Legendary star

Chapter 659

"I am really sorry for what the Spurs and Pacers did in the game. Here, on behalf of the NBA, I would like to express my sincere apologies to all the fans and media who followed this game."

"The game between the Spurs and the Pacers is the most watched game of all the games in this round. This is a game that the entire North American sports world and media circles pay special attention to. The live broadcast of the game is a grand event for all basketball fans, but what the Spurs and Pacers did seriously hurt the feelings of all fans who like them. The fans are doing the damage."

“Hereby, on behalf of the NBA, I announce that the San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers will be fined $25 and $15, respectively.”

"At the same time, after discussions between the league and all teams, we have unanimously decided that a rotation clause will be issued. The rotation of any team or any player must not be based on the premise of harming the interests of the league and fans. Otherwise, the league will He will be severely punished."

On March 2006, 3, the day after the Spurs' away game against the Pacers, NBA Commissioner David Stern held a press conference to discuss the embarrassing scene in yesterday's game between the Pacers and the Spurs , Penalties were imposed on the Spurs and Pacers.

The Spurs and the Pacers are undoubtedly the two strongest teams this season. The two teams currently ranked No. [-] in the East and West have already taken the lead when there are more than a dozen games left in the regular season. With more than a dozen victories behind the competitors, and the "Gods and Buddhas" that have been hyped for a whole season, the Pacers' home game against the Spurs has received unprecedented attention. And the ticket price for this game has also been fired to the point where it is scary.

However, right after the start of the game, everyone was indignant. The guest San Antonio Spurs directly rested three All-Stars, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, and the Pacers also rested Jermaine. - O'Neill, James Posey, and Tayshaun Prince are the three main players. You must know that in today's game, the cheapest tickets were all fired up to $2000, and the first row on the sidelines was even fired. 26000 US dollars, countless fans, and a large number of Hollywood stars, politicians, and businessmen who came to catch the heat, pulled out a lot of dollars, but what they saw was a substitute battle. Although the Pacers side, Meng Xu still started played, but Meng Xu only played 21 minutes and sat on the bench to rest.

It is conceivable how such a game will affect the NBA. A large number of stars and politicians who came to watch the game expressed their dissatisfaction after the game.Today, when social networking on the Internet has become more and more prosperous, under the leadership of these "Gods" who spent a lot of money but only saw a substitute battle, a war of words denouncing the Spurs and Pacers quickly spread on the Internet Come.

The NBA management, which was originally very dissatisfied with the Spurs and Pacers, reacted in a very short time after seeing these "public opinions". David Stern first called all 30 players in the NBA. The team's management held a meeting to unify their thinking, and then voted to pass several agreements, and finally decided to severely punish the actions of the Spurs and Pacers.

After the league announced the penalties for the Spurs and the Pacers, the Pacers chose to swallow their anger and obediently paid a fine of $15, but the Spurs were different. When Popovich was interviewed by reporters, he first expressed "Disappointed" that the league made such a decision, and then made a very rare public comment on David Stern's decision.

"I have reservations about the league's punishment. Of course, we will definitely appeal. Throughout March, we will play 3 games, including 15 away games. Counting the away game against the Pacers, we will be in 11 Playing 6 away games in one day, the players are also human beings, they are not machines that don’t need to rest, so here, I also suggest that the league can review its own schedule while punishing us.”

"My point of view in making this decision is from a coach's point of view. I think the league handles this matter from a business point of view, which also reflects some of their principles."

"How dare Greg say that about David Stern." Looking at Popovich, who was expressing his dissatisfaction endlessly on the TV, Meng Xu was somewhat surprised. He favors the Spurs and the Pacers, but as the master of this league, David Stern absolutely wants to give Popovich a small shoe after seeing Popovich's attitude, but with the Spurs now It doesn't matter whether you wear small shoes or not, as long as the Spurs can win 13 of the remaining 3 games, the Spurs' No. [-] position in the Western Conference will be as stable as Mount Tai.

"Xiao Xu, Yahoo has raised the price to 10 billion dollars." Just as Meng Xu was watching TV and grinning, He Hui, who had just finished answering the phone, patted Meng Xu on the shoulder, A little excited to tell Meng Xu a good news.

"Mark, what did you say over there?" After more than two years of development, Facebook has become a social network with nearly 2 million users. The booming Facebook has naturally attracted the attention of countless predators. Google , Yahoo, and Microsoft have successively proposed acquisition intentions to Mark Zuckerberg, but they were all rejected by Mark Zuckerberg. purchase offer.

"He said that Yahoo doesn't know the value of Facebook at all, and Yahoo also lacks a detailed and long-term plan for the future of Facebook, so he will not sell Facebook to Yahoo. If we plan to transfer Facebook shares, he is willing to follow the return repurchase agreement."

"US$10 billion is indeed too little." After two rounds of capital injection, 5M, which is held by Meng Xu and others, now owns 37.5% of Facebook's shares. Xu, will definitely not sell the shares in his hands. Even if the 37.5% of the shares will go through rounds of dilution in order to go public in the future, this is at least a share worth hundreds of billions of dollars. If you sell it, you will definitely regret it in the future.

"Then Reggie, and James and the others..." No one can resist the temptation of US dollars, not to mention the astronomical figure of nearly 4 million US dollars, so the other shareholders of 5M are inclined to sell their holdings. Shares, as long as Yahoo successfully acquires Facebook, the shares held by 5M can share 3.75 million U.S. dollars, and the investment of less than 2000 million U.S. dollars in two years has achieved nearly 20 times the income. Successful investment.

"I went to tell them that what Mark said was very good, they didn't understand the value of Facebook at all, and maybe in the future Facebook will grow into behemoths like Microsoft and Google."

(End of this chapter)