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The Lakers played against the Spurs at home. This was originally a regular season NBA game broadcast live across the United States. Because of the Lakers, the NBA's most popular and popular collective, and the Asian rookie Joey who joined the league this year, the popularity of this game was hyped to the extreme by the league's publicity department before it started.

The attention even overshadowed the Heat's Big Three who played against the Thunder's Big Three on the same day.

Stern was eating his favorite red velvet cheese in his office at the time, happily watching the high ratings reports coming from the league's backstage.

Then, on a whim, he turned on the TV to watch this game that crushed the ratings of programs at the same time.

As a result, as soon as he turned on the TV, he saw the scene of Joey's knee falling from the sky and knocking Howard unconscious.

Stern was so scared that he almost bit off the spoon in his mouth at the time - this was a live broadcast across the United States, and because of Joey, there might be Asian fans on the other side of the ocean watching this game!

And you did this to me?

Fortunately, the league's public relations team immediately cut off the live broadcast of ESPN and other TV stations. It is estimated that the other side of the ocean, where the control is more strict, cut off faster.

Quickly let the public relations team handle the matter with all their strength, strive to minimize the impact, and then call the heads of relevant departments to inform them to hold an online video conference now to discuss the punishment of Joey.

As a result, at the beginning of the meeting, the league's top management told him a more heart-breaking news- the reason why Joey shot Howard was because the latter had elbowed Duncan to shock!

Damn, what is this?

Mr. President took another antihypertensive drug at the time, and he almost didn't make it.

So after all this time, Joey is still the righteous party?

Revenge for the team's big brother seems to be justified, right?

This idea was extinguished by Stern as soon as it appeared.

Committed to achieving a perfect integration of professionalism and commercialization, and a fair and just sports league, Stern promoted the NBA, the least respected of the four major sports leagues in the early 1980s, to the most watched and most profitable sports league in the world today. Do you know how much energy Stern has spent?

Just as we dealt with the Palace of Auburn Hills, we should deal with the restless elements in the league now. We should punish them until they are afraid, until these athletes with explosive hormones dare not cause trouble!

In a word, fairness, fairness... or damn fairness!!!

After two and a half hours of online video discussion, the league officials and the players' union finally decided to impose the following penalties on Howard and Joey:

The cause of the accident was caused by Lakers center Howard, who was suspended for three games and fined 10,000 US dollars; the main"murderer" of the accident, Joey, the third pick of the Spurs this year, was suspended for five games and fined 15,000 US dollars.

The next day, the news of the punishment was posted on the official website of the NBA. Buford, the general manager of the Spurs, immediately did a good job of public relations on the team's official website, and at the instruction of Popovich, took the initiative to pay the fine to the league, striving to minimize the impact of the incident.

For a time, major media also heard the news,"The Spurs rookie beat up the league's top center"、"Howard, the league's best defensive player, shed blood on the court"……

All kinds of weird headlines and gimmicks were published. At the same time, there were some pictures of Howard lying on the court with blood pouring out of his mouth, which became an indelible black spot in his future career.

At the same time, Joey, who was called a"gentleman thug" by the media, also became a hot search in the basketball circle.

Many stars also stood up and expressed their own opinions on this matter:

Miami Heat superstar LeBron James asked on Twitter:

"Although I think my little brother Joey did the right thing to help his teammates get revenge, the NBA is a professional league for the general public after all. As public figures, we have countless fans following us, many of whom are adolescent children. We cannot let them think that basketball is a sport that can legally use violence and produce blood. Here, I call on……"

Chalmers, who is on the same team as him and is known for his involvement in everything in the NBA, liked the words of the team leader on Twitter and added:

"As one of the most popular superstars in the league, DeWalt should not have such a childish side. He should be more mature. The Lakers have been too patient with him!"

Flash Wade and Dragon King Bosh liked their tweets one after another. The

Thunder's Durant trio also got involved, but they stood on Joey's side. The sentimental Westbrook even sent five tweets in a row:

"This situation should not happen in the league, and all violent behaviors will not change on the court, but……"

"What I want to say is, well done Joey, even though you are our opponent, I just want to say you are so cool, facing those guys who want to hurt our brothers, we should teach them a lesson!"

Thousands of miles away in Oklahoma City, Er Ba Ka saw Howard being knocked unconscious, and felt a sense of fear in his heart

"……"

Hornets' No. 1 pick Davis, Bobcats' No. 2 pick Gilchrist, and Trail Blazers' Lillard, among other rookies of the same class, have also expressed their support for Joey on social media.

Davis even teased Joey several times, asking if he had been injured by an opponent with a trick in college, would Joey help him get revenge on the spot like in this game.

It is worth mentioning that after the game, Los Angeles media blocked Lakers star Kobe Bryant in the underground garage and asked him what he thought of Joey, a"arrogant and violent" rookie. Kobe threw off his headphones and changed his face on the spot:

"How do I see him? He's almost on my head���He got a triple-double and sent my teammate to the hospital on my own turf. How can I view him?"

After Kobe finished speaking, he left under the escort of his bodyguards, leaving the Los Angeles reporters looking at each other in bewilderment.

However, some stars who have a good relationship with Howard told the media that Joey's behavior was too"violent", which could easily affect the competitive state of other teams playing against the Spurs.

What if the Spurs, like in the last decade, resort to"dirty hands" when they find that they cannot win at a critical moment?

In the past, it was Bowen, the"disabled foot", and now there is Joey, a"gentleman thug" with a kind face and a black heart. How can other teams play?

Among them is Vince Carter, the Canadian flying man who suffered deeply from Bowen and was a teammate of Howard.

All-Star players such as Ray Allen of the Heat, Steve Nash of the Lakers, and Chris Paul of the Clippers also stood up to recall the"evil deeds" of the Spurs in the past for the public.

However, the outside world's controversy has nothing to do with Joey. At this moment, he is saying goodbye to his teammates one by one at the airport. In the next week, he will receive individual training from the team in San Antonio, while his teammates will rush to the away game for regular training. The league stipulates that players who are officially banned are not allowed to enter any NBA team's home court during the suspension period, and they are not allowed to play with the team.

The opponents are the New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, the second game against the Clippers, the Boston Celtics, and the second game against the Pacers.

Among them, except for the Nuggets, they are all Eastern Conference teams.

Joey also took advantage of the holidays to sign a shoe contract with the contract team sent by Nike, and then every day, in addition to going to the stadium for training, he would pay attention to team news.

In the first game without Joey, facing the complete Knicks that rose briefly this season, GDP played normally, but in the end it was still difficult to beat the Knicks led by Melon, Little Overlord and the best defensive player boxing champion, and swallowed the second defeat of the season with 100:104.

Unfortunately, this is the last peak of this bad team. At the beginning of the season, they defeated the Eastern Conference powerhouses such as the Heat and the Pacers one after another. The Little Overlord who followed closely underwent knee surgery and only played 29 times in the entire regular season. Melon led the team to the second place in the Eastern Conference, and during the period, he also dedicated a 50-point game with the Heat that"did not enter the three-second zone".

On November 19, in the game between Denver and the Nuggets, Duncan faced the half-orc, the"first center below the head" McGee's jumping male inside combination of the Nuggets, and scored a new season high of 34 points, and grabbed 16 rebounds over McGee's head, leading the team to a 112: 97 victory.

The big brother contributed 17 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds, which was close to a triple-double, but it was not enough to save the team.

On November 20, the Spurs visited the Staples Center in Los Angeles again. As expected, the Spurs, with an older age structure, could not outrun the young Clippers and were easily dragged into their rhythm.

Griffin scored 27 points and 13 rebounds over Duncan, and DeAndre Jordan was fed 14 points and 15 rebounds by Paul. As expected, the Spurs were"exploded" again.

Looking at Duncan, who was panting and steaming, the old man felt distressed. At the same time, he was thinking about how to avoid the Clippers, whose style of play obviously restrained the Spurs, in the playoffs. If he met them, how to deal with them.

The game ended with a score of 93:112, a big score difference of nearly 20 points, and the Spurs lost to the Clippers.

After this game, the voices supporting the Clippers in Los Angeles became more and more intense, almost competing with the fans of the Lakers!

On the 22nd, facing the aging Celtics who were aiming to rebuild, the Spurs played a"team style" to the fullest, with seven players scoring in double figures. Duncan scored 21 points and 10 rebounds while limiting Kevin Garnett, who is now the same age as him, to 4 of 13 shots, scoring only 11 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks, and 3 turnovers.

It can be seen that although they are of the same age, Garnett does have a lot of gas in the tank, but compared to Duncan, who can still cut 20+10 data as if it were melons and vegetables at this age, it is indeed a bit"down". (Just a comparison between the two)

Pierce played well under Leonard's defense, with 15 shots for 23 points, which seemed to make people see the truth of the so-called"offensive kaleidoscope" in his peak period.

Rondo also scored an economical triple-double of 12+11+10.

In the last game, on the 24th, the second game against the Pacers, the Spurs lost their accuracy as a whole, and even Duncan, who has always played stably, was not in good shape because of five away games in ten consecutive days.

The Pacers' five-horse team was clocked out in the third quarter.

Including the Lakers' away game, the Spurs have achieved a record of 3 wins and 3 losses in the past six away games in the past ten days. After the Nuggets game, Duncan led the Spurs to a record of three wins and one loss with an average of 19.4 points, 11.5 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 blocks per game, and was elected the Western Conference Player of the Week in the second week.

It is worth mentioning that on November 17, the Lakers scored 17 points in the first half of the away game against the Hornets, becoming the fifth player in NBA history to score more than 30,000 points.

At the beginning of the new season, after more than a dozen regular season games, each team gradually found the lineup and tactics that suited the team, and some strong teams began to gradually widen the gap with other teams.

The Thunder and Clippers in the West are currently in a class of their own, leading the West with a record of 11 wins and 2 losses, followed by the Spurs with 9 wins and 4 losses and the Grizzlies and Nuggets with 9 wins and 3 losses; the

Heat, the Big Three in the East, are leading the league in record, and have only lost one game in 14 games, which was the first game at the beginning of the season against the Knicks led by Melo, and was taken away by the runaway Anthony with 44 points.

The Knicks, Pacers, Nets, etc. followed and ranked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in the East, but compared with the fiercely competitive West, a team like the Nets with 6 wins and 6 losses can only rank 8th in the West.

You have to know that this season is the most obvious year in the second decade of the NBA, with a strong West and weak East.

At the end of the regular season, the Indiana Pacers, who ranked third in the East with 49 wins and 32 losses, can only rank sixth in the West.

During the time Joey was in the Holy City, he also analyzed a lot of useful things based on scattered memories.

Soon, these things will be used!