It's just that after the draft, the general managers of each team have stopped, and the excitement before the opening of the free market is completely untraceable, and all the staff have fallen into a strange silence.

The reason is also simple...... Labor negotiations did not come out until the end of the draft, and the labor and management still insisted on their own words, and no one was willing to give in.

This is the tenth and final year of the previous collective bargaining agreement, and if the two sides fail to reach a reunification by July 1, the alliance will be at a standstill.

If the league is shut down, any team is forbidden to trade players during the shutdown, the likeness of the player is used, and the player cannot use the services provided by any team, and everything will come to a standstill.

It is also for this reason that everyone is now waiting for the last negotiation between labor and management on July 1, and when the negotiation is completed, then the alliance will not be suspended, and the transactions that should be carried out can be carried out normally, but once it is suspended, then no matter what the agreement is, it will have to wait until the labor and management have completed the transaction and the alliance has resumed normal operation.

Yi Jianlian also ended a 28-day special training before July 1, of course, he did not end the special training because of the last negotiation between labor and management, but he originally planned to do so for 28 days and 4 weeks in the first stage.

He knew that the league would definitely shut down!

Even if he didn't know the future, he could be sure that the alliance would definitely shut down, and even if it wasn't for this time, it wouldn't be too long.

The reason is simple, the NBA has grown so fast in the last decade!

Ten years ago, it was tied for third place in the ice hockey league, and Jordan's retirement was a fatal blow to the league at that time!

But ten years later, the NBA, a major league, is undoubtedly one of the most influential leagues in terms of business alone, and the other two major leagues, baseball and football, are now simply not capable of completely suppressing it.

Stern's "NBA Globalization" saved the league and commercialized it completely!

It is also because the alliance is making money day by day, and the labor side that wants to make money and the capital side that wants to make money will definitely be dissatisfied with the original benefit distribution, and it is also for this reason that the alliance will be shut down sooner or later.

In Yi Jianlian's view, instead of reluctantly maintaining the relationship and signing a tentative contract to continue, it is better to completely tear off the skin and have a formal scolding, anyway, it is impossible to stop forever!

No matter how the league is shut down, the owners of 30 teams will lose at least 400 million yuan in fixed output value, which is still the price for Jordan to buy Charlotte, and in exchange for a larger city, such as Chicago or Miami, less than 2 billion will not be able to take it at all.

Not to mention that there are some teams that are family businesses, such as the Lakers, if the league really stops, this big family will have to drink the northwest wind.

There is another key reason, the speed of commercialization of the league is visible to the naked eye, and the appreciation of such a speed team in the next few years is also a sure thing.

If the labor side is really ruthless, it is not impossible to go out and fight for a few years, and force the management to bow its head.

After all, the NFL's set of methods used to deal with players is really impossible to work in the NBA, which is already the best group of people who play basketball on the planet! It is impossible to find a group of players to replace them, and that will only result in a lack of intensity in the game.

They leave only with influence.

Moreover, there is only one NFL in the world, but there is a good chance that there will be another NBA.

The reality, of course, is that Labor eventually made some compromises, and management followed suit, and the League recovered from the shutdown.

This is indeed the best outcome for both labor and management, after all, tens of thousands of dollars are lost every minute during the shutdown.

also knows that the shutdown of the league will not be very long, so Yi Jianlian has no idea, if it is really suspended for a year, Yi Jianlian believes that with his influence in the league now, he can definitely make the name of Huaxia CBA and make this league the best league outside the NBA in the real sense.

But then again......

Even if it's just a few more months of shutdown, it's enough for Yi Jianlian to do something for Huaxia's CBA!

At least let the guys in China who eat and wait to die see the impact of the top league, really think that playing with a big foreign aid all day long thinks that they have played against people in the top league, and then they can put any name on their heads? It's a bit naïve.

Yi Jianlian is ready to return to China to participate in the CBA, which is an idea he came up with after winning the championship this year, if not for anything else, just to let that league really realize the gap between them and the top leagues!

So the first thing Yi Jianlian did after the end of the special training was to call Liu Hongjiang, the leader of Hongyuan, and told the latter that if the NBA was suspended, he would sign Hongyuan and go back to play BA until the suspension ended.

He must agree to this, and he has no reason not to agree, with Yi Jianlian's current status in the NBA, even if he comes back to play a game, the growth of Hongyuan's influence is visible to the naked eye!

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On July 1, as Yi Jianlian remembers, the last negotiation between the NBA labor and management broke down, and the league reluctantly announced that the NBA had entered an indefinite shutdown until the labor and management officially completed the signing.

And after the news came out, the entire NBA fell into a huge chaos, many celebrities, reporters and experts have spoken out, some criticize the players for being too greedy, and some criticize the conditions of the management too harsh, everyone has expressed their own opinions, and the reason why they frequently speak out is also very simple, they don't want the league to shut down, after all, once the league falls into a shutdown, then their guys who are attached to the NBA will be indirectly affected, and even their jobs will be lost.

Without the NBA, they wouldn't have existed.

Of course, there are also some players who speak out, such as those rookies who have just been selected by the team, who have finally stood out from thousands of basketball teenagers, and finally become one of the NBA major leagues, but they have not had time to be happy, they will fall into worry, if the league really stops, then their original bright progress will undoubtedly be directly dimmed to the point that they can't see the light.

Falling before the finish line is undoubtedly the most painful, and these guys are going through something like this!