The 2011 draft has come to an end.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are considered the biggest winners. They are lucky enough to get the No. 1 pick and will usher in a combination of two No. 1 picks.
This is equivalent to giving LeBron James a reassurance.
And although the Cavaliers did not win the championship this season, they were still very successful in reaching the finals.
Especially in the Eastern Conference finals, he defeated the deliberately deliberate Miami Heat. In the Eastern Conference semifinals, he defeated the Boston Celtics, who had been blocking him. This was a major improvement and victory for James.
It's a pity that they scored 8 points in a single game in the finals and were swept by the Gentlemen 1:4. They 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 3-position forwards in the first round who didn't shoot well.
This is the draft strategy that Min Congda set when he first entered the league, and his execution ability is quite strong.
In the second round, the Clippers selected power forward Lavoy Allen from Temple University with the 49th pick.
This choice was not interfered by Min Congda and was a candidate decided by Jeff Ball early on.
He believes that the Clippers currently have height and thickness in the interior, but they lack flexibility and athleticism.
Lavoie Allen is 2.06cm tall, young, energetic, and has quite comprehensive skills.
His playing style is very similar to Zach Randolph's, but his technical sophistication is far less than that.
In contrast, his defense is even more outstanding and he works very hard.
Although he doesn't have much potential, he is a good choice as an inside supplement.
Min Congda believes in Jeff Ball's drafting and operational abilities, and believes that he will slowly bring the luck of bankruptcy to the Clippers.
The end of the draft heralds the beginning of the new season.
But this summer, things are obviously 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 go bankrupt.
Under the influence of the financial crisis, the league has experienced many symptoms, is surrounded by crises, and is at 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. If there is no significant improvement in the next two years, some teams will withdraw from the NBA one after another. There are more than 20 teams in this league. For the first time, the expansion momentum that has been maintained for many years will be strongly curbed."
Then at the beginning of 2010, "Fox" magazine announced the NBA team value list, and 12 of the 30 teams were losing money.
That is to say, as many as 40% of the teams are unprofitable, and the owners and the league are subsidizing them.
Originally, the Los Angeles Clippers were among the loss-making teams, but after some fiddling by Min Congda, they managed to attract a large wave of traffic and increase attendance.
The Clippers' box office and cash flow have been significantly improved in the short term, and the loss has been turned around in one fell swoop. Although the profit is very small, at least there is no loss.
No wonder David Stern was so tolerant of Min Congda.
It’s not easy to have a general manager who can make money under you.
Moreover, fines are used from time to time to support the alliance's finances and bring topic traffic to the alliance.
Such a person may seem like a thorn in the side, but he is actually a treasure. It is too late to protect him.
Because teams in the league continue to lose money and revenue declines, the management hopes to reduce the proportion of labor players' total wages and reduce the maximum length of contracts. It is best to establish a hard salary cap.
Of course, the labor players are not willing to watch their income decline, and the contradiction between the two sides is obvious.
There are still 18 months to go before formal negotiations begin this year, and labor and management have already held multiple meetings.
In the 1999 labor negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement on a 57% wage ratio.
That is, after deducting basic benefits from the league's income, the remaining 57% of the income is used as the basis for player salary.
For example, the league's total revenue this year is 3.5 billion, minus 500 million in miscellaneous expenses, leaving a revenue of 3 billion, of which 1.71 billion is used as player wages.
Divided evenly among 30 teams, that's $57 million, so the salary cap is set at $57 million.
But in fact, the league implements a soft salary cap, and most teams' salary expenditures will exceed this amount.
Teams competing for the championship have greatly overspent and have to pay high luxury taxes. It would be strange if the team does not lose money.
Moreover, although the league's income will be distributed and allocated to a certain extent, each team is generally responsible for its own profits and losses.
Some teams make a lot of money and don't care about the 57% ratio.
Some teams don't make much money to begin with, and they still have to pay salaries based on 57% of the salary cap, which is a big loss.
Therefore, the management has long wanted to adjust this ratio. It is said that 43% is a ratio that the management is willing to accept, which means that the players' salaries will generally be reduced by 20%.
Such a large salary cut may not matter to individual players, but the players union as a group of interests is unlikely to agree.
Multiple meetings between representatives of both sides were inconclusive.
The boss is losing money and doesn’t want to pay that much salary.
Players have only been young for the past few years, so they have to spend every penny.
After the 2010 season ended and the Lakers won the championship, in August of the summer of 2010, the labor and management parties began their first formal negotiations.
The differences between the two sides are huge and the negotiations did not achieve any substantive progress or results.
In September 2010, the negotiations generally seemed to be going relatively smoothly, but there were still no substantive results.
The two sides clashed over some minor details, but the most critical salary ratio did not reach consensus.
During the 2011 All-Star Game, labor and management were in contact again, but this time the atmosphere between the two sides became obviously stronger.
Stern said, "Both of us have the ability to put the league out of business," and the threat was palpable.
LeBron James, as the vice president of the players union, hit back hard, saying that the team went back on its word and agreed to a 57-percent ratio when buying the team, but now he doesn't want to admit it.
In April 2011, just after the regular season ended, Stern announced that the Summer League in the summer of 2011 would be cancelled.
This has become a harbinger that the new season may be suspended.
On June 22, 2011, two days before the draft, the labor and management parties once again held a three-and-a-half-hour negotiation.
The employer proposed a "flexible salary cap" system to replace the current soft salary cap. 33
The labor side believes that the so-called flexible salary cap is just a variant of the hard salary cap.
It is still difficult for both sides to reach substantive consensus and the negotiations have made no progress.
After the draft went on as usual and ended successfully, on June 30, 2011 Eastern Time, a final negotiation was about to begin.
After the NBA spent a prosperous and lively 2011 season.
The glory on the court is gone, and the fight for real interests off the court has begun.
On June 28, Min Congda, as the Clippers management representative, flew to Dallas with Rosser, Olshey, Jeff Ball and others to attend a meeting with the management.
Min Congda, who considers himself to be a "big winner" in the draft, is full of confidence.
With Sun Houhou's mentality when he attends the Queen Mother's Peach Party, he vows to turn everything upside down!
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