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Chapter 587 Proposals to change offseason gameplay
If you want to talk about opinions, everyone has opinions, but many people's opinions cannot be passed.

For example, Jerry West's opinion makes people laugh.

He wants to revive the NBA's regional drafts.

"Enough, Jerry, you know it can't be."

Louie smiled too.

It's a rule that favors one team at certain times, and not all teams most of the time.

The Philadelphia Warriors used this rule to select Chamberlain.

If the regional draft has always existed, whose ownership will change?First of all, Gary Payton will be taken by Washington, Mutombo and Mourning will be taken by the Bullets, O'Neal will be taken by the Spurs, Grant Hill will be taken by the Bullets, Garnett will be taken by the Bulls, Iverson will be taken by the Bullets, Durant will be taken by the renamed Bullets/Wizards, and Curry will be taken by the Charlotte Bobcats.

As for the Lakers who proposed this rule, if the regional draft really resumes, who can they use the regional draft to choose in the next few decades?

Uh. Paul Pierce and DeMar DeRozan.

Might as well not have the regional draft, huh?

To sum up, if Louie is the top executive of the Bullets, even if he can't change the reality that the regional draft has become history, he will vote for it.

West knew that his proposal would not pass, so after finishing his speech, he simply sat down and didn't say much.

Louis looked at him with a smile.

"What's so funny?" West asked.

"I was wondering, did you not know what to say, so you just mentioned one?"

"you guessed right."

Various proposals have emerged.

Most of them were rejected, and those proposals that were passed all had this characteristic.

That is beneficial to all teams.

Louis, who had made proposals every year in the past few years, and several proposals were passed, is extremely calm today.

At the end of the annual meeting, Stern asked Louis: "Lu, do you have anything to say?"

Louis smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I really have two suggestions here."

Everyone's eyes were shining, and they looked at Louis as if they were prey.

It's not that they overreacted, but that Louie's proposals in recent years have a much higher probability of being passed than others.

Because of Louie, the rosters were increased from 12 to 13 (later proposed by others to 15).

Because of Louie, guys who don't understand the salary cap will no longer be unable to sign rookies because there is no salary cap space.

He changed the league on and off the court.

"Let's hear it, Lu."

"I hope that the league can introduce a standard rookie contract to curb those rookies who are about to open their mouths." Louie's words caused a commotion on the scene. "I know that the labor agreement is deadlocked and the union is tough. But it is a ridiculous thing for them to ask for the abolition of the draft system. They know, and we also know, that this cannot happen. The draft is the basis for the long-term survival of the league."

Jane Walker was interested.

"Lu, how about a standard rookie contract?"

"I'm always annoyed by guys asking for max money before they've played a professional game," Louie said. "No matter how good their prospects are, they're rookies who haven't played a professional game.

"That's right, like Joe Klein!"

"Don't forget Dennis Hopson!"

"Damn it, and Chuck Person!"

"I hate William Bedford!"

The NBA's annual meeting has almost turned into a parallel criticism meeting.

Stern had to calm the group down.

"Lu, what do you think the standard rookie contract should look like?"

"The number of years should not be too long or too short. There should be a distinction between first-round picks and second-round picks." Louis now only needs to copy the rookie contract system that the NBA will issue in the future. "Lottery picks shouldn't make more than 10% of the salary cap, but they shouldn't make less than 8% of the salary cap."

Jerry Krause laughed: "I think it's a good policy, but it's unbelievable that this policy was proposed by a representative of New York."

"I admit that we did not think carefully about the contract in the past few years."

The aftermath of the infamous 10-year 3000 million that the Knicks gave Ewing that year is still affecting the operation of the team.

"Lu, you should know that you started the history of exorbitant asking prices for rookies." Klaus had the idea of ​​confusing the public.

"Yes, I agree with Jerry."

Representative of the Golden State Warriors, Louie's friend Don Nelson blatantly backstabs.

Louis looked at him in surprise.

"The history of giving high-priced contracts to rookies did start in New York." Nelson laughed. "But I don't think Lu should be held responsible for it."

"Don't forget, when the contract was given to Ewing, he was already the general manager of the Knicks!" Klaus said on the line.

"Jerry, you misunderstood me. What I mean is that the era of rookies asking extravagant prices for contracts has already begun. Ewing's contract is just a tipping point. But the starting point is indeed New York." With such seniority as Nelson, opening his mouth is history, "You should know what's going on, Jerry?"

He was asking about another Jerry.

Nelson seems to be attacking Louis together with Klaus, but in fact he cleverly solves the embarrassment of the latter.

West is willing to cooperate: "In 1966, the Knicks stunned us all by signing Cazzie Russell (SF/SG), the No. There are a lot of things that are not that well understood. That’s why I believe he really wants to solve the problems we all face with this proposal.”

Klaus snorted and said no more.

"This is indeed a topic that needs to be seriously discussed." For some reason, Knicks star Earl Monroe, who was tied to the thief ship by Los Angeles Clippers owner Sterling, spoke on behalf of the Clippers. "As soon as the draft is over every year, we are like the meat on the case being slaughtered by greedy agents. This situation should be controlled."

"How to control it? I don't think the union will accept this proposal." John Nash, general manager of the 76ers, said, "Rookies could ask us for a seven-figure annual salary at will. If this proposal is passed, even the first pick can get a maximum annual salary of 70."

"Isn't that much?" Louis asked back, "They have to prove their worth before they can earn big contracts."

"That's right."

"But how can we get them to agree?"

Louis looked at Stern and said slyly like a fox: "As far as I know, the negotiation dilemma between the union and the league is whether to share the cable TV contract?"

"Yes." Stern sneered, "They've been arguing about this for a whole year."

"What about the league's decision?"

"It's the owners' decision," Stern said. "They agreed to share the revenue from the cable contract with the players."

"Mr. President must have put in a lot of effort for this, right?"

"Get down to business, Louie."

Louie asked bluntly: "If the owners agree to share the income from the cable TV contract with the players, what do they get for it?"

"Honestly, I didn't get anything. It was to reach an agreement with the union. As they grow stronger, we can't afford the loss of the lockout anymore." Stern smiled wryly.

"Since we conceded a step and got nothing, why not use the standard rookie contract system as a bargaining chip."

"But we have already voted for it."

Stern paused, scolding himself for being stupid, so what if the vote passed?Just insist on launching a rookie contract at that time.

No matter how high-sounding the people in the trade unions are, their current struggle environment is different from the past.

In the past, the union was indeed fighting for the survival of the players.

Now, decent players are millionaires, survival is no longer a problem, what they want is to get more knife music.

"I get what you meant now."

Stern looked at the crowd: "Let's vote."

Except for two abstentions, the representatives of other teams all voted in favor.

Louis sat there quietly, as if he didn't know that with his words just now, he would change the game mode of the offseason again.

Once the standard rookie contract system is passed, many people in this room will not have to fight with various agents during the offseason.

Because there is a standard contract, there is no need to negotiate. Players and agents sign together and then take pictures. There is no need to quarrel for several months without results, or even not to participate in the training camp. The contract is signed when the new season starts.

"Louie, don't you have two opinions, and the other one?"

"Well, it's a little hard to say."

Louie's second opinion is to add a clause that allows the team to renew the contract regardless of the salary cap when its own rookie contract expires.

This is similar to what he suggested at the beginning, when the team's salary cap is inflated, making it impossible to sign rookies, a certain clause can be activated to sign over the cap, and the extra money will be doubled to pay the penalty and distributed to the league teams.

But this time, all the teams in the audience voted against it.

Because of this proposal, no matter how you look at it, only the Knicks take advantage.

In the league, only the Knicks and Celtics successfully won the championship by relying entirely on their own draft players as the championship team.

The Celtics had passed their peak, and the Knicks' troubles were about to begin. If they agreed to Louis's proposal just now, they would be asking for trouble and giving the Knicks a chance to use their power.

Louis didn't plan to pass it once, this time it won't work, next time, next season's salary cap will reach 724 million US dollars, they still have to play.

(End of this chapter)