Stadium Philadelphia staged a basketball game that could go down in history, and it was a game of a lifetime for the fans in attendance. For the first time in professional basketball, there was a matchup between pitchers.

Winning or losing is no longer important for this game, the meaning of this game is the change it brings to the whole game of basketball. From this game, the jump shot, the most commonly used scoring method in basketball, finally began to be known, more and more players began to learn jump shooting techniques, and more and more tactics around jump shooting techniques also came into being.

Under the new basketball rules, there are many new tactics, and players have begun to use new techniques, such as "Cardinal" Auerbach's fast break tactics, Joe Fox's mid-range one-handed jumper, which can be regarded as tactics and techniques in line with the development of basketball, but there are also some teams or players who come up with some tactics that look strange, or use some very unusual techniques.

These phenomena are inevitable in the development of basketball. The emergence of new rules forces coaches to use performance tactics to adapt to the new rules, and also forces players to develop new techniques to adapt to new tactics, and this development process is actually continuous experimentation and exploration, if not verified through the game, no one knows whether the new tactics and new technologies are good or not.

Of course, Chen Qiang is an exception, as a time-traveler, and a professional sports practitioner, he is very familiar with the development of basketball, and he knows the evolution of basketball in the next few decades. If it weren't for the NBA league to gain a foothold as soon as possible, perhaps Chen Qiang would not have intervened too much in the development of basketball, but let basketball make progress in repeated attempts. But Chen Qiang hopes that the NBA league can develop as soon as possible, and also hopes that the Knicks can gain a foothold in New York City as soon as possible, and he has to take out the breakthrough point and mid-range jumper to promote the development of basketball.

For fans, this novel basketball is particularly exciting, and even those strange tactics, or alternative techniques, can attract the attention of fans, will cause them to have heated discussions, and this discussion has also driven other people who do not watch the game to pay attention to the NBA.

Many fans are tired of the new, even if they are not "tired of the old", but "like the new" is always inevitable, the NBA league basketball game is always full of all kinds of new tricks, and even every game will appear new things, so that fans feel overwhelmed, but also make fans involuntarily pay attention to the NBA game.

Basketball under the old rules is too boring and boring compared to other ball games. This is not reflected in the daily gameplay of ordinary people, but it is particularly obvious in the game.

For example, we usually play wild ball in the community court, many times just six people to play a half, at this time will not be so strict to calculate the rules of the game, no one will calculate what offensive 24 seconds violation, the attacking side will stay in the three-second zone will not be cared about, and even occasionally pull down the arm is a thing, it doesn't matter, the victory or defeat is not important, everyone just have fun. In this case, it doesn't matter if there is a 24-second offense.

However, the official game cannot lack strict rules, and under the constraints of the rules, the behavior of the players is much stricter. Moreover, the official game is ultimately about winning, which will make the team adopt some utilitarian play as much as possible, so there will be a situation where they will not attack after taking the lead, which also leads to a decline in the viewing of basketball games.

To sum up, the more high-level the game at that time, the more boring and boring it was, and the more people who couldn't play, they would have a lot of fun when they got together.

This is contrary to the law of sports development, sports are the pursuit of higher, faster, stronger, the higher the level of sports competition, the more spectacle it is. However, basketball in that era was just the opposite, and it was only a matter of time before such a sport that did not conform to the laws of development was gradually dyed out if it was not reformed.

It is also for this reason that in the field of professional sports, basketball simply cannot do other ball sports.

Now the modification of the new rules has finally changed the game of basketball, and the increase in a 24-second offensive violation has made the situation of delaying the game no longer appear, and the audience has also found that this kind of basketball that does not drag on is still very exciting!

The improvement of ornamentation can naturally attract more audiences, and World War II also gave the NBA a "god assist".

Whether it's baseball, football, or even ice hockey, excellent athletes have gone to join the U.S. military, which has caused heavy losses to the three major sports leagues in the United States, and at the same time, those high school graduates with excellent physical fitness, as well as those basketball players in college, have also enlisted in the army, and a large number of them may not appear directly on the front-line battlefield, some people only train in the rear, but this is also a loss for American school sports.

The loss of elite athletes has greatly reduced the spectacle of the competition. It can be said that in the United States in 1942, the games of Major League Baseball MLB were ugly, the games of football NFL were ugly, the games of ice hockey NHL were also ugly, and even the high school games and college games that Americans loved so much became ugly.

At this time, the NBA league, which was born out of nowhere, relied on the new rules to instantly steal a large part of the audience from other ball games. Although there are many excellent basketball players who have gone to join the U.S. military, the NBA basketball game is fresh enough! Since everyone is a rookie pecking at each other, why not pick a fresher game to watch!

This is like pulling a general out of a cripple, the NBA in this era, although it is not perfect, is definitely the best among the "lame".

What's more, at that time, the game between baseball MLB and football NFL was very exciting, but now because of the loss of players, the game between baseball MLB and football NFL is greatly reduced, which will make fans have a psychological gap and feel that baseball and football are going to be cool.

On the contrary, the basketball game used to be very ugly, but now the viewing has suddenly increased, which also produces a psychological contrast for fans, and the degree of expectation for basketball has also increased exponentially.

When the strong person fails once in a while, people will unconsciously exaggerate the degree of failure, and when the weak person achieves a success, people will also unconsciously exaggerate the degree of success.

This is happening in the professional sports leagues of the United States, where more and more people are ditching baseball, football or ice hockey to join the basketball family.

The NBA league is popular with fans and has also made the owners of various teams a lot of money.

For the owners of several teams, they originally had no ambitions, and the basketball game has been tepid anyway, and the main purpose of their willingness to set up a team to play in the NBA is to make a little money to make up for the operation of the venue.

For example, the Buffalo Bisons, they have calculated that as long as there are 3,000 spectators per game, it will be enough to run the Buffalo Memorial. The operating expenses mentioned here are not the cost of this game, but the cost of the Buffalo Memorial as a whole. In other words, after the Buffalo Bison played a full season, as long as 3,000 spectators could buy tickets for each game, the money earned could allow the Buffalo Memorial to operate for a year.

Stadiums such as Madison Garden Plaza and North Shore Gardens are much larger than the Buffalo Memorial, so their operating expenses are much larger, but New York and Boston are also big cities, and they can attract more fans, and their revenue is much larger than that of the Buffalo Memorial.

After a few games, as the reputation of the NBA league became more and more famous, more and more people came to watch basketball, and several sports owners found that playing basketball can not only make up for the operating expenses of the stadium, but also make a lot of money.

In the face of money, those who originally questioned Chen Qiang have disappeared, on the contrary, the owners of each team seem to be more united, after all, the NBA league has brought them benefits, and the combination of this interest is often relatively stable. I don't like you as a person, and I want to kill you, but I'm definitely not going to get over it.

In this way, with the support of the fans, the team has also made a profit, everything in the NBA league is developing in a good direction, and after two months of games, the NBA league has finally gained a firm foothold in the United States.

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While Chen Qiang was heartbroken for the development of basketball, the war was still going on.

On the domestic battlefield, China and Japan entered a state of stalemate, at this time, the Japanese army focused its strategy on the Pacific theater, and for China, it adopted a strategy of blockade and division, local wars were still continuous, but large-scale wars did not appear.

In the Pacific theater, the Japanese, who lost the Battle of Midway, had lost the strategic initiative in the Pacific and were forced to stop the strategic offensive against the US mainland and launch an offensive in the South Pacific instead, which also led to the outbreak of the Battle of Guadalcanal.

In the Eastern Solomon Islands, Japan and the United States engaged in the third aircraft carrier duel after the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, as a result, one of the American aircraft carriers was damaged, while one of the Japanese aircraft carriers was sunk.

Later in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the Japanese recovered the scene when they sank an American aircraft carrier at the cost of two damaged aircraft carriers, which would take a long time to repair.

In this battle, the losses of both sides seemed to be half a pound and eight taels, but in fact the Americans achieved a strategic advantage. The industrial capacity of the United States is much stronger than that of Japan, and for the United States, they can build new aircraft carriers in a very short time, and Japan takes more time to build new aircraft carriers than the United States, so if the two sides fight a war of attrition, Japan will definitely lose in the end.

On the North African battlefield, Italy has already shown its true colors as a "pig teammate", but the "Desert Fox" Rommel still defeated the British army, but fortunately, Montgomery took over the command of the British army and fought back and forth with Rommel on the North African battlefield.

As for the European theater, the German army fell deeper and deeper in Stalingrad, and the German army entered the city of Stalingrad early, and the two sides started street fighting, and Stalingrad was in ruins, but the German army was never able to completely occupy the city. The Soviets' intention was simple, that is, to hold out until winter and freeze to death you Germans!

The various battlefields of World War II have entered the stage of stalemate.

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Chen Qiang couldn't get involved in the war, and at this time he was still trying his best to develop the NBA league.

Chen Qiang once again gathered the owners of all the teams, and then put a new plan in front of the bosses.

"NBA draft program? Are you going to draft new players like you did in football? Pistons owner Fred Zorner was the first to ask.

Chen Qiang nodded: "Yes, in fact, when I founded the NBA league, I already planned to introduce a draft rule. I hope that in the future, all the players in our league can only enter the NBA through the draft. Of course, this goal cannot be achieved in a short period of time, and we definitely need a buffer period. ”

Chen Qiang said, picked up the plan, and continued: "Please open the second page, and I will first talk about the necessity of adding a draft system. Now the players of each team are recruited separately, which also leads to a situation where the rich team can recruit better players, while the team without money can only recruit some relatively low-level players, which will make the team with money become stronger and stronger, and the team without money becomes weaker and weaker. ”

"Is there anything wrong with having money and being weaker without money? Isn't it natural for me to spend more money and be more powerful? Fred Zorna asked.

Fred Zorna was originally a local tycoon, and he only had one criterion for playing the team, and that was to throw money, so the Pistons could win the NBL championship twice in a row. Now that it is necessary to restrict local tyrants from throwing money, Fred Zorner is naturally a little resistant.

Chen Qiang asked with a smile: "Mr. Zorna, don't you think that a game that can be won as long as you spend more money will be boring?" We play competitive sports, and the close competition and the uncertainty of the game are the charm of competitive sports, and a one-sided game will not make people feel interesting. Mr. Zorner, I guess you don't just invest in sports to win games, right? If sports don't give you a thrilling feeling, what's the point? ”

Fred Zorner lowered his head and thought about it, and realized that it seemed to be the case.

Fred Zorna certainly wants his team to win, but that kind of crushing victory is also something he doesn't want to see. Local tyrants, some are rich, and there is nothing lacking in material things, but spiritual enjoyment is not so easy to get. Isn't the thrill of sports competitions a spiritual enjoyment? If it can make his spirit feel enjoyable, then the money is worth it.

Seeing that Fred Zorner acquiesced to his statement, Chen Qiang continued: "The rich team is getting stronger and stronger, and the team without money is getting weaker and weaker, so the team without money will gradually lose the audience, and even dissolve because it can't survive, and finally only the rich team is left in the NBA league to play, and how many rich teams are there?" Our league is going to get smaller and smaller, which is obviously not in line with the development of the NBA league as a whole. ”

"On top of that, teams with money compete with each other, which also brings losses to the team. For example, if you value a player and give him an annual salary of $3,000, and I value him and give him an annual salary of $4,000, and the third person increases the price to $5,000, and you are unwilling to increase the price to $6,000. That way, whoever gets this player will have to pay more money! ”

When it comes to spending more money, team owners are sensitive. Only Fred Zorner here doesn't care about money, and the others are still afraid of spending more.

Chen Qiang continued: "In order to avoid small teams not being able to survive, and to avoid teams spending more money in order to compete for players, I plan to introduce draft rules in the NBA league!" ”

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