After the official announcement of the official shutdown of the NBA, the negotiations between the two sides did not end.

Instead, they continued to talk round after round until both parties were satisfied.

On July 27, the proposal proposed by the labor side during the negotiations was rejected, and the rookie training course scheduled for August was postponed.

On August 2 and September 14, the two collective negotiations collapsed, and the start of the new season was far away.

On October 5, Stern officially announced the cancellation of all preseason games, and the regular season shutdown will be inevitable.

On October 11, Stern announced that the first two weeks of the regular season had been cancelled and that the two sides would start a long negotiation again in mid-October.

From October 19th to 21st, labor and management started a round of negotiations for a 3-day and 30-hour ultramarathon, but no consensus was reached and the shutdown continued.

On October 29, Stern announced the cancellation of all competitions for November.

On November 13, the NBA cut back for the third time and deleted another two-week schedule.

On November 15, the players' union rejected the new agreement between the management and the negotiations broke down for the Nth time......

Beginning on June 30, five consecutive months of round after round of negotiations and repeated tug-of-war, the two sides were never able to reach a consensus.

As a member of the management team, Min Congda participated in and watched this extremely long and grinding labor-management negotiation from beginning to end.

Although as the biggest mole in the NBA, he hopes that the water will be as mixed as possible.

But after two years in the alliance, I was more or less emotional.

The large number of details in the negotiations made Min Congda feel incomprehensible and unworthy for many players.

The core point of contention between the two sides is the proportion of the salary cap to the distribution of income.

Previously, it was 57%, and the management wants to reduce that to 50%.

The reduction of 7 percentage points has become a battlefield for the two sides to fight back and forth.

But in fact, the NBA season shutdown has caused more than 7 percentage points in the cost of players' salaries so far.

The income of the players is closely related to the income of the whole league, and if there is no game in the league, there is no income, and you just go up to 90%, and you don't have a penny.

And a key problem is that it's often the stars who don't have a shortage of money who stand their ground on the issue of the percentage of salary caps.

Salary is only a part of their income, they also have endorsements, sneaker contracts, off-field income, and so on.

These stars are not so much concerned with income as they are about their reputations: to put it bluntly, they don't want to be stigmatized for compromising with management.

In a general vote held on November 15, 30 representatives of 30 teams voted unanimously to reject the new plan.

This has put the collective bargaining in an almost irretrievable situation.

And as the negotiations dragged on, five months later, the mentality of both sides began to change.

Whether it is the wealthy side of the capital or the star side of the indifferent income, the original intentions of both sides have become off track.

The purpose of the management is to cut expenses and reduce risks; The purpose of labor is to get what they think is theirs.

But when we talked, the purpose of the management became, "I don't believe that I am a capitalist, and my family and business are still held hostage by your part-time job." ”

The purpose of the labor side became, "We, as representatives of the workers, must not compromise with the capitalists at the expense of the interests of the masses and discredit ourselves." ”

Billy Hunter, as the executive director of the management side, was even more sluggish in the negotiations, pulling back and forth, and did not really do a good job of coordinating the two sides.

And it's not just the owners and players who are involved in the wrestling, but also the agents, but also the management, the NBA team workers, the media, and the-stirring lawyers.

Of course, there is also a big mole hidden.

All of this has resulted in a lot of time and money being wasted, but still not getting a mutually satisfactory result.

It's like the First World War, where the belligerents don't know why.

It's just that they all start fighting, so keep fighting, and send ignorant soldiers to the front line to die.

After all, the players have to eat, they have to pay a salary to support their families, even if they are stars, they have a high income and high daily expenses.

By November 17th, the original NBA payday, the shutdown naturally had no salary to pay, and the previous contract was invalid.

Many players in the NBA have lost their income and have gone overseas to play to make ends meet.

A group of players banded together to file a lawsuit in local court alleging that the NBA shutdown was affecting their earnings and salaries.

It was none other than Kobe Bryant who took the lead, followed by Chauncey Billups, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant, and Kawyan Leonard, who just entered the league this year and didn't play a single game.

Min Congda was also shocked when he received the news that Leonard was going to sue the NBA.

This kid is a little guts, he just entered the NBA and didn't play a game, and he didn't receive a single salary, so he dared to follow Big Brother to the court to make trouble.

Although Leonard was selected in the draft, Min Congda was not very impressed with him.

Because after the shutdown, the players and the management can no longer have any contact, otherwise it will be considered collusive.

Therefore, after the draft and Leonard signed a contract, the two did not have a chance to meet again.

Now a lawsuit against the NBA and the Clippers has made Min Congda look at this guy with admiration.

"I'm young, and I don't know what kind of ability I have, but the skills of the whole moth are good. So I didn't think I was wrong about him, let him come to the Clippers, maybe something will happen. ”m.

In Min Congda's opinion, Curry and Harden are too well-behaved.

Single-mindedly playing well, not making wind and rain, and making the Clippers locker room very harmonious.

If you look at the locker rooms of other teams, there are no dancing knives and guns, and fights are even more common.

Do you think, a group of black guys who are hormonal and haven't read much books are together all day long, can there be no conflict?

Once they have a conflict, they will never simply scold two trash words, and it is possible to use their hands or even guns.

It's just that in order to maintain the image of the team and the players, most of this information is blocked and not let fans know.

But the Clippers really don't have it, the interior is quite harmonious, not to mention fights, there are very few quarrels.

If there is one who can do the whole thing, it will be a good thing for the Clippers if the shutdown ends in the future.

It's just that no one knows exactly how long this shutdown will be.

It was at this time that some news reports were published in the media, announcing the details of the negotiations between the two parties.

There is considerable space in which Billy Hunt, the executive director of the players' union, is attacked overtly and covertly.

It is believed that Billy Hunter had selfish motives in the negotiation process and deliberately delayed the negotiations in order to prevent the agent from disbanding the players' union together with the players.

Because once the players' union is dissolved, Billy Hunt will lose his salary income.

At the same time, in an interview, Stern made a point of emphasizing Billy Hunt's toughness and his departure from the table during the negotiations, which made it impossible for the negotiations to continue.

Stern was undoubtedly hinting that Billy Hunt's presence was hindering the smooth flow of collective bargaining negotiations.

As soon as this kind of report came out, Min Congda's keen sense of smell sensed that the negotiations were likely to make progress.

He immediately called Cuban to inquire about the negotiations, and then flew to New York to attend the management meeting as a representative of the Clippers.

There are growing signs that the shutdown could end around December.

This is an outcome that Min Congda does not want to see.

On November 20, a week before the two sides began another round of negotiations, NBA-Batman tweeted an important message:

"Former tainted referee Tim Donasee broke the news about David Stern's manipulation of league games, and the specifics of the autobiography will be revealed later."

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