When pride still matters

Chapter 217: Happy here, don’t miss Detroit
This year's All-Star Weekend is held in Los Angeles, which means there will be a strong commercial atmosphere on and off the court.

Before he even got on the plane, Yu Fei learned that Reebok had arranged a lot of entertainment for him.

"Do I look like an old scalper? Are you arranging me like this?" Yu Fei's head went numb after seeing the work schedule for the next few days. "Even a cow needs to rest!"

Lawson explained: "AI has been in a bad mood lately, so you know that"

"In a bad mood? Why are you in a bad mood? I see that he is clearly looking forward to being traded by Philadelphia!"

Yu Fei complained about Iverson.

Ever since Larry Brown left, Iverson has been like a wild horse and completely lost control.

This also announced that the 76ers' Iverson era has entered a countdown.

Now Iverson is just like Lillard in the last few years of the Trail Blazers. He is eager to leave the team due to the urgency of running out of time in his peak period but has not yet won a championship, but he is reluctant to give up the label of one man, one city. .

But why should Iverson bother him when he is involved in a trade dispute?

Yu Fei complained, but he got into action immediately after getting off the plane.

The first was the media meeting. What made Yu Fei happy was that he met here the 03-level players who will participate in the Rookie Challenge tomorrow.

The first person to greet Yu Fei was naturally LeBron James.

"You patriotic little bastard screwed me up last time."

Although Yu Fei cursed a lot, he gave James a friendly black shoulder-bumping and handshake.

"It was really an accident last time," James explained.

However, Yu Fei didn't care whether it was an accident or not. He immediately looked at the other people in Level 03.

Carmelo Anthony, who doesn't have a good impression of Yu Fei, Dwyane Wade, who is carefully looking at Yu Fei, and Chris Bosh, who is peeping out for fear that others won't know that he has a long neck, is still having fun here, and Dwyane Wade, who doesn't think about Detroit, Ko Milicic, as for the others, unfortunately, Yu Fei cannot fully recognize them.

After all, in his previous life, he only watched football seriously after 2015. At that time, there were not many 03-level players still active in the league. In this life, these players have only played for half a season, except for wizards like James. , are still in the waiting stage waiting for the opportunity to make a blockbuster success.

"It really makes me happy to see so many great young players and I'm excited to pass the torch to them."

Hearing this, the reporters didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and everyone at Level 03 even gave him a blank look.

You, a young kid who is less than 22 years old, are going to pass on the torch, right?
Afterwards, a reporter from the "Los Angeles Times" asked a question: "Now that the schedule is halfway through, which rookie has the deepest impression on you?"

Good question, it’s almost a scoring question.

James looked at Yu Fei expectantly, but when his brother Yu opened his mouth, he said something unexpected: "Dakko, well, it's definitely Darko."

Yu Fei knew that everyone would be surprised when he said this, especially Milicic, who looked flattered.

"Detroit did not hesitate to miss Cameron for Darko, but they only gave Darko 5 minutes per game. I don't think anyone can impress me more than Darko's experience."

Well, it refers to Sang scolding Huai again.

James heard about the feud between Da Fei and Brown, but he didn't expect it to be extended here.

The reporter turned to Milicic: "Darko, do you have anything to say about this?"

"Fry remembers it wrong." Yu Fei's speech was not to awaken Milicic's dissatisfaction with the status quo or his resentment towards Brown. He simply wanted to set the pace for Brown, but it did have the effect of making Milicic EMO. Effect. "My average playing time is 3.3 minutes per game."

After Milicic finished speaking, he smiled like a sunny and cheerful boy.

"Darko, the most important thing now is patience." Yu Fei said to Milicic, "You can still play in the NBA for 15 years. The dilemma is only temporary."

Milicic nodded, indeed.

Larry Brown probably won't be able to coach for a few more years. He still has many years left, and even if he doesn't play, he won't lose.The team still has to pay him wages, and he can use the wages to do many things to relieve his depression.

Just like the famous nightclub in Los Angeles, this time I finally have the opportunity to have fun.

Yu Fei didn't know what Milicic was hiding, so he attended the media meeting and started the day's activities under the arrangements of Reebok.

After the event, Yu Fei, Lawson and Clark stayed in the hotel to watch the Rookie Challenge.

Yu Fei himself was not interested in the game and just glanced at Yao Huang.After all, in addition to being his spiritual compatriot, Yao Huang is also a colleague of Reebok.

Logically speaking, he should go to the scene to support Yao Huang, but he was too tired today and he just wanted to lie on the bed.

As a result, Yu Fei was very glad that he did not go to the scene.

The fast pace of the Rookie Challenge was destined to give Yao Wei no chance to perform. Instead, Amar'e Stoudemire shined in the game, scoring the highest score in the game and winning the MVP trophy of the Rookie Challenge.

"This is really the most boring two hours I have spent this year." Yu Fei shook his head and said, "Why should I watch this game?"

Hearing this, Lawson smiled evilly and said: "If you want to relieve your boredom, I have many choices here."

"Go away, there will be a lot of things to do tomorrow, and I don't want to oversleep!"

The activities on the second day were still heavy. Yu Fei not only had to participate in company activities, but also in league activities, and finally there was the meeting of the Eastern and Western All-Stars.

The grievances between Yu Fei and O'Neal are well known to everyone. Therefore, they were deliberately kept far apart at the scene, but they couldn't handle it. Some people are born and don't know how to control their mouths. "Michael, why are you standing next to that man? He is about to trade you." O'Neal said to Reid.

Yu Fei mocked: "Why do the Western Conference Stars allow a substitute center to talk so much nonsense? How can he have any say here?"

O'Neill's face also became ugly.

The key reason why he is unfriendly to Yao Huang is that the opponent stole his All-Star starting spot when he first entered the league last season. This year, his votes are still lower than Yao Huang's.

Therefore, he is still an All-Star substitute.

However, although he is a substitute, everyone is like Ming Jing and will not really regard him as a substitute.

But becoming an All-Star substitute is very embarrassing for a person of O'Neal's status. Therefore, Yu Fei stepped on O'Neal's G-spot with his mouth.

O'Neal glared at him, while Yu Fei treated him as nothing. The atmosphere was extremely tense.

Fortunately, the alliance also knew that these people couldn't get together, so they took a symbolic group photo and let them disperse and do their own thing.

In addition to some necessary activities, Yu Fei will also participate in this year's three-point contest.

Of course, he participated in this just for fun, and he had no intention of competing for the championship.

Compared with tonight's three-point contest, Yu Fei is more concerned about the status of the players who will participate in the All-Star Game tomorrow.

Needless to say, O'Neal definitely wants to win the AMVP at home.

What Yu Fei has to do is ruin his good deeds in the away game.

The others were in a relatively relaxed state, but Kobe was completely autistic.

Others came to the event in a vacation mood, but Kobe came for official business.

He did everything he had to do and left without waiting for a second.

Including Yu Fei, the league and sponsors believe that Kobe's public image has been completely ruined after the Eagle County incident.

As a result, this year's All-Star voting proved one thing. Unless he is really sent to prison to serve a sentence, the silent majority really doesn't care how cool Kobe is in Eagle County.

Kobe received 173 million All-Star votes this year, 30 more votes than last year, second only to Vince Carter, Kevin Garnett and Ben Wallace (190 million)⑴.

In other words, Kobe's so-called bad reputation and completely ruined image are limited to the narrative perspective of the fourth estate.

Among fans, his popularity has become even higher.

However, thanks to the wonderful performance of his legal team in court - such as presenting evidence that the woman who was raped had sex with another person within ten hours after the incident - it indirectly proved that fans The moral standards for sports stars are very low.

Even people like Tyson who were really imprisoned were still very popular after they came out.

As a four-day veteran of Kobe, Yu Fei did not bother Kobe.

After all, with Kobe's current wariness, he probably won't believe anyone's good intentions, so it's better to just quietly watch him go crazy.

That night, Yu Fei, as the biggest contestant in the Three-Point Contest after Michael Jordan, appeared with six other people.

Yu Fei was the first to vote in the preliminaries.

When he walked onto the court, there were unfriendly boos.

It's no secret that people in Los Angeles hate Yu Fei. Who makes him and O'Neal so incompatible?
Yu Fei was not affected much, and played his normal level: 17 points under the boos of the audience.

In the three-point contest, this score is considered to be above passing, but not outstanding.

The ABC commentator explained the meaning of 17 points straightforwardly: "The probability of Frye advancing to the finals and being eliminated in the preliminaries is 50 to 50."

Soon, this year's shooting genius appeared.

The old cat Mobley from the Rockets, as a short second position who relies heavily on outside shooting, only scored 13 points.

I thought the old cat was destined to be at the bottom, but Billups stepped forward and scored 12 points.

Soon, serious shooters appeared.

76ers rookie Kyle Korver scored 19 points. Looking at him, Yu Fei just regretted not thinking of this guy during last year's draft.

Subsequently, the Nuggets' Woshan Leonard scored 18 points, and the winner of the two consecutive three-point contests won the No. 21 preliminary round with 1 points.

Yu Fei unfortunately missed the finals with No. 4 in the preliminaries.

He himself didn't think it was a regret, but his close friend Quint DeMeo, who worked at Reebok, regretted that Yu Fei missed an opportunity to show his face: "It was just a little bit."

"Stop sighing. If you want to see me show off so much, treat me to a pork chop rice." Yu Fei smiled, "I will win the AMVP trophy for you tomorrow."

⑴The popularity of Peak Big Book is much higher than expected.

(End of this chapter)