Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 1054 1054 599 The Meaning of Starlight2

Chapter 1054: Chapter 599 The aning of Starlight_2 Chapter 1054: Chapter 599 The aning of Starlight_2 However, Durant has recently shown a sharper side.

During the All-Star weekend, Fei mourned for the victims of a shooting incident, while other players were busy with comrcial activities to make money.

Thus, the dia would ask them if they would do sothing similar.

Players like Jas naturally have a set of rhetoric to deal with the dia.

Jas said, “I’m glad that Frye is finally facing up to his sense of social responsibility, sothing I have always done.”

This is indeed true; since his early years of dual dominance failed, Jas’s path had beco very clear—he is not just an athlete.

However, such statents could easily lead people to assu he is implying Fei’s inadequacy in this regard.

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What about Durant?

In his early years as the “boy next door,” Durant actually did more charitable work than any other star, and there was no need for him to face such accusations.

Nevertheless, he was reluctant to say to the dia, “Look at what I’ve done in the past,” instead he simply responded coldly to the dia’s questions: “You don’t understand anything!”

So, so journalists who are very familiar with Durant couldn’t help but wonder: what made KD beco like this?

In fact, when facing the New York dia, Durant revealed part of the answer. One reason is that after going through so much, he has co to understand his own personality and voice. He is now 26 years old, already a seven-year NBA veteran. He followed Fei to win four consecutive championships, was selected for the All-Star six tis, and is expected to win the MVP this year.

He has influence, he has a voice, and his words carry weight. Durant has always been sincere, but he was not a person who used words to provoke discussions in the past.

The other reason is more complex. Durant’s friction with the dia is not because his performance is criticized; on the contrary, his performance is widely praised. The problem lies in the New York dia’s constant dissection of the Knicks—from his volatile teammate DeAndre Jordan, to Derek Fisher, who was still a player last season but beca an NBA head coach through the Zen Master’s connections, and the Zen Master himself, whether this old fox, who is the best at playing mind gas in NBA history, had an extra influence on the team.

Durant was fed up with those interrogations and questions, and he was tired of the dia endlessly creating public opinion.

So, on the eve of the All-Star Ga, when the dia once again asked him for his opinion on the performance of the Knicks and whether he thought they had found the right direction, he could have said a few official-sounding phrases in a good-natured manner, but he chose the most show-worthy response:

“Nothing has changed,” Durant said. “You think so because you are an outsider. When we win, we sotis struggle, which is common in the league. We are not discouraged by it. Outsiders always think we’re finished, trying to find out what’s wrong with us. But maybe a week later, everything will be fine. That’s the nature of our ga—’What have you done for lately.’ People first praise you and then step on you. So we don’t care about that.”

“We just focus on ourselves, on our own business. We know the team’s performance has its ups and downs, so we will stay sober, let you worry about it, don’t lose sleep over us.”

Durant has really beco unfriendly.

And this unfriendly trend seems irreversible.

When he heard Kobe talk about Durant, Fei had only one thought: Spot on.

Perhaps because of him, Durant of 2015 has evolved to a state similar to that of around 2018 in the main tiline.

The Durant of that state is soone who is willing to argue with fans online, publicly states that nobody wants to wear Under Armour, then gets angry because Thompson takes more shots than him, and finally gets broken by Green’s formula.

That evening, during the pre-ga phase of the All-Star Ga, the stars were making final preparations.

The dia, on the other hand, ca over for quick interviews whenever they found an opportunity.

Soone asked Fei: “What do you think about LeBron saying that you finally did the sa thing as him?”

“Which thing?” Fei grinned and asked.

The journalist reminded: “The thing about Josephine Garner…”

“Oh, that thing?” Fei said, “Since when did speaking up for shooting victims beco an exclusive to LeBron? Has no one ever done this before him? I don’t see it that way, and I don’t intend to respond to him. Why don’t you ask him when he’ll win eight championships like ?”

Then, another not-so-wise journalist asked Durant, “What do you think about the Knicks’ recent return to normal performance?”

“Back to normal? What do you an?” Durant said impatiently. “Every team encounters struggles and ups and downs, that’s the NBA season. We’ve always been normal. The only question is whether we’ve found the right way to play. Recently we’ve been feeling it, but you think it’s because we’re back to normal? Do you really understand basketball?”

Fei joked: “Be nice, Kevin, this dia friend may not have any ill intentions.”

“I’ve had enough of these idiots!” Durant said angrily.

For a player who relies on exposure to maintain his image, such remarks are indeed inappropriate.

Fei could see that Durant really wanted everyone to see his true nature, but this was going a bit too far.

The humiliated dia left with resentnt, and the world gained another journalist who took pleasure in disparaging Durant.

The subsequent All-Star Ga was nothing short of spectacular.