Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 362 This year's sun is like this again

The Suns headed straight back to Phoenix the day after the game.

But Lu Yu made the headlines, not because he scored a 60+ triple-double in the Christmas game, but because he was photographed by reporters eating in a restaurant with the new owner of the Bulls.

If it weren't for the news that Lu Yu and Jessica had dinner, his 60+ triple-double would definitely occupy the headlines. After all, this is a historical level of data, which is enough to dominate the league.

But who is Jessica?
The new boss of the Bulls is one of the most beautiful bosses in the league.

For a while, the romance rumors between Lu Yu and the new boss of the Bulls came to the fore. Of course, it is Lu Yu's credit. The relationship between Jessica and himself will be revealed sooner or later. It is better to create a romance scandal at this time.

League regulations do not allow players to directly control the team, but there is no rule that players cannot fall in love with the team owner.

There was no such situation before. After all, most of the owners of league teams are men. If a player falls in love with the owner, it is really a bit difficult.

Soon someone found out that Jessica and Lu Yu used to be college alumni, so many people suspected that the Bulls were bought by Lu Yu, but this could not explain why Lu Yu bought the Bulls and traded himself away.

Deception?

But everyone checked Jessica's assets, and found that the source of funds belonged entirely to her own company.

When Lu Yu had plans to buy the team, he had already bought many assets in Jessica's name.

As for wooing the consortium to buy the team, Jessica will do it all herself. Lu Yu just asked Ma Huateng to introduce a few people. Ma Huateng will definitely not tell the outside world, so no one in the United States knows about Jessica. relationship with oneself.

It was suspected, but no evidence could be found.

He could only make up the news, and the news was transmitted to the ears of NBA president Stern. He first asked people to check it, and after confirming that it had nothing to do with Lu Yu, he directly issued a statement.

He was still a little worried.

But worry about it, even if it is true, he will not break the news, because Lu Yu is now the face of the alliance, let alone fake news, he will not respond to it.

Looking at the news, there are photos of Lu Yu and Jessica talking and laughing while eating.

What should I do if Lu Yu really fell in love with Jessica?

There is no rule in the league that players cannot fall in love with team owners, not to mention that in this country where love is free, if even this has to be regulated, isn't it a bit too lenient?

At noon that day, when Lu Chaoyang saw the photo of Jessica and Lu Yu having dinner in the news, he couldn't help laughing. His son is really too shrewd, and everything should be arranged in advance.

Sure enough, within two days.

Lu Yu stood up and spoke out: "I and the boss of the Bulls are just ordinary friends. It's normal to eat and chat together. The other party regrets trading me out. Now it's too late to regret it."

Jessica also accepted an interview with the media: "Lu Yu is right. After I bought the team, the one thing I regret the most is to trade Lu Yu. If I have the opportunity, I would like to bring Lu Yu back. Chicago."

It's just that the media doesn't know which method she used to say personally.

A few days later, the media broke out that Lu Yu and Scarlett Johansson met in New York. Of course, Lu Yu's answer was still that the two were just friends.

Scarlett Johansson called him after taking a shower, "What kind of friends are we? Bed friends?"

During this period of time, Lu Yu's scandals continued, and news about women such as Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron emerged in an endless stream. Fans could no longer tell who Lu Yu was dating.

In a short time, Lu Yu changed from the previous single person to a well-known playboy in the alliance.

Every time the visiting team plays, some cheerleaders will take the initiative to leave a phone call, and many celebrities will also contact Lu Yu and ask for interaction.

For example, Kim Kardashian is only 24 years old now, but Kardashian is not very technologically advanced now, so she doesn’t look good. Of course, even if Kardashian is 40 years old, Lu Yu can’t find out how good-looking she is. where.

It can only be said that aesthetics vary from person to person.

Anyway, in the end, only Monica was not exposed to Lu Yu, and the other women knew that it was because Monica had already given birth to Lu Yu's daughter.

Theron secretly went to check it out and came back disappointed.

She decided that every time in the future, she must pester Lu Yu and never let go of every chance to conceive a child.

Among several women, only Anne seemed to be the calmest.

She seems to prefer making movies.

In fact, it's also because she loves Lu Yu so much, sometimes she can't accept it, at most she can accept being with Theron, after all, she sees Theron as her sister.

The NBA has a disadvantage, that is, the schedule is too tight, but this is also an advantage for Lu Yu, because he has too many girlfriends, and if he can serve each of them comfortably, he may die young.

During this time, the Lakers have also undergone earth-shaking changes.

It's just that compared to Lu Yu's news, no one pays much attention to it. The media is not interested in other teams, other players, or games in the league.

McGrady also scored 60+ points a few days ago, and no one reported it at all. Kobe had 45+ points in four consecutive games, and no one cared.

Putting these together with Lu Yu's news is not important at all.

NBA Commissioner David Stern realized that this was not going to work. If this continues, the ratings of the game will plummet. Everyone will pay attention to Lu Yu. Who will watch the game?

Fortunately, Lu Yu was very witty, and when he saw the limelight rising, he immediately calmed down again.

This satisfies David Stern.

In fact, how did he know that Lu Yu was just to inoculate the fans, an introduction is enough, and he doesn't have to make big news, and if he really wants to make big news, who else in the entire NBA is better than him? Is there traffic?

In the next game, Lu Yu was also very low-key, and it would be over if he scored [-] or [-] points in a game.

He won't be too ostentatious.

If Lu Yu is too ostentatious and attracts all the traffic to himself, then although he will be the one who gets popular in the end, it will be the NBA that will be destroyed.

Lu Yu hasn't won the championship yet, and there is no benefit in ruining the NBA.

Of course, this also made Lu Yu realize the power of traffic, mastering traffic, can easily control the trend of the alliance.

This approach is a bit like Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period. Although he was silent at the beginning, but after he completely grasped the hearts of the people, he was able to control the general trend of the world.

David Stern is also very smart. He told the referees to take care of them as much as possible when the top scorers such as Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Carter, Iverson and Arenas are playing.

Let a few of them get high scores every game.

If they break the league's scoring record one by one, or if someone plays ten consecutive 40+ games, then their strength will be recognized by the fans.

Even if they are abused and cried by Lu Yu in the playoffs, it doesn't matter anymore.

The NBA is actually sometimes controlled by the league, but it is not said on the surface.

After all, David Stern hated the spinach in the game, but what he didn't know was that after he left office, the spinach was quickly promoted by a joke.

As for David Stern's manipulation of the game, in fact, it is more often for ratings.

For example, the Western Conference Finals between the Kings and the Lakers mentioned earlier.

I won't go into details here.

In fact, there is another incident, that is, in Lu Yu's previous life, in 2005, when Yao Ming and the Rockets were hacked, there was also a reason for the alliance's manipulation.

After all, the NBA is still a business league. Compared with sportsmanship, business is their core interest.

It is precisely because of this that in the history of the NBA for so many years, remarks such as "alliance manipulation" have been heard endlessly, but no one will stand up and admit these, so in the end they all disappeared.

However, this situation has been changed after an NBA referee who used to participate in gambling was investigated. During the investigation and serving his sentence, he exposed a lot of bad news, including the whole process of being "hacked" in the 2005 Rockets playoffs. .

The referee who participated in the gambling was named Donaghy, a senior referee who had coached in the NBA for 13 years. The once famous "Auburn Palace Incident" was the game he whistled.

The Donaghy referee also has a deep connection with China, because he had served as a referee in the CBA for 7 seasons before he enforced the NBA.

The original Donaghy might have become a high-level referee in the Chinese league, but contrary to expectations, he has become a negative example for NBA referees.

In 2007, "New York Post" columnist Morris Weiss reported on the FBI's investigation into allegations that NBA referees participated in betting and manipulating game scores.

The article revealed that Donaghy had been involved in gambling and manipulating games on many occasions, while at the same time he was also exposed to gambling schemes in lower leagues.

Relevant sources revealed that Donaghy was addicted to gambling and was in debt. He had to gamble to help himself repay his debts.

In 2010, after he was released from prison, Donaghy pointed his finger at Stern, and exposed a lot of "big news" one after another, including the 2005 Rockets vs. Mavericks series that Chinese fans were most concerned about.

"In 2005, I was assigned to officiate the third game of the Mavericks VS Rockets series. Before the game, I was called to a meeting by league officials. They told us clearly that we should spare no effort to whistle for Yao Ming's single-block foul and inside walking errors. "

After the game, coach Van Gundy would publicly defend his disciples against injustice, saying that Yao Ming had become a target for referees. Later, the league fined Van Gundy $10 in order to cover up his embarrassment.

At that time, the Rockets led 2-0, but the Mavericks managed to comeback against the Rockets in 7 playoff games.

Donaghy once said that the reason why the league made such a decision was because Cuban, the owner of the Mavericks, found Stern with the video of whistleblowing Yao Ming at the time, thinking that the league was taking care of the Rockets, and according to the momentum of the Rockets at the time, it was likely It will sweep the opponent 4-0, which will make them lose the profits brought by the broadcast for the NBA.

Still at the beginning, the NBA is a commercial league, and the so-called sportsmanship cannot stand scrutiny.

Neither the NBA nor Stern have come forward to clarify Donaghy's remarks.This is nothing more than two explanations, one is to disdain to argue with him, and the other is to acquiesce.

Lu Yu is more willing to believe the latter, because the referee believes that his generation can still remember the various behaviors of the Rockets. I don’t know how many fans still remember the lonely looks on the faces of Yao Ming and McGrady after they were eliminated?
Speaking of it, I really feel worthless for the careers of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady, but they couldn't play their best games at their best age due to various reasons, and the last two were ruined by injuries.

In fact, many things in the alliance cannot stand scrutiny.

For example, Barkley kissed the ass of a donkey. How stupid is Barkley to deduce that Yao Ming can't score 19 points.

O'Neal also said that if any head coach can reach the Finals four times in five years, he would kiss the head coach's feet.

To be honest, he didn't kiss Cole's feet in the end, and everything was just to gain traffic.

Before David Stern's star-making project, the NBA used social issues to play the "race card" and built the century-old grievances between lifelong enemies Larry Bird and Magic Johnson-black and white.

In the NBA, whoever dares to racism is a capital offense, so although racism is everywhere, no one dares to publicly mock Lu Yu.

But the alliance quietly took advantage of racial antagonism to pull Big Bird and Magician to the opposite side.

Lu Yu also understood that David Stern wanted to use other people's scoring frenzy to cover up his sharpness, and he didn't mind being an invisible man at this time, after all, as long as the team can keep winning.

He also consciously reduced the number of interviews. Many media were shocked to find that the Phoenix Suns, who were once invincible at the beginning of the season, are now silent, and they can't even say a fart with a stick.

No matter who came, Lu Yu looked like a good man.

Every game, I can't wait to praise the opponents from the boss to the players, and even the aunt who sweeps the floor.

After learning about Lu Yu's performance, Stern was very satisfied. As long as Lu Yu didn't stop him from developing the league, he didn't care how romantic Lu Yu was. After all, there were many players in the league who liked to play with women, but everyone They all play quietly, and most of them play low-end goods, at most young models.

But Lu Yu is different, they are all big stars, or the team owner, who can bear it.

The ratings of the entire league have been ruined by him, can he still be beaten by others?

The most important thing is that after a season of hard work, the traffic flow was not earned, and the championship was taken away by this guy.

David Stern was also helpless.

In fact, last year, he thought about whether to control the finals, but he found that... he couldn't control it.

With the help of referees, he couldn't help the Lakers win last year. What can he do?
He is worried now that this year's Sun is in the same situation again.

(End of this chapter)