The 2011 draft has come to an end.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are considered the biggest winners, and they will be lucky enough to win the No. 1 pick and will welcome a duo.

This is equivalent to giving LeBron James a reassurance.

And although this season's Cavaliers did not win the championship, they were still very successful in reaching the finals.

Especially in the Eastern Conference finals, which defeated the scheming Miami Heat, and defeated the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals, which had been holding him back, it was a major improvement and victory for James.

It's a pity that the finals scored 8 points in a single game, and was swept by the gentleman 1:4, and won a total of one game in the two finals.

This shows that LeBron James still has a lot of room for improvement.

The Clippers took two No. 3 forwards who didn't shoot well in the first round.

This is the draft strategy set by Min Congda when he first entered the league, and his execution is quite strong.

In the second round, the Clippers took power forward LaVoy Allen from Temple University with the 49th pick.

This choice was not interfered with by Min Congda, and it was Jeff Ball's early decision.

He believes that the Clippers currently have height and thickness on the inside, but they lack flexibility and athleticism.

Lavoy Allen is 206 tall, young, energetic and quite well-rounded.

He is very similar to Zach Randolph in his style of play, but the technical level is far less subtle.

On the other hand, he is more outstanding defensively and works hard.

Although it doesn't have much potential, it's a good choice as an inside supplement.

Min Congda believes in Jeff Ball's draft and operational ability, and thinks he will slowly bring the luck of bankruptcy to the Clippers.

The end of the draft heralds the gradual start of the new season.

But this summer, it's clear that things are not that simple.

As early as December 2009, less than half a year after Min Congda came to the Clippers, he was still trying to find a way to bankruptcy.

Under the influence of the financial crisis, the alliance has seen many diseases, crises are everywhere, and there is a risk of large-scale losses or even bankruptcy at any time.

At that time, the famous TV commentator Brad said: "As far as I know, the NBA has encountered a crisis in the past two years, and if there is no obvious improvement in the future, then some teams will withdraw from the NBA one after another, and the expansion momentum that the league has maintained for more than 20 years will be strongly curbed for the first time." ”

Then, in early 2010, Fox magazine published the NBA Team Value List, and 12 of the 30 teams lost money.

That is, as many as 40 percent of the teams are not profitable, and the owners and the league are putting money into them.

Originally, the Los Angeles Clippers were also among the losing teams, but under Min Congda's blind toss, they successfully attracted a large wave of traffic and increased attendance.

The box office and cash flow of the Clippers have been significantly improved in the short term, and the losses have been turned into flats in one fell swoop, although the profit is very small, at least it is not a loss.

No wonder David Stern was so tolerant of Min Congda in the first place.

It's not easy to have a general manager who can make money under him.

And from time to time, fines are used to support the alliance's finances, bringing topic traffic to the alliance.

Such a person seems to be a thorn, but in fact he is a treasure, and it is too late to protect him.

Because the league's teams continue to lose money and their revenues are declining, the management wants to reduce the proportion of total wages of labor players, reduce the maximum number of contract years, and preferably set a hard salary cap.

And the labor players are certainly not willing to watch their earnings fall, and the contradiction between the two sides is obvious.

With 18 months to go before the start of formal negotiations this year, the two sides have met several times.

In the 1999 collective bargaining agreement, the two sides agreed on a 57 per cent share of gross wages.

It is the league's income after subtracting basic benefits, and the remaining 57% of the income is used as the basis for player salaries.

For example, this year's total income of the league is 3.5 billion, minus 5 billion miscellaneous expenses, and the remaining 3 billion income, 1.71 billion is used as player salary income.

Split evenly among the 30 teams, that's $57 million, so the salary cap is set at $57 million.

But in reality, the league has a soft salary cap, and most teams will pay more than that.

The championship team is even more overspending, and they have to pay a high luxury tax, so it is strange that the team does not lose money.

Moreover, although the income of the league will be distributed and allocated to a certain extent, each team is generally self-financed.

Some teams make a lot of money, and it doesn't matter if it's 57%.

Some teams don't make much money in the first place, and they have to pay their salaries according to the 57% salary cap, which is a big loss.

Therefore, the management has long wanted to adjust this ratio, and it is said that 43% is a ratio that the management is willing to accept, which means that the salaries of the players will be generally reduced by 20%.

With such a large salary cut, individual players may not matter, but it is impossible for the players' union as a whole to agree to it.

Several meetings between representatives of both sides were inconclusive.

The boss loses money and doesn't want to pay that much salary.

The players have been fighting for their youth in the past few years.

At the end of the 2010 season, after the Lakers won the championship, in August of the summer of 10, the first formal negotiations between labor and management began.

The differences between the two sides were enormous, and the negotiations did not lead to any substantive progress or results.

In September 2010, the negotiations generally appeared to be relatively smooth, but there was still no substantive result.

The two sides exchanged petty issues, and the most critical salary ratio was not agreed.

During the 2011 All-Star Game, labor and management came into contact again, but this time the smell of gunpowder on both sides became noticeably stronger.

"We both have the ability to shut down the alliance," Stern said, threatening to say so.

And LeBron James, who is the vice president of the players' union, shot back hard, saying that the team went back on its word, and when he bought the team, he agreed to the 57 ratio and now wants to admit it.

By April 2011, just after the end of the regular season, Stern announced that he would cancel the Summer League for the summer of '11.

This became a harbinger of a possible shutdown for the new season.

On June 22, 2011, two days before the draft, labor and management held another three-and-a-half-hour negotiation.

The management proposed a "flexible wage cap" system to replace the current soft wage cap. 33

Labor believes that the so-called flexible pay cap is nothing more than a variant of the hard wage cap.

It is still difficult for the two sides to reach a substantive consensus, and there is no progress in the negotiations.

On June 30, 2011, the draft went on as usual and ended smoothly, and a final negotiation was on the horizon.

The NBA has had a prosperous, lively 2011 season.

The glory on the court exited, and the battle for practical interests off the court began.

On June 28, Min Congda, as a representative of the Clippers management, flew to Dallas with Rosser, Olscher, Jeff Ball and others to attend a meeting of the management.

Min Congda, who thinks he has "won a big victory" in the draft, is full of confidence.

With the mentality of Sun Monkey participating in the Queen Mother's Peach Club, he vowed to turn him upside down!

Some people died, but not completely......