During the flight trip to the Eagles, Li Rui watched the first game of the Rockets' first round of the playoffs.

The competition in the NBA's regular season this season is very fierce. The Heat in the Eastern Conference continued to work hard under the leadership of the Big Three, won the best regular season record, and took a solid step towards defending the title.

In the Western Conference, although the Thunder lost the best sixth man, James Harden, they still won the Western Conference's regular season first with Durant and Westbrook's two stars.

The Rockets experienced a season of ups and downs. The momentum was very strong at the beginning of the season, and the injury was plagued by Lillard in the middle and the rookie wall, and his record declined slightly. Harden's joining after the All-Star Game improved the strength of the entire team by a higher level, and finally entered the playoffs with sixth place, facing the Denver Nuggets from the Plateau in the first round.

In the first game, the Rockets lined up a super double-gun backcourt combination led by Harden and Lillard, and combined with center Asik, power forward Marcus Morris and small forward Parsons to form a main lineup with inexperienced but very dynamic.

The Nuggets were led by Ty Lawson and Andre Miller, leading Chandler, Iguodala, McGee, Farid and Brewer, with extremely fierce athletic and defensive players. Both sides played gunpowder from the beginning and fouled one after another.

Harden was very uncomfortable being guarded throughout the game. Lillard's proud breakthrough and three-pointer did not play any effect. Although Lin Shuhao, Green Middleton, Barnes and others played well, they could never overtake the score.

In the end, the Rockets lost by 2 points and lost their first away trip.

After watching the game, Li Rui realized that the team's current configuration was problematic. Harden and Lillard were both players who needed a lot of dribbling to launch attacks. They would sacrifice the ability of one of them when they played at the same time, but with their personality, it was impossible to play as a substitute.

Not to mention on the bench, Lin Shuhao is still waiting for more playing time!

Li Rui thought that if he could not achieve particularly good results this year's playoffs, he might need to change his team-building ideas next season.

...

The plane landed slowly at London Heathrow International Airport.

Steve Parrish and several club staff were waiting for Li Rui and his party to arrive at the international passenger exit. The Crystal Palace team logo on them did not attract much attention because almost everyone was looking in another direction.

There were about a dozen men in black wearing black suits, tall and mighty figures, wearing sunglasses and headphones, observing around them as vigilantly as the scenes in the movie.

The passengers who were unaware of the situation looked sideways, guessing what kind of big shots were about to appear, which would create such a big battle.

Parrish couldn't help but complain to the people around him: "I don't know who he is, but the security of the Prime Minister is tighter than the Prime Minister's going out."

As he was talking, Parrish caught a glimpse of Li Rui's familiar figure and walked out. He was about to come forward to greet him when he suddenly found that the group of men in black were rushing forward to meet him, and in an instant he surrounded Li Rui and his party.

Li Rui saw a group of men in black facing each other, shocked by such a big formation. The first thought that came to his mind was whether these people came to capture me?

My layout around the world has been exposed?

At this time, a beautiful woman appeared under the heavy protection of the man in black and gave Li Rui a big hug with enthusiasm.

Li Rui breathed a sigh of relief and smiled bitterly: "wendy, why have you brought so many bodyguards? I thought the Eagle Country MI6 was here to capture me!"

The person who came was Rupert's wife, Deng Wendi, the boss of News Group, and she said helplessly: "I don't want to bring so many bodyguards, but now is an extraordinary period..."

Li Rui remembered Rupert's attack and nodded to show his understanding.

Deng Wendi hugged Shao Xuan who was following Li Rui again and said, "Dear Xuan, welcome to the Eagle Country!"

Shao Xuan and Deng Wendi are old friends. They formed friendships last time they met at Madrid Fashion Week. After returning to China, they often contacted them through whatsapp.

When the two women meet, they greet each other intimately, and they also have to hypocritically compliment each other that they "have a good figure" or "your skin is too good", and they look like they have been best friends for many years.

Parrish was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that these men in black were coming to greet Li Rui. As soon as he approached, someone raised his hand to stop him and said, "Sir, please don't get close!"

Parrish quickly opened his hands and signaled that he had no malice, and then shouted: "Lee! I'm Steven!"

Li Rui turned his head and smiled and said, "Steve, I'm glad to see you!"

Then he introduced to Deng Wendi: "This is Steve Parrish, the owner of Eagle Super Crystal Palace. I will go to the Crystal Palace Club first to take a look, and Shao Xuan will ask you to take care of you."

"No problem, we can go have afternoon tea first and talk about some topics between women." Deng Wendi said with a smile, "Go shopping again."

After pausing, she said, "The day after tomorrow, Rupert and I will hold a small party at home, and I will introduce you to some friends."

"I'm looking forward to it." Li Rui nodded.

Zhu Qianxue and Lu Yong accompanied Shao Xuan, Qian Weichen returned to the hotel to rest, and Li Rui took He Caocao and followed Parrish directly to the Crystal Palace Club.

On the way, Parish asked in surprise: "Lee, didn't expect you to be so familiar with Rupert's family?"

Li Rui said: "We have some cooperation in business."

"Are the recent bloody incidents of their family true?" Parrish asked curiously.

Li Rui was stunned: "What a bloody incident?"

"Several children compete for property, and Rupert's divorce?" said Parrish. "Don't you know?"

Li Rui shook his head: "I really don't know much about this. I'm not interested in their housework."

Speaking of this, Li Rui thought to himself, is the one that should come finally coming?

The story behind the divorce case between Rupert and Deng Wendi is extremely exciting. In the next few months or even years, all kinds of gossip tabloids in the Eagle Kingdom will not lack material!

The only pity is that the Sun, which is best at gossiping in Eagle Kingdom, is a property owned by Rupert. Even if the Sun is brave, he dare not talk nonsense with his boss. Without this main force of spreading rumors and causing trouble, this erotic divorce case has fewer places to talk about...

The car passed through half a London. This was Li Rui's first time to come to London. Although he had not seen the famous Big Ben, he saw many scenes that could only be seen in Eagle Dramas, especially after entering the South District, as the number of residences increased, familiar film and television drama scenes poured into his heart one by one.

Is there a Burner Black hidden in the old bookstore on the corner of the street?

That deep alley, Jack the Ripper once walked through?
Chapter completed!