🤭Xiao Hua: When Stern first took office, he joked that his job was to give trophys to Hu Kai.

Today, before the G1 game in the Finals, NBA President Xiao Hua accepted an interview.

He said: "Just to add some background to these finals, Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon is the longest-serving boss in the NBA. He bought the team with his younger brother in 1983. At the league history node where Herb Simon bought the team, the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers had won 60% of the Finals in the league history at that time."

"I remember when I first joined the league, David Stern often joked in the early days of his tenure that as the league president, his job was to travel back and forth between Boston and Los Angeles to award championship trophys."

"It's not from me." It started with David and a series of labor-management agreements that followed. We set out to build a system that will allow more competition in the league, with the goal of keeping 30 teams in a state where if managed properly, they can compete for the championship. That's what we are seeing now."

" I said before that our goal is to make the market size essentially irrelevant. I want to say that the reason I wanted to talk about technology before was partly due to a series of labor-management agreements, and thank the players, because I feel they all recognize that we have a common interest in serving fans. Fans in every city want to see the teams they support are competitive. "

" In addition, these technological changes have changed the meaning of differences between cities. Well, I don't know very well, Oklahoma City has about 700,000 people, and I think Indianapolis has about 900,000 people. As the Russian city mayor pointed out, these are not small markets. Even if a city has about 1 million more people, when you talk about global sports markets like the NBA, in which we are attracting billions of people around the world, those incremental changes become quite insignificant."