The Way of the Center

As soon as he got back to the locker room and took out his mobile phone, An Jie saw dozens of missed calls. Morris, Ricard, Catherine, parents, Meslav... Many people called Anjie with concern. Although there was no picture of An Jie bleeding, they all knew that An Jie must have been severely injured.

"Let's go, Ann, Chong Chonghan, change into clothes, and we'll go to the hospital." Jeff Van Gundy pushed An Jie to do a comprehensive checkup after he opened the locker room door.

"You have to attend the press conference later." Of course An Jie knew that Van Gundy was doing it for his own benefit, but he really felt that he was fine.

"I think Alton would be very willing to face those reporters instead of me." Van Gundy said and looked at his assistant coach.

An Jie raised his hands in surrender, and went to the shower to wash himself.

The reporters in the media reception room looked at each other in blank dismay. There were two people sitting on the stage, one Westbrook and one Farmer Alton. These two people obviously did not interest the reporters. It was agreed that Anjie and Jeff Van Gundy would participate?

"Excuse me, how is An Jie's injury?" Flies are meat, so a reporter still asked.

"As far as I know, An Jie is not injured?" Alton replied pretending to be silly.

"Uh...then why didn't Coach Jeff Van Gundy and Anjie come to the press conference?"

"Anjie is still taking a bath. Coach Van Gundy is afraid of traffic jams and left first. After all, the traffic in Oklahoma is like the toilet in a small hotel. It is easy to be blocked." People can't laugh or cry, even Westbrook sitting next to him can't help laughing.

"Do you know what kind of data Anjie got when he was playing against you?" On the other side, the Suns players were also rounded up by reporters. And Anjie's opponent, Shaquille O'Neal, was undoubtedly the first to be caught by reporters.

"Maybe I scored 20 points and 10 rebounds? Today I was not in good shape and I couldn't deal with him properly." O'Neal, like Barkley, was moved by Anjie's performance, but he would never say good things.

"18 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, and that's what he got when he didn't play in the last few minutes. How do you think he played? Is it possible to surpass you?"

"That's ten points less than me. He can't even beat me at the age of 36. How can he surpass me? Hahaha, just kidding, man, Ann's performance is great, I hope his head is okay." O'Neill's funny expression turned into a serious smile. He knew that he had tried his best, otherwise he would not be able to deal with An Jie.

But the Suns most popular with reporters today is not O'Neill, but a bully who received a first-level flagrant foul.

"You have clashed with Yao Ming many times, and now you are fighting with another Chinese rookie. Why do you always do this to Chinese players?"

"You made this move because you thought you couldn't guard against An Jie?"

"This is a very reasonable physical collision. Physical contact is inevitable when playing basketball. I definitely don't mean to hurt people intentionally." Facing the reporters' questioning, Stoudemire replied loudly, and hurriedly squeezed into the room. on the team bus. He didn't regret doing this, the Chinese asked for it, but he was also a little worried, not about An Jie's injury, but about how he would be punished by the league.

While the reporters were inquiring about the news, Anjie was already at St. Mary's Hospital in Oklahoma, accompanied by Van Gundy and the team doctor. At this moment, Anjie did not start the examination, but was shaving his hair.

"Forget it, find someone to shave my hair short. It's too uncomfortable to fiddle with it all the time." In order to check the wound, the doctors had to push An Jie's slightly longer hair away, and continued in this position for a long time. Ten minutes later, An Jie finally couldn't bear it anymore. In this way, the hospital really found a nurse who can cut hair.

An Jie's elegant midriff now turned into a cropped cut, and his knocked wound was clearly exposed. After changing to a neat hairstyle, Van Gundy suddenly felt that An Jie looked much tougher.

The wound was quite large, a full 4 cm long, running across the side of An Jie's head like a scar, but now that the wound had scabbed over, it was not exaggerated enough to require stitches, so it can be judged that the wound was not too deep.

"Let's do an optical examination." Seeing that Van Gundy was still not at ease, the doctors also took An Jie to take a photo. It's okay not to check, but An Jie himself was a little flustered after the check. Touching the long wound, if there is some sequelae of this thing......

"Don't worry, Ann's brain is not affected at all, this impact only caused a common skin trauma." Just when An Jie was thinking wildly, the doctor's results sounded like a sound of heaven in An Jie's ears .

"Well, thank you doctor." Until now, Van Gundy nodded in satisfaction.

"Your head is fine, don't worry, everyone." After that, An Jie made more than ten phone calls to tell the people who cared about him the news, and this matter was considered to be over.

The next day, the league finally negotiated the punishment for Stoudemire. The suspension was not used, but the $15,000 fine still had to be paid. In addition to the malicious foul on Anjie, Stoudemire insulted the referee afterwards was the biggest reason for being fined.

And Van Gundy also announced to the media that Anjie has no problem at all, and he will still serve as the starter in the next game. Fortunately, Anjie was not injured, otherwise Stoudemire would have been drowned by the saliva of Chinese fans.

"Oh, do you know Ann, you look so handsome!" The training on the second day continued as usual. When An Jie walked into the training ground, his new hairstyle undoubtedly became the focus of everyone's attention.

"Where did you shave it?" Durant went up to touch An Jie's clean and tough cropped hair.

"In the hospital, the nurses there are really good." An Jie also joked like self-deprecating.

But it is true that compared with the featureless middle hair, An Jie can really give people a more energetic and tougher feeling after shaving his head. Ninety percent of men will have this effect after shaving their short hair.

"I think you'll need this to cover that scar." Westbrook tossed Angie a white headband.

"Oh my God, I remember Yao Ming also wore this thing." An Jie thought of Yao Ming's black history look again. However, An Jie, who has shaved his hair short, is actually not ugly when he wears a headband.

"Haha, this is our fierce big center." Westbrook clapped his hands and laughed, and Anjie also made a fierce expression of gnashing his teeth in cooperation.

A good team atmosphere is also an indispensable and important factor for victory. Although they lost to the Suns in the previous game, the Thunder generals are full of confidence in the last game in December.

The Golden State Warriors also played against each other for the second time, and the Thunder lost the last time. But they don't believe that the Warriors' good luck will continue to the present. The last time the Warriors scored all kinds of unreasonable goals, this time it won't be so amazing.

On December 31, the last day of 2008, the Thunder ushered in their last opponent of the year, the Golden State Warriors.

The previous record of the Golden State Warriors was 10 wins and 23 losses, but they recently won the Boston Celtics with the Big Three and the Toronto Raptors led by Bosh. Just as confident.

As soon as An Jie appeared on the stage, he firstly made the fans' eyes shine. Although he only changed his hairstyle and added a headband, his whole image was completely new.

The Warriors didn't have any more luck in the following games, and after a suffocating loss to the Suns in the last game, the Thunder's three young men showed their power, making the Warriors exhausted.

The Thunder team played against the Warriors throughout the game. The Warriors top player Stephen Jackson's breakthrough was repeatedly blocked and interfered by Anjie, which made him only 5 of 16 shots in this game, and his shooting percentage was as low as 31.

In contrast to the Thunder, Westbrook once again surpassed Durant to become the highest scorer in the game. The excellent performance of 26 points and 8 assists made him the most dazzling guy in the Thunder.

Durant scored only one point less than Westbrook, with 25 points and 9 rebounds. These two people alone are enough for the Warriors to drink a pot.

But how could Anjie, who has changed his image, not play well? In the face of the Warriors, Anjie's statistics did not fall behind, with 23 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists. The Warriors' European center Andris Biedrin Si's proud defense was useless in front of An Jie.

With two consecutive victories, Anjie and the Thunder bid farewell to 2008, which was mixed with joy and sorrow, with one victory. Facing the new year, there are still more challenges waiting for the budding Thunder three.

New year, new style, new atmosphere, after a long 365 days, Anjie has opened a new page of his life.

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