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However, since the class of '01, the league has divided the Rookie of the Month into two, divided into East and West, so there are a lot more rookies in the league who can win this award, and before that, only Duncan and David Robinson have won all the Rookie of the Month in the season.

Last year, Yao Ming also won the Western Rookie of the Month twice.

This year, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony have so good stats that they won the December Rookie of the Month award in the East and West, respectively.

Anthony, who skyrocketed in scoring, even surpassed James on the rookie list and took the top spot.

Wade was a little disappointed, he averaged 17.1 points and 4.9 assists per game this month, and logically could have won the Player of the Month in the past, but this year's rookies are particularly good, which makes him a little bleak.

Yang Di's rookie ranking is stable at the seventh and eighth positions, looking at this posture, this year's rookie challenge will not be able to escape.

In early January, the Heat lost to the Pacers, the top spot in the East, and then won at home to the Bulls, ushering in a six-game road trip.

First, they went to the city of Milwaukee and beat the Bucks in overtime.

Then head west from Milwaukee to bitterly cold Minnesota.

Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Minneapolis is home to a cluster of lakes and a well-developed water system, with winding paths and lakes, lush greenery, and lush flowers. Because of the perennial cold Arctic air mass, the average temperature in the region has been low, especially in January, when the cold wind gusts and the muscles and bones of the people.

In back-to-back games, the Heat will fall asleep after arriving in Minnesota, and Yang Di woke up at 8 a.m. the next morning.

It was also his first time in Minneapolis, and after getting up from the hotel, he went downstairs for breakfast, then changed into a clean training jacket and ran out for a morning run.

Most of the NBA players are highly muscular trainers, sweating in the arena, and spending a lot of energy on equipment, but there are really few people like Yang Di who develop the habit of running in the morning. In Wade's words, Yang Di is like an old man who wakes up at a fixed time every morning.

What Yang Di thought in his heart was that Lao Tzu followed the systematic scientific training method, and insisted on morning running to enhance physical fitness, improve mental state, and improve body immunity.

He went his own way, the team only stipulated that back-to-back games could not go to nightclubs, and there was no rule that running was not allowed in the morning, right?

......

Minneapolis is sparsely populated in the early mornings, and in winters like these, when the leaves are gone, residents tend to hide in the warmth of their homes, mostly walking on the streets by white-collar workers who are far away from their places of work, or other workers who have a harder life.

Pale red sunlight rises from the horizon and slowly creeps into the inner circle of the city, shining on the glass of the tall buildings, reflecting an arc.

Unknown birds flew through the air, and as they passed the lake, they took a black shadow and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yang Di ran to the bridge of a lake park, stopped and stretched, and on the park square, there were a few children who had been on vacation to play games, and there were laughter.

"Are you on winter vacation?" Yang Di leaned on the railing of the bridge, looked at the children chasing below, and remembered his younger brothers and sisters, the domestic holiday was a little late, but it was a matter of the past few days, but it was a pity that he had a game task on his body and could not go home, if he was in the offseason this year, he could go back.

As soon as he thought of being able to go back in June and July, Yang Di's heart became hot, inexplicably happy, and then a little sad, it had been almost a year, and time passed so fast.

He stood for a moment, thinking about something, then turned away and ran back in a different way.

The city of Minneapolis is not particularly large, maybe it is Yang Di's illusion, on the way back, the high-rise buildings are gradually decreasing, and it seems to be gradually moving away from the city center, he thought to himself, probably the hotel arranged by the team is not in the city center, and the stadium may be close to the suburbs?

He had a map of his bearings in his head, and whenever he went to a place, he would write down the map and his location, and when he came to a fork in the road, he looked in the direction and then turned right to the south.

After running along the street for a short time, suddenly the door of a nearby shop opened, and the roar of a man and the cry of a girl could be heard inside.

"You don't understand love at all!"

A petite figure suddenly rushed out of the gate, covering his face and covering his head at the same time, and collided with Yang Di head-on, and then crashed into Yang Di's body with a full arms.

"Plop."

Yang Di didn't move, but the girl with the cloak flicked back, fell to the ground with her buttocks, and suddenly cried even more sadly, and scolded Yang Di with a crying voice: "Are you blind, can't you see people?" Don't you know how to hide? You're all bullying me! ”

Yang Di was baffled by this situation, but when he heard this series of familiar voices, where did he seem to have heard it?

Then he looked up, and a white-bearded old man rushed out of the store, looking at him angrily, and the two of them looked at each other for a second, and Huo Ran was stunned.

"Yang?"

"Uncle Ham?"

"You're here?" Yang Di shouted in surprise.

"I didn't expect to meet you here, it's great." Ham walked over and patted Yang Di on the shoulder.

"Huh?" Yang Di suddenly reacted, so this girl who fell to the ground should be? He turned his head to look, and the girl had apparently noticed this miraculous situation, stopped crying, and when she looked up, she saw the gentle and sunny smiling face in her memory, still smiling at herself, and the early morning sun shone on her heart warmly.

"Gianna, long time no see!" Yang Di waved his hand.

......

Yang Di was left in the restaurant by the enthusiastic Ham for lunch, and Yang Di repeatedly resigned.

Yang Di smiled bitterly: "Then I'll do it, anyway, this restaurant doesn't use Chinese food anymore?" ”

"After you left, I recruited a few cooks, but most of them were not very good, so I went back to Western-style cuisine and didn't open in Chinatown."

"By the way, why did you happen to be here?"

"I'm in games, you know, I'm a player with the NBA Heat, and I'm going to play a lot of away games a season, running around in cities all over the country." Yang Di said with a smile.

"Dick Young, Dick Young, Dick Young......" Behind her, Angela stopped crying, and called Yang Di's nickname with pigtails in the back.

"Haha, Gianna, I haven't seen you for more than a year, you've become pretty!" Yang Di said praisefully.

"Really?!" Women like to hear compliments, and Gianna smiled so much that her eyes were crooked, like a crescent moon, and although her face still had the undried tears on her face, she was obviously in a good mood.

Uncle Ham snorted, "Young, tell me about Gianna, she's been talking back to me lately. ”

"It's obviously grandpa, you're too stubborn, what's wrong with me chasing my love, Alex is a player on our school's varsity team, and he's so handsome." Angela said unconvinced, speaking like a little cat with teeth and claws, but it didn't live up to the name of peppercorns.

"But he's a thug, smoking, fighting, and even getting into the game, how did we get out of Middletown, have you forgotten?" Ham said bitterly, and as he spoke, he glanced at Yang Di on the side. "If there was no Yang Di at that time, we would be in danger!"

Speaking of Middletown, Gianna was speechless, and her head was tilted to the side, revealing her delicate neck, and her skin was as white as jade.

Yang Di smiled bitterly and watched his grandfather and granddaughter arguing, when he was working in a Ham restaurant, he often saw two people arguing, but he didn't expect it to be the same in Minnesota.

"Little peppercorn" Gianna's big eyes turned around, and then suddenly shifted the topic to Yang Di, "Dick Young, how did you leave Middletown later?" What happened then, how did you suddenly become a professional basketball player, NBA hey, that's cool! ”

Speaking of this, Ham also pricked up his ears.

So Yang Di told what happened after leaving Middletown, until he was selected by the Heat in the draft, which naturally made the two exclaim, but they didn't expect Yang Di to be able to create a name for himself from the dark forces, which made Gianna secretly more convinced that her boyfriend Alex is also an undiscovered gold, and he will definitely be able to become a professional athlete like Yang Di in the future, and become a man who dares to take responsibility.

Yang Di obviously didn't think that Gianna had already thought that he was a typical representative of the prodigal son's return, and he didn't say anything about his key system, besides, he just wanted to express his powerlessness in the general environment, and only by working hard to make himself constantly enhanced, could he change the surrounding environment and change the fate of the people involved.

The three of them ate together in the restaurant at noon, and then Yang Di exchanged contact information with Ham and Gianna, and Yang Di agreed that if there was a chance, they could come to Miami to find him.