At Seaton University in New Jersey, there is an advertisement for the new basketball league draft on the bulletin board at the school gate.
Eddie Sadovski stood in front of the bulletin board, looking at the advertisement poster with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"Eddie, are you moved? Do you want to participate in the draft in that new league?" A friend stabilized from the side.
Eddie Sardovs nodded: "I'm about to graduate. My father hopes that I can find a job in a trading company. But I still want to play basketball."
"I heard that in the NBL League, there are already team coaches who have expressed interest in you?" asked his companion again.
"It's just an interest, it's still far from a formal contract! Moreover, the income of NBL players is not high, and many players have to rely on other part-time jobs to support themselves. I don't want to be like them, even if they can't support themselves in order to play." Eddie Sardovs said.
The companion continued: "The advertisement says that if you participate in the draft, as long as you can sign a contract with the team, you will get a salary. The first round rookie will get a 2+2 contract, which means that at least in the first two years, you don't have to worry about your job. I think with your strength, you will definitely be selected."
Eddie Sardovs nodded: "Yes, this is a better place in the new league than NBL. Rookies can get a two-year guarantee contract, and their salary is not low. At least they can support themselves without having to find part-time jobs."
Eddie Sardovs is 6-foot-5 inches tall and weighs as high as 240 pounds. As a center, he has such a figure and is almost invincible in the inside field in the college basketball world. This is true. He once led Seaton University to a record unbeaten in the season.
Such excellent results have made Eddie Sardovs favored many professional team coaches, and some team coaches have come to watch Eddie Sardovs' games in person.
Eddie Sardovs in history is also a very famous basketball star in the Baa era. Before George McCann emerged, he should have been the number one center in the United States. At his peak, he averaged 19.4 points per game, ranking third in the Baa league scoring champion.
"The above said to fill out an registration form and send it to New York to complete the registration. It will only take a little time and a few cents of stamps. I think you should give it a try." The companion continued to persuade.
"Okay, I'll sign up back, but I won't give up on finding a job. But if I can be selected by this new league, I will definitely spend two years of youth for my dreams!" Eddie Sardovs said firmly.
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Meanwhile, in Rhode Island, 19-year-old Elny Culverley is persuading his parents.
"Dad, please let me try it. If I am selected, I will become a professional basketball player. This is my dream!" Elny Culverly said.
His father, Culverley, shook his head: "Elney, you finally got to the University of Rhode Island. I just hope you can graduate smoothly and find a decent job. As for being a basketball player, that's what the children of rich families should do!"
"Dad, you know, I don't actually want to study at the University of Rhode Island. I want to go to a better school. Even if I graduate successfully from the University of Rhode Island, I won't have a good future. At most, I find a job in a small place like ours, and I can't gain a foothold if I go to a big city. After all, the University of Rhode Island is just an ordinary public university, not Harvard or Yale! I can't compete with those top students in first-class universities." Elny Culverley continued.
Under the same level, public universities in the United States are definitely not as good as private universities. Top public universities cannot compare to top private universities, first-class public universities cannot compare to first-class private universities, and second-rate public universities cannot compare to second-rate private universities. However, there is one advantage of going to public universities, that is, the tuition fees are relatively cheap.
Elny Culverley lives in Rhode Island. His family conditions are relatively average. He can't afford expensive private universities, so he can only go to public universities in Rhode Island.
However, Elny Culverley was not satisfied with this. He hoped to go to big cities instead of trapped in this small place in Rhode Island. However, it is difficult for graduates from the University of Rhode Island to gain a foothold in big cities. There are many graduates from famous universities in big cities. Compared with graduates from famous universities such as Harvard or Yale, graduates from Rhode Island have no competitiveness at all.
At this time, Elny Culverly saw the ad for the new league draft. As the number one basketball star at Rhode Island University, Elny Culverly decided to give it a try.
In history, Elny Culverley was also a star point guard in the Baa era. In the first two years after the Baa was founded, Elny Culverley ranked first in the number of assists. In addition to assists, Elny Culverley averaged 14 points per game. From the perspective of the time, such data was already amazing. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the first defender in the United States.
What Elny Culverly is remembered is a time when it is called "a shot that can be heard by the whole world". The reason why it is "heared" rather than "seeing" is because sports broadcasts at that time were based on radio.
In a game, Elny Culverley made a final shot of 62 feet from the basket. 62 feet is roughly equivalent to the midfield position. In the future, many stars have completed final shots in the midfield position, and even further away positions. However, in the 1940s, the final shot in the midfield position was simply a performance that only God possessed, and it is enough for a generation to remember for a lifetime.
Finally, at the begging of Elny Culverly, Old Culverly finally agreed to allow Elny Culverly to participate in the draft, but if he failed, he would come back to college immediately.
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At the same time, in Detroit, a young man named Stan Mosaic had no worries like Elny Culverley. Because after graduating from high school, Stan Mosaic had not been admitted to college at all, so naturally he didn't have to choose between playing basketball and going to college.
At this time, Stan Mosaic had found an apprentice job, but he was not satisfied with the job. He didn't want to live in obscurity for the rest of his life.
Originally, Stan Mosaic had already planned to join the army, but the advertisement for the new basketball league draft attracted Stan Mosaic.
Once selected, there will be a 2+2 contract, and the team pays very well, and the team also provides dormitory and food, which can also save a lot of money. With such treatment, Stan Mosaic was of course tempted.
"I'm going to participate in the draft of this new basketball league. If I'm not selected, I'll join the army again!" Stan Mosaic chose to sign up for the draft without hesitation.
Stan Mosaic is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 21 pounds. He can play centers, power forwards, and small forwards. In high school, he was a basketball star in school, but he was not able to go to college. Stan Mosaic in history was also one of the stars in the Baa League period. He averaged 10.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game in his career. Such data is a qualified role player even in the future. In the 1940s, this was an All-Star level data.
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In front of the bulletin board of Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, New York, Max Zaslowski, the best athlete in the school, was hesitant to look at the two advertisements on the bulletin board.
These two advertisements are one of the recruitment advertisements for the US military, and the other is the advertisements for the new basketball league draft.
Max Zaslowsky was hesitating whether to join the army or try the new basketball league draft.
Max Zaslowsky is proficient in many sports. He is not only the main force of the school basketball team, but also the main force of the baseball team. Although he is still in his senior year, he is also a well-known high school athlete in New York City.
This year, he is about to graduate, and if there was no war, he would choose to go to St. John's University in New York to study the most famous juris there.
However, the outbreak of the war gave Max Zaslowsky a plan to join the army. Because Max Zaslowsky was a Jewish Russian immigrant, the area he lived in was also a Jewish settlement in New York City. In today's Europe, Jews are suffering and the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany. As a Jewish Russian immigrant, Max Zaslowsky felt that he had the obligation to join the US military, go to the European battlefield, defeat those Germans, and save his Jewish compatriots.
Max Zaslowsky's enlistment application has been written, and at this time he saw an advertisement for the new league draft.
Max Zaslowski loves basketball, which is his dream. He desires to become a professional basketball player, so when he sees the advertisement for the new league draft, his determination to join the army is also shaken.
"Now, an opportunity to realize my dream is in front of me. Should I catch it?"
"But in Europe, countless Jews are being persecuted. As a Jew, I should pick up my gun to save them! Maybe I should join the army first and come back to realize my basketball dream after the war is over!"
"The bullet doesn't have eyes. If I get injured on the battlefield and suffer physical disability, I will never have the chance to become a professional athlete, and I will never be able to realize my dream!"
Max Zaslowsky's heart was full of contradictions, and he realized that this was perhaps the most important choice in his life.
At this time in history, the Baa League was not established, so Max Zaslowsky chose to join the army and served in the United States until the end of the war. He then entered St. John's University in New York. A year later, the Baa League was established. He joined the Baa League and entered the Best First Team in his first season. He was only 21 years old at the time and was also the youngest player to enter the First Team. He maintained this honor for nearly 60 years. It was not until 2006 that the age of the youngest first team was broken by LeBron James.
It has been introduced before that Joe Folks, who can shoot one-handedly, was the first scoring champion in the Baa League, and Max Zaslowski was the second scoring champion in the Baa League. Before the 1968 season, the scoring champion at that time did not use average scores as the criterion, but the total score was used as the criterion. In the season when Max Zaslowski won the scoring champion, his average score was not as good as Joe Folks, but his total score in the regular season exceeded Joe Folks, so he won the scoring champion that season.
If this rule is still used as the judging standard in the future, the scoring champion in 2018 will not be Harden, but LeBron James. Of course, if judged by the total score standard, Harden could have won the honor of scoring champion as early as 2015.
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Registration forms were sent to the new alliance headquarters in New York like snowflakes.
The draft of the Sports League is not new to athletes and teams, but the new league is still the first to offer such good benefits to rookie players.
Professional athletes of this era are obviously not as good as those of later generations. Athletes of the level of Baby Ruth are rare. Although the NFL in rugby has started drafting a few years ago, the treatment of rookies is not high. Many rookies with high picks can only get a temporary contract. It is precisely because the treatment is too poor that athletes feel that they are not guaranteed at all, so a large number of young people who have been selected but do not join the NFL team.
The new league's first contract to give rookie players 2+2 is equivalent to giving rookie players a life guarantee of at least two years. Although it is only two years, for young people who pursue their basketball dreams, they don't have to worry about life problems in two years, and they can pursue their dreams wholeheartedly. This is really what they dream of.
Moreover, the salary of rookie contracts is not low. The first contract given to rookie players by the new league is based on the overall average salary of the league. Perhaps this salary is not enough to make people become rich, but it can definitely impress those young people.
You should know that most of these young athletes who come to participate in the draft are students who have not yet entered society. If they go to find another job, such a fledgling rookie will get an intern salary, just like Stan Lee is an assistant in the comic club. His weekly salary is 8 US dollars, which is far lower than the average American salary. The new league's salary is much stronger than the intern salary.
You can pursue your dreams and get money. These two are fatal temptations for young people with dreams. So after the advertisement for the new league draft was published, many young athletes were registered.
At this time, Chen Qiang was not idle either. He made another big move, which was to select some more excellent athletes among the athletes who signed up for the draft and come to New York to participate in the public trial.
Chapter completed!