Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters

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However, going overseas does not guarantee success, behind Wang Quanze, who has entered the public eye, are Tang Zihao, Adili, Yan Yufeng (he’s a real person), and countless nameless individuals who have fallen.

Yu Fei decided to do this, but not this year. Because this year’s recruiting season had already ended.

The earliest he could start was next year.

He planned to find a few professionals in China to handle the preliminary preparations, which wasn’t difficult.

After everything was arranged, Yu Fei prepared to return to the United States.

He felt the lockout was nearing its end, but what he didn’t anticipate was that his presence, his team’s monopoly on the championships of the 2000s, the Supersonics’ rise, the surge in revenue brought by Seattle’s basketball season, combined with Clay Bennett’s ugly greed, had simultaneously angered the small-market teams and the players’ union.

The lockout was evolving into a storm with no winners.

Yu Fei’s Team had arrived with ten players but left with only four.

Kwame Brown was snapped up at the last minute by a CBA team’s financial power.

He had initially wanted to return to the United States with Yu Fei.

But the richest team in CBA, Team XJ, offered him a contract that he couldn’t refuse.

Brown revealed that he was making more money post-taxes than he had been with his mid-level NBA contract.

Yu Fei didn’t know what was going through Team XJ’s management’s minds, but it was a good thing for Brown.

Although he was the same age as Yu Fei, unlike Yu Fei in his prime, Brown, as an NBA player, was already nearing the end of his career.

His NBA journey could be described as born in comfort and dying in comfort.

Initially bonding with Jordan in D.C., then being used by Jordan as a scapegoat, he had since descended into mediocrity.

Joining Yu Fei was the best decision he had ever made, he now not only had five rings, thanks to Yu Fei’s influence he continuously signed mid-level contracts, took on Reebok endorsements, and picked up endorsements Yu Fei didn’t want, his career earnings had already surpassed 60 million US Dollars, making him a winner in life.

But it was exactly these carefree days that made him lose his sense of urgency.

Over the years, he hadn’t made any technical progress, the rise of space basketball instigated by Yu Fei, yet Brown failed to realize that this technical revolution, which exterminated traditional centers, was also fatal for him.

Last season’s Western Conference finals, he had been benched.

DeAndre Jordan had the same technical mismatches as him, but his talent was higher and thus he could contribute more.

Today, for Brown to hold a spot in the Supersonics, he could only rely on Yu Fei’s influence; if he went to another team, he would soon be exposed.

Going to the CBA to make money was a good thing for him now.

But Yu Fei still didn’t understand what Team XJ was thinking in signing him.

Even though he didn’t play in the CBA, he understood it.

Leaving the NBA aside, no league in the world has higher demands in terms of raw skills for foreign players than the CBA does.

There are two types of foreign players most coveted in the CBA.

One is the Beasley-type, who scores as easily as drinking water, a swingman for the three and four positions; the other is a versatile point guard who’s a scoring and organizing fiend.

Brown was hardly even making sense of getting handoffs, what could he do in the CBA?

Yu Fei figured Brown could probably average 18 points and 9 rebounds per game in the CBA, but he was sorry, the standard for a CBA big foreign player was 25+10.

So Yu Fei guessed that Brown would soon reveal his true level in China, and then a large number of fans would be surprised that he could win so many championships with Brown.

About this, Yu Fei could only say, as long as you don’t expect Brown to average 25+10 a game, he’s actually quite decent.

On October 5, Yu Fei and his group returned to the United States.

The team disbanded on the spot.

George decided to undergo intensive training because his trip to China had made him realize his technical level was severely lacking.

Roy was going for a hospital follow-up; if everything was okay, he was going to officially make a comeback and start intensive training.

What surprised Yu Fei the most was Beverley.

Beverley shone during this trip to China, though he wasn’t the super kind of point guard that CBA loved, his defense and three-point shooting reminded people of Smush Parker, who had been invincible in the CBA for the past few years.

After winning the championship with the Supersonics two years ago, Parker hadn’t managed to stay in the NBA, so he joined the Guangdong Team in the CBA. The star-studded Guangdong Team didn’t need Parker to be a superstar, he just needed to bring his unique qualities, which were to pull the defensive efforts of the opposing foreign guards below average, and the Guangdong Team would then crush the opponents with its overall strength.

However, because of Parker’s professional issues, the Guangdong Team had been wanting to replace him, so they were thrilled to see Beverley and wanted to directly use him to replace Parker.

According to Yu Fei, the contract offered by the Guangdong Team was very generous, much larger than Beverley’s contract in Europe, but he’d rejected it.

“Pat, why didn’t you accept the CBA’s contract?” Yu Fei asked.

Beverley said, “The money I made last year is enough to get me through this period, I’m tired of low-level competition, I just want to play in the NBA.”

“But you should know, the Lakers don’t have a spot for you,” Yu Fei said with a subtle smile, “They’re aiming for the championship and wouldn’t use a rookie like you in such a crucial position.”

Beverley bluntly said, “I also don’t like playing for the Lakers, nobody likes the Evil Empire, they’re cowards.”

After a month of getting to know him, Yu Fei believed Beverley was definitely an NBA-average guard and, if we’re talking about defense, he was outstanding among point guards.

“I like your feeling towards the Lakers,” Yu Fei had made a simple decision, “Maybe we’ll have a chance to play together in the future.”