Min Congda's growth experience after school was completely opposite to that of LeBron James.
He has never been a genius, and the system even rated him as having "lower than average intelligence"...
To put it bluntly, he is an ordinary person, ordinary from head to toe, with an ordinary background, ordinary appearance, and ordinary grades. He went to an ordinary school and found an ordinary job.
After experiencing an ordinary time travel (no going to another world and no rebirth), he encountered an ordinary system (no endless money and no superpowers), and was given an ordinary task (he was not asked to save the world, practice immortality, etc. ), continue to earn an ordinary salary (compared to the average income in the NBA), and do not do well, still ordinary (bankruptcy is far away).
To say that it is not ordinary, one is the basketball talent that was discovered by Min Congda. It is indeed great, but it also has flaws and cannot predict people's potential.
And this is what he needs most to show off, but the result is not there yet.
Another one is the Clippers. Their history cannot be described as ordinary, but too bad.
For an ordinary person like Min Congda, confidence is a luxury, and most of the time he is not confident.
Most of his confidence now comes from "I can't do this well, but I can smash it."
Whenever the system changes the task to "leading the Clippers to win the championship", Min Congda will be GG and will not dare to accept it.
How confident Min Congda is now means how unconfident he was in the past.
People who are not confident are often accompanied by fear and keep escaping in order to stay away from fear.
At a certain moment, Min Congda suddenly understood James somewhat. He saw something in James that others could hardly see.
"LeBron, when you come to the Clippers, are you trying to escape from something? What are you afraid of in your heart?" Min Congda asked James.
James shook his head and said: "No, I never thought about escaping, and I'm not afraid. I said, I just want to change my job. It's nothing, right? Cleveland is not suitable for me, so I will go to a place that suits me. The place."
Min Congda said: "Really? In that case, there are so many people on Twitter asking you whether you will stay in Cleveland, why don't you answer them?"
"I said, I will announce on ESPN's program "The Decision" that the revenue from the broadcast of the program will be donated to charitable organizations. Also, you haven't answered me yet, why did you refuse me to go to the Clippers?"
"No, I'm answering you. I'm using questions to help you understand yourself better. When you understand yourself, that's when you know the answer."
James had a disdainful smile on his face, but it was a little forced, and he couldn't help biting his fingernails.
Min Congda noticed this detail, poured another cup of tea for James, and continued to ask: "You said you are not afraid. Aren't you afraid that you will not win a championship in your life? Are you not afraid that you will not be able to fulfill your business commitments and values? No. Afraid of not living up to the fans’ expectations of you, not afraid of never being what you want to be?”
James opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer. He couldn't deny it, but he couldn't affirm it either. He chose to remain silent.
"No, you are afraid, you are afraid of all this. In fact, everyone has fears, but some people choose to escape, and some people choose to face their fears. And escaping is not a shameful behavior. Artest joined the Lakers last year and he won When it comes to the championship, why can’t you?”
"You're right. The NBA is just a job. Ordinary people can change jobs, go to places that suit them, and find better partners. What's wrong with that? Why should we have double standards? Why should we do it because of you? Blaming you for changing jobs? You don’t understand, you don’t think it’s an escape.”
"Even if it's an escape, so what? Is it LeBron?"
LeBron took a sip of tea and stammered: "I...I...I don't think it's an escape, I...don't think so."
"Yes, you don't feel like this is an escape, because you know that once you admit that you are running from these fears, you can't escape the most unacceptable truth - that is you, LeBron James, the chosen one Son, the basketball king you talk about is just an ordinary person who tries to find another solution when encountering difficulties."
"You are not a strong person who can control your own destiny. You are just a puppet under the strings of commercial capital. You are not a basketball fighter wearing armor, but a fragile, fatherless person wrapped in the emperor's new clothes, suffering and suffering in the slums. You grew up as a poor black boy. Your mother spent every drop of her sweat for your survival. Gunshots, drugs, and crime are always with you. Those corpses lying on the streets indicate your future possibilities. On countless desperate nights, you have Wail over your miserable fate until you meet basketball."
"Basketball gives you a whole new world, gives you the armor and weapons to arm yourself, and gives you the capital to show off your power. You are indeed very talented, and you have firmly grasped it. The painful experiences and insecurities in childhood This feeling makes you swear that you will use basketball to get ahead and firmly control your own destiny!"
"You feel that you are almost successful. You are going to be crowned king in Cleveland. Everyone is praising you and giving you the highest honor step by step. Only the crown is left. But basketball never lies. Time and time again. After a failure, you want to doubt yourself but you don’t allow it! You don’t allow yourself to be armed for so many years and disappear because of one escape!”
"You can't face the truest version of yourself, a cowardly little boy who needs security and care. That is your deepest fear. Wake up, LeBron, you are good, but not that good, your Shooting lacks talent. You work hard and optimize your shot selection, but you will never reach the heights of Kobe and Jordan. You are strong, your skills are solid enough but you lack polish. It’s not that you don’t want to but that you don’t have the ability and talent, so You need a system that is very suitable for you. You do some things very well, but you do some things very badly, and some things you do very badly. You, your team, and those who praise you, you Trying to hide something."
"But again, basketball doesn't lie. Basketball is a sport, a business, a war, but ultimately it's a skill."
"LeBron, you are not good at academics. You cannot face your true inner self. That is why I don't want you to come to the Clippers. This time, do you understand?"
LeBron James stared blankly at Min Congda. This Chinese man who seemed very short in front of him actually felt infinitely tall at this moment.
James has never felt like this with anyone else, because he has never had a father since he was a child, and he doesn't even know who his father is.
He has never felt the greatness of his father, nor has he experienced the sense of security of being protected.
Therefore, he has a strong desire to control. He must control everything in order to eliminate the uneasy fear in his heart.
Even with tens of millions or even hundreds of millions in assets, LeBron still doesn't want to stop controlling.
He made himself admired by thousands of people, and he made himself look like his destiny.
Before each game, he would throw magnesium powder on the technical table, which was a carefully choreographed move.
Make him look like a king who showers favor on his people.
But deep down James knew that he was not a king, he was just a helpless child without a father.
Sitting at the table, James remained silent. Smart's words cut open his heart like a scalpel.
The helpless child was presented to Min Congda.
After a long time, James said: "Smart, after listening to your words, I thought of the father I had never met."
Min Congda was drinking tea. He was so proud of his Oscar-winning performance of his lines that he almost burst into tears when he heard these words!
"Damn it, are you taking advantage of me? I treat you as a brother and you treat me as a father?"
(End of chapter)
