I Am the King of Basketball

"This has got to be a joke gone way too far..."
The midday news on the national television had long since ended, but Su Feng sat dumbfounded on the couch, utterly bewildered.
By now, he was certain this wasn’t some elaborate April Fool’s prank played at his expense; after all, a special feature broadcast on national television could not possibly be fake.
He had been selected by the Rockets in the NBA with the first overall pick, hailed as a Chinese basketball prodigy, and was about to join the team to start his professional career.
This was simply absurd.
Su Feng could not fathom how such an outrageous thing could happen. While he was an ardent basketball fan, his own skills were, to be honest, mediocre at best. He was just scraping the bottom even in his high school team—not to mention playing professionally in the NBA, he was only a benchwarmer on his own school’s squad.
The notion of being a basketball prodigy from China was out of the question.
It was as if all the rules of the NBA had been bypassed, as if someone had cheated.
"Could it be..." Suddenly, a flash of insight struck Su Feng, and his mouth fell open in astonishment as he considered a shocking possibility.
All these bizarre events had occurred after he registered for that game...
In the game called "NBA 2K Future," the identity he created was precisely "Chinese basketball prodigy," and he’d even received an invitation from the Rockets.
Could it be that the game had rewritten reality, allowing him to join the NBA