LeBron James running away? He's going all in on Curry.

Inside a luxury oceanfront villa on Miami's South Coast.

When Su Yang's comments about "riding on someone else's coattails" and "Wade is the real core" were broadcast on television, LeBron James, who had just been gloating over winning the series, instantly turned somber that his face seemed to drip water.

"That damn bastard! How dare he erase my stats and contributions from the series?!"

James slammed the remote control in his hand against the wall, sending shattered plastic fragments flying everywhere.

What he hates most is being compared to Wade's toughness by others when they see him disappearing in the fourth quarter!

Su Yang's words not only stirred up trouble in the Heat's locker room, but also nailed him to the pillar of shame that he "can only play well when the team is winning, and relies entirely on Wade when the team is losing!"

"Calm down, LeBron. This is just his impotent rage after losing the series."

Sitting across from him on the sofa was James's best friend and agent, Rich Paul.

As the key figure behind James's business empire, Rich Paul is a master of media warfare. He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, a shrewd and ruthless glint in his eyes.

"We can't let this Chinese-American kid stir up trouble in the media. Since he wants to talk about 'riding the coattails' and 'great teammates,' then we'll shut him up with the entire history of the NBA!"

Rich Paul stood up, immediately took out his phone, and began contacting James's public relations team and Nike's marketing executives at headquarters.

"Activate all media resources immediately! I want every sports headline in the US to be filled with our press release before sunrise tomorrow!"

The power of capital is terrifying.

Overnight, a massive "whitewashing campaign" and public backlash, fueled by Nike's financial power, swept across major sports forums and television programs across the United States.

Early in the morning, on ESPN's flagship program "First Take," several well-known "LeBron James's personal commentators" began a frantic whitewashing performance.

"Su Yang's remarks are simply absurd! Basketball is a five-player sport, and every great success is supported by great teammates!"

Rich Paul even personally intervened, giving an exclusive interview to Sports Illustrated and leading a fierce attack on Su Yang:

"The young owner of Cleveland clearly knows nothing about basketball history! No superstar in this league has ever won a championship single-handedly!"

"Look at Michael Jordan, the 'God of Basketball'! Before Scottie Pippen emerged, even when Jordan averaged 37 points per game, he never won a first-round playoff game! He was swept by the Boston Celtics in the playoffs and utterly dominated by the Detroit Pistons' 'Bad Boys'!"

"And look at Shaquille O'Neal! Before facing Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade, O'Neal was swept out of the playoffs every year during his early career with the Magic and Lakers!"

"And then there's the Boston Celtics' Big Three! Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen ushered in an era of superstars teaming up! LeBron just made the same right basketball choices as them!"

Nike's massive online marketing and public relations campaign has completely muddied the waters.

"Jordan also needed Pippen," "Shaq also needed Kobe," "The Celtics' Big Three were the originators of super teams"... These seemingly impeccable logics instantly elevated the nature of James's peak super team to the level of "following the historical trend."

Suddenly, James' fans online felt much more emboldened and flooded Su Yang's social media with sarcastic comments, accusing him of applying double standards.

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Faced with this overwhelming public relations backlash, what was Su Yang doing?

In the VIP lounge of Cleveland International Airport.

Su Yang, who was preparing to fly to Los Angeles for vacation, was dressed casually, wearing sunglasses, and leisurely drinking iced freshly squeezed juice.

Several paparazzi and local reporters, who had caught wind of the situation, finally managed to break through the outer security and breathlessly handed microphones to Su Yang.

"Mr. Su! Rich Paul and the entire American media are criticizing your comments last night! They say that great players need help, Jordan couldn't have gotten past the first round without Pippen, and the Celtics' Big Three pioneered the era of superstars teaming up! What is your response to this? Do you admit that your criticism of LeBron was too harsh?"

Looking at the reporters in front of him, their eyes gleaming with anticipation for a big story, Su Yang took off his sunglasses, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

You dare to embarrass yourself with such basic PR rhetoric?

"A response? Rich Paul's sophistry isn't worth writing a long essay to refute."

Su Yang toyed with the juice glass in his hand, faced the camera, and casually uttered a statement with devastating impact:

"At twenty-five, the age when your body is at its peak, you start making excuses to stick together when you encounter a setback... You really aren't willing to suffer any loss."

Upon hearing this, the surrounding reporters were all stunned.

"Using the Boston Big Three to whitewash him is a complete insult to those three veterans."

Su Yang ruthlessly tore off this fig leaf, saying, "When Pierce, Garnett, and Ray Allen joined forces, they were already thirty-one or thirty-two years old! They had persevered with their respective teams for over a decade, dedicating their entire youth to their original clubs, and only came together at the end of their careers to avoid any regrets!"

"And what about your king? He's only 25! Right in the prime of a basketball player's life! Instead of thinking about how to defeat his opponents when he can't beat them, he just defected and ran off to form the 'Avengers' with the other two top-five superstars in the league?"

"Mixing this kind of 'peak teamwork' that has no competitive spirit with the 'grouping together for warmth' of veteran players in their twilight years is just the kind of distorting of the truth that Nike's PR team is capable of."

The reporter's recording pen was almost shoved into Su Yang's face; this was absolutely an explosive quote!

But it's not over yet.

A hint of mockery flashed in Su Yang's eyes as he decided to put an end to the debate.

"As for Rich Paul using Michael Jordan as an example?"

Su Yang shook his head, his smile becoming even more sarcastic.

"Michael Jordan was indeed tormented by the Detroit Pistons' 'Bad Boys' back then, getting beaten and bruised for three consecutive years."

"But Jordan never held a nationally televised event, looking miserable, and said, 'This fall, I've made a tough decision: I'm taking my talents to the Big Apple to join my good brother, Patrick Ewing!'"

"He never went to Houston to form some kind of peak duo with Hakeem Olajuwon!"

"Jordan chose to stay in Chicago, falling down time and time again, getting back up each time, going to the gym to build muscle like crazy, until he personally overcame the Pistons!"

"If Jordan had done what someone else did back then, running away when he encountered difficulties at his peak age of 25 and teaming up with superstars of Ewing's or Hakeem's caliber..."

Su Yang paused, then suddenly mimicked LeBron James's iconic gesture from the Heat's Big Three meet-and-greet, striking the pose arrogantly with a tone brimming with extreme sarcasm and imitation:

"Then I think Jordan will be able to easily fulfill the boast of some coward—"

"It's not just about winning six championships."

"And it is: Not 1 (not one), not 2 (not two), not 3 (not three), not 4 (not four), not 5 (not five), not 6 (not six), not 7 (not seven)!"

boom!

The reporters at the scene gasped, their eyes wide with shock, and some even covered their mouths and snickered.

Lore!

A complete logical crushing and extreme mockery!

Su Yang's words precisely exposed the hypocritical mask that Rich Paul and Nike's PR team had painstakingly woven overnight.

Yes, Jordan had Pippen, who was developed by the Bulls themselves through the draft! Kobe and Shaq were built through management's trades and drafting! The Celtics' Big Three were the last hurrah of veterans in their twilight years!

In the entire history of the league, has anyone else like LeBron James, at the absolute peak of his career at 25, as an MVP in his prime, voluntarily taken a pay cut to team up with two other superstars of the same caliber?

"Alright, that concludes the interview. Best of luck to the Heat in the upcoming playoffs, and hopefully you can deliver on that great promise of 'not one, not two'."

Su Yang casually tossed his empty juice glass into the trash can and, surrounded by bodyguards, boarded the first-class cabin to Los Angeles without looking back.

A few hours later.

As this airport interview video was uploaded to the internet, parodies of phrases like "25-year-olds at their peak, sticking together," "not taking a loss at all," and "Not 1, Not 2" instantly went viral worldwide!

The "Jordan-Pippen theory," which Rich Paul and Nike spent millions of dollars on public relations, crumbled instantly in the face of Su Yang's scathing and sarcastic remarks, becoming the biggest laughing stock on the internet!