The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 158 - 120 I Seem to See a Pack of Wolves from Siberia!_2

Chapter 158: Chapter 120 I Seem to See a Pack of Wolves from Siberia!_2

This wasn’t the Su Wan he was familiar with, or rather, this wasn’t the Su Wan he knew from private interactions; the current Su Wan was much closer to the one he had read about in the news and newspapers.

Sharp as a tack, always retaliating.

An extremely dangerous "Super Rookie."

Originally, he hadn’t agreed with these opinions, but now... he had to agree.

However, the proud Shaquille O’Neal also had a temper. He didn’t dare to confront Su Wan face to face, but in the offensive rounds for the Heat, he actively asked for the ball under the basket.

Foster couldn’t interfere with him at all.

Every time he faced off against this "silly big guy," he could always perform an easy slam dunk under the basket.

This time, it was going to be the same...

He caught the ball, turned, jumped, slam...

Everything up to this point was just as Shaquille had imagined; he smoothly got the ball, smoothly obtained position under the basket, and had a very good opportunity to turn and face the frame. But as he jumped high, ready to execute a two-handed slam dunk, Foster suddenly "went crazy" behind him, fiercely pushing him, causing him to crash directly to the floor.

"Bang!"

Landing on the floor with a thud, Shaquille O’Neal felt as if his guts were twisting, stars appeared before his eyes, and he felt somewhat dazed.

In his haziness, he thought he saw his great-grandmother.

People from both sides almost simultaneously rushed towards Foster and the fallen Shaquille...

No, it was actually three groups of people.

Foster’s move was an obvious act of retaliation; it was intentional. Haslem absolutely wouldn’t allow a Heat player to be bullied like this in front of him. It was a sense of responsibility he took upon himself, and Pat Riley really appreciated that about him.

He needed to be at the forefront at such times.

But Foster had an unashamed expression, not afraid of him at all. Seeing him charging furiously towards him, he instead confrontationally met him head-on.

Thankfully...

The referee got between them first.

Like a rootless duckweed, swayed by pushing from both sides, they firmly stood between the two groups even while enduring unintended consequences:

Like various punches flying in front of their eyes.

But actually, while the two groups fussed, reason prevailed, and the punches were thrown dodging the referee. On this court, players could only hit other players; hitting anyone else was a big deal. However, getting scared was unavoidable.

But as far as Su Wan was concerned, they got what they deserved.

If only they had ejected Shaquille O’Neal right away, none of this would have happened.

Amid the shoving, the Heat players completely ignored Shaquille O’Neal, lying on the ground, and someone’s foot tripped on Shaquille O’Neal’s body and then crashed directly onto him.

"Ugh~"

Shaquille O’Neal felt a heavy blow to his stomach, as if he was about to vomit last night’s dinner.

The good news was, the pain in his belly overwhelmed the pain coming from other areas, so he didn’t feel the intense pain throughout his body as much.

The three referees were thankful for the accident; the Heat players were busy attending to Shaquille O’Neal, so the confrontation subsided, and they were no longer sandwiched between the two groups, having to endure the intense smell of sweat reaching for the heavens.

At that moment, the Heat team’s doctor also arrived in front of Shaquille O’Neal.

Unfortunately, compared to just now, Shaquille O’Neal’s condition was much worse; he felt a terrible pain in his right ribs. The doctor touched it and suddenly looked very serious, "Buddy, an unfortunate guess, and very likely to become reality, your rib might be broken."

This guess spread quickly through the venue like it had wings.

Shaquille O’Neal had just been placed into a specially designed wheelchair with the combined effort of seven or eight people when the booing from the sidelines grew incredibly loud.

Foster could feel that these boos were directed at him.

"Damn white man, do you know you’ve ruined Miami?"

"Get out, out of American Airlines Arena, you damn whiteys all suck!"

"You damn guy, why did you hit so hard, were you trying to kill Shaq?"

They thought it was Foster’s push that had broken Shaquille O’Neal’s ribs.

But the referees, after video review, found...

it might not have been Foster’s push that caused Shaquille’s rib fracture.

It was actually one of his own teammates.

The guy tripped by Shaquille O’Neal fell heavily onto Shaquille’s stomach, and as he instinctively attempted to brace himself, his hand landed right on the rib that the team doctor suspected was broken.

When the referees explained this, the arena suddenly went quiet.

The Heat player who had just fallen on O’Neal wasn’t anyone else, but Haslem, who was pushing at the forefront. As he moved backward in the scuffle, he was completely unaware that Shaquille O’Neal was lying behind him...

His fall effectively devastated the Heat’s season.

"Was it me?"

Stunned by the referee’s words, Haslem was bewildered.

He spread his hands, looking innocently at his teammates around him.

No, it wasn’t...

"I was charging forward for our team, wasn’t I?"

"How did it end up being my fault?"

He immediately clasped his hands over his head and painfully squatted on the ground, a look of utter constipation on his face.

Regardless of it not being due to Foster’s shove, the referees still sent Shaquille off.

Look, this is the plight of lesser-known players in the NBA.

The same foul sees Shaquille getting "a flagrant foul," while Foster was directly ejected.

Rick Carlisle once again openly protested against this injustice for his player.

As a result, he got a "final say, double happiness" package.

Both were booed off the court.

But it no longer mattered. With Shaquille out, the Heat were left with only Wade.

Though the Pacers’ head coach and starting center also left the court, Su Wan and little O’Neal, the "soul characters" on the offensive end, remained and took total control.

The game that followed proved just that, with the Pacers quickly evening the score under the drive of Su Wan and little O’Neal.

Wade did all he could, and so did the referees, pulling 12 points just from free throws, totaling 34 points for the game.

But even with the "Referee God" gracing the American Airlines Arena, the Heat could not escape losing at home.

to 90.

The Pacers won over the Heat by a margin of 9 points, securing victory in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Su Wan ended up with a total of 25 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks.

This was possible because, with Shaquille O’Neal off the court, Wade had to focus on offense, loosening his defense against him.

Although Eddie Jones was once a player from the "Best Defensive Lineup," he was past his prime. He managed defending Stephen Jackson and Tinsley well, but guarding Su Wan was a bit too much for him.

Little O’Neal scored 22 points and 13 rebounds.

Similarly, with Shaquille O’Neal constricting space under the basket, he could only make jump shots, but if it were only Haslem, he could make this guy’s face swell with slaps.

"Let’s congratulate the Pacers for their win tonight, a somewhat unexpected game, but... Shaquille’s departure, if one must find a root cause, it would inevitably be his violent pulling on Su Wan, so all this is due to his own bad habits, encountering a group of tough people, nothing more."

Bill Walton had repeatedly expressed his displeasure with Shaquille O’Neal’s violent pulling on players who attempted to slam dunk over him.

But the "Big Shark" never took it to heart.

That’s precisely why this "incident" occurred today.

Barkley was equally pleased with the outcome of Shaquille’s withdrawal. His gaze remained on the departing Pacers, Tinsley, Jackson, Artest... A group of people tightly surrounded Su Wan in the midst of the booing crowd, calmly exiting the scene, their backs vanishing into the visitors’ tunnel.

Barkley said, "I think I just saw a pack of wolves from Siberia!"

Unified, yet wild.

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