Guard With a Knife

When the little duke won flowers and applause in Europe, earning a lot of money, and then moved to Asia to continue making money.

The N+2 negotiations between employers and employees in the NBA broke down again. And completely tearing his skin apart, David Stern categorically rejected the players' proposal on behalf of the management. He considered the proposal of distributing 57% of the league's total income to the players as wages to be a fantasy.

He even came up with a system of setting a hard salary cap of 62 million US dollars, and at the same time threatened that if the players did not sign the 53% distribution agreement, they would be completely suspended!

The players union represented by Fisher, Hunter and Chris Paul immediately refused.

Then, David Stern announced the NBA lockout, and during the lockout, all teams will not pay players any salaries.

The players stated that during the lockout period, the NBA is not allowed to use their image for any publicity.

Negotiations came to a complete halt.

Summer League has also been officially announced that it will not take place.

Those black brothers who had had so much fun outside were also under pressure instantly. Once their income was interrupted without financial awareness, the bills that flew in like snowflakes were enough to kill them.

At this time, the Duke clause and Rose clause exposed by the media instantly caused a rebound from many players.

"I feel very uncomfortable when we are still fighting for the most basic food and clothing. Some people have already received special treatment from the capitalists!!! This is discrimination!!!"

When JR Smith publicly typed this line on his Twitter, all of a sudden, Wilt Chandler, Josh Smith, Childress, Evans... and many other players forwarded it one after another, as if Snoopy It is the instigator of this catastrophe.

Their victim attitude made Snoopy feel unbelievable. He thought to himself, could this kind of thing be related to inequality and discrimination?

You are too fragile!

At this time, Reggie Miller, a die-hard Duke fan, released a picture on his personal homepage, which showed the box office revenue of the Little Duke's concert and the income of various endorsements.

He clearly stated: "If Snoopy doesn't play in the NBA, he earns more. That's why those owners are trying their best to keep Snoopy in the NBA."

His tweet quickly went viral.

No way, who made the little duke the major shareholder of Twitter?

Even if the little duke wouldn't make such instructions, someone would.

For example, Daphne.

He felt more and more that Snoopy had suffered a lot of grievances, why should everything be pushed on him?

He is tired enough.

In the UK, the British media claimed that he had an affair with Emma Watson, and the whole country was jubilant, and everyone was applauding what they thought was a golden boy.

When he arrived in China, those paparazzi still didn't let him go. They swear by the PS pictures, saying that Liu Shishi, the number one flower in China, hugged and kissed the puppy in the hotel elevator.

What they said was true, but Daphne didn't believe it at all.

He felt that the puppy's daily activities were already busy enough, and the announcement schedule was so tight that he couldn't even get a needle in. How could he have time for a tryst with domestic female stars?

What made him even more unbelievable was that when the puppy went to Korea for publicity. Those Korean media were even crazier than the British media. They kept saying that the little duke had an affair with the face of a certain girl group, and they said it in a decent way, as if they had seen their private meeting with their own eyes.

This made Daphne feel depressed.

She even said in a conversation with Emma Watson: "Snoopy's good man image has been completely ruined by the entertainment media."

Emma Watson raised her eyebrows and asked curiously, "Really?"

"If you get in touch with him for a while, you will know. You will find that he really only has basketball and work in his head." Daphne said with a smile. She mentioned the hottest meme in England now: I only have basketball in my mind.

The English thought it was a joke because they thought no one could resist the charms of Emma Watson.

Just as Koreans feel that Jessica's charm is invincible, the little duke will become a Korean sooner or later.

After finishing the concert on the peninsula, the little duke went to Japan and then returned to the United States.

When his round of tour ended, it was already the end of August when he returned to Los Angeles.

He hurried into the Hollywood shooting location to make a guest appearance for Disney's super IP "The Avengers". In fact, this is why Disney is willing to hand over the rights to "Beauty and the Beast" to Star Dream Productions for a low price.

They've put so much heart and money into a film that features so many Marvel heroes that they don't want to lose anything on the project. Therefore, when the little duke offered to participate in the filming without any labor service, but asked to purchase the copyright of another film at a low price, they quickly agreed.

After all, the little duke's influence is extraordinary. Even though he only agreed to shoot for two days, and was an insignificant character who didn't even have a line, just a flash.

They are also willing to do so.

Because as long as the name of the little duke appears in the cast and crew, the topicality and influence brought by it are visible to the naked eye.

In addition to appearing on the studio of "The Avengers", Snoopy also went to the shooting scene of Men in Black 3, and he played the role of the third male in this movie.

To this end, Columbia paid him 10 million U.S. dollars and a certain percentage of the box office.

Frankly speaking, Columbia's generosity even surprised Daphne, and she even predicted that the company would go out of business sooner or later.

Because their ability to control costs is really terrible, they actually gave a guy who only filmed for 7 days 10 million US dollars and box office dividends?

are you crazy!

All NBA players think so.

The state of no income during the lockout made everyone panic, even Kobe Bryant said that he was going to join the Shanxi team in China. In addition, Dwight Howard also said that if the lockout really cannot end, he will also go to China.

In addition, some European teams, especially Turkish teams, are also vigorously recruiting these unemployed NBA superstars.

All kinds of exaggerated quotations were published in the newspapers and periodicals.

However, only the little duke earned silver and real gold.

Tickets for his concert at the Great Western Forum were hard to come by, breaking the arena's box office record again.

Even Kobe Bryant complained in the media: "This guy didn't give me a free ticket? He must be crazy. Isn't he worried that I won't lend him a Lamborghini from now on?"

Such language sounds more like a snubbed lover complaining.

People are becoming more and more accustomed to the picture of the black mamba, the straight man of steel, wriggling his posture in front of the duke dog.

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