Chapter 307

Hearing Richard's words, the five newcomers relaxed.

"Well, next, you are going to sign rookie contracts. The first round shows are all standard contracts. As for the second round shows, you go to talk with olsey on your own. They are all three-year guarantee contracts. As for how much money you talk about, it's your own skill. I don't care!" Richard again said.

Five people nodded in succession, especially three new comers in the round show, but also a stone fell to the ground.

They were worried that the trailblazers would give a one-year non guaranteed contract. If they didn't type it out in this year, it would be difficult to find a job in the future

Now the trailblazers have directly given three-year guarantee contracts, and the chance of playing them will be multiplied.

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On July 1, the labor wage negotiation between the players' Union and the NBA Management Committee was officially opened.

Although the wage negotiation was started in 1998, it is still called 1999 in history.

This labor negotiation has left a very heavy stroke in the history of NBA, which can be said to be the most serious one in the history of NBA!

Before that, the NBA stopped three times, in 1964, 1976 and the year Richard crossed, that is, 1994

However, the three lockouts did not affect the NBA regular season schedule, and each team finally played all 82 games.

However, the suspension in 1999 interfered with the normal progress of the regular season. Each team only played 50 games in the end, with 32 games less

It's not until February that the regular season starts!

According to the regulations, the NBA wage negotiation is held once in seven years. Considering the last wage negotiation in 1994, less than five years from now, we know that the contradiction between the two sides has reached an irreconcilable level.

Stern realized that the top salary regulation must be issued as soon as possible because of Garnett's sky high contract. Otherwise, the NBA will have a crisis

His idea is to reduce players' wages, introduce top pay regulations, and raise the threshold for players to enter the NBA, that is, not allow high school students to directly participate in the draft after graduation.

And the chairman, especially because of the players' Union, naturally can not agree to this condition, and put forward their requirements to the management committee and the owners.

They want to raise the team's salary cap. If the cap is raised, the players will get more salary.

In addition, they can't accept the introduction of the top salary regulations. In addition, they can't accept the age threshold

Compared with the former president of the players' Union Isaiah Thomas, Ewing's claim is supported by all the players.

Ewing's idea is rather smooth. He takes care of ordinary players, super players and even high school students, so he has strong support from all players.

And Isaiah Thomas just takes care of the idea of most ordinary players, those super giants don't buy his account

It can be seen from the opinions of both sides that the two sides are completely against each other and are unwilling to give in. The contradiction has reached an irreconcilable level!

At this juncture, stern, in an interview with the media, said a classic sentence: "NBA players' salaries are much higher than ordinary people's, and should not ask for more.".

This directly caused the players' strong dissatisfaction, and directly carried out the general strike!

In fact, both sides are right in this negotiation, but they have different positions

The Alliance Management Committee and the bosses must want to make money. It's natural for businessmen to pursue profits. These bosses are not philanthropists.

And players naturally want to make more money. Who is against money? Why not make more money

In this way, the two sides will not give in to each other.

Until Christmas Eve at the end of the year, stern has obviously reached the limit of patience. If we haven't talked about it before January 7 next year, cancel this season directly!

In this case, both sides are finally sitting on both sides of the negotiation table, after all, no one wants to cancel a season.

If the season is cancelled, the players will naturally lose a year's salary, which is a big loss for the players who eat the youth meal. Especially for those edge players, it's a big loss to know that they can play several seasons in total and get a season's salary less.

And the owners naturally don't want to cancel the season. After all, venue rent or maintenance, logistics salary, all of which cost money. If there is no income, they will lose more.

In the end, the two sides let each other go

In terms of the age threshold of players, stern gave in and didn't issue this rule in this labor negotiation. Of course, it's unrealistic for him to give up this idea completely. In the labor negotiation a few years later, he successfully raised the age threshold and put an end to the high school students entering the League.Stern and the owners also gave way to the issue of salary cap, and raised some salary caps, but not by a large margin, which is a statement to the players' Union.

Just raising the salary cap of about three million US dollars, compared with the increase of more than seven million in the labor wage negotiation in 1994, is surely a small thing.

The thing about the top pay rule is that the players' Union gave in, which is the bottom line of stern and the owners!

It is also the basis for stern and the owners to give in to the salary cap and age threshold. If the players' Union does not agree to the top salary regulation, then stern and the owners will not give in to the salary cap and age threshold.

Over and over again, Ewing and other representatives of the players' Union agreed.

Ewing is looking forward to retiring. The top salary is not the top salary. It has nothing to do with him. Anyway, the salary cap has been raised. Most players are satisfied with it, that is enough

After the labor and salary negotiation, it's impossible to start the race the next day. Compared with the normal season, the race starts more than a month later. Therefore, the management committee has to hold a meeting to study and formulate a new race plan

There are also some details of the negotiations that need to be added.

In this case, the season didn't start until early February.

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Richard felt that this was a good thing for their pioneers.

The main reason is that they got too many new players this time. According to the normal season start time, the new players are expected to support themselves with war. Now, the season starts in February. Richard can make full use of this half year time to polish the new players.