NBA: I Told You to Watch the Water Cooler, Not Build a Basketball Dynasty!

With his own strength, he ended the league's small-ball era. In the post-NBA age of superteams and rising stars, he forged a glorious legend of his own, built an unshakable dynasty, and ruled the basketball world!

That year, Zen Master Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, the Godfather of Basketball, joined Michael Jordan and a host of other Hall of Famers in proposing that every team in the league retire the number 99 jersey, as a tribute to that man.

LeBron James took a massive pay cut and begged him to stay; Kevin Durant sought him out in the middle of the night to hone his game; Kyrie Irving, under his guidance, rediscovered his true self on the court and stopped acting like a mystic...

Zion, Luka, the King of the Fourth, “Joker,” Trae Young, Booker, Ant, and even the once-in-a-century prodigy “Wemby”... He made every one of them submit, and they all looked up to him as the next generation's idol!

Years later, whenever people mentioned the basketball world's number 99, everyone would remember the all-around king of the court who drove fans around the world wild with admiration and left his opponents in agony.

That man had long since become the world's universally recognized new god of basketball!

And it all began when Li Zhun, struggling to make ends meet, had no choice but to enter a basketball challenge at Venice Beach in Los Angeles...