The numbers jumping on the system made Yes realize that the obsessive-compulsive disorder he had just developed was cured!

　　His body was already exhausted, and there was now an additional status in the physical condition column: ‘Exhausted’.

　　Physical condition: Exhausted (all attributes temporarily reduced by 20%)

　　This kind of status only appears when one is extremely fatigued!

　　But no matter how tired his body was, this kind of mental excitement still made him feel great!

　　The exhausted status was scary; it was both a warning and a reminder.

　　It warned him not to exercise anymore, and also reminded him when to rest to avoid injury!

　　With such reminders from the system, he had never been injured due to overtraining!

　　“Once the exhausted status disappears, practice continues!”

　　Yes made up his mind silently.

　　“Ye, please come over for a moment.”

Chapter 0005: The College Choice

　　Ever since Garfield High was eliminated from the Washington State tournament, Coach Floyd had rarely talked to him so formally.

　　After all, he was about to graduate, and the future and development of the team no longer had much to do with him, the team leader.

　　So every time Coach Floyd talked to him, it was about his college selection.

　　He hadn’t spent a penny of his family’s money to study in the US.

　　Not in the past, not now, and not in the future.

　　Although he was from Shanghai, he was just an ordinary person from Shanghai.

　　His family couldn’t afford the high expenses of tens of thousands of dollars a year to study at a private school in the US.

　　When he came to study abroad in high school and chose Garfield, it was mainly because Garfield High’s full scholarship was the best among the schools he could choose.

　　Plus, with all kinds of subsidies and bonuses from the basketball team.

　　Studying at Garfield High not only didn’t cost him money, but he could also save more than ten thousand dollars a year.

　　After four years, he had already saved more than fifty thousand dollars.

　　Fifty thousand dollars seemed pretty good, but compared to the tens of thousands of dollars in annual tuition at American universities, it still wasn’t much.

　　So, to go to college and enter the NCAA, he still needed a scholarship—preferably a full athletic scholarship.

　　However, at American universities, especially good ones, full scholarships are not easy to get.

　　Currently, the only prestigious schools willing to offer him a full scholarship are the University of Arizona and the University of Washington.

　　And what Coach Floyd was worried about was also his choice between these two schools.

　　Floyd was his high school coach, and according to American customs, not to mention a high school coach—even parents shouldn’t interfere in their child’s choices.

　　Moreover, Coach Floyd constantly telling him about the benefits of the University of Washington would definitely make people suspect he was getting some benefit from the university.

　　However, Yes knew that Coach Floyd was doing it for his own good.

　　In Coach Floyd’s mind, his basketball career was already over.

　　His future needed to be considered for his life after basketball.

　　And compared to the University of Arizona, which is ranked around 100th in the US, the University of Washington, which is always in the top 20 and often even in the top 10, is naturally a better choice.

　　Not to mention, Seattle is a big city with many major corporate headquarters.

　　With his reputation and connections in Seattle, after graduating from the University of Washington, it would be no problem at all for him to enter a major local company.

　　By then, with American citizenship, a luxury home, and a beautiful wife, he would have everything one could wish for—a perfect life.

　　Normally, by any standard, the University of Washington would definitely be a better choice than the University of Arizona.

　　But Floyd was always worried that Yes would make an unusual choice.

　　Because after Garfield High was eliminated from the Washington State tournament, Yes was still working very hard.

　　Yes didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up on basketball.

　　Plus, yesterday he went with Martell Webster to watch the University of Washington’s game, and in the end, he just left without saying hello to Roy and the others.

　　All these signs, in Floyd’s eyes, meant that Yes was preparing to accept the University of Arizona’s offer.

　　Both the University of Arizona and the University of Washington were willing to give him a full scholarship.

　　But the University of Arizona promised that as long as he joined, he would be the team’s starting guard and the key outside core.

　　The University of Washington, however, made no such promise.

　　In recent years, the University of Washington was full of talent, with Nate Robinson, Brandon Roy, and Will Conroy in the backcourt.

　　All three were now juniors, and next year as seniors, they would be the key to the University of Washington’s ambitions.

　　Not to mention Yes, even the current top guard in Washington State, Rodney Stuckey, couldn’t compete with them.

　　You know, Stuckey had directly defeated and eliminated him in this year’s state tournament.

　　Even someone as strong as Stuckey didn’t dare to go to the University of Washington to compete with them.

　　Not long ago, Stuckey announced he would join another university in Washington State—Eastern Washington University.

　　He was very clear about Stuckey’s strength.

　　Except for freshman year in high school, when he dominated the still-green Stuckey.

　　In sophomore, junior, and even just recently in senior year, Stuckey was a mountain he simply couldn’t overcome.