At the post-match press conference, Qiao Hai arrived with a purpose.

He received two more system tasks, one is a side quest, which requires Qiao Hai to lead the team into the top four, and the system rewards 20 energy points, and the other task is a bit special.

"Quest quest to defeat the Uncrowned King!"

"Journalists are called the uncrowned kings, and in competitive sports, they play an important role, but sometimes, they like to provoke the real protagonists of competitive sports. Let this group of uncrowned kings know who the real protagonists of competitive sports are! ”

"Forcing the Los Angeles Times to fire Brad Turner and forcing ESPN to apologize is to get the job done."

"Quest reward: 1 dynasty point, 20 victory points, open the shop for more goods to sell."

This is the first time that the quest has appeared, but the rewards are really rich, with 1 dynasty point that Qiao Hai really wants to get, and more goods in the mysterious store, Qiao Hai feels that this task has to be completed no matter what.

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At the scene, many reporters in the audience were discussing, just now, a Los Angeles Times reporter who sneaked into the scene was found and was directly taken out by two security guards.

Qiao Hai arrived, and the reporters in the audience hurriedly sat down.

Qiao Hai was followed by Shaquille O'Neal, after the game, Qiao Hai took another protagonist of the Los Angeles Times incident to participate in the press conference, this game Shaquille O'Neal performed well, although affected by the shark cutting tactics, he failed to play at the end of the second three quarters, but the performance of the whole game has been able to prove O'Neal's strength.

"Coach Joe......"

There was an anxious reporter at the scene who wanted to ask a question directly, but Qiao Hai directly pressed his hand and interrupted the reporter.

Then he looked around the room: "Are there any ESPN reporters on the scene?" ”

Many reporters looked at each other, some didn't understand the meaning of Qiao Hai's words, but there were also some reporters who knew that Bradturner appeared on the ESPN commentary bench to explain the game, and their expressions immediately changed.

"There's a good show to watch......" Mark Medina is the insider, he is excited, the Los Angeles Times has encountered a series of events in the past week, which Mark Medina, who plays for the Los Angeles Daily News, is happy to see.

There were literally two ESPN reporters at the scene who raised their hands.

Qiao Hai knew that there were other ESPN reporters, how could there be only two ESPN reporters in Los Angeles? So, Qiao Hai asked again, and sure enough, two more ESPN reporters raised their hands, and Qiao Hai estimated that the scene was gone, so he waved directly to the door.

"Security, get them out."

"What?!" Qiao Hai's words directly aroused the surprise of everyone at the scene, and suddenly the scene of the press conference turned into a vegetable market, with surprises and exclamations, as well as various discussions.

Four ESPN reporters shouted in dissatisfaction.

An ESPN reporter sitting at the front of the line reacted the most violently, and the two security guards couldn't hold him back, and he was still yelling: "I'm Mike Mina from ESPN, we have press cards, why don't you let us interview?" ”

Qiao Hai responded very simply and clearly: "You have the right to interview, we also have the right to refuse to interview, the alliance has corresponding regulations, you can go back and look through the regulations." ”

Qiao Hai's sentence is really not casual, as far as he knows, the league rules that NBA teams have the right to revoke the interview cards of some reporters at some time and prevent these reporters from interviewing their own teams, and the Lakers are using the league's regulations at this time to deal with them in accordance with the rules.

Several ESPN reporters were escorted out of the press conference with unconvinced faces.

Qiao Hai waved his hand, signaling the scene to be quiet.

"Okay, guys, a big piece of news for you, from now on, ESPN reporters are not allowed to interview the Lakers until ESPN apologizes for inviting Bradturner to talk about the Lakers' game, that's all."

Qiao Hai sat on the chair, and a group of reporters hurriedly raised their hands to ask questions first.

Qiao Hai waved his hand: "I won't be interviewed today, you can ask Shaq questions, he will be happy to answer your questions......"

Shaquille O'Neal showed a row of big white teeth, smiled and said, "Yes, you can interview me, I know everything." ”

Reporters didn't pay attention to Shaquille O'Neal's question, and the ban on ESPN was not Qiao Hai's whim, he decided to block ESPN, a big national media, after careful consideration.

Qiao Hai believes that instead of blocking the Los Angeles Times tepidly now, it is better to make a big deal and directly ban ESPN, so that the whole country can pay attention to this incident, so that he can let all media reporters know that Qiao Hai and the Lakers are not easy to mess with, and if you want to provoke, you must consider the consequences, especially considering the fate of Brad Turner.

In addition, the main reason is the new quest, the task reward is rich, and Qiao Hai must refuse.

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The matter is really big, Qiao Hai blocked the local media in Los Angeles before, and other local media in Los Angeles gloated in various ways, and other national media also paid attention to this blocking incident with an attitude of watching the show.

But Qiao Hai switched to banning ESPN, and things were different.

ESPN has a lot of fans in the media industry, and many journalists are fans of ESPN, and they aspire to work at ESPN.

And ESPN also has the most names in the United States, so after Qiao Hai announced the ban on ESPN, many reporters began to fight for ESPN.

Mark Stein, a well-known expert on ESPN, criticized the Lakers in an article in the New York Times: The Lakers' ban on ESPN surprised all ESPN reporters, especially Mike Mina and four other reporters were kicked out of the Great Western Forum Arena, which is even more surprising, the Lakers' behavior is provoking the entire journalist industry, and reporters' right to interview should not be violated.

And James Young, a reporter who specializes in covering the Los Angeles Clippers and is also a personal experience of this time, also said in the Los Angeles Times: If the Lakers really decide to ban ESPN, ESPN should also ban the Lakers, and even we will call on the media to act together to ban the Lakers!

On the afternoon of the next day, the Professional Basketball Journalists Association also officially issued: We are confused by the Lakers' blocking of ESPN and Los Angeles Times reporters, the Lakers' behavior does not benefit themselves in any way, we hope that the Lakers can recognize this and change their decision, and we hope that the NBA official can intervene in this matter and properly resolve this matter.

Obviously, things are really going to get a big deal.

But ESPN's call for all media to block the Lakers is a fool's dream.

There are also factions in the media industry, and there are many media who are not used to ESPN, so a large part of the media sees ESPN being banned by the Lakers, and more with a kind of schadenfreude, or a lively mentality, wanting them to help ESPN ban the Lakers together, which is obviously impossible.

However, it alarmed the Press Association, and NBA officials quickly responded, saying that they had been contacting Lakers executives.

On the afternoon of March 11, the team's daily training, Mitch Kupchak waited aside, and waited until Qiao Hai whistled to end the training, he stepped forward and attached to Qiao Hai's ear: "Joe, the boss is here, he is waiting for you upstairs, about the ban on ESPN." ”

Qiao Hai nodded and clapped his hands: "Everyone rest for five minutes and continue personal training, Stan, Byron, you supervise, Jim, you lead Derek to do rehabilitation training." ”

Derrick Harper is injured, otherwise Qiao Hai would not have used rookie point guard Tyronn Lue in the last game, but fortunately, it was only a minor injury and only needed to rest for two weeks.

Qiao Hai doesn't have much time to focus on these things, he needs to focus on the upstairs, the owner of the Lakers, Jerry Buss......