Note: From my popular work from Fiction Press.

"I'm not a team player and fuck you guys!"

His teammates stare as he throws down his jersey and storm right out of the locker room.

"What the hell just happened?" asked one of the players.

"Well, ever since he became a star, it's like he went 180 all of a sudden!" said the other player.

"Tony, what does it mean?"

"It means that he has a change in personality, it's like he turned into a massive douche!"

"You mean like 'Elfen Lied'?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

The coach comes in and said, "Okay guys, I know that Tyrone has a sudden shift in personality and that Marvin became hesitant to help us knowing that he's a favorite to win the MVP this season but we still have to win."

The players agrees except Marvin, the team's starting point guard who said, "I know it's important for us to win but...we lost Tyrone to super-stardom, it's like living in sports movies where the star players are shown as asswipes."

"It's true Marvin but sti-"

"No, you don't understand, if I keep on playing, I might turn into a ball hog who cares about nothing but pumping up stats...basketball is a team game right? If you guys go on ahead without me, the team might win the championship despite losing Tyrone and me."

The coach looks at the players and said, "Well, we have no choice, he's right."

Then suddenly, a figure enters the locker room and said, "Really? You're gonna give up already?"

Marvin looks up and to his surprise...

"Michael Jordan?"

The legendary basketball player smiles and said, "There is something you need to know, while it's true that basketball is a team game, but teams needs a star or otherwise, just look what happened to my old team after their best player got hurt, they fell to a flukey mediocre team."

Marvin stammers a bit but recovers and said, "But they said there's no 'i' in team!"

"Maybe so but there is an 'i' in win".

"What are you saying?"

"What I'm saying is that it is okay to be selfish, as long it motivates you, I mean you're still looking for a championship ring right?"

Then Jordan shows him a fist full of championship blings.

In awe by the shiny hardwares on Jordan's fingers, Marvin calms down and said, "I get it now, I want one of these, no wonder why they made a big deal!"

Then his team mates gets up and one by one they said, "Hey I want one of those too!"

"Our assistant coach was a Hall of Fame player, he never got one, let's win one for him too!"

"Yeah!"

Then the team caught fire and went on to win the whole thing.

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