Yu Fei's joke had Celtics fans launching a series of attacks on General Manager Danny Ainge.
Although it was Ainge's first year with the Celtics, fans had already witnessed his craftiness.
Ainge was a man of action who would go for it once he set his mind on a goal, and he didn't care about anyone else's opinion.
From the moment he took over the Celtics, he knew that the team's current roster had reached its limit. If they kept muddling through, they'd just play the playoffs for fun.
Therefore, he performed major surgery on the roster, clearly refusing to renew Antoine Walker's contract and then shipping him off, following that with an acquisition of Ricky Davis from the Cavaliers— a move that completely shattered the heart of Jim O'Brien, the head coach who had led the Celtics out of the Rick Pitino nightmare.
O'Brien chose to resign, and Ainge had anticipated this reaction.
However, what Ainge had not expected was the competitiveness of the Eastern Conference to be so low.