When pride still matters

Chapter 546: Accidents Don’t Wait

Chapter 546: Accidents Don’t Wait

Another Thanksgiving gift Yu Fei received will undoubtedly change his future life.

The next morning, Yu Fei was doing strength training in his home gym when he was informed by security that his girlfriend, Elizabeth Olsen, had arrived.

Yu Fei’s first reaction was, whatever happened, there was nothing shameful hidden in his home.

"She doesn't look very good."

Security reminder.

So Yu Fei stopped training to meet her.

On the way, he suddenly thought that Olsen should be attending classes at the university now, so why did he suddenly come to Seattle?
But he was still quite happy until Olsen bit his shoulder when they met.

She bit Yu Fei hard, "You deserve this!"

Yu Fei didn't care about the teeth marks on his shoulder. Just as he was about to ask why, Elizabeth said in a shocking tone, "I'm pregnant."

Would the clever question of "Whose child is it?" cause this conservative and uncalm woman to lose control?

Yu Fei's heart was a little turbulent, but he was not as ecstatic as those men in movies and TV shows who learned that their partner was pregnant. He just felt that this day had finally come.

You know, the contraceptive efficiency of my second brother's safety helmet is only 95%. Yu Fei hasn't won the prize for so many years, but now he suddenly won the jackpot. He was not surprised at all.

"What are you going to do?"

Yu Fei suddenly felt a little nervous.

He was nervous about becoming a father, and he was also worried that Elizabeth was like those typical Hollywood women who put their future and career first, and felt that now was not a good time to have a child, so he let this embryo, which had not yet developed consciousness, go back to where it came from.

"I don't know, Fry," Elizabeth said. "I don't know if I'm ready. I don't know if this is going to be a good thing for us or a bad thing. I don't know if I'll be a good mother. Will the baby be named Olsen or Yu? I don't even know if you'll accept it."

Yu Fei whispered, "You know, Liz, four out of every 10 NBA players come from single-parent families, even me. I know how it feels, and I will never let my children go through the same thing."

"You can stay in Seattle and think about it carefully. No matter what you decide to do, I will face it with you." For a moment, Yu Fei felt like one of those scumbags who played with other people's feelings, but he really thought so.

Although he was a little uncomfortable at first, when he realized that he was going to be a father, the anticipation was hard to resist.

He is about to turn 29. Roy's kids are old enough to play mahjong, and so is Brown. In his team, only Durant, the loser, is not a father yet.

But Durant's problem is clearly a personal one, while Yu Fei is trapped by his playboy image.

Over the years, he was unable to stay with women for long, and over time, women would leave him because of insecurity.

Before Elizabeth became pregnant, he did not think it was a problem that he still had no children, but this happened suddenly and he also thought it was a good thing.

That could be a new chapter in his life.

On this day, Yu Fei posted an intriguing tweet: "At what age did you become a father/mother?"

Kwame Brown quickly responded: "I became a father at the age of 19 and now I am the father of three daughters. What do you want to say, GOAT?"

"How does it feel to be a dad?"

Yu Fei actually started chatting with him.

Brown responded: "Do you think cats and dogs are cute?"

Yu Fei asked back: "Can this be the same?"

Brown explained earnestly: "Our love for kittens and puppies stems from our desire to protect babies. Children are the cutest things in the world."

Yu Fei didn't know if this was an authoritative answer, because he felt that although babies were cute, they could also be annoying when they cried. However, it was the same with pets. When they were cute, they were really cute, but when they were annoying, they were really annoying.

Afterwards, Yu Fei decided not to think too much about it until Elizabeth made her decision.

How sad it would be if everything was ready now, even the name of the child was chosen, and then Elizabeth decided not to give birth to the child?
The matter was left unsolved.

Elizabeth put her studies on hold and came to Seattle to live with Yu Fei. Except for this one change, Yu Fei's life remained essentially the same.

Now is the most intense time of the regular season.

In early December, the SuperSonics faced a series of tough battles.

The first game of the new month is an away game against the Dallas Mavericks, then they will go to San Antonio for a rematch with the Spurs, and then return home to face the Lakers. Then the league arranges a new Christmas opponent for them - the New Jersey Nets.

Arguably, the Sonics have the toughest December schedule.

In terms of strength alone, the Mavericks belong to the second group in the Western Conference, and their talent is not as good as the top three.

However, they have an advantage in that they can play an extreme one-big-one-rush-three-shooter formation.

With Nowitzki in the middle and three shooters on the outside, plus Tony Parker's breakthrough, if the shooter doesn't start, it's fine. But once the shooter starts, he can compete with anyone.

The Supersonics were shot dead by the Mavericks' outside shooting even though they had the advantage in the interior.

Yu Fei faced Nowitzki on both offense and defense tonight. Although he couldn't defend against the opponent, he did a better job in protecting the rim and rebounding. When he got the ball and attacked, the opponent's defense was useless. However, the Mavericks' three-pointers were so accurate that they could kill people.

For a team with a lot of traffic like the Supersonics, once they lose a game, even the smallest problem will be magnified infinitely by public opinion.

Someone noticed that Yu Fei made a disgusted expression towards Roy at the end of the game.

Then, a reporter made a dark guess: "Frye is very dissatisfied with Brandon's performance."

Then, a group of fans of unknown origin went to Roy's Twitter account and made outrageous remarks.

At the post-match press conference, Yu Fei simply said: "We allowed our opponents to shoot 50% of their three-pointers. In this case, it is meaningless to talk about other issues."

Yu Fei was just objectively stating the reason for the loss, but after his words were reinterpreted, it became that Yu Fei was dissatisfied with the team's perimeter defense.

The scariest thing is that the detail experts began to make dynamic graphics frame by frame to find all the unexpected situations during the game.

Yu Fei scored a wonderful goal, but Durant reacted coldly.

“KD, is it difficult to stand up and cheer for your leader?”

When Durant completed the dunk, Yu Feidong was looking around and didn't pay attention.

"Frye is a man who has seen the world. He doesn't think KD's two moves are worth being happy about."

A defining feature of the social media age is the ability to deconstruct everything.

Even things that happen in an instant can be structured into countless meanings. Human tragedy will become a hellish joke, and traditional nouns will be given new meanings. Once these deconstructions reach their limits, abstract culture will be born.

The phenomenon of finding faults in people frame by frame is a specialty of the sports world.

Two frames within the same second can convey completely different meanings.

When Yu Fei found that his remarks at the press conference were interpreted by various people, he truly felt the particularity of the social media era.

In this case, what kind of words should be used to ensure that there are no loopholes?

Obviously not.

Because a correct word is correct in today's context, and because you win, people can't find fault with it, but if you lose, then the once correct words will become a boomerang hitting you. The biggest lie is that the Internet has no memory, because netizens do have memory.

Just when Yu Fei was having a headache over the turbulent undercurrents of the social media era, Durant, who seemed to be blameless, made a small mistake.

今晚,杜兰特18投9中,以50%的命中率砍下25分5篮板1助攻。

He actually completed the task assigned to him by the team.

No one could fault him except for those speculative details. However, such a rising superstar did not comply with his media obligations on a losing night.

What is media obligation? At the beginning of the millennium, in order to make the players more down-to-earth, Stern required all non-DNP players of NBA teams to go to the media interview room for interviews on game nights.

Doing so can increase the players' exposure and let fans know what the players are thinking. If you're lucky, there will be a self-destructing truck like Iverson exploding in front of the media, and that will bring in more traffic.

⑴ Iverson: Training@! ¥#@¥

But Durant, who has always respected the media, refused to abide by his obligations on a losing night?

This pissed off a reporter named Ethan McNeo.

He is a Seattle native and one of the few media people in the Seattle area who is qualified to enter the SuperSonics locker room for interviews before the game.

These days, he has been criticizing Durant.

He thinks Durant is "all show and no substance."

He clearly has Garnett's physical condition, but he plays like Nowitzki. He can't protect the rebounds like Nowitzki, nor can he protect the rim like Garnett.

So what's the difference between him and Rashard Lewis or Antawn Jamison?

Frye plays power forward for him, so why can't he share some of the pressure in things other than scoring?
If Durant were here tonight, McNeagh would have asked him bluntly how he felt about Mavericks small forward Arron Afflalo hitting six 3-pointers over his head.

But Durant didn't give him a chance.

This guy who always talks about responsibility, courage, and perseverance before the game, chooses to escape when faced with failure?

McNealy doesn't care what family matters prevented Durant from fulfilling his media obligations tonight. He only cares whether Durant is responsible enough to inherit Frye's empire.

Now it appears that he did not.

He decided to publish a sharp article to criticize Durant.

What McNealy didn't know was that besides him, there were many other people who wanted to put down Durant.

Overnight, articles questioning Durant popped up like mushrooms after rain.

Some questioned why Durant couldn't be more comprehensive, others questioned Durant's defense, and some questioned whether Durant had really improved.

But none of these people's doubts stung Durant as much as McNealy's.

In a headline article in Seattle's popular sports newspaper, The Seattle Sports News, McNeo denounced Durant's hypocrisy, affectation and irresponsibility under the title "Kevin Durant is not qualified."

"Kevin said that he would carry the future of Seattle on his shoulders like Frye, but we don't see any signs of this in recent games. He can't adapt to the confrontation at the four position, so the Supersonics let Frye play the four position. This is puzzling. We all know that Frye is the greatest player in history, but he can only play to his full strength at the three position. We can't expect Kevin to be selected to the All-Defensive Team like Frye, nor can we expect Kevin to average a triple-double like Frye. How he plays at the four position, he will also play at the three position. This young man who talks about responsibility, courage, hope and Seattle glory every day has no idea of ​​the weight of the empire."

There’s a certain weirdness about the sports world: One-sided bullying by stars against the media often results in total victory.

In the political world, politicians tend to stay away from journalists who have social influence. They dare not get too close to them, so as not to be targeted, but they also dare not be too distant, because that would lead to criticism. In Hollywood, the media is the focus of publicity. Whether it is the release of a new movie or a new album, the first wave of word-of-mouth is always fermented by the entertainment media. Even if they will not play a decisive role, Hollywood professionals will try their best to please them.

But the situation in sports is completely the opposite.

Well-known ESPN reporters like Mark Stein are proud to be Yu Fei's mouthpiece, and the inside information about the Sonics that comes from his channel is often true. He can freely enter and leave the Sonics locker room, and sat next to Yu Fei smoking a cigar when the Sonics won the championship.

This was his crowning success as a sports journalist.

Behind Stein are hundreds of reporters who want to lick Yu Fei's laurels but fail to do so. They often approach Yu Fei abruptly because they want to get first-hand information too much, and then are scolded. So they apologize on the spot and beg Yu Fei to allow them to ask a question.

If Yu Fei accepted their requests, they would be grateful, but if Yu Fei told them to get out, they would bury their resentment deep in their hearts, because any disrespect they showed could result in them being blacklisted and losing the opportunity to interview the other party.

Since the days of Babe Ruth, journalists have assumed that these supremely accomplished sports superstars are a group of arrogant, narcissistic, and conceited individuals who do not tolerate being offended or challenged, and that the job of sports journalists is to get as close to them as possible.

This abnormal working relationship leads to sports journalists being humbled in front of stars.

And Durant is an outlier among star players.

He is not arrogant, narcissistic, or proud. He is an approachable boy next door. Because he is not like Yu Fei and others, reporters can easily approach him without caring whether his words will hurt others.

If Durant is really the American boy who symbolizes goodness, if you are really as kind as Nike tells the world, then you should not be hurt by this level of attack. You should accept the criticism with a smile and promise to make corrections.

Durant didn't know why his reputation changed like this overnight, and he didn't know that Ethan McNeo, who had interviewed him many times, would write such an article.

Nike's public relations and media seem to have failed.

Durant held up his phone and yelled to his agent: "What did I do wrong that they would do this to me?!"

"That's the pressure of being the guitarist in the NBA's Beatles," the agent advised. "You have to get used to it."

And this is what makes Durant the most angry.

“There are people who are doing worse than me, why should I take this shit!”

"Who behaved worse than you? Fry?"

Of course not what Durant was about to say, suddenly, he figured it out.

Why Ethan McNealy and other Seattle media people are firing on him.

Because they wanted to hide the real war criminals.

That person is the one they are most reluctant to criticize.

That morning, the Sonics boarded the plane and prepared to fly to San Antonio.

Was it a sleepless night last night? It's hard to say, but someone must have had a sleepless night.

Yu Fei looked around and suddenly saw Roy, so he said to him, "Promise me that you won't get beaten up by Tony Parker like you did last night, okay?"

Roy was helpless.

Last night, Parker broke through him casually as if he were a morning street. He could have made up for it through offense, but he was knocked to the ground in one round and his mentality was broken, so he was in a state of having his pants pulled down the whole night.

At the end of the game last night, Yu Fei asked him, "What are you playing tonight?"

"Kill me!" Roy replied, "I am the most useless person on earth."

So Yu Fei showed the expression that had been imagined by conspiracy theorists for several days.

Although Roy was the war criminal last night, he had a good attitude of admitting his mistakes and took all the responsibility in front of the media. Yu Fei didn't want to blame anyone because Parker alone could not defeat them. They actually lost to the Mavericks' outside three-pointers.

However, if Roy didn't let Parker play so well, would the Mavericks' outside shooting be so accurate?
But there's really no way to go into detail about this kind of thing, because this is a competition.

In extreme cases, role players can also beat star players. It is really difficult to deal with a player like Parker who is so fast that no one in the Sonics' starting lineup can match him.

Roy just happened to be in that position, and someone else wouldn't do any better defending him.

"Next time we meet the Mavericks, we can let Pat start," Roy said, "maybe he can defend."

So Yu Fei looked back at Beverly, who was shaking her head to the song, and shouted, "Pat!"

Beverly took off his headphones and looked at Yu Fei carefully.

"Next time I let you start, can you defend Daniel Morales?" (The protagonist of "Taxi")
Beverley said arrogantly: "No problem, I can easily kill him!"

Then Yu Fei said to Roy, "Next time we play against the Mavericks, I'll let Tyrann DNP you."

"Not really, right? I can still play as a substitute."

"No." Yu Fei choked, "I'm worried that the French will see you and awaken their muscle memory from last night."

(End of this chapter)

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