Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 684 684 481 The Fall of a Hero (Combined)4

Chapter 684: Chapter 481: The Fall of a Hero (Combined)_4 Chapter 684: Chapter 481: The Fall of a Hero (Combined)_4 Especially when Yu Fei returned with the aura of a savior, Durant’s position beca awkward.

They had once hoped that Yu Fei would demand the Supersonics to trade Durant for imdiate competitive power.

But Yu Fei showed an unexpected level of patience, not only accepting Durant but also not caring that he was the new star heavily promoted by Nike. This led Nike to devise another plan—Durant was six years younger than Yu Fei, so when Yu Fei was 30, Durant would be just 24, at the peak of his strength.

They could look forward to Durant taking power from Yu Fei.

If Durant improved quickly enough, he could even change the Supersonics from a situation dominated by a superstar to an open confrontation between two major factions, like the OK duo.

However, reality did not go according to their plans.

Durant indeed beca a supernova, and his boy-next-door image won him a lot of favor. But he didn’t take away Yu Fei’s cake; in Seattle, his comrcial value wasn’t even on par with Roy’s.

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Durant truly beca a beloved boy-next-door.

Yes, a boy.

A boy by the side of the emperor—who would care?

Whenever the master wished, he would, as he had just now, toss him a lob to replace his own spectacular show. The audience was entertained, the boy got the chance to perform, and everyone was happy.

Before the ga started, Durant ran up to mitt, “Good evening, Uncle Lynn.”

“Kevin, this might be the most watched Christmas battle in history, why don’t you look excited at all?” asked mitt.

Durant’s expression remained unchanged, “Actually, I’m very excited.”

“That’s good.” mitt encouraged, “Everyone only knows this ga is about number 44 and number 23 versus number 24; you need to let them know, number 35 shouldn’t be underestimated either.”

Reebok valued tonight’s ga more than Nike.

CEO Paul Arrington was present at the scene himself.

“Frye, my birthday is in a few days,” Arrington said, “I hope you can gift tonight’s ga ball as my birthday present.”

Yu Fei asked with a smile, “Do you want a ga ball from a victorious ga or a losing ga?”

“Preferably a victory.” Arrington joked, “As the number one sorcerer in history, you wouldn’t want your winning streak against LeBron to end tonight, right?”

Yu Fei waved his hand, unable to accept the nickna of sorcerer.

Then, he entered the court.

As Yu Fei had indirectly been involved in Woods’ scandal before the ga, attracting a huge wave of traffic for himself, many people who had not planned to watch the ga had now booked it for tonight.

The NBA officially announced that approximately 15 million Aricans would be watching tonight’s ga.

This ant that the viewership rate for tonight’s ga would surpass that of most of the NBA Finals in history.

Taking into account that the League was about to renegotiate with major television networks, such a ga becoming a social focal point ant that the NBA was returning to the popularity of the Jordan era.

The League was also the winner in the present.

Then, the starting players from both teams took the stage, and a look at their nas revealed the value of each team.

The Lakers’ starters were: Kobe Bryant, Richard Hamilton, LeBron Jas, Ron Artest, and Marc Gasol.

The Supersonics’ starters were: Brandon Roy, Kevin Durant, Yu Fei, Jermaine O’Neal (Chris Bosh not yet recovered), Kwa Brown.

“A team made up of losers, are they destined to beco the biggest failure in history?”

After the players stood in position, Yu Fei spoke to Kobe.

Kobe, however, had learned his lesson and turned to the other Supersonics players, “You all work hard every night, but in the end, all the glory goes to this one guy; I really don’t know what you’re fighting for.”

“Is it really okay to deflect the subject like this?” Yu Fei went on full attack, “Is this how you defended yourself at the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office?”

The ga hadn’t even started, and the tension between both sides was already palpable.

Yu Fei’s aggressive stance toward Kobe was just the surface. The mont number 24 chose to team up with number 23, his career as a Kobe fan ca to an end.

And thus, a lifelong Kobe hater was born.

⑾ Suddenly, I think about China having its own Woods. That would be my fellow countryman, Lin Dan. Similarly, a national hero whose influence extended beyond his industry, it’s hard to look at him with reverence after his scandal.