The day after the game, the Suns players went directly back to Phoenix.
But Lu Yu made headlines, not because he scored a triple-double of 60 in the Christmas Day game, but because he was photographed by reporters eating in a restaurant with the new Bulls boss.
If it weren't for the news about Lu Yu having dinner with Jessica, his 60 triple-double would definitely occupy the headlines. After all, this is a historical level of data, enough to disdain the entire league.
But who is Jessica?
The new owner of the Bulls is one of the most beautiful owners in the league.
Suddenly, the scandal about Lu Yu and the new boss of the Bulls was in love. Of course, Lu Yu was responsible for this. Sooner or later, the relationship between Jessica and him would be exposed, so it was better to create a love 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.
This has never happened before. After all, most of the league team owners are men. It is really difficult for players to fall in love with their owners.
Someone soon discovered that Jessica and Lu Yu were 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.
To deceive others?
But everyone checked Jessica's assets and found that the source of funds was entirely from her own company.
When Lu Yu planned to buy the team, he had already purchased many assets in Jessica's name.
As for wooing the consortium to buy the team, it was all done by Jessica herself. Lu Yu just asked Ma Huateng to help introduce a few people. Lao Ma would definitely not tell the outside world, so no one in the United States knew about Jessica at all.
relationship with oneself.
Some people suspect it, but no evidence can be found.
They could only make up random news. These news reached the ears of NBA President Stern. He first asked someone 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 in his heart.
But worries are worries, even if it is true, he will not reveal it, because Lu Yu is now the face of the alliance, let alone it is fake news, he will not pay attention to it.
Looking at the news, there are photos of Lu Yu and Jessica talking and laughing while eating.
If Lu Yu really falls in love with Jessica, how should he deal with it?
There are no regulations in the league that players cannot fall in love with team owners. What's more, in this country where love is free, if we have to regulate even this, isn't it a bit too lenient?
At noon that day, Lu Chaoyang saw the photo of Jessica and Lu Yu having dinner on the news, and couldn't help but laugh. His son was so shrewd that he had to plan everything in advance.
Sure enough, it took less than two days.
Lu Yu stood up and spoke out: "I and the owner of the Bulls are just ordinary friends. It's normal to have dinner and chat together. The other party regrets trading me out. It's too late to regret it now."
Jessica also accepted an interview with the media: "Lu Yu is right. After buying the team, the thing I regretted most was trading Lu Yu. If there is a chance, I would like to bring Lu Yu back personally."
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It's just that the media doesn't know the way she used her personal words.
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? Friends in bed?"
During this period, Lu Yu's scandals have continued, and news about women such as Anne Hathaway and Charlize Theron has emerged one after another. Fans can no longer tell who Lu Yu is dating.
In an instant, Lu Yu changed from his previous single persona to a well-known playboy in the league.
Every time when the visiting team plays, there will be cheerleaders who will take the initiative to leave their phone numbers, and many celebrities will also take the initiative to contact Lu Yu and request interaction.
For example, Kim Kardashian is only 24 years old now. However, the current Kardashian is not very technological, so she does not look good. Of course, even if she is 40 years old, Lu Yu cannot find her.
What's so good about it.
It can only be said that aesthetics differ from person to person.
Anyway, in the end, only Monica was not exposed for Lu Yu, and the other women also knew that this was because Monica had already given birth to Lu Yu's daughter.
Theron went to check it secretly, but came back disappointed.
She decided that every time in the future, she would pester Lu Yu and never let go of any opportunity to conceive a child.
Among the women, only Anne seemed to be the calmest.
She seems to prefer making movies.
In fact, it's because she loves Lu Yu so much that sometimes she can't accept it. At most, she can accept being with Theron. After all, she regards Theron as a sister.
The NBA has a shortcoming, that is, the schedule is too tight, but this is also an advantage for Lu Yu, because he has too many girlfriends. If he takes care of everyone 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 too much attention to it. The media is not interested in other teams, other players, and games in the league.
Tracy McGrady also scored 60 points a few days ago, but no one reported it. Kobe Bryant scored 45 in four consecutive games, and no one paid attention.
Put together with Lu Yu's news, these are not important at all.
NBA Commissioner David Stern realized that this was not going to work. If it continued like this, the ratings of the game would plummet. With everyone paying attention to Lu Yu, who would still watch the game?
Fortunately, Lu Yu was very sensible and calmed down immediately when he saw the limelight rising.
This makes David Stern very satisfied.
In fact, how did he know that Lu Yu was just trying to plant a vaccine for the fans. An introduction was enough, and he didn't have to make big news. And if he really wanted to make big news, who else in the entire NBA would be better than him?
Is there traffic?
In the following games, Lu Yu also kept a low profile, scoring 20 or 30 points in a game and that was it.
He won't be too ostentatious.
If Lu Yu is too ostentatious and attracts all the traffic to himself, then although he will be popular in the end, it will be the NBA that will be destroyed.
Lu Yu hasn't won the championship yet, so there is no benefit in destroying the NBA.
Of course, this also made Lu Yu realize the power of traffic. By mastering the traffic, he can easily influence the trends of the alliance.
This approach is a bit like Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period. Even though he was silent at first, after he completely grasped people's hearts, he was able to influence the general trend of the world.
David Stern was also very smart and told the referees to take care of the top scorers like Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Carter, Iverson and Arenas when they were officiating.
Let a few of them score high points in every game.
If they break the league's scoring records one after another, or if someone has ten consecutive 40 games, then their strength will be recognized by the fans.
Even if they are beaten to tears by Lu Yu in the playoffs, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter anymore. Even if they are beaten, they still have ratings. It won't be too late to go back and criticize Lu Yu.
In fact, the NBA is sometimes controlled by the league, but it is not stated openly.
After all, David Stern hated spinach in games, but what he didn't know was that after he left office, spinach was quickly popularized as a joke.
As for David Stern's game manipulation, it's actually more often about ratings.
For example, the Western Conference Finals between the Kings and Lakers mentioned before.
I won’t go into details here.
In fact, there was another incident, the time in Lu Yu's previous life, in 2005, when Yao Ming and the Rockets were hacked, and it was also due to 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 "league manipulation" have been heard endlessly, but no one would stand up to admit these, so in the end they were ignored.
However, this situation has been changing after an NBA referee who once participated in betting was investigated. During the investigation and prison sentence, he exposed a lot of shocking information, including the whole story of the "hacking" of the Rockets playoffs in 2005.
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The referee involved in betting is called Donaghy, a senior referee who has coached in the NBA for thirteen years. The famous "Auburn Palace Incident" was the game he officiated.
The Donaghy referee also has a deep connection with China, because he served as a referee in the CBA for 7 seasons before officiating in the NBA.
Originally, Donaghy had the potential to become a high-level referee in the Chinese league, but contrary to expectations, he became a negative example for NBA referees.
In 2007, New York Post columnist Maury Weiss reported on the FBI's investigation into allegations that NBA referees engaged in betting and manipulating the spread of games.
The article revealed that Donaghy had participated in gambling and fixing games on many occasions. At the same time, he was also exposed to gambling plans in lower-level leagues.
Relevant sources revealed that Donaghy was addicted to gambling and was in debt. He had to help himself pay off his debts through gambling.
In 2010, after being released from prison, Donaghy pointed the finger at Stern and exposed a lot of "violent information" one after another, including the 2005 Rockets vs. Mavericks series that Chinese fans are most concerned about.
"I was assigned to officiate Game 3 of the Mavericks vs. Rockets series in 2005. Before the game, I was summoned to a meeting by league officials. They clearly told us that we must spare no effort to call Yao Ming's single-block moving fouls and interior walking errors.
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After the game, coach Van Gundy publicly defended his disciple, saying that Yao Ming had become a target of the referee. Later, in order to cover up his shame, the league fined Van Gundy $100,000.
The Rockets led 2-0 at the time, but the Mavericks incredibly managed to overturn the Rockets in 7 playoff games.
Donaghy once said that the reason why the league made such a decision was because Mavericks owner Cuban found Stern with the video of the whistleblower against Yao Ming. He believed that the league was taking care of the Rockets, and based on the momentum of the Rockets at the time, it was very likely that
It will sweep the opponent 4-0, which will cause the NBA to lose the profits brought by the broadcast.
As I said at the beginning, the NBA is a business league, and the so-called sportsmanship cannot withstand scrutiny.
Neither the NBA nor Stern came forward to clarify Donaghy's remarks. This is nothing more than two explanations, one is that they disdain to argue with him, and the other is acquiescence.
Lu Yu is more willing to believe that it is the latter, because I believe that his generation can still remember the various actions of the referees against the Rockets. I wonder how many fans still remember the lonely looks on the faces of Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady after they were eliminated?
Speaking of which, I really feel that the careers of Yao Ming and McGrady are not worth it. They were unable to play their best games due to various reasons at their best years. In the end, both of them were ruined by injuries.
In fact, many things in the alliance cannot withstand scrutiny.
For example, Barkley kissed a donkey's ass. How stupid must Barkley be to deduce that Yao Ming cannot score 19 points. Even a garbage fighter in the league can score this score even if he breaks out in any game.
O'Neal also said that if any head coach can reach the finals four times in five years, he will kiss the head coach's feet.
To be honest, he didn't kiss Cole's feet in the end, it was all just to gain traffic.
Before David Stern's star-making plan, the NBA used social issues to play the "race card" and created the grudge of the century between lifelong enemies Larry Bird and Magic Johnson - a black and white double evil.
In the NBA, anyone who dares to racially discriminate is punishable by death, so although racial discrimination is everywhere, no one dares to openly mock Lu Yu.
But the alliance secretly used racial antagonism to draw Big Bird and Magician into opposing sides.
Lu Yu also understood that David Stern wanted to use other people's scoring frenzy to cover up his own sharpness. He didn't mind being an invisible man at this time, after all, as long as the team could keep winning.
He also consciously reduced the number of interviews. Many media outlets were shocked to find that the Phoenix Suns, who were once all-powerful at the beginning of the season, were now tight-lipped and couldn't even beat a fart with a stick.
No matter who comes, Lu Yu always looks like a good gentleman.
In every game, I want to praise my opponents, from the boss to the players, and even the aunt who sweeps the floor.
After Stern learned about Lu Yu's performance, he was extremely satisfied. As long as Lu Yu didn't block his development in 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 the people they play with are low-end goods, at most they are young models.
But Lu Yu is different. They are all big stars. If not the team owner, who can bear this?
The ratings of the entire league have been ruined by him. Do you still want to beat him?
The most important thing is that after working hard for a season, I didn't earn any traffic, and the championship was taken away by this guy.
David Stern is also very helpless.
In fact, last year, he thought about whether to control the finals, but he found that... he couldn't control it.
Even the help of referees couldn't help the Lakers win last year. What can he do?
He is now worried that the sun will be like this again this year.
