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Chapter 900 900 547 No Good Results_3
Chapter 900 900 547 No Good Results_3
?Chapter 900: Chapter 547: No Good Results_3 Chapter 900: Chapter 547: No Good Results_3 “Frye, would you like to talk about KD?” McNeal asked.
“I know you.” Yu Fei smiled, “You’re the one who cursed out Kevin.”
“It wasn’t cursing, I was just pointing out his shortcomings.” McNeal defended himself.
“Really?” Yu Fei asked, “Did he accept it?”
McNeal fell silent.
“Would you like to talk about KD, Frye?” He decided to ask the person most likely to understand Durant’s nature.
Yu Fei directly refused him, “I’m not accepting interviews right now.”
“Besides, I particularly won’t accept an interview from someone who might misinterpret my good intentions,” Yu Fei mocked. “I don’t want to see someone suddenly cursing me out under the guise of ‘pointing out shortcomings’ in the newspaper one day.”
Yu Fei walked away, as he rightly should.
His disdain for the media, coupled with the inner belief of superiority over them, was a posture that had formed over many years.
McNeal wouldn’t grovel at Yu Fei’s feet; he respected Yu Fei as a player, but he wouldn’t sacrifice his dignity for the approval of a star.
In his view, Yu Fei’s interview refusal was just a way to coerce the media into an even more humble submission.
The rarer the interview opportunity, the more the media had to offer.
And, his refusal to accept McNeal’s interview also sent a positive signal to KD.
It showed that Frye was on his side in this matter.
McNeal had indeed read Yu Fei’s intentions correctly.
He wouldn’t do anything superfluous, because offending Yu Fei and offending Durant in Seattle’s basketball scene was not the same level of matter.
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Yu Fei entered the visiting team’s locker room and spoke of his recent encounter with Ethan McNeal.
“Kevin, he actually wanted to interview me,” Yu Fei asked, “Did you give him too good of a treatment, letting him forget his place? Why would he think that after what he did, I would still accept his interview?”
After openly embarrassing McNeal, Durant felt a little frightened, thinking he may be ruining his media image.
The one he and Nike had sculpted over the years.
He was about to call his agent to ask how to handle such situations when Yu Fei came in.
He shared his exchange with McNeal, where his way of rejecting McNeal made people want to cheer.
DeAndre Jordan couldn’t help jumping up, “That’s right! These disrespectful bastards don’t deserve our respect!”
“Sure, but still, be polite when you see them in person.” Yu Fei told DeAndre Jordan to control himself, “We’re all gentlemen, that’s why the president wants us in suits. I can be reckless, you can’t, maintaining a good relationship with the media is important for your image.”
Parsons asked, “Don’t you need to maintain a good relationship with the media?”
“Pfft!” Kwame Brown laughed, “Rookie, you’ve been running around Frye all day and haven’t noticed how the media grovels at his feet like dogs?”
Parsons indeed hadn’t noticed this.
Then Lin Kaiwen, Yu Fei’s assistant, revealed the truth behind it, “Frye doesn’t need to do that because the media will find ways to please him.”
“Why is that?”
“I don’t know.” Yu Fei looked at Durant, “KD, you should know that good people are the ones pointed at with guns. Sometimes, the ones holding the guns at you are good people like yourself.”
These words struck right at Durant’s heart.
“Why?” Durant asked, “I haven’t done anything wrong!”
“Because you’ve spoiled them.”
Few in the locker room could understand the conversation between Yu Fei and Durant.
Even Durant didn’t realize that Yu Fei implied that the ever-friendly Durant wasn’t the real Durant.
But the words were very clear in terms of their literal meaning.
Durant had spoiled the media.
He was too eager to please the media in public. If he pleased the media once, they might think well of him. But if he pleased them a hundred times, his goodwill turned into an obligation.
Your good is taken for granted, your bad is not allowed, and even a media person who believes himself to be vigilant, like Ethan McNeal, will strictly point out your faults.
So you panic, not knowing why your good deeds don’t yield good returns, and you start considering all kinds of factors.
This answer was enough to make Durant reflect whether the public image he had worked so hard to build over the past four years was right or utterly wrong.
In that night’s game, the Spurs’ big men showed none of the advantages they had against the Supersonics previously.
Because two terrifying things happened during the game.
One was Yu Fei’s positioning under the basket; against either Pau Gasol or Duncan, Yu Fei showed no disadvantage in strength. Once he secured his position, his challenger became immobilized.
The other was Yu Fei’s pick-and-pop followed by a three-pointer catch and shoot.
That night, Yu Fei shot 16 times from beyond the arc, hitting 11 times, scoring 33 points just from three-pointers, returning the three-point barrage Dallas had faced back to San Antonio.
Throughout the game, Yu Fei was like Jason Kapono possessed by Rodman. Nearly no ball handling, just positioning, rebounding, shooting threes, finishing with 33 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists, leading the team to victory on the road against the Spurs.
After the game, Yu Fei deliberately took Durant with him to the interview.
When Ethan McNeal posed a question,
Yu Fei interrupted him.
“Until you publicly apologize to KD, no Supersonics player will answer your questions,” Yu Fei said with an undeniable, irresistible tone, “Next.”
He indifferently pointed to a reporter from New York.
Kevin Durant lost all ability to think in that suffocating atmosphere.
He probably, perhaps, did understand why this was happening to him.