Aunt Akali groaned and looked at Lufa in contemplation, and then did not dwell further on the issue.

My neighbor totoro guessed that Lufa must have been asked by her mother when she went home, and this time it was just a confession to herself, but Totoro also admired Aunt Akali, I don't know if the information age is so developed now? There are a lot of things that don't need to be met, whether it's text messages or other things, you can communicate with each other.

"I played a good game today, although I don't really like to watch basketball, but I was also a female basketball player in high school, and I know the rules of basketball very well."

"Yes, Aunt Akali, I was still looking at your tall height at first, wondering if you were engaged in modeling or sports, but I didn't expect you to really have the experience of being a basketball player, which is amazing."

My neighbor totoro strictly follows the content of the book [18 countermeasures on how to coax a good mother-in-law] before he came over to implement the policy, saying that as long as it is a woman, whether she is 8 years old, 18 years old, 28 years old, 38 years old, 48 years old or 58 years old, the vanity of appearance will never change, you can think of a way to find a way to praise her for her good figure, good looks or beautiful skin, as long as it is not too superficial, it will generally make the praised lesbian ecstatic.

It's just that Aunt Akali has a visual appearance of 1.85 meters, how can she raise the road method so short? Could it be that something is wrong with her father's genes? Or is she not Akali Aunt Akali biological at all?

"Hehe, I won't say much if I praise me, I originally had the opportunity to develop professional basketball, but I never chose to play in college women's basketball, because I felt in my heart that playing basketball is something that no cultural talent can do, and it is not a decent job."

Aunt Akali turned her words and her eyes were cold, which instantly made Totoro feel a little uncomfortable.

"Look at the so-called stars in the NBA now, there are many blacks, there are slum [Artest] born, drug dealer [Butler], there are gun dealers [Arenas], and there are members with gang background [Anthony], others such as drug addicts, nightclubs, fights and brawls, there are countless others, I have always thought that the NBA arena is like the arena of ancient Rome, the players are a group of beasts, and the audience is the aristocracy who spent money to watch the show, but it was too bloody before, It's a little more civilized now, isn't it? ”

Akali's words made Totoro very uncomfortable, but Totoro was not angry with Ms. Akali because of this sentence, this is not the relationship between Aunt Akali is the head of one of her wives, but she knows that the other party is not biased against herself and against the NBA, but the white people in the United States who live on the upper level are prejudiced against the NBA.

Lawyers, judges, Wall Street tycoons, fashion designer bigwigs, some big aristocrats, they form a circle of themselves, but you don't have how much money you have to get to join them.

The NBA is always filled with too much negative news, as listed above for themselves, and those black nouveau riche who were poor before do not know moderation, the NBA has been difficult to integrate into the eyes of the upper class of Americans, and now the NBA is supported by some blue-collar workers in the United States, David Stern and the owners of every team in the league have been trying to package the NBA since the early 20th century, wanting to promote the league into the circle of these modern aristocrats, but this plan has not been very successful.

After all, if you think about it, people are looking for a comfortable environment, sitting quietly in a café in the afternoon, enjoying themselves while talking with other literate people about arts, humanities and politics.

So it's normal for Ms. Akali to have prejudices about herself and the whole game of basketball, after all, she lives in that circle.

"I know that the behavior of some players in the NBA has discredited the league, but you have to think that the people who play in the NBA league are unqualified people, this concept is too inappropriate, just like there is an idiom in my home country called generalization, you can't just see the bad phenomena in the league."

Hearing the other party's contempt for the alliance, especially the comparison of the alliance to a gladiatorial arena, although Totoro can't talk about getting angry, but also a little unhappy, although sometimes he can't get used to some black nouveau riche, he used to be poor and now he doesn't know what his surname is when he has money, but no matter how he is playing in it to beg for food, and then again, what's wrong with basketball?

My Neighbor Totoro also looks down on those who think they have a high style when they have status, and basketball has confrontation, which is a vulgar project in their eyes? Golf, snooker these sports are not opposed, wearing a suit and tie to the game all day long is an elegant project in their eyes? In fact, after all, it is not a sport with the goal of victory?

"Perhaps, how much money do you make a year?"

Lady Akali didn't argue with Totoro, and asked what almost all mothers in the world would say when they met their sons-in-law.

She doesn't pay much attention to basketball, so she doesn't have a specific understanding of the ability of NBA players to attract money, just that they all make a lot of money.

"I don't earn a lot a year, only $1 million a year if I have a dead salary, and if I remove taxes, I only get more than $700,000."

My neighbor toro crossed his fingers and calculated an account with Ms. Akali, Texas doesn't have to pay taxes is just a general statement, it is not just the state's personal income tax, but you still have to pay money to the United States, counting the car tax and house tax, Totoro's dead salary is really not much.

The annual salary of a white-collar worker in the United States is around 100,000 US dollars, which still refers to several relatively poor places in the United States.

Not to mention a successful person like himself, a lawsuit can be worth half of Totoro's income a year, and a lawyer may only fight two lawsuits a year?

"Then your income is a little small, if Lufa wants to find a boyfriend, don't mention other conditions, but the annual income must reach at least 2 million US dollars, this is the annual income of Lufa's father and me, we think our daughter should find someone more capable than us, so that we can rest assured that we will hand over our daughter to him."

A sneer crossed Lady Akali's lips, but Lufa tugged at the hem of her shirt at the side.

"Mom, My Neighbor Totoro's income is about $20 million a year, and in addition to the salary given to him by the team, he also has a lot of income from endorsement contracts."

Lufa whispered, and Lady Akali's face changed and changed.

"What, you're not kidding me? Can this kid make $20 million a year? ”

"That's right, Totoro's endorsement contract is almost millions of dollars, and Totoro has also got shares in many companies, plus he has recently opened 3 companies, he is not only a player, but also the owner of several companies."

Lufa said in his heart that he hated his mother's dog looking down on people, she just couldn't stand this and escaped with Ivy who was suffering from the same disease, but no matter how people said that she was also her own mother, she still couldn't watch and let her be slapped in the face by Totoro all the time.

Ms. Akali is not surprised by this ignorance of the NBA, she is an American born in 1960, has experienced six to eleven economic crises, the United States economy is very developed, but in terms of facts, they are also very class-contradictory, the rich are a circle, the bottom workers are a circle, and there is little connection between the two.

Coupled with the fact that the NBA has developed too fast in recent years, and the pace of the times has been very big, for the group of people who got rich at the end of the 20th century, they don't know what the economic income level of the poor people in the past is, just like a person who paid attention to the NBA for a while in 1990, when the big-name stars only had a few million dollars a year of pre-tax income, and the team salary cap was only tens of millions of dollars, and then he didn't pay attention to the NBA, but who would have thought that it had only been a few decades. In the past, the income of the entire team was equivalent to the income of a star now?

"Oh, well, you're rich in terms of income, do you have any hobbies? I mean anything other than sports. ”

My Neighbor Totoro's annual income startled Ms. Akali, she has always claimed to be an upper-class person, but who would have thought that she used to be a person she looked down on, and now she suddenly pulled out a year that could cover the money she earned for ten years, and no matter how thick-skinned she was, she felt that her cheeks were hot at the moment.

Ms. Akali is ready to get back on the court in other aspects, such as the cultural aspect, she thinks that the people who play basketball are the big guys, in fact, she is really not wrong to think so, the cultural level of NBA players is really worrying.

Kobe James, who entered the league to play after graduating from high school, does not have a college diploma, and other people who enter college to play basketball are basically scumbags, relying on the extra points of basketball to successfully complete the credits in college and graduate, otherwise they will not even be able to pass the university exam with their test-taking ability alone.

But Totoro is different, his last life is a bachelor who is about to graduate from a Chinese undergraduate school, to say that the knowledge of the dabbling and comprehensiveness, the undergraduates from the Yankees really can't be compared with Totoro, a kind of all-round talent who learns from small language and mathematics, physics and chemistry, plus geography and politics, computers, Chinese pay attention to the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, and other NBA stars in college even if they have basketball bonus points are almost not finished, but Totoro has never had some problems.

"In addition to sports, I am also interested in history, literature and politics, as well as music and computer software programming, and I also know a little bit about physics and chemistry."

As soon as Totoro said, Lufa next to him was a little worried, this little girl didn't know the details of Totoro, since living with the other party, she hadn't seen what books Totoro had read and practiced what musical instruments, this kid shouldn't be slapping his swollen face and being fat.

"Really? What books do you usually read? ”

Lady Akali was surprised, even more so than hearing that he made twenty million a year.

What young people in the United States are like now, she is not unclear, even in the so-called "high-level people" circle that usually mixes with her, there are many children who do not learn well, smoking, drinking, taking drugs, fighting, gambling, and it is not a minority phenomenon, rich and noble children are all a behavior everywhere, it is not excluded that there are indeed highly educated, but more children are "my father is Li Gang".

I didn't expect that a teenager in front of her, who she originally looked down on in her heart, could still get out of the mud in the American fast food cultural environment without staining, and the three views are so positive, which is very rare.

"I usually like to read books on Chinese culture, especially when the princes of thought in the Warring States period sang together, no matter which genre of views and literary masterpieces, I think it makes sense, and I also appreciate other countries, such as Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", Hugo's "Les Miserables" and Gorky's "Childhood", which are all books with rich connotations, for example, there is a passage in "The Old Man and the Sea" that I think is very quintessential, "A person can be destroyed, but not defeated", I think this sentence has also helped me in my basketball career........"

"Okay, okay, I see, hehe, that, let's talk about other topics, are you interested in American law?"

Ms. Akali saw that there were really a few catties of ink in the other party's stomach, and hurriedly wanted to open the topic, the other party said that the "Old Man and the Sea", "Childhood" and "Les Miserables" She forgot whether she had read it, maybe she had turned a few pages casually before, but she forgot about it, and it would be bad for her to talk about this topic again, but she didn't expect that she was a lawyer who was not educated in basketball, who would believe it.

My Neighbor Totoro immediately shut up and listened attentively, he is not the kind of person who is unforgiving to his mother-in-law, he is going to marry Lufa in the future, pretend to force this kind of thing to pretend to be a few of his own, don't let the other party look down on himself, pretend to be too much, people look at it is also a person who wants to save face, isn't it fun to pretend to be happy to return home?

After listening to the other party talk to him about the laws of the United States for more than an hour, My Neighbor Totoro also successfully completed the [Meet the Parents] mission, after eating, Lufa did not follow his mother back to his home, My Neighbor Totoro also has a villa in Los Angeles, and he has to play a second away game with the Lakers here, as long as he is not in a hurry to return to Houston, as long as his brain is not broken, he will not let a beautiful woman go to the hotel with a group of big men without hugging.