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Chapter 677: Chapter 480 Damn Good Person (Combined) Chapter 677: Chapter 480 Damn Good Person (Combined) After defeating the Knight, the Supersonics announced Roy was put on the daily watchlist.
The news that Roy was unhindered relieved many of the Supersonic supporters.
They quietly left Cleveland.
A day later, the Los Angeles Lakers arrived here.
Currently, the Lakers were ranked first in the league, with Kobe leading the latest MVP prediction list.
Some people believed that James’s influence exceeded Kobe’s, but at this time, no one wanted to support a notorious person.
The gap in strength between the Lakers and the Knight was too vast. Under normal circumstances, television networks wouldn’t nationally broadcast this game.
However, considering this was the “traitor’s” first game back in Cleveland, just the potential incidents at the venue alone made it worth the major television networks’ extensive promotion.
ABC, TNT, ESPN… The cable networks began to hype it up.
Online, trolls began to imagine the possibility of bringing lethal weapons into Quicken Loans Arena to do something terrible to James.
That day, the Supersonics returned home to Seattle from an away game.
After the afternoon practice, Yu Fei returned home, instructed the chef not to prepare dinner, and decided to arrange it himself.
Yu Fei invited a group over for a barbecue and then ordered a pork chop meal. Those familiar with him knew he only ate pork chop meals on special days.
Although Yu Fei’s personal trainer, Tim Grover, objected to him eating fried pork chops, Yu Fei always had a good excuse.
“LeBron is about to flaunt his current partner in front of his ex whom he dumped live, do you think I shouldn’t celebrate such a big day with a good meal?”
Considering Yu Fei’s net worth–not to mention his successful investments–Yu Fei’s career was linked to whether Reebok could become a billion-dollar sports brand in the future, and if it was to replace Nike, he needed to maintain long-term competitiveness.
“Jordan would have been greater if he had developed healthy eating habits in his youth,” Grover said.
Yu Fei retorted, “Did that affect him becoming the Greatest of All Time?”
“He could have achieved even more,” Grover said.
Yu Fei truly wasn’t sure whether the major injury that ended his sophomore season or the year and a half retirement during his prime to play baseball had a bigger impact on Jordan, or whether the failure to develop healthy eating habits had a larger impact.
Fairly speaking, the season-ending and baseball hiatus had a bigger impact, genuinely costing Jordan two and a half years of his prime.
For someone who solidified his GOAT status before age 35, time was more precious than gold.
So, Yu Fei, not yet 28, had already matched Jordan in honors.
He planned to retire around age 35. Could an occasional pork chop meal as a reward really cause him to plummet before he turned 35?
Thus, he didn’t take the advice.
“Do you guys think LeBron will avoid playing tonight?” Kwame Brown mocked, “This wimp was still cursing at fans on Twitter yesterday!”
Little O couldn’t believe it, “He would do that?”
Then Brown pulled up the tweet.
What happened was, when James posted a life update tweet, a hater commented below saying, “You’d better not come back to Cleveland, you know we’ll kill you!”
James replied, “You’ll die before me.”
Just as Little O stated that the guy really went crazy, Brown suddenly hugged his laptop and exclaimed, “Less than half an hour till the game starts, and he posted another tweet!”
Yu Fei curiously asked, “How do you know? Did you follow him?”
“Yes, but that’s not the point, check out his latest tweet!”
James’s latest tweet read. “New day, still alive. Let me clarify my statement last night: Yes, some people’s lives have always been sad, you just need to know, you will one day die before me, so your malice has no impact on me. #KINGJ #StayReal”
“He really is a bit off,” Little O said.
Yet, Yu Fei felt a sense of deja vu.
It somewhat resembled Irving’s erratic phase with the Brooklyn Nets, but Yu Fei always felt there was a more similar example.
Indeed, there was–Durant in the summer of 2017.
After the burner account incident was exposed, Durant began a career as an internet warrior, and sparring with netizens became his standard show. Yet, strangely, while Irving and Durant’s images were forever defined by their outbursts, James miraculously returned to being “himself” during the 2010s.
Was it the strength of the PR team or the individual?
Perhaps James’s rebellious phase had come a bit late, and he quickly emerged from it?
No one knew, but tonight’s game was the only thing that mattered.
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Although the internet was full of threats against James, the security measures at Quicken Loans Arena were very stringent. They ensured that every fan could bring their hatred for James, but could not physicalize any of it.
There were people on the Lakers Team who could empathize with James, one of them was Kobe.
When he failed to remain loyal to his hometown during the 2001 finals and tearfully lifted his second championship trophy, people in Philadelphia still felt Kobe hadn’t been a thorough enough mole, and their dislike for him reached new heights. This external hatred peaked after the summer 2003 Eagle County incident.
No matter where Kobe played, he was received with local fan hostility like a rat.
Hence, Kobe lightly tapped James in support at the start of the game.