Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 718 718 492 Fryes Etiquette Class

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Chris Bosh’s resurgence needs no further ntion; it has been a key reason why the Supersonics dominated even more after Roy’s injury.

The most pleasing aspect is that Durant proved he is a natural ace at the small forward position.

At first, he had a tendency to shoot indiscriminately, but after Yu Fei corrected him for a month, he gradually found the right way to play.

The Supersonics’ coaching staff felt as if Yu Fei was still playing the small forward position, although his organizational skills were not as good as Yu Fei’s, his offensive ability, particularly his shooting, was hardly any less than the real Yu Fei.

Durant’s average scoring gradually climbed from 20 points and has now reached 24 points. With this trend, people outside believe he could eventually match or even surpass Yu Fei’s average scoring.

The most exaggerated part is that even though Durant was performing so well, people still felt that he was sowhat suppressed.

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The number one Durant fan, Bill Simmons, said, “If KD was playing on a rebuilding team, he could average 35 points per ga.”

Durant responded, “I do have so reserve energy, but it’s not as exaggerated as Bill says.”

This is modesty.

Aricans have grown accustod to Durant saying this kind of correct nonsense.

However, Durant’s words still revealed his dissatisfaction with his current shot-taking rights.

And this is precisely what players must endure on a championship-contending team.

Teams that cannot restrain their personal desires have a hard ti making it to the end.

Even Yu Fei’s average shots are no more than 18 tis per ga, what more could Durant ask for?

Yet, although Durant is willing to suppress his desires, the onlookers and stakeholders will find ways to change the status quo.

Before Jordan, there seed to be a conflictive relationship between being the scoring champion and winning the championship. The general view was that teams producing scoring champions were either weak and needed their star players to take lots of shots or the core players were selfish and did not care about team interests. Thus, scoring champions were often seen as the opposite of champions, until Jordan dominated the ’90s.

Jordan’s “adults don’t do multiple choice” winner-takes-all approach turned Nike into a comrcial empire.

Therefore, they were eager to find Jordan’s successor after his retirent.

Kobe failed, Jas’s hype fizzled out, and now, Durant seed to have a chance to beco the scoring champion on a championship-contending team if he took 4-5 more shots per ga…

Nike wouldn’t miss any opportunity to promote Durant’s advancent.

The last stop before the All-Star weekend, the Supersonics faced the Trail Blazers away, and Durant had a poor shooting performance in the first half, which led to a relapse in the second half as he stubbornly went one-on-one several tis.

Yu Fei was furious, and scolded him in front of the caras, “Tell , who’s in charge of this team?”

“You.”

Durant replied weakly.

“So what were you just doing?”

Durant was speechless.

Afterward, until the end of the ga, Durant did not receive another pass from Yu Fei.

Durant only regained possession after Yu Fei left the court.

This was a true depiction of the empire’s interior.

They had clear hierarchies.

Yu Fei’s status was detached, high above, and when Durant made a mistake, he too would receive severe punishnt from his master.

Portland is the headquarters of Nike, and many Nike executives were present at the ga. While Yu Fei berated Durant, they hoped that Durant would respond to the emperor the way the rookie Fei boldly confronted Jordan in 2001, but Durant did not.

The ga ended with the Supersonics easily defeating the Trail Blazers, but what happened during the match attracted far more attention than the outco.

After the ga, an ABC reporter asked Yu Fei, “You and KD had an argunt on the court; what happened?”

“Did you see him argue with ?” Yu Fei countered, “When?”

The reporter was taken aback, “Uh… at that mont…”

“There was no argunt,” Yu Fei stated, “Only one thing happened at that ti: as a third-year player, he made a mistake that only a first-year player would make, and I felt obliged to tell him what was right in a stern way. He admitted his mistake; that was the situation. I gave him a lesson in basic manners.”