Chapter 454: The One Empire

The 2008-09 season will be Yu Fei's representative season after averaging triple-doubles per game during the Bucks era.

If the year of the average triple-double per game was a data myth, this year is the myth of efficiency.

Yu Fei played in 82 games this season, playing an average of 35 minutes per game, hitting 11 of 18 shots per game, and averaging 27 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 block and 2 steals per game with a shooting rate of nearly 58%.

He topped all the high-level stats charts and led the team to the best record in the history of the 96 Bulls.

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The 09 SuperSonics became a new monument in NBA history.

In the sports news section, the New York Times wrote: "Michael Jordan predicted to us in 'Extreme Jordan' that there will be a better player than him in the future. But he would never have imagined that he would trade this man himself during his unfortunate Wizards tenure. ”

ESPN's top correspondent, Mark Stein, wrote a non-reporting column for this purpose.

"It took seven years for Frye to overtake Michael's thirteen-year resume (referring to 09 flying stronger than 97 Dan), and in all the statistics we know, Frye is the more comprehensive and efficient person. Michael has never proven himself in the era of joint defense, just as Bill Russell has dominated a league with only eight teams. Michael's business for the basketball world was epoch-making, but so was Frye, who made a big splash in the world's largest community, the Asian-American community. Asians have never loved basketball so much. Frye also has an advantage that Michael never had. He changed the game of basketball. The three-point shot entered professional basketball in Michael's time, but Michael never used it for anything. And Frye changed the game with a three-pointer. The most direct evidence of this is not the apparent increase in the pace of the offense at the moment, but the fact that Stephen Curry, a young man who might have been seen as a poor version of Muhammad Rauf five years ago, has all but locked up the top three in the 2009 draft, because his style of play is like the answer to this era. ”

Stein concludes, "Basketball hasn't changed so radically since the days of George McCann, and Michael has just followed in the footsteps of his predecessors, and Frye has changed that fact. From now on, everyone is going to play the way he wants. In that regard, he's like Elvis Presley in basketball. I would choose him as my GOAT. However, if SuperSonics are defending their title this year, then Frye will complete the one-of-a-kind 'SoleImperium' (One and Only Empire). At that point, I will have no qualms about ranking him ahead of Michael. ”

After all, Jordan wasn't the only one who played in the '90s.

Since Yu Fei was traded to the Bucks by Jordan, he has actively developed his media power and maintained close relationships with many senior media people.

"Man, the sport is getting better every day, especially basketball, it's changed so much in the last decade, there was no joint defense in the past games, no one could shoot threes, there was no discipline in defense, there were not as many changes in a game as we did in a game, they were like plumbers." Brown also made a point of pointing out Jordan's lifelong enemy, "Can you imagine a guy like Isaiah Thomas who is small enough to shoot and beat Frye three times in a row in the playoffs in our era? Brother, in another hundred years, this will not happen. ”

When a group is infinitely expanded, they have a purpose. Once you have a goal but can't achieve it right away, you will seek various ways to get there.

Thomas put aside his personal grudges because Yu Fei's famous dogleg Kwame Brown showed great disrespect for old-time basketball when he participated in an interview in Seattle.

The 96 Bulls' record was surpassed, and the Flying Blowing Forces briefly overwhelmed the Joe Blowing Forces, and began to widely use the Basketball Evolution Theory to disparage the basketball of the 90s.

Stein is one of them.

Since the start of the season, Stein has been heavily touting his definition of the Flying Dynasty, the "SoleImperium".

As the media narrative escalates, so does the disparagement of those who came before them.

Expansion, extremes, this is an inevitable thing.

But the taunting campaign soon drew a backlash.

Isaiah Thomas, who is least likely to side with Jordan, said on TNT's show.

Over the years, Stein has been regarded as the top player among ESPN's basketball journalists for his comprehensive reporting and news output, and has been ranked as the top of ESPN's news coverage and "second page" column alongside the hottest sports writer of the moment, Bill Simmons.

Some of Jordan's contemporaries began to step up and fight back against the Flying.

They believe that the extreme group of Flying Blowing has seriously damaged the ecology of the basketball world and brought a very bad impact on the industry.

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At this time, Yu Fei was at the extreme.

Moreover, because Stein has exclusive information channels for Yu Fei, he is regarded as the mouthpiece of the Chosen Nation to the outside world.

In his narrative, he proclaims Fei's dynasty as a unique and unrepeatable empire.

Just like after the Lakers won the championship in the park in 2020, the sub-dog group who sat on the second and the first was in a certain pounce to carry out an all-round liquidation of No. 23.

"You shouldn't push yourself forward in a way that belittles your predecessors."

Unlike the traditional "dynasty," which emphasizes collectivity, Stein's "SoleImperium" focuses on Yu Fei as an individual.

Today, in 2009, Yu Fei's extreme fans are like the confluence of Komi and Jamie at their peak, they don't even bother to bite the contemporary players, they try to drown out the crowd of the old era.

The war between 44 and 23 has been transformed into a war between the present and the past.

But the essence is that No. 44 wants to reach the top, and No. 23, who represents the past, will stop at nothing to stop him.

The people of the old era began to side with Jordan, but what about the people of the new generation? It's a pity that they are all defeated by Yu Fei's men, and although they can't do anything, they won't easily stand up and admit: Okay, I was screwed up by Fry, he is GOAT1.

This kind of thing can only be said when he retires.

Just before the start of the playoffs, Scottie Pippen, who had no reason to side with Jordan, was also disgusted by the flying sky.

He and his old teammate Ron Harper started a show, and the two talked about it in it.

They drank red wine and talked about the 96 Bulls, how powerful they were back then, and where did they think that 13 years later, they would be relegated to the "ancient team" that did not conform to the trend of the times.

"Scotty, what do you think of the evolution of basketball claim?"

Harper looked at his old friend with a funny expression.

"Does it matter whether to evolve or not to evolve?" "Those who have paved the way and those who have come after have taken advantage of it, and they shouldn't be devaluing the games of the past because of the progress of modern games," Pippen said. To put it bluntly, you have to speak with your results, if you can't win the championship, 73-9 has a bird? ”

Pippen's words make a lot of sense.

Yu Fei couldn't agree more.

From the end of the regular season to the playoffs in the past few days, from Yu Fei's perspective, it is really difficult for him to see the changes in the world.

Every day the sun still rises as usual, and the notable change he can spot in Seattle is that the Emerald City is changing from a baseball city to a basketball city, with the streets far outnumbering those wearing Ken Griffey and Ichiro Suzuki jerseys.

Supersound became a hot topic on the ground.

Because Yu Fei inexplicably became the Elvis Presley in the basketball world and the founder of the "only empire".

This year's western has changed a lot.

Due to the Rockets' trade at the trade deadline, their record plummeted and they fell straight out of the playoffs.

For the rocket, this is unfortunate.

But it may be Yao Shu's luck again, he was affected by Yu Fei's small ball wind this season, and he had to lose weight and transform and increase three-point shots. But this transformation is not something that can be completed in one season.

The early end of the season meant to him as he reduced the extra high-intensity playoff consumption to increase his injury risk, while he had a full summer to rebuild and work on his three-point shootouts.

Because there is no world series for the national team this year, last year's BJ Olympics, they once fought with the runner-up Spain, and the country is highly confident, thinking that even if there is no Yao Shu this year, the Olympic team led by Xiao Yi can easily win the local Asian Championships.

That gave Yao a hard-earned offseason.

However, as the replacement for eighth in the West, the Denver Nuggets are miserable.

"Da Fei, they are all brothers in the Night Hi Big League, you have to give me a face, you can't sweep me."

Carmelo Anthony was joking before the game.

"Merlot, the only thing I can promise you is." Yu Fei said, "You will walk decently." ”

Yu Fei said that the Nuggets had no resistance in the face of supersound.

In each of the four games, the SuperSonics won by 20 points per game, and Anthony averaged 30 points per game, finally completing a round of easy sweeping.

Moreover, Anthony, who averaged 30 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game, also wore the hat of defeat but still honored.

"I'm a little bit upset about losing." Anthony told ESPN, "But Da Fei said he was proud of me, and I felt a lot better." ”

"Why is he so proud of you?"

"Because I'm the only one in the big league who doesn't sign a short contract, it proves that I'm a loyal person to the team, the fans and my friends," Anthony said. ”

"So, will you ever end up in Denver?"

"What are you thinking?" Anthony said, "Isn't it important that Da Fei is proud of me? ”

1 I suddenly thought of a metaphor that wasn't very appropriate to compare the atmosphere of 44vs23 in the book. Well, it's like Shi Hao and Ye Fan's fan ring battle.