Chapter 410: A Long Shutdown

Train with temporary teammates every day, then participate in AAU competitions, and go to have a meal together in your free time, Ye Feng has not experienced such days for a long time. www.biquge.info Since he joined the NBA, he has been training non-stop every summer, with little vacation time, and his three meals are all healthy and nutritious foods that are matched by nutritionists but taste unacceptable, let alone get together with friends in his spare time.

Now the league shutdown has given him a good chance. In fact, Ye Fengman is only in his early twenties, but his performance in the offseason is like a veteran who has been in the league for many years, and reporters who have already done good things have compared him to training freaks like Jordan and Kobe.

Please, Ye Feng just hopes to win the championship as soon as possible and extend his career by the way, as the so-called precautions, it is much better to be strict with himself as soon as he enters the league than to retire because of the rapid decline in physical function due to wanton indulgence.

When it comes to training, Ye Feng feels that the AAU game is very beneficial for players to maintain their condition in the offseason, I don't know if it is because of the suspension of the league that has led to the accumulation of active NBA players, he does not feel that the victory of the game is within reach, but he does his best to play every game. Of course, the team is not as perverted as Matthews thinks, it can only be said that there are more wins and fewer losses, but in the process of the game, Ye Feng still feels that he has basically recovered to the level before the injury.

Of course, Ye Feng also continued to pay attention to the progress of labor negotiations when he participated in the AAU League, and when he talked to Abby on the phone every day, Abby who returned to ESPN to continue working always had some internal information to share with him. It's just that judging by the content of these messages, the outcome of the negotiations is not optimistic.

In fact, Ye Feng is okay, his family is also considered a wealthy class in Los Angeles, Ye Ning earned a lot when he played in the Spanish League, plus Guo Yu is very good at finance, Ye Feng has not been short of money since he was a child, so the impact of the NBA shutdown on him is not very great. If you really talk about it, Ye Feng plays basketball purely as a talent and interest, otherwise he can be a good gentleman and wander around the banquets of the upper class every day.

But the shutdown was a bolt from the blue for the black players who played to support their families, because they were unpaid during the shutdown, and from the current indications, not to mention the team's training camp and summer league, the regular season of the 2011-12 season could be affected, which is a big cut in their income. So basically all the players are praying for the negotiations to go well, and some people can't stand it and go directly to the overseas league to pan for gold first.

Leaving aside the Turkish team Besiktas, who is negotiating with Kobe, there are not a few active NBA players who have gone to China to participate in the CBA league, and they are not like Ye Feng who play quietly in the AAU, and active NBA players including Wilson Chandler, Aaron Brooks, JR Smith and Patrick Mills have begun to compete in the CBA. As a teammate, Ye Feng also persuaded Mills a few times, but he still insisted on going to China to have a look, and Ye Feng had to go with him.

In the whole of July, there was only one small negotiation between labor and management, but neither Hunter, the executive chairman of the NBA players' union, nor Stern, the president of the league, attended, so there was no breakthrough between the two sides. On July 26, the league announced the postponement of the annual rookie transition plan, which was originally scheduled for August 9 to 11, and the date will be rescheduled after the new agreement is reached, which also means that this year's rookie will continue to do nothing.

On August 1, Stern, Hunt and Fisher, the president of the players' union, returned to the negotiating table, which was the first formal negotiation between the two sides since the shutdown, and the first time since July 1 that Stern, Fisher and Hunt attended the negotiations together. However, there was no progress after two hours of negotiations, with Stern saying: "The players are not willing to engage in negotiations in a serious way, and I am not optimistic. Fisher said the two sides would hold at least two or three more talks in August. At the same time, the coalition filed a lawsuit alleging that the union failed to participate in the negotiations with a serious attitude.

On 17 August, after a regional internal meeting of the unions, the players said that the current offer of the management was absolutely unacceptable. On Tuesday local time, the players' representatives met with Hunter and Fisher on the UCLA campus, and it was revealed that the players became very excited immediately after fully understanding the proposal. However, at that time, Ye Feng and the others had already transferred the battlefield, otherwise they would definitely go back to the school to see the excitement, and it would be good to inquire about the inside story.

On Sept. 15, Fisher sent an open letter to the players, in which he criticized the agents who tried to dissolve the players' union. But soon someone came forward to slap him in the face, and an agent told Yahoo Sports reporter Adrian that the union was not listening to the players at all, saying: "The players don't want to make so many concessions, but the union keeps making concessions in negotiations." "But in any case, there has been no progress in the negotiations.

Just a day later, the league announced the postponement of the start of training camp and preseason, this news made the players feel nervous, training camp and preseason have been confirmed to be postponed, then the regular season of the new season will definitely not play a full 82 games, which not only means that the team's various plans must be put on hold, the new season is likely to encounter various devilish schedules, so that the chance of injury for players is also greatly increased.

On September 30, one of the negotiators revealed that there was already a feeling of cooperation between labor and management in the negotiating room. There will also be a negotiation between labor and management over the weekend. But soon there was a clash between Stern and Wade, the player's representative, during Friday's negotiations, and although Stern only said that both sides were "a little excited", the negotiations were greatly affected. Soon after, the league officially announced the cancellation of the entire remaining preseason, with Vice President Adam Shaw saying that if the cancellation had been done two weeks before the regular season, it would have been almost obvious that both labor and management would have suffered huge losses.

On Oct. 9, the two sides engaged in five-hour negotiations, and the two sides plan to negotiate again on Monday, doing everything in their power to avoid the cancellation of the regular season game. However, the next day, a new round of collective bargaining was over, and the two sides still did not reach an agreement, and the league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season. The two sides had to agree to continue negotiations under the mediation of a federal mediator, and George Cohen, the head of the Federal Arbitration and Mediation Bureau representing Oba President Ma, stepped in, and the matter looked to be getting bigger......