Silent Love

Some exist with pride, others struggle with pride, some compete with pride, and there are those who fail with pride, but very few can walk away with pride. 
Congratulations, for as you read these lines, you have witnessed the whole lives of many great basketball players.
This pronunciation was embodied when Stephen Curry, after facing defeat in 2021, claimed that no one would want to face them the following season; When Tim Duncan was convinced before the start of the 2014 Finals that they would not mess up; When Kobe Bryant promised at Old Buss's memorial to take the Lakers to the playoffs; When Nowitzki, shedding his label as a soft player, retreated to the locker room in tears at night; When Kevin Garnett let out a skyward howl after holding the championship trophy; When the 2004 Detroit Pistons won and the F4 Lakers lost…

Our story begins in an era when pride still mattered.

Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters

Although Yu Fei had long anticipated Kwame Brown's downfall, it was still quite shocking when it actually happened.


Yu Fei remembered watching The Last Dance, and during the scenes where Jordan disciplined Scott Burrell, the camera cut to B.J. Armstrong's interview. Armstrong spoke with a grave expression, "What you are seeing is just 1/100 of what we experienced."


By Armstrong's standard, how much of their experience had Brown just gone through? 50%? Or 100%?


Jordan called it a crash course for champions, and in the penultimate episode of The Last Dance, he defended himself with tears in his eyes: The teammates who joined the team later didn't go through what I did, I, Michael Jordan, never asked them to do anything I couldn't do...


Yu Fei, regardless of Jordan's accomplishments, saw this as bullying. Why should his teammates have to go through what he did?


Chapter 59: Settling Old Scores