The God of Basketball

"I'm on your side."

Eddie Curry picked up a glass of Romanee-Conti red wine from Bruce's apartment in midtown Manhattan, and poured it down his throat like a Coke. He really didn't know how to taste wine, but he knew it expensive.

He also signed Bill Duffy recently, and he hopes to get some commercial sponsorship from China through Bill Duffy's relationship in China and his close relationship with Li Zhen. Moreover, he has already started preparing for his next contract. He does not plan to enter the retirement state after finishing this 80 million contract. His money has almost been squandered.

Li Zhen didn't care that he drank the red wine here. Anyway, this is what Zuckerberg brought over a week ago. The nerd engineer obviously hasn't adapted to his current status as the founder of a unicorn Internet company, and those Wall Street elites gave him a lot of precious red wine. As an otaku who likes to mix coke in red wine, he sent it to the company's second largest shareholder. Because in his understanding, Bruce needs these red wines, and he also understands these red wines.

Of course, Li Zhen must know this better than Zuckerberg. But he suggested that Zuckerberg can start to learn these things. After all, Facebook’s valuation has now secured Zuckerberg’s position as a billionaire. Show timidity on some occasions.

Standing on the balcony on the 45th floor, Li Chen overlooked the busy traffic and bright lights of New York City.

He felt that the 'crisis' before him was really ridiculous.

Frankly speaking, he never took David Lee seriously, and he didn't even think that they would be competitors.

But David Lee just thought so, and stubbornly took up arms, and openly rebelled on the court.

Stephen Marbury told him very frankly in the previous phone call: "...Didn't you realize that you haven't been on the front page of the New York media in the past two days? The reason why you suddenly stopped reporting on you is because those shameless media may want to turned."

"I know the process all too well."

Marbury said sarcastically.

Then, he began to tell how he fell from the son of New York sought after by everyone to the street mouse that everyone shouted and beat.

"The New York media is the most ruthless. If the team continues to sink and does not enter the playoffs, you and David Lee will be regarded as the source of chaos. They will do their best to discredit and humiliate you. Until you leave in disgrace The city."

"So, don't underestimate the current crisis. You'd better get David Lee out of the way as soon as possible. This is actually your responsibility as the team leader. In the NBA, no player can directly become the core of the team by appointment. Everyone You have to conquer the locker room with strength."

Stephon Marbury admonished seriously on the phone.

He thought what he saw was very clear.

Li Zhen nodded, and he agreed with part of Marbury's views. But he felt that no matter how good he was, no matter how sophisticated and ruthless the New York media was, they wouldn't be beaten like Marbury before.

However, the calmness of the New York media in the past two days did show that it was affected by the strife in the locker room.

Li Zhen thinks that this is the way the New York media is examining their own handling of this internal strife.

Not a precursor to a full-scale change of direction.

Although the outside media have begun to swear by how unbearable they are, how weak their leadership skills are, how lacking their personal prestige, how unable to convince the public and so on.

Even...the Cleveland Candide, a township newspaper in an obscure corner of the United States, began to comment, saying that Li Zhende was unworthy and was a leader who was forcibly lifted up by Isaiah Thomas. It is incomparable with LeBron James back then. LeBron is a natural leader.

And Li Zhen is the answering person in the honeypot... and so on.

Public opinion was everywhere, and James Dolan was furious.

The rebellious behavior of David Lee and Channing Frye in the game made him so unbearable that he even smashed the sika deer sculpture on his desk. And calling Isaiah Thomas: "Get those two stinkers off my team right away."

Isaiah Thomas can understand the boss's anger.

The whole world knows how much James Dolan admires Li Zhen.

But Isaiah Thomas has his trade-offs, too. He hopes that the team can maintain the previous momentum and smoothly enter the playoffs. In this way, the previous efforts will not be wasted.

And if James Dolan's instructions are followed, the team without Channing Frye and David Lee will definitely not be able to make the playoffs.

Once the ducks fly away, the New York media will definitely go crazy.

By the time.

"...Do you have the heart to let Bruce suffer the infamy of Stephon Marbury? Those media will definitely clung to it." Thomas told James Dolan on the phone: "We still have to fight for the playoffs as the main goal. "

"You have a way to get those two stupid pigs back on track?" James Dolan asked back.

Isaiah Thomas said he would try.

...

Then the next day, as the Knicks crossed the Hudson River to New Jersey, New York TV suddenly exposed the news that the Knicks management had put pressure on David Lee's agent.

When Isaiah Thomas saw the news, he trembled with anger.

The content of the news broadcast was that, when Bruce Lee could not get the consensus of the team, he asked the team's top management to put pressure on David Lee, saying that he could introduce Chinese sponsors for him, hoping to get support.

David Lee's agent's interview described Li Zhen as a coercive villain, and a certain team executive became an accomplice.

Thomas realized that he had been tricked. He did find the agents of David Lee and Channing Frye. He hoped that they would focus on the overall situation and make it to the playoffs first. And it did say why can't we make money together? Eddie Curry knows how to contact Chinese brands, so many role players of the Rockets earn a lot of money from China, why do you have to be so stubborn?

This is persuasion.

It's definitely not coercion.

However, it is clear that Isaiah Thomas underestimated the cunning of human nature and the ambition of David Lee's agent. What he is planning is not those small Chinese brand sponsorships. He wants to push his players to be the king of New York. s position.

Why did Li Zhen, who averaged 9.8 points and 10.8 assists per game, become the core of the team loved by thousands of people? And David Lee can't.

He believes that David Lee, who has averaged 17.2 points and 9.8 rebounds per game this season, can completely become the master of ZTE in New York.

Therefore, he revealed that Isaiah Thomas was looking for him. He claimed that he had a tape, and he also played it up as a deliberate suppression by the team.

This is a limit operation.

The fight is about David Lee's performance in the future and whether the New York Knicks executives want to save face.

If the Knicks executives are shameless, David Lee may never get a chance to play again, but he will win the sympathy of public opinion.

And if the Knicks executives want to face, David Lee will at least get the same playing time as Li Zhen. He believes that David Lee can seize this opportunity to prove himself.

...

Isaiah Thomas is obviously shameless. As soon as the team bus arrived in New Jersey and the players entered the visiting team's locker room, he announced that David Lee would not play tonight.

But at this moment, David Lee suddenly yelled.

He claimed unfairness: "I have not been treated fairly, I am no worse than anyone. I should have had a fair chance."

When the locker room was full of chaos, Li Zhen stood up calmly and walked to David Lee: "What do you think is fair?"

"Let's lead our teams to play halftime tonight to see who performs better and who helps the team more." David Lee suddenly raised this question.

Li Zhen didn't hesitate, he even smiled and agreed to David Lee's request, and also helped him persuade the furious smiling assassin.

Isaiah Thomas was really pissed off.

He never thought he would be stabbed by David Lee's agent, and he thought what he did was fair enough. If it was handled according to the boss's wishes, David Lee would have been thrown on the inactive list long ago.

What!

Am I wrong to want to make it to the playoffs?

The more Thomas thought about it, the more depressed he became.

But now, he had to follow the logic of David Lee's team. He hated the feeling of being manipulated, and now he had a sinking regret.

"I didn't handle this matter well. If I directly followed James Dolan's handling method, I wouldn't bring you such a big trouble." Before the start of the game, he told Li Zhen apologetically.

Li Zhen shrugged his shoulders, and he replied: "Don't you think this is a good solution? I really need this thing to prove my legitimacy. Otherwise, the whole world will think that my core position is too high." easy."

"Bryant told me that if you want to be a leader, willpower is the weapon, and David Lee is empty-handed, unarmed, he can't succeed."

Li Zhen told Isaiah Thomas very calmly. "Tonight will clearly tell the winner."

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