Healing Basketball

Chapter 524

There is some uneasiness about the uncertainty of the future, but it feels good.

If you come to this world and engage in the basketball industry, but can't bring about changes, then it feels like you've lived in vain.

At the end of the first round, Liu Xiu felt that there were fewer and fewer talented players, but in the second round, when Stu Jackson stepped onto the court, Liu Xiu's spirit returned.

It's their turn!The 4th overall pick in the second round from the Jazz!
Liu Xiu was very curious, whether the vice president chose the person he wanted, or the person the boss wanted.

Ronnie Turiatu and Andre Blatche, whom the boss wants, have not yet been selected.

Both of them, Liu Xiu, remembered their names. They should be qualified to guard the drinking fountain and wave towels.

On TV, Stu Jackson began to read his name. The Eagles selected Salim Stoudemire with the first pick. Daniel Ewing was selected, and the Hornets selected Brandon Bass with the third overall pick.

Here comes the Trail Blazers!
Stu Jackson opened the envelope and read: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Portland Trail Blazers selected with the 2005th overall pick in the 34 NBA Draft..."

Stu Jackson gave the impression that as long as he was in public, he was imitating David Stern all the time, and the tone of speech during the draft was the same.

After a two-second delay, Stu Jackson continued: "...Louis Williams from South Gwinnett High School in Snellville, Georgia!"

reed!

The names of the defenders Liu Xiu gave were CJ-Myers, Ellis, and Louis-Williams. Coincidentally, these three brothers were all high school students.

Although the NBA has not officially announced that high school students will be banned from participating in the draft, but because of this rumor, the number of high school students participating this year has hit a record. The number of high school students selected, and most of them have not been selected. history.

Seeing the name of Louis Williams appear on the details of the second-round draft list, Liu Xiu felt a little happy—the vice president chose to offend the boss for his happiness!

In another villa in Portland, Paul Allen, who was also watching the live broadcast of the draft, had a burst of mentality, holding the O'Brien Cup and thinking-the vice president doesn't love me anymore?
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Liu Xiu doesn't care so much about the draft picks in the future. If there are still players in the future, just get to know them when they play against each other. Maybe some players whose names he remembers will not be able to play due to the influence of his coming to this world. come out.

There were no big deals in this year's draft. The biggest deal was that the Suns signed Joe Johnson first and then traded it to the Eagles. Robinson also got Boris Diaw of the Hawks and James Jones of the Pacers.

Then, the Suns sent the newly selected Nate Robinson, David Lee, and Big Q to the Knicks in exchange for power forward Kurt Thomas, who averaged a double-double per game.

Although these two deals involved a lot of teams and players, neither Kurt Thomas nor Joe Johnson was a big-name star. They were small players in their respective teams last season, so they weren't a sensation.

The fact that Big Q was traded sparked heated discussions. A few days ago, in an interview, Big Q sprayed the Spurs, imagined the new season, and expressed his loyalty to the Suns. As a result, he was traded away before the offseason started. Really miserable.

In this year's draft, the Trail Blazers have no sense of existence except for one more high school student.

On the second day of the draft, Liu Xiuche took a full day off and didn't do anything related to basketball. He played video games with his girlfriend and sister all morning, went to the field to pick flowers to make bouquets for neighbors in the afternoon, and watched animation together in the evening. piece……

On June 6th, the last day of the 30-2004 season, NBA officials have a major event to do-the renewal of the labor agreement and the announcement of the amendments to the labor agreement.

This is related to personal interests, and Liu Xiu is also very concerned. He heard that McDyess participated in this meeting on behalf of the players union.

The labor negotiations started at 10:1998 in the morning. Not long after, Yahoo Sports was the first to expose the most important news—the owners and players’ union representatives all approved the 6-year renewal of the 2011 collective bargaining agreement, which will be extended until [-].

When the news came out, Liu Xiu also heaved a sigh of relief. If heck, if the renewal cannot be completed today, the lockout will start tomorrow.

The next step is to adjust, increase or decrease the details of the labor agreement.

The earliest news that came to light was that the NBA officials had dragged on for many years, and now they were forced to compromise with the American Basketball Association and the Department of Sports—starting from the next draft, high school players will no longer be accepted for registration.

American domestic players must graduate from high school for at least one year before they can participate in the draft. International players, if they are under 23 years old and have no college education experience, must be at least 18 years old and have at least 1 year of overseas professional league experience before they can participate in the draft. .

The high school rookie who has written brilliant chapters in the NBA in the past 30 to [-] years will become the swan song next season.

There is another adjustment to the labor agreement regarding rookies—the first-round rookie contract will no longer be fully guaranteed. When signing a rookie contract, the fourth year must be a team option, and the third year can also be added. The guarantee period of the first-round rookie contract can be shortened to two years at the shortest.

The first-round rookie contract is fully guaranteed from 1998 to the present, and it has passed away in just 7 years. The success rate of high school rookies is higher, mainly because the success rate of freshman students is 3-4. Players who have only entered the NBA in [-] years are much lower.

There are only two changes to the terms of the rookie. When Liu Xiu checked the news about the topic related to the rookie, he found another news.

The new No. 1200 pick of the Hornets, Andrew Bogut, spent $23 million on a rookie contract mortgage to buy an ultra-luxury villa in New Orleans, which covers an area larger than Jordan's No. [-] estate.

According to sources, Bogut was already in talks with real estate companies before he was drafted.

When Liu Xiu saw the news, he felt that Bogut was really confident...

There is no doubt that Bogut has been criticized. Before the official start of his NBA career, Bogut’s image has been extremely bad. At first, it was because before the draft, some media asked him about Luke Longley, and he looked down on him. The Australian basketball star said that Duncan and Garnett should be compared with him.

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In today's labor negotiations, all the proposals were passed, because all the proposals that will be passed have been confirmed after many discussions.

There are several main proposals that Liu Xiu is very concerned about.

A rule adjustment that is very important for big spenders-the modification of the sign-before-trade rule.

To put it simply, if under the new rules, the Mavericks used Nash to sign and trade back to Dampier last summer, it would not be possible. -Nash, who only returned $04 million in the 05 season, signed and traded first, and the salary of the players who returned from the trade could not exceed $875 million.

Of course, if the Mavericks' salary is below the salary cap and there is a lot of room, then there is no problem, as long as the salary of the returned players meets the league regulations.

For top players, there is a clause modification that is very important-the maximum contract period has been shortened from 7 years to 6 years.

There is also a clause that is humiliating to the players who are used. The amnesty clause is released. According to the new regulations, contracts signed before the amnesty clause is issued will not be included in the total salary cap after the buyout. Each team is limited to 1 places.

The release of this clause caused huge controversy. At the beginning, most teams rejected the introduction of this clause, and not every team has Alan Houston, and for those big spenders, it may make their salary. Get better and have better opportunities for reinforcement.

But the Knicks have deep pockets, and they used the simplest method to get more than two-thirds of the teams to vote for, and passed this clause.

This method is to increase the number of live broadcasts of small ball market teams and optimize the live broadcast arrangements of small ball market teams.

Today, a lot of clause amendment votes were passed, and these clauses directly affect the income of players.

Others are not so direct. In addition to the passage of the clauses for players, there are also clauses that limit the power of the team and the owner, and give players more power...

Today's labor negotiations are successfully concluded, and until the 2010-2011 season, there is no need to worry about a shutdown.

Liu Xiu was just watching the fun. He was a small family member, so the rules he passed could only be accepted. Anyway, in the labor agreement that the players headed by Jordan won in 1998, the players were the ones who made more profits, and the overall framework was not consistent. Change, don't worry so much.

At first, Liu Xiu thought that he would have nothing to do today, and planned to continue to relax through today, and start his signing work tomorrow, but when it was almost dinner time, the team came!
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Liu Xiu's uncle and aunt prepared a large table of dishes for him to celebrate the successful end of the 04-05 season. The vice president came to visit Liu Xiu's house in the evening, just in time for dinner.

Considering the tastes of her mother and sister-in-law, Qing'er and her father had already improved the cooking details, and the vice president boasted that the food was better than the Chinese restaurant he went to.

After dinner, Liu Xiu and the vice president came to the study to discuss matters.

The vice president cut to the chase: "Jess, when are you going to renew your contract?"

"Contract extension? My contract expired in 07, it's still early."

"Tomorrow, the 03 first-round picks can renew their contracts in advance. Almost all the talented players in your class have already confirmed with their management that they will renew their contracts in advance this summer, but we haven't talked about this matter yet. Bill mentioned it, he means you don't want to talk about it now... don't you want to stay?"

"Of course not. If it's my current feelings, I hope to live and work in this city for a long time, but I want to renew the contract after it expires."

"why?"

Liu Xiu found out that it was his problem this time, and explained: "I want to renew the contract in 07 because I can get more money by renewing the contract at that time... No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat..."

(End of this chapter)