Chapter 49

After reaching McGrady’s house, Su Feng saw the two most important women to McGrady. They were his mother, Melanise, and his grandmother, Roberta.

To put it accurately, it was McGrady’s grandmother’s house.

That was because after McGrady’s biological father abandoned his wife, Melanise left with McGrady to find Roberta.

Therefore, McGrady had called his grandmother “mother” since he was young.

“Pardon me, I didn’t know you were coming, so I didn’t prepare drinks,” Melanise said as she looked at Su Feng and the rest.

McGrady acted very obedient in front of his mother. He was sitting on a very short stool and had his legs crossed.

This posture could only be described as “torturous” for McGrady, who had long legs.

However, McGrady did not complain. Instead, he looked happy.

After chatting for a while and introducing themselves, Su Feng said straightforwardly as he looked at McGrady’s mother and grandmother, “I would like to state our purpose for coming.

“This summer, we hope Tracey will be able to go for special training in Orlando with us. The three of them are our professional basketball coaches.”

“Go for special training in Orlando?” Melanise and Roberta could not react quick enough.

“Yes, madam. Tracey is extremely talented and gifted.

“Excuse my bluntness, but he should not continue staying in Auburndale High School.

“This is my business card. I am a professional basketball coach.

“I know many other excellent coaches and I have worked for many famous schools.

“I feel that if Tracey can receive better guidance, he will be able to enter the NBA in the future.”

As Su Feng’s top advisor, Mancias took out his certifications and business cards and introduced himself to Melanise and Roberta.

“Emperor” Su Feng looked at Mancias in satisfaction. At that moment, Su Feng thought, “No wonder you are my advisor!”

After hearing what Mancias said, Melanise looked at Roberta.

They had seen many scammers before, but a professional scammer like that…

Ah, how could he be a scammer?

“Su is Kobe’s friend, he is also a basketball player,” said McGrady as he got up from his awkward position.

“Sir, we are very supportive of Tracey’s passion in basketball. However…” After pausing, Melanise said, “He… can he really enter the NBA?”

Mancias smiled and said, “Madam, I am afraid you are still unaware of your son’s potential. Trust me, he will be able to enter the NBA.”

At the corner, Su Feng actually wanted to tell Melanise, “Your son not only can play for the NBA, he can even become one of the top players.”

After Mancias’ persuasion, Melanise and Roberta agreed to let McGrady go for special training in Orlando.

After all, Orlando was not too far from Auburndale.

“Are you guys leaving now?” asked Melanise sadly as Su Feng and the rest were ready to leave with McGrady.

No choice. In the United States, where there was freedom, democracy, and peace, there were also many admirable single mothers like Melanise.

Before McGrady left, Melanise pulled him aside and passed him a stack of crumbled notes.

Su Feng sighed when he saw this.

That was because, as an orphan in his past life, when he saw this…

He did not know how to describe it in words!

Amongst the Four Great Shooting Guards, if they were ranked according to their financial backgrounds, only Kobe and Carter were lucky.

McGrady was also slightly luckier than Iverson.

In Su Feng’s past life, Iverson had once said in an interview that the reason he put so much effort into basketball was because if he won a competition, his coach would treat him to a good meal.

The so-called good meal that Iverson referred to…

Was simply two hamburgers and a few grilled sausages.

“Allen Iverson, who had a pathetic background; Kobe, who was undefeatable”, that was a famous saying in Su Feng’s past life.

Back to the topic.

With Mancias’ help, after persuading McGrady’s mother and grandmother, Su Feng heaved a sigh of relief as this matter was settled.

On their way to Orlando, Su Feng was extremely happy as he looked at his new cheat.

Just wait, Kobe, once I make my transformation, watch me defeat you.

…

Auburndale was less than 50 miles from Orlando. Therefore, after arriving at Orlando, Su Feng brought McGrady to the “Bubba.Gump.Shrimp.Co” restaurant for a meal.

McGrady was not foreign to Orlando. That was because McGrady had chosen to play basketball because of the “skinny guy” in the Orlando Magic.

Yes, that was right, McGrady’s idol was Anfernee Hardaway too.

Of course, unlike how Kobe got rejected by Hardaway after travelling all the way to Orlando, McGrady could not afford that.

Su Feng knew that McGrady was a copycat and that he had copied many of his dribbling techniques from Hardaway.

Therefore…

To Su Feng, this dribbling talent who was able to learn just by observing others’ techniques triggered him.

When they were eating, Su Feng saw McGrady organize the stack of notes that was given by his mother.

“Tracey, trust me, if you are able to defeat me a couple of times this summer break, your mother and grandmother will lead a good life.”

Su Feng suddenly realized that nobody would believe his statement.

“Are you really not joking about how you will give me 100 dollars if I beat you in one-on-ones?”

For some reason, Su Feng felt that McGrady’s sleepy eyes were three-quarters opened.

To prevent McGrady from opening his eyes entirely, Su Feng quickly nodded.

“When are we starting?” asked McGrady impatiently.

“Tomorrow at 4 AM,” said Su Feng.

“4 AM, sure!”

McGrady felt extremely motivated. However, Su Feng was not sure if McGrady would regret agreeing to that so quickly.

Su Feng knew that McGrady could not play for too long due to his scoliosis.

Therefore, for the special training in Orlando, Su Feng planned to obtain sufficient Brick Shot Points from McGrady every day.

Besides that, before Su Feng came to Orlando, he had won six months worth of nutrient fluid.

However, just as he was about to add some nutrient fluid to McGrady’s meal, the system notified him.

“Because Master’s relationship with McGrady has yet to reach the level required to share nutrient fluid, the nutrient fluid will not have any effect on McGrady.”

“!!!”

What the f*ck…

Su Feng was shocked.

He had not encountered such problems with Kobe in the past.

“Of course, even the system feels that I am a legit Kobe fan!” exclaimed Su Feng internally.

After confirming his identity as a Kobe fan, since he was not able to share the nutrient fluid with McGrady, Su Feng thought that he had to use other methods.

After all, like how he treated Kobe scientifically, Su Feng had to treat McGrady scientifically.

…

The next day at 4 AM.

When McGrady arrived at the court with his eyes half opened, Su Feng was already practising his shooting.

“You do this to Kobe every day?” asked McGrady curiously.

Su Feng nodded. “We practise like this every day except for days when we have matches.”

“If that’s the case… If I beat you, I don’t want the 100 dollars.”

Although McGrady needed money, he felt that since Kobe and Su Feng were friends, he should not be winning the money from his friend’s friend in an unfair manner like that.

Moreover, after reaching Orlando, McGrady was shocked by the indoor court that Su Feng had rented.

Moreover, there were three professional coaches. McGrady felt that even a NBA player would not be able to receive such special training during holidays.

Actually, McGrady was overthinking. Many NBA stars only had two to three million dollars of salary. After tax deductions, they would not have much left.

The average skills of players during that period of time was incomparable to the future. That was related to their training standards as even in the future, some of the players had their own training teams.

Su Feng knew that if he continued discussing money with McGrady, he would be looking down on him.

Therefore, Su Feng nodded and passed the ball to McGrady after he completed his warmup. They began their training for the day.

From the experience the day before, Su Feng knew that the best thing to do was to follow McGrady closely.

Although McGrady was not very steady with his shots, he was extremely fast.

In terms of technique, McGrady was slightly inferior to Kobe as he was younger than Su Feng and Kobe.

This could be seen from the amount of Brick Shot Points Su Feng obtained when he missed a shot.

For McGrady, Su Feng obtained 1,000 Brick Shot Points when he missed his shot.

That was exactly the same as when Su Feng met Kobe.

However, one had to know that when Su Feng competed with Kobe, the system concluded that Su Feng was able to obtain up to 1,500 Brick Shot Points when he missed a shot.

Offense wise, McGrady was the most threatening in terms of breakthrough.

However, after Su Feng chose to use a retreat defense technique, Su Feng did not lose out to McGrady, especially with his experience with Kobe.

However, the problem came…

In the future, McGrady entered the NBA with his defense skills. Amongst the Four Great Shooting Guards, Kobe and McGrady’s defenses were famous.

In Su Feng’s past life, the witty, bald Van Gundy had defended against Nowitzki using McGrady. The effect was pretty good.

McGrady’s arm span and speed were very good for his height.

Su Feng did not have many types of offense methods and used his “dribbling talent”. He did not have an advantage when he made use of “fadeaway shot” and “straight shots” in the one-on-one match against McGrady.

That was because McGrady could make use of his height and arm span to prevent Su Feng from shooting.

In the end…

At 9 AM, when Mancias and the rest opened the door of the court, they saw Su Feng delighted and McGrady frustrated.

McGrady regretted it.

That was because if he could go back in time, he would definitely tell Su Feng that he wanted the 100 dollars…

During their one-on-one match, Su Feng and McGrady took 58 missed shots to determine the winner!

That was only one of the matches they had gone through!

McGrady had won with much difficulty, but Su Feng was extremely happy.

Although this second cheat did not give him as many Brick Shot Points as Kobe, he was good because…

McGrady did not give chances like Kobe.

Who asked Kobe to be good friends with Su Feng?

Moreover, Kobe was afraid he would crush Su Feng’s confidence if he thrashed him everyday.

However, McGrady did not want to lose to Su Feng.

Evidently, in terms of endurance, McGrady was unable to match up to Kobe, who was trained better by Su Feng.

Therefore, McGrady was raging with anger after Su Feng’s comments.

“Let’s stop here, we shall continue tomorrow at 4 AM,” smiled Su Feng.

McGrady was speechless.

Again tomorrow?

McGrady wanted to sneak back to Auburndale.

“You can rest for a while if you are tired, I am going to do some physical training.

“After all, we are different. I am going to the NBA next year,” said Su Feng.

McGrady was speechless.

Kobe could tolerate it, but McGrady could not.

He hated it when he was looked down on by others.

Eh, no…

He said that he is going to the NBA next year?

“You are not going to university?” asked McGrady curiously.

“No, Kobe and I are not planning to go to university, we are planning to take part in the NBA Draft next year,” replied Su Feng.

McGrady nodded and felt better.

That was because McGrady thought that Su Feng and Kobe had decided to not continue studying because they had bad grades…

“Michael is 33 next year, we want to play with him before he retires.

“Sigh, how unfortunate.

“Kobe’s SAT scores are easily above 1,000, while I can easily get 1200…” Su Feng said regrettably.

McGrady was speechless.

McGrady decided that he would return to Auburndale immediately!

How could Su Feng speak like that?

Alright, McGrady was still young.

He did not know that after he hurt Su Feng’s feelings the previous day, Su Feng was thinking of a way to get revenge.

Su Feng looked at McGrady and knew that if he continued, McGrady would open his eyes fully.

Therefore, he patted McGrady’s shoulder and said, “You should take a rest. Listen, Tracey, I genuinely believe that both of us can improve tremendously through this special training.”

McGrady felt terrible and could not be consoled by Su Feng.

Meanwhile, as Su Feng and McGrady proceeded with their special training “happily”, on the other side…

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