Chapter 1886: Devil new season

On December 7, 2011, this was destined to be an extraordinary day in the history of the NBA. On this day, David Stern appeared on TV and gave a televised speech. In his speech, Stern also officially announced to the outside world from July 1. The lockout that began today is officially over.
Stern stated that this will be his last agreement in office.
"This is a fair labor agreement," Stern said, "and this will also be my last labor agreement, because it's a 10-year agreement."
"It's finally over..." Looking at the old man on the TV, Ji Feng lay comfortably on the sofa. For these two months, even though he did not participate in the whole negotiation process, he was still exhausted.
In fact, labor and management reached an agreement on the 26th of last month. After 22 hours of negotiations and voting in the first two days, the suspense finally ended and a new agreement was born.
In the just-concluded internal voting of the players' union and the voting of the team owner, both parties voted in favor of reaching a new labor agreement. Among them, 30 team owners voted for 25 teams to agree and 5 teams to oppose.
According to the voting rules, as long as the employers and employees receive half of the votes, they accept the new agreement.
For employers, as long as 15 bosses raise their hands in favor, it is considered approved; for labor, due to the large number of players, the electronic voting of the labor camp will be conducted under the supervision of the American Arbitration Association, and it means that only half of the votes are obtained. Accept the new agreement.
The result now is that most people on both sides voted in favor, which means that the lockout is officially over and the new season is about to come to us.
The specific content of the agreement is very complicated. It involves all the details about all aspects of the alliance that you can imagine. This is why the icebreaking was announced in October and the new agreement was not passed until the end of November.
After the lockout is over, the losses caused by the lockout are also in front of everyone. The nearly five-month lockout period has had a huge impact on both labor and management, the NBA's brand influence and all aspects, especially in the economic aspect.
In terms of players, David Stern has canceled all games in the first 6 weeks, totaling 321 games. The player’s direct economic loss reached 530 million U.S. dollars; the league’s loss was more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars; plus preseason 2 With a loss of US$100 million, the total economic loss of both employers and employees from the cancellation of the one-and-a-half month competition would be as high as US$1.93 billion.
In addition, it can be seen from the above figures that during the NBA lockout period, the economic losses of the bosses are much higher than that of the players, and there is at least twice the gap between the two.
One thing is certain, because the revenue of the suspended team has been greatly affected; in fact, because of the league's losses in recent years, many advertisers have hoped to suspend their cooperation with the NBA. The suspension just made them take the opportunity to get out.
Therefore, in the upcoming 2011-12 shrinking season, the league will lose a lot of advertising sponsorship; the league’s revenue in this area last season was $600 million; whether the new season can reach half is still unknown.
There is a more important point. Although this year's lockout period is not too long, the NBA has lost a large number of fans. I believe that the attendance rate of the stadium in the new season will be the same as that after the lockout 13 years ago.
However, with regard to the specific content of the agreement and the impact, except for some fans who like this field, most fans do not care. They only care about one thing, that is, the NBA is finally about to play in a rematch!
Their happiness is finally coming back! ! !
Immediately, the fans once again had questions about the specific arrangements for the new season.
Fortunately, NBA officials are obviously unwilling to make fans wait more. After all, they have already lost too much time. In order to make up for the lack of time, on the night of the 7th, only 8 hours after Stern delivered his speech. , The arrangements for the new season have been released.
Due to the suspension and the shrinking of the season, the 2011-12 season will only have 16 days for NBA teams to conduct training camps, and each NBA team can only play two preseason games.
According to the latest arrangement of the NBA League, the 16-day training camp will begin on December 9th, local time in the United States. During the training camp, NBA teams will be able to sign free agents and prepare for the start of the regular season.
The regular season of the new NBA season will officially start on Christmas Day!
Due to the NBA’s suspension and the shrinking of the season, the NBA schedule will become closer. Each NBA team will play 66 regular season games in 119 days. The total number of regular season games in the NBA league will be 990 games.
"I'm going to be too devil in this new season!" Ji Feng glanced at the fax of the schedule sent by James, and only felt that his scalp was numb. This season is definitely a test for them.
In the entire schedule, the NBA has arranged a total of 42 back-to-back games. Each team has at least one, and some have more than one.
In terms of relatively easy back-to-back games, the league has arranged a total of 529 games. This number is 2.5 times that of last season.
Taking the Lakers' schedule as an example, they directly started with a three-game winning streak. After welcoming the Bulls in the Christmas battle, they were the King and Jazz for two consecutive days.
Since the Lakers are the most popular team in the league, there are arrangements during holiday periods such as Christmas, the day before the new year, and the new year.
The Lakers will play against the Thunder three times throughout the season~EbookFREE.me~ and twice against the Heat.
As far as possible in January, the Lakers will encounter a more difficult schedule, first against the Mavericks at home, then away to challenge the Heat and Magic.
The Lakers actually have two back-to-back games!
"Really absolute." Ji Feng really convinced. Is this Stern's revenge, or should he be so cruel.
The Lakers’ schedule is definitely the most devastating part of the 30 teams. The only one who can be compared with the Lakers is the Celtics. The Celtics will face three consecutive days from April 13 to 15. The Raptors, Nets and Bobcats, and have a total of 19 back-to-back games, slightly higher than average.
In March they will face one of the most difficult schedules, with 9 out of 10 games being away. In terms of opponents, they will meet the Heat four times and the Thunder Mavericks and the Lakers twice.
Look at the Heat again. Not only did they only have one back-to-back throughout the season, but the schedule at the beginning of the season was almost a pass. Only five of their first 12 opponents made the playoffs last season.
"These back-to-back games are difficult for every team. We are a young team, but we also feel tired." After learning the schedule, the Hawks' Josh Smith said to the media. .
Even a team like the Hawks with an average age of only 25 will feel tired, not to mention the Lakers, a team dominated by veterans, and the schedule is also very unfavorable, which undoubtedly makes it more difficult for the Lakers to achieve 5 consecutive championships this season. Up.
"Not much to talk about the boss, maybe we need to change our thinking in the new season." Ji Feng said to Ke Ru on the phone.