NBA: The second generation of the strongest star

Chapter 145 Shutdown?

"Andrew, remember to come to the parade." Nowitzki invited Andrew to participate in their championship parade.

Andrew shook his head and refused, "No, I want to leave the first championship parade to the New York Knicks."

Seeing this, Nowitzki did not invite, but stretched out his hand and patted Andrew on the shoulder and said, "Your dream will come true."

"I believe it too." Andrew replied confidently.

"Hahahahaha!"

"Hahahahaha!"

The NBA2010-2011 season came to an end with the Dallas Mavericks winning the championship!

Players have come to the offseason, but the NBA is still going on, and each team begins to strengthen players to prepare for the next season.

And the biggest big fish in the market this offseason are Howard of the O'Dolan Magic and Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets.

Howard, head coach Van Gundy, and the Magic management have very big conflicts. After losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 09 Finals, the O'Dolan Magic never made it out of the Eastern Conference. Instead, they regressed year by year. The team not only Failed to introduce excellent helpers to Howard, but after the departure of key players such as Turkoglu and Rashard Lewis, the team has no hope of winning the championship, which makes Howard disheartened by the management .

In addition to being eliminated in the first round of this season's playoffs, Howard directly made a trade request to O'Dolan Magic; many teams have offered O'Dolan Magic one after another; especially the Los Angeles Lakers, hope to get this The first active center forward.

Chris Paul, of course, was not satisfied with the team's playoff record and chose to leave, hoping to join a team that could win the championship. In this regard, many teams have offered offers. After all, this is an excellent point guard in the league. .

However, before the trading market starts, on June 6, the 24 NBA Draft will be held at the Prudential Center Arena in Newark, New Jersey.

In this regard, Andrew also suspended training and took a day to go to New Jersey to participate in the NBA draft.

After Jordan heard it, he almost raised his arms and shouted, WTF, I can finally rest. These days, it almost killed me.

If it is a young Jordan, he does not know what tiredness is,

But Jordan is now 48, and he is no longer that physical monster.

Even if he was guiding beside him, he would still be exhausted, after all, the time was too long.

But where Jordan "dare" to call a timeout, it's not that his son looked down upon him, no, no, no.

But looking at Andrew, who was sweating profusely on the field and constantly polishing his skills, seemed to see himself in the past. Jordan missed this very much. Sometimes Jordan even imagined that if I was young and faced the current Andrew, it would be How cool.

When Jeffrey and Marcus heard that Andrew was going to the New Jersey Draft, they immediately followed, like two bodyguards.

Andrew didn't have the slightest objection to this, so just go.

The three went to the scene of the 2011 draft.

As soon as they arrived at the scene, the media seemed a little unbelievable that Andrew was here?
After finally catching the opportunity, the media certainly wouldn't let Andrew go, and immediately surrounded him to interview Andrew.

Andrew answered a few questions from the media, and went to meet the general manager of the team on the road opened by the two brothers.

When the team general manager saw Andrew, he was a little surprised, and then said: "Don't worry, Andrew, everything is arranged."

"thank you very much."

The general manager of the team immediately shook his head and said, "I should be the one thanking you. Without you, I would probably lose my job."

Andrew smiled and didn't reply to this.

Then the general manager of the team asked Andrew if he had any players to recruit?

Andrew shook his head, leaned into the ear of the general manager of the team and said, "I've received news that maybe the league is about to shut down."

What?The league is going to be suspended?

The general manager of the team looked at Andrew in shock, and asked uncertainly, "Really? Is it a labor agreement?"

Andrew nodded.

There have been four lockouts in NBA history.

In 1964, when the NBA was shut down for the first time, because the interests of the players were not protected, and the status of the players union was not recognized, Hein Thorne, then chairman of the players union, called on the players to put pressure on the NBA officials by means of a strike.An hour before the start of the All-Star game, many stars announced their withdrawal from the game and refused to participate in the next game.The player's strike behavior panicked the then-NBA commissioner Walton Kennedy. He agreed to negotiate with the players union after the All-Star Game, which allowed the All-Star Game to be held smoothly.The two sides of labor and management then negotiated. The NBA officially recognized the status of the players union, and the players won the protection of their interests.

The second time was in 1976. The NBA completed its merger with the ABA in 1976. At that time, the league stipulated that players who had not graduated from college could not enter the NBA. ABA player Spencer Haywood was officially considered ineligible to play in the NBA due to dropping out of school, and Haywood's contract was invalidated.After the news came out, Paul Silas, then chairman of the players union, believed that this was an act of discrimination. On the one hand, the players union called on the players to demonstrate, and on the other hand, they took the NBA to court.The court ruled that Haywood had the right to play in the NBA, and the labor and management finally reached an agreement to allow players with poor family conditions to enter the NBA early.

The third time occurred in 1994. During the labor negotiations in 1994, the management demanded a hard salary cap and restrictions on rookie contracts.In order to avoid shrinking the season, the labor and management temporarily compromised, allowing the 1994-1995 season to proceed smoothly.After the end of the season, the NBA announced the closure of the stadium, and the labor and management reached a new labor agreement after another round of verbal confrontation.Both sides took a step back, the hard salary cap was not adopted, and the player contracts were restricted.

The fourth time occurred in 1998. In March 1998, NBA labor and management conducted new negotiations on the labor agreement. The bosses hoped to adjust the league's salary cap system and the player's salary cap. No, they hope to increase the salary level of those basic salary players.Negotiations between the two sides eventually broke down, and the alliance began to shut down.The lockout lasted from July 3, 1998 to January 7, 1, which also resulted in each team playing only 1999 games in the 1-20 season.

The reason for this lockout is that the old labor agreement is coming to an end and a new labor agreement needs to be signed.

Andrew stretched out his hand and patted the general manager on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, don't worry, no one dislikes money!" At the same time, Andrew also longed for this suspension, because that way, he would have more training time, and next season he will See him stronger.

The general manager of the team couldn't help but nodded.

　I have to work overtime today, so the update is a bit late, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)