SHANGHAI -- The energy inside Shanghai's Rucker Park -- an indoor basketball gym -- is so perked-up that it stands in defiance to the rain showers falling on the city. To the hundreds of fans who braved the weather to make a pilgrimage here to see LeBron James, this place at the moment is nothing less than a hoops mecca.
However, surrounded by deafening chants of "Lakers for championship," longtime purple and gold supporter Yang Kun is finding himself in a cloud of dilemma.
A devout follower of Kobe Bryant since 2004, Yang is now wearing a brand-new No.