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Chapter 202 202. The Clippers Are Over
Chen Hanni said that it is not unreasonable for Liu Ren to be a fool. Even if Liu Ren puts aside the national team affairs and does not affect his emotions because of this matter, the attacks on him by the media and fans are still a troublesome matter. This will make Liu Ren become impatient.

But stupid people are really lucky. Before the attack on Liu Ren reached its peak, someone came out to help him block the storm of public opinion.

This "good guy" is Clippers owner Sterling.

The Clippers have been on fire recently. They have won 17 consecutive victories and they are the most watched team in the NBA. This time Liu Ren was criticized and did not overwhelm their enthusiasm. Everyone wants to see if the Clippers can win 18 consecutive victories. Winning, because 18 consecutive victories is a very magical hurdle. Except for the Rockets, all other teams that have won 18 consecutive victories won the championship that year!
The Clippers' lineup and coaching staff are all championship configurations, and the players are all healthy and in good condition. If they win 18 consecutive victories, they may immediately become the biggest favorites for the championship.

Therefore, every move of the Clippers is the focus of the sports world!
Now is the time when the Clippers are going smoothly. The right time, place and people are all in place. The Spurs and the Lakers have defeated them. The big market league in Los Angeles also hopes that they will win the championship. The players are in good condition and they have everything.

At this time, it is very difficult for others to do anything against the Clippers. It is difficult for a winning streak team to have any rumors that can interfere with them. For example, there were rumors that Griffin wanted to go to the Lakers before. Believe it, even if the Lakers played so badly last season, some people will believe it, but now absolutely no one will believe it. It can be said that the current Clippers have reached the level of invulnerability.

However, if it is their own death, then there is no way.

But this seemingly impossible thing really happened!
The conversation between Clippers owner Scott and his little girlfriend was exposed by recording!
On March 3, TMZ, the notorious paparazzi website, exposed a recording of a conversation between Sterling and his little girlfriend. The Clippers owner accused his girlfriend of posting a photo of him with a black friend on his personal webpage. On the Internet, he said that he hates black people, doesn't want to see black people appear in front of his eyes, and doesn't want black people to appear at his team's home court.

And Sterling said by name, "Especially don't see Magic Johnson come to the Staples Center to watch the game.

Sterling has the confidence to say this. He owns 30.00% of the Staples Center and is the private individual with the highest stake in the Staples Center. Although the value-added of this 30.00% of the shares is only 6000 million US dollars.

But now Sterling has made a big mistake. Racial discrimination is a very serious problem in the United States, and it is more serious than homicide in terms of public opinion!
70.00% of the players in the NBA are black. The Clippers have 10 blacks. Their core members are all black except for Redick, and even Redick is a staunch anti-racism member.

While Sterling was making money for the blacks to play hard, while talking about discrimination against blacks, the Clippers suddenly went from the peak to the brink of collapse!
Moreover, Magic Johnson is now the world's AIDS prevention ambassador. He is a rare pioneer who stubbornly cured AIDS after suffering from AIDS. Coupled with his high popularity in the United States, Sterling stabbed everyone basket.

Magic Johnson took the lead in issuing a statement that all his catering brands and hotel brands refused to receive Sterling and issued a strong condemnation.

Seeing the news about Sterling, Liu Ren knew that the Clippers were done for this year!
For a while, all the media aimed at Sterling. The local blacks in California quickly rushed to the Staples Center to march. A demonstration was also held in front of the NBA headquarters in New York, demanding the NBA to expel Sterling. Outside of the NBA, even a large number of anti-discrimination crowds gathered outside the Pentagon in Washington, the capital of the United States, demanding that Sterling be expelled from the United States.

The people in the United States are outraged, while other countries are watching the excitement. However, people in other countries are surprised that there are many white and yellow people among these demonstrators. These white and yellow people seem to be more excited than black people.

There are also problems within the Clippers. Rivers really wants the players not to be affected, and persuades them to separate basketball and racial issues.

But does this mean that if you separate, you will separate?
In the game between the Clippers and the Eagles that night, 4 Clippers players refused to play. Barnes, who had a bad temper, was of course one of them. According to gossip, he rushed directly to Sterling's office to beat someone, but Sterling ran away as soon as the recording was exposed, and returned to the heavily guarded Beverly Hills to hide.

The Clippers players, who suffered a huge psychological blow, were not in the mood to fight against the Eagles. From Paul to Powell at the end of the bench, they were not in the mood to play.

There were several anti-Sterling demonstrations by fans at the game site that night, and the local police station in Los Angeles sent [-] police officers to maintain order at the scene.

The Clippers' winning streak ended here, and they lost 70 points to the Eagles 110-40.

But now everyone's attention is not on the record of the Clippers themselves. Originally, most of the Clippers fans were mainly black working-class fans. Fans who had tickets for the game also refunded their tickets one after another, and those who did not refund their tickets were also ready to protest at the scene.

On March 3, the Clippers played the Mavericks back-to-back. Professional Clippers players still played, but none of them had the heart to play for the boss who discriminated against them.

The seats at the scene were empty, the attendance rate was less than [-]%, and the seats were scattered all over the seats, each holding a sign against Sterling.

The scene was very interesting. Hundreds of police officers surrounded the side seats and the aisles. The neat police team looked more visual than the fans.

The league urgently canceled the live broadcast of the game with major broadcasters to avoid further troubles.

Liu Ren turned off the TV and continued to read his favorite psychology books, which helped him a lot on the court.

He likes a sentence in Sun Tzu's Art of War the most: the best strategy is to attack the heart.He learned a lesson from his own personal experience this time, the wavering of belief has too much impact on a player!Obviously it is the same person, but if the heart is greatly affected and the belief is shaken, the performance on the field will be very different!
Liu Ren finally understood why Lawson, Odom and others suddenly fell down. They must have encountered something that shook their basketball beliefs.

Now he is researching this aspect, and is going to test it on the next opponent, maybe it will have a good effect.

It doesn't matter if you fail, his elementary school teacher said that reading more books will never do any harm.

The past two days have all been disasters for the Clippers. It has to be said that Liu Ren's current thinking is much different from how he viewed this matter when he was a fan in his previous life.In the past, he was watching the fun, but now Liu Ren only hates Sterling. This guy brought things that should not be linked to basketball to the NBA!

By March 3th, not only did things with the Clippers not subside, but they intensified!The Clippers fell into a deeper whirlpool of public opinion.

Liu Ren disliked Sterling, but the unlucky one was Paul. He felt sorry for Paul. This year, Paul was unlucky, but in the final analysis, this matter had little to do with him. What he cared more about was the next game against the Spurs!

(End of this chapter)