Bishop of the Devil

On March 1st, Richard had just led his team to return to Portland after completing their away trip.

Olshey conveyed the latest news from the league management committee to Richard...

The management committee is preparing to change the rules. Originally, substitute players were not allowed to appear when there was a fight on the field, but coaches were allowed to appear.

Now the management committee has directly changed the rules to not allow substitute players and the team's head coach to appear, but allows the team's assistant coach to appear...

Once the head coach violates this rule, the league will immediately impose a suspension of at least five games depending on the situation!

In other words, if there is a fight on the field, no matter what the purpose of the head coach's appearance is, as long as he appears, he will be suspended for at least five games, which is completely non-negotiable!

"When will the Alliance Management Committee plan to announce this news?" Richard asked Orsi curiously.

"Tomorrow! At eight o'clock tomorrow morning..."

Richard frowned. This rule was obviously aimed at Richard. The fundamental purpose was to prevent Richard from making the situation more serious when there was a fight in the team.

"By the way, they are going to call this changed rule the Richard Rule..." Orsi said to Richard with a wry smile.

Richard, who was drinking water, almost spit it out...

Richard's Rule? Good guy, I'm going to leave my name in history now!

Naming a rule after a coach has never happened before in the entire history of the NBA. Instead, players' names are used to name rules, which is relatively common...

For example, the Arenas clause, the Rose clause, the Bird clause, the Payton clause, the Alan Houston clause, the Barkley rule, etc.

Even among the bosses, there is the Stabilizing Law...

Anyway, there are no rules or clauses named after coaches.

Richard couldn't help but smile bitterly. Now he didn't know whether he should feel honored or disgusted. Although this was a matter of leaving his name in history, he always felt that it was not a good reputation...

Just like Stapien's Law, after future generations of fans understand this rule, they will probably secretly curse Stiping as a fool.

"It's gone? Is it just a rule?" Richard was a little curious.

Although this rule is aimed at Richard, it actually has little impact on Richard. At worst, if he doesn't appear on the court, he can still instruct the players to do things they shouldn't do...

Olsi's expression became even more bitter, and he nodded towards Richard.

"Yes, Xiao Hua has said hello to me. I'm afraid he has also said hello to Jazz..."

"In future games between us and the Trail Blazers, the player who strikes first will be suspended for the season. No matter which team's player strikes first, he will definitely be punished with a season suspension!"

"Li, I don't think Stern is joking. It's really possible for them to do something like this..."

Orsi looked at Richard worriedly...

"If I'm not wrong, the management committee will definitely not make these things Xiao Hua said public? Is it just a private warning to us?" Richard asked.

Orsi nodded, this is something that the lice on the bald man's head understands.

Richard didn't say anything, he just said that Stern couldn't just introduce such a useless Richard's law, because this law has no other purpose except to disgust Richard.

Now it seems that Stern has already discussed it with the owners of each team in the league.

The Jazz and the Trail Blazers, these two rival teams, will definitely have countless games to play in the future. Although there has been no friction between the two sides in the last two games, that is because the Jazz did not let Malone appear on the court at all. Stockton remains on the injured list...

In this case, both sides can coexist peacefully on the field.

And when it comes to the playoffs, Stockton is back, and it's impossible for Malone not to play. It's not impossible for the two sides to have another fight!

Under such circumstances, Stern naturally had to find a way to restrict these two teams.

Simply inform these two teams privately that they are not allowed to mess around in future games. If they mess up, no matter who makes the first move, they will be banned for the season and will not be tolerated!

…

Richard's expression was quite calm, which was why he had such a quarrel with Jazz.

That's because the Jazz committed suicide. If Stockton hadn't almost crippled Kobe, Richard wouldn't have fought with the Jazz to the end like this...

Now the Jazz have paid an extremely painful price, and even during the Jazz's schedule, they didn't dare to put Malone on!

I have to say that Sloan is quite rational...

He is not as crazy as Richard. Richard's madness is a madness that does not care about the consequences.

And Sloan will obviously think about it a lot...

The Jazz also surrendered in disguise, and Stern also gave both parties an extremely stern warning, which in Richard's opinion was quite acceptable.

Of course, Richard still can't accept Richard's rules.

In his opinion, this may have been done by Stern specifically to disgust him!

…

Seeing Richard's calm expression, Olshey breathed a complete sigh of relief. Originally, he was worried that Richard would ignore the alliance's warning. In that case, it would definitely be of no benefit to the Blazers.

"Okay, Orsi, I understand." Richard nodded and said.

Now that the Trail Blazers have completely risen, even if they encounter the Jazz again in the playoffs this year, Richard feels that the Jazz will definitely be defeated by their Trail Blazers.

Due to the private warning from the alliance, I will not take the initiative to take action, and the other side will definitely not dare to take the initiative.

At that time, the two sides will at most just talk trash to each other on the field...

What really determines the outcome of the series is the hard power of both sides!

…

Early the next morning, the league held a press conference at 8 o'clock in the morning!

Announced changes to the original rules and introduced a new Richard's Law...

This incident directly shocked the alliance. The new rule was named after Richard? !

But when they saw the content of the rule clearly, they all couldn't laugh or cry. It turned out to be this rule...

Just right!

It is really appropriate that this rule is named after Richard. It couldn't be more appropriate.

It seems that except for Richard, other head coaches in the league are not "qualified" to be named under this rule.

Richard ignored the outside voices and turned down several media outlets that wanted to cover the matter. Richard focused all his energy on the upcoming regular season schedule and the upcoming playoffs. During the game.

This is his second season in the NBA, and he must produce something. Richard will definitely not be able to accept his record standing still.