Chapter 492

Li Liang's press conference soon caused an uproar in the sports world.

The issue of race has always been a red line issue in the United States. Once it is mentioned, the consequences will inevitably be monstrous.

Although Li Liang represents the disadvantaged Asian group, in this place in the United States, as long as you start up, you are not afraid that no one will come out to make trouble.

Besides, the problem of Asian-American discrimination has always existed in the United States, but there has never been a spokesperson who has come forward to raise his arms.

This is a good time, Li Liang has already become a household name in the United States because of his miraculous performance in his rookie season.

When he was with the Los Angeles Lakers, the ratings of the TV show "Behind the Lakers" skyrocketed because of him.

The special episode about Li Liang even created the highest ratings peak for the entire TV series.

After winning the finals MVP with 60 points in a single game in the finals, Li Liang's topicality reached its peak, and he was on the cover of "Time" magazine that year.

Before that, Yao Ming was the only Chinese player in the basketball world to have this honor.

In the new season, Li Liang came to the Clippers. With a series of wonderful performances, he always dominated the NBA headlines.

As a result, it came so suddenly that the entire NBA was caught off guard, especially Xiao Hua.

Brother, I, Adam Silva, have only been in office for one day, so you just made such a big hole for me to make it up?

I thank you.

Li Liang is different from Yao Ming and Jeremy Lin.

Yao Ming is a player trained within the system. Although Li Liang is of Chinese nationality, theoretically speaking, he was trained by the American university system.

So he has the right to speak on racial issues, and he is very insightful. After all, he has lived and studied in the United States for many years.

Although Jeremy Lin is Chinese, apart from his ancestry and blood, he is essentially an American.

Jeremy Lin has also suffered a lot of discrimination and differential treatment, but with his strength and status, it is not easy to survive in the NBA.

In a place like the NBA, the small circle is extremely serious. If you can't form your own school like Li Liang, then you'd better shut up.

Only Li Liang, his identity, strength, and special influence determine what he says, the NBA can't ignore it, and Xiao Hua has no choice but to respond positively.

Among other things, the entire content of Li Liang's press conference was announced on Wei Dazhi's Twitter.

In the past two years, Wei Dazhi's Twitter attention has reached a terrifying level as the only external channel for Li Liang's information to be released.

And many of them are not ordinary fans, but friends in the media circle. Their forwarding speed is simply viral.

In less than half a day, TV stations and the media started a big discussion about discrimination against Asians.

Of course, not only Asians, Africans, and Latinos were all pulled out.

Soon, feminists also mobilized, because Li Liang's manager was a woman.

This leads to the issue of sexism in the sports world, and this shit has pulled out a lot.

Li Liang, this is completely the butterfly effect... no, it should be the roc effect, he is not a little butterfly flapping its wings.

On the night of Li Liang's press conference, NBA officials held an emergency press briefing.

For Xiao Hua, this is definitely a huge public relations crisis.

In theory, whatever Li Liang says is his freedom of speech.

At the same time, how other NBA players evaluate Asians is also a form of freedom of speech.

But at this time, if Xiao Hua dares to stand up and say, "Everyone in the NBA is free to express their views on race", then congratulations to him, Xiao Hua will become the NBA president with the shortest term in history.

Adam Silva, the fifth NBA commissioner, (February 1, 2014-February 2, 2014).

Then Xiao Hua is really the biggest joke in America.

Therefore, on the one hand, Xiao Hua can't stop Li Liang from speaking out, and he can't stop Asians from speaking out.

On the other hand, you can't just confuse this matter casually, saying that what everyone likes to say is their freedom.

He had to give an explanation.

In the evening, the newly appointed Adam Silva stood in front of the microphone of the press conference, looking quite calm.

In fact, he was flustered, what's the name of this shit?

What is this equivalent to? It is equivalent to just becoming the emperor. The next day, the harem has not slept yet, and there is a rebellion in the capital.

What's more, the imperial army rebelled and fought under the Forbidden City, saying that the emperor is old, and if you don't give an explanation, don't be the emperor.

Of course Xiao Hua was in trouble. The NBA office held a two-hour meeting. The former president Stern personally offered advice and called Li Liang.

Because Silva called, Li Liang didn't answer.

Zhu Shu picked up the call from Stern, saying that Li Liang was sleeping.

Fuck, you're going to sleep at this point?

You went home to sleep after the press conference?

In fact, Li Liang is really sleeping, he got a new item, can he enter the system without sleeping and have a look.

Then Zhu Shu told Stern that Li Liang had no malice towards the NBA, but that he had received some negative things for a long time, which caused some problems in his mentality. I hope Stern and the NBA officials will understand.

Moreover, Li Liang is willing to accept a two-game suspension and a fine of 50,000 US dollars.

When Stern heard this, he felt that there was something wrong with his mentality. I believe you are a ghost!

Do you think I forgot the results of Li Liang's evaluation during the rookie mental health survey?

"Mentally very healthy, overly optimistic about the world, lacking realistic beatings."

Damn, such an evaluation result is rarer than depression or other morbid psychology.

This kid's mentality is as good as heaven, and now he has a problem with his mentality?

But Stern has no choice. After learning about Li Liang's attitude, Stern instructed Xiao Hua to deal with this problem as soon as possible, and absolutely not let it ferment.

At the press conference, Silva nervously explained and explained Li Liang's press release.

"...In the NBA, any racially discriminatory speech and behavior will never be tolerated. We will investigate the content of Bruce Lee's complaint..."

The attitude must be shown, regardless of whether what Li Liang said is true or not, must be investigated.

To be honest, in a place like the NBA, if you say that there are no words or deeds that discriminate against Asians or even Africans, do you think it is possible?

In such a big league, so many athletes with simple minds and well-developed limbs gather together, and there are so many bullshit things every day, it is simply impossible for them not to utter a word of foul language or scold the Chinese twice.

Therefore, the NBA's so-called investigation will not have any clear results, but it will serve as a warning.

Xiao Hua immediately added: "For any racially discriminatory remarks, the NBA will definitely have zero tolerance. If similar situations happen in the future, NBA officials will not tolerate anyone."

This is the guiding strategy given by Stern, which is called planning for a rainy day.

The so-called zero tolerance means to tolerate it now, and we will not tolerate it in the future.

Of course, if something really happens in the future, let's analyze it in detail.

Anyway, the current attitude is definitely no problem, and anyone who wants to criticize the NBA can be regarded as giving a minimum explanation.

Anyway, Li Liang didn't name anyone who insulted him, so he didn't need to find a scapegoat.

Li Liang just punctured the window paper of a status quo that everyone knows.

Xiao Hua just paste this layer of window paper on.

The press conference lasted for nearly an hour, and Xiao Hua was asked many questions by reporters.

Generally speaking, Xiao Hua has seen the world after all, and these questions are answered one by one.

"The league may consider setting up a speech and behavior supervision department to deal with various speech issues. Although each of us has the right to free speech, freedom is not without boundaries."

Xiao Hua said so, what he said was a righteous speech.

But in a few years, you'll be slapping yourself in the face.

At this moment, Li Liang, who caused the crisis of public opinion, was sleeping at home.

The moment he completed the "Mouth Emperor" mission and got the new special item, Li Liang lost interest in how to deal with Xiao Hua.

His attention is all on this new gadget, [David Stern's Simulated World].