Chapter 611: Truth! Severe punishment! Yao is the glimmer of hope!

Assaulting a fan is a heinous act, something that must never be forgiven.

Unless the situation is not particularly severe and the fan is not being particularly excessive, even if Su Yan has some justification, he cannot assault a fan.

First, for the NBA, fans are customers, and the customer is God; they cannot be bullied.

Second, fans are just ordinary people, while NBA players are athletes with hardened physical fitness; the disparity in size and strength means they cannot get into conflicts.

NBA players are strictly forbidden from laying hands on fans who are ordinary people.

Therefore, when a player lays hands on a fan, it is something explicitly prohibited by the league, and once it happens, it must be severely punished.

Theoretically, Su Yan assaulted a fan and knocked them unconscious; this behavior was too excessive. It is even possible he could be kicked out of the NBA and banned for life.

If that were the result, the Pistons would certainly laugh their heads off.

Of course.

The current situation cannot be like that.

First, Su Yan did not initiate the conflict with that person.

Second, Su Yan did not know that person was a fan; in the chaos, he only knew him as Rasheed Wallace.

The fan deliberately dressed as a player to confuse the situation and frame Su Yan.

Su Yan was framed, so the nature of the act is different.

Furthermore, even though Su Yan laid hands on the fan and knocked them unconscious, in reality, Su Yan only threw one punch at the fake Rasheed Wallace.

And.

It was only after the fake Rasheed Wallace threw a punch at Su Yan first that Su Yan retaliated.

Three factors combined.

It cannot be denied that Su Yan committed an act of harming a fan, but it must also be acknowledged that Su Yan truly had not a shred of intentional malice.

After listing the above reasons, the NBA decided to give Su Yan a four-game suspension.

Pippen was suspended for one game.

For the Pistons.

Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace, who actively provoked trouble and eventually got into a fight with Su Yan, were each suspended for 5 games.

Prince was suspended for one game.

Regarding the above punishments, the fans basically had no objections.

Only Su Yan—who assaulted a fan and knocked them unconscious—being suspended for only 4 games was something everyone could not accept.

Even though the NBA explained it very clearly.

But... the haters always clung to the fact that Su Yan knocked a fan unconscious, constantly fueling the fire and expanding the public opinion. **CHAPTER 613**