Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 446 The most beautiful retrograde player, the dawn of the NBA, a legend!

Staples, the game between the Lakers and Celtics is still going on at this time, but at this time, all the viewers, whether they are live viewers or viewers in front of the TV, are no longer paying attention to the game on the court.

Because, at this time, the players of the two teams on the court are not competing at all.

The Lakers attacked, the Lakers got lucky in 24 seconds, and then made a mistake.

The Celtics also had luck in 24 seconds, and then made mistakes.

This gave Foster, the referee of this game, no chance to operate.

After Foster intervened, no one, except James, wanted to have another black whistle game, whether it was Lakers or Celtics players.

Celtics players had had enough in the first six games.

The same is true for the Lakers.

Therefore, after the madness, Foster was completely desperate at this time, especially after watching the bald Adam Silver being taken away by David Stern, he became even more aware of what kind of situation he was in now.

Now, his situation is that he no longer has any dignity in this world.

The NBA board of directors has an employment relationship with the president and various departments, and the board of directors has the right to make decisions.

Players and owners, who doesn’t want to make more money?

The highest authority of the NBA is the Board of Directors, which is composed of representatives designated by the owners.

As long as the owners and players are making money, not many people will care about fans and basketball.

In the NBA, if labor negotiations fail to reach an agreement, the league will shut down.

As for the NBA, as a basketball league, it also needs to take care of the interests of basketball and fans, this is not that important.

And this game also made NBA bosses discover that the times in the NBA have changed.

Only if this game continues to play out can we give David Stern greater support for reorganizing the NBA.

Throughout the history of the NBA, there are many black whistles, but he is the only referee who has truly lost all dignity in law enforcement.

They know they're putting pressure on the entire league, and they know they're putting pressure on the owners of the Good Karma League throughout the NBA.

It is precisely because Coach D succeeded with this group of veterans who have brought everything to the NBA that the NBA world is slowly changing, eventually causing a qualitative change, and finally gaining the recognition of opponents and the magical Monty Such recognition from opponents.

Therefore, the players of the two teams will show off on the court at this time, that is, they will not attack, they will not engage in physical confrontation, and they will not attack in the end, which is a 24-second violation.

However, Du Kang's appearance gave him hope.

Even though the NBA Finals have been so angry in the past two years, David Stern still can't touch Adam Silver.

It is precisely because of the great success of hiring David Stern that the NBA has formed a very institutional president responsibility system.

Major decisions in the NBA require the joint decision of the NBA's 30 owners.

Before the NBA Board of Directors hired David Stern as NBA CEO in 1984, 23 of the league's 17 teams were losing money. The NBA was unsustainable and was almost on the verge of collapse like the ABA and other American basketball leagues.

This trend had begun to spread crazily at that time, and it had spread unstoppably.

Although the NBA Board of Directors is the highest authority, it is not responsible for the operation of the NBA. It is almost only responsible for hiring the NBA president or vice president.

Coach D reused Kobe, the top five guards, Olajuwon, and even Jordan and Yao Ming to bring the competitive atmosphere of the NBA and the true meaning of basketball back to the NBA.

Because the NBA's revenue is still increasing significantly every year, and it is the growth point brought by Adam Silver.

In the end, he changed the Lakers, and the Lakers also gained the respect of the entire NBA. Most teams and players in the NBA are now proud of Coach D and the Lakers, and ashamed of James, the Heat and the ultimate business.

The highest authority to implement the NBA is the President's Office, which is composed of the president and vice presidents as well as the leaders of various NBA business departments.

But there is no way, the fourth quarter of this game is still an official NBA game in theory.

Coach D has carved a bloody path in the NBA under such a utilitarian atmosphere!

Coach D represents the interests of fans and basketball.

He is now shamefully written into NBA history.

In the entire NBA, the only person who can restrict the owners is not the league president, but the players.

As long as NBA players also side with the boss, the boss doesn't have to look at anyone's face at all.

Therefore, after seeing this reality, David Stern really chose to leave at that time, not to retire, but to leave. He never thought about retiring, but to leave the NBA, which was completely contrary to his basketball philosophy. .

In fact, until this game is going on, no players from the two teams want to stand on the court.

But in the end, David Stern ushered in the NBA's business era, and at the same time introduced a salary cap and luxury tax. In the end, all increases in revenue and expenditure were completed, putting the NBA on the track of healthy development.

The league has made money, no matter what means it is used to make money, the owners, players, and people involved, in fact, everyone is a financial beneficiary.

As a professional referee, it is the most ironic thing to lose all dignity of law enforcement.

They can't end.

When the league's income increases, it's not just the team owners who make money, but the players also make money.

The real power and final direction of the NBA depends almost entirely on the president, who has absolute power.

And now, Du Kang's spark has finally started a prairie fire across the NBA!

Adam Silver almost kidnapped the entire league with money.

If they do not play on the court, it means that the game will be invalid and will be replayed at an optional time. This is definitely something the owners and Adam Silver want to see.

However, in the last few years of David Stern, or in the past three years, after Adam Silver became the favored candidate of most bosses, David Stern clearly felt that his power had been greatly affected. constraint.

Now, everyone is waiting for the final NBA results.

When David Stern's interests were consistent with those of the NBA owners, David Stern was completely a tyrant of the NBA. No one could stop David Stern from implementing any policy.

No owner wants the league to shut down.

Of course, no player wants the league to be suspended.

This is the basis on which both parties can always reach an agreement in the end.

Now, players stand firmly behind David Stern, choosing to maintain the competitive value of basketball instead of creating so-called exciting games without a bottom line and achieving commercial success.

Now, led by Coach D and Magical Monty, Lakers players, Celtics players, all players are standing together, coupled with the support of fans, these NBA bosses will definitely be shocked when they see this scene. Scared.

Players, fans, celebrities, David Stern, all stand together. Do you know what this means?

This means that David Stern can start a new one and run an NBA without owners like them!

This is not a joke.

David Stern has such energy.

As long as David Stern decides to do this, I don’t know how many owners are willing to pay liquidated damages for the big-name NBA stars to form new teams and new leagues.

As long as Coach D, Miracle Monty and the Celtics and Lakers join, this new basketball league will quickly replace the old NBA league.

Just like most of La Liga's broadcast fees go to Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Although the NBA is not that extreme.

However, most of the commercial value of the NBA lies in the four teams of the Lakers, Celtics, Knicks and Bulls.

Therefore, in the NBA, anything the Celtics and Lakers agree on is almost unstoppable.

Now, it's clear that the Celtics and Lakers have come to an agreement.

So, now, these bosses who support Adam Silver, their opponents are not only NBA players, fans, David Stern, but also the Lakers and Celtics!

This is already a crushing game.

Therefore, when the Lakers and Celtics played such a game with such a tacit understanding on the court, as smart as Adam Silver, of course he knew that his strength was exhausted.

Now, there's nothing anyone can do to stop David Stern from returning to power.

"Today's interim board of directors made the first resolution to remove Adam Silver, the league's first vice president. Who is in favor of it and who is against it?"

In the temporary meeting room of Staples, after a brief period of silence among the bosses and boss representatives present and in the video, no one stood up to object.

One, two, three, four, and finally, thirty team owners and representatives all voted in favor.

Seeing this scene, David Stern's face was expressionless, but in his heart, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, Adam, the person he single-handedly promoted but who also wanted to destroy his ideals, was finally captured by him.

No one knows better than him how difficult this is.

"Coach D, thank you..."

David Stern closed his eyes, thanked Du Kang in his heart, opened his eyes again, and looked at the bald Adam Silver next to him.

"Adam, now that you are no longer the first vice president of the NBA, the next thing has nothing to do with you."

Adam Silver was stunned for a moment, but finally stood up decently and walked out of the conference room.

However, when he was about to leave the meeting, he opened the door and looked at the group of people outside the door. Adam Silver was still stunned.

"Mr. Xiao Hua, we are FB1. Someone reported that the NBA is suspected of match-fixing and manipulating the D disk. There are some things that require your cooperation in the investigation."

Adam Silver turned around in shock and looked at David Stern, but at this time, David Stern did not look at Adam Silver at all.

Adam Silver was taken away.

David Stern still feels very sad.

If possible, he didn't actually want it.

"The second resolution of the interim board of directors is the seventh game of the Finals tonight. I suggest that the game continues. All previous games count. This is the result of the players and coaches on both sides. This is also a game that can be recorded in NBA history. Great game, I hope this great game can become eternal in the NBA, but Rick Fortes' referee team is no longer suitable to officiate this game. Who is in favor of it and who is against it?" If the removal of Adam Silver still makes some people uncomfortable But no one among the thirty bosses or representatives had any hesitation about getting rid of this guy Fortes.

This guy put a lot of effort into making the business faction so angry. He is much more hateful than Adam Silver.

"The third resolution, in order to get the game on track more quickly, I propose that Joey Crawford serve as the referee in the final moments of the finals tiebreaker."

Bald Crawford, this is David Stern's favorite.

It's a bit similar to the relationship between Foster and Silver.

This is not actually what David Stern expected.

But bald Crawford has always been the backup referee in the finals.

David Stern actually made a life-or-death decision long ago.

If this hadn't happened, he would have used his authority as president to forcefully take Foster away and replace him with Crawford.

Before the tacit negative game between the Lakers and Celtics, he actually had this idea after Foster made the move.

If he does this, he will definitely be fired by the NBA board of directors in the end. However, since he is not planning to stay in the NBA anyway, is there any difference between being fired without dignity and leaving with dignity?

There is no difference.

Even for him, it may be more worthwhile to be happy for his own philosophy and to sacrifice for the two great coaches, Coach D and Miracle Monty.

But in the end, what he didn't expect was that he didn't succeed in committing suicide, but instead completed a desperate counterattack.

David Stern abandoned the backup referee Bald Clifford, but still received unanimous approval.

Staples game scene.

At this time, the fourth quarter of the game is over.

At this time, the score on the court was still 90-90, and the two teams played a 0-0 game in the fourth quarter.

"This game that allowed us to witness history is still allowing us to witness history!!!"

“And it’s such incredible history!”

It was a 0-0 game in one quarter, and it was a 0-0 game in this way.

Such a game not only did not disgust the audience, fans, celebrities and media, it even received applause from everyone in the audience.

"The Celtics and Lakers players on the court fulfilled their commitment and justice with this 0-0 quarter. All the Lakers players and Celtics players who appeared on the court in the past 12 minutes are great. player of!"

"Now, maybe we will witness a great 0-0 overtime!"

O'Neill shouted excitedly.

All the spectators at the scene were still shouting enthusiastically.

As for the audience in front of the TV, their enthusiasm has not diminished because of such a game.

Even more, they are looking forward to the next game with even more enthusiasm.

Overtime is about to begin, and just when everyone thinks Foster will continue to take charge...

Bald Clifford, perhaps the most famous referee in the NBA, appeared with his team of referees.

For a moment, the entire Staples was in an uproar.

The bald Clifford, who was the focus of the world, walked to the sidelines expressionlessly and looked at Foster on the court.

"Rick, according to the resolution of the NBA Board of Directors, you are no longer the referee of this game. Please leave the court with your referee team."

Foster was stunned for a moment. Finally, looking at the majestic bald Crawford, he nodded.

"Joy, I didn't expect that you would be the one sending me away."

Looking at the bitter smile on Foster's face, Crawford was also very sad.

Because the NBA's number one 'clear whistle' in front of him is his apprentice.

For many Kai Zi fans, the bald Crawford is the one who only attacks Kai Zi. In fact, it is not that Crawford is the only one who attacks Kai Zi, but David Stern has been suppressing Kai Zi.

Similarly, for many Spurs fans, this bald guy just likes to mess with the Spurs. In fact, it's not that Crawford loves the Spurs. It's because the league and David Stern have never liked Spurs basketball.

The pair of masters and apprentices, Crawford and Foster, are really from the same origin.

They are all for the alliance and the president.

only……

Compared to Joey Crawford's retirement, Foster is just crazy.

Although bald Crawford also implements the will of the league and the president, there are not many people who hate him.

In the latest list of the league's least liked referees, Foster topped the list with 30 votes in a poll of the league's 24 head coaches and assistants.

The bald Crawford ranks first in popularity.

In fact, the reason why these head coaches or assistant coaches voted was that bald Crawford was fair.

"His standards will not be intimidated by the fans of the home team, nor will they change due to pressure from superstars. When he is on the court, everything is under his control. He will never treat the two teams differently. , His whistleblowing scale is just, fair and uniform, which is the most important thing."

You can say that the bald head is dizzy, but you cannot question the fairness and justice of the bald head, and fairness and justice are the most important qualities of a referee.

A powerful black whistle can cause the greatest damage to the game.

The referee gives you a scale. Although this scale is beneficial to a certain team, it is fair to everyone and you can slowly adapt to it. Everyone has a chance.

Just talk about Duncan. If you want to mess with Duncan, don't do that. The whole world thinks that David Stern is targeting the Spurs.

I am indeed targeting the Spurs, but I have to do it decently.

So after Duncan was killed, the most angry person was actually not the Spurs fans, but David Stern. The angry David Stern directly called his confidant a fool and put my great NBA president on the fire.

According to Bald's brain, if other people smiled at him like Duncan did, he would also tell this person to get out.

Who knows that Duncan's smile is so meaningful? It is indeed easy for people to misunderstand.

Therefore, although many fans of Kaizi and Spurs say that bald heads are stupid, not many people say that bald heads are black whistles.

Even Dai, who was the biggest victim, had a very good relationship with Crawford in private, and found this somewhat dim and persistent old man quite cute.

It is also very interesting that a pair of masters and apprentices who also serve others have such different evaluations.

"Rick..."

Foster turned his back to Crawford and stopped.

"I have never taught you to obey anyone's words. You are an NBA referee and a basketball referee. You should not only have the interests of the NBA in mind, but also the interests of basketball and respect for the game."

After listening, Foster smiled bitterly again.

Teacher, it's too late.

Once I got on that boat, I had no other choice.

"Mr. Foster, someone has reported that you are suspected of manipulating the game and manipulating the D disk. Please come with us to accept the investigation."

Foster was taken away before he even walked off the court.

The whole world saw this scene.

"OMG, FOSTER IS GETTING OFF FOR THE EIGHTH TIME!!!!"

"This time, it will definitely be different. This time, no one can protect him!!!"

Fans from both teams were excited to see Foster being taken away.

The most excited people are undoubtedly the Cavaliers fans.

Soon, news and pictures of Foster and Adam Silver being taken away at the same time spread on the Internet.

It's been three years!

The NBA has been dark for three years! ! !

just now!

"Its daybreak!!!"

"The sky has finally dawned for the NBA!!!"

"Thank you Coach D for clearing up the shady curtain in the NBA for us!!!"

At Staples, after Foster was taken away, the whole crowd was chanting Coach D's name.

Even Celtic fans are like that.

The whole world knows who corrected the NBA's ethos!

Looking at such cheers and applause, James gritted his teeth, and his heart was so painful that he wanted to bleed. He knew that his era no longer existed, and the NBA version had been completely updated.

Next to him, Celtic head coach Miracle Monty led the Celtics players and the audience and celebrities to applaud together.

"In the rolling torrent, being able to be a rebel is already great. If you can single-handedly reverse this rolling torrent, then this is a legend!"

"Coach D is our legend!"

Now, we can finally defeat this greatest legend with dignity!

(End of this chapter)