"I, Wang Meng, have deeply realized my mistakes." Wang Meng stood on the plane, put his hands behind his back, and said loudly, "Even if the fans provoke me, I shouldn't be angry and yelling at the fans, nor should I throw bananas at the fans, this is a very wrong approach, I promise never to throw bananas at the fans in the future, of course, I won't throw anything else, please forgive me." ”

The Lakers players sitting on the plane couldn't help but laugh when they heard Wang Meng's lame apology.

"It's not a question of whether I forgive you or not, if only it were me, after all, those guys are too much. But you've violated the interests of the Alliance, and Stern will punish you. Phil said with a dark face: "Don't you know how serious it is to do this to the fans?" Look at Artest, Auburn Hills Palace has been banned for almost a season, and there are fines. ”

"Isn't it? So serious? Wang Meng's face suddenly fell, he thought it was just a very ordinary thing.

"Nonsense, you think it's playing?" Phil looked at Wang Meng angrily and scolded: "I thought you were a good player, but I didn't expect you to be a thorn." ”

Wang Meng laughed twice and did not speak.

At that time, after Wang Meng threw bananas to the fans, the referee immediately blew Wang Meng to leave the field.

Wang Meng was immediately asked off the field by the security guards, Wang Meng wanted to leave the stadium immediately, but fortunately, Phil had experience and asked someone to pull Wang Meng, otherwise Wang Meng would definitely be torn to pieces by a group of angry fans when he went out.

The rebound was destroyed by Wang Meng, and the game could not be held normally, so it took a long time to change to a new rebound to continue the game, and the result was that the Hornets ended the Lakers' five-game winning streak 113:109.

This matter is not over yet, the alliance has issued a notice, saying that it is discussing Wang Meng's punishment, and Wang Meng is prohibited from playing during the period.

Although I didn't expect things to be so troublesome, but Wang Meng didn't regret it, since he dared to do it, Wang Meng dared to be, I would throw the banana at the audience, what's the matter, Artest beats the audience much worse than me, and I don't see a lifetime ban, I am only banned at most, these days I have played a certain value, I am not afraid that no one will want it.

Wang Meng's matter immediately caused an uproar, his excellent performance against the Heat and the news with Taylor have not completely subsided, and this banana gate time immediately pushed Wang Meng to the wave again.

Regardless of the views of American fans on this, many Chinese fans have expressed their opinions on this, and many people agree with Wang Meng's approach, after all, it is the fans who provoke Wang Meng first and then first, and that kind of practice with serious racial discrimination should be banned, Wang Meng's approach is very patriotic and is a manifestation of pure masters.

There are also many people who think that Wang Meng's approach is extremely stupid and damages the image of China's civilized power, and Wang Meng ignores these people. What kind of civilized country, being scolded and quietly not speaking is civilization? Bullshit, no matter others, Wang Meng doesn't regret it at all anyway.

Temporarily losing Wang Meng is a big blow for the Lakers, and then three consecutive home games, January 1 against the 76ers, January 3 against the Grizzlies, January 5 against the Pistons, although it is not a strong team, but the Lakers only won two games, although Wang Meng has only played a dozen games, but has become an indispensable member of the Lakers.

A week later, on January 6, the alliance finally announced the punishment of Wang Meng.

He was banned for 10 games, fined 2,000 yuan, and publicly apologized to Hornets fans.

Hearing this punishment, Phil breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Meng was also secretly happy, only banned for ten games, which was much less than he imagined, according to his ideas, at least forty or fifty games were banned, and only fined two thousand dollars, Wang Meng didn't blink his eyelids, and he apologized to the Hornets fans, he had already vented some of them, and it didn't matter if he apologized to this group of guys, for the sake of the overall situation, after all, Wang Meng still wanted to mix in the NBA.

In fact, this is a compromise decision made by Stern and his team after a long discussion, and they don't want to punish Wang Meng too much, because Wang Meng is China's new rising star, an excellent replacement for Yao Ming, who plays with passion and is not weak. Stern has been looking at the Chinese market for a long time, but for so long there is only one breakthrough for Yao Ming, Yao Ming still has a fatal flaw, lack of physical strength, resulting in him not being able to really become a super center in the league, and now there is a Wang Meng, which makes Stern extremely happy, although he offended the fans, but he only offended the fans of New Orleans, Chinese fans and New Orleans fans are very important, Stern understands very well, so he sentenced Wang Meng to such a light punishment.

Banned for ten games, it is not long, but it is not short, Phil in order to punish Wang Meng, let Wang Meng have to follow the team during the ban.

Running around on the court in a suit every day makes Wang Meng very unaccustomed.

After the penalty was announced, the Lakers flew to Phoenix to play an away game with the Suns, and in the face of Fisher's near-waterproof defense, Nash easily scored 20+10 to help the Suns defeat the Lakers.

After playing the Suns, the Lakers returned to their home court to play the Hornets.

Playing the Hornets is really a narrow road, but unfortunately Wang Meng is suitable for the Hornets fans have a conflict, not a Hornets player, after Wang Meng left the Hornets Arena, Paul also specifically asked Wang Meng's phone call to greet him, Paul is a very good player, and he has a very good relationship with most players in the league.

Before the start of the game, Wang Meng and Paul talked for a while.

The Lakers finally won this game, but the Lakers have fallen to third place in the West, and the Lakers have lost two wins and three losses in five games in the first few games, and they have fallen behind to the Mavericks and fallen to third.

At the beginning of January, the voting for the NBA All-Star Game also began, Wang Meng relied on the super explosive popularity generated in various situations, and immediately climbed to the second place in the All-Star Vote, the first is Kobe, this year's All-Star Game was held in Los Angeles, hosted by the Lakers, and was the home of Kobe and Wang Meng.

Wang Meng can rush to this position, even higher than Paul, who has always been powerful, or relying on the advantage of Chinese, all-star voting is the global surname, Yao Ming has been the vote king for a long time.

However, all this is too far away from Wang Meng, he is now desperate to play, he really can't imagine how Artest survived so many bans.

Waiting for eight more games, Wang Meng can only wait patiently, but the Lakers are easier to play in the next games, and the problem is not too big, after all, Wang Meng is not the Lakers' trump card, and the Lakers can continue to win as long as they have Kobe.

In the remaining eight games, the Lakers have an excellent record of seven wins and one loss, only losing one to the Mavericks, and winning all the others, and Wang Meng can finally play.