Chapter 1340 Rename the NBA to CBA?

However, Durant's election as the top voter has created a problem for NBA officials.

This year's All-Star competition system is the same as last year's, and both teams are selected from east and west.

Originally, Tang Tian retired, and the original Tang Tian team would naturally become the James team.

But the ticket king is now Durant, and the lead is huge. In the end, it is up to James or Durant in the West.

Perhaps only after the announcement of the All-Star lineup will there be a result.

At the same time that Durant was elected as the top voter, the players selected as the All-Star starters this year were also announced.

On the east side, Irving and Lowry are on the back line, and Tatum, Antetokounmpo and Griffin are on the front line.

On the west side, Curry and Harden are on the back line, and Durant, James and Davis are on the front line.

Although Tang Tian retired, the Pelicans were selected to the All-Star starting lineup by virtue of their high popularity.

This result also attracted dissatisfaction from many fans on social media, especially Spurs fans.

The Spurs are now number one in the league, but let alone Aldridge and George, even Leonard is not selected!

"We have to change the voting rules. Chinese fans now almost decide our starting lineup for the All-Star Game."

"I respect Durant and Davis, but Leonard played the best performance of his career. I think he is more qualified and should be selected as a starter."

"Hey, why don't you talk about James, is James more worthy of being selected than Leonard?"

"That's right, in terms of performance alone, Durant and Davis will be worse than James this season? Double standards?"

"This is actually the same as when Don was still playing before, Harden and Curry were squeezed out of the All-Star starting lineup successively. Someone will always be squeezed."

"Stop arguing about this. Compared to this, the voting mechanism should be questioned."

"Agreed, I think voting should include the voting ratio of players and media like the selection of individual competitions."

"+1, otherwise our NBA will become an NBA completely controlled by the Chinese."

"+2, Chinese fans shouldn't be allowed to vote in the first place, there are too many of them."

"+3, I think their voting ratio should be reduced, for example, their 3 votes count as one vote."

"+10086, hurry up and change the rules! x-on:NBAOfficial"

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The heat of discussion among fans on social media quickly attracted the attention of officials.

Although the Morey incident was quelled before, the cultural differences exposed between Chinese and American fans and the sense of superiority of some American fans are facts.

Now grasping the issue of voting rules, they completely vented that emotion again.

The NBA seems to have been forced into a situation of choice again without knowing it.

Whether to choose to listen to the voice of the NBA or retain the right of Chinese fans to vote equally.

Tatum also attaches great importance to this. After experiencing the Morey incident, he knows that silence will only make the situation worse.

He held a press conference the next day to explain the matter.

"We will not change the existing voting mechanism. We respect the choice of fans. Whoever they want to see appear on the All-Star stage, we will let who appear on the stage."

"This is the greatest respect for the fans, regardless of which country they come from."

"We haven't made a move to ban Georgian fans from voting for Pachulia before, or to halve the votes as you said, so we won't do the same thing to Chinese fans."

"This is the final decision of the NBA. We also believe that it is conducive to the global promotion of the NBA. We are an inclusive and free league."

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Tatum answered many questions at the press conference, but there is only one core idea, that is, the NBA will not do anything against Chinese fans.

Such an approach naturally aroused dissatisfaction among American fans, and even aroused anger.

Many people greeted Tatum's family cordially, and even compared him to a traitor, and said that he has Chinese blood in his bones, which is worthy of the name.

What's more, everyone said that the NBA should change its name and just call it CBA. They are no longer worthy of the name of the American Professional Basketball League.

But these voices were ignored.

The United States supports free speech, and Tatum cannot say anything about these comments on social media.

But in fact, the decision he made has nothing to do with the individual, and this kind of decision is not something he can make alone.

This is entirely the result of deliberations by the League Committee.

And the reason for the League Committee to make this decision is also very simple, interest, market.

The NBA's market in China is getting bigger and bigger. Although Tang Tian retired, the pie he left for them is extremely huge.

Like the previous Murray incident, it is impossible for them to do things that cut off their own arms.

Due to the population relationship in the United States, the unshakable position of accelerated football is limited in its own market.

To put it bluntly, if there is no Chinese market, it is impossible for TNT and ESPN to sign a nine-year 24 billion contract with them.

A large part of this is to consider the overseas market, especially the Chinese market.

As for the United States, after the Morey incident was dealt with before, the NBA's local attendance has not decreased but increased.

From this phenomenon, they know one thing, the keyboard warriors on social media and NBA fans are not a group at all.

In other words, most of the people sprayed on American social media are those who have no money to buy tickets to watch the NBA.

Most of the people who really have the money to watch the NBA are the 30% elites in the United States, and they don't have time to go to social media to complain about this.

Facts also proved the alliance's judgment.

Despite the constant spraying on social media, the NBA's attendance rate has not dropped at all.

It was even the same as the result of the previous Morey incident, instead of falling, it rose.

This also attracted another wave of big blows from fans on social media.

In these sprays, the words "kneeling basket child" even appeared.

It is to describe NBA fans, the league is almost becoming a league dominated by Chinese people, and these people are still packed to watch the game.

But Tatum didn't panic at all, he understood the essence of things, and knew that those who really watched the game and the keyboard warriors on social media were not the same group.

Then he took these remarks as a joke and didn't care at all.

Time is the best solvent to wash away everything.

The NBA is playing, but the voice of spraying on social media is getting less and less.

This is also a common problem of Keyboard Man. If you pay attention to him, he can come up with 108 sets of theories, but if you ignore him, he will gradually forget it.

In just over a week, there have been very few discussions about the NBA on social media, and they have turned the topic to international events such as the Catalan independence referendum in Spain.

At this time, the NBA coaches voted for the bench lineup.

Along with it, there is also the situation of the team leader.

The league finally decided that the West will be captained by Durant.

The official reason given is that Durant is the top voter, and the Tang Tian team also came based on the top ticket before.

But the real reason is that now that Tang Tian is retiring and Leonard is not in the starting lineup, they need a new spokesperson for the league.

Compared to the 35-year-old James, Durant is younger and a better choice.

Just like the role played by James before, he is the spokesperson for the transition between Kobe and Tang Tian.