Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters-Chapter 1079 - 608 Nothing Can Compare to Time

Chapter 1079: Chapter 608 Nothing Can Compare to Time Chapter 1079: Chapter 608 Nothing Can Compare to Time When the Clippers returned to Los Angeles, they received an unprecedented welcome.

Winning the championship brought a significant change: the Lakers’ monopoly over the city’s sports arena was completely shattered.

Until yesterday, the Lakers were the only franchise that had won a championship in a sports league in Los Angeles since the 21st century, which was the reason for their long-standing love from the city.

But now, the Clippers have also joined the champion club.

Although their depth and history still cannot compare with the Lakers,

history is only for remembrance; its accomplishments become extremely important only when you have nothing in reality.

The outside world’s confidence in the Lakers winning another championship in the Kobe era has been steadily decreasing.

Because no matter how you look at it, the aging Lakers couldn’t possibly evolve into a championship-level team just because of Anthony’s addition.

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Their last chance to change the team’s fate was in the summer of 2013.

If Yu Fei had chosen the Lakers at that time, the league’s dynamics over the next few seasons would have been completely altered.

Who knew, the GOAT who doesn’t follow the conventional path made the most unexpected choice in history.

He joined a cursed team, faced unprecedented controversy, pundits like Bill Simmons predicted a bleak future for him, and it seemed like his decade-long legend would fall in this infamous basketball hell.

The noise surrounding him has become a joke at this moment.

Yu Fei, holding the Larry O’Brien trophy, walked out of the airport.

This was clearly a meticulously staged scene.

But the fans eat this up.

“!￥!￥”

The Clippers fans on site went completely insane.

They expressed their love for the team in various ways.

The shift in the Clippers’ image could be seen all over Los Angeles.

In the past, LA’s malls, restaurants, and various stores wouldn’t have activities geared towards the Clippers.

Because that “wasn’t cool.”

In Los Angeles, the Clippers were seen as clowns, incomparable to the Lakers.

Now, every store in Los Angeles is willing to run marketing campaigns for the Clippers’ championship.

Clippers jerseys are starting to replace other jerseys, becoming a leisure wear that can rival Lakers jerseys.

On the streets, Yu Fei’s number 44 is seen everywhere.

Last year, Reebok announced that it would build a skyscraper in Los Angeles in order to relocate its US headquarters there.

For Nike, this was earth-shattering news.

Focusing on Kobe, they had taken root in Los Angeles for many years. Although they couldn’t claim to dominate the market share, they were definitely the best-selling sports product in the city.

But now, Reebok is quickly snatching up the market with Yu Fei’s influence and a momentum ten times greater than Kobe’s, even moving its headquarters to Los Angeles to penetrate the entire California market.

Under the momentum of the Clippers’ championship, a series of commercial moves are bound to reap positive rewards.

Nike is powerless to stop this.

Because the Clippers really won the championship.

Now, it’s time for the “only empire” to face the music.

As someone in the middle of it all, Yu Fei wasn’t so sensitive to all these changes around him.

After returning to Los Angeles, the first thing he did was to take a vacation, then go home to be with his wife.

The other Clippers players were the same.

They had worked hard all season; now was the time to thoroughly enjoy their vacation.

The only exception was Yao Ming.

This summer, he still needed to return to China to join the national team’s training camp in preparation for the 2015 Changsha Men’s Basketball Championship.

This was his fifth consecutive year without sufficient rest in the summer.

However, those days were coming to an end.

Because FIBA had already reformed the competition format.

This year’s championship would be the last of its kind in history. After this year, the Men’s World Championship would be renamed the Basketball World Cup, and the way to earn World Cup slots would shift from the championships to a soccer World Cup-style series of qualifiers, which mostly take place during the NBA season.

Thus, it would come down to the strength of each country’s domestic players, as overseas players wouldn’t have much influence.

Moreover, since China had secured the hosting rights for the first Basketball World Cup in 2019, as long as the national team qualified for the Rio Olympics, they would have a whole cycle of time without having to worry about the qualification for the world’s major competitions, and Yao Ming would get plenty of rest in the summers of the upcoming years.

Most of the players rested, but the management’s “season” was just beginning.

Bill of the Year General Manager Arne Trem stared at their draft rights, beginning to ponder how to proceed.

They were originally supposed to have 1 first-round and 3 second-round picks this year, but all three second-rounders were traded away in past deals, meaning they now only had their own first-round 30th pick.

After the draft bonanza in 2014, it would be normal to expect a dip in the overall quality of the next year’s draft class, but having observed all year, it turns out this year was a medium-level draft.

The top of the draft class still has elite talent, and there are decent prospects in the middle and later parts.

However, most of these players have nothing to do with the Clippers.

Because the 30th pick in the first round is a very awkward position.

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It’s hard to expect a hidden gem at this spot, and you’re likely to pick someone who has second-round prospects.

This troubled the General Manager of the Year.

Who to choose?

Considering the current situation of the Clippers team, the only position lacking is point guard.