Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters

"You and your friend don't have to do anything," Yu Fei confidently said, "I can handle it myself."

Lin Kaiwen let out a surprised sound, "Ah???"

Lawson, being a man of principle, felt that he didn't need any help to deal with Yu Fei and his two friends, so he casually picked two henchmen to join the game.

Seeing this, the sneering former teammate of Yu Fei began to mock him again, "Big Tony, you really think too highly of Fulai by picking two reserves. Despite his height, he really can't play basketball. You could even choose me and I'd still kick his ass!"

The crowd erupted in jeers, but Lawson did not actually let that person join the game and instead handed the ball to Yu Fei, "We'll play to eleven, and the side that scores continues the offense. You go first."

"How embarrassing for me, I really don't like taking advantage," Yu Fei stepped forward and left the ball outside, "As the defending team, by my understanding, you should play the first ball."

Yu Fei's actions had nothing to do with the reason he gave; he just wanted to take the opportunity to warm up. After all, counting from his arrival, he had been here for only two days, and he certainly did not want to leave behind any scenes of early human limb taming.

Lawson passed the ball to his henchman, who moved into the paint to stick to Yu Fei.

Yu Fei's height advantage was immediately apparent.

Whereas Lin Kaiwen and the white guy with glasses were nervously watching their opponents, neither of them really knew how to play basketball.

"Just guard the shot, and if they want to come in, let them," Yu Fei said to Lin Kaiwen in Mandarin, and then the white guy with glasses was out of position.

Yu Fei didn't need to remind them actively; they would get broken through easily because they had no sense of lowering their center of gravity, and it was very easy to break through them."

"The first point is mine!"

The little black guy who broke through the white guy with glasses, boasting sausage-like full lips, was especially enthusiastic during his layup. However, before he could get excited, Yu Fei's block came from the sky.

Perhaps in just an instant, Yu Fei shook off Lawson and exploded upward, raising his long arm to block the ball.

The moment he completed the block, Yu Fei adjusted his posture in mid-air, landed, and chased down the ball, dribbling it out to the three-point line.

His outstanding mobility, excellent explosive power, and developed sports nerves were fully demonstrated in this play.

While dribbling the ball, Yu Fei looked over to the crowd at his former teammate, and with a smile, he asked, "Donnie, when are you coming up to try?"

After speaking, Yu Fei lowered his center of gravity, crossed between his legs to shake off the little black guy with sausage lips, and went straight into the free-throw line, catching the ball and taking two big steps to shoot and score with the "flame burning sky" layup.

Lawson was right under the basket, but he was completely unable to stop Yu Fei; the gap in talent was like a chasm.

"We get to continue on offense, right?"

Yu Fei asked Lawson after picking the ball up from the ground with one hand.

Lawson then entered the same state as Lin Kaiwen: "Ah?"

And Yu Fei tossed the ball from the paint to Lin Kaiwen, shouting loudly, "Pass it to me!"

Lin Kaiwen didn't believe in accidental lab radiation leaks, alien bloodlines, mysterious experiments, genetic legacy, or any of those gene mutations that only occur in superhero comics.

However, his good friend Yu Fei had indeed become different starting from yesterday.

Basically, apart from the outward appearance, he was like a different person.

Lin Kaiwen clumsily lobbed the ball to Yu Fei.

Then Yu Fei turned, shedding the pressure Lawson had put on him, and threw his opponent to the floor; his eyes widened as he stared at the basket, his ambition surging, and he charged towards it with the ball. Lawson's two teammates scrambled back under the basket in an attempt to halt Yu Fei's charge.

All in vain!

They had barely lifted off the ground by 10 centimeters when Yu Fei had already jumped to the greatest height, a place he had never reached in the previous eighteen years, and the ball in his hands hammered down into the basket, shattering not just the confidence of his opponents but also his previous life.

All that once belonged to him had died on the previous morning, but it was also that moment when he was reborn. In this unexpectedly granted second life, he was sure he would do something great, to achieve eternal significance.

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"Juan Howard: MJ doesn't know what I'm going through." — The Washington Post

"The young genius from Georgia, Kwame Brown, has already become a big deal in the basketball world." — The Atlanta Constitution

"The Kings Team should enjoy every day with C-Webb." — ESPN Dispatch

"Here's an unfortunate piece of news for everyone, the basketball team's next captain 'Big Tony' got completely defeated by an amateur enthusiast in the school gymnasium. The Royal Team has no future." — Kent Meridian High School Broadcast.

(1) "Because the mediocre Royal Team is ranked fourth in the Kent School District preliminaries." Kent Meridian High School belongs to the 4A level in that district, and there are four 4A high schools in the Kent School District. So, being ranked fourth is essentially the last place.