2024年“鼓岭缘”中美青年交流周的篮球友谊赛于6月27日举办。比赛采用三人篮球擂台赛制，两国青年随机混合分出8组。“运动员们”全力拼搏，亦不失风度；赛前的“你好吗”，在赛后成了“嗨，兄弟”。

“篮球是我们的共同语言”

“我太期待这场球赛了”，来自美国的小伙儿泽夫·库里尔·弗雷德曼早早就做起了准备。在比赛中，他敢突敢投，射入五记三分球，成为赛场上最别致的风景线。“兄弟们都很给力”，镜头前的弗雷德曼不住地淌汗，他相当兴奋地表示，篮球成为了双方青年的“情感羁绊”。（中青报·中青网见习记者 傅瑞 记者 赵安琪 见习记者 国新冠）

“Basketball is our common language”, Basketball games become the “bonding" of the youth

"Bond with Kuliang: 2024 China-U.S. Youth Festival" Friendship Basketball Game was held on June 27th. The competition adopted a 3x3 basketball arena competition system, and young people from both countries were randomly divided into 8 groups. The athletes worked hard and maintained their demeanor. After the competition, greetings such as "how are you" changed into "hey, bro”.

"I'm really looking forward to this game," said Zev Curiel-Friedman, a young man from the United States, who had already well prepared. In the game, he did both shooting and breakthrough, and scored five 3-pointers. Friedman received a lot of applause from the audience. "The team was awesome." in front of the camera, he kept sweating. Friedman was very excited to say that basketball had become the “bonding" of the youth on both sides.

（Reporter: Ray Fu, Anqi Zhao, Xinguan Guo)