the first and second half are 20 minutes each, and it is also a five-to-five confrontation. In a field like Rock Park, such a confrontation is actually not common.
With three referees, there is a special person to score, and there are also dense fans watching around.
In the best venue in Rock Park, every detail of the game is very regular.
At this moment, at least 2,000 people have stopped to watch the stands around the stadium. The slightly cold weather does not seem to affect their enthusiasm.
Because the game being played on the field is the highest level of street basketball collision in New York.
Brooklyn vs. Queens, which is a street hegemony battle that takes place every year.
Street basketball is always a place where there are many awesome people, but on the streets of New York, Brooklyn and Queens are the two most tit-for-tat regions.
Since the day of the street basketball game, the confrontation between Brooklyn and Queens has not stopped.
Brooklyn walked out of Jordan. Although the god of basketball has not been on the street much, the place that can produce such an awesome person always seems a little unruly.
Queens will also not be inferior. There is a god like Jordan in Brooklyn, and there is also a street emperor like Alsstone in Queens, making improvised streetball the world famous number one.
The same strong background of street basketball makes these two regions have a fight every year.
Whoever loses will be like a third grandson in front of his sworn end in the next year.
No one wants to admit that they are not as good as their opponents. These kids from the street all have a sense of arrogance.
So every year, the death fight between Brooklyn and Queens is splashed with sparks and wonderful.
The two regions with the closest strength, the most formal confrontation, and abnormal duel.
There is a history of victory or defeat between Brooklyn and Queens. The winning sky has always been swaying, and it has never really turned to one side.
But today, those guys from Brooklyn have overwhelmed Queens from the beginning.
Just like the scoreboard the Duke saw, ten minutes after the start of the game, Brooklyn's guys always maintained a double-digit lead and never relaxed for a moment.
"Hot sauce", the little man who has just shaken away the opponent with two consecutive ** dribbles to turn around and score directly into the basket in the penalty area, is the key to Brooklyn to stay ahead.
As he stepped back, he waved his hands, motioned to the Brooklyn supporters and began to cheer.
"Hotsauce! Hotsauce! Hotsauce! The nickname of "Hot Sauce" was called again, just like the first half of the hour's game, he has become the number one MVP of the game.
Such cheers make those who support Queens sound very harsh at this moment.
Compancies with those excited Brooklyn fans, Queens fans look gloomy.
"Damn it, there are 14 points left, and there are less than ten minutes left. What the hell are those wild kids in Queens doing!" The Duke cursed in a low voice when he saw that the score was widened again.
"Old man, you should always be neutral. You are the most famous DJ in Rock Park. Although you bet 200 dollars in Queens, you can't lose your demeanor."
Next to him is a guy who is fatter than the Duke, with a rippling smile on his face.
"Jerry, you bastard, two hundred dollars, I can still afford to lose! It's just that these wild kids in Queens played too badly today. This game is very exciting!"
The Duke was no longer in the mood to continue to adjust the atmosphere with rhythmic music on the sidelines. He looked very unpleasantly at the fat man beside him who had nothing to do and gambled with him.
He can afford to lose 200 dollars. It's nothing, but what he can't afford is face.
Before the start of the game, the Duke had made it clear that he would definitely support Queens.
The reason is very simple, because the fat man with a YD smile in front of him bet on Brooklyn early.
The two old ruffians who are also famous in Rock Park have been fighting with each other since the first day they met. They have been like this for more than 20 years.
"Hey, Duke, you'd better put the 200 dollars directly in my pocket. In less than ten minutes, Chapin has been preparing for this confrontation for two weeks. He won't lose this game with such a big lead."
The smile on Jerry's face is really YD now. At least the Duke now has the impulse to fly the CDs in his hand.
Although he was very unhappy with the other party's cheap expression, the Duke knew that what the other party was telling the truth.
Philip Chapin, the guy who just scored in the basket, is also one of the top players on the streets of New York after the "jumping soul" Alsstone.
It is precisely because of this guy that the wild boy in Queens has always been beaten by Brooklyn. This boy nicknamed "hot sauce" has scored at least 30 points.
The unlucky guy who is in the position against Chapin is one of the best defenders in Queens, but in front of the opponent's fierce and strange attack, his defense is like a piece of paper.
It's not only that he can't hold on, but it's also difficult for him to get rid of Chapin's entanglement when attacking.
The guy named "hot sauce" really wiped a handful of hot sauce on the wounds of Queens fans.
There are less than ten minutes left in the game, but many Queens fans are already depressed.
If there is no miracle, they can only pretend to be grandchildren in front of Brooklyn's animals in the next year.
No matter how you think about it, it is a very aggrieved thing.
However, the score on the scoreboard represents the truth. No matter how unhappy the "Duke of Tango" is at this moment, he has to reluctantly withdraw 200 dollars from his pocket.
This is the rule on the street. Only those who are willing to bet and lose can be the boss on the court.
If everything ends naturally, then the ending of the story will be very simple.
The people in Queens lost the game, and then spent a year in front of the animals in Brooklyn. They waited for revenge in the coming year. It is still unknown whether they will succeed or not.
The Duke lost two hundred dollars with an unhappy face. Maybe when he comes home, his wife will prepare two old computer motherboards for him in the living room, making his knees and soul deeply realize that gambling is a very bad habit.
If all this happens, then the story should end in this chapter. What else is the protagonist? Come on, I never write short stories, and this story will be very long.
As Zixia Fairy said, her grandfather will definitely step on the seven-color clouds to save her. Although the ending is very sad, at least at the moment when the Supreme Treasure appears, the scene is very shocking.
And some people's appearances and lives are destined not to be ordinary. It will make many people still remember them in a few years or even more than ten years.
Just as Jerry, the Duke's sworn, was preparing to take the two bills with a cheap smile.
Just when "Hot Sauce" broke the opponent's pass and was ready to make another one-stop layup.
All the people watching the game felt that the ground was trembling slightly, and most of them were at a loss.
With the gradually obvious tremor from far and near, a dull whistle attracted everyone's attention, and Jerry even forgot to take away the money from the Duke's hand.
Because these two thousand people have seen a stunned scene.
Have you ever seen a heavy container truck with 18 wheels? Maybe someone has seen it, but how many people have seen such a big guy rush into Rock Park all the way?
"Damn, the driver must be a madman!" The Duke only has such an idea in his mind at this moment.
You will also have this idea when you see a heavy container truck driving out of the speed of F1.
Many years later, when the "Duke of Tango" recalls what happened this afternoon, he always adds a sentence at the beginning.
"Have you ever seen the effect of heavy trucks drifting in Rock Park? I've ever seen that the most amazing thing is that the crazy driver hasn't been killed yet.
When an alien is born, there must be a vision, but at this moment, there is no purple gas, there is no lightning and thunder, only a heavy truck with endless whistles, rushing in front of more than two thousand people like crazy.
There was a crazy guy. At this moment, he began to walk into his story.
(Well, the story starts from today, about 1.4 million words. Let's see how the results are. The old rules, ask for tickets, ask for collection, um, by the way, ask for support, do you have a lot of money, come and collect it to me quickly... In addition, I have to say that there are too many competitive masters who have published books today... Obviously, I won't be allowed to live. Kicking, lid, pig's head, Guo Nu, you bad guys, don't grab my tickets! Today, the minimum update is 10,000 words.)