Black Basketball: A false start

Chapter 305: The Explosive Dragon Team Attacks
[“A 25-point victory! The Golden Arches All-Star Game MVP is still as popular as ever!”]

[“Mr. California Basketball! A basketball genius from Asia!”]

[“Kobe Bryant announced that he would bring his talent to the NBA. Was he too confident after missing out on the championship?”]

As time passed, two days had passed since the match between Oak Hill High School and Lower Merion High School. This match between basketball geniuses that attracted the attention of the entire country also came to an end with the wonderful performance of Kaneki Ken.

在本场比赛中，和科比.布莱恩特直接对位的金木研砍下了81分+11篮板+12助攻+5盖帽+6抢断的5x5数据，在再次坐实全能王美誉同时，也带领着橡树山高中以162比104的巨大分差战胜了坐镇主场的劳尔梅里恩高中。反观科比.布莱恩特则表现不佳，全场47投17中，三分球22投6中，罚球七罚六中，仅得到46分+6篮板+6助攻的数据。

After the game, Kobe Bryant seemed to have no intention of playing in high school anymore. After a night of careful consideration, Kobe Bryant rejected the invitation of Duke University coach K and said the classic words at the press conference: "I have decided to bring my talent to the NBA."

Kobe's decision attracted widespread attention from basketball media across the United States. For a time, the front pages of major basketball newspapers were all about reports about Kobe Bryant.

"Really? If you don't know, you would think this guy won the game..." After completing a day of training as usual, Kaneki Ken sat on the sofa and flipped through the hot messages on his phone with an unhappy look on his face, muttering, "I decided to bring my talent to the NBA... Be careful that Michael, that boiled egg, will beat me up!"

"Okay, Ken-kun, don't be angry." Taoi Satsuki smiled and sat next to Kaneki Ken and comforted him, "Isn't that little bald guy quite capable? Although his hit rate is not high, he was able to take 47 shots under your defense and scored more than 40 points. Even A-Da can rarely play a game of this level..."

"Tsk... I obviously won the game..." Kaneki Ken hummed with an unhappy look on his face as he listened to Momoi Satsuki's consolation.

"Okay, don't worry about these details." Tao Jing Satsuki smiled and patted Kaneki Ken's shoulder and said, "By the way, did you hear, Ken-kun, that something big seems to have happened in the basketball world of Japan recently!"

"What? The Generation of Miracles reunited?" Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows and said half-jokingly, "These guys are so disloyal. They actually reunited behind my back."

"Oh, what's that?" Tao Jing Satsuki rolled her eyes at Kaneki Ken and said, "I heard that the Ministry of Culture and Sports has invited the famous American street basketball team Jabberwocky to come to Japan to participate in an exhibition match... It is said that for this exhibition match, all the major basketball high schools in Japan have selected their ace players to form a joint team!"

"Team Exploding Dragon..." Kaneki Ken frowned and pondered for a moment, then said with a playful smile, "The captain of their team is an old friend of mine~"

"Eh? Ken-kun, do you also know Nash Goldo Jr. and Jason Thibaud of the Jabbers?" Taoi Satsuki looked at Kaneki Ken with surprise and asked, "How are they? Are they strong? I heard that some NBA teams have sent tryout invitations to these two players!"

"Bullshit!" Kaneki Ken curled his lips and said with disdain, "They are just two rubbish who are arrogant, incompetent and racist... When I was in the United States, these two guys provoked me a lot... But I beat them up severely."

"Huh? Is there such a thing?" Tao Jing Wuyue immediately showed an indignant expression on her face and said, "It's a good thing they didn't meet A Da and the others! Otherwise, I would let A Da and the others teach him a lesson!"

"Come to think of it..." After mentioning the Jabberwocky Team, Kaneki Ken seemed to suddenly remember something. He picked up his phone and briefly flipped through it. Then he said in a playful tone, "Today seems to be the first day that the Jabberwocky Team arrives in Japan. Look, Tokyo TV is broadcasting it now!"

As he spoke, Kaneki Ken handed the phone to Momoi Satsuki.

"Then do you want to watch their game, Ken-kun?" Taoi Satsuki asked cautiously, looking at Kaneki Ken's expression, "It is said that Kasamatsu-senpai, Mitsui-senpai, and Akagi-senpai have all been selected into the first list of players to face the Jabberwocky team..."

"Just watch if you want to. Why are you watching me so carefully? Do you think I will bear a grudge against them?" Kaneki Ken rubbed the top of Momoi Mayu's head with some amusement and said, "They are just a group of defeated enemies huddled together for warmth. I am not that petty."

"Yeah!" Tao Jing Satsuki looked at Kaneki Ken's calm expression and nodded, then immediately turned on the TV in the living room and said expectantly, "Senior Akagi and Senior Mitsui... will definitely be able to beat these guys!"

"That's not necessarily true..." Kaneki Ken raised his eyebrows and shook his head, saying, "Those guys are trash to me, but to Senior Akagi, they may be something that is out of reach..."

"Ah?" Tao Jing Satsuki looked at Kaneki Ken with a disappointed look on her face and said, "Are you saying that Akagi-senpai and his team... will actually lose this game? But the Jabberwocky team is just a group of street basketball players. Can they really compare to Akagi-senpai and his team who have undergone more than a year of professional basketball training?"

"Remember this, Momoi..." Kaneki Ken looked at the stadium on TV and said in a complicated tone, "Basketball is ultimately a game of geniuses... Although those guys are mediocre, they can still crush Senior Akagi and his group in terms of talent... If we want to teach them a lesson, we really have to get those disloyal guys to work together."

"I don't believe it!" Tao Jing Mayu pouted, staring at the game that was about to begin on the TV screen, and said with a hint of stubbornness in her tone, "If you ask me, Akagi-senpai and the others will definitely win!"

……

"This guy... is so tall!" At this time, Akagi Takenori, who was highly expected by Taoi Satsuki, was standing at the midfield line with a shocked look on his face. He looked at the tall black figure of Jason Siber in front of him with horror and muttered to himself, "If we only look at his height, I'm afraid he is not much shorter than the big fool from Yangquan High School..."

"Beep! The game begins!" As the players from both sides stood apart, the referee came to the midfield line, blew the whistle, and threw the ball high into the sky.

"Hahhhhhhhh!!!" Akagi Takenori, who was impressed by Jason Thibaud's momentum, decided to take the initiative. Before Jason Thibaud could react, he roared and jumped up, stretching his long arms desperately towards the basketball in the air, trying to grab the ball for the Neon team. "Tsk... Monkeys are monkeys, no matter how hard they try, they are still monkeys." Jason Thibaud looked at Akagi Takenori who was about to hit the basketball with a playful look and taunted him softly.

"Hey, you guy..." Akagi Takenori listened to Jason Siber's almost discriminatory words, and looked at Jason Siber with a somewhat unfriendly look and asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

"I'm saying..." Jason Sibo's smile gradually turned cruel. He stared at the basketball that was stuck in Akagi's fingertips and said, "A monkey like you, stop doing things that make me laugh!"

As Jason Thibaud finished his words, Takenori Akagi felt a dark figure suddenly appear above his head like a tall city wall. Jason Thibaud jumped quickly and arrived first, and before Takenori Akagi touched the basketball, he passed the basketball to Nash Goldo Jr.

"Damn it..." Akagi Takenori muttered to himself as he looked at Jason Thibo who had snatched the ball from him, "This guy's bounce speed...is not much slower than that Sakuragi guy!"

"Well done, Thibaud~" Nash Gordo Jr. took a step forward and easily grabbed the basketball. He looked at Kasamatsu Yukio who was blocking him with a playful look and said, "Let's play this game a little more seriously... Let these monkeys see what the basketball sanctuary is like!"

"This guy..." Kasamatsu Yukio muttered to himself as he looked at Nash Goldo Jr. in front of him with an unhappy face, "He has already looked down on us like monkeys... A guy who talks and behaves like this is simply not worthy of being a basketball player!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Of course you can play basketball whenever you want~" Nash Goldo Jr said arrogantly, "And you have to at least win the game first, then you can talk about whether we are worthy of being a basketball player!"

As Nash Goldsmith Jr. finished speaking, Kasamatsu Yukio felt a flash before his eyes, and the figure of Nash Goldsmith Jr. disappeared from his sight.

"This guy...what skillful movements! And what a fast speed!" Kasamatsu Yukio muttered to himself in shock as he looked at the afterimage of Nash Goldo Jr. that was almost standing still.

"Don't even think about going over there!" Just as Nash Goldsmith Jr. easily broke through Kasamatsu Yukio, Mikoshiba on the side immediately left the player next to him and opened his arms to block the blond-haired and blue-eyed Nash Goldsmith Jr.

"Don't make me laugh, monkey." Nash Goldo Jr. looked at Mikoshiba with disdain and said, "In your Neon, no one can stop me..."

"Then let's try it..." Mikoshiba felt the pressure coming from Nash Gordo Jr with a serious expression. Just when he was about to retort, he found that the basketball in Nash Gordo Jr's hand, which was originally in his hand, had disappeared without a trace.

"Pass the ball?" Yukio Kasamatsu behind Mikoshiba reacted immediately. He looked up to look for the basketball, but found that the basketball had already reached Jason Thibo who had been waiting in the paint for a long time.

"Hey, big idiot~" Jason Sibo looked at Akagi Takenori standing in front of him with a playful look and said sarcastically, "Let me show you... This is how a real center should play!"

As Jason Siber finished his words, a force stronger than before suddenly hit Akagi Takenori's chest.

"It seems that not only his height... but also his strength level is much higher than that purple-haired guy..." Akagi Takenori gritted his teeth and pushed Jason Siber while roaring softly, "Come on, nigger!"

"boom!"

Jason Siber stopped talking nonsense with Akagi Takenori. After giving Akagi Takenori a hard fight, he turned around with his left foot as the axis to get rid of Akagi Takenori. He stepped on the ground with both feet and jumped up. He looked down at Akagi Takenori's desperate face and mocked loudly: "Then I'll take this ball first!"

After saying that, Jason Thibo, who had completed a turn and dribbled past the opponent, swung the ball behind his head, and his whole body bent into a C shape in the air like a fully drawn longbow. In front of the shocked faces of everyone on the sidelines, he slammed the ball into the basket with a powerful dunk. This dunk not only made the basket buzz, but also knocked Takenori Akagi out of the court.

"Damn it..." Akagi Takenori looked at Jason Sibo's back with an unhappy look on his face. He gently stroked his chest which was a little breathless and muttered to himself, "This guy's brute force is really hard to deal with..."

"Hey, are you okay, Akagi?" Mitsui Shou, who was standing by, had no time to gloat over the misfortune. He came to Akagi Takenori with a serious look on his face, stretched out his hand, and asked with concern, "It seems like you fell pretty hard just now..."

"I'm fine." Akagi Takenori slowly stood up while holding Mitsui Shou's hand. He looked at Jason Sibo who was standing in the paint area opposite and staring at him with a serious look, and said, "It's just that this guy... I'm afraid he's much harder to deal with than the big fool from Yangquan High School..."

"Hey, Thibo, it looks like those monkeys on the other side are getting a little motivated." Nash Gordo Jr. looked at the Neon team walking towards his half with a playful look and said, "Then let's start with you... Let these disgusting monkeys realize that they are not good at playing basketball!"

"Haha, I get it, Nash." Jason Thibaud said with a grim smile, moving his neck, "I will definitely not show mercy."

"The center of the Explosive Dragon team just now was very powerful..." At this time, in the gym of Yangquan High School, Himuro Tatsuya, who was watching the game with Murasakibara Atsushi, looked up at Murasakibara Atsushi with a surprised look on his face and asked, "A-Dun, do you think you can handle this guy if you meet him?"

"It's hard to say without actually playing a match..." Murasakibara Atsushi frowned slightly and said, "But I don't know why, but I always feel that if I meet this guy, I won't admit defeat even if I die..."

(End of this chapter)