The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 258 - 160 From Now On I Call Him Bike_3

Chapter 258: Chapter 160 From Now On I Call Him Bike_3

Kobe wanted to try again, but he was stopped, his look warning:

"You can withstand a major defeat, even turning your anger into motivation, but your teammates can’t handle it!"

Kobe, stubborn, didn’t want to sit on the bench and do nothing until the game ended; that would be too torturous. But he also didn’t want to strain the fragile peace he had finally established with Phil Jackson. He muttered a curse under his breath and headed toward the bench.

Vujacic immediately gave up his seat on the bench and let his gaze wander everywhere. As long as he didn’t look at Kobe, everywhere else seemed like paradise.

He feared Kobe would ask, "We’re both from the ’04 draft class, what the hell are you doing?"

When Kobe sat down, he looked over at the Pacers’ bench, watching Su Wan high-fiving little O’Neal and Artest, and suddenly felt envious.

He accepted that his fate was to lead the team alone; it was his choice.

But recalling how he was surrounded by three big men, with no escape, the feeling of helplessness surged through. For the first time the thought crossed his mind:

"I need Phil Jackson, as well as a ’Shaquille O’Neal’!"

It wasn’t strange to have such a thought.

When facing setbacks, one’s thoughts and concepts are bound to change.

Although the Lakers were currently ranked seventh in the Western Conference and didn’t have a significant edge over the eighth-ranked team, their stats this season were similar to the Wizards’ last season, scoring an average of 103.3 points per game and allowing 103.4 points.

The difference was only 0.1 point!

With an "Unrivaled" Kobe, the Lakers could compete with any team till the end, rarely experiencing a collapse like tonight’s.

When Su Wan had declared he would hand them a disastrous defeat, Kobe had scoffed derisively because of this.

He believed that with him on the Lakers, even if they lost, it wouldn’t be a rout.

Yet...

The Lakers faced the most crushing defeat of the season.

Seeing Su Wan and his teammates high-fiving each other in victory, Kobe even missed the days when that fat guy was with the Lakers.

He longed for the feeling of winning until he became sick.

Unfortunately now, all he could do was watch as his team was pulverized 81 to 106, a 25-point catastrophe.

After the game ended, Su Wan waited early. Kobe didn’t immediately head toward the players’ tunnel.

Sometimes, he could accept such a defeat.

As long as it wasn’t in the finals.

"Don’t be so curious next time, Kobe. But you should thank me; it’s been a while since you had such a long vacation!"

Go to hell!

Kobe cursed fiercely in his mind, forcing a smile on his face, pretending not to care about Su Wan’s trash talk: "Just you wait, Su Wan, you’re only 20 years old!"

His meaning was that there’s a long road ahead, who knows what might happen? Don’t be so smug. NovelFire.Côm-cσ๓

Yet Su Wan responded, "Yeah, 20 years old and I already have a Finals MVP. What about those who are 28 and still haven’t won one?"

Damn it!

Kobe felt they couldn’t continue this conversation any longer; if they did, his blood pressure would explode.

Post-game interview:

"Kobe brought the Raptors a devastating massacre, and we handed Kobe a 25-point defeat. This is the NBA!" — Su Wan describing the 25-point victory after the game. This world is a place where "people trample on each other, and the gun targets the bird that sticks its head out."

"I’ll call him Bike in the future! Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying he’s the Demon King, I’m saying he scored only 18 points in this game." — Su Wan’s comment on Kobe’s performance of only 18 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 turnovers tonight.

Kobe scored 81 points and successfully defeated the dragons.

Tonight, scoring only 18 points and facing a devastating defeat in Conseco Arena, naturally he was "Bike."

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