Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters-Chapter 1116 - 621 Parting Affairs_2

Chapter 1116: Chapter 621: Parting Affairs_2 Chapter 1116: Chapter 621: Parting Affairs_2 During the 15 seasons of Yu Fei’s career, Brown witnessed 12 of them.

This kind of relationship is not something that can be explained in a few words, but when Yu Fei persuaded Brown to play another year, Brown shook his head and said, “Big Fei, this is where I call it quits.”

Thanks to Yu Fei, Brown’s career was changed. What should have ended years ago was extended to now. Because of his association with Yu Fei, he became favored by sponsors, even managing to sign a lifetime contract with Reebok. Everyone knows this was thanks to the GOAT.

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Now, he has decided to retire and live another kind of life. What reason does Yu Fei have to stop him?

He knows why these people retire.

They don’t announce their retirements in a grandiose manner, there is no glorious farewell tour; they simply tell people “I’ve had enough” through what seems to be hasty decisions.

How is this achieved?

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In the brief professional career of an athlete, the body makes the decision for their next step.

The passion for the game, the jokes in the locker room, the camaraderie among teammates, chartered flights and salaries—all these things make you want to continue playing, but when your career extends to the tenth, fifteenth, or even the twentieth year, things become complicated.

Entering middle age, the mental burden exhausts you. You start to miss your freedom. You are required to eat in a particular way, sleep in a particular way, prepare in a particular way. After a back-to-back game, you begin to dread those mornings. You hate waking up early, you are tired of staying in the gym for hours, tired of doing things you learned a million years ago. You’ve reached the peak, you know it, and so everything is about killing yourself just so you can be 70% as good as you once were. You see those youthful young players walking around you, always wanting to prove themselves, willing to do anything to confront you on the court.

So, it’s not about one more year, but about those 18, and how they add up, starting subtraction from your current life.

Duncan and Garnett drained themselves over a 20-year journey; their sports career came to a natural end.

And Brown, he just didn’t want to be a leech clinging onto a giant anymore.

So, let them leave if they’ve decided to leave. Thank them for the exciting games and wish them a beautiful life ahead.

And most importantly, never come back.

The free agency is approaching, alongside the Lakers Team drama, there is also the heartbreak 2.0 from Cleveland.

This time, there’s no infuriating national broadcast.

James announced through his agent Rich Paul that he would test the free agency waters.

It’s that simple.

From 2012 to the present, the best thing James did in his four years back with Cleveland was to bring them back to the Eastern Conference finals, and the price was an early end to the rebuild and the uncontrollable first-round draft picks from now until 2020.

Whether it was worth it is something only the Cavaliers know, but the Clevelanders have accepted the outcome.

For them, the second separation is acceptable.

At least he came back, he still loves us, this separation is just because the Cavaliers are not worth remembering.

The Clippers swiftly made an offer, completely triggering the “Yu Fei clause,” signing a 3-year, 100 million US Dollar contract with Yu Fei.

Despite unusual team options and player options included in the contract, it still elicits cheers from Clippers fans.

This contract means that the GOAT is almost certainly going to retire with the Clippers, and the fans have every reason to be excited and thrilled.

For Yu Fei, he broke Jordan’s record for the highest annual salary in the NBA set since 1996.

But there’s nothing to celebrate.

Considering Jordan’s 30 million annual salary and many years of inflation, his number is just a digital surpass, actually far from it.

And besides, he’s not crazy about surpassing Jordan in anything.

For him, as the outside world says, this contract is his last one.

Whether he plays for one more year, two, or three, there will be no next contract.

These days, apart from participating in various activities and maintaining basic training, the only thing that makes him happy is his son Yu Bufan scoring a long shot at home.

At that moment, Yu Fei excitedly said: “This little guy’s shooting ability is far better than mine at the same age.”

Aside from business and family affairs, Yu Fei no longer cares about NBA news.

After completing the contract with the Clippers, Yu Fei left the management work entirely to them, and he enjoys his vacation.

However, the time to relax hasn’t arrived yet.

After dealing with the team contracts, another contract awaited him.

Yu Fei’s endorsement deal with Reebok was approaching its end.

The duration of cooperation with Reebok was just as long as Yu Fei’s professional career.

One could say, Yu Fei is to Reebok what Jordan is to Nike.

They are deeply bound and inseparable, and Reebok pulled out their greatest sincerity with astounding figures and product dividends to ensure Yu Fei’s second half of life was carefree.

Back when Yu Fei signed his second contract with Reebok, he still had the energy to haggle with them.

Now, he simply lets Ratner confirm the contract; if there’s no problem, just sign it.

This is a big event for Reebok, a significant event off the court, but for Yu Fei, it’s just a trivial matter.

All things that could potentially bother him are resolved in early July, and he will have the entire summer.