Volume 5: Unrivaled

Volume Five: Unmatched — Restless by Nature. "Xunzi truly did not deceive me: crabs have six legs and two claws, yet without the burrows of snakes and eels, they have nowhere to lodge themselves—because their minds are restless!" Unfortunately, neither of those qualities was reflected in James. Since then, James had faced Curry four times and lost every one. Forget surpassing Jordan—even whether he could surpass Malone had become an unknown. Yet James had never been willing to leave his comfort zone. He would never change himself for his teammates; he had to have the ball in his hands at all times. He had even staged that "eight points to relinquish ball-handling rights" farce in the Finals to force Wade to give up the ball. But the moment he saw that he could not win a title with the Heat, he ran back to the Cavaliers. Suddenly, he was no longer playing brotherhood basketball but hometown basketball, inevitably becoming a laughingstock. James's ability had not declined over more than a decade. Though he did not have a single championship, he had never lost when it came to comparing stats. His media marketing was even greater than Curry's, despite Curry having won five championships, and he had accumulated a huge fanbase. After all, there was only one champion. Not everyone besides the champion was a loser. What mattered most in competitive sports was the belief in pursuing higher, faster, and stronger, along with the spirit of never giving up and fighting bravely. Unlike the commercial mutual praise among stars, the fans of the two teams had already descended into a filthy brawl. They had created countless chat groups to insult one another, using parents as the center, relatives as the radius, the letter B as an aid, and ancestors as the