I'm the owner of the Lakers

After Xiao Yang read the technical statistics table of the players, he looked at the team record ranking behind.

"Jerry, Jazz and Supersonics are close to ours!" Xiao Yang frowned and looked at the ranking above.

The Jazz and Supersonics are both 52 wins, two wins behind the Lakers, who are likely to be overtaken and fall to third place.

If you play the playoffs according to the current ranking, the first place in the first round of the playoffs is against the eighth-ranked Rockets, the second place is against the seventh-ranked Timberwolves, and the third is the sixth Trail Blazers.

The Rockets and Timberwolves are okay, opening the trailblazers can simply shed a layer of skin, the Blazers now hoard a bunch of forwards, even O'Neal Jr. can only play as a backup, a batch of strong forwards.

The Lakers are now more tired of dealing with this kind of team with a stronger wing, which is not afraid of the fast pace of the Lakers, and even for the misalignment caused by the Lakers' large number of blocks, because their wing depth can easily complete the change of defense.

So now the Lakers either stay first and second, or they don't want to go easily in the third and first rounds.

"Yes, they are two wins away from us, but the rest of the schedule, we are actually relatively easy, the next ten games, only 3 games against playoff teams, and the SuperSonics and Jazz have a relatively difficult schedule."

West nodded and said with a smile, "In fact, we should basically be able to determine the first position in the West, as for whether it is the first in the league, it depends on the Bulls, they have the same record as us now, but due to each other's records, we can only rank behind." "

"It doesn't matter, as long as you can guarantee home field advantage in the West, anyway, the finals are 2-3-2." Xiao Yang smiled and said with his spread hands.

"Haha, yes." West laughed.

"Shaw, I have to remind you." West's expression became serious, "After the end of this season, the league will negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. "

"Well, I know." Xiao Yang nodded, Stern has made so much effort, but now it seems to have no effect, and the attitude of the labor side is still very tough, insisting that the league should raise the salary cap and raise the salary of the players.

In fact, for Xiao Yang, raising the salary cap is nothing, and it doesn't matter if the salary of the players is raised, to be honest, he didn't think about relying on the Lakers to make money for himself, if he really raised the salary cap, it was better in a big city like Los Angeles.

At least teams in these big cities can grab stars on free agency at sky-high checks.

Collective bargaining is not so much a game between teams and players as between players and small teams, after all, for New York and Los Angeles, they lean towards the side of the players.

"The league is very resolute this time, and the players' union has been passing on a tough attitude, so this summer, the league may stop." West said worriedly, after all, for the team manager, they very much do not want to encounter such a thing as a shutdown.

After all, once the shutdown, the team's work basically comes to a standstill, and once the shutdown ends, a lot of work will appear before the start of the season, and there will be a headache at that time.

"Whew, there is no signing of free agents this offseason, right?" Xiao Yang looked at West and asked.

"Well, all the players on the team have at least one year left on their contracts, so if we don't need to revamp the squad this offseason, we can do without signing free agents." West nodded and said.

"Well, we don't have any draft picks this year, there are basically no rookies to look at this offseason, free agents don't care, and there's no trade for the time being."

Xiao Yang looked at West and shrugged and said, "Just take advantage of the summer shutdown, upgrade the equipment of the stadium, get the home team dressing room better, all use the most luxurious equipment, especially physiotherapy equipment, all with the most advanced." "

"Anyway, I didn't plan to make money for the Lakers, wasn't there a profit last year, there were more than 50 million US dollars, all invested in it." Xiao Yang spread his hands and said.

West looked at Xiao Yang dumbfounded, "I know you are a local tycoon, but it won't cost more than 50 million US dollars to update the equipment of the stadium." "

"This way," Xiao Yang scratched his head, thought about it, and then looked at West and said.

"By the way, didn't you dig up the researchers of the Suns' medical system before, the funding, if it is not enough, I will make up for it, establish a world-class sports injury research laboratory, I want this laboratory to have the most advanced medical facilities and medical system to protect the body of Lakers players."

Xiao Yang touched his chin, he didn't believe it, Lao Tzu was afraid that he would not be able to smash a medical team that was better than the sun.

West looked at Xiao Yang with a confused expression, but after returning to his senses, he also agreed with Xiao Yang's approach, after all, no team's general manager does not want his boss to be willing to spend more money on the team.

To be honest, a boss like Xiao Yang is simply the most perfect boss in West's eyes, and he doesn't interfere much in the team's affairs, and he is very generous in finances, and it can even be said that he doesn't care whether the team makes money or not, and West can't fault it at all.

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