Chapter 47

The Journey Begins!

"Brother Li, look over there! It's O'Neal and Wade, and Pierce is here too!"

On March 16, 2006, at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial in Florida, CCTV intern reporter Wang Han stood in the media section, excitedly counting the celebrities present.

This was only the first round of the University of Washington's tournament, but the number of celebrities present was already incredible.

"The Heat have an early game today, hosting the Celtics. Both teams should fly here from Miami together after their game."

As a staff member of the embassy and a temporary worker in the CCTV media team, Brother Li is also very excited.

He came to work in the United States after graduating from university, and it's been almost ten years.

When did a Chinese person start a trend in America?!

He was truly thrilled to see so many American celebrities going crazy for Yes!

"Hey Li, look, isn't that Bill Gates over there?!"

"It's the Gates family. Bill Gates' father, Bill Gates Sr., and his late mother were both alumni of the University of Washington!"

The world's richest man, Bill Gates, and his family actually came!

Also accompanying Bill Gates and his family was the family of Paul Allen, the sixth richest man in the world and now owner of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Paul Allen is also from Seattle, and his parents are also from the University of Washington, where he served as the deputy director of the University of Washington Library.

The University of Washington Huskies team has been playing in the NCAA tournament since 1943, more than 60 years ago.

In over sixty years of championship campaigning, his best result was third place in 1969.

This year, with Yes and Roy leading the way, the University of Washington is very likely to win the NCAA championship for the first time in history!

This prompted almost all the celebrities and wealthy people associated with Seattle and the University of Washington to flock to the event!

Everyone wants to witness this historic moment from beginning to end, a perfect victory!

Although winning the championship with a perfect record is not the first time, each time is still legendary!

This time, it's still a legend belonging to the University of Washington and Seattle!

Even if they can't walk, they'll come in a wheelchair!

Even people who have no connection to the University of Washington or Seattle are trying to ride on Yes's coattails and gain popularity from the University of Washington!

"If Yes could reach Yao Ming's level in the NBA, his influence in the United States would be far beyond what Yao Ming could achieve!"

Despite being the NCAA's rebounding champion for three years, Paul Millsap remains virtually invisible in the NCAA.

In the past three years, the highest level of competition he has ever played in has been neither the NCAA National Championship nor even the NIT tournament!

The NIT tournament is a high-level competition organized by other strong teams that were unable to participate in March Madness.

Louisiana Tech has only participated in the NIT competition once since 1992, in 2002!

He was eliminated by Villanova in the second round.

In other words, Louisiana Tech’s best result in the last fifteen years was the second round of the National Institute of Technology (NIT).

So, when they received the NCAA tournament invitation not long ago, it was like a windfall!

However, they soon found out who their opponents would be in the first round of the tournament.

This windfall isn't for them.

They were just deliverymen, bringing this pie that fell from the sky to the University of Washington, so that the University of Washington could eat it.

Louisiana Tech's best player is NCAA rebounding champion Paul Millsap, but Millsap's draft prospects are not even as good as Dentmon's!

This goes without saying compared to other universities at the University of Washington.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Stadium, which can hold 15,000 spectators, was naturally packed tonight.

Moreover, 99.9% of the audience supported the University of Washington.

The synchronized chants of 15,000 people made the Louisiana Tech players feel intimidated.

Louisiana Tech head coach Keith Richards also seemed a bit uneasy.

Keith Richard was no stranger to the world; he was different from the players under his command.

In 1982, while a senior at Northeastern Louisiana State University, he played in the NCAA National Championship.

That year, the focus of the entire NCAA was on a man named Michael Jordan!

That year, Jordan's crucial shot against Ewing's Georgetown University made him an instant star!

However, Jordan back then is still no match for Yes now!

"This is my first time watching a Yes game, is it really that scary?"

Paul Pierce was surprised; Boston's home arena was much bigger, and the Boston fans were very enthusiastic, but this kind of atmosphere...

Perhaps only when he leads the team to the finals can TD Garden achieve this.

The finals?

Thinking about this made Pierce very unhappy.

That bastard Danny Angie!

Pierce is in a bad mood right now.

After losing to the Heat today, the Celtics' record is 27 wins and 38 losses, and the playoffs seem increasingly distant.

Danny Ainge traded and then signed back his best teammate, Antoine Walker, only to trade him away again.

A series of idiotic moves caused the team to waste a lot of resources and their performance to get worse and worse.

If Danny Ainge is still the general manager of the Boston Celtics, his return to the NBA Finals with the Celtics will remain just a dream!

That bastard is the worst general manager in the NBA!

Pierce brought the Celtics players here to watch the University of Washington game purely to relax and follow the trend.

Yes is the most popular word in the US right now.

Since they're playing in Florida, of course they'll come.

However, the team's current chaotic and terrible situation has prevented Pierce and the Celtics players from having any fun.

The atmosphere was so cheerful, but Pierce and his group were completely lifeless.

Shaquille O'Neal, on the other hand, that fatso loves these kinds of occasions.

He actually went to the center circle and interacted with Yes.

In NCAA tournaments, spectators are naturally not allowed to enter the arena and disturb the players.

But O'Neal was no ordinary spectator.

The security guards on site wouldn't stop him at all.

The NCAA league wouldn't stop him and Yes from being silly.

"Shaq, you got kicked in the ass!"

"Hahaha, Yes is hilarious! I've never seen a young player like him before. I asked him to kick my butt, and he actually did it without hesitation!"

"Shaq, you're actually quite interesting too..."

Wade's still-small cheeks twitched slightly.

After watching the video of Yes kicking someone's butt, this fatso actually wanted to try it too.

Shaq once saw a video of Yes hitting a baseball bat and tried to imitate it!

Shaq playing with a baseball bat in private is one thing, but now he's letting Yes kick his butt?!

It's being broadcast live across the entire US right now!

Perhaps in the entire basketball world, the only people who can play baseball bat games and kick butts without any scruples are Yes and Shaq?

Others still have some sense of image to them.

However, why is it that Shaq, who also lacks an idol image, is a comedian, while Yes is a highly sought-after idol?

Is it because of Yes's expressionless and cold face?

So wielding a baseball bat is cool?

Is kicking someone's butt cool?

Is this kind of aesthetic becoming popular among men now?!

Explosive power: 91.2/76 (80)

Looking at his explosive power attribute, Yes was very satisfied!

If only all NBA All-Star players were like Shaquille O'Neal!

"Yes, you're amazing! That's Shaq's ass, and you just kicked it like that!"

It's just a bit fatter and more elastic, what's there to be afraid of?

Ye Si thought to himself calmly.

"Nobody in the US believed we could win this match, and we ourselves didn't believe we could win either. But this is the US Championship, a match you can talk about for the rest of your lives with your children!"

"I hope that ten, twenty, or thirty years from now, you can proudly tell your children and descendants, 'Your father, your grandfather, bravely fought against the great Yes and the powerful University of Washington!'"

"In this match, we must fight bravely and fearlessly!"

"With this game, we want to tell the whole nation that the players from Louisiana Tech are heroes!"

Yes glanced at the Louisiana Tech head coach, who was shouting himself hoarse not far away.

So enthusiastic.

Coach Romar was much more mild-mannered compared to him.

"This is the beginning of our conquest of America!"

"Warriors, draw your weapons and fight!"

The battle begins now!

Paul Millsap is very excited right now; Coach Richard's encouragement is exhilarating!

We want the whole of America to remember that we are heroes who fought bravely!


My first attack of the game, I'm going to win!

Paul Millsap, his blood boiling with excitement, leaped high into the air, almost reaching the ball!

This ball is mine!

Huh? A massive, bottom-up black hand?!

"Bobby Jones made a brilliant counter-attack, and the University of Washington won the jump ball!"

"Bobby Jones has a low jump ball success rate in the P-10 conference, but against Millsap, Bobby Jones' physical advantage is too obvious!"

After Bobby Jones successfully jumped for the ball, it quickly came into Yes's hands.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Amid cheers from the crowd, Yes didn't wait for the opponent's defense to get into position before he started moving!

"The University of Washington didn't proceed slowly; yes, it exploded, it moved too fast!"

Seeing Yes dominating the court, Wade on the sidelines was so surprised he stood up.

Was the defender too slow?

Or was Yes just too fast?!

With a deafening roar, the entire stadium erupted!

"Yes drove right through all of LUS-T's defenders! This is Yes's first point in the National Championship, not his signature three-pointer, but a dunk!"

Paul Millsap, who was still near the center circle, watched the white number nine player step down from the basket, raising his right hand, and for a moment he couldn't breathe.

He witnessed everything Ye Si did as he sped off!

It was a white lightning bolt...

Is the gap really that big?

"Yes's journey has begun!"