Chapter 659: Chapter 473: Passing Master (Combined) Chapter 659: Chapter 473: Passing Master (Combined) This was another attack by Yu Fei on Jordan after “Today’s Show”.

If “Today’s Show” was a counterattack, then this time it was an initiative to go on the offensive.

After retirement, Jordan kept a low profile, just like those great actors, knowing they needed to maintain a sufficient mystique to have enough swagger in the circle.

But now, having secured his sixth championship, Yu Fei was a real contender for the GOAT.

On the basketball honor level, Jordan’s supporters could no longer claim Jordan was a better player than Yu Fei.

Now Yu Fei was actively causing trouble, aiming directly at Jordan, and by doing so, he also denied Jonny Flynn, unacceptable for both Flynn’s fans and Jordan himself.

Fans from Syracuse University went berserk under Yu Fei’s latest tweet.

They were soon suppressed by more than ten times the number of Yu Fei’s fans.

Then, public opinion fermented to the point where Jordan himself had to respond.

“Of course he has the right to say whatever he wants to say, I don’t care about his opinion,” Jordan responded to Yu Fei with an indifferent attitude after a celebrity golf tournament in Charlotte. “He says the people I favor all end in failure, I wonder, has he forgotten, I favored him too? Is he trying to say he is a failure? Yes, I traded him, but it was a competition and grudge, not a denial of him…”

Jordan’s response wasn’t very powerful.

On the internet, Yu Fei’s fans had an overwhelming advantage in numbers.

They keenly seized on Jordan’s problem: “Has Michael’s comprehension declined? Frye clearly said ‘99% of those he favored ended in failure’. Any normal person would interpret that sentence to mean Frye is that 1% exception. But Michael seems not to understand.”

Online debates love to catch the other side’s linguistic errors to counter, this is common.

But Yu Fei often chose a more lethal way.

In Supersonics’ second game of the new season, they headed to Detroit for an away game.

The Pistons, as a team under reconstruction, should not have attracted so much attention, but because their opponent was the Supersonics, they got a chance for nationwide broadcast.

ESPN arranged a one-on-one interview with Yu Fei and Durant before the game.

It’s important to note, Durant’s pre-game interviews were his reserved program.

As part of the persona carefully crafted by Nike–a seemingly good guy who’s not so genuine in the real world–he always tirelessly spent 10-20 minutes on pre-game interviews. In the program, he needed to talk about “loyalty,” “victory,” “the future,” “the meaning of a championship,” and “Kevin Durant’s tireless pursuit of excellence.”

But Yu Fei rarely accepted TV interviews before the game.

Because the TV station often needed Lin Kaiwen’s permission, then ask for Yu Fei’s opinion.

And Yu Fei had passed the time to accept such arrangements to please TV stations.

The relationship between the two had already turned topsy-turvy.

Now it was the TV station that needed his traffic and popularity.

Fame is seductive, attractive to everyone just the same.

So when Yu Fei instructed Lin Kaiwen to tell ESPN that he wanted to do a few minutes of interview before the game, ESPN immediately gave it the highest standards, calling Yu Fei’s interview a “Pre-Game Special Show.”

Since James’s live broadcast of “The Decision,” ESPN had come to like the term special show.

But Yu Fei didn’t like it, so he asked ESPN to rename the show “Special Military Operation.”

ESPN wanted to know why.

Lin Kaiwen answered on his behalf, “Because Frye likes it.”

ESPN had to accept.

Then, ESPN arranged for Jim Gray to conduct the interview.

Gray first routinely asked a few questions about the Supersonics’ preparations, and then stepped up to the core issue: “Frye, your comments about Michael Jordan the night before last have become the biggest sports news of the past few days, but Jordan responded to you yesterday afternoon.”

“What did he say?” Yu Fei asked with a smile.

Gray repeated Jordan’s response, and the fans in front of the TV saw the video of Jordan’s live interview.

“He said he traded me, but it was not a denial of me?” Yu Fei asked, “Is that what he said?”

Gray nodded affirmatively, “Exactly.”

With a sarcastic smile, Yu Fei said, “That’s like Nixon saying ‘Other than Watergate, I did pretty well as president’.”

Yu Fei’s interview lasted less than six minutes, but it attracted millions of viewers.

Many people were not there for the game; they just wanted to hear how Yu Fei would respond to Jordan.

Thanks to Yu Fei, Nixon, the most controversial American leader of the last century, topped Twitter’s trending searches. Thousands of people began comparing his scandal with Jordan’s trade of Yu Fei.

As for the game between the Supersonics and the Pistons? Not many people cared.

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However, Yu Fei’s “Special Military Operation” program with ESPN successfully brought millions of viewers to the game.

They had no plans to watch the game, only changed their minds out of interest in how Yu Fei would respond to Jordan, and now that the game was about to start, for Yu Fei, they were willing to take a look.

Even if they came for the game, most of their attention was on Yu Fei.

Therefore, they overlooked that the Supersonics were performing poorly that night.

The Pistons had been one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference over the past decade, until they let go of Ben Wallace a few years ago, followed by trading Billups in the deal for Allen Iverson, and then inevitably watching Richard Hamilton become a member of the Avengers Alliance this summer.