When pride still matters

Chapter 489: Tranquility is Impossible (Unity)

Just when the league announced its roster for this year's All-Star Game, the SuperSonics made a fortune.

Team owner Clay Bennett signed a six-year broadcast contract with Seattle's three major local television stations KOMO-TV, KING-TV and KIRO-TV.

Although the exact number is not known to the outside world, the Seattle Times revealed: "The contract value reaches nine figures."

This means that the Sonics can ensure tens of millions of dollars in revenue every year just by relying on local TV broadcast contracts.

This would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

Later, TV station officials said they had an exit clause.

If the Sonics move this summer, the contract will be void.

All existing signs indicate that the Sonics have 10,000 reasons to stay in the Emerald City, but they can't find one reason to leave.

However, while the Sonics are making a fortune, a bigger conflict is brewing within the NBA.

Under this internal friction, the Spurs' stability plummeted.

The NBA's collective bargaining agreement will expire in the summer of 2011. The players' union is eager to obtain more benefits in the next agreement, and many teams have been affected by the financial crisis two years ago and have not recovered yet. In particular, some small ball markets are unable to make ends meet.

Yu Fei asked specifically.

Today, decades later, this phenomenon no longer exists, but the meaning of the term "white shark" has also changed.

"White Shark" is a slang term of the players union and originated in the 70s.

Tonight, Durant scored 28 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists.

However, if the person standing opposite him happens to have the last name Jordan and the first name Michael, then it will be different.

"Fry, we and the White Sharks are meeting in Dallas, and we need you to attend."

In order to regain the audience, NBA teams will place white players in role player positions that are neither good nor bad. These white people who objectively eliminate black players based on their skin color are called "white sharks."

Therefore, the Spurs want to trade him.

It began to be widely used to refer to alliances and employers.

Yu Fei smiled and said loudly: "We must not let him succeed."

Before formal negotiations begin after the season, labor and management will meet during the All-Star break. The meeting was mainly about exchanging suggestions and seeing what each other wanted.

This has led most owners to want to establish a hard salary cap similar to the NFL and eliminate all salary cap exceptions, including the "Larry" that currently allows teams to re-sign their own players at a higher price than other teams. ·Bird” clause. Bosses are also calling for the length of player contracts to be shortened and for all existing contracts to be "adjusted" under their proposed new system.

Isn’t Jordan the employer now?

But how to awaken Yu Fei's fighting spirit?

After hanging up the phone, Fisher told the people around him: "Fry decided to go to war."

Yu Fei made long shots one after another from the outside like a three-point practice game.

As the most influential player of our time, Yu Fei naturally cannot stay away from the incident.

This is considered to have touched the bottom line of the players union, and it is impossible for both parties to make concessions.

This is a problem, because Yu Fei is doing well in Seattle. Even if the management and boss don't follow his lead, it's not much different. He has no reason to be unhappy with the management.

Disgruntled small forward Caron Butler lost his mind against Durant.

If it was just to be a backdrop, Yu Fei certainly wouldn't have any other ideas.

One of the main reasons for this labor dispute is that the owners of small-market teams feel that life is difficult and they want to divide the cake again.

In addition to beating Butler, Durant is also satisfactory in terms of organization.

"You don't have to do anything, we have dedicated negotiators, you just sit there and that's enough."

After defeating the Warriors at home, the Sonics begin their trip to Texas, where they will challenge the Spurs and Mavericks.

There are all kinds of distractions during the season.

The small forward who originally came to the Holy City due to Kidd's trade has now reached his contract year, but he does not want to renew his contract with the Spurs.

Popovich didn't like the way he played.

Yu Fei knew that he could not survive alone in his position, so he asked, "What will I do then?"

As for the Spurs, due to Duncan's rest, the SuperSonics' insiders had the advantage throughout the game.

At this time, there was still nearly a month before the start of the All-Star Weekend. Derek Fisher, the current chairman of the players union, called Yu Fei to vent his feelings.

Fisher understands that Yu Fei is the leader of the player camp. If he wants to fight with the employer, it is not enough for people like him to play a symbolic role.

Just when he was about to hang up the phone, he suddenly remembered something.

Labor negotiations are just one of them.

"Michael was one of the initiators and one of the owners who asked for a hard salary cap," Fisher said. "He will definitely go to Dallas."

Yu Fei said: "I can give him a score of 95 because he made two unnecessary mistakes."

Durant hit multiple jumpers over him, and Butler wanted to respond with the same intensity, but many of his options were denied by Popovich.

The Bobcats can definitely be called a small market team, so is Jordan the leader of this group who wants to restart negotiations?
“Will the owner of the Bobcats be there?”

At that time, the atmosphere of racism in the United States was strong, and the NBA lost a large number of middle-class viewers because of the large number of black fans. They think basketball games are "too dark to watch." In fact, the key is not that it doesn’t look good, but that it is “too dark”.

At this time, the outside world realized that Yu Fei was really strict with Durant.

After Durant played a good game, he also exuded the high spirits of a young man.

He proudly talked about his game. Faced with the 95-point rating given by Du Fei, he said: "I give myself a 90-point rating."

Then, everyone will think that it is not that Yu Fei has high demands on him, but that he has high demands on himself.

After Bosh's data atrophy and injuries at the beginning of the season, he fully integrated into the SuperSonics' tactical system when the New Year came.

Because the team no longer requires him to stand on the outside.

He can shoot three-pointers, but has not yet fully transformed into a space-based inside player. He still retains the core abilities of the Raptors, but he almost degraded himself at the beginning of the season.

To some extent, Bosh is the biggest beneficiary of Roy's injury.

Originally, the SuperSonics did not need Bosh to play the core role. Now that Roy is injured, the two cores on the outside have become one. After Yu Fei's transformation, he no longer requires all the insiders around him to become tool men like Kwame Brown.

This core style of play that does not exploit the space of teammates is hailed by Karl as the ultimate form of ball-holding core.

The dividends of Yu Fei's successful transformation were reaped by Bosh when Roy was injured.

Just looking at the data after the New Year, Bosh averaged 22 points and 10 rebounds per game, which is comparable to that of the Raptors. After Yu Fei's initial explosion, his scoring average gradually dropped from 30 points to 28 points, and, According to his current scoring momentum, it may eventually drop to around 26 points.

Durant, who should have benefited from Roy's injury, has played the coveted No. 3 position, but his possession of the ball has not increased, and his tactical status has not increased. On the contrary, the rules for him after receiving the ball have increased.

Yu Fei's demands on him also intensified.

Therefore, most of the time, Durant struggles and suffers.

He is not Yu Fei.

He can't do what Yu Fei did at the third position. He has his own characteristics. His biggest feature is offense, and Yu Fei's control of the ball is much stronger than Roy's, and he is much more restricted than when Roy was there.

But Durant really has no right to complain.

Because Yu Fei restricted him not to suppress him, strictly speaking, it was to make him better.

The evidence is that after Durant took up the third position, his average assists per game increased from 2 to 4. Although the number of turnovers also increased, this just shows that he has more opportunities to dominate the ball than before.

Seeing this situation, Nike certainly couldn't sit still.

When Durant refused to be interviewed before the game because he was "worried about being scolded by Yu Fei", Nike began to hype up Yu Fei's bullying and suppression of his teammates to make profits for itself.

However, after they had been speculating for a long time, they discovered that Yu Fei's average shots per game not only did not increase, but also showed a slow downward trend.

However, Chris Bosh's average number of shots per game has gradually increased to 15 shots per game.

So, in the end, was Bosh the one who came to hold Durant down?

This kind of anti-Tiangang conclusion will only arouse ridicule, and the public opinion of Yu Fei's suppression of Durant will be ignored.

However, Yu Fei's voice of strictly leading the team and refusing anyone to step outside the system gradually became louder.

There is a force behind the scenes. They urgently need to tear a gap in Yu Fei's all-round and three-dimensional defense, so that they can break the sacred image that the only empire has created for Yu Fei.

ESPN senior writer Charlie Rosen wrote after Yu Fei gave Durant a score of 95: "Fry Yu is becoming a modern-day Oscar Robertson. What matters is not your performance, what matters is whether you press the button." Nothing unplanned is allowed."

The atmosphere in the Sonics locker room is completely different from the outside world.

Almost no one talks about ratings, but there are a lot of people talking on Twitter.

Kwame Brown recently discovered that a Twitter account named "quiresultan" was extremely active.

Whenever Brown tweets something self-proclaimed, the account is quick to leave a message, often disparaging about him.

"I have also seen this account." Xiao Ou said, "He is very famous in NBA-related topics."

"This guy even attacked Frye. Whose fan is he?"

"Looks like a LeBron fan."

After hearing this, Brown said: "This is normal. Only fans of that person would do this."

Durant listened sensitively to his teammates discussing his Internet avatar, and couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

He can abuse others without any scruples off-screen, but the other party doesn't know who he is, and the only thing he can do is block him. so what? Since he can have one incarnation, he can have two and three.

Venting his negative emotions without reservation is a good medicine for Durant. He is under too much pressure.

After Roy was injured, Yu Fei seemed to have lost some kind of restraint and imposed his will on himself without reservation.

It's like a strict father who hopes his son will succeed, but that's just his vanity and self-righteousness. He felt he could create a different Durant. But Durant just wants to be the Durant he wants to be.

Roy can relieve this pressure, and Durant can even vent his anger on Roy on the court, but when Roy is not around, he is just a passive sandbag.

Just like a spring, Yu Fei squashed him more and more, but he didn't dare to push him back with the same force. The Internet became a tool for him to rebound negative emotions.

He doesn't care whether his words will hurt others, or whether he is right or wrong, he just wants to be a troll that everyone hates.

"Kwame, that account you mentioned." Suddenly, the owner of the room spoke, and an inexplicable pressure enveloped everyone. "Will you speak ill of KD?"

Durant felt as if his heart had been punched.

"I don't know." Brown looked at Durant, "KD, do you know this account?"

If the heartbeat frequency can be detected, you can see that Durant's heartbeat has reached 140 beats per minute.

Frye knows?
No, it's impossible, he didn't show any signs of weakness!
Durant looked at Yu Fei and tried to pretend to be calm: "I made stupid mistakes on Twitter. So... um... you know, it was that incident last summer. After that, I decided not to read the comment area. So this account may have commented on my Twitter, but I haven’t met him. I haven’t met anyone.”

It just makes sense, doesn't it?

After James made his decision, Durant made a sharp comment on Twitter, and then was bitten by Yu Fei's poison.

He chose to respond and almost caused trouble.

Everyone knows this.

Therefore, it makes sense for Durant to decide not to read the comment section again.

To others, it's a compelling reason.

But not for Fei.

Because as a time traveler, he happens to know that Durant can play the trumpet.

Moreover, he didn't think about it at first, he just followed Brown's topic and chatted a few words.

But Durant's initiative to bring this up made Yu Fei think about it.

Well, Adu once expressed his excitement on Twitter and was warned by the team. What would he do if he was not the boy next door that Nike promotes? He, like all young adults who have just grown up, bleeds rebelliousness? If I can't say it with the big one, I can't say it with the small one. It's not like I haven't done it in my previous life, right?

Yu Fei looked at Durant with an increasingly playful expression, like a cat showing interest in a mouse.

"Really? You don't read the comment section?" Yu Fei said with a smile, "So you haven't read the messages I've sent you in the past few months?"

"I saw it," Durant replied cautiously. "People who follow the account will have additional prompts when leaving messages, so I saw it."

"That's good."

Yu Fei didn't seem to take it seriously.

He stood up, nodded to Kevin Lin, and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, he turned back and hit Durant: "KD, you still have to read the comment section. Although the public opinion on the Internet cannot represent the real public opinion, they can let you know at the first time whether you are doing well or not. Because in No one on the Internet knows who left the message with that account. In this case, we can speak freely, what do you think?”

Durant nodded with a red face as if suffocating: "That makes sense."

"There is still a tough battle to be fought in Dallas tomorrow, so everyone should go back to the hotel and rest early."

After that, Yu Fei left.

As soon as Yu Fei left, Jordan expressed his doubts: "Is it true that there are people who use Twitter without reading the comments? What else is there to do?"

"I understand KD. Twitter almost got him into big trouble." Alonzo Key consciously spoke about the scene.

Then, Brown's words diverted everyone's attention: "Da Fei really thinks too much. There are so many fat women in San Antonio. What else can we do if we don't go back to the hotel to rest? Go to a nightclub and drive a big car?"

When he came outside, Yu Fei asked Lin Kaiwen to check the account.

It's easy for them.

Because Yu Fei is one of the small shareholders of Twitter, although he does not hold a large share, it is easy for the backend to check the details of the account through this relationship.

As soon as I flew back to the hotel, Lin Kaiwen received a letter.

"Guessed it right."

This short sentence confirmed Yu Fei's guess.

Seeing this, Yu Fei didn't know how to react.

It should be said that Durant in this life and Durant in his previous life are aligned on this matter.

Yu Fei didn't intend to go into details, as this kind of thing was not allowed to be discussed on the stage.

It can be seen that Adu is under a lot of pressure, so he needs to vent his dissatisfaction in this shady way. Yu Fei can probably understand that his original intention is to temper Adu, not torture him.

Living in this world, everyone has stress. Some people can find ways to relieve stress, while others cannot. If Durant's way to relieve stress is to be a clown online, then so be it. An anonymous black guy can't hurt anyone by speaking.

However, if one day he makes a mistake and self-destructs like in his previous life, or if his trumpet speech is too anti-human and unbearable, it will not be too late to clean up the door by then.

Moreover, this incident fully proves that this bag boy is just the latest work of Nike Film and Television Academy-a mirage trying to deceive the world.

This will allow Yu Fei to free up his hands and feet to correct Durant's game habits in a more direct way.

The next day, the Sonics played back-to-back games against the Mavericks on the road.

The Mavericks are the only team among the top three in Texas that can qualify as a quasi-first-tier team in the Western Conference.

Although Dirk Nowitzki has been defeated year after year, he has developed a skill every time he experiences a disastrous defeat. In addition to defense, he is already impeccable as an offensive superstar.

Tonight, Nowitzki overwhelmed Bosh on the offensive end, and Devin Harris' speed also caused trouble for the Sonics' defense.

Durant is in good shape, but to win, his offense alone is not enough.

At the beginning of the second half, Yu Fei changed his form, from an offensive organizer who mainly focused on passing to an offensive terminator who killed all sides.

Throughout the third quarter, Harris was like Yu Fei's toy. He was shot hard, beaten four times in the low post, and scored 2+1 after being broken through. The defensive end suffered a critical blow, and his offense was also restricted by Brown's defense, and he began to lose his way.

The outside arrow was broken, and the Mavericks entered the stage of believing in Nowitzki early.

But the Sonics had begun to believe in Yu Fei before the Mavericks entered this stage.

It turns out that Yu Fei is more credible.

In the third quarter, Harris was beaten, and in the fourth quarter, Nowitzki was beaten. The firepower was constant throughout the game. The offensive endurance of outside stars is always stronger than that of inside stars.

Yu Fei's ball-handling call for a pick-and-roll and an emergency three-pointer from outside was like a critical hit, shattering the Dallas people's dream of winning.

上半场10分，下半场44分，全场54分10篮板8助攻。

Yu Fei overturned Dallas' away game like a god of war, leading the SuperSonics to a difficult victory, highlighting Texas' tight encirclement.

"I suspect Frye thought we were the Lakers, but I have no proof."

Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle laughed at himself after the game.

George Karl explained Carlisle's confusion: "Frye didn't think they were the Lakers, it was just that Dallas' away game made him think he was playing in the 2006 Finals."

This is obviously a more hurtful explanation than being mistaken for the Lakers.

With two consecutive wins in Texas, the Sonics are on the rise.

The Sonics won all the remaining games in January, and Yu Fei's 54 points against the Mavericks was not the norm.

He was like a lion lying in ambush in the jungle, ready to attack but easily immobile. This state was even more frightening.

"Because he can rush out and bite your neck off at any time."

Doug Collins described Yu Fei's intimidating power this way.

After a period of high-pressure life, Durant began to hit the road and gradually entered the role.

He understands that the role of the Sonics' third position is not about scoring first. He needs to share Yu Fei's organizational pressure on the wings.

Although he cannot control the overall situation like Yu Fei, he also has his own characteristics. If you don't have enough vision or passing ability, you can use offensive threats to make up for it.

He is a presence that makes opponents nervous as long as he catches the ball. This offensive threat can continue to create good offensive space for his teammates around him.

As a result, Durant's game began to feature a lot of feints aimed at passing the ball.

Although it is somewhat formulaic and easy to target, this is his way of playing, and Yu Fei can understand it.

This is something Durant has learned.

Yu Fei's new understanding of the ball-carrying core began to affect the entire team. Bosh recovered, Durant optimized the game, Morrow and other role players were in place, and the Sonics played their best game since the beginning of the season.

They're in the best shape they've been since Roy's injury.

Just in early February, they will face the Lakers for the third time.

This time, it is neither as eye-catching as the Christmas game, nor is it affected by many factors outside the game like the second game.

Yu Fei told his teammates: "If you cause me to lose to LeBron twice in a row, I will send you to see Abi Paulin."

Brown made a well-timed joke: "I now believe that Da Fei will be the last person in the world who remembers Abby Pauline."

(End of this chapter)