After arriving in the locker room, Brown and Durant also followed.
Durant introduced Yu Fei, "This is the 'Senior Team's locker room. Um, Frye, they should have reserved a spot for you."
"Senior Team?" Brown asked, "Am I in it?"
Durant found that being a nice guy was really hard because he couldn't just tell the truth.
"I think... I don't think so."
"They're this disrespectful to a two-time champion?" Brown said, "I'm the top center in the league!"
Durant immediately distanced himself, "Kwame, this isn't up to me."
Complaining, Brown walked out of the Senior Team's locker room alone.
Just like Durant said, through Yu Fei's influence, Brown had entered the Dream Team's training roster, but in the coach's eyes, he was essentially there for practice.
The last three world competition defeats had proven to Americans that the shorter, blue-collar centers popular in NBA courts just couldn't stand up to the traditional giants in international basketball matches.