I'm good at basketball too

Chapter 66 Lift it up high, put it down gently

Chinese rookie Li Ran's performance on the court today directly detonated the sports circle.

Both Chinese fans and American fans are discussing this crazy rookie.

In his debut, he broke the NBA's rookie's debut scoring record. What's even more exciting is that he fought his opponent on the court the moment he broke the record.

He sent three of his opponents to the hospital by himself, and some people even called him the Bruce-Lee of the NBA.

Some people who are prejudiced against Chinese people say that people like Li Ran should not appear on the basketball court, but should appear in the octagonal cage of MMA.

The battered league president David Stern held a meeting overnight at the headquarters to discuss the solution to the conflict.

This matter is not difficult to deal with. Players are fighting. According to Stern's iron fist policy, this situation needs to be dealt with seriously.

But Li Ran showed a top potential beyond ordinary people. He scored 44 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in his debut.

What's more, behind him is the huge Chinese market of 13 billion people.

"Everyone tell me, what should we do about this?" Stern sat on the main seat, rubbing his brows, and said a little tiredly.

It was already late at night, and Stern, who was not young, couldn't bear it.

A bald man with a hideous face said as it should: "This situation should be severely punished. Price's injuries are serious, and he may even retire."

But the bald head's deputy, Mark Tatum, whose Chinese name is Tan Huimin, gave a different opinion.

"I think the blame is more on the home team, they turned this game into a dirty and bad game, I even thought I was watching a game in the 80s."

Stern closed his eyes.

Li Ran's troubles were not small, and most of the players from both teams participated in the brawl.

The Jazz's Price, Boozer and Okur were directly sent to the hospital by Li Ran, and Brewer was sent off for a second-degree malicious foul. The Jazz were almost useless in the next few games.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door in the silent office.

"Come in." Stern didn't look up, just whispered something.

An office worker from the alliance headquarters walked in with a few documents.

"Mr. President, several players and former players have expressed their opinions."

He put the document in front of Stern, and Stern lifted his spirits, picked up the document and read it.

"Kobe: I know Li Ran, he is a very hardworking and humble player, I think he is very similar to me."

The current alliance No.1 endorsed Li Ran without hesitation.

"Magic Johnson: I think there should be a tough confrontation on the court, but the Jazz's actions are obviously too much. I think of the days when I played."

The magician’s words even slapped Stern on the face. Stern has been promoting the non-violence of the NBA since he took office. Johnson’s statement is actually telling Stern, what have you done for more than 30 years? What happened?What was it like back then?

The third is even more heavyweight.

"Jordan: I think back to the days when I played against the Pistons. You know, I couldn't sleep because of the pain in my body every day after the game. But I still beat them."

This is to directly pull out the bad boy army back then. . .

Then Bird, Kerr, and even Olajuwon and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stood up.

Moreover, all of these people were speaking well of Li Ran.

Stern never expected that Li Ran would have relations with so many bigwigs.

"He's a rookie who just entered the league..."

To be honest, Li Ran still doesn't know how much the system paid those people for the summer training camp.

Even now, all of them stand up and endorse Li Ran.

The way of dealing with the first draft already in mind immediately disappeared in Stern's mind.

Stern is a typical Jewish businessman, as long as there is interest, he can do anything.

What's more, Li Ran's biggest supporters, those Huaxia fans, haven't spoken out yet, or in other words, their voices haven't reached the other side of the ocean.

"Okay, the meeting is over."

With a plan in mind, Stern pushed away his chair and stood up, speaking to his subordinates.

The subordinates look at me and I look at you, a little at a loss.

Late at night, the league came out with its handling of today's Jazz home clash.

The Jazz were fined $10 for restraining fans at home.

Fans who abused Li Ran were banned from entering the stadium for life, and reserved the right to investigate his racially discriminatory remarks.

Brewer was suspended for seven games and fined $7.

Price was suspended for five games and fined $5 for malicious actions.

Boozer, Okur, and Miles were suspended for three games and fined.

Kirilenko was suspended for one game and fined.

For the Nuggets, Li Ran was suspended for five games and fined.

Anthony, Billups, JR-Smith were suspended for three games and fined.

Others also have more or less fine penalties.

As soon as the punishment result came out, those people who were waiting to see Li Ran's excitement were dumbfounded.

At the same time, the league issued a circular.

"We have always been committed to keeping violence and malicious fouls away from the court. It is a pity that some unpleasant things happened to the fans in today's game. We will continue to increase our efforts to make the NBA better. Let it go..."

Li Ran, who had already returned to Denver, hung up the phone call from Ross and lay on the bed looking at the dark ceiling.

He doesn't know how many games he will be suspended for, but he has no regrets.

At this time, the phone rang again.

Li Ran picked it up and saw that it was Armstrong calling.

"The result of the punishment came out, and I was suspended for five games." Armstrong's tone was filled with joy, and he did not expect the league's punishment to be so light. "I heard that Michael and Kobe have both spoken good things about you."

Li Ran's hanging heart finally fell.

"Rest well these days, don't delay training! Go to bed early, don't think too much."

Armstrong comforted Li Ran for a while, and the two ended the call.

Li Ran was just about to go to bed, but found that his system space was flickering frantically.

He opened the space for the first time, but found that there was a big task floating in the space.

"Urgent task: Although the small moves on the court are disgusting, you can use them, but you can't!"

"In the next week, your training camp will be temporarily upgraded to an elite training camp, please cherish the opportunity."

Li Ran was overjoyed. He didn't know what the system was going crazy. After the cooling time passed, he entered the training camp immediately.

Just after entering the training camp, Li Ran found that it was different from before.

He was in a large stadium surrounded by wildly shouting fans.

"Okay guys, there is nothing to say, go on the field and kick the eggs of the people on the opposite side!"

Li Ran was dumbfounded when he looked at the spitting coach and his teammates.

Their coach is Auerbach, who has been dead for more than two years.

And his teammates. . .

Stockton, Dennis Rodman, Karl Malone.

The last person turned out to be Lambir. . .

(End of this chapter)