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

Clippers waited for four days, finally getting the outcome.


Lakers with a 4-2 series win eliminated Harden and Howard's Rockets, advancing to the Western Conference Semifinals.


Yu Fei and Kobe faced off again in the playoffs.


Since Yu Fei's journey west in the summer of 2007, every year's playoffs seemed to end up with him meeting Kobe, but each time, he was the victor.


Although this season's Lakers are the best they've been in recent years, they lost both of their matches against the Clippers right before the regular season ended, and now meeting in the playoffs, even the most ardent Lakers fans knew the odds were not in their favor.


One pre-semifinal episode or, should I say, a cause of widespread controversy, was Durant narrowly beating Yu Fei in the regular season MVP voting, clinching his first MVP trophy of his career.


"Aesthetic fatigue," like "you're too young," is a phenomenon not to be ignored in the NBA award evaluations.


Chapter 603: The Chosen One