A life-and-death battle in the playoffs made the CBA explode three hot searches in an extremely embarrassing way.
Among them, "match-fixing" and "Yao Ming" have successively ranked first on the hot search list, and have been ranked first in the hot search list for a long time. "Li Nan" once ranked fifth on the hot search list.
What kind of game is this? The game took place on the evening of April 14, the first round of the CBA playoffs was 12 to 8, and Shanghai hosted Jiangsu for the third time, which was also the life and death battle of this round of the series (three best-of-three games). When the Shanghai team, which deliberately lost the second game, faced elimination at the last moment of the life and death battle, fans who had been looking forward to the whole night wanted to see the biggest joke in CBA history, but finally witnessed the two teams playing tacit understanding on the hot search. In the end, it was the fans who became the clown in the end.
In the past, the CBA has grabbed headlines a lot, but many of them have been on the hot search in the form of wonderful matchups and being snatched by referees.
This time is clearly different. When the Jiangsu team, which could have won, lost the game, and when the Shanghai team, which was supposed to lose, completed the promotion with the "help" of the opponent, a tacit ball, or the most fake "match-fixing" in the history of the CBA in the hearts of countless people, was born.
Let's review the ins and outs of the birth of "match-fixing". In the final game of the regular season, Shanghai won a big home victory over Beikong team, but unexpectedly Shanghai overseas aid Bledsoe and Beikong player Ma Yong beat each other, and as a result, both were suspended for 4 games. Because Beikong missed the playoffs, Ma Yong's ban began next season. Shanghai made the playoffs, and for this reason, Bradsoe's suspension began with a 12-8 match in the first round.
After defeating Jiangsu at home in the first game of the series (three-game two-win system), Shanghai team, which felt that there was no suspense in promotion, deliberately rested core Wang Zhelin in the second game in order to make an early comeback of foreign aid Bradsoe, and compressed the playing time of foreign aid and several main players, and "successfully" lost away from home. I never thought that after returning to the home stadium in the third game, the Shanghai team, which played in all the games, could not get rid of the Jiangsu team. At the end of the third quarter, the two teams drew 78. Even in the last minute of the fourth quarter, Shanghai still trailed by four points, and this was when Jiangsu let this season's CBA scoring champion and foreign aid Blakeney not play in the final quarter.
Seeing that the Shanghai team was in danger, the Jiangsu team was substituted. As a result, the Jiangsu team began a minute of "poor acting". They made five consecutive turnovers, either by direct steals, direct errors in serves, or fouls to make opponents free throws, and they suffered technical fouls. Even when returning to defense, he almost gave up the defense and watched his opponent score.
The way the mistakes were made and their exaggeration, and the last-minute replacement was not the strongest lineup. During the crazy consecutive mistakes, Jiangsu team head coach Li Nan did not even shout a timeout, nor was he as angry or roaring as usual. Shi Lingjie, the general manager of the Jiangsu team sitting next to Li Nan, looked more like he was smiling.
A crucial life and death battle, but the scene presented at the last moment is very likely that the Jiangsu team on the next gram does not want to win, and helps the Shanghai team win. Whether it was the fans watching the game live, the fans in front of the screen, and a large number of media people, they all directly shouted "match-fixing". This playoff game, which was originally not highly noticed, also made the CBA on the hot search in an extremely embarrassing way.
Because the "money return brother" who scolded the national football team for returning money back the money back that year, he complained on social media: "Even I usually don't watch basketball, I think it's fake, Brother Tie Zi called him an insider." After the game, in the comment area of the Jiangsu team and the Shanghai team's official social media, as well as on the Internet and the fan base, countless fans accused the Shanghai team and Jiangsu team for match-fixing and attacked the two teams. Overnight, countless fans who followed the game and supported the CBA were also heartbroken. Fans who wanted to see the Shanghai team being "made" out by themselves, but found themselves clowns in the end.
This is by no means the game we want to see, and it shouldn't be on the professional sports field. In fact, under the anti-corruption in football, the CBA should have cherished its feathers, and the participants in the CBA should have used a more professional way to guard their bottom line and maintain the bond with the fans, but in the end, the CBA actually appeared such a situation, there were two opposing playoff opponents of Shanghai and Jiangsu, who deliberately lost, which is also the most unacceptable.
A week ago, during the NBA regular season, the Lone Rangers were fined $750,000 by NBA officials for deliberately losing against the Bulls in order to retain their 2023 first-round picks.
Now, the CBA and the Chinese Basketball Association are also investigating the match between Shanghai and Jiangsu. CBA said: "An investigation has been launched on the situation of this game, and the Chinese Basketball Association has also instructed the Chinese Basketball Association to find out the situation at the first time." The company will release the results of the investigation in a timely manner after obtaining the results of the investigation. CBA has always firmly defended the seriousness and fairness of the CBA League, and all participants are responsible for maintaining the league's Psiphon discipline and brand image. For violations of rules and disciplines, China Basketball Federation will be dealt with seriously in accordance with the relevant management systems of the league and will not be tolerated. ”
Sadly, no matter how seriously the CBA handles this matter, it will be difficult to save the majority of fans who have been hurt. The CBA, which has struggled to recover from the epidemic in the past month and a half, is about to usher in not a noisy summer, but a cold winter after a warm spring.