Recruiting Stephenson went much more smoothly than expected, and after the most important thing was done, the two of them went to a nearby bowling alley.

Stephenson is different from Tang Shuai, his interests are obviously much wider, and bowling seems to be one of them.

This is Tang Shuai's first time bowling, but fortunately, he learns quickly, and after Stephenson taught him a few times, the two can already compete directly one-on-one.

"Home run! Perfect! Stephenson shouted excitedly after hitting a beautiful home run.

"Don't get too complacent, I'll do it too." Tang Shuai took the bowling activity and moved his muscles and bones, and was also ready to play.

"I trust you, show one and I'll see." Stephenson cheered on from the sidelines.

Tang Shuai tried his hand, walked to the track with the bowling ball and was about to throw it out, at this moment, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of an extremely familiar figure, his movements stopped directly halfway, the bowling ball did not control the trend of rushing forward, and just rolled out.

The bowling ball keeps moving forward on the track, but because it doesn't have enough initial speed, it's almost out of speed when it rolls in front of the pin.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the bowling ball knocked over a pin, and then rolled under the track.

"Oh God, you only knocked down one bottle, haha, Don, your results don't match your momentum just now!" Stephenson laughed beside him.

"Lance." Tang Shuai didn't care about the results of bowling, but suddenly turned his head and said, "That, isn't it Andrew Bynum?" ”

"Andrew?" Stephenson was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look, and immediately said with a smile, "It's that guy, let's go over and say hello to him!" ”

"You know him?" Tang Shuai was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Of course, we had a very good relationship before." Stephenson said and walked over there, shouting as he went, "Andrew! ”

Tang Shuai walked in, and when the man turned his head to see that he was indeed Bynum's face, he suddenly felt uncontrollable emotion in his heart.

Andrew Bynum, who was once the top three center in the league, could even be said to be the No. 1 center in the West at the time after Yao Ming's retirement.

In the two years when the Lakers won the championship, the triumvirate combination of Bynum, Gasol, and Kobe Bryant was their absolute core structure, and in fact, when the Lakers won their first championship in the 08~09 season, Bynum was only 21 years old.

Later, with the Lakers, Bynum grew up and replaced Yao Ming as the candidate to comment on who was the No. 1 center with Howard.

But the world is unpredictable, in the 12~13 season, the Lakers made a big deal involving four teams in order to get Howard, and Bynum was traded to the 76ers.

The rest of the story is as jaw-dropping as a meteorite, and after the 76ers, Cavaliers, Bulls and Pacers, he went from an All-Star starter to an unpopular player in just two years.

Although it seems that a knee injury is the reason for his fall so quickly, everyone knows that Bynum's lack of self-protection and all kinds of negative news off the field are what really make him unnoticed.

After retiring from the league, Bynum focused all his attention on his hobbies, and "washing, cutting and blowing" and "bowling little prince" became the most common nicknames when fans discussed him.

At this time, Bynum's hair was dyed all yellow, and he was wearing a leather jacket, if he didn't look closely, he thought that this was some kind of gangster, and it was really difficult to think of it with the powerful little shark at the beginning.

"Lance!" Bynum smiled when he saw Stephenson and came up to Stephenson for a deep hug.

"Come, let me introduce you, this is my good friend, Tang Shuai." After Stephenson separated, he immediately introduced Tang Shuai to Bynum.

"I know, Tang, who averaged 40 points per game, the second Allen Iverson, single-handedly eliminated the Warriors, and also led the Chinese team to defeat us and win the Olympic silver medal." Bynum seems to still pay attention to basketball, and directly told Tang Shuai's achievements as if he was memorizing a text.

"Nice to meet you." After Bynum finished speaking, he stretched out his hand directly towards Tang Shuai.

"I'm glad to meet you, Andrew, and I watched you play a lot with the Lakers before I came to the NBA." After Tang Shuai shook his hand, he said with a smile.

"Haha, that's a real honor." Bynum's performance didn't match his yellow hair, and it seemed that after all he had been through, he had matured.

"Let's sit down and say, how tired it is to stand." Stephenson said, gesturing to the seat behind him.

"Yes, yes, let's sit down." Bynum said as he put down his bowling ball and walked back.

Tang Shuai glanced at the bowling ball that was put down by Bynum, and suddenly shook his head helplessly.

Bynum was ruined by a knee injury, and the cause of the knee injury was injured while bowling in 11 years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that bowling ruined Bynum.

"Don?" Just when he was a little stunned, Stephenson called out to him.

He looked back, smiled sheepishly, and then walked to his seat and sat down.

"Andrew, you seem to be interested in basketball?" After Tang Shuai sat down, he spoke.

"Basketball ......" Bynum suddenly paused, and his eyes seemed to be all in front of him all at once.

After a while, he said: "Last year, I tried to come back, but no team was willing to give me a tryout, and I thought, I'm already an 'old man' in the eyes of managers, and I don't have a chance to play basketball anymore." ”

Bynum's words are very emotional, if five years ago, you would never have heard such words from his mouth, but now listening to what he said, you can feel that the five years of retirement have really changed him too much.

And more importantly, from his words, you can hear that he is indeed passionate about basketball.

An idea suddenly rose in Tang Shuai's heart, and he continued: "You said you tried a trial? And your knees? ”

"Knees? I don't have any problems with my knees anymore, I was almost fine last year, it was because of my own uncontrolled training that my knees were at risk, and that time I was bowling, and I think it was more of a kind of bad luck, and it broke out at that time. Bynum said with emotion.

The NBA is actually such a cruel league, no matter how much glory you have had, once you are eliminated by this league, it is absolutely unprecedented difficulty to come back, look at Bynum, not to mention the opportunity to prove yourself, even the opportunity to try out, and then look at Whiteside, the same strength, several times cut, and even fell to play CBA.

"Suppose there's a chance to try to play again, but you have to give up your ......" Tang Shuai pointed to Bynum's hair and then to the bowling ring, and said, "Give it up, are you willing?" (To be continued.) )