บท 43: Chapter 40: He is the Future

Yu Fei was holding the No. 44, which is one of the most unlucky numbers in NBA history. Jerry West's unfortunate childhood (domestic violence), Pete Maravich's cursed life (an obsessive father creating a twisted personality, successfully predicting his death from heart disease), David Thompson's downfall (drug abuse), and Drazen Petrovic's tragic accident (killed in a car crash).

This was what the Celtics' equipment manager wanted to express, that the misfortune represented by this number was almost the same as everything the Celtics had encountered since 1986.