The first point guard in basketball

Chapter 309 Announcing retirement, detonating the entire league

Xiao Tian left the stadium, didn't go anywhere to vent, but returned home and plunged into the bathtub.

The rise of the Grizzlies this season.Last season, the Grizzlies defeated the Jazz in the playoffs, allowing the Rockets to take the Bulls and win the championship. This was all foreshadowing, because Jordan was a superstar fully molded by Godfather in the true sense. Originally, this person could win three consecutive championships and then retire. But no one thought that an Asian would change everything.

The NBA is not a very mainstream sport in the United States. It has always been dominated by blacks and whites. Yellow Asians can win the All-Star votes, but championships and regular season MVPs are not easy for them to get. Unless their strength is really extraordinary, it is much higher than whites and blacks.

The All-Stars are a joke, and it doesn't matter if the top ticket starts or something, but the championship and mvp are the most intuitive things to measure a player. There are less than 20 games left in this season. Xiao Tian will definitely get the mvp if there is no accident, and there is no chance in the finals. Judging from the regular season against the Bulls, the Bulls may not be able to limit the opponent.

This is very likely to completely wipe out Jordan's second three-peat. In order to prevent this from happening, he let Joey Crawford take the shot.

There are two big mad dogs under Godfather S, the first is Joey Crawford, and the second is Tim Donaghy, but the latter is not as blatant as Joey Crawford yet.

After soaking in the bathtub for a while, Xiao Tian finally figured it out. Since Godfather Si is about to make a move, he can't take it passively, can he?According to the opponent's urine, he will definitely suspend himself, so that the Bulls' best record in the regular season will not be broken. This is Jordan's last fig leaf.

Jordan has already lost a championship because of himself. Maybe he can get another mvp this season, but without a championship, his influence is definitely not comparable to that of his previous life.

Xiao Tian has already figured out what to do next. Retire and stay away from the NBA for the time being. Anyway, the NBA will be suspended next season. These bad things will all be together. Let’s see how Stern plays. Although he doesn’t have any personal honors now, his influence is no worse than Jordan’s. Except for the basketball court, Jordan is not even qualified to give himself shoes in other fields.

And the most important thing is that I can carry out systematic training during my retirement, and the speed training has slowed down again.

In this game, because of Xiao Tian's departure, the Grizzlies naturally lost. The next morning, Godfather Si immediately announced the punishment for Xiao Tian, ​​who was suspended for 5 games.And referee Joey Crawford was fine.

The announcement was just made at the NBA headquarters, and Xiao Tian also held a press conference. Although he is a celebrity, he rarely holds a press conference because he doesn't need to hype at all.

"Thank you all for coming to my press conference. Here I want to announce something. For some reason, I am leaving the stadium. Goodbye, everyone." Xiao Tian got up and bowed to the sports reporters, and left immediately. The reporters in the audience were all in a daze, retired?This season Xiao Tian has the hope of winning his first mvp, or even the championship, so he's retiring?

The news of Xiao Tian's retirement swept the entire basketball world at once. Jason was the one who was the most excited, "You guy, are you out of your mind? You asked me to use one-third of your assets to buy the team. Now that you say you're going to retire, you're going to retire. Are you stupid? But even if you retire, you're not suitable for playing basketball at all."

Nima, I have already retired. You don’t comfort me, but you still gloat. Is this still a child who grew up together?
When Xiao Tian retired, apart from Jason who was more surprised, there was another person who was more surprised, and that person was the instigator of this incident——David Stern.

Godfather Si thought that Xiao Tian left the stadium so calmly, and he could follow up on the warning that he couldn't play in these five games, but what he didn't expect was that he actually announced his retirement directly?Mom sells batches, what are you kidding, this guy is a sophomore, why should he retire so early.

Stern began to have a headache. Although Xiao Tian was a spoiler in his own eyes, his personal influence was not lost to the No. 1 Jordan in the league. But how many more seasons could Jordan play?It is an indisputable fact that the next season will be suspended. Xiao Tian chooses to retire at this time, and his mother is a critic, so he will still be in trouble next season.Who still watches the NBA?

"Adam, go and ask Heaven, what does this guy think? Why did he say he retired?" David Stern knew very well that in the Eastern Market, Xiao Tian had several times more fans than Jordan, because many of them were fans of his books and movies, and he was even more sought after because he was of Asian descent. Now that he retired, it would certainly be a loss for the NBA, and it would not be small. Why does the NBA carry out global promotion? Isn't it because basketball can't reach the No. 1 mainstream sport in the United States?
Adam Silver didn't move, there was only a wry smile on his face, "We can't find him at all, where to go to tell, and there are already a large number of fans flocking to Joey Crawford's house, and there are many people gathered outside our headquarters now."

In addition to gloating in Stu Jackson's heart, he felt sorry for the Grizzlies. Finally, when they really rose, Godfather Stu will take action immediately. I hope that the Grizzlies will not sink.

Without Xiao Tian, ​​the Grizzlies have turned from a championship team into a playoff team. Although Xiao Tian's scoring this season has shrunk somewhat, Madison Square Garden's 63 points have proved his own ability. He is not not scoring, but giving up opportunities to his teammates.

Stern really didn't know what to do. Last season, because of the Jazz's racial discrimination, Xiao Tian was asked to strike a few games. He thought that this time, he would just let it go, but he actually retired directly, leaving no room for himself as the president. What should he do now? Although Jordan is still No.1 in the league, Xiao Tian has completely surpassed him in popularity.Now 60.00% of Xiao Tian's fans are fans of his movies and books, which is not a small base at all.

Godfather Si began to regret it. What he regretted was not the deal with Xiao Tian, ​​but the lost dollars and credibility. The league’s repeated targeting of Xiao Tian also showed a problem. The status of Asians in the Western world is still very low. Even if there are more than 70.00% Asians like Xiao Tian, ​​they will still be treated unfairly on the court.

(End of this chapter)