Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 675 675 479 The Premise Is You Can Move

Chapter 675: Chapter 479: The Premise Is, You Can Move Chapter 675: Chapter 479: The Premise Is, You Can Move Yu Fei’s comnt about Abe Pollin stung so people’s nerves.

They thought Yu Fei was too harsh on the deceased.

This reaction continued to Yu Fei’s Twitter feed.

When Yu Fei retweeted the promo for “Iron Man 2,” a group of fans from D.C. asked him to take back his comnt about Pollin below the post.

“Frye, you only spent one year in D.C., and you don’t know what Mr. Pollin ant to D.C. He was definitely not a bad owner. You must take back what you said and let the dead rest in peace.”

This comnt received the most support.

Yu Fei bluntly replied, “You’ll soon have a new owner; unless he’s worse than the predecessor, you will forget Abe Pollin as fast as possible. And ? I’ll be the last person on this planet to rember him. So spare your hypocrisy.”

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This was just an episode during the season.

The ga against the Miami Heat ended, and December’s travels had just begun.

The next day, the SuperSonics headed to Cleveland for an away ga.

This was the city of lost sports dreams.

Yu Fei could never forget the day Jas live-stread “The Decision”; his radio show was flooded with heartbroken Cavaliers fans.

What Jas did convinced Clevelanders that their sports were cursed by God, because otherwise, so things are just unexplainable.

Over half a century of championship drought, famous in the basketball world as “The Shot” aside, around the sa period, they also suffered equally painful defeats in the NFL. Soon after, Clevelanders had their spirit crushed when the Browns announced they were moving (only to move back later but still barely alive), followed by Shawn Kemp’s arrival in Cleveland, where he ballooned in weight and fathered nurous children; they welcod the new millennium in desperation and then in 2001 unknowingly watched as their eighth pick, Frye, got traded to D.C., and in 2003 celebrated the arrival of the King.

What could be more painful than that?

They sent away The Chosen One and welcod back soone heralded as a natural-born king, only for this king to leave them in the least kingly manner.

Thus, Yu Fei fully understood why Cavaliers fans harbored resentnt—they had every right to. It wasn’t because Jas left, but the way he left. The relationship between fans and players is inherently unequal. They buy tickets and jerseys, cheer on site, defend the player’s honor off the field, make excuses for your failures, and ideally, provide you with wealth. As long as you stay healthy, give your all on the court, and do nothing to hurt the fans, they will support you through thick and thin.

After what had happened, Clevelanders had every reason to hate Jas.

Ironically, after tonight’s ga against the SuperSonics, they were to welco the Lakers at ho.

It would be Jas’s first return to Cleveland since his defection.

Yu Fei couldn’t help but think how cleverly Jas had played his cards in 2014 by using his return ho as a pretext to leave a Miami Heat team that had lost its championship potential.

The reasoning was justifiable, and everyone ended up happy; the 2016 championship was the key that unlocked the gateway to the pantheon for Jas. Many Leonard fans say Durant dreams of a 2019 Raptors-style championship—really? Ostensibly defeating the mighty warriors, but in reality, they took down a team whose core was left with just Curry and Green still hardly standing—the 2016 Cavaliers had the story and impact Durant truly dreams about.

But in this life, would Jas co back?

Yu Fei wasn’t sure.

If they defeated the Lakers, turning Jas’s “Decision” into a joke, what reason would Jas have to return here?

That night, the Cavaliers’ starting lineup hadn’t changed much from last season.

Or rather, they retained the team built for Jas.

So when their starting players ca on, those whose impression of the Cavaliers was stuck in last season always felt like they were missing sothing.

Once the ga started, they realized it; the superstar who had led this group to win 50 gas in the Eastern Conference had disappeared.

The Cavaliers were a typical Jas’s team.

Everyone existed to make it easier for Jas to play. So Jas could lead them to 50 wins, but once Jas left, the whole team looked like a headless fly, and the only player with solid isolation ability was Mo Williams.

If Mo Williams were at the core, Cavaliers fans were destined to rember so not-so-good tis.

Such as the Ricky Davis era.

Although Mo couldn’t do sothing like shooting at his own basket to rake in a triple-double, having him as the core would only lead to a darker future than the Ricky Davis era.

That night, Yu Fei barely broke a sweat, as the Cavaliers were probably the worst NBA team at the mont.

For them, winning 20 gas this season would be considered a success.

Finishing last was almost a foregone conclusion.

Considering their rare beating in NBA history, Yu Fei had every reason to believe the League would compensate them with the 2010 draft’s first overall pick.

Rather than padding his stats in this foregone ga, Yu Fei was more interested in the fans’ mindset.

Consequently, Yu Fei scored his season’s lowest tonight: 18 points.

Yet, it was such an inconsequential ga that gave the SuperSonics a hair-raising incident.