In 2004, in the urban village of Shenzhen, 206cm Jiang Shen scored 42 points on the cement court to reverse the game. After the game, he wiped his grandfather's old basketball. The word "toughness" was engraved on the ball. In the early morning, the email for a full scholarship to the University of North Carolina popped up.
From the street to the NCAA runner-up, from the No. 1 Pick to the purple and gold, he went head-to-head with Kobe Bryant at his peak, and became a life-and-death partner from a mortal enemy in the locker room, winning two consecutive championships together. After the dynasty collapsed, he scored 77 points on a single core and won the scoring title, MVP and FMVP. He tore the cruciate ligament in his left knee, came back, and won two more consecutive championships until he collapsed in the 2016 Western Conference Finals.
Eighteen years later, he became the first Chinese outsider inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Kobe took off the label from his No. 24 Jersey and put it in his hand: "I told you, your number will be hanging there."
