Accompany James through 38388 points Why is he different from Jordan Kobe?

The first time I learned about LeBron James was a basketball magazine 20 years ago, and that issue was a preview of the '03 draft, a five-page introduction to him, and the title I still remember - "The Chosen Son".

At that time, I was already writing basketball, and I had a certain "immunity" to pre-draft bragging, and I haven't forgotten how they praised Ola Wocandi in 1998 and Kwame Brown in 2001.

How can James, a high school student, live up to such high expectations?

Twenty years later, the 38-year-old James, in his 1410th game, raised his total to 38,388 with a back-up mid-range shot, completing his overtake of Abdul-Jabbar and climbing to the top of the NBA's all-time total scoring list.

That question mark in my heart was finally completely straightened and became an exclamation point that condensed time!

My favorite player is "Penny" Hardaway, who at first watched the NBA at his peak, young talents are ethereal, but "Penny" is like a shooting star, and after a moment of brilliance, it will be flat.

At that time, Jordan was synonymous with basketball. At that time, the streaming conditions were limited, every Friday there was a show showing NBA highlights and a game video, I had a VCR at home, and every episode would be recorded, and one of the explanations went like this: "Next, let's look at the invincible Jordan and his invincible Chicago Bulls." ”

Game 6 of the 1998 Grand Finals, the game was live, but I was going to class. At noon, I ran home to the phone booth to ask my mother about the result, and my mother told me in detail what happened to the game. My mother didn't watch basketball, but because I liked it, I became a fan, not only watching games, but also taking notes so I could tell them.

After Jordan, it was Kobe. The first time I watched Kobe play was in the 1997 rookie game, that game Kobe played against Iverson, Kobe 31 points, Iverson 19 points and 9 assists won the MVP, mainland basketball celebrity Qian Chenghai coached as a commentator, Qian Lao sighed: "These two young people have a great future, when can we have such good seedlings in Chinese basketball." ”

Kobe Bryant retired from the battle, I wrote a battle report on Tencent, and after the game, I called my wife and asked her to guess how many points Kobe scored? She thought for a moment and replied, "It won't be 40 points, right?" ”

I said, "60! ”

Her: "Huh?! ”

"Pence", Jordan, Kobe, and Iverson, Maddie and Carter at the same time, these league's signature stars, all have a picturesque playing style, which caused my eyes to be a little "uncomfortable" when I watched James play for the first time.

What is his style of play? Blocking in the middle, dribbling and killing, carrying people for layups, how is this young man wearing No. 23 so different from Jordan, who is also No. 23?

I tried to get to know James and found out that he came from a single-parent family, had never met his biological father, and had been evicted from the house by the local government as a child on the grounds that the precarious house was unfit to live in, and that he and his mother, Gloria, had no money to repair it. Mother and son live in slums, and when they are poorest, they can't even get money for the bus to school.

Gloria often worked night shifts, and James prayed every night that her mother would return safely at dawn, because the crime rate in the neighborhood they lived in was so high that people lost their lives every day, either homicide or suicide.

I read a recollection from Drew Joyce, James coach in AAU and high school, James flew with the team to the AAU National Championship for the first time, he ran around excitedly before takeoff, but when he took off, James was sobbing with his head, and Coach Drew thought James was airsick, and rushed over to comfort him.

"LeBron, what's wrong with you?"

"Coach, I miss my mother. She's never been on a plane, so it would be nice to come with me. ”

Later, James entered the NBA, where he made good friend Marfrik Carter the commercial manager, another iron buddy Meems became an assistant and also got a position on the team, and Rich Paul went from a jersey vendor to a top-five agent in the league next to James.

James founded the "I Promise" charity project to provide educational support for economically disadvantaged families in his hometown of Acreon, from middle school to university, and also provide job opportunities for parents of children.

Don't forget the rich, James can handle it.

James didn't play as well as Jordan and Kobe Bryant, but I watched him go along the way, watched him succeed, watched him fail, watched him be adored, watched him be taunted. As a copywriter, I didn't know much about him until he topped the NBA's all-time scoring list.

This look, as soon as it was written, 20 years have passed.

James from little Jen to old Zhan, we go from teenager to youth to middle age, feeling tired and confused in the rolling tide of the times, you will remember those heartless and lungless times, those carefree years, there are Stephen Chow's movies, Jay Chou's music, and James who has walked through youth like us.

Jordan is the god of basketball standing in the clouds, Kobe is the closest successor to Jordan, and James is the iron han who grew up with us. Those highlights that record from the first point to the total scoring champion are like rewinding the clock of time, where the clear years are carried and tell us that we were once so young, so daring, so fearless, so confident that the future will be better.

James' career hasn't been perfect, just as can any of us go without regrets? All young people will eventually grow up, but as long as we have worked hard and been happy, just like Lao Zhan, we have the proudest youth without regrets.