Yu Fei's joke caused Celtics fans to start a series of attacks on the team's general manager, Danny Ainge.

Although this year is Angie's first year in charge with the Celtics, fans have already seen his insidiousness.

Angie is a doer who will let go as long as he has a clear goal, and doesn't care what anyone thinks.

From the moment he took over the Green Army, he knew that the current roster of this team had reached the ceiling, and if he continued to make do, it was just a playoff game.

As a result, he underwent major surgery on the team's roster, explicitly refusing to sign Antoine Walker to a contract extension, then sending him away, and then trading Ricky Davis from the Cavaliers – a move that shattered the hearts of the decorated coach Jim O'Brien, who led the Green Army out of Rick Pitino's nightmare.

O'Brien chose to resign, and his reaction was already expected by Angie.

It's just that Anji didn't expect that the competitiveness of the east would be so low.

He obviously dismantled the team, but the Celtics still entered the playoffs in eighth place in the East.

Then, the first game was killed by the Bucks, and Yu Fei released the remark of "recommending a 20-year extension of Ricky Davis".

As a result, there were countless people who broke the defense, and the most fierce reaction was naturally Bill Simmons.

The man published an op-ed the next day titled "How an Imbecile General Manager Destroyed My Beloved Team in a Matter of Months," indicting Danny Angie for seven deadly sins.

Yu Fei had no other intention than to laugh at the Celtics, and the only thing he wanted to do was to sweep them away, make no extraneous branches, and advance to the second round early.

There was no suspense in Game 2 and Game 3 of the playoffs, with the Bucks winning by more than 20 points.

In the fourth scene, there was a bit of suspense.

Pierce scored the most points in the series at 38 points.

However, on the Bucks' side, Yu Fei also returned with 38 points.

And in addition to Yu Fei, Ray Allen scored 30 points and Sprewell scored 20 points.

The Bucks' three major perimeter players rotated and fired, and the offense swept through the Green Army like a tsunami.

The Celts were swept out, and the wailing in the center of the fleet was as bitter as if an era had ended.

Yu Fei stood on the sidelines, feeling nothing.

In addition to asking Yu Fei how he felt about advancing to the semifinals, the ABC reporter also asked a special thing: "Fry, if the Dream Team were to send you another invitation in the offseason, would you say yes?" ”

As a player whose goal is to become the most valuable player in history, Yu Fei sincerely believes that he should not play for the national team, and it is only right to rest in the offseason.

But this cannot be said publicly.

"I don't know, Coach Larry Brown keeps criticizing me about it, and it breaks my heart." Yu Fei said helplessly, "He obviously misjudged me, and I don't want to play for a coach who sees me that way." ”

"So, it's a personal question between you and Coach Brown?"

"You can think so."

"If the future head coach of the Dream Team was someone else, would your opinion on this matter change?"

"Maybe."

Yu Fei's words are tantamount to refusing this summer's call again.

But for the American Basketball Association, Yu Fei's rejection was already expected, after all, this is not the first time he has refused to be drafted.

Curiously, in addition to Yu Fei, high school superstars like Kevin Garnett and Tracy McGrady have also turned down the national team call-up.

Moreover, the reasons are very legitimate.

Garnett's reasoning is that the marriage and the NBA season are too long — this season will be the first time since 1995 that he still hasn't returned home to fish during the semifinals.

Maddie is even simpler, with a back injury and falling out with the team, and having to apply for a trade, and is not in the mood to play for the national team.

It seems that Kobe Bryant, who is the most patriotic, has to use his contract extension to play with the Lakers because of the end of the Hawk County incident, and it is impossible to waste energy to play the national team.

Why is there so much to do with a player who is a high school student?

It's not okay if others don't want to have a stereotype about them.

Yu Fei was surprised (happy) that there were so many people in the situation.

If everyone is fine, if he has a bunch of reasons, it will not be good for people's senses. Now so many people have pigeon with themselves in the United States Basketball Association, even if they want to be scolded in the future, it will be scolded by everyone together.

And it blew like the wind.

The first round of the playoffs has not yet been played, and strong teams such as the Bucks have swept away their opponents and waited for the semifinals to begin, and the NBA has selected Rookie of the Year at this time.

Although Yu Fei's appearance has caused the Cavaliers to lose two more games this season than in previous lives, the process of James being selected as Rookie of the Year has not changed.

If Yu Fei is not Xiao Zhan's eldest brother and asks him to vote with absolute neutrality, he may choose Anthony.

However, in the media voting, James gained an overwhelming advantage.

Ironically, the journalists with voting rights chose James from a non-basketball point of view for what was supposed to be a very serious individual award.

Sports Illustrated selected James as Rookie of the Year in its awards predictions.

Reason?

"LeBron, as the most anticipated rookie of all time, has basically lived up to expectations."

ESPN announced that they had voted for James, and that they knew it would cause outrage in doing so, so they wrote in an unsigned article: "Let's make a hypothesis. All those who believe Melo should be ROY have the same reason, as Melo's team made the playoffs. So, let's assume that LeBron plays for the Nuggets and Melo plays for the Cavaliers. You're seriously telling me, can Melo lead the Cavaliers to the playoffs? ”

Then, writer David Aldridge, also from ESPN, wrote; "No one — including Jordan, Magic, Karim, Russell, and Wilt — has entered the NBA with as much attention and heat as LeBron James, who has been doing well almost every night. He exceeded expectations at the point guard position, and when he returned to the forward position, he brought an explosion that he had never seen before. Yes, LeBron's Cavaliers don't do well in a weaker league. But it's not about LeBron. His performance was in line with everyone's expectations of him. It's amazing. ”

All those who supported James' election to ROY had similar confessions.

You can extract the same from their rhetoric.

It's nothing more than James' lack of help, James has played an elite rookie season under unprecedented pressure, and James is more well-rounded than Anthony (one point/just a little bit at this stage of his rookie season), so he should be selected as ROY.

The biggest problem is that few of these factors that contributed to James' selection as ROY were purely basketball.

Excessive pressure, external expectations.?

Statistics, records, these most tangible things were skipped on the grounds of "lack of helpers", so basketball reasons failed, and non-basketball reasons dominated.

Yu Fei was happy that his younger brother was elected, but after seeing the reason why the media supported his younger brother as ROY, he inevitably felt aggrieved for another person.

Last season, there was a rookie who combined James and Anthony in terms of objective conditions and personal performance, and as a result, he was not selected by ROY.

If stress and expectation are so important, why did Yao Shu fail to make the ROY election? Who else in the history of the NBA has been under more pressure than him? After O'Neal and before James, who is expected more than Yao Shu? Moreover, the personal performance is not bad, but considering external factors and internal factors, as well as this year's selection criteria, shouldn't Yao Shu's election as ROY be 100%?

Behind the inconsistent standards, there must be a clear standard that will not be put on the table.

But Yu Fei didn't have time to continue to care about this matter, he could only believe that there was a force in the universe that must let his little brother be elected ROY, okay.

In the second round of the playoffs, the Bucks met their old friends Philadelphia 76ers.

Before the All-Star weekend, the 76ers were still out of the playoffs, and the team was trying to sell Iverson, but as a result, no one wanted to sell it.

Since Iverson is going to rot in his hands, the 76ers must also coax him to play well, and it just so happened that after Kidd's departure, the Nets, who have not had a good record, were ready to rebuild, so they took over Kenyon Martin at the trade deadline.

Although the 76ers paid three first-round picks, Martin's arrival did turn the 76ers into winning mode.

They rushed all the way from 10th in the East to 5th in the East, and just beat the Miami Heat, who are fourth in the East, in the first round, and faced the Bucks again.

Yu Fei VS Iverson.

This is the second season of the Reebok derby, just less gunpowder than the first.

Because Yu Fei has already managed to snatch the top spot from Iverson last season.

Although the 76ers after the reinforcement are a little stronger than before, they still can't reach the height of the top three in the East.

In the first two games of the series, Yu Fei averaged a triple-double per game, and the Bucks won easily.

In the third game of the transfer to Philadelphia, Yu Feili scored 40 points, and the Bucks scored a match point, basically locking a ticket to the division finals.

The 76ers were about to be out, and on the same night, the league announced the winners of the major awards.

Yu Fei was selected to the best team with Kobe, Garnett, Duncan, and O'Neal as a point guard.

This is also the second consecutive year that Yu Fei has been selected for the best team.

Ironically, the quintive, who stood at the pinnacle of basketball, were once again asked about whether they would play in the national team in the offseason on the night they won the season.

Three of them refused on the spot.

Duncan, who hallucinated in the America's Cup pond last summer, said: "I'd be happy to play for Team USA if my body allows, it's going to be fun." ”

Another person who did not refuse was Yu Fei, but everyone basically acquiesced that he was insulated from the national team.

But Yu Fei still didn't say anything, and was amused by it: "If Coach Larry Brown lets his players defend me in the Eastern Conference Finals, I might think about it." ”

"But Fry, you haven't eliminated the 76ers yet."

"We're all 3-0, imagine what's going on in the Eastern Conference Finals in advance?"

“.”

(End of chapter)