Chapter 464 Undercurrent NBA!
(I don’t know if there are senior high school students among the book friends. The college entrance examination has ended and the pressure has disappeared. Regardless of success or failure, the fisherman hopes that everyone can maintain a relaxed attitude. As a person who has experienced it, I really feel that the significance of the current college entrance examination is somewhat different from the past. The current college entrance examination has become just a short chapter in life, and the impact on life is not that great. Many people have said this. So, please pay attention to the finals. I’m a little late to go home today. This chapter is a little updated. This month, the fisherman strives to update ten thousand words, so I will definitely make it up tomorrow. Yes, that’s it, good night everyone)
"Boss, is Sean and Gary okay now?"
The Houston Rockets defeated the Supersonics away and became another team in addition to the Lakers to advance to the Western Conference Finals. This is indeed a very commendable result for the Rockets. After all, this team was able to enter the division finals for two consecutive years, which is already one of the best times in the team's history.
Of course, if such a team with only three superstars cannot enter the division final, it will definitely be a failure, so such a result is really not very good for the Rockets. For this team with three superstars, their goal is probably only the championship, and other results are meaningless. After all, they are not young teams like the Lakers and Supersonics. Some of them are not young teams like the Lakers, Supersonics and Nuggets.
Come on, teams like the Rockets, Spurs and Jazz don’t have much time to let the team’s core players grow together. From the day after the team’s season, regardless of whether they are really powerful or not, their goal is only the championship. The difference is that teams like the Rockets have higher desire for championships, while teams like the Spurs have slightly lower desire for championships.
However, even so, defeating a very suffocating opponent like the Supersonics in such a very suffocating series is probably a very exciting thing for the Rockets. After all, they are much more dangerous than the situation faced by the Lakers in this round of series. They are really facing the threat of being eliminated by the opponent at the last moment of the game. Therefore, after the end of this game, Lin Han could almost clearly see from TV that the Rockets players were not even at all excited than when Lin Han and the Lakers beat the Spurs away. For these veterans of the Rockets, this round of series was also quite fortunate.
Of course, the Rockets felt that it was quite fortunate to defeat the Supersonics and thought that it was quite difficult to win. If Barkley hadn't made a series of consecutive hits in the playoffs and the game was really tenaciously defeated the opponent's defense, then the Rockets, who were in huge trouble in this round of the series, would have really lost, so they are quite excited now, and it is obvious that the Rockets felt that it was very excited to win. Winning hard and winning is quite exciting, the more difficult it is for the Supersonics to accept.
Although in terms of the current situation of the Lakers, facing the Rockets is similar to facing the Supersonics. But after all, the two Supersonics players, Payton and Kemp, are Lin Han's friends. Yesterday, after the Lakers eliminated the Spurs, these two Supersonics players called to congratulate Lin Han in person. Even Lin Han could clearly feel the extremely huge confidence in defeating the Rockets yesterday after Kemp and Payton talked about Lin Han's team entering the Western Conference Finals.
You should know that the confrontation between new players and old players in this company is not just that many old players like to bully new players in regular season games. Many old players in many teams like to bully new players. It is definitely not just this summer. When the league re-signs the labor-management agreement, there will be civil strife in the players. Many old players require the salary of rookies. More importantly, the issue of new and old replacement of the entire league!
For a long time before, the entire NBA was almost controlled by old players. Since Jordan, although there have been many super young players in the league, whether it is Ewing or David Robinson, although they have a very famous reputation, they are not strong enough. In other words, although they are strong, they have not had the courage and ability to destroy the league's inherent system like Jordan, so they cannot form a trend with Jordan to suppress old players with new players.
In Jordan's new and old confrontation represented by Jordan, Jordan was completely defeated by strong men such as Thomas, Larry Bird and Magician Jabbar. Although the Pan-84 generation is now talked about, there is no doubt that no matter Jordan, Olajuwon, David Robinson or Ewing, they were not qualified to compete with Thomas, Larry Bird, Magician or Jabbar in that era, so the trend of the new and old confrontation was extremely failure for new players.
In this era when the annual salary system is too beneficial to new players, the confrontation between new and old players has almost reached a white-hot era. After Jordan's inherent structure of the league failed, the entire NBA was almost controlled by the league's bigwigs, and it has been passed down from generation to generation. Although there were still many extremely young and outstanding players, such as O'Neal in the past few seasons, this was also a strong man and had the impact of Jordan at the time, because the new players were not well organized, it was difficult for Jordan to organize super rookies such as Olajuwon and Ewing to cooperate with him when he was young, not to mention O'Neal. In the end, O'Neal defeated the major superstars as soon as he entered the league and won the best of the week. After soon, O'Neal challenged the three centers at the time, he was taught by the three centers, which was faster than Jordan's failure.
Although O'Neal's impact came and went quickly, he was at least the second young player after Jordan who was truly capable and fighting spirit and was also really challenging the inherent structure of the league. Although he failed, he was also considered a great loss. After all, his ability was not as good as Jordan back then. It was natural that he lost faster than Jordan back then.
But just after O'Neal's failure, all the experts in the entire league believed that the highest-paid rookies or young players in the league were bullied by the league's big shots like Jordan and Olajuwon were bullied by the league's big shots, but they didn't expect Lin Han to suddenly rise. Moreover, Lin Han's rise simply broke the power structure that the league has been popular for many years. You know, the fact that the big shots in the league have bullied newcomers for many years has been known for many years. In the era of Chamberlain, Chamberlain often had conflicts with those young people. Among them, Chamberlain's play of Walter Bellamy even became a classic drama of the entire NBA. Moreover, the chatter of Chamberlain blocking Tiangou and Tiangou playing Olajuwon all came from the customs and customs of the NBA. Young people like to fight for veterans, and veterans also like to play with young people. It was just because everyone was still relatively simple at that time.
, there is not much money factor, and everyone doesn't get much salary, so there is naturally no need to be hostile to the other party. So at that time, veterans bullied young people, and Chamberlain bullied Bellamy or Jabbar because these two were really amazing, and these two really challenged or provoked Jabbar to win the position of the No. 1 center in the league. In this case, Chamberlain also wanted to let these people see their strength. This was a very just and positive contest, rather than a strong young man like Rodman who occupies himself strong and has rich experience. Not only do he even bully those powerful young people who challenge his status, but this guy even took action on some role players who have no influence on the law or those who are not provoked or threatened to his status, and directly spread the contradiction between new and old players indiscriminately. This is really too evil compared to the era of Chamberlain and Jabbar.
According to many journalists, experts and even fans, what players like Rodman Pippen who hate young people due to salary are almost equivalent to indiscriminate massacre of [Peace] people]. This atmosphere is completely different from the atmosphere of Chamberlain and Kareem and his generation back then. In this case, the new and old oppositions of the entire NBA are naturally becoming more and more intense, and it is becoming more and more intense over time. Even Jordan, the fighter who resisted tyranny back then. In the end, it was also
Becoming an accomplice, Jordan and young players are probably the most common in the NBA. No matter, there is no way to do this. Everyone stands in different positions. Just like this summer's labor-management agreement, Jordan is on the side of the player, and he will definitely stand on the side of the player at this time. If one day Jordan becomes the team boss, I'm afraid he will think about how to bully the players over the years. Similarly, Jordan was a young man back then, but now Jordan is no longer a young man, so his position is naturally different.
Moreover, in this summer's labor-management agreement, if the NBA does not have Lin Han, this storm of new and old confrontation has not been blown up by Lin Han, then there may not even be any discussions about the salary limit of rookies and young players in the Player Union. These young people with high salaries have almost no actual status in the entire league. These veterans almost do whatever they want. Even if you get your salary for the first four years with a fixed salary of migrant workers, you have to accept it, because these veterans control the league and they can choose to let their next contract be free of any restrictions.
But now, because of the storm that young players are led by Lin Han, such harsh conditions are impossible. For big players such as Jordan, the rookie young people they insist on getting fixed salary, and the Middle Ages who have been in the NBA for more than four years have received a limited salary, so that the big players who have been in the NBA for seven or eight years have no salary restrictions. This kind of thing is simply impossible to achieve.
After all, the storm of young players that Lin Han blew up was really not inferior to the teams led by those big players in terms of strength, and the whole league structure is no longer the final say of those big players.
For example, in this year's semi-finals of the East and West, the Rockets face the Supersonics, which is a confrontation between the new and old, and the Lakers face the Spurs, which is also a confrontation between the new and old. As for the Bulls face the Heat and the Magic face the Pacers, it is still a confrontation between the new and old!
So, when the first round of the playoffs appeared this year, when the experts and media in the league saw this matchup, they were almost all stunned. Or in the eyes of these people, this matchup was a little coincidental. It was all new and old. Isn’t this equivalent to the official NBA to be the referee of new and old players in the Player Union? Don’t you fight for anything anymore. Use the winners and losses of these four groups of matches this time to distribute the interests, and which side can win the final championship in this finals this year
It is absolutely fair to distribute interests by the army. Although this statement is only the statement of the media and the fans, and the players' union does not recognize it, in the hearts of all NBA players, they actually agree with this statement. After all, compared to endless quarrels, the players' union has only two choices, either to ask for a bigger cake with those team bosses. This is almost impossible, the share occupied by the players is fixed. So in the end, they can only follow the internal competition route, and there are more new players.
It is better to have more Middle-aged players or more old players. It depends on everyone's ability. Of course, it is also the big guys such as Jordan are too greedy and want to limit the salary of rookie young people and middle-aged people. In the end, Mesozoic players such as Payton and Camp stood on the side of the young people to fight against them. For these Middle-aged and young players, it is best that everyone has no contract restrictions. This is the best, but it is obvious that although the veterans have a high status, they are already old and deteriorated. If they are equal, they are equal.
Under the conditions, fools know who should give the highest annual salary, and there is really no limit on anything. Those young people have always threatened to change jobs and not sign contracts, and they may become more and more miserable. After all, like the playoffs, young people and young people's teams have enough time to serve them as capital. Therefore, although the veterans' plan is a little greedy. There is no way. They need to get back the lost money for their high minimum salary in the past many years, and no one is a fool.
Therefore, this year's playoffs seem to be exactly the same as ordinary playoffs, not much different from the past, but in fact, the entire league is in an extremely fierce vortex.
Not to mention that Lin Han and others are friends with Payton, even if they are not friends, in this case, everyone is in close contact. Yesterday, Payton and Camp were happy for Lin Han and the Lakers, but they were definitely not polite or thought the Lakers were easier to deal with.
That is really great that the Lakers were able to eliminate the Spurs and Lin Han could defeat David Robinson, because after the Lakers defeated the Spurs, if they also defeated the Rockets today, this summer, the new labor-management agreement, within the Players' Union, the status of veteran bigwigs will definitely be replaced by the league of young and middle-aged players. Even if they do not oppress those bigwigs, they will be quite favorable according to the existing players' salary agreement. After the league signed a new broadcast agreement, the league's broadcast fee almost doubled many times. When the league's salary cap was obviously more than doubled and approached 35 million US dollars, their new contract would definitely start with tens of millions, which is a benefit of millions.
Therefore, as long as the Rockets and Spurs are destroyed, even if Jordan and the Bulls are the only one in the East, the overall trend of the entire league is under the control of the young people. Therefore, whether it is Lin Han and Payton Camp or O'Neal Hardaway and Mooning, everyone has a very close relationship with the playoffs this season.
Of course, these young people are very close, and the veterans are of course the same. After the Spurs were eliminated and the Rockets eliminated the supersonics, the situation in the West once again became evenly matched!
Similarly, the confrontation between new and old players has almost reached a white heat in the West. At least when Lin Han called to comfort Payton and Camp, both of them didn't care about their sadness and directly told Lin Han that he hoped that the Lakers would do their best to stop the Rockets. Obviously, the Supersonics also knew that the Rockets were strong, and the Lakers were likely not a match for the Rockets, so he hoped that Lin Han would do his best and could not have any reservations, which also made Lin Han speechless.
After all, he originally comforted these two friends, but finally found that these two friends were staring at him at this time. I have to say that only young teams like the Supersonics and the Lakers would be so easy to accept failure and have enough capital to accept failure.
Of course, after the Supersonics were eliminated by the Rockets, the situation in the entire Western Conference Finals was also clear. The Lakers will face a strong opponent like the Rockets in the finals and will play a decisive battle that may determine the new labor-capital agreement this summer.
The situation in the West is quite tense, and the East is not much better. The next game after the Rockets and Supersonics race is the second-place Magic in the East and the third-place Pacers in the East.
In this round of duel, the Magic played quite difficult, because O'Neal, a super tank, also met a player who made him very uncomfortable in the playoffs. Dale Davis, almost like Olajuwon, and O'Neal struggled quite hard, but the slightly better thing is that Dale Davis was not Camp after all. Although O'Neal played very uncomfortable, after breaking through the first round of the Cavaliers, the head of the Magic player's confidence in the playoffs was indeed much higher, and the entire playoffs were not as entangled as last season.
In addition, the Magic's overall strength is indeed a little higher than that of the Pacers, so although this round of series is also very intense, in the sixth game between the two sides, the Magic became the last team to enter the division finals after defeating the Pacers 116-102 away.
When the Magic entered the division finals, the Eastern Conference Finals also appeared, and the Bulls will face the Magic, and this round of the series is also a confrontation between the old and the new!
In other words, after the divisional semi-finals, the themes of the eastern and western regions still have no changes, and are still confrontations between the new and old, or even real confrontations between the new and old. Lin Han Eddie Jones, O'Neal and Hardaway, these are the pinkest newcomers in the absolute sense! (To be continued)
Chapter completed!