By the time Lin Tian and Theron walked out of the room, it was already the morning of the second day.

After discovering that the old man hated Americans, Tylon directly came up with a trick: I am a South African, and I also hate American devils!

As soon as I heard that Theron was not an American, but still an African big brother, no, an African big girl, the old man's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees!

Then he stayed at home for another week, and Lin Tianfei left the imperial capital.

After playing a big circle with Cylon all over the world, when the two separated and Lin Tian returned to Indiana alone, there were less than 10 days left before Christmas, and in the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year.

Lin Tian really had a good vacation this time, and completely relaxed.

"Are you going to Los Angeles?" As soon as Lin Tian got into Pelinka's car, Pelinka questioned his soul.

"Why am I going to Los Angeles?" Lin Tian rolled his eyes.

"Okay, don't talk about me, let's talk about the alliance, how are the two sides talking?" Lin Tian waved his hand, too lazy to say, and quickly changed the topic.

"Not good, very bad." Pelinka shrugged his shoulders and said: "Stern has gone crazy, he has repeatedly changed his expected time for the rematch, from September to October, from October to Easter to Halloween, and the most recent date is Christmas, but obviously neither labor nor management is ready to deal with him. ”

"The current situation, Falck's game in Las Vegas has been decided, on Christmas Eve, it's Christmas War, Ewing, Oakley, Houston's gang of New Yorkers, and Falck's big gang of people, and he also gathered the idiot Tyrem."

"More than 60 NBA players under the duo's portfolio, 16 of whom have been selected as NBA All-Stars, will be present at this game."

"Although the game is in the name of a charity game, as long as you are not stupid, you know that this is an ultimatum to the NBA officials and management, as long as the game starts, the two sides will definitely directly and completely collapse, and then completely tear their faces, as for the league after that, then the devil knows!"

"You really can't guess?" Lin Tian looked at Pelinka, and he didn't believe that Pelinka had no idea about the future of the alliance.

"Well, I guess after this game, the group of bastards on the management side will be completely enraged, and then they will definitely officially issue an ultimatum, and then they will start to divide the internal division of the players' union, after all, there are very few people in this group of NBA stars who can manage money, and there are not a few people who lack money!"

"After half a year's income, many people are already on the verge of bankruptcy, as long as Stern scares them again, negotiations will definitely restart soon, and then the labor side will probably make a lot of concessions, as for Falck."

Pelinka couldn't help laughing when he said this: "After Jordan officially retires, his era will officially end!" ”

"Now in addition to those old guys in their 30s, there are only Iverson and Marbury who are two young people with the potential to become stars, but the relationship between Marbury and Falck will definitely not last long, because Marbury thinks that he is no worse than Garnett, and he also wants a 120 million contract."

"But no one will give him this number, even if those general managers are idiots, they won't waste money on him, but Marbury will definitely not feel that he is not strong enough, he will only resent Falck's lack of ability, and the two will definitely fall out next summer!"

"As for Allen, I've been with him for the last half of my time, and I'm hot with him, his contract with Falke will expire next summer, as long as he also switches to my banner at that time, then Falke will officially only have a group of old guys left, and when these old guys retire, he won't have any voice in the NBA at all."

Lin Tian looked at Pelinka's confident appearance, and couldn't help but say, "How did you talk to the person I designated for you?" How many shares will you give me in your new brokerage company? ”

“40%！” Pelinka sighed and said: "I don't know where you got the team from, but they really got me done, they are so powerful, 40% of the shares, I can't tell whether this company is yours or mine!" ”

Lin Tian didn't care about this miserable guy, because Lin Tian and Pelinka both knew that as long as Falke's charity game was successfully started, then Falke would definitely be finished, and the next NBA agent world, not to mention that it completely belonged to Pelinka, but he would definitely become one of the most powerful people!

The biggest winner of this charity tournament will be Pelinka's old yinbi.

……

On Christmas Eve, the game kicked off on time in a stadium in Las Vegas, with more than 50 NBA players and more than a dozen NBA All-Star stars, and most importantly, almost 10,000 spectators in attendance!

But unfortunately, for various reasons, no TV station broadcast or broadcast the game live, and no one except the fans at the scene could see the full picture of the game.

Afterwards, some people said that the game was very exciting, and the fight was full of fire.

Some people also said that the game was very boring, and the low intensity was not as good as the high school league.

But that obviously doesn't matter.

Importantly, the day after this game, on Christmas Day, Stern gave an ultimatum straight away: January 20.

If the two sides can't reach an agreement before January 20, Stern won't try to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides, and he won't try to prepare for the resumption of the match.

Stern's angry expression, his cold eyes, and the news from the people around him all said one thing.

This time, Stern was serious!

Falke, for his part, was not on his side this time, and he expected the fans to thank him for bringing the high-level game back to everyone.

But the fact is that almost everyone is scolding him, saying that when everyone is working hard to get the NBA back and let the league continue to fight, he, as a person who has a huge voice among the players, not only does not help the league resume the game at this time, but also makes it worse and breaks the game there.

Of course, what made the fans even more angry was that before this game, Falke raised the flag for charity matches, but after the game, everyone found out that he did not donate the proceeds of this game at all, but kept all the proceeds.

The fans, who felt deeply deceived, directly shouted the slogan of letting Falke get out of the league.

For a time, Falck became a street rat, and everyone shouted and beat him.

In the end, in desperation, Falke, who was overwhelmed by public opinion, finally announced that he had donated all the income from this competition to a charitable organization.

But it's too late, and his reputation has collapsed.

It doesn't matter whether this wave of anti-Falke is spontaneous by the fans, or behind the scenes by the management and people like Pelinka.

The important thing is that Falke was stirred up by the storm of public opinion, and he began to lose control of the league, and began to lose control of his players.

What's more critical is that the next development of events is exactly the same as Pelinka and Lin Tian's predictions.

The league began to talk to the players separately, began to try to split them from the inside, and after everyone had been cut off for half a year, the players' desire for a resumption of the game had become more and more irrepressible, they were short of money, they had nothing to do, they were worried that their lives would be ruined, and some people were worried that they would be so bankrupt.

In short, a wave of fear, worry, and overwhelm permeates the hearts of most NBA players.

They are no longer as united as they were in June, and more and more people are starting to shout to speed up negotiations and hurry up and give the fans a great game.

At the same time, this concern is not just pervasive in the minds of the players.

On the side of the management, civil strife also began to spread.

The Lakers, Knicks, and Bulls, the big players who can make money, can't wait for the game to resume as soon as possible, and some of the owners who have just taken over the team want to show their ambitions and are full of enthusiasm also hope to be able to resume the game, and the owners of those small clubs are also worried that if the league is really put on hold, they will be empty and nothing.

And more importantly, the NBA has just signed a new $2.6 billion contract with TNT and NBC!

Originally, in the 98-99 season, this contract was about to come into effect, and a large part of the $2.6 billion would be filled into the pockets of the owners of each team, but now that the league is shut down and all business activities are suspended, the two TV stations will naturally not pay!

Although the bosses will not go bankrupt and not survive because of the shutdown, their losses are actually far greater than the players!

They have lost a lot of real money!

In particular, after both labor and management determined that Stern's extremely tough attitude this time and that this time it was really an ultimatum, both sides began to get anxious.

So, under the increasingly impatient demands of both parties and another mediation by Stern, the labor and management once again sat down at the negotiating table.

This time, both sides finally showed enough sincerity and stopped wasting their tongues on those clauses.

As soon as the labor came up, they voluntarily gave up the demand that 'the player's salary should account for 63% of the total income', and the management no longer demanded that the Bird clause must be abolished, and accepted the soft salary cap.

It has to be said that both sides gave sincerity as soon as they came up, and the negotiations got off to a very good start.

But it's just a good start, in the next dozens of hours, the two sides sat at the negotiating table and still fought for each other, frantically tearing up, for the sake of interests, for their own right to speak, began an extremely fierce competition!

Maximum salary clause, base salary guarantee, contract length, Bird clause, rookie clause, renewal clause, salary cap, transfer rules, player voice, owners' rights to use player portraits......

The two sides have been fighting each other over the main contents and differences of these talks, and on several occasions, the representatives of the two sides have almost directly started fighting at the negotiation table!

What you think is a high-end negotiation scene: the representatives of both sides are dressed in suits and leather shoes, their hair is shiny, in the best office building in Manhattan, huge offices and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the whole of New York City, the representatives of both sides have disdainful and confident smiles on their lips, and they say their respective demands lightly.

Then you come and go, swords and swords, witty words, and even scolding people are full of creativity and elegance, which makes people feel the maturity and stability and strategizing of business tycoons!

The last party sneered: "It's just $20 million, I don't want it." It's not worth my time wasting, and tonight I'm going to Paris for a late night snack with my dear Hani, so be it. ”

Then the parties happily came to an agreement.

The actual high-end negotiation scene: the representatives of both sides were covered with sweat and oil, their hair was messy as if it had not been washed for a week, all kinds of words such as FUXX, SHXX, and BITXX were flying all over the sky, and the whole room was filled with the smell of choking smoke and soot wafting everywhere.

The representatives of both sides fought for whether the basic salary contract amount was 700,000 yuan or 705,000 yuan, and the top-paid players were eager to pull out their guns and shoot the opposite boss for the starting amount of the contract whether it was 25% or 26% of the salary cap.

The bosses are clinging to the 52% sharing ratio, and they are not willing to pay a dime more, and the two sides are even more reluctant to give in to each other for the specific algorithm and amount setting of the salary cap, which is full of gunpowder!

In the end, it was Stern who couldn't stand it anymore and slapped the table and yelled, "A bunch of bitch bastards!" You hell-stricken Grande! I've got to negotiate a reasonable outcome tonight, or I'm going to fucking stop this season! FUXX！ I've had enough! ”

Stern's roar effectively improved the efficiency of the negotiations, but it was obviously not enough to reach an immediate conclusion, and the two sides argued for several days after Stern's words, until everyone was exhausted and had no image, everyone was bloodshot, tired as if they had just played 15 overtime games.

But when Mr. Stern's lawyers read the new collective bargaining agreement, which was hundreds of pages thick for the last time, from cover to cover, and neither side made any further comments, the industry elite, who had no image and had been arguing at the top of their voices for almost the entire second half of the year, breathed a sigh of relief.

It's over! It's finally over!

At this time, both sides actually had a feeling of the aftermath of the disaster, and even had a little different feeling about the bastards opposite each other who wanted to shoot them in the head a few hours ago.

"I brought champagne and celebrated?" Ewing gum and his hoarse voice, as the president of the players' union, he played a crucial role in this negotiation, although he didn't know anything about the law and sustainability and anything like that, and if you asked him for his opinion on the terms of the contract, he would just shout for me to pay more.

But Ewing has a loud voice and scolding is dirty enough, whenever the two sides are deadlocked and need to enter the stage of scolding, Ewing will stand up without hesitation and show the scolding kung fu he has practiced in his career for more than ten years, so that the people in the management side can realize his awesomeness.

So after the whole negotiation, it was this guy who had the most serious throat damage.

"Ingenious, I brought it too!" A representative of the management also turned around and took out a few bottles of champagne from his suitcase, and then, the whole meeting site turned into a sea of joy in an instant!

Excited! Everyone is really excited at this time!

But as the president of the NBA, Stern, who should have been the happiest at this time that his league is finally back, can't laugh at all at this time.

How does he laugh?

This season is destined to be only half left, the All-Star Game is likely to be gone, the league's hard-earned reputation among the public is not exhausted, but it is also plummeting, plus from November to January, the league has not had any games and business activities for more than two months.

From brand, peripherals, tickets, traffic, broadcasting, cooperation, advertising, ...... And so on and so forth, the league lost an unknown amount of money!

According to Stern's estimates, it will take at least five years for the league to recover what the league lost during the half-season of suspension.

Glad?

How did he get happy?

He's a happy fart!

Even at this time, Stern decided: cancel the All-Star Game this season! Aren't you bastards making trouble? Lao Tzu is going to cancel the All-Star this year!

Anyway, the reputation of the alliance has reached the bottom, so take advantage of this time to stimulate you well, so that you bastards will dare to pick on me in the future?

If it's difficult, don't do it if you step on a horse!

Thinking of this, thinking of being able to rectify this group of guys, Stern is going to break the kettle and rectify the labor and management sides this time!

Two days later, the new collective bargaining agreement was made public, and countless professionals began to analyze and study the new collective bargaining agreement, various commentators went online to discuss it, and major sports stations launched one program after another to analyze and review the shutdown after almost half a year.

In short, although the NBA has not officially announced the timing and schedule of his rematch, everyone has quickly stepped into the role and started preparing for the new season.

Although everyone has different opinions and perspectives on the beginning and end of this shutdown, grievances, and who is right and who is wrong, there is one thing, everyone has the same opinion!

After those contract and agreement experts analyzed this version of the collective bargaining agreement, they gave unanimous praise! Everyone called this version of the collective bargaining agreement perfect! There are almost no loopholes, and it is definitely a landmark agreement in the history of North American sports! It's worth learning from the other leagues!

This version of the collective bargaining agreement ensures the interests of both parties to the greatest extent, and finds a wonderful balance between the needs of both parties, which not only protects the interests of the labor side, but also makes the management profitable, and at the same time, the operation of the entire alliance is bound to be smoother and healthier!

Many even felt that the shutdown was worth it, even if it was just for the sake of this brand new version of the agreement.

This time, the main changes in the collective bargaining agreement are actually two major aspects: a stricter contract system and a standard contract template, and a luxury tax system!

First of all, rookie players entering the league will sign a more unified and standard contract, that is, 2+2 first-round picks, full protection for the first two years, and team options for the last two years, which means that after a rookie enters the league, no matter how bad he plays, he can also get a million-dollar annual salary for two years.

At the same time, no matter how well he plays, as long as the team executes the option, he also has to play child labor for four years, and then in order to avoid running away directly after the expiration of his rookie contract like O'Neal, and in order to protect the interests of the parent team, the league has added new identity labels such as restricted free agent and full free agent.

Of course, in order to protect the interests of the players, as long as the players stay in the parent club, they can sign contracts with a higher amount and longer years!

In addition, the league also stipulates strict maximum salary amount and contract length, and the previous 'mood-based' contracts of Lin Tian, Garnett, and Jordan as long as the team is willing to give as much as they want, and how long they can be used will completely disappear from history.

At the same time, in the case of superstars losing certain interests, the league has also given more protection to the base salary and marginal players, greatly increasing the base salary to protect the interests of marginal players.

It also adds new contract types such as biennial exceptions, splittable middle-class exceptions, and veteran base salaries, so that each team can do as much as possible on top of the salary cap.

And, the 'Bird Clause', that is, bird rights, has also been played out by the Alliance, and terms such as early birds, old birds, and non-birds have also officially appeared on the stage of history after this time!

Well, the most noteworthy thing is that the league also gave birth to a 'Lintian clause' to protect the parent team from the recurrence of those second-round picks who suddenly made a name for themselves and the players ran away directly after the success of the parent team because the parent team had no salary space and no bird rights.

This is the 'Arenas Clause', which would have appeared a few years later.

To put it simply, this clause allows the parent team to match all the contracts offered by other teams to the second-round show!

It can be regarded as protecting the interests of both the parent team and the players.

Lin Tian didn't expect that he would be able to let the alliance appear this clause in advance, and he would directly name it after himself.

Of course, among these fancy contract clauses, which total a total of hundreds of pages, there are many intricate details and contents, but those things, Lin Tian is too lazy to read, and he doesn't act as an agent, this kind of thing just let Pelinka go to read at night, as for Lin Tian?

Just wait until the end of the contract in six years and ask Pelinka: "How can I get the most money?" ”

That's it!

Happy!

In addition to the almost completely refurbished contract, another noteworthy and powerful change to the new agreement is undoubtedly the birth of the luxury tax!

The so-called luxury tax means that when a team's total salary reaches a certain standard, for every dime exceeded, he will give the same amount of money to the league, and at the end of the season, the league will take out the money and divide it equally among all the teams that have not paid the luxury tax.

It can be said that another kind of wool comes out of the sheep!

Do you want to form a super team, you want to compete for the championship, you want to force everyone on the team to stay?

No problem, pay the money!

The release of this system also makes many small teams extremely happy, and there is an extra dividend every year, who doesn't like it?

Of course, the deep-pocketed team is also quite happy with this clause! For example, James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks, who has just joined the Knicks for less than two years and is preparing to show his strength and impress the whole league!

This guy and his family, except for more dollars, nothing else!

For him, spending money can solve the problem, spending money can become stronger, then he has to spend a lot of money!

Spend money to make him happy!

Of course, with the luxury tax, there has to be the poor ghost tax, which is a reverse luxury tax, which is used to punish those teams who are too grande, if their annual player salary does not reach a certain level, then they have to take out the money, but this time it is not distributed to other teams, but directly to their own players!

Of course, whether it is the luxury tax or the poor ghost line, the alliance will not rush to implement it.

Three years, three years later, is when the league will get those two initiatives to work, and until then, teams will have plenty of time to restructure their salary space and figure out their own problems.

In short, a variety of new clauses have been implemented and implemented, a variety of new contract templates have been used, and the entire alliance is also thriving!

Now, everyone is sure that the 98-99 season is about to begin!

Kavin, it was written that it was a little unsmooth, I wanted to drive, but I was scared yesterday, alas...... Tomorrow will restore the update volume of about 10,000 words!

(End of chapter)