Chapter 25 Dealing With

Outside the locker room, reporters were besieging Frank and D'Antoni. But the two asked three questions, and the reporters wanted to use the microphone to pry their mouths open.

Chen Hong behind did not dare to ask anything, for fear of exposing Li Ba.

At this time, someone from the official came over and urged the Suns to attend the post-match press conference as soon as possible.

"Wait a minute, we'll be there soon." Frank said immediately.

But it took half an hour before the Suns entered the press hall.

Frank, Penny, Marion, Marbury, four people attended the press conference. By the time they arrived, the Spurs had gone and they could only do it alone.

"Stephen, may I ask what happened in the locker room?"

The first reporter was from TNT, and he asked Marbury a question. He felt that it was easiest to get what he wanted to know from this mouth.

"Oh, that's hilarious."

Marbury laughed exaggeratedly and made some gestures. When the reporters were excited, he said: "Amare performed a drama, which is really interesting. I think he is qualified to be a superstar on the stage. "

The reporters rolled their eyes involuntarily.

Frank, with his head down, smiled. He specifically explained to Marbury. Now it seems that Marbury is still very cooperative and knows the overall situation.

"Coach Johnson, we heard very clearly that someone was accusing Amare at the time, so who is he? Has there been internal strife in the Suns?" The second reporter was from CNN.

"No, no, no accusations, no infighting, you heard it wrong." Frank immediately denied.

The press conference lasted just ten minutes, and Frank announced that it was over, and hurriedly led the team out of the stadium. The Suns flew back to Phoenix overnight.

On the plane, Li Ba was the last one. He has the lowest status, gets into trouble again, and has no one to sit with him.

He was flipping through hundreds of pages of tactical manuals when he suddenly felt that the light was blocked. When he looked up, Marbury wearing headphones came in front of him.

"Hey, Stephen," he said.

"Boy, you are lonelier than me." Marbury pulled off his earphones and said with a smile.

"Why?" Li Ba asked with a smile.

Marbury was taken aback, you ask me why?

He thought it was fun and sat down beside him.

Seeing Marbury sitting next to Li Ba, some team members looked over curiously, wondering what these two misfits were doing.

"Yao Ke is much more gregarious than you," Marbury said.

"No, it's just because he's the No. 1 pick and has a lot of playing time, but I'm just undrafted. I talk in the locker room, even if it's against the rules, a sophomore can point at my nose and scold me and tell me to shut up. Mouth, isn't it?"

Li Ba disagrees.

Marbury froze for a moment and nodded.

"Steph, tell me, when LeBron James is talking in the locker room, does anyone dare to reprimand him by pointing at his nose like that?"

Li Ba asked with a smile.

Shrugging, Marbury said, "If that's the case, the owner of the Cavaliers will immediately put him on the shelf."

"Like you were in Timberwolves?" Li Ba said.

"Hey, boy, don't mention that. Without me, the Timberwolves will never get their hands on the championship. Garnett will have to leave there one day. They will get nothing."

Marbury was irritated, he stood up all of a sudden, and shouted at Li Ba with his eyes wide open.

"Haha!" Li Ba laughed.

When they flew back to Phoenix, all kinds of news about the infighting of the Suns had already spread on the Internet.

Some media identified the Suns players one by one based on their voices, and finally focused their suspicions on Li Ba.

By the time the plane landed, Stoudemire's fans in Phoenix had already opened fire on Li Ba on the Internet.

"An undrafted pick dares to criticize the best rookie. Has the Suns' locker room management reached this level of chaos?"

"Chinaman, do you think you'll go to heaven if you cover Bosh once?"

"The Suns should just send that Chinese back to his hometown!"

"Put it on the shelf, and hopefully another team will take over."

Li Ba doesn't know this, and smartphones haven't been popularized yet. When he got home, he received a call from Dayao.

"Li Ba, be obedient, hold back your temper, let's spend some playing time before talking." Dayao said.

"Okay, I see." Li Ba fooled Dayao with a few words.

He was afraid of this, because he had a different personality from Dayao, so he didn't choose to go to Mosaic at first.

Then he received a call from his agent, Bill Duffy, and we chatted for a while.

"Hammer, there are several companies in China who want to ask you to be their spokesperson, but the quality is not very good, so I refused."

"Ah, rejected? Oh, well, you can figure it out, and let me follow up if you have any good ones."

Hearing that he was approached by an endorser, Li Ba couldn't help being excited. Hearing that it was rejected, I was a little disappointed. However, he still has confidence in himself and in Bill Duffy's ability, and he is not depressed.

In the end, Bill Duffy told him that it was okay to be tough in front of Stoudemire, because he was only a sophomore, but he had to be humble in front of other veteran players.

The next day, the Suns had no games. The team had a holiday in the morning and practiced in the afternoon.

In the morning, the management held a meeting.

"Local fans have great opinions on Li Ba. If there are no further punishment measures, I think it will affect the football market."

At the meeting, D'Antoni proposed to impose an internal suspension on Li Ba on the grounds that he destroyed the unity of the locker room.

Frank and D'Antoni were on the opposite side, because D'Antoni was the head coach candidate prepared by the management, so he immediately expressed his opposition to this proposal.

"At the beginning of the matter, the hammer only said that he could provide the team with defensive energy, and did not say anything else. But Amare overreacted and told the hammer to shut up on the spot. You must know that he is only a sophomore. If The Hammers are going to be suspended, so should he also be suspended?" Frank said.

"But there's a big problem behind Liba," D'Antoni insisted.

"What did he say? He just said that Amare's defense was not strong enough. This is true. He didn't humiliate anyone, including Amare." Frank reasoned.

"Amare is a talented offensive player. I don't think he should devote too much energy to the defensive end. The offensive end is where he should be invested." D'Antoni said.

"Mike, I'm the head coach. How he plays and whether he should defend is up to me." Frank stared at D'Antoni.

Shrugging, D'Antoni stopped talking, and when it comes to the authority of the head coach, it would be completely tearing apart.

"Okay, we've got it all figured out."

The general manager Colangelo spoke, knocking on the table rhythmically and said: "Since Amare and Li Ba have conflicts, then when Li Ba is used in the future, he should be placed on the bench. "