Basketball miracles

Chapter 160 [Building a New Account! Another Transmigration!]

"The new body's physical qualities cannot be worse than those of the small forwards in 2003; ideally, they should be similar to those of the 80s."

"As for height, I'd prefer to be 185cm barefoot, like an average person but not too average. That way, I'd be 188cm with shoes on, and I'd definitely declare 185cm during the audition. Then everyone who takes a picture with me will be like those people on Chinese height forums, all shrunk by 5cm, hehehehe."

"I'd prefer to have parents this time, who are super rich second-generation heirs with powerful family backgrounds. I wouldn't have to worry about anything in terms of life; my family has more money than they could spend in several lifetimes. All I need to do is play basketball."

"My name is Xiao Tu. Every day I wake up in a bed that is over 50,000 square meters and face more than 200 beautiful maids. However, I am not happy because of my wealth. I only hope to play basketball well and become the first person in NBA history."

"Get away from me, you damn money, get away from me, don't bother me anymore."

Xiao Tu kept repeating to himself that he wanted to try living a less independent life, a wish-like time travel.

In the first two worlds, Xiao Tu was very poor when he first transmigrated. He couldn't afford good food, and his living conditions were terrible. Couldn't he have had a powerful family to support him and enjoyed a carefree life?
Xiao Tu was never a second-generation rich kid, and he really wanted to know what it was like to be born into a wealthy family. Before going to sleep, he began to fantasize about creating a "new account".

He didn't want to immediately join the Heat in 2003, but rather wanted to try to open up a new timeline.

Xiao Tu had this idea during the season, but planned to play a full season, so he didn't try it. The most important thing is whether he can create a new account; if not, it means he can only travel between two worlds, and he won't be immortal anymore.

Compared to eternal life, Xiao Tu's domination of the NBA is a trivial matter. He also wants to test his abilities to see if he can achieve his desires and obtain the body and background he wants.

He can make a wish; there's no harm in trying, and what if it comes true?
In the future, some women in their forties earning a monthly salary of 40 yuan will still want to find young, handsome men earning a million yuan a year when they go on blind dates. What's the difference between a person without dreams and a salted fish?
Xiao Tu wants to practice a style of play that combines driving, dishing, and shooting; a point guard's physique is the most suitable. Players under 1.9 meters tall are usually fast, agile, and have sharp drives.

Even the most explosive 206cm power forward can't match the agility of a smaller guard. Furthermore, power forwards don't need to hide; using their physical advantages to force their way to the basket is more efficient. Guards, on the other hand, must avoid shooting from taller players and must hone their skills.

Xiao Tu also wants to travel back to the 90s, not to compete against Jordan's three consecutive wins, but because point guards were the most popular in the 90s.

In a parallel universe, NBA players in the 90s were all obsessed. Teams' tactics revolved around spreading out the floor, with players taking turns backing down their opponents in the low post. Many point guards would back down and dribble twice before receiving the ball, as if they couldn't prove they knew how to play basketball if they didn't.

Interestingly, players who played with their face-up style were quite popular at the time, such as Grant Hill, Anfernee Hardaway, and Allen Iverson.

In the 1999-2000 season, league officials, having had enough, introduced the five-second rule for back-to-the-basket plays, which states that offensive players cannot dribble the ball continuously for more than five seconds with their backs to or sideways to the basket.

Without this rule, some players will just keep backing down and dribbling endlessly. Their offense becomes inefficient and their play is very unattractive.

The 90s were the era with the most outstanding centers. The league heavily promoted the four great centers, and teams stockpiled heavy, stationary centers to strengthen their interior defense.

Xiao Tu believes that skillful guards running pick-and-rolls are a fatal weakness for these stationary centers, who simply can't defend against them. Even if they're willing to leave the paint, they can't create mismatches to stop the guards' drives; slow lateral movement and slow turning are common problems.

As long as I run pick-and-rolls with my teammates, drive to the basket, and shoot more three-pointers, the defensive intensity I face isn't high.

All the other teams play positional warfare, so if I lead my team to speed up and use a high-scoring, open-ball tactic, I will stand out.

Xiao Tu became more and more energetic as he thought about it, and lay in bed for more than an hour before finally falling asleep at one o'clock in the morning.

When Xiao Tu woke up, he found himself in a new environment. The bed wasn't 50,000 square meters, but it was a king-size bed in a luxury hotel, large enough for three adults to lie on without any problem. It was a luxury for him to sleep alone.

While sleeping, Xiao Tu received some new memories and actually arrived in the 90s, with the body of an ordinary person. He is currently 185cm tall and weighs 80kg barefoot.

Good grief, maybe my superpower isn't time travel after all.

It looks like I can create a physical form in any timeline using my imagination and then "descend" into this world from a higher dimension.

The original owner was a true "tool," and if it weren't for me, this person wouldn't exist at all.

It's late February 1992. Xiao Tu didn't think about which year he would travel to before going to sleep.

He was still Sebastian Shaw, his Chinese name being Xiao Tu. He went to the bathroom to wash up and looked in the mirror. Perhaps because he was the lightest person in the world, he was incredibly handsome, with a physique like a male model. He felt that with his looks and physique, he could definitely become famous as an actor in Hollywood. He replaced Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role in *Titanic*, and his image was an enhanced version.

Unlike the previous two time travels, Xiao Tu is only 17 years old and a high school student now, and he did not travel to the day of the NBA draft.

He longed for a buffer period, a time to practice his outside shooting skills without pressure. He didn't want to immediately prepare for the NBA after his time travel, without even being able to decide his own draft position.

He was born on December 25, 1974, making him the youngest person in the world to ever be born on that date.

He made a wish-like time travel, setting up his own background. Of course, he was too old to participate in the NBA draft; he traveled too early.

Xiao Tu searched his memories and thought for a while, but he didn't find it strange. His current identity and background perfectly matched his expectations, with only a slight deviation.

Before going to sleep, he kept fantasizing about becoming a rich second-generation. In his memory, the original owner of this body did indeed have both parents, but the two had divorced by agreement twelve years ago, and the original owner of this body was awarded to his father by the court.

The Chinese-American father is also 185cm tall and has an excellent appearance and temperament. He is handsome, charming, and successful in his career. However, his repeated infidelity after marriage makes divorce all too normal.

His name was Robert Shaw, but his Chinese name wasn't Xiao Luobo; it was Xiao Yan, a successful example of not underestimating a young man's potential. If it weren't for the different way the characters were written, Xiao Tu would have suspected he was the protagonist of this world.

The original owner's biological mother, Emily Williams, was no pushover either. She came from a wealthy business family that owned a chain of supermarkets in the United States and was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She remarried the year after her divorce, and her husband is a current executive at The Walt Disney Company.

The stepfather's name is Raymond Cooper. Since the original owner often lived with her mother, she was also quite familiar with Raymond and her half-brother and sister.

Xiao Tu quickly sorted out his family relationships; it was quite simple. Now, his backing is incredibly strong, and he'll live a stress-free life for the rest of his life.

He feels less pressure playing basketball, and the earliest he can participate in the NBA draft is more than a year from now, not this June.

"This is so stress-free! Why am I even in Japan?!" Xiao Tu muttered to himself.

The memories he received showed that his biological father, Robert, had been promoted to CEO of the Asian region of a multinational corporation and came to work in Japan at the end of last year.

Recently, there have been frequent disturbances and unsafe conditions caused by Black people in Los Angeles. Since the original owner of this body had a good relationship with Robert, she flew to Japan to visit relatives.

The original owner of this body was like a spoiled child, living a very carefree life, able to find any excuse to go on vacation to Japan. He figured he could go back to the US to continue his high school studies after he had his fill of fun.

Xiao Tu sighed inwardly at the decay of capitalism, immediately experiencing the benefits of relying on one's father's connections after transmigrating. The original owner of this body was a good-for-nothing, so there was no need to worry about finding a job in the future.

Xiao Tu's account actually had two "fathers," both elites, which was quite different from what he had imagined. Their way of getting along was very free; in his memory, they always addressed each other by their first names, more like buddies.

Xiao Tu has been in Tokyo for three days, staying in a luxury hotel suite every day. Robert is also staying in a hotel, explaining that Japanese houses are too low and uncomfortable.

Robert lives a life of pampering in Tokyo, not just as Xiao Tu's father, but also as the American father to many Japanese people.

What is this all about? Am I supposed to practice driving and orchestrating the offense in Japan? Play basketball with Japanese high school students?
Luckily, I have family to protect me and money, which is really great.

Never mind, I'll travel around Japan first and enjoy some leisurely time.

Then I went to play in the NBA in 2003. Without the skills, it would have been difficult for me to lead the Heat to a championship.

At 8:30 in the morning, the original owner of this body usually hadn't gotten up yet. He would sleep until noon, waiting for someone to pick him up by car, and then go out to eat, drink, and have fun. Robert arranged for a tour guide and translator.

This is a real Japanese translator; he wears glasses, is short, and has a sleazy appearance.

He disliked this person and had already suggested that Robert arrange for someone his own age to play with him...

(End of this chapter)