New York, NBA league headquarters, as soon as David Stern learned of the results of the game, he immediately summoned several vice presidents to his office for a meeting.

The female secretary served coffee and tea, then left the office and closed the door.

Stern's expression was complicated, and there was a hint of helplessness in his excitement.

"Everyone, I believe everyone knows the results of the Bulls vs. Wizards tonight, Wang Jun's strength has reached a new level this season, his single-game scoring has overwhelmed all active stars, and after tonight, his popularity will rise to a new height, I want to ask you for your opinion."

The biggest attraction for fans is the scorer, and a scoring champion can greatly boost a player's popularity.

For example, Maddy, who won two scoring titles with the Magic and has a large number of fans, can directly ignore the fact that he has never led the team through the first round of the playoffs.

Vice President Granick said: "David, do you want Wang Jun to be the number one star in the league? It's just a high-scoring game, isn't it too sloppy. ”

"No, he doesn't need to be heavily publicized at all now, fans will naturally dig up his information, and I want to ask, if a Chinese player rules the NBA, will that be what local fans want?"

This is Stern's worry, he is afraid that Wang Jun will be so popular that it will cause dissatisfaction among local fans.

The Dream Team has lost consecutive games on the international stage, and American basketball seems to be about to give up its supremacy.

The fans like it, what do they do, and what do they do if they don't?

Stern didn't know the bottom of his mind. It's just that there has never been such a great international player, so he held a meeting to brainstorm.

If most people think that Wang Jun should be praised. Then the league should also take a statement and let the stars be interviewed. Hyped up Wang Jun's high-scoring performance.

As for the suppression......

Even Clark, who has always strongly supported local stars, did not dare to propose to suppress Wang Jun at this time, unless he was a brain-dead and wanted to put his face to someone else's hand and make people slap him a few times.

People who can become leaders in the NBA naturally have excellent qualities, at least not mentally retarded, and they can all see the business potential of Wang Jun and the energy behind him.

The NBA is a business league, Jordan retired in 1998, and the labor negotiations led to a shutdown. As a result, ratings declined, and the league suffered a major blow, and it took several years of recuperation to regain popularity.

The league has taken great pains to find Jordan's successor and a super scorer who can attract fans.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to make the Lakers substitute Kobe Bryant an All-Star starter, but until now, no fan thinks that Kobe can surpass Jordan, he is an excellent imitator. The imitation is better.

Carter and Maddie also failed to resist the banner of "Jordan's successor", not to mention the data, the record alone is too far behind. At present, James and Wade are flawed, although the average data per game is beautiful. But there is no single super performance.

Now there is finally a player who can cut high scores, still in the Bulls, which gives people a sense of inheritance. Isn't this the true Jordan successor?

Although Wang Jun is not a local player, he has to be a baby. Suppressing him is tantamount to getting along with himself. And money can't get by. What benefits can the alliance get by pressing him?

Demonstrate your determination to be racist?

Assume arrogant postures. Let Chinese fans know that we Yankees just look at you Chinese unpleasantly?

Isn't that SB? Except for the Japanese devils who grabbed the fishing diao, who would be so clear that they can't get along with China?

After discussing for a while, several bigwigs came to an agreement. is ready to praise Wang Jun at the same time, vigorously promote a few opponents with enough weight, and compete with him.

Adam? Xiao Hua said: "The number of Chinese fans is increasing, and the Chinese is getting richer and richer, this is the best opportunity to open up the market, I suggest promoting Kobe, James and competing with him, now these two are not bad, as for Iverson, forget it, the 76ers are difficult to make the playoffs, and his defensive weaknesses are too obvious." ”

Granick asked: "This kind of publicity is like admitting that Wang Jun is one of the strongest stars in the league, he is only in his third year, and if the Bulls have a good record in the end, is that good?" He might win the regular season MVP. ”

Stern shook his head and said, "If you win the MVP, that's his strength, is there anything wrong with the third year?" Unless there is someone who is on par with him and has a similar record, what can we do? ”

Granick was silent, the statistics and records are combined, and now there is really no one who can compare with Wang Jun, who is the closest to MVP.

It's not okay to give the MVP to someone else too blatantly, modern basketball has progressed, and the network has developed. If there is another situation like Abdul-Jabbar, who did not make the playoffs but won the regular season MVP, he will be scolded to death by the fans.

Stern went on to say: "If the regular season is aimed at Wang Jun and is seen by the Bulls fans, don't they say anything? That would only backfire and discourage fans from watching the NBA. Because no one wants to watch match-fixing. ”

Like American professional wrestling, what's the use of more tricks? They all know it's fake.

There are a lot of shady scenes in the NBA, trading, gambling, and refereeing, but at least the fake is not obvious.

Xiao Hua added: "I think it's very difficult to suppress him, unless you let him get into foul trouble and blow him down, and he doesn't jump much defensively, which is also obvious." And he's not averaging 7.1 free throws per game at the moment, so how can he reduce that? Getting a star to make five free throws or less? He's been breaking through quite a bit this season. ”

The reduction of Wang Jun's free throws last season can be explained by the fact that there are not many breakthroughs and poor ball holding ability. He's made a lot of breakthroughs this year, and if he's so far inferior to the free-throw shooters, everyone will see the problem.

There is racial discrimination in the NBA, and it is all implicit.

Other international players are either too soft or not strong enough, and the argument that "racial discrimination" is simply untenable and the evidence is insufficient.

Wang Jun is different. He attracts everyone's attention, and the referee's movements will be infinitely magnified.

In addition, China has a huge fan base, and it would be a shame if everyone thought that Wang Jun was treated unfairly in the NBA.

The slight impact is to reduce the number of fans, and the serious impact is an international event, which will affect the future business cooperation with Chinese basketball. Both of these points are not wanted to be seen by the league officials.

Everyone finally decided to praise Wang Jun in the regular season and treat him as a top five superstar in the league. Let Kobe, James and others compete with him. Got into the playoffs and said otherwise.

At present, Wang Jun's average points per game have risen to 33.1 points, surpassing Iverson's 32.9 points to jump to the first place in the league.

On the MVP list, Wang Jun also occupies the top position.

Although the Pistons have the best record in the league, Hamilton, who scores the most, is only averaging 20 points per game, and no one thinks Hamilton will be elected.

Duncan, who is ranked second, has seen his stats decline compared to last season, and many people say he is old.

The third place is Nash, the Suns interior star Stoudmayre was reimbursed for the regular season, and Nash led the team to still play a good record, but he won the MVP again to defend the title, which is more difficult, and the data is not as beautiful as Wang Jun.

The data of James and Nowitzki in the back are beautiful enough, and the record is much worse than that of the Bulls.

As long as the Bulls guarantee their record in the regular season, Wang Jun will reach the pinnacle of personal honor, and the MVP trophy is already beckoning to him.

PS (To be continued.) )