One Year Left to Play-Chapter 346 - 109: Number One of Two Generations
"...This task is unique, and once declined, it cannot be triggered again. Do you accept?"
Zhang Hao looked at the triggered task and felt uneasy. It’s optional, so there might be some issues if it fails.
With a strong psychological quality, he wasn’t overwhelmed by the task’s enticing name.
"Can I see what the task is first?"
The subtitle content changed, no refusal!
"Godslayer (Diamond) (Unique) (Optional):
Objective: Prevent Michael Jordan from winning more than 5 championships before he fully retires.
Task Reward: Random Skill Conversion Medal from Michael Jordan (Gold), matching Technical Training Card with the reward medal (Top-tier). (Note, it will not randomly select a medal the host already has.)
Failure Penalty: Random deduction of one Gold Medal from the host.
Advanced Objective: Prevent Michael Jordan from winning more than 4 championships before he retires.
Advanced Reward: The random skill conversion medal reward will advance to a designated skill conversion medal, and the matching technical training card will advance to a super top-tier training card (95)."
"Can I consider it for a moment?"
"This is currently a task trigger opportunity, and once declined, it cannot be triggered."
"What a tough task... Accept!"
As he watched the subtitles switch to the task interface, a "Diamond Level" directory appeared that he had never seen before. Previously, all tasks, regardless of rewards, were grouped together, but this Diamond Level had its own separate directory.
There’s only one task, which is the "Godslayer" task. The optional marker above it was gone.
It definitely had to be accepted; the reward was irresistible! Even if the advanced objective couldn’t be achieved, it was already incredibly exciting!
"Wait a minute, it’s about stopping Jordan from winning 6 or 5 championships... Doesn’t seem to matter who stops him? It doesn’t matter, the most direct way is for our Lakers to win the championship, if we win, Jordan won’t get it... O’Neal will join, right? Kobe will join, right? Right?
Mr. Big Logo Man! You must come through!"
There was still a short while until the game, and Zhang Hao felt a surge of excitement and finally managed to calm his mind. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
"Winning the championship is still far away, the Bulls are invincible this season, and our Lakers aren’t a championship-contending team, I must try to get stronger before O’Neal arrives, so that the big guy doesn’t underestimate me, otherwise it would be quite troublesome."
Zhang Hao’s fighting spirit became even more vigorous.
As a basketball player, it was known that Jordan was a god-like existence in the basketball world. If there’s even a slight chance, who wouldn’t want to launch a shot at Jordan on his path to deification?
Well, he certainly would!
Just as Zhang Hao developed a deeper desire for strength, someone pushed open the locker room door and entered.
"Aix, why are you hiding here? Come on, TNT wants an exclusive interview with you... Uh? Uh!"
The Lakers’ media officer saw that Zhang Hao was actually wearing a Bulls hoodie! Clearly, just ten or twenty minutes ago he was wearing a Lakers training suit!
And that number...
They wanted Zhang Hao to quickly change clothes, but it was too late, TNT’s reporters were looking for Zhang Hao all over, aside from the Magician, Zhang Hao was currently the most popular Lakers player, and the Magician was surrounded by such a crowd that no one could enter, Zhang Hao had escaped, and the media officer and TNT, who had hastily decided to interview Zhang Hao found it hard to locate him, but they were a bit surprised when they finally did.
"Shouldn’t be a problem, right?"
The media officer just thought so when they saw someone from the TNT team running towards the center of the training ground, squeezing into the crowd with effort...
...
The magician’s side wasn’t suitable for an interview today, and even if an exclusive interview were to be conducted, it would have to wait until after the group interview to avoid making enemies.
But Zhang Hao was different, he was still a rookie despite his current popularity, announcing an exclusive interview wouldn’t offend anyone.
Zhang Hao was taken to a lounge to start the exclusive interview.
The first question asked by the TNT reporter was: "Are you a fan of Jordan?"
Zhang Hao was taken aback, suddenly realizing he was still wearing the Bulls hoodie!
He glanced down at his hoodie... He hadn’t noticed that the Bulls hoodie he bought was number 23, damn! Wearing something like this to the Bulls training ground and not getting caught!
No wonder the media officer’s expression was strange just now...
But this shouldn’t be a big deal, Zhang Hao replied: "Sort of, Mr. Jordan taught me the turnaround fadeaway before, for which I’m very grateful."
The journalist was surprised and said: "Your turnaround fadeaway was taught by him? No wonder it looks so similar, do you often train together?"
"Train together?" Zhang Hao thought for a moment and replied, "I hope to train with Mr. Jordan one day."
"Huh?" The reporter didn’t understand: "You haven’t trained together? Then why did you say he taught you the turnaround fadeaway?"
"During the preseason, I came here and played a game. We lost badly, and I was so depressed that night that I came here for extra practice and watched Mr. Jordan practice the turnaround fadeaway for half an hour."
Zhang Hao’s answer was very straightforward and honest.
"You... just learned it from that?"
"Yes, why?"
"..."
Looking at Zhang Hao, who didn’t seem to be lying... and based on Zhang Hao’s earlier interviews and the timeline of Zhang Hao starting to use the turnaround fadeaway, the reporter believed that Zhang Hao was telling the truth!
As a career basketball reporter, before becoming someone who would go to any lengths to unearth news, he had an extraordinary passion for basketball, he loved playing during his school days, wishing he could spend every day on the court chasing his basketball dreams, knowing how difficult it is to master a skill to a professional level... extremely difficult.
