roccoschili Chapter 156 The Great King's Flag Changed at the City Head
Chapter 156 The Great King's Flag Changed at the City Head
Chapter 156 The Great King's Flag Changed at the City Head
It's not a good idea to celebrate recklessly on the Lakers' territory. As soon as the awards ceremony ended last night, the Knicks quickly left the Staples Center and returned to the hotel in a low-key manner.Zhao Ke and Jeff Van Gundy, who were locked up in the hotel because of the suspension, finally touched the freshly baked championship trophy.
And early this morning, the Knicks, who were eager to return home, hurriedly boarded the flight to New York. They couldn't wait to bring the glory home.
At the same time, on the other side of the United States, at the "Olympic Tower" at 645 Fifth Avenue in York City, the NBA headquarters held a huge press conference.
For the first time since the "referee incident" broke out, the NBA headquarters faced all the media directly.
The first item on the agenda of the press conference was to state their attitude, draw a clear line of boundaries, and solemnly announce that the NBA Board of Directors has officially dismissed David Stern and Adam Silva from all positions due to suspicion of referee control and game manipulation, and applied to the FBI to conduct a deeper investigation into the above two and the three on-duty referees.
The second item on the agenda is to announce that Las Granik, vice president of the NBA, will be the president of the league.
In the just-concluded emergency meeting of the board of directors, all shareholders voted on the appointment and dismissal of the next NBA commissioner by secret ballot, and Las Granik passed the unanimous vote without any suspense.
Granik, 53 years old, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1973, joined the NBA as a lawyer in 1976, became assistant general counsel in 1978, general counsel in 1980, executive vice chairman in 1984, and vice president in 1990. In 1989, he served as the vice chairman of the American Basketball Association and in 1996 as the chairman of the American Basketball Association.
In the NBA, his qualifications are even older than David Stern. He has served the NBA for 26 years. During this period, he served as the chief negotiator of the employer in the NBA labor negotiations for four consecutive times and achieved great success.During the ten-year tenure of the great Larry O'Brien as president, he assisted eight years, and then assisted the current president David Stern for a full 18 years.
Granick's current responsibilities include vice president of the NBA, chief operating officer, NBA representative for the American Basketball Association, and chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Committee.
Since the NBA is at a precarious historical turning point, the board of directors did not remove Granik from other positions. With his prestige, during this term of office, Granik may become the most powerful league president.
At the press conference, the new president Las Granik delivered an impassioned inauguration speech.
He first fully affirmed the achievements of his predecessor, David Stern:
During David Stern's long 18-year tenure, he successfully promoted the NBA league to the United States and even the world, increasing the NBA's annual revenue from US$1.65 million to US$55 billion.During his tenure, a large number of world-wide superstars headed by "Big Bird" Larry Bird, "Magic" Irvin Johnson, and "God of Basketball" Michael Jordan appeared, and he also cultivated a group of new generation superstars including O'Neill, Iverson, and Kobe Bryant.Through multi-dimensional publicity operations such as live TV, the Internet, and international competitions, the NBA has become the most successful international league among the four major professional leagues in North America (NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL), and has also successfully opened up the Chinese market.
When evaluating David Stern's mistakes, he didn't describe too much the sins of the Jewish old man, and it is a virtue not to make trouble.Granik quoted an idiom from the ancient East: No one is a sage, but he is infallible!
But the league must get out of the suspicion of manipulating the game and must regain the trust of the fans. Fans are the foundation of the survival of the NBA.Otherwise, the NBA may collapse in a short period of time.
To this end, Granik stated clearly:
The NBA must put an end to the bad habit of referees controlling the game.
The first of the three fires that the new official took office, he burned down the league referee department.
Granik said that in order to more strictly review and supervise law enforcement referees, the NBA will rebuild the league referee department-dividing the original referee department into three parallel departments: one is responsible for the recruitment, training and selection of referees in the NBA, WNBA and NBDL; the second is responsible for the daily management of referees, including the interpretation and application of referee regulations;The three departments are not affiliated with each other and are independent of each other. They are under the direct jurisdiction of Stu Jackson, the senior vice president of the NBA basketball department. The NBA will eliminate corruption in the referee team from the management system.
Granik's second fire was on the referee's on-site law enforcement.
Starting from the 2002-2003 season, NBA on-duty referees will use instant replay technology to judge controversial shots and fouls in the game, so as to avoid misjudgments, missed judgments and other human errors as much as possible, and help on-duty referees to enforce the law more impartially.
Granik said that the NBA does not allow anyone to control the direction of the game at any time and on any occasion.The beauty of competitive sports is that everything is possible. Referees cannot extinguish this possibility, neither can NBA managers, nor can the big bosses of the NBA Board of Directors!
Granik called on all fans to participate, to make the NBA more pure, fairer, and more just, to make suggestions, supervise and criticize.He also generously announced that the NBA will not pursue and prosecute the great hacker who controlled the NBA official website and the Lakers official website at a critical moment, and because of the strong evidence he provided, the league was able to get back from the wrong path as soon as possible.The Alliance expresses its gratitude to Mr. Hacker, and invites Mr. Hacker to criticize the inadequacies of the Alliance at any time and in any way!
Where is this non-prosecution and prosecution, you can't find it at all, okay?
Granik's third fire burned to Zhao Ke and Jeff Van Gundy.
On behalf of the NBA, Granik sincerely apologized to the wronged and humiliated Jeff Van Gundy, and abolished the previous wrongful suspension, returned the fine, and expressed his willingness to compensate Jeff Van Gundy for the mental damage he suffered.
By the way, Granik believes that the punishment of Zhao Ke is "biased and too severe".It was announced that Zhao Ke's suspension would be reduced from the original ten games to one.
And Zhao Ke has completed the suspension in the fourth game of the finals, that is to say, Granik canceled the remaining suspension punishment of Zhao Ke, and Zhao Ke can normally participate in all the games of the next season.
If Granik knew that Zhao Ke was the "great Mr. Hacker", I don't know if he would continue to let Zhao Ke go.
Of course, Zhao Ke would never admit it.
PS: Thanks for the friendly reminder of the sixth encounter, the typo has been corrected, and I am ashamed... ╰(*°▽°*)╯
(End of this chapter)