NBA: Start with a three-point experience card

Chapter 763 Charity Show
763 Lillard holds a concert

On Day 2, when all three teams finished their team discussions, there were no games.

The four top four teams were taken to a children's hospital near the Philippines for charity condolences.

This is also the difference between this year's Basketball World Cup and previous years.

Why is the NBA doing well?

Not only because they are more entertaining than international basketball.

And they have come to the forefront of other sports leagues in many other aspects, such as humanistic care.

The NBA often has some charity activities for visits and condolences.

And some teams will sign some kids to one-day or two-day contracts.

For example, the Jazz once signed a one-day contract with JP Gibson, a 5-year-old child with leukemia, and let him play in a special preseason game.

They're not just putting on a show.

They held a grand signing ceremony for Gibson.

A press conference was held.

A statement is made on their official website.

And a team reporter made a special report: The Jazz announced today that the team has signed a one-day contract with 5-year-old free agent guard JP-Gibson.According to team rules, contract details were not disclosed.

And the two points that Gibson got on the court also counted.

All the process is exactly the same as actually signing a player.

The most important thing is that no matter which encyclopedia you go to search for his name now, it will show: professional basketball player, former Jazz player.

That's what the NBA has done successfully.

Just imagine how happy Gibson, now 14, will be when he sees "former Jazz player" under his name online.

And that's how important it is for him to maintain an optimistic mindset.

Now FIBA ​​has also absorbed the successful experience of the NBA and began to pay attention to humanistic care.

Today the FIBA ​​organizers took them to the Manila Children's Hospital.

In 1996, Michael Jackson visited the children in this hospital.

4 players from 48 teams were assigned to various departments.

Wang Yi and Lillard were assigned to the hematology department. They will visit a 10-year-old girl suffering from leukemia.

Anne Garcia.

Annie was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago.

In the past two years, I have to be hospitalized two or three times a year, each time for 1 to 2 months.

Influenced by her father, she fell in love with basketball at the age of 5.

Her dad also sent her to a basketball camp for kids.

It has to be said that she is very talented in basketball. At the age of 7, she won the 3-on-3 children's basketball game championship in Manila.

Her greatest wish is to one day be able to watch a live NBA game.

It was only at the age of 8 that she was diagnosed with leukemia, so it was difficult for her to have the opportunity to watch NBA games live.

Wang Yi and Lillard came to the ward.

I saw that due to chemotherapy, the 10-year-old girl had no hair on her head.

His face looked very pale.

She was eating some Filipino food that Wang Yi didn't understand.

It looks a bit like Chinese white rice porridge.

Due to the effects of leukemia, her gums and oral mucosa are very fragile, and she bleeds whenever she eats.

She closed her eyes in pain, tears streaming down her face.

Her mother was wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with a tissue.

At the same time, he kept persuading her: "Take another bite, just one more bite."

She just shook her head but didn't speak, as if every word she said would make the pain in his mouth worse.

Just then, Wang Yi and Lillard walked into the room.

Anne's mother has been notified that two NBA stars are coming today.

But I don't know which two stars they are.

When she saw Wang Yi and Lillard, her expression was very excited.

Because Wang Yi and Lillard are Annie's two favorite stars.

FIBA obviously knew this information, so they assigned Wang Yi and Lillard to Annie's ward together.

Annie was suffering with her eyes closed.

Hearing footsteps, she opened her eyes.

When she saw Wang Yi and Lillard walking in suddenly, her eyes widened.

The tears in the corners of the eyes also quickly fell down.

She looked at the two in disbelief.

Then he covered his cheeks with his hands and cried out in disbelief.

"Oh my God, Wang, Lillard!"

"Mom, are they really Wang and Lillard?"

"I must be dreaming!"

Annie's mother hadn't seen her child so happy for a long time.

She nodded, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Annie, you read that right, they are Wang and Lillard, and they are here to see you."

Annie still couldn't believe it: "It's impossible, why did they come to see me? They are NBA superstars, why did they come to see me as a child?"

At this time Wang Yi finally spoke: "I heard that there is a beautiful little girl who likes us, of course we have to come and see."

Lillard said with a smile: "Annie, we are flattered that you like us. Thank you, lovely little girl."

It's hard to imagine that Lillard, a pure bandit on the court, will have such a loving side.

Annie is still in disbelief.

"I still think it's a dream."

Wang Yi looked at Annie's mother next to him, took the bowl from her hand, handed the bowl to Annie, and made a gesture of please.

He said to Annie: "Little girl, do I have the honor to treat you to dinner?"

Wang Yi also knew about Anne's situation before.

Knowing that every time I eat, I will endure a pain in my mouth.

Under this painful torture, her appetite became worse and worse, and her body became thinner and thinner.

But at this moment, Annie nodded again and again: "Of course, of course, the NBA superstar king invited me to dinner, and of course I have no reason to refuse."

As she said that, she took the bowl and buried herself in eating.

It can be seen that every time she took a bite, her shoulders trembled slightly, obviously enduring the pain.

This made Wang Yi's heart tugged involuntarily.

Isn't it cruel to let a girl who is only ten years old endure such pain?

But Annie finished eating in less than 10 minutes.

After eating, she wiped the blood from her mouth with a tissue.

Then he raised his head and looked at Wang Yi and Lillard with a smile.

Wang Yi and Lillard both felt heavy when they saw her throwing the tissue that had become red into the plastic bag next to it.

For such a child, why did God make her suffer from illness?

At the same time, it also reminded Wang Yi of Zeng Xinyi.

A few days ago, he was on the phone with Zeng Xinyi's parents.

I heard that Zeng Xinyi's condition has deteriorated.

This makes Wang Yi not in a good mood these days.

Annie finished her meal and talked a lot with Lillard and Wang Yi.

Wang Yi performed fingertip spin for Annie, and passed the spinning basketball to Annie's fingertips.

Lillard sang a song to Annie.

Don't underestimate Lillard's singing.

They have held two concerts.

Anne asked her mother to take pictures of it all.

Wang Yi turned the ball to himself, and Lillard sang to himself. This group of friends can't be envied.

Half an hour later, Wang Yi and Lillard asked Annie's parents if they had any difficulties.
And they left the contact information of Anne's parents.

Their concern is not just to come and meet today, just talk to them and that's it.

But when I have time in the future, I will contact Annie again.

In this way, the little guy will not feel that the two of them have forgotten them after only one visit, but they have truly become friends.

(End of this chapter)