Chapter 256: The Calm Before the Storm (Guaranteed 3rd Watch 2)
Eight o'clock the next morning.
Generally speaking, if a brawl occurs during the previous night's game, the league will give a penalty decision at 8 o'clock the next day!
And at eight o'clock this morning, it was calm!
It was as if the Coalition had forgotten about it, and there was no official response at all......
No fool would think that the Alliance had really forgotten about it, and the calm of the moment was a precursor to the storm!
The calmer it is, the more it shows that the alliance attaches great importance to this matter!
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At half past eight in the morning, the Purdue University boilermaker team held a press conference.
Coach Philip Sr. sat at a table with ten boilermaker players standing behind him.
"Thank you to the media friends who came, I am afraid that the purpose of our press conference today should be clear to everyone."
"Richard is the honorary head coach of our Purdue dynasty!"
"That's right, I did use the word dynasty, we have won three consecutive championships, and we are fully worthy of the word dynasty!"
"The establishment of the dynasty has nothing to do with me, the head coach, in fact, it is all the credit of Richard!"
"What I'm trying to say is, Lee, we West Lafayette will always stand behind you, and if you want to come back, the boilermaker will always have you a position as a head coach!"
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In addition to the boiler workers, more than a dozen elite basketball schools held press conferences.
The general meaning is similar, they support Richard, Richard's approach is extreme, but it is understandable, if Richard wants to return to the NCAA, they are willing to open the door to Richard's arrival.
It stands to reason that there is no reason for these prestigious schools to support Richard, after all, Richard had dominated them for two years before.
It may be that they didn't want Richard to come back, and they deliberately said these things, or it could be that old Philip promised some benefits, anyway, they stood up.
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Next, NBA players and head coaches of several teams also accepted exclusive interviews with the media and expressed their thoughts, that is, Richard's approach this time is not so unacceptable.
Especially the Philadelphia 76ers, they even held a special press conference......
The Trail Blazers' brother team, naturally, was on Richard's side, and they directly listed the Jazz as the scourge of the league and Stockton as rat......
What really made this matter rise to the peak of public opinion was a follow-up report issued by TSN.
According to the report, the league has not yet made public the results of the punishment, and it is speculated that the league will definitely impose quite severe penalties on Richard and the Trail Blazers.
In this report, the identity of Richard's yellow race was deliberately pointed out.
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What Richard and TSN didn't expect was that this report directly caused an uproar in Lao Mei.
Chinese and even yellow people from all over the country have logged on to TSN to support Richard, especially San Francisco, the largest Chinese settlement in the United States.
San Francisco is the city with the largest number of Chinese in the United States, and a closer look at the city's Chinese distribution map shows that two-thirds of the city's territory is densely populated with Chinese.
Their ancestors have put in a lot of blood and sweat than other ethnic groups to make it possible for their descendants to settle in this city.
When word of mouth spread that Richard would be kicked out of the league by the NBA Board of Governors because of his status as a yellow Chinese, they couldn't sit still.
Since the passage of the infamous bill in the United States last century, the life of Chinese Americans has been quite poor.
In the past two decades, as Chinese Americans have gained more and more voices in American politics, the status of Chinese Americans has become higher than before, but discrimination still occurs from time to time.
Now that this kind of thing has happened, whether it is Chinese or other yellow descendants, I feel that I have to stand up.
They have to make their voices heard, and they don't want history to turn back the clock and go back to the tragic situation of decades ago.
The Golden State Warriors' phone was blown up directly!
San Francisco doesn't have an NBA team, but they only need to drive across the Jinshan Bridge to see the Warriors play.
This Jinshan Bridge is the bridge on the emblem of the Warriors later.
Half of the Warriors' fans are from San Francisco!
They are calling the Warriors now, and there is only one request, the Golden State Warriors must do their best to stand up and support Richard!
Otherwise, they will lose the San Francisco market completely!
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The crowd was surging, and even Richard didn't expect that this matter would be related to the issue of race!
In fact, this is normal, the United States, a country with many ethnic groups, basically as long as there is a little racial problem, it is a considerable problem, especially for ethnic minorities, even if it is just a small thing on this kind of problem, they will definitely not regress.
Because as long as you regress, you will lose your right to speak!
Senior officials of Chinese or yellow ethnicity in all parts of the United States can't pretend to be stupid at this moment, how did they get into the current position?
It depends on the Chinese or yellow ethnicity in their constituency.
Those who have watched the American drama "House of Cards" should know very well what voters in their own constituency mean to an official, meaning their political career.
Right now, even if they don't want to care about this kind of bullshit, they have to stand up and say a few words.
Otherwise, then I'm sorry for the votes, and the voters didn't elect them to pretend to be stupid, but to let them speak on behalf of the voters at a critical moment.
If he doesn't do anything, there is no doubt that he will lose badly in the next election.
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Portland on a private jet to New York.
Paul Allen got through Miami Heat owner Mitch Allison.
"Mickey, are you on your way?" Paul Allen asked.
"Paul, you want to go for this kind of thing yourself? Wouldn't it be okay to just let Orhi go? Mitch Allison naturally knew what Paul Allen was asking.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the NBA Board of Management did not issue a penalty decision, but directly called a meeting of the management of each team.
It can be the owner himself, or the team management.
The reason for this meeting is self-evident, that is, to discuss how to solve this matter.
"I have to go here, Mickey, my fellow, who did you go there instead of you?" Paul Allen asked.
"Pat Riley, seriously, man, is a coach worth it?" Mitch Allison is a little curious, and he is well aware of Paul Allen's net worth......
A team is really not a big asset for Paul Allen.
Before Ballmer entered the NBA, Paul Allen was the biggest wealthy man in the entire NBA......
What many people may not know is that Paul Allen's net worth alone is enough to be worth the sum of the league bosses' net worth from sixth to twenty-ninth!
The Heat boss is the second richest owner in the NBA, and he is now worth about $5 billion and runs the world's largest shipping company, Fiesta Cruise Line.
"It's worth it!"
"Mitch, you'll have to help me with this."
"Before, you wanted the right to operate Octopus, and you know that I don't have that amount of money, and I do yachting purely as a hobby, but now I give you the right to operate it for two years, how about it?"
"Three years!"
"Deal!" Mitch Allison said rather pleasantly.