November 26 was the day originally scheduled for negotiations between NBA management and labor.
Because of the chaos in public opinion caused by the "Stern Game Fixing" incident, the already fragile, hostile, and tense labor and management sides once again fell into a state of mutual distrust.
Negotiations between the two parties have been put on hold again and delayed indefinitely. The NBA's suspension will continue without a resumption schedule.
The NBA's legal department submitted a lawsuit to the federal court and took the owners of Twitter and NBA-Batman accounts to court for "defamation."
As a third-party public opinion platform, Twitter will naturally provide true information about the account holder when it receives a lawsuit.
However, a week has passed, and Twitter has never provided the identity information of the owner of the NBA-Batman account.
The NBA legal department kept urging, but the reply they received was: "The identity of this account has been forged multiple times, and we are unable to give his true information."
The NBA simply doesn’t believe that someone on a platform as big as Twitter can conceal identity information? Can't find the real person?
However, Twitter could not find it, and the technical department repeatedly confirmed that the account holder’s information was false.
And it changes almost every day. Sometimes the IP address is from China, sometimes from Nigeria, and sometimes from the Antarctic scientific research station.
The identity information is constantly changing, sometimes it is Indian, sometimes it is German, sometimes it is Dominican...
This situation is completely unbelievable. Twitter has a very strong technical department, and locking the account owner is a very simple technical task.
But it couldn't be done and the account owner could not be found, so the NBA could not file a lawsuit at all.
Now the NBA office is stupid, David Stern is stupid, you can't find the mastermind behind it and criticize it.
Before Donaghy released his autobiography, the best way to deal with it was not to refute it, and then throw dirty water on Donaghy.
Anyway, Donaghy himself is not clean, so people's attention will shift to "whether Donaghy is credible" instead of caring about whether what he said is true or not.
Once a response is given, he will actually believe what Donaghy said, and even say a lot of things that are wrong, and say something out of nothing.
The NBA wanted to use the same tactics to deal with this NBA-Batman, but in the end, the opponent turned out to be a hidden Batman.
I don’t even know who this guy is, so I can’t resort to throwing dirty water now. Should I respond positively and prove my innocence?
Innocence cannot be proven by oneself, and it would be useless even if Stern cut his stomach open and showed others how many bowls of powder he had.
So the only thing that can be done is to remain silent, that is, not to respond, so that people will gradually stop paying attention to this matter.
But what about the shutdown? It is impossible for Stern to just sit back and ignore such a big matter and just disappear into the public opinion circle to avoid the limelight.
At this time, Tim Donaghy jumped out again, claiming that he was the one who released the revelations on NBA-Batman.
Originally, after 2009, everyone was no longer interested in his so-called "shady story". He earned popularity and everyone watched.
Now, he has been thrust into the limelight of public opinion again. He knows that he will never be a referee in the future, and his biggest source of income is that little thing in the NBA.
Then he didn't seize the opportunity to add fuel to the flames, so as to profit from it and seize greater benefits.
This situation is really making things worse for the NBA.
The league is in an unprecedented crisis. The suspension has really become far away, and the entire season may be cancelled.
Min Congda, who was originally in New York for a meeting, returned to Los Angeles, tweeting, paying attention to the progress of negotiations, and fishing on the sea.
Seeing that labor negotiations were once again in crisis and public opinion began to release a large number of pessimistic signals, Min Congda felt very proud.
The slightest move of his own has turned public opinion upside down, causing both labor and management to have no peace.
This can be regarded as a drawback of freedom of public opinion. Any small fluctuation will affect the overall balance and stability.
If you put this in China, would you need to file a lawsuit and find the account owner?
Just select a comment and limit forwarding, and everything will be gone.
Min Congda stayed in the United States for two years, experienced previous "violence turned racial discrimination" incidents, and gradually understood the public opinion environment in the United States.
In addition, having an influential traitor account like NBA-Batman really stirred up trouble at critical moments.
This is the first time Min Congda has had a huge sense of accomplishment since he performed his mission.
He rewarded himself with three days of fishing in the Pacific Ocean, with food and accommodation on the boat.
Today was the third day. When he caught a rare large grouper, he suddenly felt bored.
There is no fun in fishing all the time. Even if you catch such a big fish, you don’t seem to have much sense of accomplishment.
"Too simple, too boring... not as good as basketball... Damn, what are you thinking about basketball? Nervous! If it lasts for a while, the NBA will go bankrupt and close down, and then the Clippers will be in trouble too!"
Even though he thought so, Min Congda didn't want to fish anymore.
After going ashore and returning to his apartment, Daddario and Dadario ate, watched movies, went to bed, and went shopping in the mall.
In the afternoon, we drove to a Hollywood movie set to visit the filming site. There were many, many interesting things to do.
But since July, I have done all these things once, and it is not that interesting to experience them again.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Min Congda found that he missed the NBA and the process of causing damage to the Clippers.
I miss even more the tension and excitement of eating popcorn on the sidelines and looking forward to the Clippers losing.
It was really exciting, and I almost had a heart attack several times.
Life now seems a bit too dull.
It's almost December, and labor negotiations have reached a complete deadlock.
The weather was getting colder, and Min Congda, who had nothing to do at home, felt bored watching the labor negotiations that had turned into a soap opera.
Either talk or go bankrupt, why bother with it anymore? Grinding and chirping.
At this time, Min Congda suddenly wanted to eat pizza.
Because there has been no game, Min Congda has not gone to Staples Center for dinner for a long time.
Without NBA games, traffic at Staples Center has also dropped significantly, and revenue has been greatly affected.
Min Congda called the Red Head Boots Restaurant and said, "Christopher, I want to eat pizza."
Half an hour later, Christopher personally delivered the pizza to Min Congda's home, along with a bottle of beer.
Min Congda asked Christopher with concern: "After the shutdown, has the business been affected?"
Christopher said: "It must have been affected. How many games and passenger flow have been lost."
"NBA games may be cancelled, but as long as we are at Staples Center, we can always do business."
"If the NBA game is completely canceled, Mr. Smart, what are your plans?"
"Plans? I...How about I go to your store to wash the dishes for you?" Min Congda joked.
Christopher smiled and said: "It's all that damn Donaghy's fault. It was said that the negotiation was about to succeed, but he jumped out and intervened, making things chaotic again."
Min Congda thought to himself, in fact, I am the one who really interfered. Donaghy was just borrowing money to seek personal gain for himself.
"Things will get better. Even if your store is not in Staples Center, your business will still be booming and it will get bigger and bigger."
Christopher nodded, but a trace of cruelty flashed in his eyes. After delivering the pizza, he said goodbye to Min Congda and left on his motorcycle.
Min Congda didn't pay attention and ate Linda's secret pizza. The taste was still as good as before. He really made a mistake.
I didn’t expect that Christopher, an old guy who looked like a gangster, could actually achieve something. People should not be judged by their appearance.
Five days later, on December 8, a piece of news pushed the NBA’s labor negotiations to the climax of public opinion.
Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was shot and killed in his hometown of Pennsylvania, and his body was found in a deserted mountain.
Some people died, but not completely...
