The NBA season has just begun, and Lee is busy starting his final year in the CBA.

After all, at the end of the 14-15 season, Li Cai will go to the NBA to conquer the highest temple in the basketball field.

Although he is 15 years old, Lee is just 18 years younger and is generally not allowed to participate in the NBA draft.

Because the NBA changed its rules as early as the beginning of the 2006-2007 season, requiring players under the age of 19 to not be allowed to join the NBA, which means that they must complete at least one year of college before they can play in the NBA.

The NBA league's explanation for this is that high school students are still mentally immature, and rushing into the NBA will bring many bad consequences, and it is also to save the NBA from more negative effects, such as fights and brawls.

Many high school players in the United States do not take this regulation seriously, thinking that it is.

Li Cai also thinks so, the NBA league is doing this for nothing more than interests, and it has to be under the banner of caring for high school students.

Because the annual ratings of the NCAA in the United States are so high, and even higher than the ratings of NBA games in many cases, the brand value is so great, and the league must maintain the competitiveness of the NCAA, otherwise, every year some talented high school drafts enter the NBA, then the competitiveness of the NCAA will decline, which is naturally what the league does not want to see.

Therefore, the reason why the league banned the draft of high school students is just that the reason is simply not tenable for profit.

This caused some trouble for Li Cai to go to the NBA.

But later, when Li took a serious look, he found that he could still go to the NBA and participate in the draft.

According to Lee, the NBA has special rules for overseas player drafts, and they define overseas players as any amateur or professional basketball player who lives outside the United States. You don't even have to be a professional basketball player.

Of course, there are still age restrictions, the NBA stipulates that overseas players will automatically get the rules after reaching the age of 22, for overseas players under the age of 22, if they want to participate, they need to be at least 18 years old, and must send a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the draft.

This is just right for Li Cai, Li Cai's coming of age is exactly April, and the start time of the NBA draft is exactly June, even if it is 45 days in advance, Li Cai will have time to participate in this year's NBA draft.

In fact, in Li Cai's view, after the current NBA commissioner became Adam Silva, the degree of show became more and more serious.

In the 17th year of Li Cai's previous life, the NBA draft ended, and then the NBA awards ceremony was held in Manhattan, New York, which was the first time in NBA history that the regular season awards were announced in the form of an awards ceremony.

Adam Silva thinks he is very good at showing hype, but in fact, in the eyes of outside fans, the championship has been decided for half a month, who cares about the regular season.

And the announcement of the award so late makes people suspect that there will be some ulterior black-box operation in it, which has generated a lot of controversy.

During Stern's reign, the NBA playoffs were fair and the league was more restrained in terms of control, but Silva was committed to developing the NBA into a pure show, and he didn't care about that.

He didn't want one family to dominate, and when the Warriors were ready to defend their title next year after winning the championship this year, the Warriors lost the game 3-1.

You know, in the 15-16 season, the Warriors not only hit 1,000 three-pointers in a single season, setting an NBA historical record, but also 73-9 in the regular season, breaking the record set by the Bulls in the 1995-96 season (72-10) and becoming the team with the best single-season regular season record in NBA history.

But when he met the Cavaliers in the finals, the 3:1 lead was reversed by chasing three games in a row, which was incredible.

Although it is the tenth time that the Warriors have come back from a 3-1 deficit, the team that has fallen behind 1-3 in two consecutive games has come back from a comeback, which makes people not believe that there is no black whistle.

In Li Cai's view, Adam Silva did this because he didn't want to see the Warriors dominate, so he targeted it like this, because the Warriors defended the championship and defended the title by breaking the regular season record, and then it will be difficult to suppress, and it will become a situation where the Warriors are dominant, and it will be difficult to be competitive.

It can be said that for the sake of profit, Silva almost dominated the game, making basketball lose the passion it should have.

When Silva took office, he repeatedly said that he was committed to building a more competitive and fair alliance, but after a few years, he showed that he was a pure businessman, and he did not hesitate to manipulate the game in order to make money.

As long as fans watch the game carefully, they will find that when entering the playoffs, there is no whistle for teams without big-name stars.

In this finals, whenever a team is about to widen the gap, a few scattered whistles will always bring the game back to normal and make the two teams more anxious.

In Silva's opinion, the ratings will be higher and the fans will like it more. This is Silva's NBA, where the power of referees has never been greater.

You must know that in the 15-16 playoffs in the previous life, the Warriors won the first two rounds 4:1 and basically swept the game, while in the Western Conference finals, the Warriors fell behind 1:3 and then reversed.

If it weren't for the black whistle, the Thunder wouldn't have had so many chances to lead the Warriors 3-1, which was deliberately caused by the league.

Originally, Silva was not ready to intervene in the finals, because the finals received too much attention, so it was not easy to blow the black whistle, but the Warriors were too strong, and when they saw that the Cavaliers were about to be swept, Silva could only let the referee intervene, so that the Cavaliers finally won the championship.

But next year, Durant joined the Warriors, making the Warriors stronger, but the Cavaliers lineup is similar.

It can be said that the Warriors are still very strong and have a super lineup, but if the league really wants to mess with you, it has nothing to do with whether it is strong or not, it is too easy to operate. While the body hair whistle is not given, the Warriors players will blow small movements, and they will blow fouls in a row as soon as they get up to the offensive momentum, and the offensive rhythm can be disrupted in a few rounds.

It's just that it's too ugly, so in the 16-17 season, the Warriors surpassed the Lakers in 2000-01 (15-1) with a 16-1 playoff record to become the team with the highest winning percentage in NBA history. And the Cavaliers and Warriors competed for the championship, and they were almost swept, and the games they won were not very clean.

In general, Silva, as the president of the alliance, will do anything as long as he has a stake.

And Li Cai, a big-name star, since the NBA, will naturally make the NBA attract the attention of the world, not to mention that Li Cai is a Chinese, the world's most populous country, with natural advantages.

For the sake of the Chinese market, even if Silva can't be drafted, it is estimated that he will change the rules so that Li can participate in the draft and enter the NBA.