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Chapter 885 885 542 In the Name of Love_3
Chapter 885 885 542 In the Name of Love_3
?Chapter 885: Chapter 542 In the Name of Love_3 Chapter 885: Chapter 542 In the Name of Love_3 Parsons is back.
He handed the water to Yu Fei and DeAndre Jordan.
DeAndre Jordan asked in a learned manner, “Chandler, what do you mean? Do you think two bottles of water are enough for the three of us?”
“I’ll get more right now!”
Parsons was off running again.
Roy said helplessly, “I didn’t want to drink water.”
“Then why didn’t you stop him?” Yu Fei asked.
Roy smiled, “Because I wanted to see if he was willing to make an extra run for me.”
One day later
Media Day
“I’m not a champion, I’m not even a qualified Supersonics player,” Patrick Beverley said to the media, refreshing everyone’s ears, “I’m just a hungry rookie. I feel I have no advantages, my only reliance is knowing I need to fight others for food.”
The city’s darling, Alonzo Gee, thought that the four-peat had nothing to do with him.
Was he isolating himself from the team?
No, his explanation was as follows, “I only participated in the third championship of the three-peat. For me, the goal for the new season is to complete a back-to-back.”
Kwame Brown, who claimed to be the League’s top center last year, said he only wanted to enjoy his last times.
Yes, his words sounded like those of a player about to retire.
“I don’t want to be sentimental, that’s not me,” Brown said, “But I truly feel I have more heart than strength now, that’s the mindset of a veteran, I’m already a veteran.”
“But aren’t you the same age as Frye?”
“How dare you compare me to Frye?”
The starting lineup’s comments and plans for the future received more attention from the media.
First was Grant Hill.
Tyronn Lue said that the 39-year-old Hill would become the team’s starter for the new season.
The news was quite a shock.
And it was actually a fortuitous accident.
With Yu Fei and Durant as swingmen at the three and four spots, and Chris Bosh playing at the center position, the two-guard spot opened up.
As a combo guard, Roy could fill both backcourt roles, but he couldn’t represent both starting positions at once.
So, the experienced Hill replaced sharpshooter Anthony Morrow as a starter.
Morrow and DeAndre Jordan were both in contract years, and this move would also hit Morrow’s morale, but Lue knew he couldn’t please everyone’s desires.
Regarding this “surprise,” Hill remained calm, “I don’t consider myself a real starter, there are many excellent young players in our team, but, since I’ve come to this position, I’ll do my best to help the team.”
Roy had higher expectations for the new season.
If we set aside the few games he returned for in the 2010 Western Conference Finals, he had been injured since the end of 2009 and had not played seriously for close to two years.
“I hope I am still that person,” Roy said romantically, “If I can’t be the best version of myself, why would I come back?”
However, on the topic of becoming “the best version of oneself,” Chris Bosh had a completely different view.
“From the day I decided to come to Seattle, I knew I had to make a lot of sacrifices,” Bosh was the only starter to speak of a spirit of sacrifice, “I am no longer the same person I was in Toronto, I strive to find my place in Seattle, which means I have to do a lot I don’t like, I can’t be myself. But now, I have won a championship, and that’s the meaning of sacrifice. I believe I can do more, but I also think that such a state isn’t healthy.”
Then, Bosh was also the only Supersonics starter facing a contract renewal issue.
Journalists, of course, asked him whether he would stay in Seattle.
Bosh answered evasively, “My ‘door’ has always been open.”
Yu Fei and Durant were the targets of competing interviews.
Fei’s priority was the highest, while Durant’s came next.
As humble and easy-going as ever, Durant won the hearts of many who believed he would become a true superstar in the new season, yet he did not pay much attention to these things.
He seriously discussed basketball issues.
“The most important thing is how to play a beautiful game.”
Durant began to talk about his vision of beautiful basketball.
However, the reporters wanted to know whether Durant, who seemed to possess all admirable qualities, had any desires that seemed human, apart from making abstracts on Scarlett Johansson?
“What’s your biggest goal for the new season?”
Having turned 23, Durant’s goals were always clear.
“How did 23-year-old Frye perform?”
Durant asked.
“Extremely well.”
That was the year when Bucks’ Fei lost his way, the brawl at The Palace of Auburn Hills costing the team its competitiveness, but Fei put on a stunning display with an average of 36 points in the twilight of the on-hand era, leading his team to a semifinal revenge against the Detroit Pistons, and fighting alone in the Eastern Conference finals, losing to the peak Pacers.
“I want to be like 23-year-old Frye.” Durant was no longer content with being those great second-in-commands.
Pippen, Kobe… no matter what they did, in the end, it was Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal whom people remembered.
The tragedy of being a teammate of the GOAT is that the world’s attention is always on the GOAT.
Fortunately, Durant had a clear goal, and for the first time, he felt he was getting close to Fei.
Almost everyone has their desires and pursuits, what about Fei?
Fei’s biggest problem was that he no longer had goals in front of him.
From now on, he would fight to defend the Greatest of All Time status.
By the standards of the GOAT, he should continue to win championships in his prime.
Losing a regular-season game, countless people would find fault with his performances to criticize.
If he lost a playoff series, the GOAT status would be questioned by an immeasurable number of haters.
Only by maintaining victories could he keep everything as it is.
This indeed aroused doubts in one’s mind.
“Last year I had a rare long vacation, which gave me a lot of time to think about what else I wanted,” Fei told Marc Stein about his introspection. “At first, I really enjoyed the break, I even thought about retiring. Without training, without matches, I could fully enjoy life, it was wonderful.”
“You know what? It didn’t take long before I started training again.”
“Then, I began to miss the games.”
“But there were no games to play until the lockout was over,” Fei said, “The addition of Grant to the team was a major impact for me. Many have forgotten that when I was in D.C., my first start was against Grant’s Magic team. If I didn’t perform well in front of Grant, I would be removed from the starting lineup for No. 23. Guess what happened?”
Grant Hill sustained a season-ending injury during a defensive stint against Fei in that game. Fei put on a perfect performance and thus advanced his position.
This is the known history.
“Now, I don’t need to do anything to prove myself anymore, and Grant has come to the end of his career. He could’ve taken a big contract in Phoenix but chose to come to Seattle for brutal competition. Why do that?” Fei asked and answered himself, “Because we both love the competition. This is the only important thing for the rest of our careers. I don’t need to fall into the barriers set by others for me, just play my game.”
In this team of diverse visions and desires, Fei was the only one who openly said he “fights for the love of it.”
Even, he might be the only one in the league of over three hundred players who felt this way.
There’s nothing wrong with that, who would dislike someone passionate about the game?
However, Fei would soon realize that what he loved was not simply the match itself but the thrill of winning. As soon as someone prevented him from getting that thrill, his sword would fall on those who got in the way.
In the end, what he loved was the feeling of conquest.
That is the nature of love.