Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 730 730 496 The Final Advice

Chapter 730: Chapter 496: The Final Advice Chapter 730: Chapter 496: The Final Advice Ultimately, Dirk Nowitzki beca the AMVP of the year without a doubt, scoring 39 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 assists.

For Dallas, this was a perfect outco.

They had organized the biggest sports arena in the area for the All-Star ga, and it indeed paid off big ti, with nearly one hundred thousand people attending the ga. The amount of on-site consumption that ca with it was imasurable. Now, the hero of Dallas had beco the star among stars—could there be a better outco?

“I don’t like seeing the hotown stars treated like gods. We are all voted into the All-Star ga by the fans, we all have the sa opportunity, but if soone is at ho, we have to give him all the flowers. What is the reason for this? If you give Kevin Durant the sa opportunity, trust , he would be the AMVP too!”

Bill Simmons, the number one Durant promoter, wrote on Twitter.

The All-Star ga was over, and what awaited the players was the final third of the season and the tense trade deadline.

Previously, the trade between the Spurs and the 76ers had created montum, forcing teams that could get better to find ways to strengthen themselves.

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When the Lakers included Andrew Bynum in the trade options to boost their power forward position, the Denver Nuggets beca imdiately interested.

However, more teams than just the Nuggets had their eyes on Bynum.

In the current NBA, there was a paradox surrounding Bynum.

Scouts believed Bynum would be the next Jermaine O’Neal—once he got out of the Lakers’ current frawork and earned the strategic status and freedom on the court, he would imdiately beco a star player.

This was because Bynum, in his limited playing ti, demonstrated an on-court presence akin to Shaquille O’Neal, his brilliance so dazzling it was hard to ignore. Yet, in the Lakers, he had to play a supporting role in the triangle offense because the Lakers had Kobe, had Jas, and had the much wiser Marc Gasol; they didn’t need a rookie flailing about his talent in the low post.

Why is it a paradox? Because there were many signs that indicated that Bynum cared more about off-court minor interests than becoming another Little O. He was of a passive personality, needing soone to push him forward, but if you pushed too hard, he would sabotage everything.

Such a personality was never likely to succeed on the basketball court.

But no one had clairvoyance, not even Fei knew that Bynum was seemingly a great hairstylist, yet he was perplexed about his popularity in the trade market.

As long as the Lakers were willing to trade Bynum, they could almost certainly get the fourth superstar.

That’s why Kobe said after the All-Star ga, “I can’t wait to get back to the real ga!”

Even the person who had historically placed the most value on the All-Star ga thought it was aningless, showing how much they were looking forward to the upcoming reinforcents.

If the Lakers acquired the fourth superstar, they would have so advantages over the Supersonics, who had lost Brandon Roy, generating even more anticipation for these two rival teams destined to fight to the death in the playoffs.

But all this had nothing to do with George Karl.

After the ga, Karl was waiting for Fei in the corridor.

He was going to tell him his check-up results.

Clearly, Fei’s legend was coming to its most important chapter, his Chosen Empire’s decisive battle with the Evil Empire of Lars would beco the most important sports story of the past and the next decade. Once he defeated the Evil Empire and claid his sixth personal title, the debate over the GOAT would vanish. Whether nurically or in terms of dominance, the record of seven championships in eight years would ascend him to the throne.

But the person who had helped Fei get this far could no longer continue on.

It was just so unfair.

Yet, Karl did not harbor such negative emotions.

He deeply missed the Spanish restaurant not far from the Seattle Center where the Palma cheese shrimp was his dish of choice, paired with the cold Coles wine. On holidays, he could enjoy a lovely al there. He also missed Tony’s Restaurant in St. Louis, where the crabat tomato pie and Italian broad noodles were delicacies hard to find anywhere else.

And New York, whenever they were in New York for a ga and if ti allowed, Karl and Fei would go to Halsky’s Kitchen Brazilian restaurant for barbecue. Fei thought that their barbecue with rice could even surpass pork chop with rice as a delicacy, while Karl’s favorite was how the beautiful, tall waitresses moved around the tables with long tal skewers of roast at, letting the at neatly slide onto the plates.

For Karl, decades of coaching experience had brought him the greatest blessing of being able to savor the world’s finest food every day. If he wished, he could taste the nation’s cuisine everywhere. Those delicious als suddenly turned into a non-stop gourt show playing over and over in his mind.

It wasn’t until Fei’s arrival that Karl returned to reality.

He knew that his life of savoring delicacies as an unknown food lover, the most morable part of his life, was now over.

“George, you should have seen Kevin’s face when he missed out on the AMVP,” Fei said jokingly as he approached Karl, “he looked like soone had stolen 10 million dollars from him!”

Karl felt sorry for Durant; the young man had tried very hard tonight, and he deserved the AMVP.

But both he and Fei had tried their best.