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

The SuperSonics' defensive focus was on James.


This was the perverted yet unified consensus that came with the formation of the Kobe-James alliance.


Within the Triangle Offense system, Kobe and James were undoubtedly a perfect match. Prime James was an enhanced version of Pippen, while Kobe was just slightly behind the peak Jordan. To put it in 2K values, it's the difference between a superstar with a rating of 97 and one with a rating of 99.


Such a combination, once united, was bound to bulldoze through the opposition like Durant and Curry did during 2017-2018.


But the aberration in the Kobe-James alliance lay in the fact that James never promised to actively integrate into the Triangle Offense.


He never had the awareness to play the role of Pippen either.


Chapter 516 A Person's Hell