Chapter 138: Why did the Emperor surrender first

Kobe is a person who cannot tolerate "laziness, slackness, and mediocrity." The failure of this game made him realize shame. The whole team was completely crushed by a group of old men from the Dallas Mavericks in terms of mental state.

If it weren't for Fan Xi and him fighting stubbornly, the game would have ended in three quarters.

Is this the level the Lakers should have?

Is this the level of a team that wants to achieve a three-peat dynasty?

Therefore, Kobe angrily called Lamar Odom and Andrew Bynum for extra practice after the game. He hoped to use this way to lift the spirits of the two teammates, so they wouldn't live like walking dead.

Odom and Kobe Bryant had known each other for many years, and Odom knew Kobe very well, so he quickly entered the state of extra practice. He worked diligently, and he also realized his terrible performance in this game.

However, Andrew Bynum was different. His spirit still hadn't changed. He was still giving up on himself.

He felt that Fan Xi had taken his position, and his painstaking "framing" not only didn't make Fan Xi ruined, but made his reputation even stronger.

He surrendered.

He accepted his fate.

He accepted that Fan Xi was the team's future successor.

He knew he couldn't change anything, so he just lay flat.

This is a coward's mentality.

The weak will always walk on this road.

Kobe Bryant saw that Andrew Bynum still looked like this when he came to the court for extra practice. He was so angry that he threw the basketball at Bynum's back and roared at him: "Is this your sportsmanship?"

Theoretically, Kobe had no right to do this to Bynum.

Because Bynum, like him, was just a player for the Lakers, and they were just a working relationship. Kobe didn't pay Bynum's salary, and Bynum didn't need to listen to Kobe's dispatch.

However, basketball is not an ordinary working relationship after all. They must fight as a whole, and a leader who issues orders must inevitably be produced in the battle.

All along, Kobe was.

Bynum had also lived under Kobe's command before, although he was unwilling in his heart, he would silently follow according to the gap in "strength and experience."

However, now, he didn't do that anymore.

He broke the jar and broke it.

He roared at Kobe Bryant: "If your sportsmanship is so good, why can't you win? Why do you have to blame me for doing work I don't like..."

The two argued against each other.

The Lakers staff on the side were scared to death.

Internal strife in the playoffs is a disaster for any team.

Kobe Bryant didn't expect Bynum to be so bold as to refute himself. He was stunned for a while, then stepped up. He pointed at the center he had watched grow up, his eyes full of: Are your wings hard?

And Bynum actually didn't retreat, he also topped up, he wanted to fight against Kobe... he made up his mind.

Seeing that neither of them had room to turn around.

Fan Xi rushed up, he quickly blocked Bynum.

Then, he pulled the Little Shark directly to the side.

He used all his strength, and the strength talent from Ben Wallace allowed him to pull Bynum to the sidelines.

Similarly, Lamar Odom also quickly pulled Kobe Bryant to the other side.

No one wanted to make this matter big. After all, this was in the Dallas arena. With a little bit of movement, tomorrow's news would make a big fuss.

By then, the Lakers, who were already behind, would have their morale scattered, and this round of playoffs would be lost without a fight.

"Andrew, I know what you are thinking."

Fan Xi pulled Bynum to the side and said to Bynum, who was still stiff-necked: "You just think I took away your glory, and everything I have now should have belonged to you."

Fan Xi hit Bynum's mind.

Bynum lowered his head, looking at Fan Xi with hostility.

Fan Xi looked directly at him and continued with a very affirmative tone: "But you chose the wrong path. If you want to kill me and take back what belongs to you. You should cooperate with me, not form your own faction."

"You are a center, you need my passing."

"I can make your post-up easier, I can make your stats better. I can make you the league's number one center, I can make you the most popular hunk in the Los Angeles nightlife, I can even make you walk on the red carpet of the Grammys."

"However, you have always kept me out, you wrongly treated me as an opponent, and there is only a rough and stupid 'zero-sum thinking' in your head."

"My pitiful Little Shark, basketball is like the stock market, understand? I rise, you will also rise, and then the Lakers will soar rapidly. When the Lakers soar rapidly, do you think you are still far from what you want?"

"You are the best center of the three-peat Lakers, you average 20+10 in the finals, you will get the highest salary in the league, you will lift the championship trophy, you even have a chance to touch the Finals MVP..."

Fan Xi said very seriously to Bynum.

Bynum's eyes changed significantly.

He changed from paranoid to gentle, from negative to "restless."

Fan Xi described a very beautiful scene for him.

His reason told him that what Fan Xi said was correct.

His sensibility told him that the pie Fan Xi drew could be eaten.

If he really became a league superstar center and lifted the Finals MVP, what Fan Xi has now, he could indeed possess in an instant.

He was silent for a few seconds, then looked at Fan Xi: "Can I believe you?"

Fan Xi reached out his hand, didn't reach Bynum's head, and said: Lower your head.

Bynum lowered his head obediently.

Fan Xi patted his green explosion head and said to him: "You don't even want to call me Brother Jack."

"Brother Jack."

Bynum said subconsciously.

Then a kind of "shame" emerged in his mind: Why is this? Why is this? I clearly hate him the most, why am I submissive to him now? Is it because I was confused for a while? No, I'm just a plan of expediency. When I get the MVP, I will definitely pat his head and let him call me Brother Shark.

"Okay, go and say sorry to Kobe. Then, let's practice the pick-and-roll."

Fan Xi said to Bynum.

Bynum's eyes dodged, he was very resistant.

But Fan Xi's eyes were very firm.

So, Bynum was half-pushed, and he walked over.

Kobe thought he was coming to continue the argument, but Bynum lowered his head and said: "Sorry, Kobe, I was too loud just now."

Saying that, he walked to the other side.

Kobe was very surprised.

Although Bynum often apologized to him before.

But ever since Bynum signed a high salary, his arrogance became more and more apparent. He felt he could compete with Kobe.

However, now, after Fan Xi said a few words to him, he was actually willing to come over and say "apology." Although it looked like there was no sincerity, having a posture proved that he lowered his head.

Kobe looked at Fan Xi strangely: "How did you handle him?"

Fan Xi shrugged and said: "United front."

Kobe didn't understand.

He didn't understand such profound knowledge.

Fan Xi had already gone to practice with Bynum.

Bynum's figure is indeed unique. He has the hardware foundation of a super center, and his technology has been polished by Jabbar and others for years. Although it hasn't reached the peak, it is enough in the current league where centers are scarce.

The screen he provided for Fan Xi was of very high quality.

Fan Xi also asked clearly about his several favorable scoring points, including where he is used to initiating attacks, and how he needs Fan Xi to help him clear the double-team on the wing.

The communication between the two was smooth.

It was even something Bynum had never experienced before.

Bynum played happier and happier, and felt more and more that cooperating with Fan Xi was a smart choice.

Although, this required him to cooperate as a "little brother."

However, Bynum felt... it didn't seem to matter much. Wasn't he a little brother to Kobe before? Kobe wasn't as easy to talk to as Fan Xi before, and Kobe didn't pass the ball to him.

After Bynum figured out this link, he actually felt enlightened, and he actually accepted the fact that Fan Xi was faintly half a head taller than himself.

Jean Bas, Magic Johnson, Jabbar, and others far away in Los Angeles were still preparing to put pressure on the coaching staff, letting the coaching staff change their ways and establish a style of play with Bynum as the priority while taking advantage of the failure.

Who knew, Bynum surrendered first.

This is "the ministers are just trying to fight to the death, why did the Emperor surrender first."

"Jack... Brother, can you tell me how you attracted so many female stars to kiss you on the sidelines?"

After the extra practice, Bynum caught up with Fan Xi's pace, and he asked the question he cared about most: "Did you pay money?"

Fan Xi rolled his eyes at him and scolded him angrily: "Do you think it's picking a girl in a nightclub? Making women like you, especially famous women, doesn't rely on throwing money, doesn't rely on dressing yourself up, but relies on... attraction."

Attraction?

Bynum pondered this sentence.

He hurriedly asked: "How to attract?"

"You still have a lot to learn." Fan Xi said pretentiously.

In Bynum's heart, it was all the style of a master.

He really wanted to be liked by female stars like Fan Xi. He had slept with many women who paid for it, although many were also very beautiful. But conquering these well-known female stars, famous women who were sought after by thousands, could make him have psychological superiority and a sense of conquest.

This was another reason he was willing to lower his head to Fan Xi.

But Fan Xi had no knowledge or skills to pass on to him, because he didn't know why he was so popular.

When Phil Jackson learned that Andrew Bynum was listening to Fan Xi, he was completely stunned.

He was an experienced NBA head coach. He had handled many thorns, created competition and opposition within the team, and resolved many conflicts... including Rodman and Pippen not being right with each other in the Bulls back then, but overall it was good.

He originally wanted to work hard between Bynum and Fan Xi, but the effect was minimal. Bynum was like a spoiled child. He only knew how to be willful, he only knew how to give up on himself, and he had no sportsmanship at all.

However, when he learned 10 minutes after Kobe and Bynum almost fought, the leader told him that Bynum had already listened to Jack Fan. He was like a dog beside Jack. When Jack wanted to touch his head, he actually squatted down and let Jack touch it.

Hiss!!!

Phil Jackson gasped at that moment.

He had been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and he had really never seen this situation.

He asked Lao Wente.

Lao Wente also looked confused and said: "Jack, I really can't see through it more and more. He is directly turning the competitor for the throne into a little brother."

"If Jean Bas and Jim Bas know, they should be very embarrassed, right?"

Lao Wente said "with ill intentions."

Jim Bas and Jean Bas were the successors of the Lakers club. They were also competing for the control of the team... their father, Old Bas's life would soon end.

Jim Bas was Old Bas's second son, and his iron-clad follower was general manager Kupchak.

Jean Bas was Old Bas's daughter. She had always been deeply involved with basketball, including sleeping with many famous basketball players. Magic Johnson supported her very much.

Magic was a small shareholder of the Lakers. After retiring, he was a very successful businessman, but he also hoped that one day he could enter the Lakers club and do more work for the team he once played for.

If Jim Bas mastered the Lakers' power, he would have no chance at all.

But Jean Bas had promised him that as long as she got the dominant power, the first thing would be to let Magic become the team's general manager and let him start a new plan.

Therefore, these two groups of people in the family business started betting on both sides to compete for the final dominant power.

Jean Bas supported Andrew Bynum because Bynum was watched by them growing up, and he was a center. The league had always respected centers.

Jim Bas naturally supported Fan Xi. He was Fan Xi's Bole, and the shocking tens of millions of rookie annual salary that Fan Xi received was given by him despite the opposition.

Therefore, the competition within the team was very fierce.

Jean Bas was trying to put pressure on the coaching staff by taking advantage of this Lakers failure, but Bynum surrendered first.

Fan Xi watched the report on TV.

The local TV station in Dallas was enthusiastically telling the Texas cowboys: The Lakers are doomed to fail. Their center and Kobe Bryant had a fierce dispute, and they couldn't play normally anymore.

ESPN followed up on this report.

The experts on TV used a lot of conspiracy theories, especially the guy named Stephen Smith, who told the media: "The source of all this is Jack Fan. Kobe's favoritism toward Jack Fan is visible to the naked eye. The whole team seems to be serving Jack Fan, and this dispute between Bynum and Kobe is essentially Kobe standing up for Jack."

"However, Kobe is too confused. He must remember that the reason he was able to three-peat back then was because he and another super center were united."

"And now, he actually wants to cast aside the team's most powerful center for a point guard. Simply absurd."

Stephen Smith said with certainty.

Fan Xi watched and raised his eyebrows, his mouth twitching.

He asked Bynum, who was sitting next to him: "Is that what you think too?"

Bynum raised his eyebrows and said: "... But it cannot be denied that Kobe likes you more."

"Go wash my socks."

Fan Xi ordered Bynum.

He had been with Bynum for a night, and he already understood that Bynum was the kind of person who hoped to be ordered and whipped.

In other words, he was a bit of a masochist.

... ===== CHAPTER 139 =====