Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters-Chapter 1045 - 596 Curse Game_2

Chapter 1045: Chapter 596 Curse Game_2 Chapter 1045: Chapter 596 Curse Game_2 After the game, Yu Fei faced the media and retorted, “What do those people who said we were cursed have to say now?”

“Is the curse lifted?”

“How could it be? How could they make something that doesn’t exist disappear?” Yu Fei laughed. “I’m sure, the moment we lose another game, they will continue to talk about the curse.”

The curse seemed to have become a novel topic.

In the history of American sports, there have been many curses, the most famous being the Baby Curse of the Boston Red Sox. But since the Red Sox won the championship at the beginning of the century, no one mentioned it anymore.

The person most keen to hype up the “curse” of the Clippers is Bill Simmons.

As one of the most influential basketball writers on the Internet since the 21st century, he actually despises the “Baby Curse.” In his view, it was nothing more than a gimmick hyped up for the Red Sox. He had witnessed nearly all the important games of the Red Sox over the past decades and knew the real reasons why they lost at critical moments.

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However, when it comes to the Clippers, this writer, who had been firmly against the idea of curses, asserted that the Clippers were indeed “cursed.” And this curse always struck at the most critical moments.

To strengthen his argument, Simmons cited the last season: “If Blake Griffin hadn’t been injured, I believe the Clippers would have won Game 6 and defeated the Spurs in Game 7. I believe Frye could have played a decisive role in the ‘win or go home’ game! But God didn’t give them the opportunity. Griffin got injured, and the timing and consequences of the injury directly caused the Clippers to lose the chance to make history. Isn’t this a curse? How else can you explain the Clippers’ thirty years of misfortune?”

Yu Fei has disliked Simmons for many years.

He thinks Simmons is full of twisted arguments and often makes inappropriate jokes in discussions. This itself is not a problem, but the real issue lies in his double standards. For instance, when talking about the Red Sox, Simmons would use thousands of words in a column to refute the “Baby Curse” as a commercial gimmick. Now, he attributes all the misfortunes of the Clippers to a so-called “curse.”

This made Yu Fei even more dissatisfied, although he does not plan to directly counter the other party for the time being.

Simmons’s output of articles has declined greatly nowadays, but his podcasts are doing quite well, with almost a daily issue, and each issue brings up a controversial topic. Who can argue with that?

The most effective method to deal with such a person is to attack what he loves.

So, Yu Fei checked the schedule.

The Clippers will face the Celtics on January 14th.

He noted this date in his calendar.

The “curse” of the Clippers became the password for traffic in the professional basketball world of 2015.

Although the Clippers did not wish for this, the media could use decades of misfortune as “evidence,” and even the fans bought into it. Even the Clippers themselves launched “curse does not exist” merchandise in response to the curse rhetoric, albeit still riding the wave of publicity.

The topic of the “curse” moved from the media to TV shows.

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TNT specially produced a program about the Clippers, inviting Dr. J, Barkley, and Shaquille O’Neal, three basketball legends from different eras, to discuss the credibility of the “curse.”

Dr. J mentioned that the Clippers’ predecessor, the Buffalo Braves, used to be a decent team, but everything seemed to go wrong after the relocation.

Ironically, although the Clippers only lost five games in the first third of the regular season, had good team chemistry, young players were growing rapidly, and veterans were having a second wind, many people still believed they could not shake off the so-called curse and bad luck could strike at any time.

The Clippers finally awaited the Celtics.

Although the cause of the matter was unrelated to the Celtics, the “curse” public opinion was stirred up by Simmons.

As the world’s most famous Celtics fan, what’s wrong with making the Celtics pay for his behavior?

In recent years, the Celtics had been unlucky.

Ainge didn’t know what was wrong with the team; since forming The Big Three in the summer of 2007, they hadn’t run into any good luck.

It seemed like all their luck had been sucked away by someone.

The Celtics at their peak were defeated by the embryonic SuperSonic Empire, and since then, they have had no chance to compete for dominance.

Since last year, Ainge has been rebuilding, and to get the new defensive talent Larry Sanders, they sent Pierce and Rivers to the Clippers, solving the latter’s problem of lacking a veteran star and head coach at the same time.

Of course, the Celtics received a generous return.

Even though Sanders was not good in offense, his talent was enviable, and based solely on talent, he had the potential to become the Ben Wallace of the 2010s, no, his ceiling was even higher than Big Ben.

Before the trade, everything was fine with Sanders.

However, starting from last season, Sanders began to be plagued with injuries, and prior to these injuries, for some reason, he suddenly began to shift his energy to his other hobbies.

Music, poetry, painting – basketball was no longer important in his life.

Before the start of this season, Sanders revealed a chilling message to Ainge: “I’ve lost interest in basketball.”

Then, shortly after the new season started, Marcus Smart, whom Ainge had picked eighth as the successor to Rondo, was out for the season…

With two promising newcomers unable to play, the Celtics’ games lost all hope, and all they had to do was to lose, to get high draft picks, and continue drawing lots.