Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 1045 1045 596 Curse Game2

Chapter 1045: Chapter 596 Curse Ga_2 Chapter 1045: Chapter 596 Curse Ga_2 After the ga, Yu Fei faced the dia and retorted, “What do those people who said we were cursed have to say now?”

“Is the curse lifted?”

“How could it be? How could they make sothing that doesn’t exist disappear?” Yu Fei laughed. “I’m sure, the mont we lose another ga, they will continue to talk about the curse.”

The curse seed to have beco a novel topic.

In the history of Arican sports, there have been many curses, the most famous being the Baby Curse of the Boston Red Sox. But since the Red Sox won the championship at the beginning of the century, no one ntioned it anymore.

The person most keen to hype up the “curse” of the Clippers is Bill Simmons.

As one of the most influential basketball writers on the Internet since the 21st century, he actually despises the “Baby Curse.” In his view, it was nothing more than a gimmick hyped up for the Red Sox. He had witnessed nearly all the important gas of the Red Sox over the past decades and knew the real reasons why they lost at critical monts.

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However, when it cos to the Clippers, this writer, who had been firmly against the idea of curses, asserted that the Clippers were indeed “cursed.” And this curse always struck at the most critical monts.

To strengthen his argunt, Simmons cited the last season: “If Blake Griffin hadn’t been injured, I believe the Clippers would have won Ga 6 and defeated the Spurs in Ga 7. I believe Frye could have played a decisive role in the ‘win or go ho’ ga! But God didn’t give them the opportunity. Griffin got injured, and the timing and consequences of the injury directly caused the Clippers to lose the chance to make history. Isn’t this a curse? How else can you explain the Clippers’ thirty years of misfortune?”

Yu Fei has disliked Simmons for many years.

He thinks Simmons is full of twisted argunts and often makes inappropriate jokes in discussions. This itself is not a problem, but the real issue lies in his double standards. For instance, when talking about the Red Sox, Simmons would use thousands of words in a column to refute the “Baby Curse” as a comrcial gimmick. Now, he attributes all the misfortunes of the Clippers to a so-called “curse.”

This made Yu Fei even more dissatisfied, although he does not plan to directly counter the other party for the ti being.

Simmons’s output of articles has declined greatly nowadays, but his podcasts are doing quite well, with almost a daily issue, and each issue brings up a controversial topic. Who can argue with that?

The most effective thod to deal with such a person is to attack what he loves.

So, Yu Fei checked the schedule.

The Clippers will face the Celtics on January 14th.

He noted this date in his calendar.

The “curse” of the Clippers beca the password for traffic in the professional basketball world of 2015.

Although the Clippers did not wish for this, the dia could use decades of misfortune as “evidence,” and even the fans bought into it. Even the Clippers themselves launched “curse does not exist” rchandise in response to the curse rhetoric, albeit still riding the wave of publicity.

The topic of the “curse” moved from the dia to TV shows.

TNT specially produced a program about the Clippers, inviting Dr. J, Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neal, three basketball legends from different eras, to discuss the credibility of the “curse.”

Dr. J ntioned that the Clippers’ predecessor, the Buffalo Braves, used to be a decent team, but everything seed to go wrong after the relocation.

Ironically, although the Clippers only lost five gas in the first third of the regular season, had good team chemistry, young players were growing rapidly, and veterans were having a second wind, many people still believed they could not shake off the so-called curse and bad luck could strike at any ti.

The Clippers finally awaited the Celtics.

Although the cause of the matter was unrelated to the Celtics, the “curse” public opinion was stirred up by Simmons.

As the world’s most famous Celtics fan, what’s wrong with making the Celtics pay for his behavior?

In recent years, the Celtics had been unlucky.

Ainge didn’t know what was wrong with the team; since forming The Big Three in the sumr of 2007, they hadn’t run into any good luck.

It seed like all their luck had been sucked away by soone.

The Celtics at their peak were defeated by the embryonic SuperSonic Empire, and since then, they have had no chance to compete for dominance.

Since last year, Ainge has been rebuilding, and to get the new defensive talent Larry Sanders, they sent Pierce and Rivers to the Clippers, solving the latter’s problem of lacking a veteran star and head coach at the sa ti.

Of course, the Celtics received a generous return.

Even though Sanders was not good in offense, his talent was enviable, and based solely on talent, he had the potential to beco the Ben Wallace of the 2010s, no, his ceiling was even higher than Big Ben.

Before the trade, everything was fine with Sanders.

However, starting from last season, Sanders began to be plagued with injuries, and prior to these injuries, for so reason, he suddenly began to shift his energy to his other hobbies.

Music, poetry, painting – basketball was no longer important in his life.

Before the start of this season, Sanders revealed a chilling ssage to Ainge: “I’ve lost interest in basketball.”

Then, shortly after the new season started, Marcus Smart, whom Ainge had picked eighth as the successor to Rondo, was out for the season…

With two promising newcors unable to play, the Celtics’ gas lost all hope, and all they had to do was to lose, to get high draft picks, and continue drawing lots.