The Whip of the God of Basketball

"The bridge of the nose is broken, the right orbital bone is cracked, two teeth are missing, the facial muscles are slightly torn, the nasal cavity is edema, and the right eye is bleeding... Your punch was really hard, Leon."

In the interview room of the Boston South District Police Department, Rob Eads held an injury assessment report and said to Fox Leon, who was sitting across from him.

At this time, Leon was wearing uniform and handcuffs, sitting in front of Eze. He was arrested by the Boston Police Department on suspicion of intentional injury, and now he is facing prosecution by the Boston Public Prosecution Agency. Judging from the injury report, the punch he punched Frank was really hard, comparable to Washington's critical hit on Tomjanovich, and Frank was knocked unconscious at the time.

The police arrived at the scene before the people in the bar could react. The nearby police station heard that the Celtics head coach was being chased by gangs and ran towards the bar at lightning speed.

As a result, when they arrived at the bar, they did not see Leon lying on the ground injured, but only saw a middle-aged guy lying at Leon's feet. The police turned the man over and found out that this man was from the Irish Gang. The leader, a remnant of the Winter Hills gang, Jeff Frank.

In the end, Frank was taken away by an ambulance. His face was beaten so hard that it looked like he was disfigured. Because of this, Fox-Leon was arrested by the police station that night. After staying at the police station for one night, Leon received five-star treatment, but the news inevitably spread the next day, and countless reporters flocked to see this unsung hero who had just become the most dazzling unsung hero in Boston in the summer. In just a few days, he became a prisoner again.

Of course, the Celtics immediately arranged a lawyer for Leon, but Leon still trusted Auerbach's friend Rob Eads, who came all the way from Washington to handle this case for Leon.

"First of all, it is certain that Jeff Frank will spend the rest of his life either in the hospital or in prison. The Boston prosecutor is ready to prosecute him criminally. He will face a life sentence. From here on On the one hand, you have done another good thing for Boston; but on the other hand, the prosecutor will also charge you with intentional injury, after all, that punch hit him hard." Robert Eyre I have sorted out the information and told Leon about the general situation.

"Now, what can I do? I think I have two options. First, admit that I punched Frank for no reason. Even if I hit a murderer, a gangster, or a drug dealer, I and the puncher It makes no difference to a passer-by. For this, I may face three months in prison, thereby missing the preseason and two months of the regular season. Second, it is proved that I hit Frank entirely out of self-defense, because he ordered the thugs to attack me, In order to resist, I knocked him unconscious. The shot was relatively heavy but the circumstances were extenuating. Then I could be exempted from imprisonment and sentenced to probation." At this time, Leon was very calm. Before Eze could say the solution, he mentioned the possibility himself. Listed out.

Eze smiled, then nodded: "Leon is Leon, and he is worthy of trying to send himself to prison to avoid being pursued. Three years ago, you punched Malik and sent yourself to MCI. Now you Another punch, but I can no longer enter the MCI. Don’t worry, we will definitely have a solution. After all, we are not at a disadvantage in terms of public opinion, so it will be much easier to handle many things."

Although the news of Leon's arrest caused an uproar, unlike other stars such as Barkley, Leon's punch was righteous. Although Jeff Frank is far less notorious than his boss James Bulger, and he has been relatively restrained in the past two years, as long as you know that he was once a member of "Winter Hills", no matter whether Boston has experienced those years or not, No one would have the slightest sympathy for him.

Therefore, although some media have brought out the articles that turned over old scores from last year and speculated them again, more media are saying good things for Leon. Generally speaking, the public opinion situation is generally favorable to Leon.

On the third day of Leon's detention, a New Yorker report about the incident completely reversed the public opinion situation. This article pointed out that the reason why Leon beat Frank that night was not only because he was attacked by Frank's men, but more importantly because twenty years ago, his father Matthews Leon was killed by Bulger and Frank Killed on the rocky beach of Port Alder, with a mouth full of teeth knocked to pieces.

Leon's punch was not only for himself, but also for his dead father.

As soon as this article came out, the whole country was in an uproar. The image of a man avenging his father appeared on the paper. His punch was not only a fist of justice, but also a punch of revenge. In short, fans in the United States, especially fans in Boston, are furious. On October 5, a large number of Celtics fans gathered in front of the Boston Police Station, demanding that the police station release people and protesting that the police station could not effectively protect the lives of citizens. , instead it is up to the citizens themselves to find out the murderer.

All this was beyond the expectations of the police department. Although the American police have always been united and fierce, and will shoot whenever they disagree, they must not handle large-scale mass incidents casually, especially this incident involving the public in Boston. figure.

It is definitely impossible to release people. The law has legal procedures. No matter whether the punch is justice or evil, revenge or enmity, the law has its own legal judgment. Finally, the police chief personally went to the detention center to meet with Leon, hoping that Leon could come forward to quell the incident.

Leon is very clear-headed. He does not want to use public opinion to coerce the judiciary. If he wants to do it, he will find loopholes in the law. He will play it perfectly and use bad tricks to coerce public opinion, which will only discredit him.

So Leon wrote a letter "To the Fans of Boston" with a flourish of a few hundred words, briefly describing his experience from a gangster to today, and also advised the fans to believe in the law and justice, and believe that he will Just like defeating all NBA teams to win the championship, return to the court safely and lead the team to regain the glory of the Celtics.

The police chief who received Leon's letter felt as if he had found a treasure. He first asked other police officers to control the situation, and then held an emergency press conference, at which he read the contents of the letter to all reporters.

Leon's letter is written in a natural, fresh and concise style, quite like Hemingway's. It uses the simplest words to describe his general experience in the past few years. In the second half of the letter, he expressed his feelings for the Celtics and Boston fans in concise but affectionate writing, and hoped that they could wait patiently, because "justice will not be absent, as long as justice is It will be late, the championship is not far away, it will come back."

This letter was conveyed with the help of the media's microphone. This time, it was no longer the paper media or TV broadcasts that exerted its power, but the Internet. The Internet reflected his huge power, and Leon's words were widely spread in a short period of time. For a time, the voice about the release on the Internet not only did not decrease, but became louder.

But in reality, the fans who gathered in front of the police station dispersed and left. They believed in Fox-Leon and believed that the Super Green Legion he led would win the championship this season.

Leon, on the other hand, continues to stay in the police station with a tormented mood, waiting for the lawsuit to begin. Now he is very fortunate to have recruited Rick Carlisle. With him in the team's training, he will not be left behind. The regular season is still a month away, and by then he should be done with the lawsuit and able to devote himself entirely to basketball.

However, Leon correctly judged the justice and objectivity of the law, but ignored the emotion and complexity of people, and even underestimated the complexity of American legal provisions and cumbersome procedures. A protracted struggle will await him.