Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 550 Playing Basketball

"Link, have I gained weight?"

"No, the figure is just right."

In the bathroom of the Muscle Beach Training Center, Link wiped the water stains on his body. In the mirror, Emma Roberts's hair was disheveled and her body was wet. Her petite and exquisite figure and fair and tender skin were in sharp contrast to his thick and strong body.

"You seem to be getting stronger."

"Of course, I work out every day."

Link looked in the mirror and saw that his eight-pack abs were highlighted without any effort. They were stronger and more beautiful than those of many bodybuilders.

Emma stared at him for a while, then walked to him with a blushing face and slowly squatted down.

Link liked her obedience and ruffled her hair.

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After coming out of the locker room, Link was about to go home, but he saw O'Neal standing on the training field holding a basketball, wearing a red jersey and white sneakers, looking like a King Kong, with De La Hoya and Hopkins beside him. Si, Morales, Mario and several others, and Hoya also held a camera in his hand.

"What are you doing?"

Link asked.

"Link, O'Neal is looking for you to play basketball, come here quickly."

"Hey, Link, we agreed to play ball together last time, how about today?"

O'Neill grinned.

"Are you so anxious? I was planning to ask you to play at Staples this weekend, where the Clippers are playing."

Link smiled while carrying his sports backpack.

"Practice today first and let me see how good you are at playing basketball. I'll go to the gym to play when I have time on the weekend."

O'Neal twirled the basketball on his finger.

"Okay, let's have a fight."

"Haha, great."

O'Neal screamed excitedly and yelled for De La Hoya to prepare the camera and be sure to film the scene of the two playing and post it on YouTube.

Hoya smiled and agreed.

Link and O'Neal came to the indoor basketball court next door, which is also one of the club's training and leisure venues. Sometimes Link would team up with Hopkins, Morales and others to play basketball after training.

Originally, he saw that there were many people and was going to split up into a team to play a game, but O'Neal asked to challenge him one-on-one to see how good he was.

Link didn't refuse either.

Before O'Neal came on the court, he put his arm around De La Hoya's shoulders and asked him to follow closely for a while. He must take a shot of him blocking Link's shot. The clearer the better, and invite him to drink afterwards.

Hoya made an 'OK' gesture and asked him to fight well and not to be knocked down by Link.

O'Neill laughed and said it was impossible, this kind of thing would never happen.

Hopkins and Morales looked at him strangely.

After the game started, O'Neal said he would not take advantage of Link and wanted Link to get the ball first.

Link got the ball, stood outside the three-point line and shot a jumper, voila! The basketball fell smoothly into the basket.

O'Neal's eyes twitched, and he threw the ball to Link, raising his arms to defend against him.

Link took a step forward and took another jump shot from beyond the three-point line. Whoops! The basketball successfully hit the net.

O'Neal stared blankly at the basket and scolded Farke with a dark face, saying that two people were dueling one-on-one, and it was about physical confrontation, and shots made from outside the three-point line did not count.

Link followed his wishes and started dribbling from outside the three-point line. When O'Neal came to defend, he accelerated, dribbling the ball past O'Neal, then quickly rushed to the basket and raised the basketball with both hands.

Snap!

The basketball was easily dunked into the net by him.

Link let go of the blue ring and landed on the floor.

"nice shot!"

"Well done Link."

"Haha, O'Neal, can you do it? Is the former NBA No. 1 center at this level?"

Morales and Hopkins joked happily.

"Shut up! I was warming up just now and didn't defend seriously. Now I'm going to do it for real."

O'Neal walked under the backboard, raised his arms high, and asked Link to come over and never let him in this time.

Link slowly approached the basket with the ball. When he was about to get close to O'Neal, he suddenly accelerated and bumped into O'Neal head-on. At the same time, he jumped up and performed a dunk action.

O'Neal was not worried about head-on confrontation at all, and immediately jumped up to block him. Link suddenly stretched out his hand to press O'Neal's shoulder, and dunked the basketball into the basket with one hand above O'Neal's head.

"Wow, this ball is so cool. It's definitely one of the top ten **** of the month."

"O'Neal, how is this ball?"

Morales and others shouted.

"Shut up!"

O'Neill roared with a dark face, glared at Link and shouted, "Do it again!"

Link dunked five **** on O'Neal in a row. The sixth ball accidentally popped out of the basket, and the basketball was handed over to O'Neal. O'Neal was covered in sweat. He roared and rushed to the basket with the ball. Like a bison, he held the basketball in both hands and slammed it into the basket, causing the basketball stand to shake.

"Come again!"

O'Neal beat his chest and roared.

Link smiled softly and handed the ball to him, watching O'Neal roar and smash the ball into the basket again.

After the ball was scored, O'Neal beat his chest muscles and roared several times in front of De La Hoya's camera lens to vent his grievances.

O'Neal continued to dunk on the third ball, getting even more excited and smiling triumphantly at Link.

For the fourth ball, O'Neal was about to ignore Link's defense and perform a beautiful dunk. Unfortunately, when he lifted the basketball, Link suddenly jumped up from behind and slapped him on the basketball.

Bang!

The basketball was hit **** the ground, and Morales and others shouted, "Well done."

O'Neal fell to the ground, looked at his empty hands, and the muscles on his face twitched hard.

When Link was holding the ball and preparing to serve, O'Neal raised the back of his hand and shouted unhappily that he had hit the ball. The ball was a foul and it was still his right to the ball.

There were no referees or high-definition cameras at the scene, and it was impossible to determine whether Link had any thugs.

Link didn't argue with O'Neal and put the ball in O'Neal's hands.

When O'Neal was dribbling the ball to rush under the backboard and continue dunking, Link accelerated and easily grabbed the ball from O'Neal. He spun the ball around, shook O'Neal away again, and came down from the basket for a backhand dunk.

Snap!

The basketball scored again, the game score was 6:3

Link continued to dribble the ball. With his super speed, reaction ability, and good jumping ability, under O'Neal's blockage, he continuously smashed the basketball into the basket. O'Neal stared in anger.

The final score was 10:3. If you include the first two three-pointers, it was 12:3.

Link won the game easily.

"Haha, Link wins."

"O'Neal, how do you feel?"

"O'Neal, do you feel very frustrated? It doesn't matter, everyone feels this way when playing against Link."

Hoya held the camera and asked O'Neal, who was sitting on the ground, panting and sweating profusely.

O'Neal glared at him, wiped the sweat from his face, and said to Link: "Link, why are you so good at basketball? With your level, you are fully capable of becoming an All-Star in the NBA."

"I was just playing for fun, and I never thought about playing in the NBA."

Link said as he bounced the ball.

"How could Link earn more than 100 million from a boxing match to play basketball?"

Hoya smiled.

O'Neal snorted, pointed at the camera in De La Hoya's hand and said, "Stop taking pictures. If you take pictures, you are not allowed to send them out."

The last time he was punched out by Link in Las Vegas, after the video was posted online, it shot to the top of the trending list within three hours and was viewed more than 55 million times on YouTube in one day.

Netizens saw him wearing armor and rolled their eyes after being punched by Link. He fell to the ground with a thud. They all laughed and regarded him as a person having fun.

Many friends also called him and asked him if his head was okay and if he had been beaten stupidly.

O'Neal felt terrible those days.

In order to get rid of this dilemma, he came to the boxing gym in advance to play basketball with Link, hoping to defeat Link in the professional field and save some face.

But as a result, I lost even more face.

He had no idea that Link, a boxer, could be so good at basketball. He was fast, flexible, had excellent jumping ability, and was very accurate in three-point shooting. His qualities in all aspects were no worse than those of NBA professional players.

Link was too powerful. Even with all his strength, he couldn't defend himself. He was so embarrassed. This time, he said nothing and wouldn't let De La Hoya send out this dirty information.

"It's too late! Look over there."

De La Hoya put away the camera and pointed at the more than ten spectators watching the game on the sidelines. They were all filming with their mobile phones. Someone may have posted the video online at this time. O'Neal and Link are both public figures and posted their photos. and videos are not an invasion of privacy.

"Shet!"

When O'Neal saw those people, he cursed angrily, and this time he was going to be laughed to death by netizens again.

"Don't mind. Everyone in the world knows how powerful Link is. No one will laugh at you if you are defeated by him."

Hoya smiled and comforted.

O'Neal curled his lips and was knocked unconscious while boxing with Link. This is understandable, but if he was tortured by Link in basketball, a sport he was extremely good at, he would definitely be laughed at.

If I had known better, I wouldn't have provoked Link.

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After the video of O'Neal and Link playing basketball one-on-one was uploaded to YouTube by De La Hoya, it was viewed more than 68 million times in one day and more than 200 million times in three days. It successively topped the list of trending news on Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and other platforms. , it was even more popular than the last time the two boxed.

Netizens were filled with admiration when they saw Link's precise three-pointers, his powerful, violent and graceful dunks, especially his dunks across O'Neal, the former No. 1 center in the NBA.

As expected of Link, he has good physical condition and can play any sport smoothly.

Everyone believed that Link's basketball skills were extremely high, no worse than the top forwards in the NBA. They also persuaded him to go to the NBA to play basketball and lead the team to win a championship ring.

If he can do it, he will be the first athlete in history to own a world boxing championship belt and an NBA championship ring.

But Link is too busy and has no interest in playing professional basketball.

Everyone smiled kindly at O'Neal, who served as a foil twice. O'Neal is a retired player. He is old and cannot compare to the young and flexible Link, which is understandable.

Everyone also encouraged O'Neal to continue provoking Link and contribute more fresh and interesting jokes.

(End of chapter)