You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 394 Great Victory
"Red, is this useful?"

Walter Kennedy may not have been a brilliant league president, but he was a brilliant actor.

It was Auerbach who set the negotiation plan for him and Auerbach to enter the players' locker room.Auerbach decides the process and rhetoric, and Kennedy plays with it.

One of them sang bad faces and the other sang bad faces, which was wonderful.

Auerbach looked confident and said with a faint smile: "Believe me, they have the heart but not the guts. Even if Tom, Bill, and Sam are willing to do it, if other people disagree, they can't make a fuss."

"How can you be sure that no one will work with them?" Seeing that the time for the start of the game was getting closer, Kennedy worried that there would be no agreement.

"Because they, like us, need a life," Auerbach said.

This time, Auerbach, who has dominated the chess game for many years, was wrong.

Those who revolted with Heinsohn were not cowards, cowards, or people who would be crushed by the word life.

The door to the locker room opened slightly.

Tom Heinsohn came out alone, while the others stayed inside.Seeing this scene, Auerbach was a little uneasy.

Kennedy took a deep breath and asked urgently, "Tom, what do you decide to do?"

"Mr. President, we have to admit that what you said is very reasonable. Some of us want to play the game, but unfortunately, most of them want to solve the problem before playing the game." Heinsohn's words made the faces of Kennedy and Auerbach extremely ugly. "Therefore, until the issue is resolved, we will continue to boycott the game."

"You sons of bitches... are you fucking crazy?" Auerbach was furious. The anger in the locker room before was just a faux pas, but now it's burning.

If players are determined to strike, their verbal threats will have no effect.

They really didn't expect that this group of people could do this.

"Red, what are we going to do next? There are less than 50 minutes before the start of the game! There is no time!" Kennedy panicked.

"No, there is still time!" Auerbach quickened his pace, "Go back and tell those bosses. Let them come here to negotiate! I want to see if these bastards are really going to turn the world upside down!"

Since the success or failure of the broadcast will determine the future of the league, the bosses of the nine teams in the league came to the garden scene.

Just as Sharman, Cousy, and McCann were playing the unspectacular seniors game as an appetizer, the latest situation in the locker room had already reached the ears of the bosses.

Every boss left their seats and headed for the locker room.

If this war is compared to a city defense battle, then the battle has now come to its final moment.

The siege alliance has resorted to all means, and now they need to let the boss break down the gate and capture the people inside.

The defenders of the city need to make sure that there is no Kell Carmen open in the city.

The players soon heard the roar of the boss.

The first person to rush in is the owner of the San Francisco Warriors: "Wilt, get out of the game!"

Chamberlain, who had no other choice, forcibly pressed his feet that wanted to obey, and shook his head hard.

"Nine people can't play the game, sir!" Chamberlain's tone was so weak that he seemed to be dying.

The boss of the Warriors clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Get out of here first!"

"I can't, sir!" Chamberlain shook his head contradictoryly.

Even he knows that there has been an irreversible rift between labor and management, and his relationship with the team will not be as good as before. If he does not stand on Labor's side now, he will be at odds by then.

"Sir, promise us or leave, Wilt won't go with you!" Big O stood firmly in front of Chamberlain, blocking the boss's gaze.

Then, the second boss rushed in.

It is the owner of the Celtics, Walter Brown, who has always been known as a good guy.

He always agrees with the players' requests, and he never imagined that the players would hand them knives at this time.

"Go back to the game, Tom!" Brown didn't say much. "Go back to the game, Sam! You all go back to the game!"

The Celtics' three All-Stars remained motionless.

Russell's ability to stand in the Celtics for many years is not only supported by Auerbach, but also inseparable from Brown's support.

It was Brown and Auerbach who made him understand that white people have good people too.

"sorry sir."

He didn't want to say anything more, his motionlessness was his attitude.

"I will fire you!" Brown had no other choice but to pick up the rhetoric used by Auerbach, "I swear I will!"

Heinsohn smiled heartlessly and said, "That will have to wait until tomorrow."

Then things got a little out of hand when Cincinnati Royals and Los Angeles Lakers owners Les Harrison and Bob Short arrived at the same time.

Harrison is a typical boss. He is the kind of boss that players hate the most, a boss who doesn't treat players as human beings.

In his eyes, he spends relatively a lot of money every year to invite them to play. They can't win the championship, but they are ungrateful. Now it is unbearable to beat back at the most critical juncture.

Without even saying a word, he stepped forward with great momentum to drag Robertson and Lucas out of the locker room.

"Do not!!!"

With a violent roar, Robertson shook off Harrison's hand, and then made a speech full of momentum and regained everyone's confidence: "You have only one way to let me go! That is to break my limbs, and then call four people to drag me out! But also be careful, because I will bite people! I am fucking serious! If the matter is not resolved, no one will let me play for you!"

"Damn nigger, you think I dare not!?" Harrison raged.

The owner of the Lakers suffered the same treatment.

Baylor, who smiled at everyone, hadn't smiled since the bosses came in. He took off all his clothes, in the unheated locker room, and there was a blizzard outside the arena. He said with unshakable conviction: "I will never go out to play anyway!"

The owner of the Lakers had no choice but to turn his gaze to West, "Jerry, these people are crazy. They will lose their jobs today, declare bankruptcy, and sleep on the streets. Do you want to be with them?"

"When we chose to do this, we didn't think about turning back." "West" slowly took off his clothes, and finally left only a pair of underwear on his body like Baylor. To be honest, it was extremely cold. "Sir, we don't expect you to succumb, but we don't want to endure it any longer. Like them, I live for hope."

These words did not come from Wei Xia himself, but the words that surfaced from his heart after he obeyed West's instinct and took off his clothes like Baylor.

That, he believed, was what West wanted to say.

Owners came in one by one, but they couldn't take any of them out of a locker room that produced 17 future Hall of Famers.

Even those who originally wanted to finish the game first already knew that there was only one path ahead of them.

In the end, all the bosses gathered around the locker room and cursed. It was time for the players to warm up, but there was no player on the scene. ABC TV gave an ultimatum—15 minutes before the start of the All-Star Game, Kennedy and the bosses unanimously decided to meet most of the requirements of the players.

So, following 1954, Bob Cousy led the NBA stars to win status from the capitalists for the first time, allowing them to recognize the legitimacy of the players' association, and win reputation in the media, fans in the fans, and win stories and legends in the confrontation with each other.

Once again, they challenged capital.

They united and won the rights and interests. After that, the players' right to speak and wages have achieved leapfrog growth.That is a matter of years to come, but today, Weixia witnessed the players unite as one, then fell apart, and then united as one, forcing the rule makers and capitalists to sit down and agree to most of the terms in the boycott document.

They will start to promote the pension plan and improve medical security from today. As for the salary increase and the improvement of the game schedule, they will have to wait until the offseason to discuss slowly.

The players didn't get everything done in one go, but getting a pension plan and improving health care was a huge success.

At 9:16 that night, the Eastern and Western All-Stars appeared on the court to warm up. The broadcaster did not give any explanation. The fans did not care about the situation outside the court. In the future, this story will be condensed into a brief description of less than [-] words, and it will appear in the lists related to the All-Stars.

Wesha wondered why the night hadn't been turned into an Emmy-winning documentary for HBO Sports, The Blizzard That Night in Boston.Almost all Celtics players (current and retired) are in the arena, including the entire 1946-1947 Celtics, and there are many retired league stars who play the famous game before the main game.The All-Star Game features 5 of the greatest players of all time (Wilt, Russell, Wester, Oscar, Baylor) in their prime, as well as many other big names (Lukas, Havlicek, Heinsohn, Wilkens, Sam Jones, Greer), and the greatest coach of all time Auerbach and his players.Advising the players in the locker room was Lary Fleisher, a powerful lawyer who has had a major impact on the players ever since.

For the first time in the history of American sports, a group of professional stars risked their careers and checks to do something great.Ultimately, this led to the first pension plan in modern sports, and the first real victory of the players union in sports history.

Apart from these, the All-Star Game, which was supposed to be the main event that night, was quite boring.

(End of this chapter)