I'm the owner of the Lakers

Xiao Yang hung up the phone and returned it to West, who was standing on the side.

"Why, Mr. Stern asked you to sing?" West heard it clearly just now, and now he teased with a smile on his face.

"Well, talk to him, when the All-Star is halftime, I will be a guest singer." Xiao Yang waved his hand helplessly and said.

"Haha, yes, it's a pity that you don't look like a star, Mr. Stern is holding you a star." West burst out laughing.

"Come on, I think I still need him to be a star, but I have two film companies under me." Xiao Yang spread his hands.

"Do you think Stern's intention in doing this is?" Although Xiao Yang had already guessed it in his heart, he was not sure yet, so he wanted to stabilize West.

West is not a simple person, judging from the various operations in later generations, this is also the role of personal essence.

"You know what? There are a lot of team management who are very unhappy with the super contract that the Timberwolves gave this offseason. Instead of answering Xiao Yang's question directly, West said something seemingly unrelated.

But Xiao Yang understood that this summer, the Timberwolves gave second-year Kevin Garnett a six-year, $126 million super contract.

You must know that Garnett, who has just played two years in the NBA, averages only 17 points, 8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.1 blocks, plus 1.4 steals, although very versatile, but this data is not very good.

But it is such a statistic that the contract obtained is actually more than O'Neal's seven-year $121 million contract, and Garnett obtained such a fat contract at a young age that many players are jealous.

Veterans such as Charles Barkley have publicly expressed their displeasure, believing that since an average star can get so much money, then these league's super-first-line stars deserve more salaries.

And the league's owners simply could not agree to the players' demands for higher salaries, so it eventually led to the suspension, and it can be said that Garnett's contract was the trigger for the suspension.

"Has someone already put pressure on management?" After Xiao Yang figured this out, he looked at West and asked.

"Well, there are already players from many teams who have revealed the idea of raising salaries to Guan." West nodded and said.

"This made the management of those teams very unhappy, most of them directly rejected the players' demands, and as far as I know, the players' union has planned to have a new labor negotiation with the league after the end of this year's work."

West said with a serious expression, "So now the relationship between management and labor is very stiff, I think the reason why Mr. Stern wants you to sing on stage on the All-Star may just want to ease relations with labor and make labor negotiations in the offseason easier." "

Xiao Yang nodded, West's opinion was similar to Xiao Yang's own guess, and Stern really let Xiao Yang act as a representative of the capital for this point.

"Well, Stern thinks too idealistically." Xiao Yang sighed and shook his head.

"This is the most fundamental contradiction, the cake is so big, both sides want to eat more, but as long as one side eats more, the other side will eat less, this is the contradiction of the most fundamental interests, I don't think this is what I can ease by going up and singing a song."

"There is nothing more to do, Mr. Stern can only do this, and then long-term negotiations are inevitable." West obviously saw through this, shook his head and said.

Xiao Yang admired the old man who was far away in New York at this time, to be honest, he could single-handedly bring the NBA to this height, Stern is a person worthy of respect, the NBA has the same market size as the later life, Stern has contributed a lot.

"I can only do my best to make this session more exciting." Xiao Yang shook his head, didn't think too much about it, and first concentrated on getting this song out.

Even if the shutdown is a matter of a few months, and the person negotiating by then will not be Xiao Yang, and it will not be his turn to have a headache.

"But you just talked about salary, I remembered, the Lakers should be over salary now." Xiao Yang then remembered that the Lakers' salary had crossed the line.

The salary cap for the 1997-1998 season was $26.9 million, and Olajuwon's contract was signed in the summer of '96, $55 million for 5 years, and now it's only two years later, and it's still a contract of ten million, but fortunately, the current Lakers are all rookies, or role players, but the team's salary also exceeds the salary cap.

"Well, a little over." West nodded and said.

Xiao Yang is a little sore, there is no hope of making a profit in the free agent market now, and it is obviously not attractive to offer a veteran base salary.

However, Xiao Yang does not plan to sign any big fish in the free agency market, and he is sad about what to do with other players after Kobe Duncan renews his contract in the future, such as Big Ben, Fisher, etc., these high-quality players will soon face the problem of renewal.

"Forget it, let's talk about it then." Xiao Yang thought about it, shook his head and gave up the entanglement.

"I'm going back to my office first, I have to get the song out first." Waving his hand towards West, Xiao Yang walked straight out of the general manager's office.

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