When pride still matters

Chapter 282 Be polite

Jason Terry never fired that shot.

This game gave Yu Fei a dull experience.

He treated the Mavericks as an opponent in the finals, but their state tonight was really bad. Kwame Brown made a big hole in the paint at the beginning. They fell behind by 15 points at halftime and fell even further in the second half.

When Yu Fei attended the post-match press conference, he pursued Terry's victory: "It seems that it will be difficult for them to surpass the Spurs and become number one in the league in a short time."

"But maybe we can carry on the legacy of the Mavericks."

For Mavericks supporters, Yu Fei's speech is undoubtedly a poke in their lungs, but after losing, no matter how dissatisfied they are, they can only hold back.

As Mark Cuban said: "We can only hope to be better the next time we meet."

Can the Mavericks really beat the Spurs in the playoffs?

Yu Fei expressed doubts about this.

But that was half a year later, and it’s useless to think about it now.

A win over Dallas means the Bucks can go home for Thanksgiving with a win.

The next day, in addition to reviewing the Bucks' victory over the Mavericks, sports reporters also discovered that Yu Fei had been named ESPN's "Best Dressed of the Week" for a month in a row.

After the NBA issued a dress code, ESPN also followed the trend and launched a fun column to select the player with the best taste every week based on the attire of all players attending formal occasions.

Since the start of the new season, Yu Fei has been elected four times in a row.

The victory over the Mavericks allowed the Bucks to rank first in the Eastern Conference and second in the league. Yu Fei's triple-double per game also earned the league praise.

Now, Yu Fei has shown enthusiasm in related policies and has a tendency to lead the trend of the alliance.

More and more data show that Yu Fei is becoming the most influential player in active play. Whether it is a good influence or a bad influence (second contract extension), no one is more out of the circle than him, unless there is someone. Who could do anything more egregious than what Kobe did in Eagle County.

Regarding being selected as the "Best Dressed of the Week" for four consecutive weeks, Yu Fei publicly thanked his stylist Dean Morris, and then took Christina back to Washington for Thanksgiving.

Yu Fei doesn't care whether he can lead the trend of the NBA, nor does he care how many sponsors his status as a trendy man has attracted to him. For him, what he is most proud of is the Chinese food that his mother in D.C. The chain store is doing very well.

At the beginning of this year, Yu Fenglin felt that his son's reputation had suddenly become very bad, so he worried that someone would come to make trouble in the store. As a result, the worse Yu Fei's reputation became, the more prosperous the store's business became.

This is proof that the Fourth Estate can only superficially influence public opinion.

Yu Fei's poor reputation is a very superficial thing. Among fans, especially the Asian community, he is a hero in the hearts of many people. This feedback was reflected in his single-core revenge against the Pistons last season and taking the Bucks into the Eastern Conference. It reached a peak in the finals.

As a result, Yu Fenglin's business has grown bigger and bigger, and he is now a well-known businessman in D.C.

"Fu Lai, why do these reporters always say bad things about you in the newspapers?"

Yu Fenglin held a tabloid and looked at his son strangely.

Yu Fei glanced at it. The tabloid thought that he was narrow-minded. Jason Terry just made a little joke before the game, but he refused to forgive him.

"Don't the tabloids just like to make false claims?" Yu Fei said optimistically, "I've figured it out. They just think there's something wrong with my character. If it's because of my unintentional intimate behavior when I was taking a photo with a young fan, If you accuse me of smelting copper, where can I go to explain it to you?"

Yu Fenglin said dissatisfied: "Don't say such things, you are not Michael Jackson."

"Mom, MJ may be innocent too."

"The children he molested were innocent."

Well, there may be no point in discussing this. Yu Fei just used the King of Heaven as an example. Unexpectedly, my mother has been successfully engraved with the ideological stamp of "MJ Smelting Copper" by the fourth power.

That night, Yu Fei had dinner with Christina and Yu Fenglin.

Although Yu Fei has been looking for topics, the two women have no common words.

Yu Fei could tell that his mother was dissatisfied with Christina.

This is not surprising, after all, Christina is several years older than Yu Fei.

The next day, before Yu Fei left, his mother called him aside and said, "Do you have to go back today?"

Yu Fei said: "Not necessarily, I can wait until tomorrow to go directly to the away game to meet the team."

"Then stay one more day." Yu Fenglin said mysteriously, "There is an event here in D.C that you need to participate in."

Yu Fei had no choice but to ask for leave from the team.

The activities Yu Fenglin prepared were as ordinary as the social activities arranged for him by the team on a daily basis.

This is a collaboration between its Chinese restaurant chain and the Washington Sheriff's Department. Drunk driving cases have been frequent in D.C. recently. A few days ago, a drunkard caused a large car accident, killing and injuring dozens of people.

The Sheriff's Department wanted to work on it, but needed an ambassador for advocacy and anti-drunk driving.

Yu Fenglin believes that this is at least an opportunity to improve his son's public image within Washington.

Yu Fei accepted the job with a wry smile.

This incident proved that he was right to cut off all powers with his agent. Arne Traim was a professional agent, but off-site marketing and public opinion control were beyond his control.

If it weren't for his mother's death, Yu Fei would have no idea how bad his public opinion was.     Now he knows.

Especially when he left, what his mother said to him was even more explosive: "Fu Lai, you are a big star now. You must consider the consequences of your words and actions. You can't act like a child anymore."

"Well, I will."

"Take care of your reputation so you don't have to date a woman 10 years older than you."

The day after Thanksgiving, Yu Fei met the team in Memphis.

The Grizzlies are a neither-up-and-down team, they can make the playoffs but won't go very far, and Jerry West's spirit as an NBA team's GM seems to have been lost to the Lakers and 2003 The annual lottery draw was shattered.

The Lakers' frustration is understandable. After all, your competitor is willing to marry the boss's daughter in order to win. Against such a person, West has no chance of winning.

The 2003 lottery draw was completely man-made.

At that time, the Grizzlies could keep the draft pick as long as they got the No. 1 pick, so it meant "either I get LeBron James or I get nothing", and then the Grizzlies really missed out on James at the last minute.

This absolutely destroyed Jerry West's confidence, so much so that he had no performance in the past two years and was like a mediocre person. Not to mention the draft was a mess, and there was no outstanding part in the transaction. In a country that may change the competitiveness of the Grizzlies, In the trade—of two players with questionable personalities who might have been better in a different environment—West chose Bonchy Wells over Vince Carter.

Before the game started, Yu Fei said hello to Battier and then went all out.

After only two days of rest, Yu Fei's competition status has not faded at all.

The Grizzlies tried a variety of zone defenses to limit Yu Fei's breakthrough, but the results were the same as those who tried to deal with Yu Fei in the same way.

Yu Fei knocked out the Grizzlies with just a shot.

Grizzlies president Jerry West once inspected Taifei at the original ABCD training camp.

He knew that Yu Fei did not have such stable shooting at that time.

But now, Yu Fei's shooting ability surprised West.

Three-pointers from the outside, two-pointers with one step inside the three-point line, jump shots from the free throw line, catch-and-shoot shots, pull-up three-pointers after feinting with the ball, and dribbling three-pointers after calling the pick-and-roll.

"In just four years, his shooting has been impeccable." West said to those around him. "He is no longer the teenager who only ran rampant."

Listening to West's description, it's like talking about James.

And that was the feeling Yu Fei gave West back then.

West remembers that he said that Yu Fei was the biggest uncertainty since 1979, because Yu Fei's unique combination of height and skills gave him a broad space for development and an endless ceiling. However, if you want to truly develop and reach the sky, you need to use technology to unlock the potential.

If a skill is not mastered, part of its potential will be blocked.

Once the opportunity has passed, the potential is wasted.

It is a pity that Yu Fei's great personal performance did not receive the support of his teammates.

The two-day holiday left the teammates in poor condition. Except for the inside and the three-point line, they could only score goals.

The Grizzlies had the advantage of home court, allowing Gasol to beat Kwame Brown. Battier and others worked individually. Although no one could compete with Yu Fei, the ten players rotated and the collective effort Team basketball, on this night, incredibly defeated Yu Fei, who scored 52 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists.

“D.C.’s anti-drunk driving ambassador may have to find a bar to have a few drinks tonight.”

the ABC commentator joked.

52 points is Yu Fei's highest score this season, but losing the game after scoring the highest score of the season is undoubtedly a depressing thing.

After the post-game activities, Yu Fei returned to the arena to practice shooting.

Hearing that Yu Fei was going to practice extra, his teammates who had originally planned to go back to the hotel to sleep also came to practice extra.

After throwing hundreds of balls, Yu Fei felt that he was almost done, so he was going to find a place to eat with Lawson.

As soon as he arrived in the corridor outside the arena, Lawson pointed to the old man standing by the window not far away, staring at the night scene, "Isn't that the LOGO man?"

"You're so rude." Yu Fei rolled his eyes at him, "People have names."

Lawson asked, "Want to say hello?"

"Nonsense!" Yu Fei said angrily, "Do you think I'm as rude as you?"

Yu Fei didn't know that Jerry West had observed him in the ABCD training camp, and he had no interaction with him before. His main impression of the old man came from various legends in his previous life.

Even from a distance, West seems to be a difficult old man to deal with, but Yu Fei is confident in his charm.

Even Sister Yu, who is seven years older than me, has been subdued, but she still can't cure you, an old man who is only 44 years older than me?

(End of this chapter)