This is a choice, as well as a trade-off.
The team builders believed in the capacity of the ball-dominant superstar and invested everything in his space.
But now, when that space can't bring the expected revenue, what's left but the star's solo performance?
The Lakers guard an expectation of uncertain realization, while the Supersonics methodically play every single ball.
Sitting in the fifth row of Staples Center is a writer from 'Sports Illustrated,' named Gary Smith.
Nine years ago, he was vacationing in Seattle and chanced upon a high school basketball game. Frye entered his radar that day, and soon after, Smith wrote an article about him—'The Chosen One.'
Smith still clearly remembers the subtitle of that article: Frye's destiny was not only to become the greatest basketball player in the history of the State of Washington but also to change the world. Would the pressure of fame crush him first?