Chapter 469 Yu Fei doesn’t believe in the existence (unity)
Chapter 469 Yu Fei doesn’t believe in the existence
Jordan's public denial of Yu Fei in his Hall of Fame speech and Yu Fei's direct response in subsequent interviews were later called the "Hall of Fame Explosion."
However, as both parties involved, Jordan received more criticism.
It is true that he and Yu Fei are enemies, but Yu Fei showed his attitude of congratulations by going to the scene in person. Even if Jordan did not accept it, he should not have made an attack on that occasion.
Not to mention, Jordan liquidated his former opponents one by one in a Hall of Fame speech, which has always been a place with the theme of "love and peace", as if he was concluding his final victory.
Those speeches were not flattering in the first place, let alone the intensity they gave Yu Fei on the spot.
"Michael Jordan tried to prove again in his Hall of Fame speech that he was still a pathological competitor. But in reality, all we saw was that he was sick."
The Seattle Times criticized Jordan mercilessly the next day.
It was not surprising at all that Yu Fei was scolding his former rivals in a liquidation-like manner against Jordan.
It should be said that he is such a person.
He knew this after watching "The Last Dance" in his previous life.
What were people’s expectations for “The Last Dance” before it premiered? It is an all-round and three-dimensional display of the inside story of 98 Bulls.
If you find the intrigue at the end of the Warriors' dynasty and the friction between championship achievements and the team's new talents exciting, if you think the entanglement of the OK Lakers is as vulgar as a soap opera, then these things can be seen in the Bulls that year.
The NBA entertainment department followed the Bulls throughout that year and they had all the information.
But in the end, what was presented was still a mediocre documentary with Jordan as the absolute subject. In the documentary, Jordan self-righteously mocked all his opponents, including his boss - he complained that his boss dismantled the team after 1998 and did not give him a chance to compete for four consecutive championships in 1999.
That's the kind of person he is, almost infinitely self-centered.
However, this does not mean that Yu Fei can accept what he said to himself at the end.
It seems that in these years, he has been patronizing dealing with current players, but he has "snubbed" this old guy who has been hiding behind the scenes.
Now, his championship count is equal to Jordan's.
Jordan's "GOAT" status was in jeopardy, so he did not hesitate to use a Hall of Fame speech to snatch the right to define "dynasty".
He attempted to undermine Yu Fei’s honor by reducing the concept of the “imperial” narrative promoted by Yu Fei’s camp to individualistic selfishness.
This kind of approach is not uncommon in media debates, but it is really shocking that the right person personally goes out to argue.
This made Yu Fei realize that the frequency with which he talked about Jordan was a bit low.
In terms of black spots, his career has been finalized. Teacher Dadan, whose career as a boss is still shining brightly, has more than ten times as many black spots as him.
Yu Fei is a person who does what he says.
Back at the hotel, he called Quint DeMeo: "I want to do an interview."
DiMeo is the CEO of his entertainment company. He is not only responsible for marketing and public opinion guidance, but also arranges his entertainment schedule.
"Sports media or entertainment media?" DeMeo asked.
"Of course it's entertainment media." Yu Fei said, "The more people who watch it, the better."
DeMeo immediately contacted NBC's "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" for Yu Fei.
Conan O'Brien has replaced Jay Leno as the host of "The Tonight Show" since June this year. A long-term ace show has changed its main star. This has been good and bad for the audience. The novelty comes and goes quickly. As it happened, the ratings of "The Tonight Show" hosted by Conan have been falling since the fall.
When Yu Fei indicated that he wanted to create some kind of controversy on the show, Conan's eyes lit up.
His only concern is that guests don't want controversy.
So, they designed several ingenious plots, and finally Yu Fei said this sentence under the gaze of tens of millions of viewers: "Everyone who follows basketball must know Elgin Baylor. Who is Elgin?" ? He is in charge of the Clippers. Now we only know that he is the most failed GM in NBA history, but we don’t know that he is also one of the best players in NBA history. Why is this happening? The record of failure running a franchise runs deep, just as Nicolas Cage was once the best actor of his generation, but every movie he makes now tarnishes his place in history."
"Now, I introduce to you a man who is considered by many to be the best player of all time, but after retiring, he achieved nothing and brought failure everywhere he went. He once despised the GM's job, and being incompatible with the guy who helped him become the best GM of a generation, but it turns out that the guy who had tons of success couldn't even put together a roster that could make the playoffs. I'm asking, we're going to. How long does it take to see him the way you see Elgin?”
Yu Fei interprets real entertainment, humor and seriousness in this episode.
He can make jokes, catch Conan's jokes, and then boldly throw out two large paragraphs of words through the show that are bound to cause major controversy.
NBC accelerated the editing of this episode and previewed it to the outside world ten days after the filming was completed.
"Whether you like basketball or not, Frye Yu can make you laugh."
This is their slogan.
Jay Leno, the previous host of "The Tonight Show", wrote on his Twitter with emotion after watching the sample film: "Fry and Michael are the Caesar and Pompeo of sports."
Yu Fei forwarded Renault's tweet and asked: "Who is Caesar?"
When personal grudges are mixed with honor and fame, they become shackles that cannot be resolved.
Someone has to fall for another to stay on top.
What the Jordan camp fears is that Jordan the player has been buried in the Hall of Fame, and from now on there will only be Jordan the owner.
But Yu Fei's honor has already equaled that of player Jordan.
At this time, they only have two options to choose from.
One is to value the past over the present, but unfortunately, Jordan is not "ancient" enough. He even was teammates with Yu Fei.
In the Yu Qiao debate, the biggest weakness of the Jordan camp is that after Jordan traded Yu Fei, he was beaten and retired by the opponent the next year.
Of course, they could play the "Michael is old" card.
But now it has nothing to do with whether Jordan is old or not. The current situation is that the 27-year-old Yu Fei has tied Jordan in honors.
It is foreseeable that he will almost certainly surpass Jordan's honors in the future.
By then, Jordan's biggest cornerstone as the GOAT in modern basketball will be shattered - in terms of honor, he is no longer the GOAT.
What can be done?
It's just two moves. Instead of admitting defeat, it's better to deny the opponent.
This was Jordan's motivation for flying fire in his Hall of Fame speech. Although the level of force was low and it looked low, it did arouse reactions from the outside world.
Another trick is to start with the illusory "influence".
As a star whose peak period was synchronized with the cable TV era and the globalization of the NBA, Jordan reaped the benefits of the era and is indeed one of the most influential athletes to date.
However, times are always improving.
The coming era of social media is an era in which information can truly cover the whole world, and this is a torrent of times that the Jordan camp cannot predict.
In a few days, NBA pre-season training camp will begin.
Yu Fei didn't come to report, so he took four days off.
Moreover, the reason for his leave is beyond doubt.
He will represent the Sonics at Seattle Mayor Greg Nichols' party for his successful re-election.
As for why the party took four days, Yu Fei's liaison in the team, Lawson, did not give a clear answer.
However, no one will ask for details.
As far as Yu Fei is concerned, even if he has to miss the entire training camp, no one dares to say anything.
Soon, the real reason for Yu Fei's four-day absence was exposed.
While Nichols was celebrating his third term in high-profile terms, the well-known Seattle organization MCCAIT (Moving Citizens Focus on More Important Matters) protested outside government buildings.
MCCAIT believes that the city government and the SuperSonics are too close. Yu Fei, a superstar who has publicly declared that he will not be involved in any politics, actually supported Nichols when he was pursuing a third term as mayor.
Due to Yu Fei's extraordinary popularity in Seattle, whoever he decided to support would have a high probability of becoming mayor.
Nichols has been very close to the Sonics since last year, and he participated in every important game day of the Sonics.
He even wore Reebok's latest "Empire" short-sleeves during the campaign to attract voters.
"We have reason to believe that the mayor and Frye reached some kind of agreement and they quietly promoted the agenda of building a new arena for the Sonics!" an MCCAIT spokesperson said.
To this end, Yu Fei held a public debate with the MCCAIT spokesperson under the arrangement of a local TV station.
He refuted the various accusations made by the MCCAIT spokesperson point by point and asked: "According to the Municipal Government Financing Act passed in 2008, SuperSonics has achieved profitability for two consecutive years. We meet the financing qualifications stipulated in the act. When we come out of this We didn’t violate any regulations at the time, but you accused us of reaching an under-the-table agreement with the mayor without any evidence. What’s your intention?”
"If you can make $150 million a year, that means you have enough money to build yourself a new arena."
"Wrong, the new arena does not belong to the Sonics, it belongs to Seattle."
"Why should we use taxpayers' money to facilitate the business of billionaires like you?"
"It's still wrong. The new arena proposal is expected to bring an economic impact of 300-600 million US dollars and thousands of jobs to Seattle every year. Moreover, I must remind you that the subsidies our country gives to enterprises every year are an amount you can't imagine. numbers. This is how our society works.”
After a man's fame reaches a high enough level, his life becomes pure drama.
Just after Yu Fei executed Michael Jordan on the "Tonight Show", he turned around and went to a local TV station in Seattle to have a public debate with a spokesman for a pro-democracy organization.
A Seattleite who never pays attention to basketball complained on Reddit: "I don't care about the Sonics, and I don't care who the government subsidizes, but why is Frye Yu everywhere in my world? I'm tired of this asshole. ! ”
Later, an international student from China replied to him: "I feel the same as you. This hypocrite slept with my favorite Japanese actress in just a few days in the summer, and then pretended not to be close when he came to China." A serious person who is lewd, because he knows that only in this way will his image and reputation in China not be affected. Do you know what is the most terrifying thing? Even in China, as long as you turn on the TV, his commercials will appear. Will fill your life!”
"Shut up, you guys don't want to see the good things of others!"
There is no place in the world that hates Yu Fei, in the sky and on earth, that Feimi can't reach. This post complaining about Yu Fei quickly became a battlefield for anti-fans.
For Fei, apart from adding a few black fans, it has no impact.
However, people around him increasingly understood that Yu Fei's image as a person had been blurred by myth.
As an athlete he is undefeated, as a celebrity he is perfect, and as a superstar he should be unprecedented.
Letting an imperfect person play the role of a perfect person is equivalent to asking him to walk in the world carrying a cross.
Jesus had to die, and after death He would receive eternal life.
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Most of the Sonics players neither understand Yu Fei's life nor want to get close to Fei's life.
Even Brandon Roy, who has a close relationship with Yu Fei, deliberately separated from Yu Fei this summer through Reebok arrangements.
This is not because they are worried about Roy taking away Yu Fei's market, but because Roy's presence around Yu Fei will be weaker than that of Shadow.
SuperSonics head coach George Karl is worried about something.
After the imperial concept of "SoleImperium" was proposed, the concept of dynasty was subverted.
The Yu Fei camp feverishly hyped that the NBA from 2006 to 2009 was an empire owned by Yu Fei alone.
In fact, Reebok's marketing department tried its best to cater to such gimmicks and developed a large number of products around the empire's gimmicks.
This has led to many people only knowing about Yu Fei's empire, but not knowing that SuperSonics and even Bucks players are the founders of the empire.
Guys like Kwame Brown certainly don't mind.
Yu Fei's camp ignored his contribution, but his words have already made his honor deeply impressed in the hearts of fans.
But people like Brown are unique.
What about others? They all live in the shadow of the empire. They were obviously noble champions, but now they have become the shadow of myth.
No one cares, no one cares.
Carr knew this would wreak havoc on the team's cohesion.
Now Yu Fei won't report for duty until four days later, and Karl can't talk about it on the phone, so he can only wait and see what happens.
Durant was the first to report to training camp.
He came two days early.
Last season, Durant's evolution made the outside world basically recognize the gold content of his No. 1 pick in the 2007 draft.
The Sonics' front office has now gotten rid of its gambler hat.
They made the right choice.
What's surprising is that Durant's character is completely unlike those traditional black people who seem to have grown up from the fire.
There is no trace of the cynical anger of the lower class black people in him.
By any standard, Durant feels very approachable.
That was until he welcomed Chris Bosh with a sly tweet over the summer.
That tweet almost cast doubt on his good guy image, but he quickly came to his senses.
After deleting the tweet and apologizing, Durant defended his image and avoided further escalation of the situation.
Throughout the summer, he and Yu Fei were like ice and fire, and their lives showed two styles.
Yu Fei participated in the filming of "Iron Man 2", and Kevin Feige claimed that "Fry is not a simple cameo, he will be an important role." Then, he was rumored to have affairs with many actresses on the set, including Scarlett, a married woman. Although both sides claimed there was a misunderstanding, no one believed it.
Subsequently, Yu Fei's Asia trip became a gossip every day, and his private life seemed as ridiculous as Dennis Rodman during the Bulls period. Back in the United States, he unexpectedly attended Jordan's Hall of Fame speech, and he caused trouble, and hit back at Jordan on the "Tonight Show."
His life covers sports, entertainment, gossip, and now, he is involved in politics again.
What about Durant? He keeps training every day and responds positively to invitations from USA Basketball. After training, he posts chicken soup for the soul on Twitter, prays for unfortunate families, and personally delivers signed sneakers to fans’ homes. He seems to be carrying a schoolbag every day, and his private life is as pure and flawless as a piece of beautiful jade.
"I would not be surprised if one day Frye goes bankrupt due to too many illegitimate children, but KD, he is the embodiment of all positive images of modern America." The New York Times gave Durant a wonderful identity, " He is America’s Son.”
Karl is not a fool. Not to mention that he witnessed the rise of the Jordan dynasty, he watched Yu Fei step by step from a pure Avenger to the altar in 2001, and turned into a person that no one can approach or look directly at. , the incarnation of God that no one can compare with, he has reason to believe that all the auras surrounding Durant are artificially created.
Just like the myths related to Yu Fei, he knows exactly how much is true, how much is fiction, and how much is a public relations stunt.
Moreover, Karl discovered during Durant's rookie season that Yu Fei's attitude towards him was different from others.
Yu Fei is not a Jordan-style leader. He will not force you to work hard with a "If you don't work hard, I will kill you" attitude. He is not a silent leader like Duncan. To be honest, Karl will not classify Yu Fei as a leader. This ranks.
Yu Fei has a silent and arbitrary attitude. He thinks the game should be how it should be. As his teammate, you can only cooperate with him. Because he's better than you in every basketball skill you know, and he's No. 1 in every statistic in modern basketball statistics.
In terms of statistics, he is the number one player in modern basketball.
What reason do you have to resist him?
If you can't be convinced by his skills, if you can't be convinced by his skills, then the only thing you can do is to leave.
Listen to him, play the way he likes, he will lead you to success, earn you a big contract and attention, and then you will be fine.
Kwame Brown is the person who knows Yu Fei best, so he can roam around Yu Fei's empire without any restrictions.
His infinite arrogance can be tolerated by Yu Fei.
Because he is willing to help Yu Fei defend, is willing to give Yu Fei blocking positions, and is willing to do his best to let Yu Fei get data.
But can Durant do it?
The way Yu Fei treats him is harsh, Durant rarely gets praise, and once he makes a mistake, the wrath of Thunder will fall on his face.
Which time was Yu Fei most satisfied with him?
That was during his rookie season when he was irritated by Paul Pierce and cursed at the referees.
Since then, that version of Durant has disappeared.
He hid it well, as if the demon KD never existed.
With two consecutive seasons of success, Durant has established himself as a unique good guy in NBA history. Nike's ambitions are ready to move. Will this have a structural impact on the Sonics?
Although Karl does not agree with Yu Fei's camp actively promoting the "Empire" narrative, his career has been firmly tied to Yu Fei.
Yu Fei must win, so he has to help monitor all unstable factors in the team.
In Karl's view, the biggest unstable factor is the impact of "one-man empire" public opinion on the team, followed by Durant's changes in the third year of his career.
Has he changed in any way?
He came to the training camp early, greeted everyone in a friendly manner, and then actively trained throughout the day.
On the opening day of training camp, he kindly took rookie Alonzo Key around the camp and said to Key: "You can try everything, I only give you one piece of advice, don't say no to Frye."
"Can I see Fry today?"
Durant smiled mysteriously: "He is the only one who can say no to the training camp."
"He's not coming?"
"He just won't come for a few days."
"Great!"
For Durant, the fact that Yu Fei would not arrive for a few days was truly "too good".
On the third day, Durant scored 40 points in the game. After training, he asked George Karl for instructions: "I want a media friend to enter the camp."
"Can you tell me his name?" Carl asked.
Durant replied: "Bill Simmons."
Simmons is not only Yu Fei's enemy in public opinion, but also Durant's biggest supporter in the media industry.
During the years when Oden dominated the draft board, Simmons was the only one who firmly supported Durant.
Karl said: "KD, I can give you time off, but I can't let him into camp."
"I got it, coach."
Durant is really a good guy and he didn't make things difficult for Karl.
"I don't need a holiday. After training tomorrow, I will be interviewed by him outside." Durant said with clear eyes, "Coach, I won't make it difficult for you."
Can I trust this kid?
Karl thought of the way Yu Fei treated Durant.
"You go ahead."
Carl said.
Yu Fei's attitude can't explain many things, but it at least proves that the housekeeper and the young master come together when it comes to treating Durant.
What Yu Fei doesn't believe in exists, and Karl will never believe it either.
(End of chapter)