Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 410 A Long Shutdown

Training with temporary teammates every day, and then participating in AAU games, and going out for dinner and clubbing in spare time, Ye Feng has not experienced this kind of life for a long time.Since joining the NBA, he has been training non-stop every summer, and he has almost no vacation time. The three meals are also healthy and nutritious food prepared by a nutritionist, but the taste is unacceptable, let alone with friends. Get together in your free time.

Now that the league is suspended, it gives him a good opportunity.In fact, Ye Feng is only in his early twenties, but his performance in the offseason is like a veteran who has been in the league for many years. There are already good reporters comparing him with Jordan and Kobe Bryant. .

Please, Ye Feng just hopes to win the championship as soon as possible, and prolong his career by the way. As the saying goes, it is much better to be strict with yourself when you first enter the league than to let your body function decline rapidly due to wanton indulgence, and finally retire helplessly .

When it comes to training, Ye Feng thinks that the AAU games are very beneficial for the players to maintain their state during the offseason. I don't know if it is because of the suspension of the league that caused the current NBA players to get together. Play every game with all your might.Of course, the team is not as perverted as Matthews thinks. It can only be said that they win more and lose less. However, during the game, Ye Feng still felt that he had basically returned to his pre-injury level.

Of course, when Ye Feng participated in the AAU league, he continued to pay attention to the progress of the labor negotiations. When talking with Abby on the phone every day, Abby who returned to ESPN and continued to work always had some internal news to share with him.Judging from the content of these news, the outcome of the negotiations is not optimistic.

In fact, Ye Feng is not bad, his family can be considered a wealthy class in Los Angeles, Ye Ning earned a lot of money when he played in the Spanish League, and Guo Yu is very good at finance, Ye Feng has never been able to do it since he was a child When he was short of money, the NBA lockout didn't have a great impact on him.To be honest, Ye Feng's playing basketball is purely due to his talent and interest, otherwise he could be a dandy, wandering around the banquets of the upper class every day.

But the lockout is a bolt from the blue for those black players who rely on playing to earn money to support their families, because they have no wages during the lockout period, and judging from the current signs, let alone team training camps and summer leagues, maybe The 2011-12 regular season will be affected, which is a big cut to their income.So basically all players are praying for a smooth negotiation, and some people can't stand it and go directly to overseas leagues to seek gold.

Leaving aside the Turkish team Besiktas that is currently negotiating with Kobe, there are quite a few active NBA players going to China to participate in the CBA league. They don't play quietly in the AAU like Ye Feng, including Wilson Qian Active NBA players including Dele, Aaron Brooks, JR Smith and Patrick Mills have started to play in the CBA.As a teammate, Ye Feng also persuaded Mills several times, but he still insisted on going to China, so Ye Feng had no choice but to let him go.

Throughout July, there was only one small-scale negotiation between the labor and management sides. However, Hunter, the executive chairman of the NBA Players Union, and Stern, the league president, were not present. Naturally, the two sides did not make any breakthroughs. On July 7, the league announced the postponement of the annual rookie transition plan, which was originally scheduled for August 7 to 26. After the new agreement is reached, the date will be rescheduled, which also means that this year's rookies will continue to nothing to do.

On August 8, Stern, Hunter and Fisher, the chairman of the players union, sat down at the negotiating table again. This was the first formal negotiation between the two parties since the lockout. , Hunter for the first time to attend the negotiations together.However, there was no progress in the two-hour negotiations. Stern said: "The players are not willing to participate in the negotiations in a serious way. I am not optimistic." Fisher said that the two sides will meet again in August. Negotiate at least two or three more times.Meanwhile, the league filed a lawsuit accusing the union of failing to engage in serious negotiations.

On August 8, after the union's regional internal meeting, the players said that the current offer from the management is absolutely unacceptable.On Tuesday local time, the player representatives met with Hunter and Fisher on the campus of UCLA University. According to reports, the players became very excited immediately after fully understanding the employer's proposal.But at that time Ye Feng and the others had already moved the battlefield, otherwise they would definitely go back to school to watch the excitement, and it would be good to inquire about the inside story.

On September 9, Fisher sent an open letter to the players, in which Fisher criticized the agents who tried to dissolve the players union.But soon someone stood up and slapped his face. An agent told Yahoo Sports reporter Adrian that the union didn't listen to the players at all. He said: "The players don't want to make so many concessions, but the union has been negotiating. Concession." But in any case, the negotiations still did not make any progress.

Just one day later, the league announced the postponement of the training camp and the start of the preseason. It will not play a full 82 games. This not only means that the team's various plans must be stranded, but the new season is likely to encounter various devil schedules, which greatly increases the chances of players being injured.

On September 9, a negotiating participant revealed that in the negotiating conference room, both employers and employees have begun to feel a sense of cooperation.There will also be a negotiation between employers and employees over the weekend.But soon in the negotiations on Friday, Stern and the player representative Wade had a conflict. Although Stern only said that both sides were "a little excited", the negotiations were still greatly affected. .Not long after, the league officially announced the cancellation of the entire remaining preseason games. Vice President Adam Silver said that if the regular season is canceled two weeks before, then both labor and management will suffer huge losses. This is almost obvious.

On October 10th, labor and management conducted five hours of negotiations, and the two sides plan to negotiate again on Monday, trying their best to avoid the cancellation of regular season games.However, a new round of labor negotiations ended the next day, and the two sides still failed to reach an agreement. The league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season.The two parties had to agree to continue negotiations under the mediation of federal mediators. George Cohen, director of the Federal Bureau of Arbitration and Mediation on behalf of President Trump, stepped in, and things seemed to be getting worse...

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