NBA Nonsense Ban: Coaches Can't Wear Sandals

"I used to drink two liters of surf drinks in the past and I would be very excited when I finished drinking it. It could make me feel like a bird.

But now they won't let me drink it. They take this drink away from my life. "

Washington Wizards Caron Butler expressed his dissatisfaction with the team.

Two months ago, the Wizards gave Butler a "no drink order", and Butler could no longer enjoy the feeling of being in the air before the game.

In fact, every team has its own rules, and looking at the whole alliance, NBA has many unexpected bizarre prohibitions for players, teams or referees.

Sports world MVP reporter / Liu Wenhua

Prohibition: hair ads Release: NBA

Advertising heads

In November 28, 2005, the walker fought with the king, and Artest became the focus of attention, but not because of his skills, but his new hairstyle.

The words "Tru Warier" (real warrior) in Artest's brains after the beast are striking.

It is said that in order to make this hairstyle, Artest invited friends from New York to work at least for over an hour.

These two words seem like "real warriors", but there is another meaning: Artest's investment record company is called "Tru Warier".

Artest had no ball to play all year long because of the group fighting in the old Ben Auburn, but it helped him achieve his rap career.

At present, he is still the executive producer of CEO and "Allure" (tempting three group) of Tru Warier record company.

Although the recording industry's income is far less than his salary, Artest still enjoys it.

This time, the move of "Tru Warier" to the head is unavoidable.

The union feels that Artest's move is obviously a bit of an advertisement for his own record company, so he asked him to remove the word "Tru Warier" on his back.

"If they want, I will act accordingly."

Artest said.

Artest's "advertisement" was "broadcast" for less than a week.

Prohibition: abandoning learning release: NBA

Lose face to save face

NBA is a forbidding player to join the league. This rule has been implemented since 1947 and is still valid until now.

Like Kobe, James, Garnett and others can enter the alliance, in fact, is another additional "poverty clause", and this clause can appear because of what happened in 1971.

In 1969, ABA's Denver.

The Rockets signed Spencer Haywood, who had only read a year of college. He won the double crown of the two data in the first season of the ABA league with 36.7 points and 19.8 rebounds.

Haywood's skills will certainly covet NBA's teams, and Seattle supersonic takes the lead. They have traded privately with the Denver rockets of ABA and have successfully dug up Haywood.

Haywood entered the supersonic lineup in the 1970-71 season, and scored 20.6 points and 12 rebounds in the first season of supersonic.

But he only played 33 games and was banned by the League because he didn't finish his college course, and at that time he was under 22 years old, and he was only 21 years old.

Haywood, who was dissatisfied with the ban, brought NBA to the court. He said that NBA banned the basketball players who had not graduated from college or under 22 years old, and violated the constitutional provisions of the people's right to work. Finally, the court decided that Haywood had won the lawsuit.

And the NBA alliance, which has been able to introduce ABA to non college graduates, has made it an opportunity to modify draft rules.

NBA thus formulated the so-called "poverty clause", which roughly refers to the fact that "a college student who has not graduated or has never read a university can learn to enter NBA early to earn a living on the grounds of family poverty, but he must send an application letter to the League within 45 days before the draft, which is the current deadline for abandonment of studies."

Prohibition: listen to music release: NBA

Basketball and music can't be both.

Carter has an indissoluble bond with music, and he likes music very much. His mother, Michel Carter Robinson, was once the captain of the women's military band. She really hoped her son could inherit his career.

So when Carter was in Grade 5, he began to practice bass Sax. He played Sax's hand in the school band at high school and eventually became captain of the school band.

But in NBA, Carter's hobby was halted by the alliance.

Carter likes to listen to music. He should put on earphones and listen to his iPod for 20 minutes before the warm-up time.

But Carter's move violated the rules enacted by the League: players can no longer engage in recreational activities irrelevant to the game after they wear their team's robe.

Therefore, NBA issued instructions to the high level of the Raptors, ordered Carter not to commit any more offense, and if he did not, he would be punished.

Carter's explanation is: "when I warm up, I listen to music just to improve my attention and concentrate on the game."

Also because listening to music is being corrected by the league.

The Spurs are Tim Duncan, but he is not punished by the league like Carter.

No: shop at night: NBA

Blacklist of entertainment places on NBA

In January 1, 2007, NFL rugby star Darrent Williams of the Denver wild horse arrived at a famous nightclub in Denver after losing the mood to drink and drink. Williams and his friends drove after drinking.

Hummer left just two blocks away and their Hummer was caught up by a SUV.

Next, SUV lowered the car window, and several pistols came out of the car and hit Williams's neck. Williams had already died when he did not know what had happened.

The Williams incident led the NBA alliance to realize that visiting the night club is a great danger to the players' personal safety.

So, for security reasons, the alliance ordered the security departments of 29 of the 30 teams to hand in a list of clubs that should prohibit players from entering and entertainment places at night.

The list was confirmed by the local law department and the NBA official. The Union sent written instructions to the team to allow each team to prohibit their players from entering the places on those lists, otherwise the players will be punished.

Ban: take blood to distribute: NBA

"Magician" causes alliance panic

The late summer and early autumn of 1992 may be the most difficult period for Johnson to go through. It's been 10 months since he declared his HIV positive (HIV carriers). He has just helped the US men's basketball team win the Olympic gold medal in Barcelona.

In Spain, after experiencing the enthusiasm of the fans and showing their competitive level in the competition, Johnson knew he could still play the ball, so he revealed to the press that he wanted to return.

Although medical experts promised that Johnson had no chance of catching AIDS with the same game, it did not stop the panic in NBA. A large number of NBA players including Mark Price, Gerard Wilkins and Scott Schils were resolutely opposed to Johnson's comeback.

Let the "magician" more sad, he has always regarded as a close friend's dream team, Karl Malone also said he did not want to play with him.

And when the magician returned to the all star game in 1992, his Lakers teammates Green and Baron Scott (now Hornets coach) had raised objections.

Johnson also can not stand such discrimination, once again reluctantly say goodbye to NBA.

However, the comeback of the magician woke NBA up.

Because the blood will infect AIDS has been confirmed, so the alliance consulted the doctor's advice, specially formulated a new ban, that is, if players see blood on the field, must first change the field to wrap up, not to bring blood to fight.

Prohibition: Tattoo advertisement release: NBA

Wallace sells himself to make money

In 1999, Dakan Abu, a businessman in New York, came up with a strange idea. He found Wallace, who was then playing for the Portland Trail Blazers, and wanted to buy a piece of skin to make candy advertisements on Wallace.

However, the agreement was not formally negotiated until 2001. Wallace is preparing to mark the company's own business as a commercial promotion.

Wallace's decision immediately caused a great stir in NBA, because if there were enough advertisers, the NBA arena might one day turn into an advertising Expo.

Marbury, a soccer star who played for New Jersey tennis team, clearly stated, "I will do the same."

As long as the company has enough money, I will tattooed them. "

Wallace's agent Bill Strickland refused to disclose the revenue of the advertising paction.

But the trouble with the NBA headquarters is not small: the only candy sponsor of NBA is Nestle Usa Inc, who has invested millions of dollars in NBA.

And Strickland has made it clear that Nestle is not working with Wallace.

The incident pushed NBA into an awkward situation. The alliance finally banned the advertisement's release on Wallace in the name of the conflict between the candy advertisement and Nestle candy business.

Prohibition: price difference announcement: NBA

Pain a little faster

In the early days of NBA, the referee could only earn 30-40 dollars for a game.

To ensure fair play, the NBA referee will never take the same flight with the team away from home, or stay in the same hotel with them.

In the past, in order to save NBA expenses, NBA encouraged referees to take the lowest pportation and live in the cheapest hotels.

Sid Boguia, a retired referee who has worked for NBA for many years, has a bitter memory.

Once he went to a hotel and opened a room for 6 dollars a night, which was punished by NBA because the price of a hotel in the same street was only 4 dollars a night.

Of course, there are policies and solutions.

According to NBA, although the referee goes out by train, he can ride in first class coach.

However, he did not enjoy the "senior treatment", and the difference between his head coach and the coach was a great bonus for a year.

But for a long time, beggia also suffered from the loss of cheap money and eventually suffered from cartilage strain and had to go to hospital for treatment.

At that time, the referee had to pay his own pocket.

At the end of the year, the referees changed their vehicles to planes, but the price difference still existed. They only changed the first class ticket to the economy class.

This is the "referee gate" incident that NBA broke out in 90s of last century.

The most direct consequence of this incident is that more than 30 referees were investigated by the court, and many referees were punished.

The decision of the referee to earn the difference is expressly prohibited in NBA and will be severely punished once it is discovered.

Prohibition: Exhibition competition: NBA players union

And Jordan to death

In the 1985 all star game, Thomas joined the crowd in not to pass the ball to Jordan. It was known to all that Jordan, who was so popular in 1992, asked Thomas to sit at home and watch the performance of "dream team" in Barcelona.

This situation is related to the "feud" between Jordan's bull and Thomas's pistons in the late 80s and early 90s.

But there is also a contradiction arising from the ban.

After Jordan became famous, the influence became bigger. A TV station wanted to make an exhibition match between Jordan and Johnson, who was all alone. However, he was stopped by a ban from Thomas, then the chairman of the players association, because Thomas did not want to see Jordan come to the top.

In NBA, active players are required to go through the players' Union's permission to participate in business competitions.

In the end, Jordan and the "magician" show were banned because of the ban.

Prohibition: wear sandals: ABA

Dove can wear sandals.

In 1973, after the retirement of the legendary Wilt Chamberlain from the Losangeles Lakers, the Santiago conquerors of ABA invited him to be a player and coach.

However, Chamberlain did not finish the contract with the Lakers when he retired, and the Lakers took the case to court. Finally, the judge ruled that Chamberlain could only serve as a coach and not allowed to play ABA as a player.