Zhu Fangyu was also pleased with the outco and then shared his thoughts with Su Wan, "I’ve made up my mind, Su Wan, I plan to go back ho and play in the CBA!"
He added another sentence, "It’s not that no one wants , I just don’t want to play here anymore!"
Su Wan didn’t say much in response to this typical "Zhu Fangyu-style" face-saving comnt.
Moreover, as far as he knew, after Zhu Fangyu announced his departure from Cleveland, quite a few team general managers had indeed called Danny Ferry.
It was just uncertain whether they valued Zhu Fangyu’s ability value or his toughness.
After all, the tradition of the team leader having a "professional enforcer" had a long history.
Next to Michael Jordan there once was Oakley, a professional enforcer who not only took on outsiders but even his own teammates. Jordan established his authority within the team early on, and much of the dirty and exhausting work was done by him. They had a very good relationship, and Oakley remained a part of Jordan’s team even after retiring. When Jordan went to the Bobcats as the big boss, he reserved a position for him.
It’s just that Krause later realized that what Jordan needed was not an enforcer, but a helper. He straightened out "Cobra" and, with the growth of Pippen, they successfully won their first "three-peat."
If Zhu Fangyu only wanted to be a role player in the NBA, then after the Cleveland charter plane incident, he had the capital to stand in the league.
But being a lackey for others was not Zhu Fangyu’s style.
Many in the older generation of basketball had the ntality of "rather be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big ocean," and of course, it’s not wrong to dream on a bigger stage and should be encouraged.
It’s just that people are different; everyone has their own thoughts.
Zhu Fangyu’s strong self-respect made him prefer to return to the Guangdong Team as the leader rather than be a lackey to other players in the NBA.
A couple of days after this call, Su Wan saw the news in the dia about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ buyout with Zhu Fangyu.
The sensational "Cleveland Bullying Incident" ended with McGinnis indefinitely suspended, Zhu Fangyu returning to the CBA, the "Chosen One" LeBron Jas losing five or six endorsents, paying a large sum of breach of contract, and receiving a seven-ga suspension.
As for Newell and the others, it was said that Danny Ferry fined them as well.
Hmm...
The managent had forked out $300,000 because of this affair; indeed, it was necessary to "suck" a bit back from these instigators to recoup losses.
But the impact of this incident did not dissipate easily.
Especially the pictures of LeBron wailing at the press conference had a profound impact.
His previously composed dia image was completely shattered, and at the sa ti, many dia outlets produced comnts like "Su Wan was right," "Su Wan had seen through LeBron early on."
From this angle, Su Wan actually erged as the biggest winner in the affair.
After this battle, LeBron was greatly weakened, and it was said that he had been holding fan etings in Cleveland recently.
In these smaller-scale events, he was no longer as nervous and sharply criticized McGinnis’s "water ghost" antics, while casting himself as the victim: "I never said anything like that. He’s just creating public opinion, trying to divert attention from his bullying of the newcor. He succeeded. Now no one discusses him anymore."
Then he announced he would donate $1 million to support associations condemning bullying and racial discrimination, using practical action to distance himself from the situation.
The move had so effect, at least Cleveland still supported him.
But his earlier rediation asures were too poor, and the impression in the public opinion had already ford; the overall environnt was still hard to change.
Richie Paul told him, "What you can do now is just wait for your coback and focus on the ga, put on a good performance."
After all, an athlete’s reputation depends on their on-court performance.
Kobe had a big scandal, but he still gradually recovered, right?
Shaquille O’Neal had explicitly made racist remarks, and now he was still the number one "Shark" in the league.
LeBron’s alleged "condoning of bullying" and "racial discrimination" were even less of a concern. As long as he perford well and faced the dia with "I have been through a lot because of that incident, it’s been a trial for !"
The dia would imdiately offer comnts like "Now he’s really mature, he’s finally got it."
At the end of the day, public opinion is just a process of repeatedly doing sit-ups.
Richie Paul was still very optimistic.
As for LeBron Jas, the biggest lesson he learned from this incident was the full power of public opinion. When all the dia were praising him, he was the lofty "Chosen One," but when all the dia turned against him, he was the alleged bully and racist "mud."
"I must have my own dia channels!"
That way, he could hear the most genuine (he wanted to hear) voices.
A seven-ga absence wasn’t particularly long, just about half a month, nor was it short, because it made him miss this year’s "Christmas Battle" with Carlo Anthony.
Of course, given his current situation, not appearing on "All over the United States live broadcast" was the correct choice.
Clearly, David Stern had put careful thought into arranging the suspension.
Christmas is equivalent to the Chinese New Year in Huaxia.
Huaxia talks about "starting the new year all over," and the United States also has the idea of "a new year, a new start."
LeBron just sat on the bench, watching Carlo Anthony shine on the "Christmas Battle" stage.
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