The Way of Basketball: Never Talk Shit to Him!
Chapter 259 - 161: God’s Test for the "Chosen One" Continues

Chapter 259: Chapter 161: God’s Test for the "Chosen One" Continues

The next morning, news of Indiana’s big victory over the Lakers spread all over the United States.

Many media outlets were surprised by this.

The Pacers defeating the Lakers wasn’t anything too significant.

The Pacers’ current record had them sitting second in the Eastern Conference, and had Su Wan not been suspended and missed six games, it was very likely that their late-season momentum would have secured them the first place in both the Eastern Conference and the entire league.

What was there to fuss about a team like that beating the seventh-placed team in the Western Conference?

But they had expected the game to feature Kobe scoring high and the Pacers taking the victory.

This would have been very in keeping with the way the Lakers had been losing all season.

They were rarely defeated by a huge margin.

But the Lakers ended up losing by a full 25 points.

The fourth quarter turned into "garbage time."

Do you know what kind of situation leads to "garbage time?"

It’s not that a team is down by 20 points; if that were the case, the NBA wouldn’t have seen so many classic "big comebacks."

It happens when the head coach judges that continuing to play will only make things worse, and chooses to give up on the game.

This shows just how badly the Lakers were overpowered.

Kobe only scored 18 points, which surprised experts all around.

So far this season, Kobe’s lowest scoring game had been 24 points.

And in this game, Kobe scored only 18 points.

His shooting percentage was a terrible 33%!

They couldn’t even remember the last time Kobe had such a dismal performance.

Artest, Su Wan, and Little O’Neal’s "trio" certainly made a name for themselves.

Hubie Brown, who had just won "Coach of the Year" last season and had stepped down because of injuries to become an ABC commentator again, said, "This Pacers team now has the ability to lock down any top perimeter player in the league, which is terrifying!"

Because this means that when it comes to the playoffs’ knife-fight, the opponent thinks they’ve launched a nuclear bomb, but after throwing it, they find it’s a "dud."

Bill Duffy also said, "This season we have been so focused on Ron Artest wanting to get ’Defensive Player of the Year’ and their changes on the offensive end that we’ve overlooked that this team has also acquired a set of top-notch defensive capabilities."

Praises swept in from all directions.

The reason was simple, the one they had shut down was Kobe, the same Kobe who scored 81 points in a single game!

But when Su Wan got to the locker room early in the morning, he found Little O’Neal sitting alone in front of his locker, fuming at a newspaper article. He approached and caught a glimpse of the headline, "Amare Stoudemire: A championship won by fighting is nothing special!"

Were these two still engaged in a "war of words"?

Su Wan remembered, since the last game against the Phoenix Suns, where Little O’Neal claimed to be an "enhanced version of Little Si," the conflict between the two had continued to this day, almost two months now.

Sometimes you have to admire the patience men have on certain trigger points.

Little O’Neal probably couldn’t take it anymore and launched a "Kill": "Let this guy win a championship before he continues to argue with me!"

But now it seemed like Little O’Neal got "killed" in return.

Upon seeing Su Wan, he stood up as if seeing a "savior" and said very seriously, "Su, no, Su Wan, we must win the championship again this year, I must shut Amare up for good!"

Su looked at him, clicking his tongue in displeasure.

Little O’Neal was puzzled, "Did I say something wrong?"

Su Wan shook his head, "Getting the championship isn’t wrong, but the ultimate goal of arguing with someone is to win the argument, to make the other person frustrated, not to prove yourself. By the time you get the championship in June, the moment will have passed!"

"What’s the moment?" Little O’Neal’s attention temporarily drifted.

Su Wan: "..."

"So what should I do?" asked Little O’Neal, turning his gaze to Su Wan, realizing he should have asked sooner.

Su Wan said, "You should get Little Si to write a complaint letter to the league and have our championship taken back."

"Wouldn’t that disgust him to death?"

Little O’Neal laughed, finally understanding, and nodded in sudden realization.

He had learned!

February 1st arrived, the day when January’s "Players of the Month" were announced.

The regular-season MVP race between Su Wan and Dirk Nowitzki reached a fever pitch.

Because this time, they were both selected together.

The Dallas media and the Indiana media escalated their war of words, back and forth, quite lively indeed.

Additionally, the league announced the starting line-ups for this year’s All-Star Game happening in February in Houston after over a month of voting.

The final rosters were set.

In the East, the two guards were Dwyane Wade and Su Wan, the forwards were Little O’Neal and Vince Carter, and the center was Shaquille O’Neal; in the West, the two guards were Kobe and Steve Nash, the forward spots were filled by Kevin Garnett and McGrady, with Yao as the center.

Su Wan emerged as the ultimate "Ticket King" this year.

Besides his stable domestic and Indiana fan base, this year he also gained support from the Asian and Asian-American communities, which helped him surpass Yao with 2,543,255 votes to become the final All-Star Ticket King.

Little O’Neal also became an Eastern All-Star starting forward as he wished, thanks to his more explosive playing style and the support of fans from Huaxia.

Indiana became the biggest winner in this All-Star voting.

As for the biggest "loser"...

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