Chapter 288 of the Chinese Sportsman Text Volume, the NBA Draft, was launched. A basketball game that can be recorded in history was staged. For the fans on the scene, it was even more unforgettable. In professional basketball, there was the first showdown between pitchers.

Winning and losing are no longer important to this game. The significance of this game lies in the changes brought about by the entire basketball sport. From this game, jump shot, the most commonly used scoring method for basketball, has finally begun to be well-known. More and more players have begun to learn jump shot technology, and more tactics around jump shot technology have emerged.

Under the new basketball rules, many new tactics have emerged, and players have also begun to use new technologies, such as the "Cardinal" Auerbach's quick breakthrough tactics and Joe Folkes' mid-range one-handed jump shot, which are all in line with the tactics and techniques of basketball development. However, some teams or players have taken the wrong approach and come up with some seemingly weird tactics, or have adopted some very alternative techniques.

These phenomena are inevitable in the development of basketball. The emergence of new rules forces coaches to use performance tactics to adapt to new rules, and also forces players to develop new technologies to adapt to new tactics. The development process is actually continuous experiments and exploration. If it is not verified through the game, no one knows whether new tactics and new technologies are useful.

Of course, Chen Qiang is an exception. As a time traveler and a professional sports practitioner, he is very familiar with the development of basketball. He knows the evolution of basketball in the next few decades. If it were not for the NBA League to gain a foothold as soon as possible, Chen Qiang might not have interfered too much in the development of basketball, but to make basketball progress through repeated attempts. However, Chen Qiang hopes that the NBA League can develop as soon as possible, and also hopes that the Knicks can gain a foothold in New York City as soon as possible. He has to use breakthrough passes and mid-range jump shots to promote the development of basketball.

For fans, this novel basketball is particularly exciting. Even those strange tactics or alternative techniques can attract the attention of fans and will cause them to discuss fiercely. This discussion has also led other people who do not watch the game to pay attention to NBA.

Many fans are tired of the new and old. Even if they are not "don't "have the old", "loving the new" is always inevitable. The NBA League basketball games are always full of all kinds of new tricks, and even new things will appear in every game, which makes fans feel overwhelmed, and at the same time makes fans involuntarily pay attention to NBA games.

Basketball under the old rules is too boring and boring compared to other ball sports. This is not reflected in the daily gameplay of ordinary people, but it seems particularly obvious in the game.

For example, when we usually play jungle ball in a community stadium, we often only gather six people to play for half-time. At this time, we won’t be so strict about the rules of the game. No one will calculate the offensive violations in 24 seconds. The offensive side always stays in the three-second zone and will not care. Even occasionally pulling down the arm is not important. The winner is not important, and everyone is just having fun. In this case, there is no impact on whether there is a 24-second offensive violation.

However, formal games cannot lack strict rules. Under the constraints of rules, players' behavior should be much more rigorous. Moreover, formal games are ultimately for victory, which will allow the team to adopt some utilitarian styles as much as possible, so there will be situations where they will not attack after leading, which will also lead to a decrease in the viewing of basketball games.

To sum up, the higher the level of basketball at that time, the more boring and boring the game, the more people who can’t play basketball will get excited when they get together.

This runs contrary to the laws of sports development. Sports pursues higher, faster and stronger. The higher the level of sports, the more ornamental it is. However, basketball in that era was just the opposite. If such a sports that did not conform to the laws of development were not reformed, it would be sooner or later gradually disappear.

It is also for this reason that in the field of professional sports, basketball cannot beat other ball sports.

Now the modification of the new rules has finally brought about changes in basketball. The increase in 24-second offensive violations has prevented the game from happening again, and the audience also discovered that this kind of basketball that does not delay is actually very exciting!

The increase in viewing ability can naturally attract more audiences, and World War II also gave the NBA League a "god assist".

Whether it is baseball, football, or even ice hockey, excellent athletes have all gone to participate in the US military, which has caused heavy losses to the three major sports leagues in the United States. At the same time, those high school graduates with excellent physical fitness and those basketball players in college have also joined the army. A large number of them may not appear directly on the front-line battlefield, and some people are just training in the rear, but this is also a loss for American school sports.

The loss of outstanding athletes has greatly reduced the viewing of the game. It can be said that in the United States in 1942, the MLB game in Major League Baseball was ugly, the football NFL game was ugly, the ice hockey NHL game was ugly, and even the high school and college games that Americans love very much became ugly.

At this time, the NBA League, which emerged from the sky, instantly snatched a large part of the audience from other ball sports with new rules. Although many excellent basketball players ran to participate in the US military, the NBA basketball game was fresh enough! Since everyone is pecking at each other, why not choose a fresher game to watch!

This is like a general who is a lame man. Although the NBA in this era is not perfect, it is definitely the best among the "lame man".

What's more, at that time, the game between baseball MLB and football NFL was very exciting. Now, due to the loss of players, the game between baseball MLB and football NFL has greatly reduced its viewing ability, which will cause a psychological gap for fans and feel that baseball and football are going to be cool.

On the contrary, basketball games were not good-looking, but now the viewing quality has suddenly increased, which also creates a psychological contrast for fans and their expectations for basketball have increased exponentially.

When the strong fail once, people will unconsciously exaggerate the degree of failure, and when the weak achieve success, people will unconsciously exaggerate the degree of success.

This situation occurs in the American professional sports league, which is a state of rising and falling. More and more people will abandon baseball, rugby or ice hockey and join the big basketball family.

The NBA League is popular with fans and has also made the bosses of each team make a lot of money.

For the bosses of several teams, they had no ambitions at all. Anyway, the basketball game has always been lukewarm. The main purpose of their willingness to set up a team to play the NBA is to make some money and make up for the operation of the venue.

For example, the Buffalo Buffalo has done calculations before. As long as there are 3,000 spectators per game, it is enough for the operating expenses of the Buffalo Memorial. The operating expenses mentioned here are not the expenses of this game, but the overall expenses of the Buffalo Memorial. In other words, after the Buffalo Buffalo plays a full season, as long as there are 3,000 spectators buying tickets per game, the money earned can be used for one year.

Sports venues such as Madison Garden Plaza and North Shore Garden Arena are much larger than the Buffalo Memorial Hall, so the operating expenses are much larger. However, New York and Boston are also big cities, and they can also attract more fans and their income is much larger than the Buffalo Memorial Hall.

After several games, as the NBA League became more and more famous, more and more people came to see basketball. Several sports bosses suddenly discovered that playing basketball can not only fill the operating expenses of the gymnasium, but also make some money.

In the face of money, those who originally questioned Chen Qiang also disappeared. On the contrary, the bosses of each team seemed more united. After all, the NBA league has brought them benefits, and this combination of interests is often relatively stable. I may not like you, and I even want to kill you, but I will never be able to get through the money.

In this way, with the support of fans, the team also made profits, and everything in the NBA league was developing in a good direction. After two months of games, the NBA league finally gained a firm foothold in the United States.

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While Chen Qiang was worried about the development of basketball, the war continued.

On the domestic battlefield, China and Japan entered a stalemate. At this time, the Japanese army focused its strategic focus on the Pacific battlefield, while China adopted a strategy of blockade and division as the main point. Local wars continued, but large-scale wars did not occur.

On the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese who lost the Battle of Midway have lost their strategic initiative in the Pacific and are forced to stop their strategic offensive against the United States and instead launch an offensive against the South Pacific, which has also led to the outbreak of the Battle of Guadalcanal.

In the East Solomon Islands, Japan and the United States launched the third aircraft carrier duel after the Coral Sea Battle and the Midway Battle. As a result, one of the US aircraft carriers was injured, while one of the Japanese aircraft carriers was sunk.

At the subsequent Battle of Santa Cruz, the Japanese recovered the scene. They sank a U.S. aircraft carrier at the cost of two aircraft carriers being injured, which took a long time to repair.

In this battle, the losses of both sides seemed to be half a dozen, but in fact, the Americans gained strategic advantages. The United States' industrial capabilities are much stronger than Japan. For the United States, they can build new aircraft carriers in a very short time, and Japan takes more time to build a new aircraft carrier than the United States. Therefore, if the two sides fight a war of attrition, the one who will lose in the end will definitely be Japan.

On the battlefield of North Africa, Italy has long shown its true nature as a "pig teammate", but Rommel, the "Desert Fox" still defeated the British army step by step. Fortunately, Montgomery took over the command of the British army and fought against Rommel on the battlefield of North Africa.

As for the European battlefield, the German army was getting deeper and deeper in Stalingrad. The German army invaded Stalingrad early, and the two sides launched street fighting, and Stalingrad became ruins because of this, but the German army could never completely occupy the city. The Soviets' intention was very simple, that is, to persevere until winter and freeze you Germans to death!

All battlefields of World War II have entered a stalemate stage.

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Chen Qiang couldn't get involved in the war, and at this time he was still working hard to develop the NBA alliance.

Chen Qiang once again summoned all the bosses of the team and then placed a new plan in front of the bosses.

"NBA draft plan? Are you planning to create a new player draft like rugby?" Pistons owner Fred Zorner asked first.

Chen Qiang nodded: "Yes, actually, at the beginning of my establishment of the NBA League, I had already planned to issue a draft rules. I hope that all the players in our league can only enter the NBA through drafts. Of course, this goal cannot be achieved in a short period of time, and we will definitely need a buffer period."

Chen Qiang said, picked up the plan and then said, "Please open the second page. Let me first talk about the necessity of adding a draft system. Now the players of each team are recruiting their own, which has also led to a situation where rich teams can recruit better players, while teams without money can only recruit some relatively low-level players, which will make the teams with money stronger and stronger, while teams without money become weaker and weaker."

"Is there any problem with money stronger, and I don't have money weaker. Is there anything wrong with this? Isn't it natural for me to spend more money and be more powerful?" Fred Zorner asked.

Fred Zorner was originally a rich man, and he only had one standard for playing the team, that is, spending money, so the Pistons could win the NBL championship twice in a row. Now that the rich man had to spend money, Fred Zorner naturally had some resistance.

Chen Qiang smiled and asked, "Mr. Zorna, don't you realize that you can win a game with just spending more money, which is boring? We are playing competitive sports. Evenly matches and uncertainties in the competition are the charm of competitive sports. One-sided matches will not make people feel interesting. Mr. Zorna, I think you invest in sports not just to win games, right? If sports cannot bring you an exciting feeling, what else is it?"

Fred Zorner lowered his head and thought about it, and found that this seemed to be the case.

Of course, Fred Zorner hopes that his team can win, but that kind of crushing victory is something he doesn't want to see. As a rich man, he has money and nothing is lacking in material things, but spiritual enjoyment is not so easy to get. Isn't the stimulating feeling brought by sports games a spiritual enjoyment! If he can make his spiritual feeling enjoy, then the money is worth it.

Seeing Fred Zorner agreeing to his statement, Chen Qiang continued: "The rich teams are getting stronger and stronger, and the poor teams are getting weaker and weaker. Then the poor teams will gradually lose audiences, and even fail to operate and disband. In the end, only the rich teams are left to play in the NBA league, and how many rich teams are there? Our league will become smaller and smaller, which is obviously not in line with the development of the entire NBA league."

"In addition, rich teams compete with each other will also bring losses to the team. For example, if you value a player, give him an annual salary of $3,000, and I also value him, give him an annual salary of $4,000. At this time, the third person increased the price to $5,000, and you are unwilling to increase the price to $6,000. In this way, no matter who we get this player, we have to pay more money!"

When it comes to spending more money, the team bosses are all sensitive. The only rich man here, Fred Zorner, doesn't care about money, and others are still afraid of spending more money.

Chen Qiang continued: "In order to avoid the small team being unable to survive and to avoid the team spending more money to compete for players, I plan to introduce draft rules in the NBA league!"
Chapter completed!