I was squatting in the rain, my forehead resting on the basketball, and I just missed a buzzer-beater. In two years, I haven't even won a city championship. Then I was struck by a bolt of lightning - there was a blue ball of light in my head, called Tianshu. It said it was a basketball system and asked me who to choose as the template. I chose that person. The guy who trained at four in the morning, played for twenty years, and won five championships. From that day on, I climbed over the iron net and entered the broken court at four o'clock in the morning to practice. The system does not give a direct answer. It's time to teach what needs to be taught, and what needs to be electrified is electrified. The rest is left to me to figure out on my own.
So I watched the same tape a hundred and fifty-two times and saw something that no one else noticed. Two years later I stood on the court at the national competition. Another year later, at the NBA draft, a reporter asked me who my template was. I said five letters. There was a moment of silence in the audience - because a year ago, no one thought I could stand on that stage. But I'm still here. Not the person with the best talent, not the person with the best body, just a——
Someone has to win, why not me.
Basketball, my template is Kobe.
