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Chapter 350: After the race

Chapter 350: After the race

Zhang Yang’s outbreak came so suddenly that the Suns players didn’t have time to react.

But now they’re relieved they hadn’t reacted.

Seeing Zhang Yang attempting to kick Raja Bell in the face even as they were being separated, although missing, gave them a jolt.

This high schooler wasn’t just good at fighting; he was ruthless and also very patient!

To make sure he could give Raja Bell a good beating, he first pretended to ’consider the big picture,’ waiting until everyone had calmed down and not guarding Raja Bell so closely before launching a surprise attack!

If they had interfered with his revenge on Raja Bell just now, they might have been hated and unexpectedly beaten up at some point.

Getting beaten up was one thing, but the method of being beaten up was too humiliating, involving slapping of all things!

They witnessed Raja Bell getting slapped hard enough in the struggle that he passed out!

Blood was frothing from his mouth, and if nothing went wrong, he probably lost a few teeth, but his face was so swollen that the blood could only bubble, and the teeth couldn’t come out.

Not just the Suns players, but even the Bobcats players were stunned.

They thought the rumors were wild, but now they realized the rumors about their Zhang San were actually quite conservative.

Big Fatty Joe was quick to react, pulling Zhang Yang away from the encircling Suns players... although the Suns players seemed too stunned to fight back, he still took his little brother and ran towards the players’ tunnel, escaping to talk about it later.

The referee waited until the Suns team doctor arrived, planning to blow the whistle to eject Zhang Yang, but found him gone; looking around, he saw Zhang Yang being kicked into the players’ tunnel by Felton with a scream...

The referee was speechless, wondering if this foolish-looking person was the same thug from before.

Actually, the referee was in a good mood now, having thought a massive brawl was about to break out, yet only one person fell...

Even though the brawler was kicked out of the game, procedures still had to be followed. The referee blew the whistle, indicated to the scorer’s table two technical fouls and an ejection, then... pointed down the players’ tunnel.

As Raja Bell was being examined on site and staff cleaned and disinfected the blood stains on the floor, the referee went to the scorer’s table to decide on the penalties. With nearly 20 players on the court and some intense physical altercations, there were fouls to be called...

The Bobcats players were pulled back to the bench by the referees and coaches, seeing Jordan standing in front of his seat, furious.

The players inwardly cursed, expecting a scolding for causing such a commotion.

Felton was just about to take responsibility when he heard Jordan shout, "We must win tonight! If anyone dares to shoot in front of you, smack them down! Get in their face! Foul them!"

The Bobcats players were pumped by the shouting. What were they worried about? Their boss was the God of Basketball! The NBA player who suffered the most hard fouls in history! As for Zhang San’s plight, their boss could empathize better than they could!

After a while, the referee finished reviewing the footage. The elbowing from Felton, the pushing from Stoudemire and Marion, the mutual tugging between Gerald Wallace and Kurt Thomas, and Diaw, who nearly knocked over the referee as he rushed onto the court... each received a technical foul, offsetting the two sides’ technical free throws.

Only Raja Bell’s flagrant foul level two remained, giving the Bobcats two free throws and one possession.

With the victim of the flagrant foul ejected, Matt Carroll, the team’s best free-throw shooter, took the two shots.

He made both free throws, 86-82, Bobcats now leading by 4 points!

Although such an incident had occurred, the fight for the game’s victory had to still be pursued. During the period the referee reviewed the playback, Nash actively rallied his teammates’ spirits. Considering it a one-for-one trade between Raja Bell and Zhang Yang, they gained in terms of strength; without Raja Bell, who was just an elite three-point shooter, they lacked a pivot for high-post offense.

But when the game resumed, the Suns players were dumbfounded...

The opponents were playing like madmen!

On offense, they charged into the paint, and their movements on defense were exceptionally rough. If they couldn’t substantially interfere with a shot, they would resort to flagrant fouls.

The opponents were still in a state of rage over their teammate being flagrantly fouled!

As for the Suns... with Raja Bell carried out, they really didn’t feel any sense of shared indignation.

The Suns players actually found Raja Bell’s flagrancy unreasonable. They were ashamed of Raja Bell’s sudden throat lock on Kobe during last year’s playoffs, even Kurt Thomas, known as ’Dirty Kurt,’ couldn’t bear to watch that foul.

Years later, when Kurt Thomas, who had become a basketball commentator, ranked the dirtiest fouls he had witnessed, he placed Raja Bell’s foul on Kobe at the top, calling it a disgrace to basketball.

If one was provoked, ridiculed, or the physical contact was too rough, or there were old grievances justifying a hard foul, that was understandable, and teammates should help out. But hard fouls purely because one couldn’t defend were embarrassing to the teammates, especially Kurt Thomas, who took pride in his defense, felt the most ashamed.

Some Suns players retaliated against the Bobcats’ aggressive defense with fouls, but most chose to avoid contact and shoot, which naturally affected their shooting accuracy. With the Suns defense in disarray, the Bobcats gradually increased their lead...

On the sidelines, Jordan, having vented his emotions, now began to worry again. Fearing his players would get into another fight due to their temper, he had gone from player mentality back to the owner mentality, regretting that he had fanned the flames.

Jordan turned to Bickerstaff and asked, "How is Jack doing?"

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