l*****9
发帖数: 9501 | 1 Knicks held back news of Jeremy Lin's knee injury to sell playoff tickets?
By Royce Young | NBA Blogger
Hard to have playoff Linsanity if Jeremy Lin's injured and not playing,
right? At least that's how the Knicks evidently saw it.
Lin had knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus and he'll be out at least six
weeks, which leads right up to the playoffs. Whether or not he'd be ready
then is up in the air. But the Knicks didn't want you to know that, instead
keeping Lin's injury quiet so they could sell more playoff tickets,
according to the New York Daily News:
That was a crucial day inside the club's executive offices at Two Penn Plaza
because March 28 represented the deadline for season- ticket holders to
purchase all four rounds of the playoffs.
In fact, in the email sent to subscribers, there is a picture of Lin leaping
in celebration. Yet, it was two days before the deadline when Lin and the
Knicks' medical staff learned that the second-year point guard/cash cow was
suffering from a torn meniscus in his left knee and that he wouldn't be
jumping for joy anytime soon….
On Friday in Atlanta, Woodson told reporters that he didn't know “when” or
“if” Lin would return to the lineup. Within one hour, the Knicks' media
relations staff released a statement to select media outlets contradicting
Woodson.
Suddenly, the Knicks' position was that there was a chance Lin could play
either Tuesday in Indiana or Thursday in Orlando. In theory, they weren't
wrong. Lin had yet to decide whether to go ahead with surgery. However, Lin
was leaning that way and the fact remains that the club had yet to announce
the results of an MRI taken four days earlier. Lin's knee wasn't just sore.
It is damaged.
So the Knicks knew about Lin's injury but sat on the information to sell
playoff packages. Teams sell tickets for every game of the playoffs now all
the way through The Finals. If they get eliminated early or don't even make
the postseason -- which could happen to the Knicks -- the money is returned.
Still though, teams make interest off the money "invested" into the ticket
packages.
Of course there's an easy out for the Knicks. They can just say Lin hadn't
decided whether or not he wanted to have surgery. But let's face facts: The
Knicks knew about Lin's injury right away and didn't release his injury for
a week, instead just claiming it was sore. It's not like there was confusion
about the injury. They knew. They just didn't want anyone else to know.
Whether that was just to sell playoff tickets using Linsanity as the hook or
it was for another reason, it's sketchy. They obviously fear fans will bail
on them if there's no Lin, as well as the possibility of no Amar'e
Stoudemire. So to try and preserve their financial interests, they just kept
things quiet to sell some tickets.
But it is the Knicks. Should we really be surprised? | l*****9
发帖数: 9501 | | u**o
发帖数: 4652 | 3
【在 l*****9 的大作中提到】
: 小林下一个合同，应该是两年MLE
| w********o
发帖数: 1621 | 4 NY daily news, who claimed that Linsanity already died a couple weeks ago,
now claimed that Knicks are using Linsanity to sell post-season tickets. Got
me confused. Did Linsanity die or not? NY daily news, you better make up
your mind. | l*****9
发帖数: 9501 | 5 看到啥说啥也蛮好的。再说，人就不能变主意了？
Got
【在 w********o 的大作中提到】
: NY daily news, who claimed that Linsanity already died a couple weeks ago,
: now claimed that Knicks are using Linsanity to sell post-season tickets. Got
: me confused. Did Linsanity die or not? NY daily news, you better make up
: your mind.
| w********o
发帖数: 1621 | 6 NY daily news is just not a reliable news source.
【在 l*****9 的大作中提到】
: 看到啥说啥也蛮好的。再说，人就不能变主意了？
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: Got
| l*****9
发帖数: 9501 | 7 opinion is always subjective
【在 w********o 的大作中提到】
: NY daily news is just not a reliable news source.
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