“Don’t even think about it! If you want to kick my butt so badly, come to the NBA and try!”

“Idiot, who wants to kick your butt!”

Seeing the back of Webster running away laughing, Yes cursed under his breath.

The first time he kicked Webster, he really did want to kick him.

This self-important guy!

And this guy actually cursed him, saying he wouldn’t make it to the NBA? That’s even more intolerable!

As for the second time...

After he kicked Webster’s butt, his explosiveness attribute, which had been stagnant, actually increased by +1!

“Why are you guys here?”

Just as Yes was about to leave to find another butt to kick, Roy and the others showed up.

“Ye, you’re not in a good mood, are you? Want to go for a run? We came especially to run with you.”

“Run with me?”

Looking at Dean Simmons’s smiling face, and glancing at Roy and the others, Yes broke into a smile.

“No rush for running, let me kick first.”

Chapter 0012: The Collapsing Idol Image

It’s perfectly normal for male friends to play butt-kicking games.

It doesn’t make people think anything weird.

In America, generally, when someone is about to kick another person’s butt, they’ll start with “Hey, Man” or “Hey, Guys.”

When something happens between friends and you’re annoyed, but you can’t hold it in, and you can’t just shoot the other person, you go kick their butt.

After the kick, it’s all good.

So, after Yes gave Webster a hard kick, he left with a smile.

That’s the meaning given to butt-kicking in this country. However, it’s not okay to just go around kicking your friends’ butts for no reason.

And never kick a stranger’s butt— that’s provocation, and the other person has the right to defend themselves with a gun.

Yes doesn’t have many friends in America, but there are quite a few who are willing to play this butt-kicking game with him.

Besides Webster, who’s already gone to the draft, there’s Brandon Roy, Will Conroy, Dean Simmons, and Anthony Washington— all willing participants.

As for whether kicking them would have the same explosiveness +1 effect as with Webster, he’d only know by trying.

After Yes tried— and tried many times— he found that when he kicked Brandon Roy and Will Conroy, he did get the explosiveness +1 effect.

But kicking Dean Simmons and Anthony Washington didn’t have that effect.

At first, he thought maybe his kicking posture was wrong— not steady, accurate, or forceful enough.

After many attempts, he confirmed that kicking Simmons and Washington really couldn’t give him explosiveness +1.

Also, even when kicking Roy and Conroy, only the first time gave him the explosiveness +1 attribute boost.

At first, Yes thought maybe you could only kick each person once per day.

Later, after kicking Roy and Conroy for several days in a row, he was sure it really didn’t work anymore.

In the end, he concluded that not everyone could give him an explosiveness boost by kicking their butt.

It had to be people like Roy and Conroy, and each person only gave one chance.

Now, he needed to figure out what Roy and Conroy had in common that made it work.

Actually, it wasn’t hard to guess, especially since Washington and Simmons didn’t work, but Roy and Conroy did— there was only one possibility.

Was it that only people with a certain level of basketball talent could trigger it?

Roy and Conroy’s basketball talent made them core players in the NCAA, while Simmons and Washington didn’t have that.

Whether this guess was right or not, he needed to experiment again.

And the only place he could experiment was, of course, his high school alma mater— James A. Garfield High School!

As for the results, they matched his guess.

“If Ye lets you kick, just do it, don’t overthink it. Avery, you go first!”

Called out by the coach, Avery Bradley’s expression was a bit devastated.

He wasn’t from Seattle, but as a Washington State native, his idols since childhood were the Garfield Five Tigers.

So, after graduating from middle school, he joined Garfield High School as the nation’s number one high school player.

Yes and the others were his idols.

These days, Avery Bradley felt like his idols’ images were collapsing.

The reason Avery Bradley felt that Yes and Roy’s images were collapsing, of course, was because Yes always practiced butt-kicking in the Garfield High School gym.

If he’d known earlier, he wouldn’t have been so eager to come to Garfield— if he’d just waited until school started in August, he could have avoided this ordeal!

Kick or not?

“Avery, are you ready?”

In the midst of his dilemma, Bradley gritted his teeth and gave Yes’s butt a ‘fierce’ kick.

It was so ‘fierce’ that Yes didn’t feel a thing.

“I’m done.”

“Good, next one, no rush, one at a time.”

After Bradley finished, Coach Floyd said to the eager Garfield High School players.

Kicking the captain’s butt— that’s a rare opportunity!

If they could kick him once, they’d let the captain kick them a hundred times!