The next day, after the team's practice session ended, Hansen threw a rubber wristband to JR.
JR caught the wristband and looked puzzled, but when he picked it up at Hansen's gesture and saw the words printed on it, his expression froze.
Because it bore the name Andre Bell.
Hansen hadn't heard JR's story, as JR was just a minor figure in the long history of the NBA.
But he had heard another story related to Westbrook.
Westbrook always liked to wear a rubber wristband during games, emblazoned with the letters KB3.
KB didn't stand for Kobe, but for his close friend Casey Bass.
Unlike JR, whose recklessness led to his friend's death, Bass died of a heart attack during a game.
Bass was a high school student, as renowned as Durant and Jerald Green, and was destined for the NBA, but fate found him before tomorrow did.
Since then, Westbrook wore that wristband, living on for his friend as well.
That was also why Hansen had spoken the way he did to Lue.
