Chapter 48 Elbow Impact

In the Suns locker room, Li Ba looked ugly and frustrated.

Because Marbury, who came back from the press conference, said that the league might chase him, suspend him and add a fine. Isn't this killing him? He still needs a lot of money from Bill Duffy.

"Hey, boys, can I come in?" At this time the door was pushed open, and the general manager Colangelo said kindly outside.

"Welcome Mr. Colangelo." Penny stood up and invited the general manager in.

"Congratulations, today's game is a great victory. You defeated the dragon of the Lakers." Colangelo said excitedly.

After saying a few more words, he walked up to Li Ba, patted the latter's shoulder and said with a smile, "Young man, why are you frowning? Do you know that you are famous, completely famous!"

"Sir, he is having a headache for possible league fines." Marbury laughed.

"oh!"

Colangelo suddenly realized, and smiled: "Yes, you haven't received the salary of the team, it seems that you need to pay a sum of money in advance. Of course, if there is a fine, as a hero for defeating the dragon, The team will pay that fine for you."

"That would be great!"

Li Ba immediately became excited and his face glowed, sweeping away the frustration in front of him.

"Ha ha!"

Seeing Li Ba like this, Colangelo laughed, and said: "The team will communicate with some media about today's matter, and try to guide the matter so that the media does not target you."

"Thank you, sir." Li Ba nodded and smiled.

Then Colangelo left, and Li Ba received another call from his agent, Bill Duffy.

"Tie Hammer, I just communicated with several media outlets. There will be some public opinions that are biased towards you tomorrow. You don't have to worry too much," Duffy said.

"Okay, I see, thank you Bill." Li Ba smiled.

"Also, Hammer, your performance today is awesome! Then keep going, as long as you continue to perform well, capital will automatically flow to your side."

Bill Duffy encouraged.

Immediately after the game ended, heated discussions between the league and the media about the super team of the Lakers were triggered. Among them, the major sports media released professional comments overnight, and even many official media also expressed their views on this. And some team management also expressed their views on the Lakers.

"There is no doubt that this is a pseudo-super strong team! An undrafted rookie destroyed it with an elbow!" SPN columnist Bill Simon wrote a long speech with thousands of words on this topic on his blog .

He said in it: "The rookie's elbow is nothing. The postman Malone has done it countless times. The difference is that this time he was elbowed. But what we need to understand is that someone finally asked him Elbow. And he is now in the Lakers, so the Lakers will become the goal of the entire league, the target of elbows. This is the evil fruit planted by the league. It encourages Malone to keep elbowing other players in disguise. At his elbows, at his feet, at his knees, it's his turn today. I'm not encouraging the undrafted guy. If he did it on purpose, he should be blamed. And I think the league should be held accountable for it."

"A new villain is born!" Craig Sager, a well-known basketball commentator, expressed his opinion by this name.

"A guy who did sixteen fights a month at Rock Park, a Chinese guy, in his second game in the NBA, he took down the old villain and took his place..." In the text, he flipped Leaving out Li Ba's history in Locke Park, it seems to be liquidating Li Ba's past.

"Iron Hammer, a fairly clean defensive player!" This is an article by well-known basketball commentator Christine Ledger.

He said in the article: "Although there are not many games for the Hammer, we can observe from the limited number of defenses that his defense is very clean. According to the current game record, his fouls are pitifully small. Yes, There was only one time when he blocked Kobe's ball, and then touched Kobe's head. Why would such a clean defender do something like elbowing Malone? I'm afraid it should be attributed to Malone Dr. Iron Elbow's prestige."

When Li Ba avoided the reporter and returned home, Chen Hong had already arrived and chatted with him about the Mosaic team's game.

"Dayao lost?" Li Ba was a little surprised. Are the Grizzlies so strong?

"Seventy-nine to seventy-one, lost eight points. Dayao played 37 minutes, 7 of 11, scored 19 points, 10 rebounds, 3 blocks, 1 steal and 1 foul. His performance was still very good. He almost hit 20+10 performance." Chen Hong said.

Li Ba took the record sheet of the Mosaic team from Chen Hong's hand, and immediately said dissatisfiedly: "The shooting percentage is so high, and only 11 shots were made in 37 minutes. Why did Jim Jackson make 10 shots?"

"This player was the No. 4 pick in the first round of 1992, and his pick is not low," Chen Hong said.

"So what? If I were the No. 1 pick, I would keep asking for the ball when I was on the court. It's not that Yao has no offensive ability. He can make mid-range shots at the basket and has baskets from far and wide. Why is he so humble? I didn't see James' first shot. 20 votes in one game?" Li Ba shook his head.

The next day, in response to last night's game and the elbow incident, many media, NBA players, and some former NBA stars all expressed their opinions.

"He knows what he did, look at my brow bone, look? I've had forty stitches!" Thomas the Assassin yelled, pointing his eyebrows at the camera.

"He was lucky. Wow, I was in shock!"

Robinson, one of the four major centers who just retired last season, touched the back of his head and told the media.

"At that time, I spent a lot of money to change my teeth." Nash of the Mavericks touched his mouth and said modestly to the camera: "But I don't hate Karl Malone, because he didn't do it. He didn't even commit a foul. Not on the back."

Finally, the old hooligan, the god of basketball, also accepted an interview with Fox TV: "I lay down for an hour, and I couldn't open my eyes until an hour later, that was too bad!"

As for the Lakers, general manager Mitch Kupchak personally accepted the interview: "Yes, that was a young man. I think he was just excited for a while. I don't think this matter needs to be over-interpreted. This is just an ordinary incident. The...foul."

Well, Kupchak's strange attitude made the media incomprehensible, and it also made Karl Malone lying in the hospital incomprehensible.

After the operation, he accepted a live interview with the media on the hospital bed, and vented his dissatisfaction directly to the media: "I was elbowed and broke two ribs, one of which was comminuted and inserted into my lung lobe. My lung function, I was a victim, but the attitude of the Lakers chilled me. I doubted the decision to come to the Lakers, which may be a wrong decision."

"So Karl, what do you think of the rookie who broke your bone in the elbow? Want to say something to him? Will you forgive him?" the reporter asked.

"No, why should I forgive him? I'm going to apply to the league to have a face-to-face hard fight with him in the Octagon. He is a thug on the court. What the league should do is to expel him immediately."

When Li Ba was mentioned, Ma Long was furious.

"Oh, nurse, why am I hurting again?"

After he yelled this sentence, he broke out in a cold sweat suddenly, because his left rib after the operation last night was in pain again, so he hurriedly called the nurse in the ward.

"Oh, God, there may be something wrong with your wound, you can no longer accept interviews, and you can no longer be angry!" The nurse cried out, gesturing for the reporter to leave.

"That guy, it's a good thing he didn't elbow me."

In the locker room of the Cavaliers training ground, after hearing what Malone said on TV, James touched his chest and said with lingering fear.