PFC Chapter 221 Basketball Shoes
Chapter 221 Basketball Shoes
During the Xiangbei team's internal practice match, Mu Mu held the ball, raised a finger, and said, "It's time to start!"
Murasaki's teammates nodded and ran to their positions. Facing Mito Yohei's defense, Murasaki suddenly increased the speed of the ball and rushed forward. Just as he passed through Mito Yohei's defense, Murasaki suddenly lost his balance and fell to the ground!
"Mu Mu??" "Mu Mu??"
The sudden situation stunned everyone, and they stopped what they were doing and gathered around.
Mu Mu slowly climbed up, looked at his right foot and couldn't help but smile bitterly, then pointed at his right foot to everyone. Following his finger, everyone's attention was focused on it, and they saw a white sock exposed on the front of the sneakers, with the toes still bouncing inside.
"I've worn this pair of shoes for two years. I bought it when the league just started in my freshman year of high school. It's finally time for them to last."
"Then you should go buy a pair of basketball shoes."
"No rush, there's a game tomorrow morning for Ryonan. I plan to go watch the Ryonan team. It won't be too late to buy after the game."
"I'll go take a look too," Akagi and Mitsui said at the same time
The next day, the three of them took a bus to Tokyo to watch the play-offs (all play-offs were held in Tokyo). Under the leadership of Uozumi who had recovered from his injury and Sendoh, Ryonan defeated Hokkaido's Sapporo High School with a score of 3:86 and successfully entered the national competition. Kanagawa also historically obtained four places to participate in the national competition.
"Ryonan team, congratulations on reaching the national competition." When Ryonan left the field, Mugure and others walked over to congratulate him. "Sendoh, we can finally see you in the national competition this year." At this time, a student with a monk's head walked over and congratulated Sendoh.
"Hmm, are you Kitazawa?" Xiandao noticed the person coming.
"My name is Zebei, what's wrong with your memory?" Zebei was a little helpless.
"Are you Zebei Rongji from Sanno Industrial? Nice to meet you. My name is Mugure Kuniyoshi, and I'm a player from Kanagawa Shohoku High School." Mugure greeted Zebei in a friendly manner
"Zebei, this year's champion team of Kanagawa is Xiangbei, and he (pointing to Mu Mu) is the MVP of this year's Kanagawa" Sendoh introduced
"So you are Kanagawa MVP Mugure Konobu. You can beat Amu from Hainan. It seems that you must be quite strong. How about a match?" Zebei invites him to a fight
"Let's compete in the national competition again" Mu Mu declined Ze Bei
"Well, see you at the national competition. Don't lose too early." Zebei responded
After returning from Tokyo, Muguro went to the shopping street to buy new basketball shoes. "This is it." Muguro took a business card and found the location of this business card.
"Welcome!" The door of the store was pushed open, and a middle-aged man with a mustache was sorting things and shouted with his head down.
"Hello, Manager Matsuda"
The mustachioed store manager looked up with surprise on his face, "Oh, it's Muguro from Xiangbei High School, the MVP winner of this year's joint finals. Welcome, welcome."
"Manager, don't be so polite, just call me Mugure. I didn't expect that you still remember me." The owner of this shoe store is Manager Matsuda, whom Mugure met when he watched the joint finals in his first year of high school.
"Of course, I'm your fan! Give me an autograph!" The boss with a mustache stood up excitedly, wiped his hands on his apron, and took out an enlarged photo from the side. The photo showed Murasakibara's domineering and heroic figure when he dunked in the battle with Hainan.
"Manager, what are you doing--" Being suddenly asked for his autograph, Murasakibara was at a loss for what to do.
"Mr. Kogure, do you remember what I said in the joint finals that year? Ever since we lost to Hainan in the joint finals 17 years ago in our senior year of high school, I have gone to watch the joint finals every year. At first, I hoped that my alma mater could get revenge. But since we graduated, although Minowa can still make it to the joint finals, the gap with Hainan is getting bigger and bigger. After seeing that my alma mater has no hope, I started to care about other emerging forces. As a result, 17 years have passed since I watched the game. This year, the team that can beat Hainan has finally appeared, and that is you, Xiangbei High School. And you are the important contributor to the victory over Hainan. So I hope you can sign your name as a souvenir, just to increase the popularity of our store, haha."
"Okay!" After taking the pen and photo handed over by Matsuda, Mugure was no longer pretentious. After thinking for a moment, he wrote under his photo, "Celebrate together when we win, and bear together when we lose. Mugure Kiminori"
"Celebrate together when we win and bear together when we lose. This sentence really fits the mentality of you contemporary young students. Well written, Murasakibara-san." Matsuda repeated this sentence and couldn't help but applaud.
"It's just a momentary inspiration." Mu Mu couldn't help but fall into the memories of his past life. In fact, this sentence was the slogan that the fans cheered for him and his teammates when Gong Yan was in college in his past life.
"Kumure-san?" Matsuda saw that Mumu was lost in thought and reminded him.
"Oh, sorry, I remembered something." Mu Mu came back to reality from his memories. "Manager, I want to buy a pair of basketball shoes."
"Oh, look at me, I was so busy chatting with you that I forgot about the important business. I have a pair of basketball shoes here that should be suitable for you. Wait a moment." Manager Matsuda walked into the inner room, but after a while, in Murasakibara's puzzled eyes, he came out wearing a pair of black and red sneakers.
"This is... Jordan's first generation!!!" Murasakibara exclaimed as he looked at the sneakers.
"Haha, yes, I'm a basketball fan, so I have this hobby of collecting. This is my treasure!" Manager Matsuda looked proud.
"That's amazing!" Mu Mu exclaimed, "This is a limited edition. Even in the whole world, there are no more than a thousand pairs!"
Mu Mu vaguely remembered the ad, Jordan hooked the ball into his palm with a skilled movement, and moved his big feet wearing colorful sneakers. In a blink of an eye, Jordan flew into the sky, and the camera used nearly 10 seconds of slow motion effect to vividly depict Jordan's amazing movement of stretching his limbs outward in the air.
This was exactly the first step Jordan took towards becoming a god. He began to dominate the NBA, becoming the strongest shooting guard in the NBA, and even the current God of Basketball.
As a basketball player, I naturally understand the importance of a pair of good sneakers. Basketball is an intense sport. In order to cope with intense sports, a pair of basketball shoes needs to have good durability, support, stability, comfort and good shock absorption.
The constant starting, stopping, jumping and rapid left and right movements in basketball require you to put the characteristics of the shoes at the absolute top priority when choosing basketball shoes.
Manager Matsuda touched the sneakers in his hand with nostalgia and handed them to Murasakibara.
"I'm sorry, store manager. Although this pair of shoes is very good, I can't afford it." Murasakibara was a little nervous. The commemorative edition costs tens of thousands of yen, not to mention this limited edition. The price would probably be more than 100,000 yen. As a high school student, he didn't have that much money.
"Black and red are the main colors of Xiangbei's uniforms. I think no one is more suitable to wear this pair of sneakers than you!" Manager Matsuda shook his head, "Instead of letting it sleep here, it's better to let it run on the basketball court.
"Manager, what do you mean?" Murasakibara vaguely understood what Matsuda meant.
"Well, consider this as my gift to you, Murasakibara-kun!" Manager Matsuda said with a smile.
"This... this is too precious, I can't accept it!" Although Murasakibara was very tempted, he quickly handed it back to the manager.
"Take it! Instead of putting it in a collection cabinet for people to admire, I would rather you wear it and fly on the stage across the country! The shoes themselves will be very happy. And you also left your signature in our store, so just consider it as the price of the shoes," said Manager Matsuda with a serious and firm face.
"Then I won't be so pretentious!" Seeing the manager like this, Mu Mu calmed down and started to put on his clothes happily.
Matsuda, the store manager, did not feel any regret for giving away such precious shoes, because when he saw Mugure, an indescribable thought suddenly came to his mind, which forced him to hand over the Jordan 1 to Mugure, and this thought became more and more obvious! Because Mugure fulfilled his long-cherished wish. Moreover, he felt that Mugure would lead Xiangbei to achieve better results.
"Thank you, store manager. I will ask my teammates to buy shoes from you and will also promote your store more."
"Haha, thank you in advance. Please tell your teammates that I will give you a discount if they come to our store. Good luck in the national competition, Mugure-san."
"must!"