The rivalry between the Clippers and the Supersonics was essentially between Fei and Clay Bennett.
Bennett believed that he was the owner of the team and the inheritor of its glory, and that the players' brilliant achievements ultimately belonged to him.
But he was wrong.
Every popular sports league sells dreams to the public, and the NBA's dreams began in the '80s with the Black and White duo, peaked during the Jordan era, with Yu Fei reaching the heights achieved by predecessors and climbing even higher mountains.
He didn't need to appeal to fans to buy shoes with poor rap in a Converse commercial like Bird, nor did he need to find every way to engrave the era with "Be Like Mike" like Jordan.
His career was great enough.
A normal team should do everything possible to keep someone like him, but Bennett chose the opposite.
This is exactly why Bennett was put in a passive position.