Chapter 971: A Different Chinese Basketball

"Beautiful win, Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks at home, Coach Z said, Spurs are far stronger than New York"

"With 38 points in the Finals, Kobe Bryant is more of a superstar than O'Neal tonight, and the Lakers are proving to be the best option to keep him"

"Coach Z said that the Lakers will continue to win in this year's Finals, will the New York Knicks be swept miserably?"

"Phil Jackson had the toughest Finals, and he has never faced such a formidable foe in the last eight Finals experiences"

On the day after the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks game, basically all the media in the United States were surrounded by news of the Lakers' home win over the New York Knicks, and of course, most of the media did not hesitate to frantically tout the Los Angeles Lakers.

At this time, most of the media may have completely forgotten what they said not long ago, and it is not so easy for the Lakers to beat the New York Knicks, and now, the New York Knicks seem to have been eliminated, completely thrown aside by them, and this is what makes many New York Knicks fans feel that this reality has changed too quickly.

But just like these media say, the Lakers' dominance in the game is completely above New York, in this case, this is the reality, they can't ignore such a reality, after all, they are not the media in New York, their position is not so firm, if the New York Knicks can really beat the Lakers, they don't mind crazy touting New York and Phil Jackson, but obviously, such an opportunity is not very big. After all, the Lakers at this time give people a feeling of blowing withered. If nothing has changed for the New York Knicks. Then this team is in danger. At least after many media watched the first game, they basically sentenced the New York Knicks to death.

It's just that at this time, after the game, the local media in New York and the general manager of the New York Knicks, Dolan Jr., don't think so, for them, the defeat of a game can't explain anything, in this case, whether it is the New York media or Dolan Jr. after the game, in addition to criticizing some players of the New York Knicks for their poor state and lack of fighting spirit, they swore that they would be able to beat the Los Angeles Lakers in the next game.

Even Dolan Jr. made a bet on Zhuang Fei in the media if the New York Knicks lost in this year's finals. Obviously, the general manager of the New York Knicks is very confident in the team, and he firmly believes that the loss of this game is just an accident, after all, as many media said first, if it weren't for O'Neal not scoring more than 50 points, and if it wasn't for Butler's so many empty three-point misses, the winner of this game may not necessarily be anyone, as long as the team adapts to the away game, it will definitely rebound, and at this time Dowlan is waiting for his team's rebound.

Of course. At this time, the New York Knicks and Dowland Jr. are confident that the team will be able to bounce back in the next game, and the outside media is also frantically touting the current strongest team in NBA history. But Zhuang Fei, as the head coach of this team, had no time to do anything about this matter at this time, and after the game, Zhuang Fei received a wave of very special guests in his home.

"Chairman Zhuang, let me introduce to you, this is Hu Jiashi, this is Wang Du, the two of them are the two trusted deputy directors of our blue tube center, you may not know each other."

Li Yuanwei usually has a good relationship with Zhuang Fei, and the two of them don't pay so much attention to it in private, at least in private, Li Yuanwei rarely calls Chairman Zhuang Fei, obviously, the two high-level executives of the blue tube center brought by Li Yuanwei to his house are not private matters, there must be something official to discuss with him.

Zhuang Fei is the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, but everyone knows that whether it is the chairman of the Basketball Association or the chairman of the Football Association, or the chairman of some other associations, the real power is actually not very large, because there is no Ministry of Sports in China, and it is not these sports associations that manage the Ministry of Sports, but the State Sports Commission, which is now the General Administration of Sports.

The reason why China established the Football Association or the Basketball Association is just to deal with international things, such as the International Blue League, FIFA, these are private organizations, and the management centers under the Chinese Sports Commission are all government-run organizations, there is no way to deal with the two aspects, if you did not join the United Nations before, it is easy to do, anyway, there is no need to deal with it, so the establishment of a little Basketball Association, the Football Association, these are ostensibly private associations, in fact, in order to deal with foreigners, that is, the so-called façade project, and the presidents of these associations are naturally just spokesmen.

So in China, the real management of basketball is Li Yuanwei, the director of the Blue Pipe Center and vice chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, if it weren't for his good personal relationship with Zhuang Fei, he would be willing to listen to Zhuang Fei's instructions, he would also be willing to listen to Zhuang Fei's command, in fact, he is not under Zhuang Fei's control, Zhuang Fei is also unable to command him, in this case, this Director Li took his two deputies to solemnly find Zhuang Fei is a little surprising to Zhuang Fei, after all, Zhuang Fei is not the leader of the Sports Bureau or the Sports Committee, His deputy ministerial level is just a showcase, otherwise it would be impossible to climb to such a high position with his grade.

However, after Zhuang Fei listened to the intention of this 'old friend', Zhuang Fei understood the reason why the director of the blue tube center came forward to him.

And this matter really has something to do with Zhuang Fei.

After the Athens Olympics last year, the cycle of the Olympic Games has entered the cycle of the Beijing Olympic Games, as a local Olympic Games in China, it can be said that the pressure on the Chinese Sports Bureau is very great, how much specific pressure is, as long as people who understand China's national conditions understand, in this case, basically every sports department or sports association in China is reforming for the Beijing Olympic Games, for example, last year, the Football Association reformed the football A League to the Chinese Super League, and in order to be able to let the players rest assured to play for the national team, It is also more time for the national team, and the Football Association actually canceled the relegation. And also the team was reduced. It can be said that last year's Super League was made into a miasma.

Soccer as one of the three major balls has been made into a miasma. Now it's the turn of basketball reform this year, according to the original plan, Li Yuanwei is ready to emulate the Football Association, but now, don't you want to follow the Football Association to death, not long ago, the director of the Football Management Center was taken down by the General Administration for disadvantage, he doesn't want to be taken down by himself, in this case. He didn't plan to serve this hot potato himself, and finally thought about Zhuang Fei.

Let Zhuang Fei replace him to preside over the reform of Chinese basketball, and he is Zhuang Fei's deputy, regardless of whether the reform is successful in the end, Zhuang Fei is big and can stand up, after all, he is the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association or the vice chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, even if he does something wrong and fails, the General Administration has no way to take him, and he does not dare to take him in a way. You must know that the vice premier of the Celestial Empire, who used to have a good personal relationship with Zhuang Fei and always said that he was a fan of Zhuang Fei, is now the prime minister, who dares to take Zhuang Fei.

That's why. He just brought all the family members of the Blue Tube Center to the United States to ask Zhuang Fei for help, and now there are only two deputy directors who come to Zhuang Fei's house, and in fact, there are two people living in the hotel.

Of course, for officials, he is willing to plan for the worst, but if Zhuang Fei can succeed, it is the best, especially Zhuang Fei's assistant is also a student who led the Chinese men's basketball team to the semifinals in the last Olympics, this is almost difficult to surpass, if he can't get the top three in the Beijing Olympics, he is also derelict in his duties, so for him personally, he naturally hopes that Zhuang Fei will succeed, and he also believes that Zhuang Fei can succeed, after all, what this Chinese did in the NBA is simply unbelievable, He can succeed in the NBA, not to mention a small Chinese basketball.

It's just that for Li Yuanwei's methods, his assistants are very reluctant, reform means a chance to make a fortune, Li Yuanwei has followed Zhuang Fei for many years, and the money he has earned from Zhuang Fei has been millions of dollars, and he has already bought a villa in Beijing, he can't look down on the small money in these reforms, but these assistants are not disdainful, in this case, basically except for a few of his cronies, everyone else is against it, and Li Yuanwei doesn't care too much about these people who oppose Zhuang Fei's reform. As long as Zhuang Fei agrees, the General Administration of Sports has nothing to do with him, and he can do whatever he wants with these people.

So he asked Zhuang Fei to help in addition to Zhuang Fei being able to give him a top cylinder and also to support him, now the pressure of reform is too great, his backstage is not hard enough, and the two assistants he brought are against him, and now he brought these two people to see Zhuang Fei to tell these two people that Zhuang Fei is his backstage, he has made up his mind, and these two people have to consider the consequences if they oppose it.

Li Yuanwei is not a very capable person, but he is not a person who has no pursuit at all, it can be said that he is an ordinary person with some ambitions, which is why Zhuang Fei has always been good friends with him, he is not a bureaucrat.

"Director Li, I understand this matter, I can call the shots for you, but I won't implement it, my own team can't manage it, and now I don't have the time to go to the troubled waters of domestic officialdom" Looking at Li Yuanwei's two deputy directors who were very dissatisfied with him, Zhuang Fei also said with a smile, and Li Yuanwei was disappointed after listening to Zhuang Fei's words, and soon became excited.

Zhuang Fei meant to tell him that he could give Li Yuanwei a plan, but he would not implement it, and he had to do the specific things that were implemented, but Zhuang Fei could support him, he only needed to be a thug for Zhuang Fei, Zhuang Fei didn't want to go to the troubled waters in China, he didn't care, in this case, this was almost Li Yuanwei's best choice, if he didn't do well, Zhuang Fei would not have anything to do, and there was no need to grab credit from him if he did a good job, and now the power in his hand is still his.

"Chairman Zhuang, I understand, don't worry, I will do what you ask me to do"

At this time, Li Yuanwei, who was already a little excited, stood up and bowed to Zhuang Fei directly under the surprised eyes of his two assistants, which also made Zhuang Fei stunned.

Zhuang Fei, who finally came back to his senses, also felt a little funny when he saw this extremely excited Li Yuanwei, Li Yuanwei's determination is really good, as long as he has the heart of reform, Zhuang Fei has no problem supporting him, in China, the most difficult thing about reform is not that there is no good reform plan, but that there is a good reform plan but there is no right to reform and the interest groups touched by reform, which is probably what Li Yuanwei is really afraid of.

Zhuang Fei guessed right, Li Yuanwei is indeed very afraid of these reform resistance, football is the most typical example, in the end, the reform of football has become a stage for the bigwigs to divide the interests, as long as Zhuang Fei, the vice chairman of the Olympic Committee backed by the Prime Minister, supports, no one dares to stop him in his basketball acre.

All Zhuang Fei is doing now is freeing his hands.

After Zhuang Fei talked about this matter with the three officials from the motherland, Zhuang Fei also left Li Yuanwei in his own home, and the two talked about some details of the reform, although Zhuang Fei did not care about the reform of Chinese basketball, but after all, this matter is his decision, and some general directions still need to be grasped by Zhuang Fei.

For Zhuang Fei, these things are just an episode, and the most important thing for Zhuang Fei now is still the Finals, which is still going on, on June 11, 2005, the second game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks at home also began. (To be continued......)