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If you want to say which team in the league has the most Chinese fans, it's not the Knicks, the giants of the league, or the Los Angeles Lakers of the Zijin Dynasty. Of course, this refers to before Ye Fei joined the Lakers. Not to mention the Celtics of the Celtics. Even the Mavericks and Warriors who frequently show favor to Chinese fans do not have as many Chinese fans as the Rockets.

Although Yao Mai Rockets used to be, almost ten years have passed.

That touch of red memory has begun to fade, but for many Chinese fans, the Rockets have always been the home team in their hearts.

At the beginning, the Rockets with Yao Mai had a very high attendance rate. Later, the Rockets used a poison contract to sign Jeremy Lin, a Chinese player who played "Linsanity" in New York, trying to save the attendance rate that was declining day by day, but in the end they still failed. success.

Jeremy Lin, who didn't get a core position in the Rockets, went away, and James Harden, the "bearded man" dug from the Thunder, his news is more related to nightclubs and Kardashian. As for bringing changes to the top seats of this team , that simply cannot be done.

But Ye Fei can completely change this situation. He can bring many fans in Houston back to the Toyota Center to watch the game.

I thought I could make a good fortune, but when I saw that the tickets were almost sold out, Boss Alexander saw a pile of dollars flying towards him.

Even if it is an ordinary ball ticket, no matter how cheap it is, it will cost dozens of dollars.

Most of the tickets for this kind of focus competition are around one hundred dollars. Even if Ye Fei brings one or two thousand spectators to the Toyota Center, it is a lot of money.

But now all of this has turned into a bubble. With Ye Fei suspended, there should not be too many tickets returned for this game, and the ticket price will fall again and again.

The NBA has always been a commercial league, and everything is based on interests.

The top management of the league punished Ye Fei heavily. They have nothing to lose, but for these teams, the loss is not a little bit.

Once back and forth, the loss will be even greater.

The matter of Ye Fei was not his fault in the first place. But he participated in the fight, and he will definitely be suspended in the end. In the game against the Rockets, he will most likely not play.

It is an inevitable result that the Rockets can't take the opportunity to make money from Chinese fans.

But even so, Rockets general manager Morey and boss Alexander still stood up and made complaints about the league.

"I don't know why they made such a penalty, but it will have a great impact on our team's operations. As long as there are Ye games, the sales of tickets will not be too bad, there is no doubt about it. And now We can’t even sell tickets for our next game, so who should bear the losses?”

In any corner of the world, there will be Chinese people.

Therefore, even if the influence of Ye Fei today is not as great as that of Yao Ming, the benefits he can bring are obvious to all.

For the Rockets, they can only complain this time. Ye Fei's behavior is still a bit bad, and a suspension is inevitable.

But for the Lakers' next, away game team.

This is simply a very bad thing.

Ye Fei has been suspended for 25 games and will miss games until mid-March, including many away games.

Especially on February 5, the game against the Pelicans made the Pelicans management even more troublesome.

Although Brother Nongmei's statistics are soaring, he alone is not enough to drive the Pelicans' sluggish market.

This game is regarded as a duel between the two super centers of the NBA in the future.

Such a selling point is strong enough, and the Pelicans, who have been preparing for a long time, still want to have a little Chinese element in this game, and prepare the Chinese jersey for this game.

But the biggest thing to watch is that Ye Fei was absent due to suspension, so wouldn't all their efforts be in vain?

Looking at the continuous ticket refunds, the Pelicans management has the heart to curse.

Therefore, another team stood up to express its dissatisfaction to the league.

It's not just these two teams that are affected, other teams are more or less affected.

And it is not the Pelicans who are prepared to make money from Chinese fans.

Now because of Ye Fei's suspension, these activities will be meaningless. Ye Fei's suspension has caused more and more losses, which makes many team managements in the league not very satisfied.

The NBA executives didn't take it seriously at first, but after the game between the Lakers and the Rockets, they finally began to realize the seriousness of the matter.

In this game, the attendance rate was less than 70%.

If it weren't for Kobe's participation in this game, it is estimated that the attendance rate would not be successful.

Compared with the situation where the supply of tickets was in short supply at the beginning, it can be said that there is a big difference. Just for the tickets alone, there is a lot of loss.

The ratings of the last game between the Lakers and the Rockets were comparable to the ratings of the Western Conference semifinals last season, but this game was almost 7% higher than the average ratings of the Lakers this season.

There is so much less attention, and the losses don't need to be counted, everyone knows that it is miserable.

This wave was a bit miserable.

There is racial discrimination on the side of the American Empire, and they look down on basketball players from other countries, and the same is true in the Chinese Empire.

The reason why many fans pay attention to the NBA is because there are players from their own country.

Even if Yi Jianlian scored 2 points and 1 rebound in a game, many fans paid attention to the Bucks game.

As long as they know that there are players from China on the field, domestic fans will generally stay in front of the screen and watch the game.

But now knowing that Ye Fei is suspended, it is estimated that few people will even pay attention to the post-match news.

It doesn't matter if a game ends, and the loss of tickets is unacceptable.

But if suspended for 25 games, how much loss will it bring (Zhao De's).

After this game, the NBA league data analyst, after a meal of calculations, came to only one conclusion.

That is, this wave of losses is a bit too much.

And the longer Ye Fei is suspended, the more the league loses.

He is not a player like Artest, and his influence is only in the American Empire at most. Ye Fei's current influence has reached the global scale.

His absence from every game is a loss to the NBA.

The NBA has finally realized that Ye Fei's punishment is really a bit cold.

This loss is so heavy that I can hardly bear it.

It’s not that the NBA has no money, the broadcast fee alone is several billion a year, but who would think it’s too much money?

This is an alliance based on interests.

What should we do now?

Definitely looking for Ye Fei to have a good chat with the Lakers. .