Chapter 648: Chapter 469: The Existence Yu Fei Couldn’t Believe In (Unity)_2 Chapter 648: Chapter 469: The Existence Yu Fei Couldn’t Believe In (Unity)_2 This is their slogan.

“The Tonight Show”‘s former host Jay Leno, after watching the sample reel, wistfully wrote on his Twitter, “Frye and Michael are the sports world’s Caesar and Pompey.”

Yu Fei retweeted Leno’s tweet and countered, “Who is Caesar?”

When personal vendettas are intertwined with honor and fame, they become shackles that cannot be undone.

Someone must fall for another to firmly hold a high position.

What the Jordan camp feared was that the jersey Jordan had already been enshrined in the Hall of Fame; from now on, there would only be Boss Jordan.

Yet, Yu Fei’s honors had already caught up with player Jordan.

At this point, they had only two paths to choose from.

One was to value the past over the present, but unfortunately, Jordan wasn’t “ancient” enough; he even had been teammates with Yu Fei.

In the Yu-Jordan debate, the biggest weakness of Jordan’s camp was that after Jordan traded Yu Fei away, the following year he was forced into retirement by him.

Of course, they could play the “Michael is already old” card.

But now it wasn’t about whether Jordan was old or not; the reality was that 27-year-old Yu Fei had matched Jordan in terms of honors.

It could be anticipated that he would almost certainly surpass Jordan’s honors in the future.

By then, one of the biggest cornerstones of Jordan being the modern basketball GOAT–the honors–would be shattered; he would no longer be the GOAT in that regard.

What could be done then?

Nothing much, rather than admitting defeat, it’s better to deny the opponent.

That was Jordan’s motive for opening fire on Yu Fei in his Hall of Fame speech–though low in taste and seeming rather low, it indeed triggered a reaction from the outside world.

The other move was to start talking about the ethereal “influence.”

As a star who peaked during the era of cable television and the globalization of the NBA, Jordan reaped the benefits of the era, and indeed, he is one of the most influential athletes to date.

However, the times are always progressing.

The upcoming era of social media is a time when information truly can cover the globe, a torrent of the times that the Jordan camp couldn’t have anticipated.

A few days later, the NBA preseason training camp started.

Yu Fei did not report in; he had taken four days off.

Moreover, his reasons for the leave were beyond question.

He was to represent the Supersonics at the Mayor of Seattle Greg Nichols’ victory party, celebrating his successful reelection.

As for why this party required four days, Lawson, the team’s liaison for Yu Fei, didn’t give a clear answer.

However, no one would delve deeply into the matter.

As far as Yu Fei was concerned, even if he were to miss the entire training camp, no one would dare say a word.

Soon, the real reason behind Yu Fei’s four-day absence was exposed.

While Nichols was ostentatiously celebrating his third term, Seattle’s notable organization MCCAIT (Making Citizens Care About Important Things) was protesting outside the government building.

MCCAIT believed that the city government and the Supersonics were too close, and that Yu Fei, a superstar who had publicly declared to stay out of politics, had actually taken a stand for Nichols during his chase for a third mayoral term.

With Yu Fei’s extraordinary popularity in Seattle, whoever he decided to support would highly likely become mayor.

Since last year, Nichols had been very close to the Supersonics, attending every significant game day of theirs.

Furthermore, he wore Reebok’s latest “Empire” T-shirt to rally voters during his campaign.

“We have reason to believe that the mayor and Frye have reached some sort of agreement, they quietly pushed the agenda to build a new stadium for the Supersonics!” said a spokesperson for MCCAIT.

For this, Yu Fei had a public debate with the MCCAIT spokesperson, arranged by the local television station.

He refuted the spokesperson’s accusations one by one and challenged, “According to the ‘Municipal Financing Act’ passed in 2008, the Supersonics have been profitable for two consecutive years, and we meet the financial qualifications stipulated by the act. When we took this step, we did not violate any laws. But without any evidence, you accuse us of having under-the-table deals with the mayor, what exactly is your intention?”

“If you can profit 150 million US Dollars every year, that means you have enough money to build a new stadium for yourselves.”

“Wrong, the new stadium does not belong to the Supersonics, it belongs to Seattle.”

“Why should we use taxpayers’ money to facilitate the business of you billionaires?”

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“Still wrong, the new stadium is projected to bring Seattle 300 to 600 million US Dollars in sports impact each year and thousands of jobs. Moreover, I must remind you that the subsidies our country provides to businesses annually is a number you cannot imagine. That’s how our society operates.”

Once a person’s fame reaches a certain height, their life becomes pure drama.

Yu Fei had just executed Michael Jordan on “The Tonight Show” and then turned around to engage in a public debate on the local Seattle television station with a spokesperson from a civil movement organization.

A Seattleite who never followed basketball complained on Reddit, “I don’t care about the Supersonics or who the government subsidizes, but why is Frye Yu’s face everywhere in my world? I’m sick of this asshole!”

Then, a Chinese student studying abroad replied to him, “I feel the same as you. This hypocrite spent just a few days in the summer sleeping with my favorite Japanese actress and then came to China pretending to be a very proper man who stays away from women, because he knows that’s the only way he won’t affect his image and reputation in China. Do you know what’s the scariest thing? Even in China, as soon as you turn on the TV, his commercials will fill your life!”