During the Yu Flying ban, the eight opponents the Bucks encountered were arguably not easy to play.

They are the Lakers, Celtics, Spurs, Pacers, Heat, Pacers (trilogy), 76ers, and Kings.

Seven of the eight opponents are playoff-caliber teams, including championship-contenders like the Spurs and Pacers, and it's no exaggeration to say that the league has the most intense schedule in recent times.

Even so, an eight-game losing streak is unacceptable.

Of these eight opponents, the Bucks are most likely to win against the Celtics, but the closest they come to winning is the first game against the Lakers.

It was Ray Allen's most energetic game.

Kobe Bryant was in a slump of 4-of-13 and scored 20 points on 12 free throws, while Ray Allen scored 32 points on 11-of-16 shooting, but the Lakers' bench produced a Bryan Cook who would score 81 points with Kobe Bryant in the future.

Cook was the wonder man of the game, with 25 points and 11 rebounds.

The Lakers narrowly beat the Bucks by four points.

The Bucks lost by at least five points in each of the next seven games, and Ray Allen was a game of indifference, ranging from being strong against the Lakers to being helpless against the likes of the Spurs and Pacers.

The game against Celtic was the most unacceptable.

The Celtics are a veritable mess team, and after Angie came to power, he carried out a series of operations to turn his instant power into draft picks, which anyone but Pierce could sell.

To play a team like this, winning is the most basic thing, the question is how many points you have to win.

But instead of winning, the Bucks lost by 11 points.

Ray Allen was isolated, his teammates wouldn't cooperate with him, he didn't like to pass the ball to him, he didn't get enough support even when he was hot, and even if Karl called a timeout and asked the players to pass the ball to him, it didn't help.

This left Ray Allen disheartened, and he felt that he had lost the respect of his teammates and the status of the team.

On December 16, 2004, Yu Fei returned from the ban and played his first game against the Bulls.

The Bucks' starters were Yu Fei, Ray Allen, Brent Barry, Devin George and Dekembe Mutombo.

Karl tried to play one big and four small, putting the burden of winning on Yu Fei's body.

Yu Fei did not disappoint, and in the first game of his comeback, he cut down 35+10+10 data and led the team to end the losing streak.

Previously, Yu Fei could only feel the internal changes through the game video, but now, when he himself is on the court, he realizes how helpless Ray Allen is now.

His teammates didn't beat and scolded him, but just took an uncooperative attitude.

This is cold violence.

But the impact is no less than the infighting of fists and kicks.

Yu Fei's approach was to pass the ball to Ray Allen more, but his choice alone could not dominate the thoughts of his teammates.

The malice of the palace is still spreading.

Ray Allen stayed out of it that day, and he was ostracized within the Bucks as well.

He was absent from one of the most undeserved conflicts of his life.

Yu Fei's comeback can't be changed, and the internal tear is intensifying.

In the second half of the month, the Bucks barely maintained a win rate of more than 50% under the leadership of Yu Fei.

At best, that win rate keeps them in the playoffs, and it takes luck to move up the top position.

In the final game of 2004, the Bucks took on the Rockets on the road.

Yu Fei and Maddie battled all over the court, and Ray Allen made 2 of 10 shots, completely dumb and refrigerated by George Carr.

The Bucks ended up losing by three points.

That night, Ray Allen refused to speak to the post-match interview, staying alone in the dressing room and not speaking to anyone.

However, no one will take the initiative to talk to him.

It wasn't until Yu Fei came back from the media interview room that he found that Ray Allen was still there.

Ray Allen also saw Yu Fei.

His feelings about flying were too complicated.

This young man is arrogant and arrogant, he doesn't take anyone in the team in his eyes, and he is also arrogant and domineering.

What he hates the most is that Yu Fei's team always attributes the success of the Bucks to Yu Fei alone.

It's as if the rest of them are air.

This disgust reached its peak when Yu Fei declared that the Bucks were his team.

However, none of that matters now.

The Bucks have no hope of pursuing a three-peat, and if they continue like this, they will not even be able to secure the playoffs.

Ray Allen paid the price for his high spirits, and what he never expected was that at the moment when everyone had already drawn a line with him, Yu Fei was willing to pass the ball to himself.

This makes it difficult for Ray Allen to have a comprehensive view of flying.

Because he felt that he had mistaken Yu Fei.

Is this person young and vigorous and doesn't know how to interact with people, or is he very attentive and has other plans?

Ray Allen sighed, none of this mattered.

"If I had messed around with you that day, wouldn't I have gotten things to this point?"

Suddenly, Ray Allen asked.

"I think so."

Yu Fei replied blandly.

"Do you think they'll ever forgive me?" Ray Allen asked.

The real question should be what he needs to do in exchange for forgiveness from his teammates.

Yu Fei also thought about this.

How can Ray Allen win hearts and minds? He felt that this was no longer possible.

The brawl at Auburn Hills Palace was the most intense brawl in NBA history, and it was because of Ray Allen, but he stood by and watched his teammates stand by after they stood up for themselves, which is inexcusable in any way.

Therefore, Yu Fei's answer can only be: "I don't think so." ”

"So I'm Milwaukee's biggest problem right now." Ray Allen said to himself.

Yu Fei didn't answer, just stared at him.

"I'm not going to let myself be a problem for the team." Ray Allen has never been so sincere, "If one day I become a problem, I'll leave, so, I'll ask for a deal." ”

"Good luck."

Yu Fei said.

Hearing this news, Yu Fei felt a sense of relief.

He thinks the only solution to Ray Allen's problem is to get him out. But selfishly, he doesn't want the other team to leave - he really can't find a secondary attacker who can average 20 points per game and bring a 40% three-point shooting rate - so he has been passing the ball to the opponent on the court to show his support.

This is diametrically opposed to Yu Fei's intentions.

He didn't know why.

In the end, he convinced himself that this would allow Ray Allen to retain his value and wait until the time of the trade before the team could sell for a good price.

Ray Allen's departure would have a major butterfly effect on another man's career – Sprewell would get the big contract he wanted.

Senator Kerr is probably dead and would not want to spend tens of millions of dollars a year on an old thing that locks himself for a year, and is destined to be worse every year, and then have to pay the same amount of luxury tax for it.

But if he uses the salary space that belongs to Ray Allen to give him, even if he is unwilling, he will admit it by pinching his nose, after all, in the end, the person who will be affected by this contract is Yu Fei.

Because Sprewell's contract is destined to be a premium contract, and this premium contract could have been dismantled and signed to fight immediately, and now it is used on an old man, and the team has no room to strengthen it in the free market, so it can only rely on the draft to tap the potential.

This result is Yu Feiyuan, he is still young enough to accompany Sprewell through his last contract, and he has the patience to wait for Kevin Martin and other young people to grow up.

"Da Fei, do you think he has to go?" Lawson knew exactly how much Ray Allen could help Yu Fei.

Yu Fei said: "Probably." ”

"No solution?"

"No, even if there were, I wouldn't have thought of it." Yu Fei shook his head.

Lawson said regretfully, "It's a pity. ”

The next day, Ray Allen requested a trade from the Bucks through his agent.

I didn't say why, but the meaning was clear.

"If the trade doesn't happen, Ray will test the waters of next summer's free market."

It was the last day of 2004, and Ray Allen, who had played for the Bucks since 1996, decisively requested a trade.

The Bucks didn't hold back, they know what's going on in the locker room and why the team has struggled so much lately.

They agreed to the trade, but there were a lot of difficulties in the deal, the biggest of which was that the Bucks couldn't get an equivalent return. Ray Allen's request to leave before the trade deadline or test the free market after his contract expires has skyrocketed his value. Moreover, what the Bucks want is another expiring contract, and only then can they give Sprewell a big contract, otherwise, the luxury tax will be a monster next year.

As a result, there are actually very few options left for the bucks.

However, the news of Ray Allen's release on the shelves was like the smell of blood in a shark pile, which immediately attracted the attention of many teams.

The most laughable has to be Isaiah Thomas.

He took Michael Reed from the Bucks last year, and now he wants to trade Reed for Ray Allen.

It's not just that good horses don't eat back grass, and good deer don't eat either.

The Bucks simply rejected the Knicks.

This was followed by an offer from the Raptors.

Not long ago, the Raptors sent away Vince Carter, who had a deep grudge with the team, and officially started the Bosh era.

Suddenly, the Bucks were ready to trade Ray Allen, which made them feel like God was playing with themselves.

Because Carter's trade gave them a few pieces of, one of which still disliked the dirty toilets in Toronto and refused to come (Mourning), the result was that the Raptors got little return on Carter's trade.

If the Bucks had traded Ray Allen at the time, the two might have hit it off.

Although Carter was at a low point in trade value at that time, he and Yu Fei had a good chemistry during the All-Star Game last season, and they were very chatty.

But right now, the Raptors estimate that the only thing the Bucks can look up to is Chris Bosh and Jalen Rose.

Bosh, they are killed and not sold.

So you can only take Ross to make an offer.

The Bucks refused anyway.

In January, the Bucks still had a 5-to-5 win rate, All-Star Weekend was just around the corner, and Ray Allen had a breakthrough in the trade.

Just as the Raptors wanted to get rid of Carter, the Kings wanted to get rid of Webb.

But Webber's contract is so big that the Bucks don't want to touch it, and they want the "old cat" Catino Mobley that the Kings traded from the Magic at the beginning of the season.

This year is also Mobley's contract year, and he has stated that he will not renew his contract with the Kings, for them, this is a short scorer with a half-season use limit, and now Ray Allen is also a contract year, and the use period is also half a season, but the latter is clearly an optimized version of the former.

The bucks want to change, and they don't have any reason to disagree.

However, the Bucks don't want to be the big one, Mobley's salary is not enough to match Ray Allen's contract, and the Kings need to come up with other additions, or pull someone else to trade, and considering the fact that Ray Allen is obviously better than Mobley, the Bucks want some future draft picks in addition to asking for people.

The two sides tugged at each other for a few more days, and finally on February 4, the deal was finalized.

The Bucks sent Ray Allen to Sacramento in exchange for Catino Mobley and veteran Greg Ostertag, as well as a 2007 first-round pick.

(End of chapter)