play for it

Chapter 45
After the game ended and the Clippers players said hello, Yang Ke silently walked back to the locker room with a towel on, took off his sweat-stained jersey, went to the bathroom to take a quick shower, and then went to the bathroom again. He went back to his closet and sat down.

"Duncan, you go to the press conference with me."

Just when the players had just finished washing, Popovich pushed the door open, holding the documents in his hand, and called out Duncan who was packing up in a daze, and then said to the other players in the locker room: "Boys , For some reason, in the last few games, we will not let media reporters in for interviews for the time being, so you can leave early after you pack your things."

Hearing what Popovich said, all the players in the locker room were taken aback for a moment, and then they realized that they were very happy. Many players even began to agree on the place to play, and packed their bags with both hands more quickly.

The team can refuse media reporters to interview in the locker room before or after the game. Generally, other teams will not refuse except for some important games.

The Spurs are different. They often refuse interview requests from media reporters and rarely agree. This makes many media very angry, but they also have nothing to do with Popovich, who is in charge of this aspect.

"Yang, Leonard, you just played a high-intensity game tonight, you two shouldn't practice for too long, it's not good for your health."

Parker had very few things, he packed them up quickly, picked up his backpack, stood up from his seat, and was about to leave.Thinking of Yang Ke and Leonard having extra practice every night, he turned and said to the two in the corner of the locker room.

"It won't last long."

Stopping to put on clean socks, Yang Ke raised his face and smiled at Parker. Generally speaking, in the extra training after the game, neither of them will do their own individual exercises, but directly start a pair of exercises. One's confrontational confrontation training.

"Indeed, it's only about an hour and a half."

Leonard beside him put on the new sneakers he had prepared, stood up and jumped twice to adapt, and at the same time echoed casually.

About an hour and a half? !
The time for this additional training is not long yet?The corner of Parker's mouth twitched, watching Yang Ke and Leonard trying to persuade them not to fight like this.

But after thinking about the current situation of the two of them, he opened his mouth and said, "Be careful, you two, don't get hurt."

After speaking, Parker shook his head and walked out of the locker room without waiting for an answer. With his departure, the atmosphere in the locker room became a little silent.

Not long after, other players also left one after another. Except for the two, Ginobili was the last to leave. Before he left, he deliberately patted the shoulders of the two.

With only Yang Ke and Leonard left in the locker room, since neither of them is good at words, the spacious locker room fell silent at once, and they all changed their training equipment.

After a while, the two had already finished changing their equipment. Leonard looked at the time and saw that Yang Ke was more silent tonight, and said proactively: "Except for the cleaning staff, there should be no other people outside. It's gone, why don't we go here?"

"it is good."

Yang Ke stood up, nodded to him, and then the two left the locker room, quickly came to the court, and randomly chose one side of the court.

"I'll come first?"

With the basketball in his hand, Yang Ke patted it a few times, then looked at Leonard.

"It doesn't matter."

Leonard shrugged. In his opinion, it doesn't matter who goes first.

Afterwards, the two lined up and quickly entered the rhythm of one-on-one training... The two of them switched offense and defense, and they were already sweating profusely in a short while... Concentrating on the one-on-one training The two have completely ignored everything outside the court...

After attending the press conference, Duncan walked past the basketball court with his backpack on his back. Hearing the familiar sound of basketball slapping, and watching the two people who were training extra on the court, a trace of surprise appeared on his paralyzed face.

Silently, he stopped. At this moment, he accidentally saw a short figure sitting on a chair by the court, with a small bald head and a red dress. Even if his back was turned to him, Duncan recognized it immediately. out who she is.

"Alice? Why are you here alone? You also like to play basketball?"

After lifting his backpack, Duncan strode over and saw Alice, who was alone, staring intently at the field. The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he asked with a smile.

"Uncle Duncan."

Hearing someone calling herself, Alice turned her head to look, and after seeing Duncan, she called out sweetly, her small eyes narrowed into slits with a smile.

"Where is your grandpa?"

Duncan sat down beside Alice, took off the backpack and put it next to his lap, he naturally put his hand on Alice's little head, and asked again.

"He went to help those uncles and aunts again."

Alice said with a smile, but her little head had already turned back, and a pair of small eyes opened again looked at the field.

"Do you really like playing? You can come to me. Uncle can teach you."

Seeing Alice looking at Yang Ke and Leonard on the field again, Duncan smiled happily, put his hand down and pinched her small round face, staying with Alice, his expression was Changes, the most ever.

"I don't like playing football."

Alice immediately shook her little head, looked at the field with her eyes on the field, with a hopeful expression on the corner of her mouth, and her tone was a little low: "I really want to know, Brother Yang Ke and Uncle Leonard, how are they two? Can those who work hard be rewarded well?"

"..."

The expression on his face froze, the hand holding his small face was slowly withdrawn, and his eyes were also looking at the field, looking at the two people who were sweating profusely, panting and never resting.

Thinking of the accusations of bad words against the two on the Internet and the media, he fell silent for a while. He always felt that he should do something for these two hard-working newcomers and rookies.

The more Duncan thought about it, the more he was sure that he should help, and immediately said to Alice: "Alice, help uncle to see this backpack."

"Uncle Duncan, where are you going?"

Alice turned her head, looked at Duncan with puzzled eyes, and asked puzzledly.

"Do what I should do and what I should do."

With a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, Duncan stood up from his seat and waved to Alice.

As soon as he turned around, Duncan's face returned to his previous calm. He wanted to help Yang Ke and Leonard. He knew that it was the most direct and effective way to find Popovich.Just after attending the press conference, he knew that Popovich would not leave the court for the time being and would deal with some things in the office.

"Dum, thump."

Duncan soon came to the door of Popovich's office, first reached out and knocked on the door twice, and waited until Popovich's voice came from inside, then he opened the door and walked in.

"Duncan? You didn't go?"

Popovich was recording something. When he saw Duncan pushing the door, he was stunned for a moment. He thought it was Borrego and the others, but he didn't expect it to be Duncan. Then he asked suspiciously.

"Old man, I've come to talk to you about something."

Duncan walked into the office, closed the door at the same time, then walked a few steps to the opposite of Popovich, opened the chair and sat down naturally, and said: "The news about the newcomers Yang and Leonard in the team .”

Hearing what Duncan said, Popovich was even more surprised, and at the same time his face became extremely weird, and then he said: "What a coincidence that you came, I am going to hold a meeting to discuss the two of them carefully." discussion."

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Duncan looked puzzled and surprised, and at this moment there was another knock on the door. Duncan looked back and found that the Spurs coaching team headed by Borrego walked in through the door.

(End of this chapter)