Legendary Basketball Tycoon

"Is it better to call my father? After all, his father has been in the league for a long time. Besides, he must know how to negotiate with others. Well, you must make this call!" Bruce murmured while sitting on the bed. .

At this time, I’m afraid it’s only Paul Allen who can help Bruce's doubts. People at the level of American tycoons are also very good at managing and negotiating Paul Allen, so for this kind of labor-management negotiation, it’s his. It's just a little KS...

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Just do it, Bruce immediately dialed the cell phone number of his "godfather" Paul Allen.

Paul Allen also looked dumbfounded over there. I only called Bruce not long ago. Why is Bruce calling himself now?

Is there something? !

Could it be Kobe's business? !

Although he was puzzled, Paul Allen got on the phone with Bruce.

Contrary to what Paul Allen thought, the content of Bruce's call really surprised him.

Why do you say that? Paul Allen was not calm after Bruce told him that he was going to participate in the labor-management negotiation. This is a negotiation that Bruce's kid can participate in. This is a face-to-face negotiation with the head of the players' guild. what! Saying badly can trigger a conflict, and Paul Allen does not want Bruce to participate prematurely for the sake of protecting Bruce.

It’s not obvious that Bruce was grilled on the fire. After scolding Stern and the whole family in his heart, Paul Allen felt that it was necessary to clarify this matter to Bruce. After all, Bruce would definitely go to participate in this event. What's the difference between early and late negotiations?

"Bruce is very responsible for this matter, that is..."

Paul Allen elaborated to Bruce about his experience of participating in NBA labor-management negotiations and the attitudes needed to face the player guild...

In short, Paul Allen's purpose is to unite with the management. Although his money can't be used up, he is definitely not willing to give it to those players for no reason.

"Couldn't everyone sit down and talk about it, what if it affects the league? Is it suspended?!"

Different from the contradiction between ordinary workers and bosses, this labor dispute has been dubbed the "war between millionaires" because the names involved are all high-income people with an annual salary of more than one million. This is not an open labor struggle. The fans are more like soap opera audiences controlled by bizarre scripts—sometimes stance is biased toward labor and sometimes toward management. One thing is certain: Who can make the NBA start, the fans will do it. Who will be supported. In this tug-of-war where there is no truth and only standpoint, it doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong, and only the fans who can never figure out the truth and those who work for the NBA team are lost.

The biggest problem with the NBA's lockout is that the key players are not selfish enough during the lockout process. It is conceivable that before the negotiations completely collapsed, the league was at a fork in the road-either immediately preparing for the new season or losing more games.

Obviously, both parties in the negotiation did not consider other issues for themselves. If they think more, they will accept a fifty-fifth ratio, so that both the arena staff and the team members will be paid. , They will make fans have fun again.

Although Bruce has not personally experienced next year's NBA lockout, the fact that the regular season can be reduced to 50 games is a problem in itself, and it is not because of the collapse of labor and management.

Everyone wants benefits, but no one is willing to give in, which led to the suspension of the league.

If possible, Bruce really wants to prevent this farce from appearing.

Everyone must be very curious about what was the main reason for the breakdown of the negotiations in 1998. In the months before the lockout, both parties said that there was a contradiction in the division of basketball interests, but in fact, it was the other parts that caused the breakdown of the negotiation. Acceptance of 50% of each share is already a fact that everyone has acquiesced in. But long-term negotiations have made the mentality of labor and management unbalanced and have deviated from the normal negotiation track. It seems that the two parties are not negotiating on the premise of solving the problem, but are deliberate. The most obvious example of creating trouble for the other party and allowing oneself to take a favorable position in public opinion is that after the referendum vetoed the new agreement of the employer, the labor did not submit a new agreement that meets its own standards to the employer as originally claimed. Instead, it immediately announced the activation of the exemption clause and sued the capital, as if they were already prepared to do so, the requested vote was just a formality and an explanation to the public.

In the long negotiation process, the contradictions have long evolved into complex and difficult to reconcile. What was originally a pure labor VS management has now become a multiple contradiction between the boss and the boss, between the player and the union, between the union representative lawyer and the boss. This melee caused both sides to lose the main line of contradiction, and naturally they did not know how to solve the problem.

Under such circumstances, in addition to the fans, the players who are unable to control their own destiny suffer. When the union becomes the "talker", the players lose the opportunity to express their attitude. I believe that many players are willing to accept The new agreement proposed by the management and then slowly discussed the details of the amendment.

According to the players union, the freedom of players to change teams is the latest issue. The players could have considered a wider range of options, and could have advertised their value at will. This brings up some issues such as luxury tax, special cases for the middle class, as well as signing first and then changing, etc. So these are what they are worried about now. At that time, the management insisted on the fifty-five share of basketball-related income in the latest plan, but there were some changes to the labor system, and they made more concessions.

The main reason why the labor-management agreement cannot be reached is the problem of the income distribution ratio. The employers (bosses) proposed to reduce the percentage of players’ income in the entire league’s revenue from 57% to less than 50%; in response, the union expressed its willingness to accept a “moderate” reduction strategy. , That is, to reduce by about 100 million US dollars a year in the next five years, instead of reducing it by 7 percentage points.

This has to be regarded as a kind of sorrow. Through describing with Paul Allen, Bruce thought of why such a result would occur in 1998, but in Bruce’s view, such a result obviously cannot be changed by himself, and there is no way. People are selfish, and it is difficult to achieve relaxation through adjustment if they encounter unfavorable interests.

It is undoubtedly an idiot that Bruce wants to change the direction of the entire labor-management negotiation by himself.

The only thing he can do now is to make arrangements in advance, how to arrange the operation of the team after the collapse of the labor-management negotiations in 1998 for more than half a year. You must know that if the team hasn't played for a long time, it will definitely catch the blind if the league suddenly starts.

Players have been resting at home for such a long time without training or playing. It’s strange to have good results after the game. Besides, the physical condition of the players is also a problem. After such a long time of rest, they immediately put in a lot of training intensity. They are definitely overwhelmed. What if there are players who have been reimbursed for a few seasons, this is what the Blues has to consider.