The initial video aimed to highlight William Pfister’s mistakes. A second video, released 48 hours later, depicted Louis Labeyrie running with a mock banner reading “Cancun, we’re going on vacation” after SIG’s quarter-final playoff elimination by the Parisian club.
Jérôme Rosenstiehl shared his reaction in DNA:
“Regarding Louis, it’s provocative, and I find it pathetic. For William, it’s despicable, and I was the one who intervened with the League to have the video removed. I cannot tolerate one of my players being thrown to the wolves.
This is completely unacceptable and not befitting a club that aspires to be one of the greatest in Europe, or at least claims to be, especially with a budget five times our size. If every club sets its own disciplinary rules after a defeat, we’re heading for disaster and it will become completely unmanageable.
There’s a commission to judge these kinds of matters; it’s not for Paris to take justice into its own hands, nor for the players to determine if a match was violent. That’s why I’ve asked Philippe Ausseur (the president of the National Basketball League) to look into this affair closely.”
