The Rest, Only Noise

The latest website: After the GM summit, the league and the players union conducted a week-long tense negotiation, and finally, the two sides reached an agreement, which avoided the shutdown of the league and made the transition of professional basketball to the next era smoothly.

The employers and employees concluded a new three-year agreement.

In this new agreement, the union has agreed to an incremental luxury tax and super luxury tax, but at the same time, the league also needs to readjust rookie contracts and provide greater rules and convenience for the free movement of star players.

The first is that the standard rookie contract has changed from the original random year and the informal contract that can add a player jump-out clause to a formal contract in two formats.

The first format is the common 2+2 four-year contract.

The second format is a 3+1 four-year contract.

But one of the biggest changes and the most far-reaching impact on the future is that the league gave up the priority renewal rights in rookie contracts.

That is to say, starting this year, every rookie entering the league will become an unrestricted free agent after his rookie contract is completed.

This rule change will completely change the team building cycle.

The way of building a team by picking a cornerstone of the team is no longer stable. If the team cannot perform satisfactory operations before the end of the rookie contract of the core players, then, when the rookie contract ends, these people will naturally have good birds. The right to choose a tree to live in.

This is the adjustment of the rookie contract, and the other is the "flexible sign-and-exchange" rule introduced for star players.

According to the original rules, star players whose contracts have ended can join other teams through sign-and-exchange, but this method can only be done in the home team. If the parent team doesn't want to cooperate, it can only let the next family find another way.

In the new labor-management agreement, the rule that sign-exchanges are limited by the parent team has been canceled. Since then, as long as a team is willing to cooperate, star players have more room to choose their next home.

These two new regulations have obvious problems in the long run, but the league obviously can’t care about them now. Before the super team is completely suppressed, the negative effects brought about by this must be endured.

This is completely different from the alliance that Louie knew.

Talented newcomers have become easier to control their futures, and they have also put forward higher requirements for the NBA's management.

The history of clinging to the lap of a superstar and doing nothing to keep yourself in the powerhouse ranks is over.

Starting today, NBA management must find ways to strengthen the team in order to retain its core players.

Moreover, Louis can be considered to be placed by Stern. Although the Lakers have reserved the No. 1 pick in 1997, when Duncan's rookie contract ends, he will be an unrestricted free agent according to the new rules. At that time, whether the Lakers can keep Duncan depends on how much he likes to play for this team. The team plays.

Even if it is consensual, considering the renewals of Wilson, Garnett, Kobe, Nash and others, it is obviously impossible for the Lakers to keep everyone under the huge pressure of the luxury tax.

In any case, by 2000 at the latest, the superteams that have dominated professional basketball since the 1980s will forever be history.

At the same time, the signing of this new labor-management agreement also changed a history that Louis knew.

It's 1996, and this nightmare collective bargaining agreement will end in the summer of 1999.

That said, the NBA's famous 1999 lockout won't happen.

Of course, its occurrence may be delayed from 1999 to 2000.

No matter what happens after that, this is no longer the league that Louie is familiar with.

July 10

The Lakers signed Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Ben Wallace, Malik Rose.

The above four people signed with the Lakers are standard 2+2 four-year contracts.

With the signing of the rookie done, the Lakers management's offseason job is only to re-sign David Robinson.

Although Louie doesn't like this super center, it would be a pity to let him go in vain.

They'd better re-sign Robinson and see if he fits in with the "Beautiful Basketball" system, and if not, it's not too late to trade.

However, the job of re-signing Robinson was in trouble because the Robinson camp so-called "not feeling the importance of the Lakers to David."

This annoyed Jerry West so much that no one wanted to keep Robinson more than him, after all, it was his last legacy as the top executive.

If Robinson also leaves the Lakers, there will be no trace of the past on the team up and down.

However, when the Robinson camp insisted on having a dialogue with Louis during the holiday to confirm Robinson's tactical position in the team, Louis rejected their request on the grounds that "I am on vacation and not talking about business."

If the head coach doesn't even want to see you, how much can this team value you?

Louie does want to keep Robinson, but he mostly sees him as a tradable chip.

Faced with a bargaining chip, any promise cannot be fulfilled.

Louie is like a scumbag who refuses to make promises, covets the other person's body, and refuses to make an oath. Of course, Robinson will not succumb to this.

If Robinson leaves, the Lakers get nothing.

Louie would feel a little pity, and then nothing.

After all, he has already locked in the 1997 No. 1 pick, taking a Robinson and waiting for a Duncan, which is a pity, but so what?

West did not understand this, and he urged Louis to come forward to keep Robinson.

As a result, the defense was broken by Louis saying "I don't think it is necessary".

"FUCKKKKK!!!!" West was furious. "Does he know how rare a player like David is? Does he think we can find a replacement for David in the free market?"

Mitch Kupchak said smugly: "It's well known that the Messiah didn't like David."

"I don't like Kareem either, did I **** let him leave the team?" West roared. "As a head coach, how can you be emotional? He should know that we are absolutely impossible to find peace in the free market. A player of David's level!"

Kupchak asked: "Do you want to call Coach Lu again, I think he should know how important David is to us."

West was silent for half a minute.

He ended up not letting Kupchak make the call.

If David Robinson was as important to Louie as they were, he would definitely try to keep Robinson.

But in fact, since Louis returned to the front desk, he hadn't asked much about Robinson.

It's as if the player doesn't exist.

Now, the Lakers are about to lose David Robinson, and Louie is still indifferent.

This can already explain a lot of problems.

West couldn't understand.

He may never understand, let alone forgive Louie for treating Robinson so lightly, but if Louie doesn't want it, they're doomed to be in vain no matter how hard they try.

"Forget it, I'll talk to David again." West decided to do whatever he could.

"Where's the president?"

"He said he was on vacation and didn't want to deal with it."

Renewing Robinson is such a big thing, if Louis does not participate in the whole process, Robinson is absolutely impossible to stay.

West knew this perfectly, but he still didn't go to Louis again.

Robinson's end in Los Angeles has been decided.

Just like the investigators in every Japanese science and education film, from the moment the heroine appeared, we knew what was waiting for her.

A few days later, a deeply insulted David Robinson and those in his camp rejected all offers from Los Angeles and instead signed a five-year, $80 million deal with San Antonio.

In this way, the last survivor of the ShoTi2.0 era left the City of Angels.

This is also Jerry West's last effort to stay with the Lakers.

With the tragic unsure whether to return, the history of the Lakers has turned over.

Louie immediately held a press conference as president, expressing regret for Robinson's departure: "Since the end of the season, management has made every effort to keep David, but unfortunately, we were not able to keep him. "It's David's own decision, and it's with a heavy heart that we'll bless him, no matter what, his contribution in Los Angeles cannot be denied."

Then, a reporter asked an unrelated question.

"Coach Lu, it was mentioned in Roland Lazenby's new book "The Afterglow of the Performance Era" that you were the driving force behind David's move to Los Angeles. Is this true?"

Louis was taken aback for a moment, is it time for this matter to be written into a book to reveal the secrets?

But Louis didn't say anything about it: "It's been a long time, I don't remember what happened that year, it seems... It does have something to do with me."

This book will reveal some old stories.

For example, after the 1986-87 season, how did Jerry West think about it and choose to rebuild.

And, the highlight of West's career - robbing Pippen with the No. 5 pick (I forgot the second pick, maybe not), then taking Wilkins from the Holy City for the signing of David Robinson The right - actually entirely from Louis's suggestion and layout.

All who have read this book will be moved by two things.

Louie's terrifying influence, he let the Lakers rebuild in just a few words, and indirectly caused the Spurs' rebuilding time to extend for many years.

Secondly, it is the unclear fate between Louis and the Lakers.

Robinson was with the Lakers because of Louie, and now because of Louie, he parted ways with the Lakers and chose to go back to the place where the dream started - San Antonio~www.novelmt.com~Everything seems reasonable, except for Jerry West hurt.

The team he built has disappeared without a trace.

His best move as a Lakers general manager is now "evidence" of Louie's influence and dominance of the league.

As for Louis himself, he "regrettably" lost the opportunity to coach David Robinson, and then because of a book, the deterrence of his personal image and the eyes of his peers was infinitely higher, and it became a taboo existence that no one dared to touch.

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