New Side Quest

"Yes was a true superstar in the NCAA!"

"Carroll, he'll be a superstar in the NBA too!"

"Yao is right, that's why we managers have stayed in Los Angeles."

Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson looked at Yes, who was holding up the P-10 League Championship MVP trophy in the center of the court, and the desire in his eyes was undisguised.

He really liked this guard who was dominating the NCAA and had an incredibly accurate shot!

Yes perfectly fits all the needs of the Rockets right now!

His partnership with Yao Ming would make them the strongest "in-out" tactical combination in the league!

His partnership with TMC could replicate the pick-and-roll combination of Ye-Luo in the NCAA, and the Ye-McGrady pick-and-roll combination would become the strongest pick-and-roll combination in the NBA!

Yes likes to jump and pass the ball during games, and Roy can provide support for Yes's jump passes in the NCAA. TMC can do the same!

TMC may not have the same level of competitive dominance as Roy did in the NCAA.

But TMC has a height and wingspan that no other small forward in the league can match!

Yes's appearance seems tailor-made for the Rockets!

It's like God's arrangement!

Before March, Dawson had always felt that he and the Rockets were cursed this year.

The successive injuries to Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady have caused the Houston Rockets considerable pain.

Now, he feels that perhaps this really is God's arrangement, giving them the opportunity to get Yes!

"Yao, our current record is 29 wins and 33 losses, currently ranked eleventh in the Western Conference. With TMC unable to return this season, our chances of making the playoffs are extremely slim."

"Carol, I know what you mean."

Sitting in the front row at Staples Center, Yao Ming clenched his fists tightly.

He knows it's about giving up.

Knowing is one thing, accepting is another.

I'm truly unwilling to accept it.

"Yao, after the Seattle SuperSonics fired Bob West at the end of December, they have been tanking for Yes."

"The Seattle SuperSonics want Leaf? Don't they already have Ray Allen?!"

"This is the inside information I received: right now, all the tanking teams in the league, except for Jordan's Bobcats, are aiming for Yes!"

"Besides Jordan, all the tanking teams are targeting Ye Zi?! What about Morrison?"

"Morrison? Haha, Yao, Morrison's games don't have that many players. I know you're very unwilling and sad, but we need the highest possible draft pick to have a chance of getting Yes! Now is a good opportunity. Think about David Robinson back then, the Spurs could do it, and so can we!"

David Robinson...

Duncan...

"The Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle SuperSonics' tanking is too blatant. The league rewards teams like us who work hard to win, suffer misfortune, and are simply not good enough!"

"I see……"

"Yao, don't worry. As long as the number one pick doesn't go to the SuperSonics Trail Blazers, I'll do everything I can to bring Yes back for you and TMC. I hope to see the Rockets win another championship before I retire!"

Win the championship...

Yao Ming nodded silently at the end.

Everything is for the championship!

On March 11, 2006, the P-10 Conference Championship concluded at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

In three games, Yes scored a total of 118 points, winning the P-10 League Championship scoring title and championship MVP.

He and Brandon Roy were both selected for the All-NBA First Team in the P-10 League.

University of Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar also won the P-10 Conference Coach of the Year award for the second consecutive year.

Last year, Romar led Nate Robinson, Roy, and others to the top of the P-10 League podium.

The P-10 League MVP award wasn't the first award Yes won in the United States.

He also won the MVP award in the Washington State High School League.

If he can win the NCAA Most Outstanding Player award this year, he will complete a grand slam of individual honors before entering the NBA.

He still has a good chance this year!

After celebrating with his teammates around the court, Yes naturally noticed many well-known NBA figures on the sidelines.

But as a prospective rookie, although he had not yet registered, he did not want to contact these "famous people" privately.

In the NCAA, every year someone is fined for contacting NBA teams privately.

This is both an unspoken rule and an explicit rule.

After March, he and Roy received numerous private inquiries from NBA teams and agents.

They rejected them all.

Neither he nor Roy had a team they absolutely wanted to join.

For him, as long as he can become the top pick and the core player, he'd even be willing to go to the Bobcats!

He wouldn't say something like, "I only want to go to Team XX. If Team XX selects me, I won't report for them."

Both he and Roy knew they were digging their own graves.

"Brother Yao"

However, Yao Ming is an exception.

Yes walked straight up to Yao Ming, holding the championship trophy and the MVP trophy. Yao Ming was really envious of the MVP trophy and the championship trophy in Yes's hands.

If one day he can win the NBA championship and the NBA Finals MVP, that would be perfect!

"Ye Zi, congratulations! Your performance tonight was outstanding as always. The NCAA is almost unable to stop you, this true dragon! March Madness, I believe you will perform even better!"

Yao Ming, who was just feeling resentful about the need for a technically induced tanking, now had a bright smile on his face, clearly happy for Yes.

"Thank you, Brother Yao. I will try my best."

After exchanging pleasantries with Yao Ming, Yes returned to the team and celebrated again with his teammates and the Seattle fans in the arena.

"Yes is a very sensible and intelligent player!"

Although Ye Si ignored him, Dawson was not angry; on the contrary, he appreciated him even more.

Although Ye Zi is different from others since childhood, he has some social anxiety, doesn't like to talk, and lacks expression, making it impossible for people to see the fluctuations in his heart. He always gives people a cold and aloof feeling.

But after getting to know Ye Zi, he discovered that Ye Zi didn't need him to worry about her at all.

Both Ye Zi and Yi Jianlian have social anxiety disorder.

But the two are still very different.

Ye Zi, in the end, is still a very extroverted person.

A cold, extroverted person, he would ignore everyone's strange looks and seriously do things like pounding a baseball bat.

Making Yi Jianlian do such a thing would be worse than killing him.

Ye Zi's mental fortitude is frighteningly strong!

After winning the P-10 conference championship, the University of Washington team celebrated with fans in Los Angeles all night before flying back to Seattle early the next morning.

This is the second time in the past two years that Seattle fans have witnessed the University of Washington win the championship.

But this time is clearly different from the last time.

This time, Yes is here!

This time, the championship was won by the original Garfield Five!

Yes averaged 35.5 points in all 21 games played in the P-10 league this season!

Roy averaged 26.5 points, 5 rebounds, and 6 assists in all 21 games!

The two were the NCAA league's top scorer and fourth-ranked scorer, respectively!

While Conroy and Washington, and Simmons, were not as eye-catching as Yes and Roy, they also played important roles!

"This year belongs to the Garfield Five again!"

"This time, there won't be a Carmelo Anthony standing in their way!"

"Even if it exists, it will be crushed by the even more powerful Yes!"

The enthusiasm of the Seattle fans exceeded Yes and Roy's expectations.

This feeling of familiarity mixed with strangeness is like being in another world.

But Yes knew that this was not the end, but the beginning...

He doesn't want to go through what happened four years ago again!

"Looks like it's time to get a bigger cabinet."

After Ye Si barely managed to squeeze the P-10 league's MVP trophy, All-NBA First Team trophy, All-Defensive First Team trophy, Rookie All-NBA First Team trophy, and Rookie of the Year trophy into the trophy cabinet, he found it was a bit cramped.

March Madness, the U.S. Championships, is just around the corner.

There are more than a dozen named awards, including the Wooden Award, the Naismith Award, the Oscar Robertson Award, the Associated Press Player of the Year, the NABC Player of the Year, the CBS Player of the Year, and the Sporting News Player of the Year.

In the United States, the NCAA is valued to an unprecedented degree.

Based on Carmelo Anthony's performance in previous years, he will be the trophy winner in this year's NCAA.

Ok?

New side quests?

Side Quest: Dominate the NCAA

Mission objective: Win the NCAA championship

Task rewards: Depend on performance

The simplicity of the new side quest surprised even Yes.