Yu Fei's pressure on Paul caused the Hornets to fall into disarray.

When the Hornets lost their usual rhythm as Paul went berserk, the SuperSonics were on the verge to take an 18-point lead before halftime.

Byron Scott said to Paul, "Chris, did you see that? If you can't keep your sanity, we'll be vulnerable. ”

Paul saw it, but what could he do?

It was difficult to stay calm in front of Yu Fei.

In the second half, the Hornets chased some points under Paul's leadership, but were quickly interrupted by Yu Fei and Roy.

Yu Fei opened fire on the outside, and Roy broke Paul's defense one-on-one.

When the supersonic perimeter duo play at the same time, it's almost impossible for them to lose.

At the end of the third quarter, the SuperSonics led the Hornets by 15 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the rest of the supersonic also exerted their strength.

The neglected Durant successively made jumpers and breakthroughs in positional battles, Kwame Brown used the gravitational pull of stars to eat cakes continuously, and the ubiquitous Marion filled up the statistics.

Even if Paul starts hitting three-pointers, he can shoot jumpers in heads-up with Yu Fei, and he can still find space for layups in the face of Brown's help defense, but what the star wants to reverse when he takes over the game is that he needs to limit the opponent at the same time.

Otherwise, it is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of garbage time brushing.

In the end, 111-98, the SuperSonics defeated the Hornets at home to win the first game of the series.

Impressively, the hostility between the supersonic and the Wasp is strong.

After the game, there were no hugs, no handshakes, and both sides went their separate ways.

"When they want to compete, all we can do is respond." Yu Fei said about Paul's loss of control on the court, "I may have said something excessive, but I won't shut up just because the other person feels hurt. ”

Yu Fei recalled the game and clearly remembered that when he used Paul's grandfather to talk trash talk, the opponent broke the defense.

So Yu Fei went to ask the people around him, wanting to know how the relationship between Paul and his grandfather was. I didn't want to learn that the other person's grandfather had died in high school, and Paul even scored 61 points in a single game to commemorate his grandfather's death.

Now there is really talent and no virtue.

Da Fei, who learned the answer, thought self-deprecatingly.

Of course, he won't continue to talk about Paul's grandfather, but he doesn't plan to apologize for it, after all, he was smiling before the game, but Paul's face of "returning Lao Tzu's MVP" made him can't help but start fighting back.

Yu Fei really didn't understand Paul's resentment towards MVP.

Obviously, he is only the third in the MVP vote, he doesn't fight with the second vote, what is the competition with him?

Paul's loss of control also exposed the Wasp's death hole.

They also succeeded Paul, and they also defeated Paul.

Once Paul's control of the team is gone, as it was tonight, then they are a normal powerhouse.

For the next few days, Seattle's sports market was in a frenzied atmosphere.

MVPs aren't new to Fly, he's already won a few in Milwaukee, but for Seattle, professional basketball MVPs are pretty new.

While the team has been in the Emerald City for four decades, it has never had a regular season MVP.

Their last MVP was 1979 Finals MVP Dennis Johnson, and their last MVP was 1971 All-Star Game MVP Lenny Wilkens, but neither FMVP nor AMVP can compare to MVP in terms of difficulty or gold content. The latter requires a sample of 82 games, while the former only requires a sample of one round series and one exhibition game.

The smaller the sample, the higher the chance.

The commercial value generated by Yu Fei has ushered in a bull market for sports goods near the key arena.

MVPs exacerbate this phenomenon.

Most of the products related to Yu Fei were ordered before they hit the shelves, and the jersey was even more difficult to find.

This frenetic star-chasing atmosphere is spilling over from the city center, subtly influencing other citizens who don't care about professional basketball.

The commercial potential of hypersound is exploding.

And Seattle has no shortage of insightful people.

Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, is interested in investing in a new arena for the superSonics.

Everything about hypersound was mobilized.

The Hornets are no longer a supersonic problem, all they need to do is beat the Hornets, go through the division finals, and win back that damn trophy in the finals.

Economists a year ago who believed that supersound had zero economic effect on Seattle predicted: "If supersound wins the championship this year, it is expected to generate more than tens of millions of dollars in profits and more than $100 million in economic effects." ”

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The Seattle Times quoted this prediction and reminded fans of who brought it all.

"None of this would have happened without Frye."

The strong celebrity effect began to feed back to the brand under Fei's name.

Yu Fei's mother, Yu Fenglin, opened a restaurant in Seattle with a booming business, and Reebok quickly defeated competitors such as Nike and Adidas in the basketball market, dominating the Seattle ball market, and every brand linked to Yu Fei was eager to announce its relationship with Yu Fei with a loudspeaker.

For a while, Yu Fei was like a wandering god in the world, he was everywhere, and he was everywhere.

Nowhere is this more intuitive than the Hornets players.

"You know what? Even the delivery person's uniform says number 44! Paul's brother CJ complained, "It's number 44 everywhere!" It's like a city for him alone! ”

Paul listened in silence.

After the first match, he realized that the gesture he had shown was a disservice to his long-term relationship with Yu.

Although they don't have any personal relationships, they will be team-mates on Team USA this summer.

If you have a bad relationship here, how will you join hands when the time comes?

However, Paul still couldn't accept that he was snubbed in the MVP vote.

He saved professional basketball in New Orleans, kept the Hornets there, and saved the Hornets before Yu Fei finished saving the superSonics.

Why do people turn a blind eye to this?

But when Paul saw Seattle's sports market take off and the basketball economy was recovering rapidly, it was clear to him that what Yu Fei was doing was directly different from him.

New Orleans, which was hit by Hurricane Katrina, is still being rebuilt and the Hornets are staying, but the market hasn't recovered and there hasn't been a massive influx of sponsors.

But what about supersonic?

Their future remains uncertain, and the team needs to get Seattle's city government through a financing package before the summer of 2010, or the immediate prosperity will be fleeting.

But that's where it gets scary.

SuperSonics are still playing in the Key Arena, and their profits cannot be maximized in any way, but it is in this situation that the ball market has fully recovered, the market is also booming, and supersonic products continue to rise.

What if they stayed and got a better arena?

It's the same as saving, but the impact on the city is very different.

The Hornets' stay in New Orleans was a consolation to the local belongings after the disaster.

However, supersonic speed has become popular as a large market, but it can have a strong impact on the culture and economy of the city.

This difference and influence is exactly the difference between Yu Fei and Paul.

In every era, in every commercialized and highly developed sport, there are only one or two people like Yu Fei.

Their names have been symbolized, existence itself is an anthropomorphic form of commercial value, and when he can bring benefits to everyone, his existence is not just as a player.

He will be the embodiment of business, the embodiment of public opinion, the representative of the Union, the darling of the media, and Paul, who unfortunately saved New Orleans in the same way, is destined not to be on a par with such a person.

From the very beginning, it was an unfair competition.

By the time Yu Fei returned to Seattle, he had already won.

Paul was a smart man, and when he was hit hard by reality in a row, he began to reflect on the whole thing.

In the end, he found that Yu Fei didn't do anything wrong, and he didn't do anything wrong, they all deserve MVP, but in the eyes of the world, Yu Fei is more deserving.

It's the way professional basketball works, and it's the sweetness that the business league gives to the stars who bring them benefits, and they just deserve it better than anyone else.

"There's nothing wrong with Frye, he deserves to be the MVP."

Suddenly, Paul said.

"Chris?" CJ was shocked, "What are you talking nonsense?" ”

"Listen to me." Paul said, "I deserve to be the MVP, but it's not us who decide this, it's the mercenary bastards, do you think I need to fight Frye for this?" ”

That's true, but now that the two teams meet in the playoffs, if they don't have the courage to go against Yu Fei, how can they defeat the SuperSonics and advance to the next round?

CJ's concerns are not unfounded.

Paul figured it out, but the sharpness of the confrontation with Yu Fei also disappeared.

A day later, the two sides returned to the key arena and fought for four quarters, Paul played smoothly, but Yu Fei's unresolved singles at the critical moment made the Hornets helpless.

106 to 101

The SuperSonics beat the Hornets again and took a 2-0 lead.

Tonight, Paul took the initiative to shake hands with Yu Fei, "You did what you had to do, and now it's our turn." ”

Of course, Yu Fei didn't know what happened to Paul, but it seemed that he had figured it out.

This is good.

Although he really lost the only chance to be an MVP in this life, the most important thing for people to live in this world is to understand the most important thoughts, and it will be premature to be trapped by things all day long.