Chapter 649: Chapter 469 Yu Fei’s Incredible Discovery (Union) _3 Chapter 649: Chapter 469 Yu Fei’s Incredible Discovery (Union) _3 “Shut up, you bunch of Fei haters!”

In heaven and earth, there is no place where Fei’s hate can’t reach.

This complaint post about Fei soon became a battleground for haters.

For Fei, it resulted in nothing more than a few more haters.

However, those close to him increasingly realized that Fei’s image as a person had been mythologized.

As an athlete, he was unbeatable; as a celebrity, he was perfect; as a superstar, he was supposed to be unparalleled.

To ask an imperfect person to play a perfect one is to ask him to bear a cross in life.

Jesus had to die, and after death, he would achieve eternal life.

***
Most Supersonics players neither understood Fei’s life nor wanted to approach it.

Even Brandon Roy, despite his close relationship with Fei, had purposely distanced himself this summer through arrangements made by Reebok.

It wasn’t because they were worried about Roy taking away Fei’s market, but because in Fei’s presence, Roy’s presence would be thinner than a shadow.

Supersonics’ head coach George Karl, however, was uneasy about something.

After the “SoleImperium” imperial concept was proposed, the concept of dynasty was subverted.

Fei’s camp zealously hyped that the NBA from 2006 to 2009 belonged exclusively to Fei’s empire.

Even Reebok’s marketing department went all out to cater to this gimmick, developing a large number of products around the empire theme.

.c0

This resulted in many people knowing only of Fei’s empire, not realizing that the Supersonics and even the Bucks players were the creators of that empire.

People like Kwame Brown, of course, didn’t mind.

Fei’s camp ignored his contributions, but his mouth had already made a deep impression of his honor on fans’ minds.

But, Brown was one of a kind.

What about the others? They all lived in the shadow of the empire, nobly champions, and yet now they became shadows of the myth.

No one cared, no one bothered.

Karl knew this would severely damage the team’s cohesion.

Now, as Fei was not due to report for another four days, and Karl wasn’t keen on discussing this over the phone, he could only wait and see.

Durant was the first to report to the training camp.

He had arrived two days early.

Last season, Durant’s evolution had generally convinced the outside world of his value as the 2007 first draft pick.

This had finally rid the Supersonics management of the gambler’s stigma.

They had chosen rightly.

What surprised everyone was that Durant’s character was nothing like those who seemed to have grown up from a fire; the kind of anger and cynicism typical of underprivileged blacks was nowhere to be seen in him.

By any standard, Durant seemed very approachable.

Until this summer when he greeted Chris Bosh’s arrival with a sarcastic tweet.

The tweet almost made people doubt his good-guy image, but thankfully, he soon realized his mistake.

Deleting the tweet and issuing an apology, Durant defended his image and prevented the situation from escalating further.

Throughout the summer, he and Fei were as different as ice and fire, their lifestyles revealing two very different styles.

Fei joined the filming of “Iron Man 2,” where Kevin Feige claimed, “Fei is not just making a cameo, he will be an important character.” Then, on set, he was rumored to be involved with several female stars, including the married Scarlett. Despite both parties calling it a misunderstanding, no one believed it.

Subsequently, Fei’s tour in Asia was a gossip minefield every day, his personal life seeming as ludicrous as Dennis Rodman’s during his Bulls days. Back in the United States, he surprisingly attended Jordan’s Hall of Fame speech, indeed causing a stir, and retaliated against Jordan on “The Tonight Show.”

His life encompassed sports, entertainment, gossip; now, he was even dipping into politics.

And Durant? He maintained his training every day, responding positively to invitations from USA Basketball, sharing inspirational tweets in his spare time, praying for unfortunate families, and personally delivering signed sneakers to fans’ homes. Every day, he appeared to be bearing a backpack, his private life as flawless as a piece of fine jade.

“If one day, Fei went bankrupt due to having too many illegitimate children, I wouldn’t be surprised, but KD, he is the epitome of all that is positive in modern America,” the New York Times provided Durant with a beautiful identity, “He is America’s son.”

Read latest Chapters at WuxiaWorld.Site Only

Karl was no fool; not only had he witnessed the rise of the Jordan dynasty, but just by observing how Fei had gone from a mere avenger in 2001 to a deified figure no one could approach, look at directly, or compare with in contemporary basketball, he had reason to believe that all the halo surrounding Durant was also manufactured.

Just like those myths associated with Fei, Karl knew exactly how much was real, how much was fictional, and how much was just PR stunts.

Moreover, Karl had noticed during Durant’s rookie season that Fei’s attitude toward him was different from others.

Fei wasn’t a Jordan-style leader who coerced progress with a “you better work hard or I’ll slaughter you” attitude, nor was he a silent leader like Duncan. Frankly speaking, Karl would not classify Fei among leaders at all.

Fei had a silent, authoritarian demeanor; he thought a game should be played his way, and as his teammate, you only had to cooperate. Because in everything you knew about basketball, he surpassed you, and in all modern basketball statistics, he was always number one.