Chapter 706 [Big Era]
Because of his different skin color and style of play, no one has ever said that Wang Jun is Jordan's successor, but he embarked on a path similar to Jordan and announced his retirement at his peak.
David Stern looked like he was sitting on pins and needles after watching the press conference in the office, and his middle finger seemed to be erected at him.
In NBA, Stern has always been the sky, but now he has stood up to be a fierce man. How can he not be surprised? How can he not be angry?
Adam Xiao Hua was even more embarrassed. The president asked him to discuss the press conference with Ryan Hughes. He was not very attentive. His inertial thinking made him feel that this was just a few words. The players would definitely apologize instead of facing everyone.
Now Wang Jun taught everyone a lesson.
Never underestimate madmen, because they have a different worldview from normal people.
The few people in the office were silent for a while and didn't speak.
Now that things have come to this point, it is irreversible. The NBA will encounter the biggest trust crisis in history, much worse than when Jordan retired for the first time.
Fans have heard of various reasons for Jordan's first retirement, such as his father's death, dreams, gambling, etc.
Only a few officials in the league knew that there were two reasons for Jordan's real retirement. One was the development needs of the NBA league itself, and the other was the very serious "racial discrimination" between blacks and whites at that time.
In the early 1990s, the problem of racial discrimination in the United States was very serious, and blacks and whites could be said to be incompatible. Even street basketball is the same. Whites only play basketball with whites, and blacks only play with blacks. Both sides will have bloody conflicts to compete for the venue. This is reflected in many American movies.
The NBA League itself is in a recession and is only the fourth movement in the United States. The main reason is "racial discrimination". The NBA League is mainly composed of blacks, and the strongest star is blacks, so a large number of whites do not buy it, but whites are richer than blacks.
It is precisely for the above two considerations that the NBA League, relevant American departments and Jordan reached a tripartite agreement: Jordan joined the American Professional Baseball League under the Bulls boss, leaving basketball but not leaving the media's attention. This is the real reason why Jordan retired.
If Jordan could rule the baseball stadium back then, basketball fans would definitely not see his comeback, which would be a good story.
Wang Jun did not say hello to the league or to the Bulls management after retirement, and he acted as "I have the final say" and stopped playing with the Americans on a whim.
This is called killing the master's tutor by random punches, and the entire interest group is collectively confused. It would be fine if Wang Jun was a black or a white man, but he was a Chinese.
This is not racial discrimination within the United States, it has risen to an international incident. The NBA's discrimination against foreign players has been unveiled. As hard as Stern has no way to deal with it.
The Bulls fans were all unhappy. This incident alarmed the Chicago Chinese Association and held a demonstration. For three consecutive days, the whole of Chicago seemed to be declaring the Bulls management.
Bull boss Reinsdorf brought manager Paxson and scolded him in a sarcasm.
"How did you become a manager? Wang Jun is in a bad mood. You didn't notice that you were so resentful to the management? What should I do now?"
Paxson had to bear it, there was no way. He and Wang Jun had no pleasure in their recent communications. Wang Jun made it clear that life was more important than work, and he even got angry.
As soon as Wang Jun announced his retirement, those who complained that he couldn't fight were calm. This showed his determination. He really loved his sister and his family was more important than everything.
Putting aside tens of millions of dollars and not making a frown, what can fans say for such a sentimental person? It is much cuter than a boss with only money and interests in his cold-blooded eyes.
China's reaction was even stronger. A group of angry fans surrounded the headquarters of the Basketball Association. At this time, Director Zhang would definitely be beaten to death if he dared to show his head. Someone else peed on his body and whipped the body.
Some fans played the banner of "Dissolve the Basketball Association" and waved their flags and shouted. The matter was on the CCTV News Network, domestic news headlines, not just sports news.
After three days, even the Chairman was alarmed, and everyone in Director Zhang and his team were beaten to the end.
Director Zhang didn't even have the chance to be an ordinary person. The Discipline Inspection Commission conducted a thorough investigation and there were very few clean ones of him at this level. Once the investigation was investigated, something happened. All the past history was revealed and he went straight to prison and squatted.
It doesn’t matter if you behead your head, as long as you are real, you will kill Director Zhang and later generations.
It is difficult to find players who can play NBA, and there are too many people who can be the leader of the Basketball Association. Anyway, they are all ball blind, so who will play differently?
The only Chinese who can establish a dynasty in the NBA three consecutive championships is Wang Jun. As a unique star, online fans believe that the penalty for the Basketball Association is considered light. In ancient times, nine clans were killed. After that, they had to erect a bronze statue on the ground to spit. That's right, it was Qin Hui's treatment...
For several days, Wang Jun was on the headlines, and the effect of retirement was fermenting.
The overall NBA ratings plummeted by 34%, and there is still a trend of continuing to decline, which is likely to reach 40% in the playoffs. Chinese fans are angry, and many people say that Wang Jun will not watch NBA if he doesn't come back.
NBA was hit hard. When broadcasting the Bulls game live, commentator McBrien sighed: "NBA's peak period has passed, and she suddenly fell from heaven to hell."
"Magician" Johnson commented: "When the Donasi football betting incident broke out, it should attract the attention of the league and strictly regulate the referees' behavior rather than letting them act recklessly. This disaster could have been avoided."
Advertisers terminate contracts, especially many Chinese merchants stop cooperating, and media interests are damaged. NBA can only continue to do the fourth movement in the United States. The development in recent years has been ruined.
The basketball world is not the only one that has been affected. Some superstitious Americans suspect that Wang Jun was a god who came to earth, and the whole of the United States is following in trouble.
In August 2008, the stock prices of two major U.S. mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mae plummeted, and financial institutions holding "two-house" bonds suffered large losses. The US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve were forced to take over the "two-house" to solve the problem.
Unfortunately, some moderate protection policies did not work. By December, the United States still had a full-scale financial crisis and began to trigger a world economic crisis.
By the end of the month, several major economies in the world were dragged into the water.
Wang Jun retired and the global stock market plummeted, and all these things came together. He was frustrated on the court and was proud of Wall Street. The stocks had long been cleared with Xia Baowen, and luckily escaped the stock market crash.
Now he can stand upright with his chest like Ding Cai, "A good man deceives heaven or not." "Everyone is dead, but I am not dead."
Wang Jun is not without allies. Nike sent someone to negotiate with him and proposed a long-term contract that remained unchanged. Wang Jun had no endorsement fees and did not shoot advertisements during this period of rest. It was required by the league and could continue to cooperate in the future when he made a comeback.
Nike stood firmly on Wang Jun's side. The boss had seen strong storms and was good at judging. When Jordan retired for the first time and Kobe's rape case, they all stood in the right position. Although Wang Jun was making trouble, Nike also believed that he would come back.
On that day, Wang Jun received a call from Hughes, and an important person wanted to see him.
Wang Jun immediately rushed to Salt Lake City, Utah, not to visit Jeff Hornersek's family, but to prison...
Chapter completed!