Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 611 - 206 The Gun Gate and the Guarded GOAT (First Release! Begging for Subscription and Monthly Tickets!)_2

As the president of the players' union, Derek Fisher found himself at wit's end and approached Qin Yue: "Now the owners are pointing all their fingers at us. What should we do?"

Qin Yue knew that the players' union indeed didn't have the upper hand in this incident.

However, for this group of owners trying to shift all the blame onto the players...

Qin Yue said, "If these owners are so righteous, why don't they use their connections to persuade the United States Congress to ban guns?"

It's well known that the United States has its own national circumstances concerning banning guns.

Therefore, in Qin Yue's view...

After the gun incident broke out, the league should think about how to establish regulations to prevent similar incidents in the future, rather than simply shifting all the blame onto the players.

"Derek, how do the players feel about the issue of banning guns?" Qin Yue asked.

"According to the unwritten rules, bringing a gun to the locker room has always been our bottom line," Fisher said, "Usually, players who dare to bring a gun to the locker room are punished internally."

Punishment?

In fact, Fisher was understating it.

Because according to the NBA's past practices, bringing a gun to the locker room and using it to intimidate teammates means you've decided to end your career yourself.

Historically, Arenas' abrupt exit and Crittenton's inability to find work in the NBA were because they severely violated the players' mutual bottom line.

"Derek, I fully agree with the league's decision to punish Andrew and Galivas and their proposal to implement a gun ban in NBA locker rooms," Qin Yue told Fisher, "But we can't let them dump all the blame on us, understand?"

Upon hearing this, Fisher looked troubled and said, "But once the new gun ban is passed, it also means players will have no privacy in the locker room."

Indeed, the gun incident's complexity in history is also related to the NBA's push for a new gun ban, which inevitably infringes on players' freedom.

In the United States, where everything can be sacrificed for freedom... 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Compared to the harm caused by guns and even drugs, Americans have always been more concerned about whether they can continue to enjoy their original freedom.

"Derek, we shouldn't see the new gun ban as a deprivation of our freedom," Qin Yue said, "It should be seen as a transaction."

Seeing this, Fisher suddenly realized that Qin Yue was truly wasting his talent if he didn't go into politics in the future: "You mean..."

Qin Yue said, "I mean, as long as the owners are willing to extract a portion of the BRI income with us as a benefit for passing the new gun ban, I think most players wouldn't refuse a safer working environment."

As someone with experience, Qin Yue knew that the so-called freedom is priceless often just means your price wasn't met.

Within the players, both now and in the future, why are superstar players always the leading figures in advocating gun bans except for a few?

Because compared to that damn freedom, superstar players clearly care more about their safety.

After all, without the assurance of personal safety, how can they enjoy the tens of millions of US Dollars they earn every year?

So, to pass the new gun ban, what needs to be dealt with within the players instead are those mid-to-low-level players.

As for whether the owners of the teams will agree to this deal?

Days later, Fisher brought back a response from the league's top brass to Qin Yue.

It turns out that after the gun incident broke out, the determination of the league leadership, led by Stern, to promote the new gun ban within the NBA far exceeded that of the past.

However, a deal is a deal...

It's evident that the negative impact the gun incident brought to the NBA is still not something that can be eliminated in a short period.

In Fisher's view, although not long ago, Qin Yue led a great comeback for the players' union in Dallas, right now, the owners of the league's teams also have pent-up anger.

This made Fisher feel...

The next round of labor negotiations will definitely see the players face unprecedented pressure from the management side.

But Qin Yue, from the future, was very clear...

As long as the NBA continues to expand its influence in the coming years and signs that astronomical television broadcast deal, the series of current contradictions between labor and management will naturally be resolved.

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In October, due to the negative impact of the gun incident, the NBA deliberately avoided their previous slogan "Big-things-are-coming" when promoting the preseason.

And Qin Yue, who had been on holiday by coach Ma Long until shortly before the regular season started to return to team training, shifted his focus back to the court.

October 27th.

In a home game against the Memphis Grizzlies, Qin Yue officially received the third championship ring of his career and witnessed another championship banner being raised at Oracle Arena with his teammates.

After that, since the end of the World Championships, Qin Yue, who hadn't done high-intensity training for nearly two months...

Soon used his on-court performances, where he kept giving fans a brick-laying show, to help the league partially shift the focus away from the gun incident.

In the entire November, Qin Yue's overall shooting percentage was only 45%, and his three-point percentage was just 29%.

This summer, to prevent Qin Yue, who had just finished the finals, from once again falling into the high injury risk brought by fatigue by playing in the World Championships, Ma Long and Grover deliberately allowed Qin Yue to indulge himself during the holiday.