I didn't want to fly away

Chapter 180 Labor Negotiations, the Lewy Clause

Under Lu Yi's high-spirited speech, the Clippers' championship parade came to an end.

However, the league's punishment for the Clippers is difficult to reach a conclusion for a while.

In the urgent boss meeting held that day, most of the team bosses unanimously proposed to eliminate the Los Angeles Clippers.

Even Sterling's good friend, Bass Sr., made such a choice.

It's not about following the crowd, but really related to interests.

The Clippers were eliminated from the NBA team sequence, but the Clippers players will not leave the NBA because of this.

In this way, the original Clippers players, because the team disappeared, their contracts were naturally terminated.

Then, even a player of Lu Yi's level will become a free agent this summer, and it is still unrestricted.

It's outrageous, yet reasonable.

It doesn't take much thinking to guess that when other teams talk about signing with Lu Yi, the most likely to be negotiated is the Lakers, also located in Los Angeles.

Lu Yi made a name for himself in the Drew League and completed his studies at UCLA.

As a foreign player, Lu Yi came to the United States and basically spent time in Los Angeles.

Lu Yi's home in the United States is located in Los Angeles, so if the contracts offered by other teams are the same, which team will Lu Yi choose to sign with in the end?

The result is obvious, there are and only the Los Angeles Lakers.

It just so happens that the Lakers still maintain their competitiveness to win the championship. If they can get Lu Yi, it will be like adding wings to a tiger.

The Lakers will soon be able to catch up with the Celtics in the number of championships, but the most powerful player in the team, the iconic figure of the team is getting older and less competitive.

The Lakers have shown signs of failing.

Just in time, in Los Angeles, there appeared another King of Los Angeles who was even more talented than Kobe, possessed unique leadership skills, and strong personal strength.

Everything is on the right track, how can this make Old Bath not tempted?
In more than a decade, Kobe has increased the market value of the Lakers by more than one billion.

By analogy, as long as the Lakers can get Lu Yi as they wish, then in the remaining ten years of Lu Yi's career, the Lakers' market value can increase more than one billion conservatively.

Besides, as early as last year, Kobe publicly stated that he could accept joining forces with Lu Yi.

Coincidentally, this summer, some of the Lakers' contracts expired, and there is enough salary space to introduce a top-salary player from the free market.

Old Bass felt that Sterling's thunderstorm happened at this time because God took care of him.

However, the team is owned by the owner, but the league is owned by Stern, the president of the league.

Team owners make decisions based on their own interests.

The league does not want a dominant championship team like the Clippers, nor does it want the championship to be monopolized by the Clippers in the next few years.

It is undoubtedly everyone's common wish to completely dismantle the Clippers.

But the president of the league, Stern, didn't consider these things.

What Stern considers is to make the NBA cake bigger, let the NBA have more teams, and even allow Europe and Asia to have NBA teams. This is the key.

The expansion of the league is the key to the development and growth of the NBA.

The vigorous development of the NBA began after Stern took power.

Only with more big bosses waving dollars to join the NBA family, can the NBA become richer and more influential.

Every additional NBA team, for the league, can raise the NBA's market value and influence to a higher level.

Excluding the Clippers and reversing history is absolutely not allowed by Stern.

The most obvious truth is that for every additional team, there are two more positions in the draft.

The league will accommodate two more players every year, and these players are most likely obtained from the NCAA.

The NBA will further draw blood from the NCAA, and use the influence of the NCAA to increase the popularity and commercial value of the NBA.

At the same time, the attraction to international players will also increase, which is conducive to the promotion of NBA globalization.

Conversely, if the Clippers are gone, the league will lose at least 15 regular season players at once.

In the next few years, at least two rookie spots will be reduced every year to play in the NBA.

This in and one out, compared with the two, the gap is very big.

Therefore, Stern strongly stated that he does not agree with the opinions of the team owners.

Stern, on the grounds that the league has already signed a commercial contract, made it clear that the elimination of the Los Angeles Clippers would cause the league to breach the contract and suffer heavy losses.

In addition, the ticket income of the Los Angeles Clippers in the regular season and playoffs can be enjoyed by the other 29 teams.

It is not the best choice to deal with the Los Angeles Clippers in a simple and rude way.

Of course, what Stern said was not very acceptable to the league bosses.

Especially the western teams, they are more eager to reduce a competitor, which in turn allows them to gain more benefits.

In order to be able to unify the opinions within the league, Stern later discussed the issue with other bosses and held one meeting after another.

It wasn't until the labor negotiations were about to start that the matter about the Clippers came to an end.

Other team owners took a step back, and the Clippers are currently in league custody.

For the sake of being conservative, the league temporarily put aside the Clippers' summer reinforcement and contract renewal plan, and will only ensure the normal operation of the Clippers and make up the corresponding manpower before the start of the preseason.

The implication is that the Clippers players whose contracts expire will leave, and the Clippers will not impose restrictions.

Reinforcement will not be supplemented, other teams can rest assured.

Until the Clippers find a new boss, the Clippers will be in a half-dead state.

Even if the regular season roster will be completed before the start of the new season, the players signed from the free market are not wanted by other teams.

The Clippers who can really play are only a few main players such as Lu Yi, Boozer, and Gordon.

It is foreseeable that even if the Clippers can reach the Western Conference playoffs next season under the leadership of Lu Yi, the possibility of winning the championship is almost non-existent.

This is more or less good news for other team owners.

However, it is impossible for the Clippers to remain unowned all the time.

The league will find a suitable candidate for the new Clippers owner within one season.

After all, the Clippers are worth a lot, and now they are at the highest point of their shots.

If the Clippers are really bad because of the alliance's operations, even if outside local tyrants want to take over, it is impossible to pay a large price for the acquisition.

While the Clippers are still valuable, it is the most sensible choice to introduce a powerful and willing to spend money to the league.

Of course, because of the Clippers trade, things are relatively trivial and cannot be completed in a day.

It's okay to delay for a while, such as half a season, after the trade deadline, and then complete the change of ownership.

In this way, the alliance will not be damaged, and the interest demands of other bosses have also been reached. This is the compromise result of the best of both worlds.

But for Lu Yi and other Clippers players, it is indeed quite injured.

He was obviously the darling of the media a few days ago, but now he is directly an outcast of the alliance.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for news of the league to be shut down.

Although there have been scandals in the league where team owners have made insulting remarks and exposed racial discrimination, the management is still aloof.

The league officials were not polite to the players at all, and directly announced that the lockout will start on July 7. Players will not be able to enter the team arena and use related facilities for training.

League officials even threatened to suspend the game indefinitely, leaving players with no place to play and no wages.

The current NBA is dominated by black players.

Although even rotation players are at least millionaires, but the habit of black players is that there are a lot of blood-sucking brothers and relatives behind them.

If you have wine today, you are drunk today, and if you have money, you will spend it until you run out, and then find someone to borrow it, wait until the hole is filled, and then take risks or sleep on the streets.

Because I don't have the habit of saving money, after losing my job all of a sudden, my original life will be shattered all of a sudden.

After half a month of suspension, the players association, which had been working together to get the league to give an explanation and let Sterling come out to apologize, suddenly fell apart.

The top stars have a tough attitude and are unwilling to accept salary cut negotiations.

Middle-level players also want to increase their income and fight for their own interests.

The bottom players don't want to lose their jobs, and hope that the league will recover as soon as possible.

I also hope that the summer league and preseason games can be held as scheduled.

In the end, on August 8st, the tense labor negotiations finally had their first meeting.

It's just that no real progress has been made.

Both sides put pressure on, cussed at the meeting, and eventually broke up.

At the same time, Lu Yi has returned to China.

At the beginning, Iverson also wanted to be on the same flight as Lu Yi and come to China.

But Lu Yi immediately objected.

To be reasonable, Lu Yi is on vacation by himself, not to accompany Iverson.

Clippers players, don't even think about it, take up my precious rest time.

Not to mention, is there any benefit to the country for black players to travel to the country?
Play coldly for a while, steal hundreds of millions of soft girls, play with some simple girls, leave a lot of chicken feathers, pat your ass and leave.

At that time, Lu Yi's reputation may still be affected.

How could Lu Yi agree?

In fact, there is also a certain association's great cleverness, whimsically hoping that Lu Yi will organize a game and attract a group of NBA stars and players to come to China to play in the summer league.

The name is to enhance the influence of the CBA, broaden the international perspective, improve the overall quality of domestic players, and prepare for the next good results in the world competition.

As soon as Lu Yi heard these claims, he immediately rejected them without showing any sympathy.

Want to make contributions and do it yourself?If you want me to take the pot of shit, when the time comes, let me take the blame?I really thought I was stupid!
What is taking advantage of the NBA lockout to engage in the summer league? Isn't this just a fake big empty face project?
At the beginning, Lu Yi was criticized, and some media even guided and put pressure on Lu Yi.

Lu Yi didn't get used to it either, and it happened that Kobe came to China for a wave of trips to China. Instead, in the name of tourism, Lu Yi went to the island country to play for two days, and then flew to Los Angeles to play in the Drew League.

The news of the Drew League came back to the country one after another, and then the previous criticism of Lu Yi suddenly stopped.

There are also people who keep calling Lu Yi, wanting to give Lu Yi a sweet date.

Lu Yi turned off the phone directly, and put on a gesture of "I'm going to eat" or "I'm going to take a shower".

There is only so much time in the summer, and Lu Yi has gone to play in the Drew League, and there is no one in China who can lead the team.

Only relying on Yao Ming's favor in the NBA, it is certain that he will not be able to recruit enough people to play a decent game.

As for NBA stars running domestically to make money, they also leave after playing for a few days, and they don't mean to stay at all.

Even if the NBA does not start in the new season, they can still play in Europe.

In fact, some people just ran to China, and when they heard that they were going back to Los Angeles, they quickly ended their trip, and then continued to fly to Los Angeles, deliberately running the Drew League, to compete with Lu Yi.

For more than a month, Lu Yi couldn't be contacted at all. Even if he sent someone to Los Angeles, Lu Yi avoided seeing him, which frightened people.

This year has been 11 years, and the Olympic Games will begin soon.

Yao Ming is injured, Wang Zhizhi is old, and Yi Jianlian, who was entrusted with important tasks, as a lottery pick, finished his rookie contract, let alone renewing his contract in advance, and he didn't even have the most basic qualification offer.

Seeing that there is no one in the men's basketball team, seeing that Lu Yi has made a name for himself in the NBA by himself, seeing that he wants to take the opportunity to get a piece of the action, seeing that he scolded people away and never came back.

Such a serious incident occurred, and that is an apology to the people of the whole country.

Lu Yi is not Wang Zhizhi. Wang Zhizhi can be manipulated because of Wang Zhizhi's background and identity.

Lu Yi's basketball level was not cultivated in China.

Even if Lu Yi's primary and secondary school physical education teacher appeared on TV and boasted a few awesome words, normal people can figure it out clearly that Lu Yi's ability to play well depends entirely on his personal talent and strength.

If you want to cultivate Lu Yi, first think about how to cultivate the next Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi!
It's better to be pragmatic. You must understand the concept of basketball first, and don't engage in those empty-headed things.

Now that Lu Yi is in Los Angeles, it really wasn't that Lu Yi was threatened.

Lu Yi's current situation is completely different from that of Wang Zhizhi back then.

Lu Yi didn't say he couldn't come back, Lu Yi just couldn't get in touch.

Lu Yida can find an opportunity to reveal that in order to prepare for the Olympics, he trained hard in the United States in the summer to improve his strength.

As for why not in China, isn't that because the level is not enough?There are also people who keep interrupting his training plan, affecting his ability to improve his strength and win glory for the country.

If Lu Yi really wants to say that, maybe a group of people will step down together.

Taking a step back, Lu Yi is really not coming back, and there are plenty of teams in the NBA who are willing to accept Lu Yi.

I don't talk about Lu Yi this time, no one dares to treat me as dumb, so I'm very clever.

As time went by, the pressure became more and more intense, and it was naturally not Lu Yi who begged for mercy and admitted his mistake.

While the relationship between Lu Yi and a certain association eased, the alliance's labor negotiations also made some progress.

With the cancellation of the summer league and the preseason one after another, the low-level players could not bear the pressure of life, so they could only coerce the middle-level and began to beg for mercy from the league.

The chairman of the players union, because of Ewing's stupid remarks-after we earn more and spend more, the players who have been elected in recent years are basically role players.

Although he is also a middle-class player with certain influence, there is still a big gap between him and the high-ranking stars.

Different classes have different demands.

They were also worried about losing their jobs, so they eventually had to compromise with the league.

After a tough summer, under the threat of Stern canceling the regular season two weeks before the new season, the opinions of both labor and management gradually became unified.

Of course, the main reason for persisting to this point is that there are big-name players joining the negotiations, and they are the main opponents.

The league has long asked young and influential stars such as Kobe, Wade, and James to join the negotiations. The main concern is that the NBA will lose superstars and benefit overseas leagues.

However, Lu Yi did not participate in labor negotiations as a representative.

Fortunately, the final result is not a bad thing for Lu Yi.

In this round of labor negotiations, the league has made great progress, but for superstar players, a certain degree of compromise has been adopted.

Although Lu Yi did not participate in it, it became a symbol that could not be bypassed.

Considering that there may be super rookies of Lu Yi's level in the future, the league added a new clause to the new labor agreement.

In Lewy's memory, it was called the Ross Clause, and now it's called the Lewy's Clause.

As long as you have won the All-Star MVP, regular season MVP, finals MVP, or been selected to the All-Star starter and the best team twice in the rookie contract, you can get 30% of the maximum salary after the rookie contract ends. contract.

(End of this chapter)