The No.1 Anti-Fans in Basketball
Chapter 285 - 162 Writing a Song for You_2

Chapter 285: Chapter 162 Writing a Song for You_2

Hansen was established as the tactical core and he too was adapting and adjusting.

Fortunately, he managed it rather well, and although the Grizzlies’ performance wasn’t as explosive as at the start of the season, they still remained in the top half of the West.

However, the condensed season, with its intense schedule and occasional back-to-back games, was a test for the players’ mental and physical endurance.

It was during his visit to New York that Hansen had the chance to see Swift again.

Since their last vacation in Miami, Swift had suddenly become busy, and they saw each other much less often than before.

Even when they did meet, Swift had to catch a flight and couldn’t stay overnight.

This made Hansen’s experience quite unsatisfactory; this time in New York, he wanted to make it up.

What he hadn’t expected, however, was that after a passionate reunion, Swift proposed they break up!

It was all too sudden; Hansen felt as if a lush meadow had sprouted atop his head.

"I’ll try to make time for you," Hansen thought the dense season schedule had neglected Swift.

"That’s not the reason. If it were, we wouldn’t have gotten together in the first place," Swift shook her head.

"Is it because you’ve fallen for someone else?" Hansen didn’t avoid it, as they indeed spent a lot of time apart.

"Of course not, I still love you, it’s just..." Swift hesitated.

"Just say it, I can accept it," Hansen indeed could accept it, as a transmigrator, dating and breaking up with Swift wasn’t unexpected.

But he really didn’t want to break up without clarity.

"I... can’t satisfy you."

"??"

Hansen was now the embodiment of a Nick Young meme.

"After being with you, everything felt as I had hoped, even exceeded expectations, but this one thing I totally didn’t expect; your energy level is too high, every time I felt like I was being smashed."

After saying this, Swift sighed deeply, relieved because fundamentally Hansen hadn’t done anything wrong, and they’d gotten along quite well.

She now understood why some of her friends disliked athletes, as it was not something everyone could handle.

Hansen, coming back to his senses, smiled wryly.

What else could he say?

Was he the first person in history to break up for such a reason?

It must be said that it was not the right time for them; had it been the 31-year-old Swift, this might not have been a problem.

The thing is he was already trying to control it, so asking him to change more was difficult, unless they stopped having sex.

But how could an adult relationship lack that, especially when he was an athlete?

Leaving New York, Hansen and Swift parted amicably.

He didn’t linger unnecessarily, one mustn’t hang themselves on a single tree, a graceful gathering and parting were the norms of life.

Yet, such a matter didn’t need to be broadcast, and the packed schedule kept him from dwelling on those things.

With his elevated status on the team, opponents enhanced their defensive tactics against him.

Since simple double-teams didn’t work, opponents would use their best perimeter defenders or continuous substitutions to wear him down.

In other words, the defensive attention he now received was no different from superstars like Kobe and Durant.

Although he could still score using screens, off-ball movements, or aggressive plays, the effort required on the offense was steadily increasing.

This made him consider how he could play more effortlessly.

This wasn’t something to be achieved overnight, and could even be a topic throughout his career.

But for now, enhancing his ball control was urgently needed.

Previously, his plan was to accumulate Anti-Fans points to exchange for First Gear Talent, but now he had to think about redeeming Second Gear Talent sooner.

Of course, Hansen hesitated, because the improvement between First and Second Gear Talent was worlds apart.

While Hansen was still undecided, half a month passed in a blink; one morning when he woke up, he saw his Anti-Fans points "ascending" dramatically.

He initially thought it was a bug in the Anti-Fans System.

Only when he opened his social media and saw it flooded with negative comments did he realize what had happened.

Swift released a new song called "I Knew You Were Trouble."

This rhythm-filled song, combining country and electronic music, exploded in popularity as soon as it was released.

Hansen felt somewhat bewildered, as he was all too familiar with this song, having listened to it the most on QQ Music.

It wasn’t just him, many at East University had fallen into the Swift trap because of this song.

But he remembered that this song wasn’t supposed to be released at this time.

And it also didn’t match up with him.

For most Western songs, people just listen to the melody, nobody really pays attention to the lyrics.

Because once you do look at the lyrics, you’ll find that they are really awful, basically just bringing the song down.

But he was too familiar with this one, so much so that he had actually looked into the lyrics.

It tells the story of a good girl falling for a bad boy, who ultimately leaves her.

Apart from having a big mouth, he couldn’t see how he was even remotely bad!

In fact, the increase in Hansen’s Anti-Fans score was all due to this song.

It was purely the fans’ wild imagination.

Because of the season’s dense schedule, Hansen and Swift had not appeared publicly together for a while before they broke up.

So naturally, when the song came out, fans interpreted it as Hansen abandoning Swift.

Seamless, that’s what it was.

Hansen found it somewhat laughable.

Because he was genuinely misunderstood.

Yet he didn’t want to come out and clear it up, as his Anti-Fans score was skyrocketing.

In less than a week, his Anti-Fans score had nearly reached a million.

Meanwhile, Swift came forward, admitting they had broken up but that it was amicable, and not at all like the rumors that Hansen had dumped her.

Do you think fans believed her?

They just thought Swift was too kind, speaking up for Hansen.

Eventually, seeing the situation getting out of hand, Swift admitted that the inspiration for the song did stem from her past romance with Hansen, but it was because Hansen was so good, she imagined what it would be like if he turned bad.

Even to convince fans she was telling the truth, she shared the reason they broke up, which was because she couldn’t handle Hansen’s energy in that department.

Well, that stopped Hansen’s Anti-Fans score from skyrocketing, stabilizing it around 1.2 million.

At the same time, his Facebook followers began to soar!

All these were just onlookers.

Because breaking up due to high energy sounds bizarre, but it wasn’t unprecedented.

Once, one of the Bulls Trident, Rodman, had a fling with Madonna.

Known as the league’s powerhouse back then, Rodman broke up with her at lightning speed after just 15 days, because he couldn’t satisfy Madonna’s needs in that department.

But as Madonna was quite infamous at the time, someone whom even a bodyguard could have a fling with, people just treated it as a spectacle.

Yet, Hansen was different, not only was the gender role reversed, but Hansen was also Asian.

Just like Asians are stereotypically viewed as lacking explosive power, there is a stereotype about their performance in other areas.

Swift saying this was like using a megaphone to broadcast it to the world.

And when TMZ followed up on Swift’s explanation, they also took things out of context: Swift’s new song was for Hansen, but the ’bad’ in the song wasn’t morally bad, it was ’bad’ in bed.

Those who work at TMZ definitely have profound journalism skills.

After all these maneuvers, it was hard not to attract people looking for a reputation.

In the end, having vigorous energy in that area could also be seen as an advantage.

The string of events that followed were beyond anything Hansen had anticipated; he wasn’t the only one to date and break up with Swift, but he was the first, and probably the last, to get famous from a breakup like this.

From now on, at matches, female fans will probably take a second look at him.

No, maybe the scenario described by Rondo would happen to him too; when he goes to sign autographs for fans, his pockets might unexpectedly fill up with phone numbers.