174 Blackpool !!

Li was shocked by this as he had a bad feeling that he was about to get embarrassed. I kept rising higher and higher and came back down as I slammed the ball down into the hoop. While hanging on it, I accidentally pushed Li down on the ground as my nuts hung below him, causing the whole crowd to stand up in amazement.

Even Li's teammates were quite impressed and shocked at what had just happened. I hung on the rim for a few seconds before falling due to Li falling on his back. I had landed on top of him but not with my feet planted on him but the side of him while he was under me. I looked down on him as if saying ya, you're officially my bi#$# now.

Boa came out of nowhere as he tried to punch me. I dodged the punch, causing him to fall over Li, my whole bench had erupted and came forward as it became a slugfest. Everybody started throwing punches at the opposing team. Luckily for me, I wasn't caught up in this brawl and didn't get a technical foul.

Khalid and Boa had gotten ejected out of the game. This had put a significant dent in An's plans as he hadn't expected all this to go down. Boa had always wanted to get me for the first game that we had won. Boa finally had a chance, so he didn't want to miss out at throwing the first punch at me since he had caused the whole fight, Boa had gotten ejected out of the game, and Khalid had also hurt a lot of the China players, so he got removed right away.

The first half had finally ended, and it was still a tie game. On top of that, each team had lost an important member of their team. Boa had scored a lot of points during this game, so I knew it would hurt the China team by a lot but knowing An, he would try to figure out a way to compensate for this loss.

This was the most exciting game I had ever played since coming to the military. Not only were there epic dunks and plays, but there was also fighting. At this point, they had broadcasted it on national television, causing quite the stir. Even ESPN had gotten a hold of this news as they started recording the game from their side too, and broadcasting it.

When we got to the locker room, Coach Andre was beaming with happiness as we thought that he would be mad because it was a tie game since we should have been blowing them out. Still, he looked pleased as he said," I just got a phone call from my boss, due to the hype in the game, it has been broadcast around the whole world, and even on ESPN." Everybody was surprised by this outcome, and some even started to get a little bit nervous. "Don't worry guys, we're still going to win no matter what, especially with Boa out of the game now," I said.

On top of all that news, he had received information that a few players that were supposed to go to China's team and the Marines were joining the ground force due to the impact we had this year, so now, even after I leave, he would have some core players to work with which excited him even more.

Coach Andre looked at me with gratitude as he thought in his head; this guy was the best thing that's ever happened to us. I hope we win today to elevate our status.

During the halftime show, Beyoncé came and performed for us. This shocked everybody as they wondered how the military was able to afford a private performance from the one and only queen bee.

I looked at the monitor as I saw her performance. I quickly went and got out my phone and text Riri to ask her how she felt about this and wondered why she didn't perform. She responded by saying, "how can I not want to see the queen perform? She's on a whole other level, and I always looked up to her, so seeing her performance honestly motivates me to work even harder at my craft".

I respected that answer as I went back to relaxing. After the halftime show, someone came to get us once again as we prepared for the second half of the game. Boa's substitute had passed the ball to An as he received it and walked the ball down. I met him at the half-court line as I said," is it time to turn it up yet"? 

An shook his head and said, "no, at least three minutes before the end of the 4th, that's when we should start getting serious".

I played along as I agreed and said," okay." I looked at my teammates as if signaling them that we should keep taking it easy. They nodded to me in understanding. We played back and forth, crossing each other up and dunking the ball. An and I stopped shooting the ball, letting our power forwards and small forwards have a go at it, as they kept dunking on each other. 

Blackpool was having the most impact in this game as he already had 30 points, which was high for him. Surprisingly he had more points than me, which shocked everybody around as they started to focus more on Blackpool. Scouts were even beginning to jot his stats down and pay more attention to him. 

Paige, on the other hand, was getting a lot of assists. She had already reached 20 plus assists, but since she was a female, not a lot of scouts were focused on her, and she didn't do much scoring, but still, it was quite impressive to get 20 plus assists in a game.