Fred Zorner, owner of the Fort Wayne Pistons, looked at this NBA logo and couldn't stop nodding, and he couldn't stop nodding his head, and he couldn't help but be happy with the logo.

Among the people present, he was the only one who didn't know much about basketball, this giant of the American automobile industry, playing basketball is like a rich man playing a mobile game in later generations, don't care if he understands the game or not, first recharge to buy a set of equipment that can be forced. His concern is whether the new league is tall enough, whether it has a card enough, and as for other things, he just has to pay for it.

Others are not such rich tyrants, they focus on other aspects. For example, Walter Brown, the general manager of Boston Garden, Peter Tyrell, the owner of the Philadelphia Coliseum, and Miguel Yulin, the owner of Washington's Yulin Stadium, are most concerned about the schedule of the game.

"In the regular season, each team plays each other four times, two at home and two away, and we now have a total of eight teams, so if you add it up, a team plays 28 games a season, 14 of them at home and 14 away, which means that my stadium hosts 14 games a year." Walter Brown, the general manager of Boston Garden, said as he calculated how much he could earn from 14 games.

In the future NBA, a team would play a full 82 regular season games a season, but at that time there were 30 teams in the NBA league. Now there are only 8 teams in Chen Qiang's new league, and it is not uncommon for a team to play 28 games a season.

What's more, transportation in the forties was not developed, and it was a one-day train ride from New York to Washington, so it was impossible to arrange the kind of back-to-back races as in the future. Under normal circumstances, it takes one day to get to the venue, one day to play, another day to come back, two games a week to play, and more than three months to complete 28 games.

However, 28 games a season is not much for a few stadium owners, who wish they could play every day and sell more tickets and make more money.

In the future, there will be a lot of players complaining that the NBA's schedule is many and intensive, and the degree of physical confrontation is still so high, playing 82 games a season is too much, and it is too easy for players to get injured. In order to cope with this situation, the coach of the team even invented the rotation tactic of the main players.

However, the NBA league does not plan to reduce the schedule, once the number of games is reduced, it will affect the league's revenue, team owners, stadium owners, advertising sponsors, etc.

The players are just complaining, after all, the salaries of NBA stars are very high, not to mention those star players with an annual salary of tens of millions, even if it is an ordinary rotation for help, the salary of an ordinary American is comparable to the income of an ordinary American for a lifetime, since it is earned with this money, it should bear a higher intensity of work.

Walter Brown, the general manager of Boston Garden, continued to look down: "At the end of the regular season, the top four teams advance to the playoffs, which are in a knockout format, with first place versus fourth, second place versus third, and the winner will win the championship. The playoffs feature a best-of-five format, with the team leading the table having a home-court advantage. ”

Chen Qiang nodded: "That's right, theoretically, the team that wins the championship can have up to six more home games than the team that didn't make the playoffs, so the team will also get more ticket revenue." I designed this rule to encourage teams to play hard, because your team's results will directly affect your profits. ”

After listening to Chen Qiang's explanation, Walter Brown, Peter Tyrell and Miguel Youlin, the three owners who own the stadium, nodded in agreement, for them, this is a very favorable rule, as long as the team plays well enough, then their stadium can also enjoy more benefits.

I only heard Chen Qiang continue: "Gentlemen, in fact, these schedules and the like are all small things, and the most important thing in my new league planning book is to change the rules of basketball, please turn to page 10." ”

Everyone turned to page 10, and then everyone's expressions changed.

Among these people who came to the meeting, some people knew the ball, and some people didn't understand the ball. For example, the owner of the Pistons, that local tycoon Fred Zorner, he just doesn't understand the ball, so he doesn't have his own opinion on changing the rules or anything.

And people such as Celtics owner Walter Brown, Warriors owner Peter Tyrell, and Washington Congressional owner Yuger Youlin, because they themselves run sports venues, must know something about basketball. But they are more concerned about the benefits that basketball can bring to the arena than the changes in the rules of basketball.

Rochester Royals manager Lester Harris and Baltimore Bullets manager Ben Kramer both work as coaches, so both of them know the ball. But because Chen Qiang gave these two teams an investment, these two football emperors did not dare to make irresponsible remarks about Chen Qiang's proposal. The big money owners have opened their mouths to change the rules, and they have no other choice but to play along.

In addition, the one who really understands the ball is Ferris, the general manager of the Buffalo Bisons. In the NBA in the 50s, Ferris also made many new rules.

And now, it was Ferris who was the first to speak, and I saw him say with a serious face: "Mr. Chen, I'm not mistaken, you plan to change the rules of the entire basketball game!" ”

Since the invention of basketball in 1981, the rules of basketball have been constantly changing and improving. In the beginning, basketball used a bamboo basket with a bottom as a basket, and every time a ball was scored, the ball had to be taken out of the basket by stepping on a ladder. And after each score, it is not the side that loses the point to serve, but to come back to the middle of the court, and the two sides jump the ball again, theoretically as long as you jump the ball well enough, the ball will always be yours.

In the 40s, although the rules of basketball have changed a lot, they are still completely different from the rules of the future, such as the era when there were no 24-second offensive violations and no three-point line. In contrast, the rules of football, baseball and ice hockey are very similar to those of later generations, such as the T-shaped formation of rugby, and the football tactics of later generations have also been developed from the T-shaped formation.

Chen Qiang knew that the rules of basketball at that time made basketball seem very dull and boring, so basketball could not attract too many spectators, which also limited the development of basketball. So Chen Qiang wrote some new basketball rules in the planning book, and his new league will implement new basketball rules.

I only heard Chen Qiang say slowly: "I really want to change the rules of the whole basketball game, first of all, I think the three-second rule should be reactivated." ”

"Mr. Chen, with all due respect, the three-second rule doesn't have a big impact on basketball games, and no player stays in the three-second zone." Ferris spoke.

Chen Qiang said: "The reason why no player stays in the three-second zone is because the three-second zone is too small, so the range of my three-second zone should be expanded, the existing three-second zone is 5.8 meters long and 1.8 meters wide, and I think the width should be doubled, that is, increased to 3.6 meters." In this case, the three-second zone will become useful! Nor will that situation of a player sitting on either side of the basket waiting for the ball. ”

Back in 1987, basketball had a free throw zone, and in 1932, the three-second rule was added, which was later abolished but reinstated in the fifties. In other words, in basketball in 1942, there was no three-second rule. There are no offensive seconds or three seconds of defense, as an attacker, you can stay under the basket for an unlimited amount of time and wait for the ball to pass, and as a defender, you can also stand under the basket to defend without limit.

It's just that the three-second zone at that time was 5.8 meters long and 1.8 meters wide. The length of 5.8 meters is set for free throws, and the width of 1.8 meters is equivalent to the distance of two steps, that is, the three-second zone at that time, which is just a long area, except for the 1.8 meters in front of the basket can not stay for three seconds, both sides of the basket can stand people. One step away from each side of the basket, middle school students can easily throw the ball in, and it doesn't matter if there is a three-second zone or not. The most commonly used basketball tactic in that era was to stand one step away from the basket on both sides of the basket and throw the ball in. So the three-second rule became redundant, and it was abolished in 1932.

In the fifties, the three-second rule was reactivated, and the three-second zone was doubled to 3.6 meters wide, thanks to the birth of George McCann. As the first generation of super center in the NBA, George McCann, who is 2.08 meters tall and weighs 110 kilograms, is a bit far-fetched to play center in the CBA today, but at that time, he was definitely a giant under the basket, and in order to limit George McCann's scoring ability, the NBA had to change the three-second range.

The second to make the NBA expand the three-second zone is Chamberlain, at that time, Chamberlain, and other players are not on the same level at all, just imagine a single game 100 points, 55 rebounds of perverted data, this is basically the rhythm of beating children, 3.6 meters wide three-second zone has been difficult to limit Chamberlain, so in 1965, the three-second zone became 4.8 meters wide.

Later, as the players became more and more awesome, the 4.8-meter-wide three-second zone was not enough, so the three-second zone became six meters wide, and it became the trapezoidal three-second zone later.

It is worth mentioning that in the basketball rules of that era, there were only three seconds of offense, not three seconds of defense, so the "three-second rule" mentioned by Chen Qiang refers to three seconds of offense.

In the future, FIBA rules don't have three seconds to defend, while NBA rules have three seconds to defend. The reason why this is the case is because the NBA has produced a dead fat man named O'Neal.

O'Neal was too strong at his peak, and the NBA league couldn't continue to expand the three-second zone, otherwise the three-second zone would have expanded to the three-point line. As a result, the NBA had to change the rules to allow the use of joint defense tactics to target O'Neal. In addition to limiting O'Neal, the joint defense strategy will also limit the breakthrough of outside players, which not only limits a large number of breakthrough players, but also makes the game less enjoyable, so the NBA can only formulate a defensive three-second rule to limit the joint defense tactics, so as to reduce the impact of joint defense on outside players.

Therefore, the defensive three seconds in the NBA, although not to directly limit O'Neal, was indirectly born because of O'Neal.

Re-enabling the three-second rule and expanding the scope of the three-second zone is the trend of basketball development in the future, and Chen Qiang simply proposed it ten years in advance, hoping that in this way, the development of basketball can be promoted.

However, Ferris, the general manager of the Bisons, did not understand Chen Qiang's intentions, and he said: "Mr. Chen, if the three-second rule is re-activated and the three-second zone is added, then it will become more difficult for players to attack under the basket, and the tactic of standing on both sides of the basket to catch the ball and score will be completely abolished, which will greatly slow down the offensive rhythm of the game." In today's basketball game, the offensive rhythm is slow enough, and so many boring offenses make people look drowsy. I'm not against changing the rules, but I don't think it's about making the pace of the game slower, it's about speeding it up. ”

"Mr. Ferris, I agree with your idea, so please look at the second change, which is the change of the five-second rule. The current five-second rule is that after the ball carrier in the backcourt is guarded for five seconds, it will be judged as a scrum, and I changed it to a player with the ball who is closely defended, and if he does not pass, throw, or dribble within five seconds, he should be punished for a violation and the opponent throws a throw-in. Chen Qiang said.

What Chen Qiang is talking about is the five-second rule.

In 1932, basketball formulated the five-second rule, and the five-second rule at that time was that the backcourt ball handler was closely defended for five seconds and judged to be a scrum, which was used by Chen Qiang in 1942. The reason why there was such a strange rule at that time was because there was no 8-second rule in that era, and the original intention of this five-second rule was to allow players to dribble the ball across the half court as quickly as possible.

In 1956, due to the 24-second offense rule, there was no need to worry about players dragging time in the backcourt, so the five-second rule became a five-second rule for the ball-handler to defend the opponent tightly in the front court for five seconds, and it was judged to be a scrum. In 1985, it became a tightly guarded possession of the ball, and no passing, pitching, or dribbling within five seconds would be judged a violation, and the scrum became a throw-in by the opponent, a rule that is still in use today.

So we often see in basketball games that the player with the ball is prevented from moving in place, can't dribble, can't pass the ball, will immediately call a timeout, and then re-send the throw-in, because if you don't call a timeout, the ball will be the opponent's after five seconds.

In addition, the future NBA will have a special five-second rule, that is, when an offensive player is in the front court of his own side, the free throw line extension line is positioned, he must not dribble with his back to or sideways to the basket for more than five seconds. The reason why the NBA has this rule is mainly because of a big ass named Barkley, who can always use his ass to arch defenders to the basket step by step when he is holding the ball with his back, and then score easily, so the NBA has to make this rule to limit Barkley's big ass. Hence this rule is also known as the Buckley rule.

In the 40s, there was no Barkley's big ass, and although Chen Qiang knew the Barkley rule, he did not mention the five-second rule when he proposed to modify the five-second rule.

Ferris, the general manager of the Bison team on the opposite side, frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head: "Mr. Chen, I admit that such a rule change can increase the frequency of passing, dribbling or pitching by players, but it does not mean that the pace of the game will be accelerated, and players can still use many ways to delay the progress of the game." ”

Chen Qiang said unhurriedly: "So please see my third rule revision, adding the rule of eight seconds violation." After the attacker serves, he must bring the ball to the front court within eight seconds, otherwise it is considered a violation and the opponent throws the sideline. In this way, the attacking team cannot afford to stall at the back, they must dribble the ball to the front court as soon as possible. Once the ball is in the front court, they will face the opponent's tight defense, and in the case of the five-second rule change, if they don't dribble, pass or shoot as soon as possible, once the opponent's defense is in place, it will cause the ball to be converted. This rule naturally forces players to speed up the pace of the game. ”

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