Chapter 308 To get a big news
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(I was sweating after typing in the winter. After I got home at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I was typing on the keyboard and it was so scattered. For writers who did not save the manuscript, the New Year is a nightmare, the real nightmare, plot, story, and rhythm are simply unfamiliar. Oh, let's not talk about it, eat first, and then continue to code after dinner. Today is still two chapters)
Although the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers are in the same city team, these two teams have never been mortal enemies. The relationship between the two teams is actually very good to a large extent because of the good relationship between the two teams owners Sterling and Jerry Bass.
When the Lakers traded Lin Han this year, didn’t the Clippers come in and send Dominic Wilkins to the Lakers?
As Los Angeles native, Sterling and Jerry Bass have a good relationship. If it weren't for Jerry Bass' help, the Clippers would not have moved from San Diego to Los Angeles. Don't think that the NBA team can be relocated at will. In fact, if it was just a small city to relocate, it was indeed easy most of the time, but moving small cities to small cities and small cities to medium cities, as long as they meet the NBA's strategic needs, generally speaking, the league will not stop it. But if a small city team wants to move to Los Angeles or the New York Knicks?
Then don't dream, unless these two cities do not have NBA teams. It's obvious that these two cities have NBA teams decades ago, and it will not happen in the future. This was the situation of the Clippers at the beginning. After speculative businessman Sterling bought the Clippers for 20 million US dollars, he wanted to move the team to Los Angeles. Can the teams in Los Angeles be the same in value as the San Diego team? Of course, it's different. How could the league not know about this? If the Clippers really agree to move to Los Angeles, the league will not be in chaos. By then, all NBA teams will go to New York and Los Angeles, and everyone will be playing around.
But what no one expected was that without the league's consent, Sterling moved the team back to Los Angeles privately. Not only did he move back to Los Angeles privately, but he miraculously got the understanding of Lakers boss Jerry Bass, which ultimately directly caused the league's punishment of the Clippers to be greatly embarrassed. In addition, the league had never seen such a shameless person at that time, and there were loopholes in the provisions, and in the end, he could only symbolically issue a fine of more than 20 million yuan on the Clippers. The entire Clippers' market value was only 20 yuan.
000,000, Sterling did not have the money to pay this fine. With Sterling's personality, he wouldn't pay even if he had money. At worst, he would sell the team again. Anyway, he was just a bachelor. In the end, it was because of Jerry Bass' matchmaking and David Stern who had just taken the stage, so he just had no strong dominance. In the end, he just fined Sterling 6 million. However, even this 6 million was not paid by Sterling, but was directly deducted from the annual dividends of the NBA team. I don't know whether the money was deducted or not.
It can be said that without Jerry Bass, there is no team called the Los Angeles Clippers. At that time, Jerry Bass' behavior was ridiculed by many people without vision. Putting the Clippers in is a matter of attracting wolves into the house. Which big city's boss is willing to let another team from the same professional league join his city? Look at Chicago and New York now, there is still only one team. However, on the other hand, Jerry Bass ten years ago was the time when he was most confident, and the Lakers were also the strongest at that time. That kind of momentum of being so great in the world is not afraid of such a small Clippers. Such a team can compete with the great Lakers for the market? That is impossible.
In fact, so many years have passed, it is true. Even when the Los Angeles Clippers moved to Los Angeles, Sterling found that he didn't make much money. In order to balance the income and expenditure, he even moved the team to the Toyota Center in the suburbs this season. He even sent away the player Manning, who had expired the team's contract last season, and before the start of this season, he sent away two of the team's players, Hapa and Mark Jackson. So in order to save money, this NBA boss who moved the team from the city to the suburbs and changed the team's core casually. That's a real surprise in the league.
Baby, even the bosses and general managers of all teams in the league are ridiculed by the general manager of the Clippers. Because of this, Elgin Baylor, the general manager of the Clippers, was almost angry with this weird boss. After all, his good friend Jerry West was very successful in playing in the Lakers and was already the godfather of the Lakers. Now he finally made the Clippers look a little short of money and people, and finally was directly demolished by this 2b boss. If Sterling hadn't asked Jerry Bass again after Elgin Baylor's resignation letter was played, this former Lakers legend might have returned to the Lakers to be an assistant to Jerry West.
Of course, although Baylor was persuaded to go back by Jerry Bass and continued to be the general manager of the Clippers, the things this guy did in the NBA still made most of the league despise. However, although Sterling is really weird and speechless, what makes people speechless is why Lakers boss Jerry Bass is so good to this idiot? This is also a more speechless thing, especially in recent times, Los Angeles has been rumored to be asked to plan and build a new multi-functional gymnasium, with the Clippers.
In Los Angeles, even if they want to fight for the right to use the new stadium, it depends on the faces of Jerry Bass and the Lakers. After all, two teams in the same league use the same stadium in one city. This kind of thing is very difficult and extremely complicated to operate. Not only are the two teams difficult to handle, but it is also difficult to handle when the league schedules are scheduled. It is just that when people never expected that Jerry Bass once again took care of the 2b Clippers boss. It seems that he doesn't mind the Clippers joining in and using it together in the future in Los Angeles.
So, not to mention that in the current NBA, Sterling is a weird joke, but the relationship between this joke and Jerry Bass has been speculated by many people. Even if some people say that these two are gay friends, I'm afraid there will be no fewer people who believe it.
Of course, no one knows what the relationship between these two people was before. Some people have speculated that Jerry Bass had no money to buy the Lakers back then and borrowed money from Sterling. Some people also speculated that Sterling, who knew nothing about NBA and basketball, played NBA and bought the team because of Jerry Bass' instigation, etc. Anyway, the relationship between these two is quite that.
In this case, generally speaking, although Sterling is famous for being unrestrained, he still does not have much provocation to the Lakers. After all, everyone has a good relationship, and they are not an opponent on the same level, so there is no way to talk about the mortal enemies in the city. The Clippers have moved to the suburbs, and now most of the so-called Clippers fans are a group of Lakers fans.
But even so, the Clippers boss was interviewed the day before the Los Angeles Derby on November 17. When talking about some issues with Lin Han and his team, some of the remarks during the interview caused an uproar and even made Lin Han and many NBA players extremely angry!
"Why did we choose to trade Manning? No, why. I think I paid a lot of money to this poor black kid. I think he is no longer worth my pay for him, so he left. In fact, I think no one in the NBA deserves the salary he is now, including Lin Han. At least they can't make so much money in the Southern Botanical Garden and Chinatown. Yesterday I also went to K Restaurant for a meal, which was very good, so I gave the Chinese waiter a tip of 1 USD. Hahaha."
"Do I know Lin Han's annual salary of 1.1 million? Of course I know, in fact, when I entered the NBA, no one could make so much money in the NBA. I always think that it is the same now. Many white elites in the United States have not had an annual salary of 100,000 yuan, and these guys can get 10 times the annual salary in a year just by catching up with a basketball. It's just very unfair. I bet that they will definitely not make so much money when they return to the Southern Botanical Garden and Chinatown."
This is what Sterling said in an interview before the Los Angeles Derby. This guy still adheres to his previous style. He kept talking to the Southern Botanical Garden and was full of niggers. But this time, because of Lin Han's joining, he also mentioned Chinatown and Chinese.
Needless to say, this is the most commonly used word for racial discrimination in the United States. The Southern Botanical Garden is a kind of discrimination against black people's ability to work, because in the past, most black people in the United States were serfs in the south before liberation. At that time, the south of the United States was almost like a huge botanical garden, and the staff inside were all black slaves. If you continue to talk about this word, it means that discrimination against black people cannot do anything other than doing such a lower work. Chinese guys, like niggers, are also discriminatory words. As for Chinatown and Chinese guy restaurants, they are naturally equivalent to the Southern Botanical Garden. Most Chinese, especially poor people, basically work in these two places.
It can be said that the influence of Sterling's remarks is not a little bit. Although Sterling is famous for the alliance, in the United States, especially in the present, although everyone is shouting not to racial discrimination, everyone actually has racial discrimination. There is basically no binding force for people like Sterling. However, although everyone knows this situation, it is indeed extremely irritating to say it directly.
At least, the owner of the Clippers angered Lin Han. You know, in a place like Utah, can Lin Han not be discriminated against when he was a child? To put it bluntly, if Lin Han and his family were white, then there was a person as good as his elder sister Lin Han, and their family would not have dropped out of school at all. He could only go out of school after graduating from high school. I'm afraid that major charities in the United States have lined up to give money. In the United States, why do black people feel like they are mostly engaged in middle- and middle-aged and middle-aged jobs? Most of them seem to be unable to go to college and can only appear on the streets to play black? It's not because black people have low IQ, but because they are many times more difficult to go to college than white people, especially when they are famous brands like Ivy.
In college, there is no channel for upward, and they do not have the same efforts as Asians. What else can most of them do besides playing black? It is never a good thing to say that Chinese people have strong learning ability in the United States, but a kind of self-deprecation or helplessness. If they are not much stronger than white people, they cannot get the status of white people at all, and they are forced out. In the NBA, there are also many such things, and Russell has made such a great contribution to the Celtics. But in the hearts of Celtic fans, Larry Bird is the best. Why do those old and young people who have been with the Cardinal support Larry Bird after Larry Bird retired and don’t give him real power? This is not just their jealousy of Larry Bird. More importantly, Larry Bird does have all the subjective and objective conditions that can replace the Cardinal.
Therefore, this kind of discrimination is everywhere. Not only whites discriminate against black people, but also blacks discriminate against white people. In the NBA, many European players were not excluded by black players when they came here. There are too many such things. Lin Han is considered good. If he hadn't risen rapidly in the Jazz team, he would have given other Jazz players the opportunity to discriminate against him. He had grown to a position where no one could discriminate. I'm afraid Lin Han would have encountered such extremely disgusting things last season.
But he didn't expect that in his rookie season, he did not encounter such problems in Salt Lake City and Utah, one of the most serious places in discrimination. Instead, he came to Los Angeles and perhaps the most enlightened city in the United States. Lin Han encountered such problems instead. You should know that compared with big cities such as Boston and New York and Philadelphia, the racial discrimination atmosphere in Los Angeles is now very small.
Of course, Sterling's approach of directly making things clear has made many people dissatisfied. It is enough for everyone to know this in their hearts, and there is no need to say it. Sterling said it directly, which is purely full. So, although Lin Han only expressed his affectionate greetings to Sterling before his premiere, which is a more implicit statement with Chinese culture.
But for many others, they really can't stand it. Lin Han and Manning, the protagonist, have not said anything yet. Other people in NBA have already attacked Sterling.
Even the Lakers head coach, Magic Johnson could not stand the big mouth of the Clippers boss.
"Mr. Sterling can express his opinions on the NBA and the players. Freedom of speech will be protected in this country. He can explain his opinions and values for the future development of the NBA. If you feel that there is any problem, you can discuss it with David Stern, but he does not need to say such words. For me and the Lakers, Lin Han is a priceless treasure. No value can replace his contribution to this team. Not to mention an annual salary of 1.1 million, even if it is an annual salary of 11 million, I think the Lakers will deliver the check to Lin Han without hesitation."
As the head coach of the Lakers at this time, his player was directly criticized. If the Magician didn't stand up at this time, it would be unreasonable. Not to mention the Magician, even the great Jordan, who is still in Los Angeles, couldn't help but fire directly. Although Jordan is the best player in the NBA, this guy is not a good guy. At least at this time, his anger is probably not smaller than Lin Han.
Sterling said Manning, it would be fine if Lin Han said, is it necessary to drive the map cannon so big? Obviously, Jordan is also one of the poor niggers mentioned by Sterling.
"Linhan is a great player, Manning is an excellent player, and Sterling? He is just a clown, he should get out of NBA!"
The Bulls' player is indeed extremely domineering. However, in the face of Jordan's provocation, Sterling was also unwilling to be outdone at all. When asked about Jordan's insults, the Clippers boss's words made the entire United States amusement.
"I won't rent a villa in Beverly Hills to him in Jordan in Los Angeles in the future."
With Jordan's financial resources, would he rent a house if he really lives in Los Angeles? Not to mention a Beverly Hills villa, he could afford it even if there were a few more villas. In order to make Jordan comeback, Nike directly increased Jordan's share of his sneakers from about 3% of the total sales to 10%! In other words, just one year when Jordan brand sells Jordan sneakers, Jordan will get 70 to 80 million. What kind of villa can't be bought? You still need to rent a house in his company?
Obviously, in the heart of this Clippers boss, so what if Jordan is the number one player in the league? Compared to him, he is still a poor nigger, but he probably never thought that a poor nigger in his eyes would be much richer than him.
Of course, it should have been a war of words between Sterling and Lin Han, but it eventually turned into a war of words between Jordan and Sterling, which made many media and journalists across the United States feel very interesting.
They have been hyping up the box office battle between Lin Han and Jordan recently, hoping that the two can have a little confrontation at this time, and it is best that the two argue directly for the box office of the movie, but they did not expect that the two of them actually found a common opponent. This made many American media feel speechless at this time.
Fortunately, the movies between Jordan and Lin Han were indeed extremely popular after they were released. Needless to say, Jordan's movie was a family-friendly movie created with a lot of money. It was previously expected that it would be the strongest movie on Thanksgiving this year. As long as you don't die, with Jordan's popularity and attention from the United States, it would be strange if this movie was not popular. What is really surprising is Lin Han.
Lin Han is very popular in the United States, which everyone can see, but Lin Han's popularity still has many shortcomings compared to Jordan. This is not a small amount in quantity, but quality. Jordan has worked hard in the NBA for ten years, and his fans are not sure how many levels are loyal to Lin Han. In addition to those Chinese and Salt Lake City fans, most of Lin Han's fans are now winning, data and visual. The reason why they like Lin Han is because Lin Han can win now, play beautifully and have good looks, and the data is not good. If Lin Han's data drops, his playing style will become ugly. He can't win anymore. These fans may soon disperse. To put it bluntly. Lin Han's fans are all making noises and seem to be huge.
They can buy Lin Han’s pair of sneakers to commemorate because of Lin Han’s crazy performance, but they will not be able to spend some things for Lin Han that have nothing to do with NBA. After all, if they really want to watch movies and watch movies starring Hollywood big names, why should they watch Lin Han’s movies? It’s also an advertising movie. Are you sick if you spend a few dollars watching ads for several hours?
Therefore, although many people are saying that they are looking forward to the popularity showdown between Lin Han and Jordan, in fact, for many unconventional American media, what they really expect is not the popularity showdown between Jordan and Lin Han, because Lin Han cannot defeat Jordan. What they really expect is whether Lin Han will lose his mind after being beaten by Jordan and directly burn his anger to Jordan, so as to build momentum for the Christmas battle a month later!
You should know that according to many people's estimates, the Christmas battle between Lin Han and Jordan is likely to create a Christmas battle in NBA history, and even the ratings records of all games in NBA history have been broken. Some people have even said that even if it is the highest game in basketball history, the number of viewers and 25% of the ratings created by Magic and Larry Bird in the NCAA showdown may be broken.
Although such a number is just an estimate, for most people, they certainly hope that the higher the number, the better, so that everyone can make a profit. In this case, under the acquiescence of the league and the unspoken rules of public opinion, many people and all aspects are already building momentum for this game.
And now, what is missing is the mutual criticism between the two parties!
That's right, it's the mutual criticism between the two parties!
With Lin Han and Jordan's personality, it seems that it is easy for them to squirt, but what puzzles many people and is that when they are asked about each other's questions, almost all of them have changed from an extremely arrogant person to an extremely cautious, cautious or modest person. This is a damn thing that makes people lose their glasses!
If these two people were not Lin Han or Jordan, these reporters would have thought that these two guys were possessed by aliens.
So, since these two people are so uncooperative, these reporters have some ways to make these two people cooperate, such as artificially creating some conflicts. When Lin Han lost to Jordan at the box office of the movie, he directly mocked the gap between Jordan and Lin Han, aroused Lin Han's dissatisfaction, and then aroused the gunpowder smell of the two.
But in the end, when the two movies premiered on November 17 and were officially released across the United States on the 18th, both movies actually looked very popular, which made these reporters who wanted to provoke Lin Han and Jordan speechless.
Of course, Jordan was in the battle with Sterling at this time, while the American media were constantly staring at the box office of the two movies starring Lin Han and Jordan.
As for Lin Han, after attending yesterday's premiere, he returned to the team early the next morning to resume training. Not only did he resume training, but the Lakers' player also made a request to his teammates on the team's training ground that shocked the Lakers. Even this request made Magic Johnson on the side stunned!
"Guys. If we can make the Clippers score less than 60 points today, all your nightclub consumption will be recorded in my account in the next month!"
When Lin Han made this request in front of all Lakers players, it really caused a thousand waves.
After all, although the Lakers' record is many times better than the Clippers. The Lakers are now 6 wins and 3 losses, while the Clippers lose 9 consecutive games. After they sent out three leading players, almost all of this team are role players. However, even if the team is all role players, the Clippers are also NBA teams, and the players' strength is still there. The Lakers' team will defend the Clippers desperately. It can indeed reduce the Clippers' scoring to a very low level, but it is difficult to make an NBA team score 60 points. Even if the Clippers are bad, unless they don't attack in this game, they all defend, and who will score?!
However, when thinking about who will score, these Lakers players, the Magicians on the side, Adelman and others were all stunned for a moment.
"Boss. You are not going to be planning to let all of us defend, you attack alone, and then score higher than the entire Clippers in this game, right?!"
After Aaron Williams finished speaking in horror, Lin Han nodded, the entire Lakers team became speechless.
This is not that they are unwilling to help Lin Han in this game. If Lin Han is not worth an annual salary of 1.1 million, he is not only provoking Lin Han, but also provoking them. Lin Han is not worth 1.1 million. Who can be worth this price?!
The key is that even if Lin Han plays offense alone, they cannot guarantee that they can defend well. After all, they are not the New York Knicks or the Bulls. They are the Los Angeles Lakers and one of the worst defensive teams in the league.
"I wish Rodman was here at this time."
Someone even thought of Rodman at this time. It was obvious that in this game against the Clippers, Rodman, Harvey and Rufen Ellis, it was still difficult for Rodman to play.
"In this game, you only need to show your strength on the defensive end. As for other things, you don't have to worry about it. I will be the center of the team in this game. As long as you can stare at people from the outside, don't worry about things in the inside, I will stand behind you."
Lin Han was very angry at Sterling, really very angry. This guy successfully provoked Lin Han’s bad memories in childhood. When he came to the United States and Utah, his parents’ experience in the United States, and after his parents’ death, he and his family’s experience in the United States.
If possible, Lin Han even wanted to crush this guy directly, but it was obvious that he would definitely not be able to do this. Since there was no way to take Sterling, then just take Sterling's team to take action. With this guy's stingy appearance, if Lin Han could have a higher score than their entire team when facing the Clippers, then is Lin Han worth the annual salary? If Lin Han still doesn't deserve this annual salary, then this stingy guy may be pissed off. After all, he spent so much money every year, and in the end, even Lin Han can't compare with him. What's the matter?
If it were other NBA teams, Lin Han really didn't have the confidence to do this. After all, in the history of NBA, even though Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game, he could no longer score more than the rest of the team.
After all, when the rules of basketball are perfected, players must win against opponent teams by scoring points, and they cannot let garbage time appear in the game, because when garbage time occurs, players will make a lot of money, unless they are shameless or dying revenge. If garbage time does not occur, the strength of the two teams is similar, and it is impossible for one person to score more points than the entire team of the opponent.
So, if you face other teams, Lin Han would not have any such thoughts. He knew very well that he could not do it, but although it was very difficult to do it, it might not be impossible. At worst, you would have to humiliate Sterling if you play for a while.
"Boss, you play center in this game, who plays point guard?"
After Lin Han finished speaking, Eddie Jones asked blankly, "You know, except for Lin Han playing inside with the Warriors, all other games are defenders and even point guards. Lin Han played center in this game, so he still controlled the ball. Have you ever seen a center player control the ball on the outside? Although it is possible sometimes, it will definitely not work for the whole game.
Now, besides the scared Ruffin and the fat piglets, Magic Johnson, who is also losing weight, the Lakers point guard is only Van Eksel!
So, when Lin Han looked at Van Eksel after Eddie Jones finished speaking, even the Magicians and other Lakers players looked at the Lakers' biggest gain last season and the most disappointing player this season!
At this time, after being clearly felt the gaze of his teammates, Van Eksel, who had been standing in the back and outside position, gritted his teeth. However, when the Lakers point guard saw Lin Han's comforting and trusting eyes, he lowered his head directly after being a little stunned. However, everyone on the training ground could see that Van Eksel's body was trembling at this time.
The magician Johnson, who had been watching this scene, had to stop Lin Han's extremely absurd idea, but at this time, after he looked at Lin Han and Van Eksel, his originally calm face was shocked. After a little glance at him, Adelman and Hubby Brown also looked at Lin Han with extreme shock.
"Nick, are you willing to avenge me in the next game?!"
When Lin Han said this to Van Eksel not far away with a smile, Adelman and Hubby Brown, who were already somewhat speculative, had all confirmed their guesses.
"It seems we underestimated this guy."
Of course, Lin Han didn't care about the gazes of the three coaches of the team at this time. At this time, his eyes were always on his friend Van Eksel. After seeing Van Eksel who had been lowering his head and clenching his fists, he finally nodded as if he had used all his strength to nod, Lin Han also smiled.
He is ready to make a big news about the next game with the Clippers. (To be continued)
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Chapter completed!