Not only did Yu Fei disrespect the highly esteemed Jordan back in D.C., but from the very beginning of his career, he was someone who broke the rules.
He overturned the convention established during Bill Russell's and Jordan's eras—where superstars were responsible for the last shot—and the belief that the best basketball always came from the best team play.
In his five years with the Bucks, Yu Fei, with an astonishing rate of ball possession, won four championships, popularizing three-pointers and fundamentally changing the game of basketball into a different mode. He also forced the team to sign him to a short-term second contract, creating the 2+1 era, significantly shortening the League's window for teams to build rosters around a Rising Star.
Up to today, Yu Fei had basically shattered the NBA that Simmons had known since the 1980s.
Now it was a completely different era.