its time for Jeff to give up hondas, he's going to need something with a bulletproof option driving around in Big D tonight.
If we get screwed again tonight in game 5, I hope all the Chinese people, other Asian people, American fans backlash and stir things up and have billions of chinese fans get mad at David Stern and the NBA.
Instead of having all of us give money, why don't we have each person in China donate 0.1 cents? Anyway, I would normally say that a $100k fine means that he league is protecting its integrity. But in this case, especially given the fact Van Gundy hasn't done anything like this before and was so specific, it makes it even clearer to me that he was telling the truth.
i think the reason for such a big fine is probably because jvg didn't want to give up his source. his friend which is an NBA official not officiating the playoffs.
wow just wow 100,000 dollars is unreal. But I'm glad JVG finally did something. After watching Yao for 3 years I concluded last year that he gets more BS calls than anybody else in the league. JVG's speaking was a success b/c this has national attention. It just cost way more than what we all expected.
Do you think the players will know what's happened this afternoon? I hope they are not sleeping in the hotel and know nothing about this before the tip off. BTW, this had made the top sports news everywhere in China now, sina, sohu, china, you name it.
This is such bull****!!!!! BS for so many reasons that I don't have the time to go into. I just wanna express that this is so wrong. Screw the NBA! Great job, JVG! Screw Stern. This is r****ded.
I was wondering if some of our members who can read and write Chinese would be willing to fan the flames a little bit? Maybe if they had some blogs or websites or what not, they could post about JVG getting fined about speaking the truth about Yao's continued unfair treatment at the hands of the officials? JVG has put his neck out so maybe the Chinese market needs to put pressure on the NBA.
Jeff Van Gundy will forever remain the most popular NBA coach in the hearts of Chinese people. Go Van Gundy! Go Rockets!
i think we all know what this fine means...it means what Van Gundy said was the truth. If he had made some blatantly untrue comment, the NBA would have forgotten about it, but because Van Gundy found out one of the NBA's deepest, darkest secrets, he gets fined. It's ridiculous. On another note, I was looking at previous fines for coaches, and the trend is $10,000. Even this example: 2/6/01 The NBA fined coach Tim Floyd (Chi) $10,000 and suspended him for 1 game for intentionally making contact with a ref following his ejection from Monday's Chi-LAC game. The NBA also fined assistant coach Phil Johnson (Chi) $2,500 for confronting the ref following Floyd's ejection. He made "contact" with a ref and got fined only 10 grand. Van Gundy spoke and got fined 100 grand. The NBA needs to get their act together.
Hopefully the Chinese people, or some of the Chinese people on ClutchBBS could spread the news about Yao's and now JVG's treatment by the NBA. I went to Yaomania and was hoping to see news about this but found more threads complaining about "Bob Sarah" and "McGravy" than anything of substance.
this is extremely steep, especially for a coach. but what he said was true. the refs didn't lose them the game but to call two illegal screens late in the 4th quarter after maybe calling only one all game is f*cking ridiculous. i'm glad someone said something, even though it cost JVG 100 grand.
That's just outrageous, Jeff Van Gundy must've hit the nerve of emperor Stern. Jeff Van Gundy is the MAN!
I want to see Chinese fans protest in the streets. Surely this deserves its own protest if Japan can get multiple riots?
Damn, 100k!? This is a ridiculous amount of money for a coach. Which coach got the second biggest fine in NBA history?
Hoo boy. I think both JVG's comments and the amount of the fine are extaordinary in recent times (Clutch I loved your post). And I do wonder specifically what JVG's motive(s)/was/were. I heard on 610 (sigh) from a caller that every player - including Yao - complains about every foul and the talking head agreed , but I don't think Yao complains the way refs are used to - or he feels the freedom to really let go. JVG has now done it for him. But what in hell could be the NBA's reason for a "conspiracy" to limit Yao's productivity? If anything, Yao being the second best center in the league should have the number crunchers placated. But he can't even stay on the floor and is admittedly clueless to what a foul is. I'm beginning to think the refs are assuming he doesn't really understand English - or Americans - or the NBA. Or they think he's just a "slow, very tall whitish man" obstructing their view. I've listened to the last two games on radio and Geno has been in rare form about the officiating. And for Geno that's saying something. Tonight, I want JVG to get a technical in the first quarter. Pump it up, amp it. If we lose, we lose. We're going nowhere until Yao's not treated like the lowliest of scrubs. Right now every official in the NBA feels justified calling a phantom foul because - well every other official has and does. BTW, I know the NFL doesn't allow contributions from owners/players to pay coach's fines. Anybody know it the the NBA has followed suit
