After Sun Ce got two triple-doubles in a row after the start of the playoffs, the Grizzlies began to push the boat for Sun Ce and build momentum for the team.

The meaning is obvious: our small city team finally came up with an MVP, you don't want it, we exchanged it with the list of eyes, and now we are embarrassed to renew the contract because we can't give a high salary, you look at it.

Since Sun Ce's 30+30+10 triple-double, there is no suspense about the MVP at all, after the start of the first round of the playoffs and before the MVP vote, playing a good performance affects the current senses of some voters, and more importantly, those players who are MVP candidates can rely on the wonderful performance of the playoffs to make those voters recall his outstanding performance in the regular season.

Sun Ce's biggest feature of the regular season, the outburst, was vividly displayed after the start of the playoffs.

Although most people think that Sun Ce is a system player, except for the time of outbreak, he needs to rely on the system to maintain a good performance.

But even those who think that Sun Ce is a system player feel that Sun Ce's performance deserves to be the MVP, Sun Ce and his team have performed impeccably, and overall, Sun Ce is the one who played the best in the regular season this year.

The best performance is the best performance, and the MVP is to choose the one with the best performance of the season, otherwise the MVP will be awarded directly to the recognized strongest player.

Before 1980, the regular season MVP was voted by the players, and as a result, Russell won the MVP but not for a while, and Abdul-Jabbar's team did not make the playoffs and won the MVP.

According to the latest news, NBA officials have begun to call authoritative media, influential radio commentators, well-known commentators, experts and other 125 voters, will gather in New York on April 25, vote on the 26th, and the bookmaker has stopped betting on the regular season MVP.

At that time, the trend of the first round of the playoffs was almost determined, and the disparity in strength was huge, and the winner was about to be decided, and the difference in strength was estimated to be six or even seven.

However, there is a lot of interesting thing about voting for NBA awards, there are abstentions, and every year each award is called 125 voters related to the NBA from various channels, but there are so many votes every year, so there will be a situation where a certain award wins all the first votes in different years but the number of winning votes is different.

At this point, Chris Wallace's statement was important, and the management of some of the teams that Grizzlies owner Robert Pera had wooed in also chimed in.

Warriors owner Lacob tweeted: "We have some special talents from time to time, and we need special treatment for special talents, and when they're special enough and different enough, giving more money is a good way to deal with them." ”

If Chris Wallace said this, the fans would definitely applaud, just like he publicly said that he wanted to give Sun Ce a big contract but was limited by the rules and hoped that the league would change the rules, as soon as the news came out, they were all praising the Grizzlies.

But Lacob said this......

Most of them ridiculed and ridiculed.

The Jazz owners and Bucks owners also began to make their statements clear...... Basically, there are some small city teams, and of course, there are also small city teams that they don't want to support, such as the Thunder.

And teams like the Rockets, Clippers, moving Nets, Celtics, and the Thunder, like the Thunder, ignored Robert Pera's pleas from the start, and when the management of nearly half of the league's teams began to make clear their support for Chris Wallace, the media familiar with these teams wanted to ask them by phone or by requesting interviews, they could not be reached.

They want to keep this matter down, not to explicitly oppose it, to avoid being hated by the players in the league and the players who are about to enter the NBA, but they are not willing to support it from the bottom of their hearts.

But...... Their opinions are becoming less and less useful.

On April 24, Dallas Mavericks owner Cuban tweeted Lacob's remarks upvoted, and Lakers owner Jim Buss said in an interview: "I'm willing to give bigger contracts to the best players, especially rookie contract players who have played so well after a few years of very little money, but the rules don't allow it." ”

The Bulls owner also publicly supported: "At a given moment, a team with players who are different from each other should not simply be paid based on their age. ”

The inclusion of such rule changes when several big city teams began to openly support collective bargaining put more pressure on those teams.

Forced by public opinion, by noon, some team owners who did not want to support this matter before but could not oppose it began to relax.

Celtics general manager Danny Ainge said in an interview after receiving the owner's instructions: "We need to make some changes, but only if that kind of player is special enough, like the Lords, otherwise the rules are the rules, this is the key to the healthy operation of the NBA, only players like the Lords can have such special treatment, otherwise the rules will be meaningless, we will be as chaotic as more than ten years ago." ”

Sun Ce saw Anji's speech after practicing waist and abdominal strength training in the gym in the afternoon, and felt that Anji's words were basically the bottom line of those big city teams who were unwilling to support, they were forced by public opinion and had to support, but the bottom line of support was very high, and he mentioned twice in a row that "it must be as special as the lord", maybe even if the terms are changed, the trigger conditions will be very harsh, such as a rare situation like him this season......

It may be difficult for a future second-round pick to trigger the clause, but ...... That's someone else's business, as long as Sun Ce can trigger the clause himself.

In a few years, the salary will rise so exaggeratedly, and there will be room to renew the contract if you play well, and Sun Ce estimates that only he can use the changes to this clause.

After watching the news for a while, I felt that getting a big contract shouldn't be a big problem, Sun Ce no longer paid attention to this aspect, and he could only wait for this kind of thing.

After eating dinner in the evening, Sun Ce received . A text message from a familiar producer over there, seeing "Ready", Sun Ce set off and went to . T TV's makeshift studio in Denver......

……

New York, NBA Headquarters.

David Stern has been annoyed lately, seeing that he is about to retire in two or three years, and he has been involved in the trouble of labor negotiations.

Fortunately in the early years, the terms formulated in the 80s were income guarantees without a fixed proportion of the total salary, and the owners of each team only needed to give the contract under the salary cap clause.

But in the early 90s, it was different, the league's income skyrocketed, in 1989 the total income exceeded 500 million US dollars for the first time, and in 1994 it exceeded 1 billion US dollars for the first time, resulting in a sharp rise in the salary cap, during which a very huge contract was generated, but fortunately, the bosses could not accept it, but in 1998 the bosses really couldn't accept it, seventy or eighty percent of the income was salary expenses, and wanted to set a limit, at first the boss wanted six or four points, and the players did not agree, resulting in a shutdown.

The final result of the discussion is that the players receive a 57 percent share of all NBA basketball-related revenues, and in the players' contracts, 10 percent of the annual income is placed in trust funds under the American Sports Association, and if the league's income in the current season is lower than the salary cap expected in the previous season, the remaining salary will be deducted on a pro-rata basis, and if it is higher than expected, the remaining salary will be paid after 10 percent of the salary in escrow. Fifty-seven percent of the excess earnings will be distributed to all players who played during the regular season of the season.

Until 2006, when the agreement expired again, there were no problems, and in 2005, the contract was renewed for five years ahead of schedule, when the income was still rising rapidly.

But in 2009, it was time to negotiate the early renewal of the contract, this time the boss did not do it, most of the bosses who suffered from the 08 financial crisis suffered property losses, and wanted to reduce the proportion of players to 45%, the players naturally disagreed, which means that all players need to directly reduce their salaries by almost 20%, and the salary cap will also become a hard salary cap, that is, it is impossible to complete the operation of renewing the contract on the cap.

Since August 2009, we have talked more than 20 times, and each time we have broken up, and the representatives of the players' union, led by Fisher, and the representatives of the owners, led by Jordan, are unwilling to compromise.

The most recent negotiation, on April 18, fell through again.

Everyone knows that a hard salary cap is impossible, which will trigger the antitrust law of the United States, the NFL implements a hard salary cap, but the NFL does not have as many salary restrictions as the NBA, but can have signing bonuses, performance incentive bonuses, veteran incentive bonuses, etc., if the owner and the player are willing, you can sign a 10-year contract.

But the NBA has restrictions at every stage from rookies to veterans, rookies can't get high salaries, they can't get high salaries if they're too old, they can't get the highest annual salary increase and contract years without bird rights......

If the hard wage cap is implemented, most of the previous provisions of the NBA will have to be abolished and the appropriate provisions will be reformulated, otherwise, just wait for the antitrust bureau of the antitrust agency to investigate, and those guys, whatever they find, will be handed over to the Federal Trade Commission for fines, and the bandits in the tax office will enforce it.

Therefore, the bosses are using the hard salary cap as a weapon and want the players to accept a lower share of the share.

Of course, the players know that, and they just don't let go.

David Stern really wants to retire in place right now.

Just when David Stern was annoyed, the secretary delivered him a new newspaper.

After looking at it, sure enough, David Stern was a lot happier, and there were also disagreements among those bosses.

Revise rookie renewal rules......

"They're about to fight in this matter?" David Stern pouted.

But this is good news, not so many owners care about NBA income in the first place, except for the Lakers, almost no owners live on NBA income alone.

It's just money, and if you lose it, you lose it, and there are a few people like Jordan who saved their salary for 30 years to buy a suite...... No, I bought a team, and I care a lot about paying millions of dollars less in salaries every year; More bosses are different, the impact of the financial crisis has slowly passed, and the mentality of wanting to stop loss in 09 has gradually disappeared, and now it is purely not wanting to admit defeat.

David Stern loves Cuban of the Mavericks, Buss of the Lakers, Robert Pera of the Grizzlies, and Jerry Hores of the Bulls...... These bosses too.

Although Kuban always went against him, he was punished when he was fined.

Bath, a big spender.

Jerry Hores, in the mid-90s, in order to renew Jordan's contract, proposed to give Jordan a starting salary of 30 million per year in addition to the salary cap.

Robert Pera, the new generation of money-makers.

And the most annoying thing is the owners of the Rockets, Bobcats, Spurs, and Celtics, who are cut to death.

The current situation is that the bosses are all businessmen and are not willing to admit defeat, so they seem to be monolithic in terms of negotiations.

But now there are hiccups that make them "infighting".

"It's just not enough ......"

David Stern put aside the news about the rookie contract extension clause changes.

Looking out the window at the night, David Stern knew that another shutdown was inevitable.

For the players, every percentage point is money, and for the vast majority of owners, it's a matter of face.

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The playoffs are in full swing, and two more game days have passed.

After the game on the 24th, there were two games in all series.

The Grizzlies currently lead the Nuggets 2-0, the Lakers lead the Thunder 2-0, the 76ers lead the Magic 2-0, the Celtics lead the Knicks 2-0, and the Bulls lead the Pacers 2-0.

After the Mavericks were almost upset in the first game, they were powerful the next day, Yao Ming scored 19 points in the second quarter, Nowitzki scored 22 points in the third quarter, and the two combined for 60 points in the first three quarters helped the Mavericks lead by 25 points 91-66 in the third quarter, and finally completed the 112-90 slaughter, and the score was 2-0.

Unsurprisingly, the Heat retaliated in a second crazy game after 0-1, crushing the Hawks 93-69 to tie the score at 1-1.

On the Suns' side, the glory moment of the veterans failed to continue, the last game soared, and this one seemed to be over, 91-123 by the Spurs by 32 points.

Sun Ce can only sigh when he watches the news, this is expected, the Spurs are going to pick up the Suns to play, and the Spurs are going to sweep the revenge posture, and the Suns veterans were excited in the last game and took away the home-court advantage in an upset.

After the anger, when encountering the more angry Spurs, it is normal to lose one or the other, and it depends on whether that group of veterans has a chance to create another miracle.

On the Grizzlies' side, they have been in Denver for the past two days, preparing in an orderly manner, resting on the 23rd, watching videos, watching games, training on the 24th, and Sun Ce went to record a show in the evening.

In the past two days, the voting for the Most Improved Award, Best Sixth Man, Best Coach and other awards has been completed, followed by the voting for MVP, Best Rookie, and Best Defensive Player.

On April 25, the voting day for the regular season MVP, it was also the game day for the third game between the Grizzlies and Nuggets.

It didn't take much effort, and the Grizzlies easily defeated the Nuggets 93-79 on the road.

In this game, Sun Ce performed normally, scoring 15 points, 14 boards, 4 assists and 4 blocks on 6-of-13 shooting, steadily helping the team win, the opponent was very strict with him, for fear that he would do something again, Sun Ce did not score many points and assists, but there were more rebounds and blocks than in the previous game.

The TV stations that broadcast this game live are speechless, if you don't broadcast it live, people will soar upside down, live broadcast, there is really no suspense in this round of the series, the Nuggets have given up, and they simply don't want Sun Ce to do things.

After the first three games of the series, the Grizzlies won the match point with a score of 3-0, and the promotion is just around the corner.

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Another two days passed, and on April 28, Sun Ce returned to Memphis with his teammates.

The Grizzlies couldn't bring the series back to Memphis because the Grizzlies' first round of the playoffs ended in Denver last night.

At 108-82, the Nuggets barely resisted, and after falling behind 0-3, the Nuggets were completely defeated, and the Grizzlies easily swept the Nuggets 4-0.

After four games, the average point difference of 28.75 points per game set a new record for the Lakers in the Western Conference finals in the 00-01 season to slaughter the Spurs with an average point difference of 22.2 points per game.

Originally, the Nuggets would not have lost like this, mainly in the second game, Sun Ce had a few blind strokes, Coach Hollins had a whim, coupled with Stoudemire's 100% bonus, and the opponent's "unwillingness to give up", which completely broke the opponent's confidence.

In the next two games, the Grizzlies played very average overall, and if the Nuggets can really stand up and resist, the Grizzlies may not be able to sweep them.

After the first round, Sun Ce scored a total of 93 points, 46 rebounds, and 51 assists in 4 games.

Averaged 23.2 points, 11.5 rebounds, 12.75 assists, 3 blocks, 1.5 steals per game, scored 15 points and 20 points a game after scoring, these two games are normal, 27 points and 31 points in the first two games raised the average score per game to more than 20 points, rebounding has always been a normal performance, assists, purely by 30 assists in a single game in the second game, and 21 assists in the other three games...... It also seems to be an average performance in the regular season.

However, the media and fans didn't care why, the series ended, and Sun Ce averaged a triple-double per game...... Just blow it!

Sun Ce was also happy to be blown so badly, but now there is a problem, the Grizzlies don't know how long they will have to wait for the next round of opponents to come out.

A certain No. 24 player on the Lakers' side, who did not want to be named, seemed to have a problem with his brain, and he was on the same page with the media!

Some media said that Kobe Bryant's second game was not well considered, and he was criticized for being alone, the Lakers and the Thunder game on the 23rd, the Lakers won and won, but they fell behind in the first three quarters, and only completed the comeback in the fourth quarter, Kobe Bryant performed badly that day, shooting 8 of 24 in the whole game, and Da Gasol and Bynum grabbed offensive rebounds in the last quarter and threw them in, relying on the inside advantage to win, so Kobe Bryant shot too much every time he attacked.

So, in the two games of No. 25 and No. 27, Kobe Bryant shot 9 times in one game and 11 times in one game, and the Lakers lost both games.

Now the Lakers and Thunder are tied 2-2......

That is, it will be at least May 2 before the Grizzlies' next opponent will come out.

This is good and bad for the Grizzlies, they all feel that the Lakers have no problem to advance, they can prepare for the series with the Lakers in advance, and they don't have to think about the game for the time being, they can have more experience to study the current state of the Lakers, so as to formulate tactics in a targeted manner.

However, there is also a problem, in case hell, the Thunder upset the Lakers, and the Grizzlies will have a pain.

But compared to the Thunder, the Grizzlies think the Lakers will win.

So, after arriving at the Memphis airport at 11 o'clock in the morning, the coaching staff announced that the team would have a three-day holiday, during which the stadium would be open to all players all day, with free delicious nutritious meals, unlimited refills of functional drinks, and 12-hour personal service from masseurs and trainers......

Just finished the first round, rest for two days, watch the battle between the Lakers and the Thunder on the 30th, and wait for the Lakers and the Thunder to split the battle of the Tianwang Mountain on April 30, and then start training.