Chapter 310: Continued Fermentation
Stadium violence has always been a topic that can easily cause disputes, especially when Ye Feng was still a Chinese. What he said at the press conference quickly appeared on major media platforms www.biquge.info causing an uproar.
Of course, no one dares to deny what Stevenson had done to Roy before that, and this kind of thing can be debunked immediately with a little verification, as long as no one with a slightly normal IQ will lie about it. However, Ye Feng's punch still divided all the melon-eating people into two distinct factions, one side thought that Ye Feng did a good job and helped his teammates get back on the field, but the other side thought that Ye Feng should not punch and kick the opposing players on the court anyway, and he could appeal to the league after the game, instead of simply and rudely solving the problem himself.
Soon the debate spread to the Chinese media. In fact, the Chinese media paid attention to Ye Feng very early, after all, his performance in the NCAA is very eye-catching, UCLA is a top famous school, although he followed his parents into the United States, but in essence he is still a Chinese, which makes those reporters who originally wanted to do some NCAA news errands at will like playing chicken blood, eager to dig out the life of Ye Feng's ancestors eighteen generations.
Later, after Ye Feng joined the NBA as the No. 6 pick, the domestic attention to him was even higher, especially when he led a team of injured Trailblazers to the finals last season, his fame in China reached its peak, and everyone rushed to tell each other, the NBA has a third Chinese in addition to Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, and he is also a swing man! Although Ye Feng is still an American citizen and has an American basketball background, his basketball skills basically have nothing to do with the domestic half-dime, and the majority of fans are still very excited, after all, he is also a Chinese with black hair and yellow skin!
But this time there was a boxing opponent, and immediately some people jumped out to accuse Ye Feng of ruining the image of the country and being a sinner of the country, no matter how good this kind of person is, he can't enter the national team, and they even turned out some previous media reports calling on Ye Feng to play for the country, and lashed at him, people who don't know still think that Ye Feng has committed any crimes against humanity, and even his own compatriots have criticized him.
In all fairness, the average fan still doesn't feel much about the violence on the court, not to mention that Ye Feng only punched Stevenson once, but there are always people who want to hype up this matter with various ulterior motives, and it is best to cut off Ye Feng's opportunity to join the Chinese men's basketball team. There are still insiders among them, including some retired celebrities and officials of the Basketball Association, for a very simple reason, because Ye Feng is Ye Ning's son.
They were very disgusted with Ye Ning, even after so many years, as long as they thought of the man who had once dominated the Spanish league, they couldn't help but want to tremble. This is fear, and fear brings more panic, they don't want to see Ye Ning have anything to do with Chinese basketball anymore, and his son is the same. Ye Ning was seriously injured when he was training with the national team, which eventually led to retirement, and there was more than one person who sneered at him.
However, there is still a newspaper that stood up and said fairly, that is, the "Yangcheng Basketball News" founded in the 80s of the last century, first, their founder and Ye Ning have some friendship, and secondly, they are not willing to block the way for an excellent player to play for the country. Therefore, among the officially published newspapers, the reporter of "Yangcheng Basketball News" called on everyone to look at this matter rationally, not to associate Ye Feng's actions with the face of the country, he only represents himself, and now he is still an American citizen, he has no qualifications and obligations to represent Chinese basketball, there is no need to go online on this matter endlessly.
In fact, there is a sentence they didn't say, the performance of the Chinese players is too gentle, it's time to show the domineering of the Chinese players alone! Although Ye Feng's actions were inappropriate, his reasons were very strong and could stand, and perhaps some punishments would be mitigated because of this.
Ye Feng didn't know that there was a lot of noise about him in China, Ye Ning and Guo Yu were very concerned about this, but they didn't plan to tell Ye Feng about it. Especially Ye Ning, in his bones, he still hopes that one day Ye Feng can put on the national team jersey and play in world-class games for China, and it is not good to give the Chinese people a negative image now, but things have happened, so he has to treat it as if he didn't see it, and it is enough to do his own thing.
Soon the NBA official issued a fine, and for this matter, the Mavericks and the Trail Blazers were not less involved in front of Stern, and everyone felt that they were victims, which made Stern dizzy every day. After consulting with the referee and technical officials on duty, Stern patiently listened to the opinions of the two teams, and stayed up for a day and a night to deal with the players involved: although Stephenson was the one who was beaten, the cause was that he interfered with the opposing players by various means on the field, and it was also the cause of the whole thing, and he was given a ban of 8 games, which was counted from the first game after returning from injury; Although Ye Feng was angry for his teammates, the violence on the court must be severely cracked down, with a 15-game ban and a fine of $20,000 to set an example.
The Trail Blazers believe that Stevenson's abolition of Roy and a ban of only 8 games is not enough to punish him, while the Mavericks think that Ye Feng only needs to be banned for 15 games? What kind of hard blow is this? Even if a $20,000 fine is added, it's just an itch. But in the face of representatives of the Trail Blazers and Mavericks, Stern slapped the table, saying that this decision is the final penalty decision of the league, and will not be overturned because of a few crooked words from the relevant personnel, and ordered the management of both teams to implement the penalty decision after they go back.
In fact, it doesn't matter to the Mavericks, Stevenson is not an important chess piece in the team's tactical system, and it doesn't matter if he is banned for 8 games, he can be replaced by other players at any time. But Ye Feng's ban gave McMillan a headache, he didn't guess that Ye Feng would be banned, but at this time, he was a little at a loss, of course the Trailblazers had someone to make up for it, but now Ye Feng is the absolute core of the team's offensive and defensive ends, can Batum do it to his extent?
McMillan was skeptical, but what else could he do? Ye Feng has to be banned for 15 games, and these 15 games can only let Batum be the team's starting small forward.