Chapter 223 - Kobe's Training Camp 5

After the game with Kobe, I went back to my room to freshen up and just relax before Isabella woke up. I wanted to have breakfast with her before our day started.

At 7:00 a.m. an alarm was blown and everybody had woken up. Isabella came knocking on my room after she had finished getting ready as we headed down to the cafe to grab a bite to eat. Surprisingly Kobe was there eating breakfast as everybody was rushing to get their food to go sit around him and maybe get some pointers or even just connect with him.

Kobe was nice enough to accept anybody to come to sit with him. I want to grab my food to eat which consists of eggs and pancakes with a cup of OJ.

Isabella grabbed the same thing I did as we sat on a bench not too far from Kobe. When he saw me coming he nodded at me and I nodded back acknowledging each other's presence.

After breakfast, we all went our separate ways as we went to go learn and later on did some medical treatments as they were checking our bodies for any faults. The doctors there were a little hesitant on touching me since I had already joined an NBA team. They didn't want to interfere with that but I told them that it was okay and that they can give me any kind of advice on my body development.

They told me I had to work on my body mass and needed more meat on my bones which was telling me to take in more protein which I agreed with them otherwise I'll be pushed around on the defensive side as for Isabella they told her that she needed to work on her stamina so they had her running most of the time and eating energy bars.

Later on today we hooked up again to eat lunch as we rinsed and repeated throughout the week trying to develop our bodies while playing some games here and there to develop our skills on the court.

I met up with some guys who were a little bit shy about playing on the same team as me as they heard that I was going to the NBA and some even recognized me but they weren't fans and they had their pride so they kept their distance away from me.

But when it was time to play a game most people wanted to be on my team especially after they saw how I played on the first day when we were playing 5 on 5. Every time they got the ball they would pass it to me after an incident had happened where they didn't want to pass me the ball and we kept losing games.

A few days ago…

They didn't know me, this crew had picked me up as they needed an extra person, it seemed like they had been coming to the camp together for a while and one of their main guys had dropped out so they needed an extra person. Adding me to the crew was very difficult for them but they had no choice; they needed five people to run a game of 5 on 5.

I joined the team and they didn't even communicate with me as we started the game. They passed it among themselves even the other team started to notice that I wasn't being passed to so they left me alone and I didn't bother running around either because once I would do that they didn't even bother passing me the ball so I saw no point so I went and stood in the corner looking at them play while some of them got double-teamed. 

They lost the ball a few times due to this causing me to chuckle and shake my head in disappointment.

I didn't even bother using time freeze because I wanted our team to lose until they figured out that I was part of the team. We lost three games in a row. That's when they started to get frustrated and asked me whether I wanted to play or not. 

I looked at them in shock and said "I've been open this whole three games. You guys never pass it to me so what am I supposed to do? I'll just stand there and wait for the ball but if you guys don't want to pass it to me I don't care about losing but if you guys truly want to win you have to pass me the ball one way or another, I can do everything even these guys that you're playing against I can play them five on one and beat them but you guys are struggling four against five. You guys are terrible scrubs, my pinky can beat y'all. I'll go as a one-man team and play against those fools that you lost to and beat them".

The whole squad was shocked at my confidence and couldn't believe I said all that. They had started this fight but I was going to end it. I looked at each one of them and pointed to them saying "how about we run a game four against one right now you guys against me".

They started busting out laughing saying this guy has lost his mind no wonder we didn't pass in the ball he's a complete nutcase.

But they didn't see any kind of emotion on my face as I seriously said "let's go or are you guys scared".

They puckered up, raised their heads, and said bring it on but don't cry too much if we beat you since you're playing alone, you get the ball first. Two of them were standing in the post, while one guy stayed in the middle and another guy checked the ball upfront.

As soon as they checked out the ball I took the shot and said we're playing to five, we're playing twos and ones and this right here is two points. The ball hadn't even gone in yet as they started laughing saying dude the boss is still in the air why do you think you already have two points, as the ball splashed. 

I said well there goes my two points now check it up you scrubs.