Standing pretty old

Chapter 805

"What? Say it again, who wants Leonard?" In the Clippers' studio, Ruan Erniu was about to discuss with his team the use of the remaining two second-round picks, but suddenly, Steve * Cole learned from his mouth that other teams have submitted trade applications.

"The general manager of the Spurs, RC Buford." Kerr had played in San Antonio, so it was quite normal for him to pass the message.

Ruan Erniu asked suspiciously, "Isn't Popovich also the general manager of the Spurs?"

Steve Kerr spread his hands and laughed: "Although most people think so, it's not!"

Er Niu nodded. A good fighter has no great achievements. RC Buford, who single-handedly created GDP, must not be underestimated.Plus, God knows what role Popovich, the old fox, played in this.

The Chinese were completely wrong this time, and Popovich had no idea about this deal.If it weren't for Buford's constant persuasion, Popovich would never agree, because the Spurs decided to take out George Hill, his 10-minute favorite.

"Reject them!" After learning about the Spurs' chips, Ruan Erniu not only did not hesitate, but cut off the deal with the most decisive tone.

Everyone in the Clippers was somewhat hesitant, but Ruan Erniu explained: "George Hill is really good, and we are indeed short of people at the first position, but since a team like the Spurs dare to use Hill as a bargaining chip , then Leonard’s value must exceed what Hill can give the Spurs.”

Thinking can't keep up with intuition most of the time. The Clippers, who made the right choice, did not waver for the Spurs' trade application. They decided to continue to train Leonard.

The draft continues, and then the Philadelphia 76ers select Nikola Vucevic, the New York Knicks select Iman Shumpert, the Timberwolves select Danatas Motiejunas, and the Nuggets select Ken Nice Faried, the Rockets selected Nikola Milovic, and the Thunder selected Reggie Jackson.

With the No.30 pick in the first round, the Chicago Bulls selected Jimmy Butler.

From the appearance point of view, Butler is 90% similar to Jordan when he was young. I don't know if this is one of the important reasons why the Bulls chose him.

The second round of the draft began soon, and the Clippers selected a second-rounder with the seventh pick in the second round, Malcolm Lee, also from UCLA.

To be honest, it doesn't matter who is selected for this pick. Basically, the Clippers uniform team is also selecting people with a try-and-see attitude.

Then, with the eighth pick in the second round, the Houston Rockets chose Chandler Parsons. Due to the fans of the Chinese Rockets, this guy will be called "tall, rich and handsome" in the future, but now Parsons is just a messy hairdo White youths.

The draft continues, and soon it will be the Los Angeles Clippers' pick. According to the original plan, they will choose a point guard with the No.17 pick in the second round to supplement the team's No. [-] position.

Ruan Erniu found an interesting name when looking through the draft list, so he made a seemingly hasty decision.

"How about choosing him?" Ruan Erniu said, pointing to the list.

Tom Thibodeau said: "If his strength can match his name, then I can only say that we have made a lot of money, but he is only 5 feet 9 inches (175CM), are you sure this guy will not be a defensive hole? "

Ruan Erniu smiled and said, "Who knows? I just think the name is interesting."

Clippers: "..."

Of course Er Niu didn't tell the truth. The real reason was that Ruan Er Niu had paid attention to this guy long before the draft.

In the just-concluded finals, JJ* Barea's performance was quite eye-catching, Er Niu also felt that the Clippers needed an assault player who could stand up and hit the basket at critical moments.

In this way, the Los Angeles Clippers selected a man named Isiah Thomas with the 17th overall pick in the second round, and thus ended their 2011 draft journey.

Later, after a name review, the real name of this short point guard who can become Isiah Thomas Jr. should be Isaiah Thomas (Isaiah), not the famous "Smiling Assassin"-Isaiah Thomas (Isiah), the draft staff spelled his name wrong.

But it doesn't matter, he is now a member of the Clippers.

The final second-round draft was carried out smoothly in turn, and the 2011 NBA Draft also came to a successful conclusion.

Ruan Erniu wants to show his ambitions in the new season. Even if he can't win the championship, he also hopes to use his actual performance to face those media who look down on him.

But the reality is that it is still unknown when the 2011-2012 season will officially start.

According to news on the evening of June 6th, US time, the old NBA labor agreement has officially expired. After nearly three hours of final negotiations, the players union and management representatives still have not reached an agreement on the negotiation of a new labor agreement.

In this way, from the moment of 7:1 on July 0, Washington time, the NBA has officially entered the lockout period!
On the last day when the old collective bargaining agreement was still in effect, the labor and management sides conducted the last negotiation. This time, there were still huge differences between the two sides and no agreement could be reached.

So far, two of the four major sports leagues in the United States have stalled this year, and the other is the NFL.

It needs to be pointed out that during the lockout period, NBA players will not receive salaries, and NBA teams cannot negotiate with players, nor can they sign and trade players.

At the same time, players cannot use the team's training facilities for any reason, and the team cannot hold any summer training camps, exhibitions, team meetings, and coaches' gatherings.

In addition, NBA team websites can no longer use the image of players, and players can no longer be used as representatives of publicity.

The league first announced that it would no longer hold the summer league, but if the labor and management cannot quickly reach a consensus, the NBA will lose not only the summer league, but also the preseason and training camps starting in October, as well as the regular season starting at the end of October.

Taking the 1998-99 season as an example, the NBA was suspended, and as a result, the regular season of that season shrank to 50 games.

There are huge differences between labor and management on major issues such as the "hard salary cap" system and "benefit distribution". This is not an issue that can be settled overnight at all.

Why are there labor negotiations?
Because of the uneven distribution of spoils.

To put it simply, the management wants a [-]-[-] split, but the labor side disagrees.

According to the NBA official announcement, in the past 10-11 season, 22 teams lost money, with a total loss of 3.7 million US dollars.

Looking at it this way, it seems that the labor team composed of players is indeed too unreasonable, and their behavior has seriously damaged the interests of the management.

But that's not the case. Don't forget that 22 teams are losing money, and 8 teams are making money.

Among them, the most profitable is the Los Angeles Lakers. In the 2010-11 season, their gross income reached 2.08 million yuan, and their net profit was 2430 million yuan.

What's even more crazy is that in April 2011, Time Warner bought the Lakers' regional broadcast contract for the next 4 years, with a total value of 25 billion yuan.

At this time, the NBA’s TV broadcast contract was only 9.3 million yuan per year, with an average of only 3100 million yuan per team. It was not until later that a 9-year contract of 240 billion yuan was signed, with an average of less than 9000 yuan per team. 2.5 yuan, while the Lakers' regional broadcast contract is [-] million yuan per year.

The labor side made it very clear that the inability of the management to make money is a problem of the management itself. Those of us who are responsible for playing the game should not lose our due share.

Therefore, in the next few years, there will be such rumors in the basketball circle.

In the so-called lockout, the main conflict is not between capital and labor at all. This is an official NBA plan to "fight local tyrants" and is aimed at those teams that can make a lot of money every year.

And the Los Angeles Lakers, who just signed a big contract not long ago, are naturally the first target for Stern to clean up.

For quite a long period of time in the past, Lakers owner Jerry Buss was an ally and friend of David Stern. It was Buss who proposed to Stern that "the NBA should build stars". The rapid development of the NBA in recent years.

But during the 2011 lockout, Stern and Bass officially parted ways and fell in love.

Bass still maintains the original idea of ​​"creating stars and creating a big market". After the NBA cake has grown bigger, Stern has begun to consider the issue of common prosperity for the long-term and healthy development of the league.

For quite a long period of time, various media always regarded the 2011 labor negotiations as a confrontation between the boss and the players.But they forgot that the small market team is also launching a counterattack against the Lakers.

Jerry Buss' son Jim Buss complained in 2012: "Most teams are targeting the Lakers, and they don't think anything we do is fair."

Before the lockout, the Lakers would pay about 500 million yuan to the league every year for the regional TV broadcast contract. After the lockout, the Lakers' "protection fee" has increased by more than 10 times, and they must pay 5000 to 8000 million yuan to the league every year.

"It is too much to pay (at least) 5000 million yuan per year!" Bass was once angry about this.

After the lockout, many teams got rid of the state of loss. In the 2012-13 season, Jordan’s Bobcats claimed to make a profit of 800 million yuan, but in fact they lost nearly 600 million yuan, but they got an extra 1400 million yuan in dividends from the league. , And part of the 1400 million yuan is the money of the Lakers.

The NBA wants to "equalize the rich and the poor." In other words, with the help of the league, small-market teams are happily "fighting local tyrants" and "eating big players."

Huihe I's Zijin aristocrat, the Los Angeles Lakers, is in trouble. What they don't expect is that the suppression of the league is far from over.

Interestingly, the head of the union representative for this negotiation is none other than Lakers player Derek Fisher.

Is Chairman Yu fighting for the players?Or are you fighting for a big market team like the Lakers?Or simply act as an undercover agent for the alliance?

Some things will never be answered, but judging from the scene, Fisher is at least qualified as the chairman of the union.

Again, there is no harm without comparison.

Think about what Patrick Ewing, then chairman of the union, did during the labor negotiations in 98?

Leaving aside the gorilla's negotiating ability, one of his brain-dead public speeches directly put Labor into a disadvantageous position.

At that time, Stern made it clear, "The wages of NBA players are already much higher than those of ordinary people, and they should not ask for more."

Ewing could have answered in countless ways, but in the end he chose the most thoughtless one, "Yes, we earn a lot, but we also spend a lot."

With just this one sentence, audiences in the United States will not sympathize with those NBA players at all, but will think that this is just a profit-sharing game between multi-millionaires and billionaires.

In fact, he has collected all the rainbow jerseys (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, from the six teams he played for: the Heat [guest], the Suns [guest], the Lakers [home], the Green Kais [guest], the Magic [ O'Neal, who officially announced his retirement, said something similar from the perspective of a bystander: "This is a group of millionaires, multimillionaires and billionaires. Play the game."

In any case, the long-term suspension of the league is a foregone conclusion. Ruan Erniu has no way to remotely direct Osher to make any trades. It is even doubtful whether the 11-12 season will continue to exist.

Ouyang Haotian and Carlos Rodriguez discussed with Er Niu again, and they even asked whether to arrange Er Niu to play in other leagues.

"For example?" Ruan Erniu asked.

"The Chinese CBA, or the Turkish league?" Ouyang Haotian asked tentatively.

Ruan Erniu shook his head and said, "Forget it, I would rather go to the Drew League to play a few games to find my status, but it's fine to go to other leagues. If the NBA lockout ends, I may not be able to get out in time."

A few days later, Er Niu was very grateful for his decision, because Han Meimei told him a shocking news.

"Are you pregnant? It's been more than three months?" Ruan Erniu never imagined that during the time he was recuperating, he would actually "kill" someone.

"There's no reason! Don't you vomit when you're pregnant? Why don't you react at all, it seems like you've gained a little weight, but you can't see your stomach at all!"

"I just had a B-ultrasound, and it's confirmed. Besides, don't all pregnant women vomit, or do you really want me to vomit? It's normal that the stomach is not obvious after three months." Han Meimei said with a smile.

"Is that so? Hey, after having a B-ultrasound, do you know whether you are male or female? Wait, I remember that doctors don't seem to tell you your gender, but you are also a doctor, so you probably know..."

Before Er Niu finished speaking, Doctor Han interrupted directly: "Who told you that doctors can't tell gender? Is it like this in China? But this is the country of America, and the attending doctor told me right away, from the B-ultrasound film From the looks of it, it should be a boy and in good health."

For some reason, Ruan Erniu suddenly recalled the big brother's disdainful sneer, the big event of MADE-IN Lao Ruan's family was completed so easily?

Er Niu was a little overwhelmed. To be honest, he was not ready yet, but a new life broke into his life unexpectedly.

"I'm going to buy a diamond ring right now, and then call my parents. Damn it, I haven't visited your house yet. My father-in-law won't shoot me in the head, will he?" Ruan Erniu was a little flustered. He may be calm on the outside, but that is confidence in his own strength, but it does not have any calming effect on the uneasiness of the hairy son-in-law coming to the door.

Dr. Han smiled again and said, "Don't worry, I don't think my dad will do anything to you. Also, who said I'm going to marry you?"

(End of this chapter)