The whole of October was spent in the midst of a battle between the players' union and the league, and all active NBA players became increasingly restless. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 After playing the AAU game, Ye Feng, Westbrook and Loew returned to UCLA to continue to borrow the arena of their alma mater for training, but at the same time, they were also inquiring about the labor negotiations.

Both sides have taken a tough stance and the Nov. 5 talks have seen more representatives from both sides in attendance, but it doesn't look like it's going to work, and with Stern setting a deadline for next Wednesday, players would do well to accept the management's proposal now. If Labor does not accept the employer's proposal on Wednesday, Stern threatened that it would "sanction" Labor with more onerous proposals such as a 47% BRI share and a flex pay cap.

At the same time, the hard-line Jewish businessman issued an ultimatum to cancel the regular season before Christmas if there was no significant progress. Some players and agents are preparing to sign a petition by Tuesday to revoke their union licenses. But the move would first require about 130 people to sign the petition and then submit it to the National Industrial Relations Board, which would take 45 days to verify before the union was dissolved by a vote of players.

While Kobe Bryant, the league's undisputed No. 1 man, has publicly expressed his desire to reach a new collective bargaining agreement framework to avoid a cold winter for the league, an emergency internal meeting of the players' union on Nov. 9 showed that Bryant's wish would be difficult to fulfill. A total of 43 players attended the meeting, with 29 of the 30 teams represented. The union reported to the delegates the proposal and the status of the negotiations, and finally concluded that the proposal was completely unacceptable.

On November 15, the NBA officially notified the league teams to cancel a total of 103 games in the first two weeks of December, which is the third time that the league has announced the cancellation of two-week games. Stern announced on Oct. 28 that he was canceling the Nov. 15-Nov. 30 games, on Oct. 10 that he had canceled the first two weeks of the regular season, and on Oct. 4 that he had canceled the NBA preseason game. This also means that the reduction in the number of regular games in the 2011-12 season is a foregone conclusion.

However, the two sides, which seem to have been at a stalemate, are gradually moving closer to reconciliation in the continuous contact. On November 26, after 15 hours of negotiations, the NBA and management reached a framework agreement. Because it will take at least a month to prepare from the end of the shutdown to the start of the new season, and the reason why the labor and management urgently resume negotiations and reach an agreement at this time is likely to save the much-anticipated Christmas war.

The New York Times' Howard Baker revealed more details about the season's schedule. According to Baker, the new season will begin on December 25 and end on April 26, 2012. The general schedule released on the NBA's official website confirmed the news, and the regular season deadline on April 26 was 10 days later than the original schedule, which equates to teams playing 66 games in 125 days. The start date of the playoffs is April 28. If the finals are played in seven games, the longest will be until June 26.

In this new season, which has shrunk by 16 regular season games, each team will have a tighter schedule, with each team playing an average of one game every 1.89 days. If you take out the six days off during All-Star Weekend, each team plays one game every 1.8 days, which is almost the same as the average of one game every 1.82 days in the '98-99 season. At the same time, each team will play 48 games against teams in the same division, four fewer than in a normal season, and the number of games against the other division has been drastically reduced, from 30 to just 18. This means that not every team will have the opportunity to visit the home of the other 29 teams in the league this season.

At the same time, the new season will be followed by back-to-back fixtures (three consecutive days of games) since the 1998-1999 shortened season, with each team scheduled to do so at least once, with the most teams experiencing such nightmare trips three times. In the playoffs, the schedule will also be tighter, with at least one back-to-back game scheduled in the semi-finals, instead of almost all every other day, as has been the case in the past.

Ye Feng didn't feel much about this arrangement, after all, he was a strongman who played nearly 40 minutes per game in the finals, and the intensity of the games in the new season was only a little troublesome for him, and it was difficult to affect his performance. The Trail Blazers, as a relatively young team, naturally don't care much, but such a shortened season is a nightmare for teams with an average age of more than 30, which greatly increases the probability of injuries to veterans. Especially in the playoffs, where every game is a key game, the addition of back-to-back games has made the aging team invisibly lose a respite.

Regardless, it's a good thing that the new season can start, which means the team can continue to start their own championship race. Of course, this also requires the general manager of the team to make minor repairs to the lineup, after all, there is indeed an element of luck in winning the championship last season. While Roy and Oden have both recovered from injury, McMillan can't afford to let them play for too long in the first place, so the team's reinforcement will be necessary.

But the start of the new season with the Christmas game is a huge blow to those NBA players who are heading to China to pan for gold, including Mills, an important backup at the Trail Blazers' No. 1 spot. According to the rules of the Chinese Basketball Association, they were not allowed to have a jump option in their contracts when they signed with CBA teams, so even if the NBA is suspended, the new NBA season will kick off at Christmas, and they cannot jump out of the contract and return to the United States.

Ye Feng couldn't control the others, but Mills, as a teammate of the Trail Blazers, could not participate in the new season with the team, which made the Trail Blazers lose a big player before they even started. Mills was also frustrated, and he contacted the team as soon as he received the news, and he also felt helpless about this situation, but he promised that he would return to the NBA to play after obtaining the permission of the CBA Xinjiang Guanghui, and the first choice was still his old club Trail Blazers.

The team's management was noncommittal, first of all, Mills' signing of Xinjiang means that he has little to do with the Trail Blazers now, and secondly, no one knows if he will be able to return to the NBA during the regular season, and even if he does, the team will not need to re-sign him, although the Australian has become the core of their national team. In the NBA, a business league, business is business, and the Trail Blazers have made up their minds to strengthen the No. 1 spot......