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

Though the Knicks were among the top four in the Eastern Conference, fundamentally, their success or failure still depended on Durant's performance.


DeAndre Jordan appeared to have the strength to compete for the DPOY in the coming years, but in the era of space basketball, the DPOY was no longer the best defender to emerge among a crowd of strong big men, but more like finding a relatively healthy pig in a pigsty.


The defensive value of the DPOY was crucial to the team, but in space basketball, even the greatest defenders could become vulnerabilities in the opponents' strategies.


DeAndre Jordan's limitation on the offensive end was that he could only score under the basket, which was his shortcoming.


Last season, to unleash the offense of Durant and DeAndre Jordan, the Knicks had paid a high price to acquire Rajon Rondo from Boston.


As it turned out, this trade was like buying a horse's bones for a thousand gold pieces.


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