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"My God, I always thought that madman Latrell Sprewell was a fucking idiot, but I never imagined he was this much of a fucking idiot." O'Neal picked up the newspaper, clicking his tongue in amazement.

After the All-Star break, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles from their trip to the New York Knicks.

While preparing for the second half of the season at the practice facility, the choking incident erupted.

The uproar caused by it nearly affected the entire league.

One major difference between the NBA and the NCAA was the relationship between star players and coaches.

In college basketball, every player was merely a foot soldier under the coach and had to obey the coach's arrangements completely. A coach's authority outweighed everything else. He could keep a nationally famous high school recruit out of the starting lineup, or he could develop a newcomer who could not even earn an athletic scholarship into the core of the team.

It could be said that college basketball was purer. A coach led his players like a general leading his soldiers into battle.

But in the NBA? Every star-caliber player had as much say as an ordinary coach. They could question a coach's methods, complain about their role in the system, and even openly defy the coach and pressure management into firing him.

Such things happened all the time. In this commercialized league, unless a coach was a legendary figure whose name would go down in history, ordinary and young coaches did not have much of a voice.

And the madman's choking incident had exposed this reality to everyone.

Choking a coach?

In any country, in any sport, it was something no one could tolerate.

Even in the free country of the United States, the incident still sparked outrage among countless fans!

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