readytorunbook 0239 I will be the boss for many years
0239 I will be the boss for many years
It's ten o'clock in the morning,
Other team bosses arrived one after another.
At the door of the No. [-] meeting room, Su Yang deliberately stood with Stern to greet him, invisibly creating a subtle feeling that "Su Yang's identity is close to Stern', while Bobcats owner Jordan, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Rockets The owner Alexander, the Blazers owner Paul Allen and the Lakers owner Buss were more face-saving, and they all took the initiative to greet and shake hands, invisibly cooperating to build up the momentum.
People from the players union also arrived one after another, executive director Billy Hunter, current chairman Michael Curry, the incoming Antonio Davis, player representatives Derek Fisher, Ben Wallace and Ray Allen also took the initiative to shake hands with Su Yang, expressing their happiness at seeing Su Yang attend, because the labor negotiations have not made any substantial progress for a long time.
By ten o'clock, both the labor and the capital had arrived, and David Stern announced the procedure of the meeting, and each of them arranged for representatives to make presentations.
In just 10 minutes, the main points of the two parties ended, and a slobbering debate began. Su Yang crossed his legs and watched the show.
老板们资本方一边，主要核心观点是降低球员的总薪水，BRI（篮球相关）收入分成比例的57%必须下降到48%、合同最大年限从7年降低为6年、年薪递增幅度从12.%下降到10.5%，新秀合同首轮的全额保障从3年降低为2年，以及各种罚款制度。
Led by Clippers owner Sterling, Hornets owner Shinn, Kings owner Maloof Brothers, Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley and others are the most excited. ask for money,
Pure blood sucker.
The main core point of view of the players on the labor side is that they must get income in line with the market value, insisting on a 57% share, which has little impact on players such as Garnett and O'Neal, but because of the relationship between the salary cap, it has a great impact on the bottom players ,
Many players can only get a basic salary even if they are not bad after the superstars and ordinary stars get their money.
As a result, once injured, it will become miserable, or after a super performance, like the second-round picks like Arenas and the second-round picks like Ben Wallace, they will be restricted by the bullshit clause for many years. Because of the bullshit salary increase limit.
Generally speaking, the salary increase limit is a problem left over from history. Before the big contracts of Jordan and Garnett, the league only limited the maximum salary of free agents, and there was no BUG that restricted the home team to renew the contract and use the Bird clause to get unlimited money. It led to overcorrection in 99, and the potential "Arenas poison contract incident" appeared again. Fortunately, Su Yang took the initiative to break it, so there was no BUG again.
Arguing for an hour soon,
Billy Hunter, executive director of the players union, said: "Our players union cannot accept various salary reduction clauses. It harms the interests of many players with a basic salary, and also damages the enthusiasm of the players to play 100% hard. It is shameless."
The boss representative, Donald Sterling, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "That means there is nothing to talk about, we can only stop again."
The atmosphere in the meeting room suddenly fell to freezing point.
Stern immediately turned his head to look at Su Yang who was sitting next to him, "Everyone, don't get excited. Su Yang, as the owner who has made the most money in the league in the past three years, with nearly one billion dollars, and as the head coach of three consecutive championships, has been praised by many players. ,
He has a plan that I think is more reasonable,
Ask him to tell us something. "
After the words fell, everyone in the players union, Paul Allen, Mark Cuban and other bosses looked at Su Yang with anticipation, while Clippers Donald Sterling, King Maloof, Celtics Grossbeck and other bosses, Eyes full of envy and hatred,
Countless thoughts collided in their minds,
Earning nearly one billion dollars in three years, Chris Cohan sold the Warriors to Su Yang for $4.5 million, but it must be admitted that $4.5 million in cash was a sky-high price at the time, and Chris Cohan’s assets really skyrocketed double,
It can only be said that Su Yang is too awesome, relying on various operations in the Chinese market, and even went to serve as the head coach of the Chinese team, Su Yang should earn so much money, what genius is there to print the names and photos of millions of fans , I really can't.
"Actually, the plan is very simple..."
Sensing the complex emotions of envy, jealousy and hatred from many bosses, Su Yang stood up, walked to the computer, plugged in a USB flash drive, and tapped the mouse and keyboard casually, and several large numbers of 'Risk Control, Special Regulations' appeared on the large screen used for demonstration. font vocabulary.
"Bosses, players,
For all your appeals, the biggest worry is that the risk is uncontrollable, leading to huge losses and wasted opportunities. To solve such problems, you can't solve it simply by reducing wages, but through more reasonable medical examinations, scientific training and data analysis. And so on, to prevent players from being misdiagnosed, deliberately concealing players and failing to reflect their value..."
Between the explanations, the big screen showed the case of Grant Hill and Jamal Mashburn being misdiagnosed. Both of them were superstars, but because of the misdiagnosis, the team wasted many years of contracts and the players themselves life wasted,
But it turned out that the doctor who misdiagnosed him had nothing to do with it. Instead, the players and the team quarreled over whether they could continue to give a 7-year long-term contract, and then continued to misdiagnose and waste the contract offered by the team. complain.
"The league is big and there are various situations that arise,
Some people's careers were scrapped because they rode motorcycles in their rookie year, some people died of excessive drug use because they were elected to the second place, some people had underlying diseases, even if they had always performed well, they could not get a big contract, and some people won After the contract, it started to be bad, drunk and prostitutes came, and the team didn't have any basis for reasonable punishment, so they could only stare blankly.
Some teams are unwilling to spend money to hire people, let the head coach Mr. Paul Silas wrap the ankle bandages of the players part-time..."
Between the explanations, the big screen showed photos of Jay Williams, Len Byas, Vin Baker and Sterling.
Seeing the photo of Sterling, many bosses and player representatives laughed. Back then Sterling was unwilling to spend money to hire more trainers and let head coach Paul Silas give players part-time jobs. Too fucking stingy.
Sterling was full of pride, anyway, a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.
"We can't solve all situations with a few simple regulations, we need more special regulations,
After the end of the rookie contract, no matter what kind of player is selected, he can get the salary that meets the market value to the maximum. It can also let the players with the basic salary work hard without fear of injury, and it can also make the team not entangled in whether to give a rookie. Players with mediocre or even poor performance in the past have big contracts. For example, the Knicks are struggling with whether to sign Jerome? James..."
Knicks owner Dolan sat up straight when he heard his team's name, wondering how Su Yang knew that the team was trying to pursue the team with only about 5 points in the past few seasons, but this time it soared to 15 points in the playoffs. jerome james,
Could it be that someone inside the team leaked the news?
The other bosses also cheered up and listened in detail, thinking that there is really a way to avoid the entanglement of whether to give the contract or not?
Mark Cuban was the most excited, mainly because he had given too many rubbish contracts before, and it would be great if there were such regulations.
"It seems that everyone is very interested. The principle is very simple. Wall Street and other capital markets have already matured the game, that is, the gambling agreement. The basic salary can be lower, and the guaranteed contract period can be shorter. If the players meet the conditions, Then take more money. If the player does not meet the conditions, he will only take that much money, which is an upgraded version of the incentive clause.
But it is more subdivided for different players, because the reason for the entanglement is that the prospects of those players are not so clear, you can set conditions such as the number of rebounds, body fat content and various differentiated conditions. In order to avoid abuse, those salaries are included in the salary cap in advance.
In this way, the team can control the risk, the players will not lose their opportunities, everyone will be fine if they play well, and it will be safe if they don't play. "
In fact, in the original historical trajectory, various rookies such as Tre Young and Shay Alexander signed with the maximum salary. If the Ross clause is triggered, the super maximum salary is triggered. terms.
"I think it works!"
Mark Cuban was the first to shout out his support, followed by Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen and Hornets owner Jordan, while Knicks owner James Dolan thought for a long time and said: "It is indeed feasible to expand the scope of use of incentive clauses. ..."
"You are talking about players who have a certain level of performance. They only need mechanical repairs and are safe and sound, but what should we do about players who have potential but have not yet been verified?" Michael Curry, chairman of the players union, asked. Nod in agreement.
Su Yang took a second look at Michael Curry, thinking that this hanging man was an undercover agent placed by Stern in the players union. According to the original historical track, Michael Curry turned to Stern and The management, after the agreement was reached, left the chairman of the players union and accepted Stern's invitation to serve as the vice president of the Development League. The traitor of the dog day pretended to care about the bottom at the moment.
"The answer is very simple. A special case of a two-way contract is added, so that the signed player can represent the team for 45 days. If the team thinks it is good, they can sign a long-term contract. The player can also give up the contract and choose to go to another team to get a bigger contract. contract…"
"As the boss, you definitely support reducing the contract period and the maximum salary increase. How can we trust you? How can we ensure that players like Garnett get a contract with time value after their super performance?"
Su Yang chuckled, "I do support reducing the maximum contract period and salary increase, but it's not because I simply want to lower wages, but a four-year contract, which is more convenient for the team to operate, and it is also convenient for the players to operate. For example, the Lakers next year Brian Grant's good contract expires, which can free up $1400 million in salary space. If he wants to operate an insider or striker,
The two-star lineup with Kobe, but after opening the player data of the league, it is found that McGrady is more suitable, but McGrady's contract will not end until 10 years, and the operation difficulty will be greatly increased. The Lakers can only waste Kobe's peak season.
Wait for Garnett to possibly enter free agency. "
Michael Curry and Lakers owner Buss were stunned on the spot, and other team owners nodded in agreement.
Su Yangxin said that a deal like Gasol's was a robbery. If there was no robbery, Kobe would really have to continue wasting.
"The salary increase limit is the same. As a top star, sometimes the marginal returns of getting more money are diminishing. Those income can be easily obtained from other benefits brought about by playoff bonuses, incentive terms and performance improvements.
The core is not to directly kill the possibility, but to form a better ecology of the entire league through delayed gratification. "
After the words fell, Michael Curry was at a loss for words for a while, and then said excitedly: "It's all about protecting your interests."
Su Yang chuckled, "Don't get excited, and bosses don't get too excited. Risk control comes back at the same time. As bosses, we benefit from reducing the maximum contract period and salary increase, and we also have to give up the minimum salary. We have to spend wages. A certain minimum ratio of the cap, so that players can receive the most basic salary anyway, so that players have risk control,
It also prevents our bosses from vicious competition by infinitely reducing costs, which is beneficial to everyone.
In the past, the minimum wage was
I am proposing the lowest ratio now, and I am willing to call this ratio the 'poor ghost line', do you have any opinions? "
Everyone looked at Sterling one after another, knowing that if anyone refused to obey the 'poor ghost line', it would be his fault.
"Look at me for what?"
Sterling was slightly upset, "It's not that I don't want to spend money, I just don't want to waste money, you guys..."
Everyone turned their heads and ignored them, but Michael Curry asked: "You haven't answered yet, if there is another player like Kevin Garnett, how can you get the right value while reducing the maximum contract period and salary increase?" contract."
Su Yang tapped the mouse to adjust the slide show, "It's very simple, we still introduce special clauses to meet special circumstances,
Garnett's rookie performance was very similar to Wilt Chamberlain winning the MVP in his rookie year, so we introduced the Chamberlain clause like the Larry Bird clause, so that he could get certain honors in his rookie year, for example The MVP, or the best team twice, or the best defensive player, etc., directly sign a 35+4 contract at a rate of 1% of the salary cap. "
Everyone felt that such a proposal was feasible. High-value rookies should receive high salaries, but they should also be subject to certain restrictions.
"How to make up for the reduction of the 3-year guarantee for rookie players to 2-year guarantee?" Michael Curry started his introductory speech, making it seem that the players union has passed a vote to accept the reduction of the first-round rookie contract from 3-year guarantee to 2 years, and the identity of the mole was exposed.
Su Yang waved his hand, "Remember the vocabulary I released at the beginning. All problems can be solved through risk control and special regulations, such as reducing the share, increasing the number of player registrations, and increasing the minimum salary that is not included in the salary cap.
The one-year reduction in rookie protection can increase the salary base and increase of the first-round rookies, and mutual guarantees between labor and capital.
Aiming at various problems left over from history, such as some players suffering injuries after signing big contracts, specific amnesty clauses can be introduced. Taking Alan Houston in New York as an example, our team can amnesty players who are so injured that they cannot provide games, and pay Their full salary is no longer included in the work cap, which makes the operation of the team more convenient and prevents the players from losing benefits.
In order for the team to sign more boldly, it is possible to reduce the trigger ratio of the injury regulations formulated in 99. It is not necessary to reach more than 33% to be able to sign free agents that are not included in the salary cap. contract,
Such restrictions are not beneficial to both employers and employees.
Clauses such as the full middle class and biennial exceptions must also have...
There is also the currently most controversial basketball-related income sharing ratio of 57% or 48%. There is no need for any party to make a compromise. I suggest that the 9% share be used for league injuries, public injury research, data research, and welfare funds. Help players better avoid misdiagnosis, better show value beyond scoring, and better avoid homelessness after bankruptcy,
That part of the funds can also be invested in commercial operations,
Under the condition of not losing money, the team and players can benefit from sharing or continuing to invest in better equipment after making money. It is nothing more than 50% of the share. The team takes risks and the players reduce the upper limit of income. What's wrong? Woolen cloth?
We don't want to have internal friction with each other every few years, which will damage the brand image of the alliance. We have to take a long-term view,
What we have to do is to develop fans in cities without professional sports teams and grab fans from other leagues.
After I finish speaking, who approves and who opposes? "
The voice fell, and no one objected.
A moment later, Mark Cuban gave a standing ovation, and the executive director of the players union, Scale Hunter, also stood up. Jordan and Paul Allen stood up immediately. Finally, the Clippers Sterling and King Marouf, the two most vicious opponents against Su Yang The boss also stood up,
Everyone applauds.
Su Yang raised his hand and beat his chest in response.
Stern was smiling all over his face.
The general direction is determined, and the rest of the content only needs to be refined, and then the labor and management will vote to approve it.
Finally, a new agreement was signed.
The meeting was suspended, and the discussion will continue in the afternoon. Su Yang stood at the door to see him off, and many bosses lined up to applaud.
The scene was a bit like "The Godfather", Su Yang turned into the black boss Corleone, and the other bosses were acknowledging his status.
After sending everyone away, Stern asked curiously, "It's really hard for me to imagine, how did you come up with those methods?"
"I put all my heart into my love. I did a lot of research. Before joining the league, I brought up the 'Arenas Poison Contract' case in the interview with the Rockets..." Su Yang thought to himself that this is a collection of labor negotiations in his previous life in 05 and 11. The results are sure to work.
Too lazy to attend the afternoon meeting, Su Yang rushed to Beyoncé's apartment in Manhattan and waited for the draft.
At the same time discuss the Billups deal.