Buddha's light illuminates NBA

Chapter 115 The first off-court storm will start

Back at the hotel, Lu Ming was exhausted.

This exhaustion, four days and three away games accounted for part of it.

The other part was naturally caused by the sudden suspicion of illegal drugs.

Although on the surface, Barkley is the fuse of this matter.

But Lu Ming couldn't blame the other party. First, this guy was still Lu Chui's vanguard. Second, he also explained and sincerely apologized after the game, and expressed his attitude.

What's more, such doubts were actually expected by Lu Ming.

It's just early and late.

But after the end of the last game of the three-game streak, it was what made him even more exhausted physically and mentally.

After talking on the phone with Youya for a while, she felt that Lu Ming was not in a good mood, and she didn't know what happened, so she just told Lu Ming to rest early, "Go to rest early, must be very tired these days? When you come back, I will accompany you, okay?"

"Well, good. You also go to bed earlier."

"Good night then?"

"Good night."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Ming was still not in high spirits.

Before returning, I had already asked the official spokesperson of the team what the league's attitude was.

The response was, no response.

No response is the best attitude.

However, he has already told Lu Ming that New York is ready to hold a press conference after the Knicks return.

"We can't, let our super rookie be bullied, right? Don't forget, the boss has his own media. If he wants to bully us, then we have to see if his fists are hard enough!" Donnie Walsh even made a special call and said domineeringly.

"What if it's hard enough?" Lu Ming asked jokingly.

"Then beat it, I don't believe they are willing to give up an arm just because you are a small rookie!" Donnie Walsh said.

The implication is that no matter what the alliance does or does not do, they are all on Lu Ming's side, believing and supporting their rookies "without a bottom line".

If you fight hard, you will not die, but you will make the other party hurt.

What can Lu Ming say?

I can only express my gratitude and cooperate actively.

In the hotel, other players came to Lu Ming's room after putting down their things.

But they were all boys, and everyone was silent for a while, not knowing how to start.

What was supposed to be a victory that needed to be celebrated with a party was a bit of a bummer when it happened.

"It's so irritating! It's all due to Barkley, the guy with the big mouth!"

Milicic was very angry, and then looked at Lu Ming, "Boss, how about, the next time we meet Barkley, we don't care about 21, [-], and beat him up first?"

"Come on, you have to be able to beat him." David Li Bai gave Milicic a look.

Who is Buckley?

That was a man who dared to be tough on Shaquille O'Neill without losing the wind.

One butt can break your pelvis, just ask you believe it or not?

Milicic smiled embarrassingly, and raised his hands in surrender, "I just want to liven up the atmosphere first, there's no need to be so serious, right?"

"Let's talk about this seriously first. Barkley has already apologized to me after the game, and he was purely unintentional. What's more, what he said in the commentary was not what the reporter thought later. Besides, it might not have happened without him." Lu Ming set the tone first.

"At the end of the day, some people just don't like you. We've made it this far, and we've been missed. You didn't see the face of that white reporter. I really wanted to punch him!" Al Harrington, who performed well tonight, was also indignant.

"How about we take the initiative to call the testing staff to come, and then give him a bucket of urine each? We people, one counts as one, and we guarantee that the amount will be full!" Tony Douglas said suddenly.

A rookie is a rookie, if you don't talk, you are done, and you are amazing when you make a sound.

"Haha!" Thinking of that scene, everyone laughed unkindly.

After laughing, Lu Ming's depressed mood improved a little, and he was very moved. At this moment, everyone stood on his side, squeezed out a smile and said, "Thank you for your concern. This situation was actually expected, but it happened at the wrong time, and it delayed everyone's interest."

"Boss, if you say that, you don't think of us as brothers!" Milicic said immediately.

"That's right, boss, we are brothers!" Gallinari didn't perform very well in these two games, probably because he received his own "rookie wall", and when he heard Lu Ming blame himself, he also opened his mouth.

"Lu, although you are a rookie and the pronunciation of the word "boss" is weird, I recognized you early in the morning." Du Hong patted Lu Ming on the shoulder and said.

Seeing that everyone was going to line up to speak, Lu Ming was afraid that the plot would be too watery, so he quickly explained, "Okay, brothers, I just said something wrong, sorry."

"Oh, that's right!" Tony Douglas first acted with a "children can teach" expression.

At this time, Chris Duhon said suddenly, "Lu, what did you mean when you said just now that this kind of groundless accusation has been expected for a long time?"

"It's very simple."

Lu Ming spread his hands and said with a smile, "If you weren't teammates with me, would you trust a Chinese player to perform like this?"

After Lu Ming said that, everyone nodded silently.

Indeed, as a rookie, Lu Ming's performance was a bit too explosive.

It's the same as having a plug-in in the game.

Even the one from Cleveland, in his rookie season, just made everyone feel that this kid is so terrifying, that he has the real number one pick, and the appearance of a little emperor, that's all.

So David Lee said with a smile, "Lu, let alone a Chinese player, even if he is an American player, no one would believe that he could hit two triple-doubles in his rookie season, one 40+ and one 50+, right? Of course, those mythical beasts from ancient times are not counted."

So everyone agreed with this statement.

Then he sighed in the string of numbers, it turns out that Lu Ming is already so awesome.

"That's right, so voices of doubt will definitely appear, but we haven't heard it before. Barkley just mentioned something today, so it's not surprising that some people follow suit." Lu Ming said, full of helplessness.

But at the same time, he also had to rejoice that this was 09, not earlier.

Last year's Olympic Games made China appear in front of the world in an all-round way for the first time, and it also made many people realize for the first time that China is not the poor and backward country that they always thought it was.

Even some people who have been to BJ and other cities only during the Olympic Games are already wondering whether China is still a developing country?

Yes!

Believe it or not, we have always been, a developing country anyway!

Therefore, except for those diehards, except for those pugs who followed Big Brother America with their eyes closed, China's national image in the world has been greatly improved.

People from all over the world have begun to learn about China.

Then, get to know the people of this country.

But around 08, especially after that, the development of China, which is in line with the world, is rapid and has exploded with amazing power!

Therefore, Lu Ming, who entered the NBA this year, enjoyed the dividends brought about by the strengthening of the country and the improvement of the country's image. In Yi Jianlian's words, it is not an exaggeration for him to enjoy [-]% of the dividends of entering the NBA.

As a result, he has a relatively benign playing environment.

As for being handsome and playing the ball beautifully, that's just icing on the cake.

Don't you see, Xiao Lebang, young and mature, is famous.

Don't you see, King James, the referee's whistle almost blew for a defense of six expressions.

Closer to home.

At this time, Gallinari suddenly put forward a hypothesis in a very unique way, "What about the players in the future? Even if they are capable, they still have to survive in their rookie season, and it is reasonable to make progress step by step? However, geniuses will always appear."

"That's right! Like O'Neal, like Duncan, who didn't become a big killer as soon as they entered the league? Why didn't they hang out for a year or two?" Tony followed up.

"Unreasonable means unreasonable. This is the universal norm of the world." Milicic suddenly philosophized.

Seeing that the topic was about to go deeper, Lu Ming quickly stopped, "It's getting late, everyone, go back and rest. I'm going back to New York tomorrow, and there's still a press conference to attend to. It's probably possible. Most of you will show up."

"Hey, great!" Milicic shook his fist.

Others also expressed things like "don't worry, we will stand behind you when the time comes", "curse that reporter to death", "boycott the ***".

Then, after everyone left, only Lu Ming was left in the room.

I was a little hungry and wanted to order a takeaway from the hotel. After thinking about it, it would always be troublesome if I ate something that I shouldn't eat, so I gave up.

"They won't engage in sneak attacks, will they?"

After sitting for a while, Lu Ming got up and wanted to go to the bathroom. He suddenly thought of the incidents of illegal drug testing encountered by some players outside the United States, especially those in the non-American pug circle. He couldn't help hesitating.

In case, as Bolt said, the urine test came early tomorrow morning, and the result couldn't get a drop, then the situation would be serious.

To say that you refuse to cooperate is an understatement.

Do you want to bear it?
I'm so bored!
So with this kind of worry and irritability, Lu Ming had a sleepless night and slept until dawn.

Boom boom boom!
Early in the morning, Lu Ming was not woken up by peeing, but by knocking on the door.

Maoyan saw that there was actually a group of people, except for the first three people who were his own people, and the others were unknown.

Among the three, Brother Chun Hall was in the middle.

"It's been a night, so you're here?" Lu Ming put on his clothes in doubt, and opened the door to let people in.

"Lu, this is the inspection team sent by the alliance. All the documents have been checked, and there is no problem. Let's cooperate with them." Hall said, with a displeased expression on his face.

"Thanks for your hard work, you came here overnight." I just spoke on the phone last night. At that time, Hall was still in New York, and he showed up in Denver early this morning. This agent is quite qualified.

"What's the hard work, I'm just running errands. By the way, you just woke up and didn't go to the bathroom, right?" Hall smiled after receiving an affirmative answer, and then said to the staff, "Okay, let's go to work quickly. Lu, you can also confirm."

After some procedures were completed, it was finally time for Lu Ming to open the gate and release the water.

"Lu, don't be nervous, this is just a process. Before coming, the president told you that he believes in you." The leader said.

It's saying, no matter what, the president makes sure you enjoy basketball.

"Uh, then I have to ask you, thank you Mr. President for me." Lu Ming was stunned and said.

"Haha, let's talk about this when you have a chance to meet him in person. That's fine, let's stop chatting, and prepare to let the water go."

"No problem. Maybe a bit much, though."

"..."

The staff member took a strange look at Lu Ming, "It's enough for testing. Why, you still want to take a bucket of urine for us to take back? Lu, let me tell you solemnly, we are the testing agency of the alliance, not the toilet agency!"

This is awkward!
"Haha!" Lu Ming smiled to cover up his embarrassment.

It's all Tony's fault, this guy actually wants to give them a bucket each, so that they can fill up with a large amount!
It turned out that I just took a small amount and took more, and packed it to take back.

After the incident, Lu Ming watched them seal up the samples. After seeing off the group of people, he hurried to the bathroom and opened the gate to release the water.

To be honest, the process of sampling just now was a bit uncomfortable.

It's like the reservoir is almost full, but only one gate is opened to release water with a small flow rate, and then two gates are opened and then closed, and then two gates are opened and then closed again, and so on four times.

That taste, don't mention how uncomfortable it is.

If there is no breach, it means that the project quality is good.

After the testing process was over, I washed up and had breakfast in the hotel. I really didn't want to go out.

After dinner, take the bus to the airport and fly to New York.

The three-game away game ended and I was finally able to go home.

"Lu, this incident is a wake-up call for us. Although I don't want to admit it, racial discrimination is common and deeply rooted in the United States, a country with freedom of speech. Therefore, we must always guard against those with ulterior motives." Hall has been restless since last night.

Sitting on the plane is even more uncomfortable.

It's not that he doesn't trust Lu Ming, but that he doesn't trust those media and reporters.

As a mixed race of black and white, Hall himself has lived in the United States for so many years, and he feels the most about discrimination.

"However, this kind of thing is impossible to prevent." Lu Ming reminded Hall.

"That has to be guarded against. Absolutely not, do nothing, right? However, you only need to play well. Leave the rest to us. And I don't think the Knicks will let you be suspected for no reason."

After Hall finished speaking, he gave Lu Ming another reassurance, "Also, the sneaker contract has basically been finalized. Take a look. If there is no problem, get off the plane and I will notify them and meet up sometime."

"Are you in such a hurry?" Lu Ming took the contract and read it carefully. The number 698 was not too unexpected.

In the end, what was given to Lu Ming was the contract of the three sneakers. It seemed that they had been negotiated, and they were all 6 million US dollars for 9800 years, which was less than [-] million.

However, there are also a series of incentives, plus signature shoes and the like, for a rookie, um, a super rookie from China, it's not bad.

"Of course they are in a hurry! The results of the first round of the All-Star voting will be out in half a month. If you get a few more triple-doubles and a few more 30+40+50+ before then, they won't be able to bid." Hall rolled his eyes at Lu Ming.

However, when it comes to this price, everyone has reached the extreme.

Even if Lu Ming really performed explosively again, basically there would be no change.

But signing the contract one day earlier can start selling shoes one day earlier, and the payment can be paid back one day earlier, so why not do it.

"It's the press conference in the morning, so I probably won't have time to meet them. Let's make an appointment in the afternoon. There are some conditions that need to be clarified in person." Lu Ming put down the contract and said.

"It should be so." Hall nodded, holding back his excitement.

After negotiating the contract of the big head of sneakers, the share he gets is enough for him to run rampant in front of other agents.

As for other contracts, "Hey, hey!"

Brother Chun laughed.

"..." Lu Ming glanced at him and shook his head helplessly.

Then he leaned back in his chair and began to prepare for the questions that would arise at the press conference.

This is a turmoil. After he came to the NBA, it was the first real off-court turmoil. If he can't handle it well, it is very likely that he will be with him for a long time.

Even, possibly an entire career.

After all, the black spot of taking illegal drugs is really too dark.

two cases.

The first situation is that there is no problem with the test result, then you are still a hero.

The second situation is to find out something, then you are a bear.

But what Lu Ming encountered was the third situation, which was the most troublesome.

Because the results of the urine test cannot come out immediately!
Then, after the plane landed, it was difficult to guess what problems Lu Ming would encounter at the press conference.

(End of this chapter)