Basketball's most talented forward is on the left

"Stuyvesant High School!"

As soon as Hibbert finished speaking, Zuo Li put his hand on Coach Hibbert's forehead. After finding that he had no fever, he tilted his head and looked at the sky from the window.

No problem, the sun still rises from the east, it's still broad daylight, and the coach's head isn't burning. Why is he talking nonsense?

"Well, coach, did you say the name wrong?" Zuo Li reminded in a low voice. There are so many high schools here in New York, and some of the names are indeed very similar. After all, foreigners always have a monotonous name, and they just keep going over and over.

Words can be combined in many different ways. A wrong pronunciation may mean you need to change schools.

For example, Stevenson is in California and Stuyvesant is in New York, so everyone must look carefully when applying, otherwise you cannot blame others for getting admitted to Harbin Buddhist College.

"That's right, I've been living in New York for so long, how can I still admit that it's the wrong school? It's Stuyvesant!" Hibbert answered loudly.

But Zuo Li felt a little square.

Speaking of which, who in New York has never heard of Stuyvesant High School? As one of the few famous public high schools in the United States, it is definitely the cradle of talents. Since its establishment in 1904, it has been ranked among the top public high schools in the United States.

Five Ace School, which is also the best public high school in New York.

Someone once said, "American public schools are terrible, and elites all go to private schools." This statement is only wrong when it comes to certain public high schools, and Stuyvesant High School is one of them.

You can tell just by looking at his admission rate. Last year, 3.67% of Stuyvesant High School graduates entered Harvard University, Princeton University, and Yale University, ranking ninth among public high schools in the United States. If you include other top schools including the Ivy League,

If you go to university, the admission rate is about 25%.

As for his honors, there are more. I can talk about it in a chapter. It is okay but not necessary. If you are interested, you can search it by yourself.

As for how Zuo Li knows so clearly, it is of course because Zuo Li worked as a basketball assistant coach at a public high school in New York City before traveling through time. He naturally has an understanding of the entire public high school in New York. The collection of information cannot be as one-sided as just basketball.

But that's not important. What's important is...

"Stuyvesant High School also has basketball?" Zuo Li asked this question from the bottom of his heart, because in his previous life, he led his high school to play many high school leagues, but he had never encountered Stuyvesant College...

"Ahem, of course, but we have been playing in the state second-level league, so..." At this time, the man in the suit who had been silent along the way finally couldn't help but speak.

At this time, Zuo Li learned from Mr. Derek's introduction that this white man in a pleated suit turned out to be the vice principal of Stevenson High School, his name was Harry Wells, and he was in charge of sports matters.

"Well, you know, our sports have never been very good..."

"Cough cough cough, I'm sorry, please continue." Zuo Li couldn't help coughing twice and almost couldn't hold it back. Who in New York doesn't know how awesome Stuyvesant is in studies and how he pulls his hips in sports. In New York

In terms of all high school sports evaluations, Stuyvesant was an embarrassing B-.

"We have just changed the principal. Like you, she is also of yellow race. In addition to still attaching great importance to the quality of teaching, she also proposed to increase investment in sports. Rebuilding the basketball team is the most important part of it."

"So we want to invite you to join our basketball team!"

"Um, but you can only get in through the exam, right?" Zuo Li scratched his head. Stuyvesant is notoriously difficult to take the exam. Every year, about 26,000 students sign up to take the school's admissions exam, of which only about 800.

Students are admitted, and the acceptance rate is only 3%.

The exam includes math (word questions, computer) and Chinese (reading, logical reasoning, paragraph organization) ability tests. According to New York regulations, admission can only be obtained by taking competitive, objective, academic exams. In a word

, all those who enter are absolute academic masters.

Although Zuo Li has good grades and a very smart mind, and his grades have always been A's in the past few years, it still takes a while to get into the exam.

"We have already considered this, so we have a special quota. As long as you pass the benchmark of our examination, we can specially recruit you to the school, and you will be provided with food and accommodation, and a scholarship!"

"That's it..." Zuo Li nodded, this condition is considered sincere.

And this makes sense. In my last life, I heard that Stuyvesant had changed to a Chinese principal, and the proportion of Chinese in the school was getting higher and higher. It turned out that this happened in the past two years.

As for rebuilding the basketball team, it is not difficult to understand. New officials always want to make some achievements when they take office, but Stuyvesant's cultural performance has always been top-notch. Except for a few high schools in New Jersey and California, he can achieve academic results.

There is almost no one that can beat it, so it is too difficult to improve from here.

Then sports is the best direction to start. After all, a poor foundation means there is a lot of room for improvement.

Don't say that schools with good cultural scores don't care about their scores in other fields. On the contrary, they all care very much about their scores in other fields.

As a simple example, in addition to studying, the annual rowing competition between Harvard and Yale has become the focus of competition. The rowing competition between the two parties has a history of more than 150 years. This event has also attracted the attention of people around the world. As for Stanford and Berkeley

, have always been in love and fighting each other for the sake of football results. There are countless such examples in the United States.

Basketball performance has always been a weapon used by other schools to ridicule Stuyvesant High School. According to New Yorkers, Stuyvesant can be considered a basketball desert.

In order to change this situation, Harry was entrusted with an important task. Well, the main task was to find talents. But obviously, this is not easy. After all, people who are good at playing have better choices. As long as they can show up at all ages, there is no need to

There is a lack of high school qualifications, and as for the fact that Stuyvesant High School has a better education, it is not very attractive to those who are determined to enter the professional team.

To be honest, it was the same even for Zuo Li. Even if the conditions were acceptable, Zuo Li was still hesitant.

Seemingly sensing Zuo Li's hesitation, Hibbert took the initiative to say to Harry: "Old man, we have already met and the conditions have been agreed. Give us three days to think about it, because Zuo Li will sign a contract with and1 tomorrow.

We still need to discuss the contract."

Upon hearing this, Harry could only sigh helplessly: "Okay, then three days. I will contact you again after three days. You must give me a reply no matter what."

After Harry finished speaking, he left. He didn't forget to buy the coffee order before leaving. This was definitely a good job, but judging from his expression, he clearly had no hope of Zuo Li joining.

"Hey, where can we find such talent?" Harry was very sad. This vice principal in charge of physical education was really the most humble vice principal at Stuyvesant.

After Zuo Li saw that Harry had left, he stopped hiding it and said directly: "Coach, my original plan was to apply to Oak Hill High School!"