Back in 1938, the NFL of football began to conduct drafts, but the draft at that time was basically blind. Officials will select some well-known young players from some media reports to join the draft list, the head coach of each team will also recommend some young players to join the draft list, and the head coach of a college team can also recommend his own players to participate in the draft.

In this case, the information is very opaque, and some players don't even know that they have been selected in the draft, or they may have to read the newspaper to know that they have been drafted by a certain team.

The team also doesn't know what kind of draft the players are like, and they may not even have seen a photo of the player except for a name. Many teams also collect information about their players by reading newspapers or asking players about their previous coaches.

From the media report to understand a player, it is strange that it can be reliable, the reporter who writes the report knows a yarn, it must be how to write how to sell high! And ask the head coach of the player, the head coach will definitely praise his own players, Wang Po sells melons and boasts, and the head coach can't say that he has trained a garbage player, in that case, the head coach is quite faceless.

So in those days, if you wanted to participate in the NFL draft, it was easy to bribe the sports reporters of the media and write a few advertorials for yourself, and maybe you could get into the NFL draft.

In this situation, the head coach of each team is very busy, and in order to inspect the players, they have to go to the school where the players are located, watch the players train, watch the players play, and then make a decision whether to choose a certain player or not.

However, as the head coach of a team, there are a lot of things, how can you be idle every day and go to universities around the world to scout players. In the future, each team has a professional scout, who is responsible for investigating the situation of those young players, which players are missing in the team, the scouts can provide several candidates at any time, and if the coach wants which player's information, the player's data, strengths and weaknesses, etc., will soon form a report and send it to the coach's table. And in this day and age, the scout's job is also done by the head coach.

It is also because the information of the players is not transparent, although the American professional sports leagues of that era, although they have drafts, but whether it is the team or the players, the enthusiasm for the draft is not as high as that of later generations. In the future, the annual draft will be seen by the team as an opportunity to change the fate of the team in the next ten years, and how many teams will go crazy for a top pick.

In order to make the information of rookie players more transparent, Chen Qiang directly moved out of the rookie trial camp. Bringing some of the best athletes together in New York and giving them a group tryout, while the head coaches and management of each team are on the spot, the team can fully understand the strengths and weaknesses of the players, and the players can show themselves in front of the team.

As for those players who were not invited, Chen Qiang did not give up on them, if they are willing to come to the rookie training camp in New York, the new league also welcomes them, but these players who come by themselves need to pay for their own expenses.

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Detroit.

"Stan, here's a letter from you, from New York." A letter is sent to Stan Mosaic.

Stan Mosaic was subconsciously stunned, and while taking the letter, he said to himself, "Did you send the wrong address?" I have no relatives and no friends in New York. ”

Stan Mosaic carefully checked the recipient's address on the envelope to make sure it was indeed himself, and he opened the envelope. As he pulled out the letter, a train ticket fell and floated to the ground.

Stan Mosaic picked up the train ticket and looked at it, it was a train ticket from Detroit to New York. Stan Mosaic then opens the letter.

"Dear Mr. Stan Mosaic, we have received your application and we are honored to invite you to participate in the open audition for the New League Draft......"

Stan Mosaic read the letter carefully, and then finally knew what had happened.

Before the draft begins, the new league will hold a three-day rookie tryout in New York, which will invite some of the athletes who have signed up for the draft, and Stan Mosaic is among those invited. Transportation, lodging and meals during the trial will be the responsibility of the new league, and the coaches and other management of all the teams in the new league will also be present to watch the trial. At the end of the training, if the team is interested in the player, they can also invite the player to go to more trials, which of course will be borne by the team.

"It's amazing to have a tryout before the draft, not only to get a free trip to New York, but also to show my abilities in front of the coaches of the various teams, so that my chances of being selected will be greatly increased!" Stan Mosaic clenched his fists excitedly, and he could feel that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

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At Seton University, across from Eddie Sadows sits a balding middle-aged man, who is none other than the head coach of the Brooklyn Indians of the ABL League.

"Eddie, my team is interested in you, and I can guarantee that if you come to the team, I can give you a place in the main team." The head coach of the Indians spoke.

"Is it a guaranteed contract?" Eddie Sadows asked.

"Well, it should be counted!" The head coach of the Indians said with some insincerity: "At least I can guarantee that you will be paid during your play." ”

"That is to say, if you don't need me one day, I won't have a salary?" Eddie Sadows asked.

The head coach of the Indians nodded: "That's how the team works, the players play and then get paid, if you don't play, you naturally don't have a salary, even me as the head coach." ”

"I'm so sorry, but I'd like to get a guaranteed contract." Eddie Sadovs replied.

"Eddie, you have to know that the whole ABL league works like this, even those big stars will only get money in the months when there is a ball to play." The head coach of the Indians spoke.

At that time, players in the NBL or ABL league were more like the kind of odd jobs, and when there was a ball to play, they had money to take, and when they didn't have a ball to play, they naturally had no money to earn. Even a lot of players are paid according to the number of games, you play a game, you are paid for a game. Only those star-level players will be paid according to the month, for example, if you play for three months this season, then you will receive three months' salary from the team, and the remaining nine months will be without money.

For players, this is not guaranteed, so players need to find part-time jobs in the offseason to make ends meet; For the team, although this system saves costs, it makes the team more like a grass team, with ups and downs, and the team lacks cohesion, and it may be disbanded directly one day, so the frequency of team renewal in the NBL and ABL league is very large.

Eddie Sadows, of course, didn't want to play on this kind of non-guaranteed team, and he said: "I'm very sorry, I've signed up for the rookie selection in the new basketball league, and if I can be selected, I can at least get a guaranteed two-year contract." I think the new league will be treated better. ”

"Eddie, you know, the draft is simply not reliable. That new league now has only nine teams, which means that only nine people can get that kind of guaranteed two-year contract, and how many people sign up for the draft? A hundred? Or two hundred? With such a brutal competition, are you sure you can be one of the lucky nine? Those teams don't even know you, and maybe they can't even pronounce your name! Instead of asking for that illusory draft, come to me and I can guarantee that you'll have the ball to play! The head coach of the Indians then advised.

"I don't think you know, the new basketball league held a rookie training camp, invited a lot of players to go to New York for tryouts, and all the team coaches would go there to watch it in person, and I was invited, and they even bought me tickets to New York. I believe that when I get to the trial site, with my strength, I can impress those coaches! Eddie Sadows spoke.

"Rookie tryout?" The head coach of the Indians opened his mouth slightly, he never expected that a draft pick would be able to do such a trick.

However, in the next second, the head coach of the Indians realized that with this rookie tryout, the potential young players will not be buried, they will be selected by the team, and in the long run, the entire excellent athletes in the United States will gather in that new league!

"If this kind of rookie selection is carried out by that new league, our ABL league and NBL league are probably going to go out of business!" The Indian head coach said secretly in his heart.

In fact, the current head coach of the Indians should be more worried about his team.

The historic Brooklyn Indians were originally an amateur team that joined the ABL league in 1942, and in 1943 they played only half a season before going out of business. In other words, the current Brooklyn Indians are on the verge of going out of business.

This is also the status quo of ABL league teams, although as early as 1925, the ABL league has been established, and the entire league finally insisted on disbanding in 1955, but in the full thirty years, there are few teams that can hold out for more than three years, such a loose and unstable basketball league, it is impossible to turn basketball into a professional one.

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In Brooklyn, New York, Max Zaslowski has three pieces of paper on his desk, the first is an enlistment application, the second is an invitation from the rookie tryout camp in the New League, and the third is an invitation from the NBL team Sheboygan Redskins.

Now, Max Zaslowski has a choice to make, is he enlisting in the army? Or go play basketball?

After hesitating for a long time, the desire for his dream finally prevailed, and he threw the enlistment application in the trash.

He will have to choose between going to a tryout in a new league or going straight to the Sheboygan Redskins in the old league NBL.

The Sheboygan Redskins are a strong team in the NBL league, this team was founded in 1933, initially an amateur team, in 1938 the team entered the NBL league, and relied on excellent defense, five times into the NBL championship competition, and won the NBL championship.

At that time, the Pistons were the strongest team in the NBL, almost winning three consecutive championships in the NBL league, and it was this Sheboygan Redskins who prevented the Pistons from winning three consecutive championships.

In Chen Qiang's time and space, he pulled the Pistons into the new league, and without the Pistons in the NBL league, the Sheboygan Redskins became the boss of the NBL league.

The invitation to the top team in the NBL league is still very attractive, the team has a good record, and it has always been a plus point to attract star players to join, which is why Max Zaslowski will hesitate.

Of course, in terms of salary, the NBL league is not as good as Chen Qiang's new league, and if Max Zaslowski goes to the Redskins, the salary will definitely not be as good as that of a rookie in the new league, but only if Max Zaslowski will be selected by the team in the new league, he can get that good salary. If he hadn't been drafted, he wouldn't have gotten that guaranteed two-year rookie contract.

"Do you want to gamble?" Max Zaslowski said in his heart.

"That rookie camp in New York, all the head coaches are there, and if I do well, maybe I can impress them and let them pick me! And the teams in the New League are all playing on big balls, and I watched the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, with 20,000 spectators, which was really shocking, and if you could play anywhere, it would be a dream thing! ”

Max Zaslows has finally made up his mind to give it a try at rookie camp in the new league, and if he's lucky, if he gets drafted by the New York Knicks, he will not only earn a good salary, but also be able to play at Madison Square Garden. Max Zaslovs is a New Yorker, playing in front of his hometown fathers, what a face!

Young people's vanity is always stronger, and they are able to play on the big course, but they are definitely not willing to go to the small court.

Madison Square Garden, which can accommodate more than 20,000 spectators, is one of the largest stadiums in the country, compared to the 1,500-seat Eagles Auditorium, home of the Redskins, and the Sheboygan Auditorium, the Redskins' new home stadium, with only 3,500 spectators after the NBL-BAA merger.

Sheboy is a small county town in Wisconsin, close to Lake Michigan, but the population is not large, in 2000, the whole county was only 110,000 people, in the forties there were enough people, such a small city, it is impossible to build such a large stadium, even if it is built, there are not so many spectators.

Historically, the Sheboygan Redskins eventually collapsed because they were in a small city.

Before the fifties, basketball was not a climate, and teams in small cities were able to survive, and even survived very well. After entering the era of the four major sports leagues, small cities are not suitable for the development of professional sports, and a small city cannot support the teams at the level of the four major sports leagues. And a big city like New York is more than enough to feed eight teams at the level of the big four leagues.

Except, of course, the Green Bay Packers, who are the only team in the big four leagues to survive in a small city thanks to the fanatical support of their fans.

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