On a business car, Nets general manager Bobby Marx and head coach Butch Baird were sitting.

They are really busy, so they have to go back to the stadium to prepare for the shutdown, and there are a lot to do.

Butch Baird, a former NBA All-Star player, has retired for many years. This head coach also serves as a team consultant for the Nets... In fact, the Nets have no head coach and are going to play badly again, so they temporarily brought the team consultant to be the head coach.

They just sent away their previous core, No. 1 pick, Derek Coleman, and their goal in the new season is bad.

After Duncan's freshman season, a large number of teams were waiting for him to enter the NBA after his sophomore year. Jerry West even risked being fined and publicly expressed his love for Duncan, saying that he would use the No. 1 pick to sign him in any year.

It is natural that Duncan did not participate in the draft this year. The Nets' goal next season is likely to be bad, and it will be bad more thoroughly. Butch Baird has to continue to take the blame for a year.

But Butch Baird is happy, and the head coach's salary is much higher than that of the team's consultant!

Moreover, his best ability as a team consultant is to observe a player's talent, characteristics, and ability to observe. He naturally wants to train players. He does not have the right to be a consultant and is a head coach. Even if he is a head coach during the bad period, he can try it.

However, although Bobby Marx was very happy when he gave the contract and signed it very decisively, after the signing, he asked the question again: "Is it really okay to choose him?"

Butch Baird smiled and said, "If we don't choose him, we can only choose Ed Obanon, Cott Thomas, and Brent Barry. These people are good at fighting power, but how much better than Aix? What if we bet right this time? And if we choose the wrong one, just say I chose it."

Butch Baird is very sensible. He knows that a good part of his salary is all about paying him for taking the blame.

"Okay, I understand, but why do you like Aix? I read his physical test and trial report for the Suns. Although his athletic ability and mid-range shots are excellent, I still feel unreliable... God, how could I promise you to choose a high school student?"

"I only noticed this high school student when I was observing Kevin Garnett before," Butch Baird thought of Zhang Hao's performance in real-time mid-range shots. Even if his opponents were all high school students, he was amazed and continued: "You have never seen his performance in the game. It's so outstanding. Compared with Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, and Lamar Odom, these three high school geniuses, he is the most special one."

Anyway, someone took the blame, Bobby Marx breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "If Garnett had no team in front, who would you choose?"

"Then I have to blame you for not trading a lottery when you sent Coleman away. He is a star with an average of 20+10 per game! We could have won them together."

"oh, that's because he offended the boss, it has nothing to do with me..."

"Bobby, do you think the boss's next negotiations with the Players' Union will go well?"

"It's unlikely that we had already suppressed the salary of the rookie contract before. The players' union was already very dissatisfied. Now they still wanted to suppress the salary of the players. It's too difficult. Unless the long-term suspension is suspended, the players can't hold on, but when that man returns, we are in a passive situation... We can probably only persist in the offseason, and we can't bear the blow of the man's retirement again..."

...

Zhang Hao finally understood what was happening with the explanation from the head of the Players Union.

The main reason is that he didn't pay attention to those things at all. Of course, as a rookie, it was indeed strange that he didn't pay attention to those things, but he just didn't pay attention because he decided to participate only a month before the draft.

Last summer, the NBA almost stopped because the top three rookies in 1994 were mainly the No. 1 pick and second place. The two asked for 100 million. The last No. 1 pick was 68 million in 10 years and 60 million in 9 years, which made the NBA unilaterally stipulate the highest salary of rookies, which triggered conflicts between the league and the player union, but this problem was solved at that time.

However, the Players' Union also proposed a clause, which is to limit the length of the rookie contract, and the boss is unhappy. If a talented rookie is as confident as Pippen and wants to sign 30 million for 10 years but cannot sign it, wouldn't it be that the bosses who are the ones who lose?

After that, the conflicts between the two sides continued to escalate. The league wanted to stipulate the contract years of veterans and implement a hard salary cap. The players wanted to cancel the salary cap... Anyway, both sides wanted to propose some clauses that the other party could not accept, and then promote clauses that were easier to promote.

Until now, nothing has been negotiated, and it is basically certain that the season has ended completely, that is, after June 30, the players' union will strike and the NBA will be suspended.

However, the players' union is confident because they know that the boss dares not let the next season become a shrinking season. The situation happened last summer because the revenue growth in the 1993-94 season was much lower than the growth in the previous years. There is only one reason for this - Michael Jordan retired in the summer of 1993.

Michael Jordan has made a comeback. Although he kneeled in the second round, his condition, performance, popularity, and the ratings he drives... all give the players' union great confidence.

They believe that most teams are unwilling to stop after Jordan's comeback. So, the Nets want to get the team's affairs done before the suspension, and can start work in the new season directly after the suspension is over.

The Nets have issued checks to ask Zhang Hao to withdraw his salary in advance, but they are sure that the suspension will not affect the smooth start of next season. In order to avoid players not having money to do anything during the offseason... they are mainly afraid that those black players will do something in the summer, so they pay their salary in advance so that they can spend money.

So, Zhang Hao quickly completed the signing of the contract in half an hour.

Zhang Hao also learned that many first-round picks signed directly last night. He signed the contract this morning because he was stunned after being selected for the 9th pick last night and was not suitable for signing, so he signed the contract this morning.

After understanding these things, Zhang Hao was a little dazed. Was it stopped... No wonder the Nets general manager asked him to visit the stadium on July 1st...

Zhang Hao's impression of the suspension was in 1998, 2011 and 2020. He only now knew that the suspension in 1998 was the fourth time the NBA was shut down.

He must support the Player Union in this matter. Both labor and capital are not equal. They have spent a lot of effort to fight for greater benefits for the players to get players from being completely exploited to now being able to "willful" fight for the rights and income that the players deserve.

However, thinking that Jordan is now on the front line and the league hard steel, compared with the Jordan, who is on the front line and the player union hard steel 16 years later... Zhang Hao has confirmed a truth - people will one day become the person he hates the most.

After seeing off the two players' union, Zhang Hao walked towards the elevator and on the way back to the room, he was considering what to do next.

Going to New Jersey? Zhang Hao wanted to go and take a look, but it was about to stop. The Nets were ready to start training camp after the stoppage ended, so he went around specially... He felt that it was a bit of a waste of his precious life.

As an excellent young man, Zhang Hao originally had a hobby to eat and wait for death.

But when he was really eating, he quit his hobby when he was waiting to die.

As an outstanding student selected by the NBA, Zhang Hao felt that he would not refuse after training in the school arena until the NBA shutdown ended, right?

Also, NCAA will not be played, but you must still study in college. It is best to study majors related to sports or psychology, which may be helpful for becoming a head coach in the future... Majors related to video editing may also be fine.

From hobbies of eating and waiting to die, to targeting life to death, Zhang Hao felt that his soul had been sublimated...

The shutdown began on July 1st, and it reached the point where the shutdown was so, Zhang Hao estimated that even if the next season was not affected in his memory, he probably wouldn't be able to handle it for a month, otherwise it wouldn't have stopped.

Both sides probably will use the chips not playing next season. Both sides can use this chips. Players will feel that the boss is unwilling to miss the rapid growth of Jordan's income after his comeback. The boss feels that the player will not dare to take the player's income as a price.

Finally, it is estimated that both parties will make concessions, and then wait until the expiration of this labor-management agreement, which is not perfect at all, is 1998...

Since it has been suspended, the summer league in July will definitely not be able to play.

So let’s train!

Close your eyes and recall the running tactics I learned last night... In the running tactics I remembered last night, when my teammates appear in what position, where the pitcher should go to, and what route should he use to move, all clearly appear in my mind.

However, during the game, teammates must cooperate according to tactics, otherwise they will not be able to use it even if they learn the running route.

This requires learning more ways to run and then respond on the spot based on the actual situation on the field.

Also, players who hold the ball need to have the awareness and ability to pass the ball...

It's much more complicated than Zhang Hao imagined!

At this time, he thought of Garnett, a big shot in the pick-and-roll world... Originally, Zhang Hao wanted to go to the Spurs because he wanted to partner with Duncan in the future. Duncan's pick-and-roll and Garnett should be in the same gear.

It’s a pity that he ignored a high school student at all. He went to the trial, but there was no feedback.

The road to becoming a top unball pitcher is long, but Zhang Hao has never been an ambitious person. He takes one step at a time and lays a solid foundation for his running position. Only when he reaches the NBA can he quickly enter the next stage, rather than when he reaches the NBA, he will lay the foundation.

Also, in Adidas Training Camp, how to speed up shooting, practice the accuracy and speed of passing, and at least practice your own ball control to the NBA level to avoid having no ball control ability, and finishing ability at the basket...

Zhang Hao counted it carefully and found that he had a lot of things to practice!

Also, if the static power growth card will not affect the normal development of the body, you must also practice it. While increasing your strength, you must also ensure that the shooting feel is maintained smoothly.
Chapter completed!