"What? Say it again, who wants Leonard?" In the Clippers' studio, Nguyen Erniu was about to discuss with his team about the use of the remaining two second-round picks, when he suddenly learned from Steve Kerr that other teams had requested a trade.

Buford. "Kerr played in San Antonio, so it's normal for him to pass the word.

Ruan Erniu said suspiciously: "Isn't the general manager of the Spurs concurrently served by Popovich?"

Steve Cole spread his hands and laughed, "Although most people think so, it's not!"

Erniu nodded, those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements, and Buford must not be underestimated. Also, God knows what role the old fox Popovich played in this.

The Celestial Empire was completely wrong this time, and Popovich didn't have any idea about the deal. If it weren't for Buford's constant persuasion, Popovich would never have agreed, because the Spurs decided to come up with a chip that he loved for ten minutes, George Hill.

"Reject them!" Ruan Erniu did not hesitate at all after learning about the Spurs chips, but cut off the deal in the most decisive tone.

The Clippers were somewhat hesitant, but Ruan Erniu explained: "George Hill is really good, and we are indeed short of people at the No. 1 position, but a team like the Spurs, since they dare to take Hill out as a trade chip, then Leonard's value must exceed the value that Hill can give the Spurs." ”

Thinking is not in keeping with intuition most of the time, and the Clippers, who made the right choice, were not swayed by the Spurs' trade request, and they decided to continue to develop Leonard.

The draft went ahead and the Philadelphia 76ers selected Nikola Vucevich, the New York Knicks selected Iman Shamchaenport, the Timberwolves selected Danatas Motaiyunas, the Nuggets selected Kenneth Farid, the Rockets selected Nikola Milovich, and the Thunder selected Reggie Jackson.

And with the 30th pick in the first round, the Chicago Bulls selected Jimmy Butler.

In terms of appearance, Butler is 90% similar to Jordan when he was younger, and I don't know if this is one of the important reasons why the Bulls chose him.

The second-round draft began quickly, and the Clippers selected a second-round relation, Malcolm Lee, also from UCLA, with the seventh pick in the second round.

To be honest, it doesn't matter who is selected in this order, and basically the Clippers uniform team is also selecting people with a try-and-see attitude.

Then, with the eighth pick in the second round, the Houston Rockets chose Chandler Parsons, who was called "rich and handsome" in the future due to the Rockets plot of the Celestial Empire fans, and now Parsons is just a white young man with messy hair.

The draft continued, and soon it was the Los Angeles Clippers' turn to pick a point guard with the 17th pick in the second round to supplement the team's No. 1 pick.

Ruan Erniu found an interesting name when he was rummaging through the draft list, so he made a decision that seemed extremely hasty.

"How about choosing him?" Ruan Erniu said, pointing to the list.

"If his quality matches his name, then all I can say is that we're making a lot of money, but he's only 5'9" (175cm) tall, are you sure this guy isn't going to be a defensive hole?"

Ruan Erniu smiled: "Who knows? I just think it's funny." ”

Clippers: "......"

Of course, Erniu didn't tell the truth, the real reason is that Ruan Erniu paid attention to this guy long before the draft.

In the just-concluded Finals, JJ Barria's performance was quite eye-catching, and Erniu also felt that the Clippers needed an assault player who could stand up and impact the basket at critical moments.

In this way, the Los Angeles Clippers selected a man named Isaiah Thomas with the 17th pick in the second round and ended their 2011 draft journey.

Later, after a name review, the real name of the short point guard who could become Isaiah Jr.'s * Thomas should be called Isaiah Thomas (Isaiah), not the famous "smiling assassin" - Isiah (Isiah), who was misspelled by the staff when filling out the draft.

But it doesn't matter, he's a member of the Clippers now.

The final second-round draft went smoothly, and the 2011 NBA Draft came to a successful conclusion.

Ruan Erniu wants to make a big splash in the new season, even if he can't win the championship in the end, he also hopes to use his actual performance to slap the media who look down on him.

But the reality is that it is still unknown when the 2011-2012 season will officially begin.

On the evening of June 30, US time, the old collective bargaining agreement of the NBA has officially expired, and after nearly three hours of final negotiations, the players' union and management representatives still have not reached an agreement on the new collective bargaining agreement.

In this way, starting from 0:00 on July 1, Washington time, the NBA officially entered the shutdown period!

On the last day when the old collective bargaining agreement was still in force, the two sides negotiated for the last time, and this time there were still huge differences between the two sides and no agreement was reached.

So far, two of the four major sports leagues in the United States have come to a halt this year, and the other is the NFL.

It is important to note that during the shutdown, NBA players will not receive their salaries, and NBA teams will not be able to negotiate with players, sign and trade players.

At the same time, players cannot use the team's training facilities for any reason, and the team cannot hold any summer camps, exhibitions, team meetings, and coaches' assemblies.

In addition, NBA team websites can no longer use the image of the player, and the player cannot be used as a representative of publicity.

The league first announced that it would no longer hold summer leagues, but if labor and management do not reach a quick consensus, the NBA will lose not only summer leagues, but also preseason games and training camps starting in October, and regular season starting at the end of October.

In 1998-99, for example, the NBA was shut down, and the regular season shrunk to 50 games.

There are huge differences between labor and management on major issues such as the "hard wage cap" system and the "distribution of benefits", and this is not an issue that can be negotiated overnight.

Why Labor Negotiation?

Because the spoils are unevenly divided.

To put it simply, the management wants to open the five-to-five ratio, but the labor does not agree.

According to the NBA's official announcement, in the past 10-11 season, 22 teams have lost money, with a total loss of $370 million.

From this point of view, it seems that the labor team composed of players is indeed too unreasonable, and their behavior has seriously damaged the interests of the management.

But that's not the case, let's not forget that 22 teams are losing money and 8 more are making money.

Among them, the most profitable are the Los Angeles Lakers, whose gross income reached 208 million meters in the 2010-11 season, and their net profit was 24.3 million meters.

What's even more crazy is that in April 2011, Time Warner bought the Lakers' regional broadcast contract for the next 25 years, with a total value of 5 billion yuan.

At this time, the NBA's TV broadcast contract was only 930 million meters per year, with an average of only 31 million yuan per team, until a 9-year contract of 24 billion meters was signed, with an average of less than 90 million meters per team, and the Lakers' regional broadcast contract was 250 million meters per year.

The labor side made it very clear that the inability of the management to make money is the operation problem of the management itself, and we, the main body responsible for playing, should not lose our share of the ball.

So, in the next few years, such rumors have spread in basketball circles.

The so-called shutdown, the main contradiction is not between the management and labor at all, this is an NBA official planned "fight against local tyrants" action, aimed at those teams that can make a lot of money every year.

And the Los Angeles Lakers, who just signed a big contract not long ago, are naturally the first thing Stern has to clean up.

For a long time in the past, Lakers owner Jerry Buss was an ally and friend of David Stern, and it was Buss who proposed to Stern that "the NBA should build stars", which led to the rapid development of the NBA in the past three decades.

But during the 2011 shutdown, Stern and Bath officially parted ways and began to fall in love with each other.

Bath still maintains the original idea, "to create stars, to create a big market", and after the NBA cake is bigger, Stern has begun to consider the issue of common prosperity for the long-term and healthy development of the league.

For quite some time, the 2011 collective bargaining was seen in the media as a confrontation between owners and players. But they forgot that the small-market teams were also launching a counterattack against the Lakers.

Jerry Buss' son, Jim Buss, complained in 2012: "Most teams are targeting the Lakers, and they think we're not doing anything fair. ”

Before the shutdown, the Lakers would pay about 5 million yuan to the league every year for the regional TV broadcast contract, and after the shutdown, the Lakers' "protection fee" increased by more than 10 times, and they had to pay 50 million to 80 million yuan to the league every year.

"It's too much to pay [at least] 50 million meters a year!" Bass was furious.

In the 2012-13 season, Jordan's Bobcats claimed to have made a profit of 8 million meters, but in fact they lost nearly 6 million meters, but they received an additional 14 million meters from the league, and part of the 14 million meters was the Lakers' money.

The NBA wants to engage in "equalizing the rich and the poor", in other words, the small market teams are happily "fighting local tyrants" and "eating big households" with the help of the league.

The Los Angeles Lakers, the purple-gold aristocracy of Hui He, are in trouble, and what they don't expect is that the league's crackdown is far from over.

Interestingly, the head of the union in charge of this negotiation was none other than Lakers player Derrick Fisher.

Is Chairman Fish fighting for the players, or is he fighting for a big-ball city team like the Lakers, or is he simply acting as an undercover agent for the league?

There are some things that will never have an answer, but judging from the scene, Fisher, as the president of the union, is at least qualified.

Again, there is no harm in comparison.

Think about what Patrick Ewing, then president of the union, did during the collective bargaining in '98?

Gorilla's bargaining skills aside, one of his brain-dead public statements directly pushed the labor side into a disadvantageous position.

At the time, Stern made it clear that "NBA players' salaries are too much higher than the average person, and they shouldn't be asking for more." ”

Ewing could have answered in countless ways, but instead chose the most mindless sentence, "Yes, we earn a lot, but we also spend a lot." ”

With this sentence alone, the audience in the United States will not sympathize with those NBA players at all, but will think that this is nothing more than a game of profit sharing between multimillionaires and billionaires.

In fact, O'Neal, who has collected all the rainbow jerseys (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, respectively from the six teams he plays: Heat [away], Suns [away], Lakers [home], Green Kai [away], Magic [away], Cavaliers [retro], Lakers [away]), and officially announced his retirement, said something similar from the perspective of a bystander: "This is a group of millionaires, multimillionaires playing games with billionaires." ”

In any case, the long-term shutdown of the league is a foregone conclusion, and Nguyen Er Niu has no way to remotely direct O'Hill to make any trades, and even whether it will continue to exist in the 11-12 season has become questionable.

Ouyang Haotian and Carlos Rodriguez discussed with Erniu again, and they even asked whether to arrange Erniu to play in other leagues.

"For example?" asked Ruan Erniu.

"The CBA of the Celestial Empire, or the league of Turkey?" Ouyang Haotian said tentatively.

Ruan Erniu shook his head and said: "Forget it, I'd rather go to the Drew League to play a few games and find out my form, but go to other leagues, in case the NBA ends the shutdown, I may not be able to withdraw in time." ”

A few days later, Erniu was extremely glad about his decision, because Han Meimei told him a shocking news.

"Are you pregnant? It's been more than three months?" Ruan Erniu never expected that during the time he was recuperating from his injuries, he would really "get killed".

"There's no reason! Isn't it possible to vomit when you're pregnant? Why don't you react at all, it seems that you've gained a little weight, but you can't see this belly at all!"

"I've just done a B-ultrasound and it's confirmed. Also, not all pregnant women will vomit, or do you want me to vomit? Han Meimei said with a smile.

"Hey, if you do a B-ultrasound, do you know if it's a man or a woman?" Wait, I remember the doctor doesn't seem to tell you your gender, but you're also a doctor, so you probably know ......."

Before Erniu's words were finished, Dr. Han directly interrupted: "Who told you that doctors don't talk about gender? Is this the case in the Celestial Empire? But this is the country of rice, and the attending doctor told me as soon as possible, judging from the B-ultrasound film, it should be a boy, and everything is healthy." ”

I don't know why, Ruan Erniu suddenly recalled the disdainful sneer of the eldest brother, the big thing of the MADE-IN old Ruan family was actually completed so easily?

Erniu was a little overwhelmed, to be honest, he wasn't ready yet, but a new life actually broke into his life like this.

"I'm going to buy a diamond ring now, and then call my parents, damn, I haven't visited your house yet, my father-in-law won't blow my head with a gun, right?" Ruan Erniu was a little flustered, calm on the basketball court, but he was confident in his own strength, but this did not have any calming effect on the apprehension of the hairy foot son-in-law coming to the door.

Dr. Han smiled again and said, "Don't worry, I don't think my dad will do anything to you." Also, who said I was ready to marry you?"