James looked at him puzzled, "The lunatic outside the hotel?"
"Didn't you hear?" Artest mimicked the lunatics' shout, "They were holding up Frye's poster, screaming 'Save our SuperSonics,' they could do this all day long. It is really strange, why hasn't anyone charged them with disturbing the peace?"
James looked at Artest as if he were looking at someone with a mental disability.
The hotel they stayed in was one of the best in the world, and its soundproofing needed no further mention.
How could Kobe possibly have been disturbed from sleep that he had to train early? That was merely an excuse.
James had heard that Kobe used to leave his room at three thirty in the morning for training during the Dream Team period, where he encountered Fei and others in the elevator, who had been out partying all night and were just about to return to the hotel to rest.
This incident was considered by James as proof of Fei's lack of discipline.