I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 474 Starting to fight back (second change)

Adam Silva faces many challenges after becoming the league's acting president.

Especially in such an eventful season like the lockout season, Silva's top position was somewhat hasty, which made his foundation not solid enough.

According to Stern's plan, he will gradually hand over his authority when he becomes the league president's 30th anniversary, which is the 2013-2014 season, and successfully complete the power transfer in the middle of the season.

As a result, due to the accident of the suspension of the season, this process was advanced by a full two years.

With two years of preparation missing, there must be different voices within the league's top management.

Silva's authority and experience are not enough, causing him to face resistance when carrying out many tasks.

Although David Stern is Silva's greatest reliance, it is impossible for Silva to use Stern's prestige to suppress everyone until the most important and critical moment, otherwise he, the president, will not Just have a name?
Moreover, Stern was affected by physical health factors. After retiring, he immediately relaxed, and he really didn't have the motivation to continue working.

Just like Mike Dunleavy, after so many years of high-intensity busyness, he finally relaxed and couldn't keep up.

Therefore, although Adam Silva has the title of "acting president", Stern has no plans to return to his post.

He will hang around the league headquarters every week, participate in work meetings, listen to some opinions, but do not make decisions.

He handed over all the decision-making power to Adam Silva and respected the authority of the new president. This is a good thing for Adam Silva, otherwise there will be no way to do anything with an overlord on his head.

But for those people below who were just about to make a move, Stern's "inaction" gave them an opportunity to think carefully.

This time, Bozia, the vice president of the league in charge of refereeing work, put pressure on Adam Silva with the help of the Min Congda incident with the United Referees Association.

With the threat of a strike and stop playing, Min Congda was demanded to be punished heavily, and at the same time, he was asked to improve the referee's treatment.

It is one thing to punish Min Congda heavily, and it is true to improve the referee's treatment. After all, it is not beneficial to get up early.

Referees are extremely important in NBA games and cannot be ignored.

This group often bears a lot of infamy. As the NBA cake grows bigger and bigger, referees are also more and more controversial.

Last year, when the league was shut down, Donaghy's death brought the topic of refereeing to a peak-negative peak.

Now that Donaghy's death was about to be forgotten, the Referee Association used Min Congda's help to revive this topic.

On February 2, the new month, Steve Jarvie, head of the Referees Association, once again said: "Although Donaghy made a huge mistake, death should not be his punishment. His death must be punished." A statement, to give him justice."

Javi is a well-known referee in the league, known as Mr. T. After the end of last season, he announced his retirement due to leg pain.

But after retiring, he has not been idle. On the one hand, he actively participated in the training of NBA referees, and on the other hand, he served as the spokesperson of the league referees to convey the voice of the group.

At the same time, Javi and Fitzgerald's father have a deep relationship. Javi was born in Philadelphia, very close to the New Jersey area, and has close ties with the New Jersey refereeing circle.

Jarvie uncovered Donaghy's matter again, and undoubtedly had the idea of ​​further making the incident worse.

But the Clippers seem to be immovable. So far, Min Congda has not made a positive statement of apology.

On the afternoon of February 2st, Rob Richley rushed into Min Congda's office and said, "Mr. Smart, Mr. Smart! No, there is bad news!"

Min Congda is playing games in the office. The game "Grand Theft Auto 2008" produced in 4, also known as "Gta4", this guy is driving a car and holding a bazooka into the "Liberty City" Olympia Building. Blast a big hole!
"Don't be in such a hurry, if there is any bad news, don't panic."

Hearing the bad news from Ruiqielai, Min Congda was very calm, and he was flustered when he said the good news.

Rickley wiped the sweat off his head, and said: "The league office just sent a fax, saying that you will be fined 150 million dollars! The largest and largest fine in history."

"What? 150 million dollars?" Min Congda was surprised and threw away the game controller.

"Yeah, this is too much, how can there be such a big ticket! It's not fair. But the league has not officially released this news, I think they faxed it first, and they want to see our reaction. Do we want to strongly protest?"

protest?Protest what?Protest that the ticket is too small?
150 million U.S. dollars, no need to pay taxes, converted into RMB is more than 1000 million!
More than 1000 million RMB!Enough to buy a suite in Shanghai, right?
Min Congda took a deep breath to calm himself down.

He coughed and said, "Hey, besides the $150 million fine, is there any other punishment?"

"Uh, there is also a ban on watching the game from the sidelines for 20 games, and you have to receive psychological treatment... It seems that it is the same as last time, there is not much difference."

"very good!"

"Very good? Where is it good?"

"Where is good? Uh...anywhere is good. Rickley, hold a press conference immediately to announce the punishment results. Then issue a press release expressing acceptance of the punishment decision made by the president of the league, Adam Silva. However, one more thing, to the league's The refereeing work protested and demanded that all current referees be replaced and a new referee association be established!"

"Huh? Is this... suitable?"

"Ok?"

"Yes, I understand, let's do it now!"

So, at 4 pm, the Clippers held a press conference at Staples.

Min Congda personally participated in the press conference, and he couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing out loud before the conference.

150 million, 1000 million! 1000 million ah 1000 million, a house is spent!

However, Min Congda doesn't need to go back to buy a house, but in Los Angeles, he can think about buying real estate.

At the press conference, Min Congda first "sincerely" admitted his mistake.

He said that there was no personal grievance between him and Fitzgerald, it was purely due to different understanding of the situation and rules on the court, different positions, and some conflicts occurred.

"And I didn't buy that bucket of popcorn. I didn't violate the rules. I took someone else's popcorn and threw it over. Later, the owner of the popcorn, the little boy, educated me and told me that food should not be wasted. I think he What I said is very correct, I deeply reflect on myself, accept all punishments from the league, and respect all decisions made by Mr. Adam Silva."

"However, I would like to make another suggestion. As a representative of the league's general meeting of shareholders, I propose that in order to prevent tragedies like the Donaghy incident from happening again, we should replace most of the referees in the league and conduct a major shakeup. A new, fair and fair team of referees!"

Min Congda received a "benefit fee" of 150 million, and started to fight back.

(End of this chapter)