As early as 1938, the NFL of Rugby began to perform drafts, but the drafts were basically blindly selected. The official will select some well-known young players from some media reports to join the draft list. The head coaches of each team will also recommend some young players to join the draft list. In addition, the head coaches of university teams can also recommend their own players to participate in the draft list.

In this case, the information of the draft is very opaque. Some players don’t even know that they have been selected into the draft list. Perhaps they have to read the newspaper to find out that they have been selected by a certain team.

The team does not know what level of players' drafts are. Apart from a name, they may not even see photos of players. Many teams collect information about players by reading newspapers or asking players' previous coaches.

It would be strange if you know a player from media reports. It would be very reasonable. The reporter who wrote the report knew how to write about the high sales! When asked the head coach of the player, the head coach would definitely praise his players hard. Wang Po would boast about himself, and the head coach would not say that he had trained a garbage player. In that case, the head coach would be quite face-saving.

So in that era, it was easy to participate in the NFL draft. If you bribe the media sports reporters and write a few soft articles for yourself, you might be able to enter the NFL draft draft list.

In this case, the head coaches of each team are very busy. In order to inspect the players, they have to go to the players' school in person to watch the players' training and watch the players play games before they can make a decision whether to choose a certain player.

However, as the head coach of a team, there are many things. How can you go to various universities to inspect players every day without any trouble? In the future, each team has professional scouts who are specifically responsible for investigating the situation of young players and players from which position the team lacks. Scouts can provide several candidates at any time. If the coach wants information about which player, the player's data, advantages and disadvantages, etc. will soon form a report and send it to the coach's table. In this era, the scout's work is also done by the head coach.

It is also because the information of the players is not transparent. Although the American Professional Sports League in that era already had drafts, both the team and the players were not as enthusiastic about drafts as they did in the future. In the future, the annual drafts will be regarded by the team as an opportunity to change the team's fate in the next ten years. How many teams are crazy about playing tricks for the first time.

In order to make the information of rookie players more transparent, Chen Qiang directly moved out of the rookie trial camp. He gathered some outstanding athletes in New York and then conducted group trials on them. At the same time, the head coaches and management of each team will also watch on the spot. In this way, the team can fully understand the players' strengths and weaknesses, and the players can also show themselves in front of the team.

As for those players who were not invited, Chen Qiang did not give up on them. If they were willing to come to the rookie training camp in New York, the new league also expressed their welcome, but these players who came by themselves had to take care of the expenses.

...

Detroit.

"Stan, here is a letter from you, sent from New York." A letter was sent to Stan Mosaic.

Stan Mosaic was stunned for a moment, and while receiving the letter, he said to himself, "Did you send the wrong address? I have no relatives or friends in New York."

Stan Mosaic carefully confirmed the address of the recipient on the envelope and confirmed that it was indeed him. Then he opened the envelope. When he pulled out the letter, a train ticket fell out and floated on the ground.

Stan Mosaic picked up the train ticket and saw it. It was a train ticket from Detroit to New York. Then Stan Mosaic opened the letter.

"Dear Mr. Stan Mosaic, we have received your registration and we are honored to invite you to the public trial of the new league draft..."

Stan Mosaic read the letter carefully and finally knew what was going on.

Before the draft begins, the new league will hold a three-day rookie trial in New York. This trial will invite some athletes who sign up for the draft, and Stan Mosaic is among the invitations. The transportation, accommodation and catering during the trial will be the New League. At the same time, the coaches and other management of all teams in the new league will also be held to watch the trial. After the training, if the team is interested in the players, they can also invite players to conduct more trials. Of course, the team will be responsible for this fee.

"I really didn't expect that there was another trial before the draft. This was great. Not only could I go to New York for free, but the key was that I could also show my abilities in front of the coaches of each team, so that my chances of being selected would increase greatly!" Stan Mosaic clenched his fists excitedly. He could feel that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

...

At Seaton University, opposite Eddie Sardoffs was a bald middle-aged man who was the head coach of the Brooklyn Indians in the ABL League.

"Eddie, my team is very interested in you. I can guarantee that if you come to the team, you can give you a main position." The Indian head coach said.

"Is it a guaranteed contract?" Eddie Sardovs asked.

"That's right!" said the Indian head coach insincerely, "at least I can guarantee that you will get paid during your playing ball."

"That is to say, one game is considered the money. If you don't need me one day, I will have no salary?" Eddie Sardovs asked.

The Indians head coach nodded, "This is how the team works. Players play and then receive money. If they don't play, they naturally have no salary. Even the head coach, I am like this."

"I'm very sorry, I still want to get a guaranteed contract." Eddie Sardovs answered.

"Eddie, you have to know that the entire ABL league works like this. Even those big stars will only get money in the months when there are balls to play." The Indians head coach said.

At that time, the players in the NBL or ABL league were more like odd jobs. They had money when they had the ball to play, and naturally they had no money to make money when they had no ball to play. Many players even calculated money based on the number of games. If you play a game, you will calculate the salary for a game. Only those star-level players will receive their salary according to the month. For example, if you play for three months this season, you will receive three months of salary from the team, and the remaining nine months will be without money.

For players, this is unguaranteed, so players need to find part-time jobs during the offseason to maintain their lives; for the team, although this system saves costs, it makes the team more like a straw team, with fluctuations in the performance and lack of cohesion, and they may be disbanded one day, so the frequency of team renewal in the NBL and ABL leagues is very high.

Eddie Sardovs naturally didn't want to play in such a team without guarantees. He said, "I'm very sorry, I have signed up for the rookie selection in the new basketball league. If I can be selected, I can get at least a two-year guarantee contract. I think the treatment in the new league will be better."

"Eddie, you have to know that the draft is simply unreliable. There are only nine teams in the new league now, which means that only nine people can get the kind of two-year guarantee contract. How many people sign up for the draft? One hundred people? Or two hundred people? With such a cruel competition, are you sure you can become one of the nine lucky ones? Those teams don't know you at all, and maybe those teams can't even pronounce your name correctly! Instead of asking for that illusory draft, it's better to come to me. I can guarantee that you will have a ball to play!" The head coach of the Indians continued.

"It seems you don't know yet. The New Basketball League held a rookie training camp, inviting many candidates to go to New York for trial training. All the coaches of the team will go to the scene in person. I also received an invitation. They even bought me a ticket to New York. I believe that when I arrived at the trial, with my strength, I can impress those coaches!" Eddie Sardovs said.

"Rookie Trial?" The Indians head coach opened his mouth slightly. He never expected that a draft would even come up with such tricks.

However, the next second, the Indians head coach realized that with this rookie trial, the young players with potential would not be buried, and they would be selected by the team. If this continues, the entire American outstanding athletes will be gathered in that new league!

"If this kind of rookie selection is being created by that new league, our ABL League and NBL League will probably go bankrupt!" The Indian head coach said in his heart.

In fact, what the current Indians head coach should be more worried about is his team.

The Brooklyn Indians in history were originally an amateur team. They joined the ABL League in 1942, and in 1943, they only played for half a season before bankruptcy. In other words, the Brooklyn Indians are on the verge of bankruptcy.

This is also the current situation of the teams in the abl league. Although the abl league was established as early as 1925, and the entire league finally persisted until 1955. However, for a full thirty years, there were not many teams that could last for more than three years. Such a loose and unstable basketball league could not turn basketball into professionalism.

...

In Brooklyn, New York, Max Zaslowski's table was placed on three sheets of paper. The first was an application for enlistment, the second was an invitation from the new league rookie trial camp, and the third was an invitation from the NBL team's Hiboygan Redskins.

Now, Max Zaslowsky needs to make a decision. Should he join the army? Or play basketball?

After hesitating for a long time, his desire for dreams finally gained the upper hand, and he threw the application for enlistment into the trash can.

Next he will choose one of two, whether to participate in the trial training of the new league, or directly enter the old league NBL's Heboygan Redskins.

The Hiboygan Redskins are a strong team in the NBL League. This team was founded in 1933 and was originally just an amateur team. In 1938, the team entered the NBL League. With excellent defense, they entered the NBL championship five times and won the NBL championship.

At that time, the Pistons were the strongest team in the NBL and almost won the NBL League three consecutive championships. The one that prevented the Pistons from winning three consecutive championships was this Hiboygan Redskins. It can be said that in the NBL League in the 1940s, the Redskins were the only team able to compete with the Pistons.

In this time and space of Chen Qiang, he pulled the Pistons into the new league. Without the Pistons' NBL League, the Hiboygan Redskins became the boss of the NBL League.

The invitation to the top teams in the nbl league is still very attractive. The team has good results and has always been a bonus event to attract celebrity players to join, which is also the reason why Max Zaslowsky is hesitant.

Of course, in terms of salary and benefits, the NBL League is not as good as Chen Qiang's new league. If Max Zaslowsky goes to the Redskins, his salary will definitely be inferior to that of the new league rookies, but the premise is that Max Zaslowsky will be selected by the new league team so that he can get that good salary. If he is not selected, he will naturally not get the two-year guaranteed rookie contract.

"Do you want to have a gamble?" Max Zaslowski said in his heart.

"The head coaches of all the teams in New York were there. If I performed well, I might impress them and let them choose me! Moreover, the teams in the new league are all playing at the big stadium. I have watched the New York Knicks game in Madison Square Garden, with 20,000 spectators. That's really shocking. If you can play there, it's something that people dream of!"

Max Zaslovs finally made up his mind to try it in the rookie training camp in the new league. If you are lucky, if you are selected by the New York Knicks, you will not only have a good salary, but also be able to play in Madison Square Garden. Max Zaslovs is a New Yorker and playing in front of his hometown elders, that's so shameful!

Young people always have strong vanity. If you can play at a large stadium, you will definitely not want to go to a small stadium.

Madison Square Garden, which can accommodate more than 20,000 spectators, is one of the largest stadiums in the United States. In comparison, the Hellskins' home stadium has only 1,500 seats. After the merger of NBL and Baa in the future, the Redskins' new home stadium, the Heyboygan Auditorium can only accommodate 3,500 spectators.

Shiboy is a small county town in Wisconsin. Although it is close to Lake Michigan, the population is not large. In 2000, the entire county had only 110,000 people, and in the 1940s it was too small to build such a large stadium. Even if it was built, there would be no such crowd.

Historically, the Heboygan Redskins eventually went bankrupt because they were in a small city.

Before the 1950s, basketball was not yet a weather, and teams in small cities could survive, and even survive very well. After entering the era of the four major sports leagues, small cities were not suitable for developing professional sports. A small city could not support teams at the four major sports league level. A big city like New York was more than enough to support eight teams at the four major league level.

Of course, except for the Green Wan Packers, relying on the fanatical support of fans, the Green Bay Packers are the only team in the four major leagues that can survive in small cities.

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Chapter completed!