Across the United States, potential rookies have received invitations to go to New York for rookie trials.

The reason why the new league can attract information about potential rookies in the United States is also thanks to the Knicks general manager Edward Ireland. Edward Ireland is the top basketball promoter in the United States. His connections in the basketball circle are also among the best. It is precisely because of his existence that the new league can know which players have potential.

Almost all young people who receive invitations choose to go to New York, and some people cannot get out of their way before they can't go back if they have unexpected situations.

Those rookies who run for the election realize that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The head coaches and senior executives of each team will go to the scene to watch the trial. As long as you perform well in the three-day trial, the chance of being selected will increase greatly. Even if you lose the election in the end, your performance may still impress the team and then get a contract.

Young people in the United States are very good at expressing themselves. You can imagine how the grand occasions of entertainment talent shows in the United States in later generations are. Even if they are not of good enough, they are not afraid of embarrassing. Those who have dates but no dates will beat them first.

These young players who were selected to come to New York to participate in the trial training are top basketball players in their respective schools. Such people are originally popular figures in the school and must be relatively outgoing. How could they miss this opportunity to show their strength?

Even if it's not for the trial training, it's good to simply come to New York for three days. Anyway, the new league not only has bus tickets, but also food and accommodation. If it's not selected by the team, it's just a free trip to New York.

New York is the largest city in the United States, and this kind of super metropolis is fatal to young people. In that era when transportation was underdeveloped and information dissemination was not developed, many Americans had never been to New York in their entire lives, and many young people even regarded it as a lifelong dream. The ticket to New York during the trial training of the New League carries the dream of how many young people come to New York to see.

So, the best young basketball players in the United States came to New York and gathered in Madison Square Garden.

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Madison Square Garden, the first day of rookie trial has begun.

All coaches from all teams in the new league were present, holding small notebooks in their hands, recording the situation of each player.

On the first day, some of the most basic physical tests were conducted, such as measuring height and weight, standing and touching height, jumping and touching height, half-time sprint running, full-game back-run and other events.

In any future draft of sports league, the above are the most basic data and information that the team must master. However, in the draft of the 1940s, it would be great to know a height and weight.

For coaches of each team, on-site tests are provided in the trial camp, and these test data are simply too detailed. Details mean intuitiveness. Looking at these physical data, the head coaches of each team can intuitively understand the players' physical fitness.

In the first row of the stands, Chen Qiang sat side by side with Boston Celtic boss Walter Brown.

"Chen, you are such a genius! You can think of this rookie trial. With this rookie trial, the players' pros and cons are clear at a glance, and our team no longer has to worry about choosing a guy who is not worthy of his name." Walter Brown said.

"The team has to pay the selected players. In this regard, the draft is like buying things in a department store. Before the customer pays, the customer always needs to understand what product they are going to buy!" Chen Qiang said with a smile.

"This metaphor is interesting, but it's very realistic. If I don't have a deep understanding of the players I choose, I really can't willingly give him a two-year contract." Walter Brown replied.

"The NFL League draft has been held for five years, but it is still not a big deal. Whether it is a team or a player, the enthusiasm for drafts is not that high. It is because before the draft, the NFL League did not provide the team with an opportunity to understand the players. I don't want to make the same mistake, so in my plan, the player's information should be presented to the team as detailed as possible. Moreover, the display of player information should be equal to every team, and the information obtained by each team is consistent, so that the fairness of the entire league can be reflected." Chen Qiang explained slowly.

"Fairness? Is it also to protect weak teams?" Walter Brown paused and continued, "Actually, there is no fairness in this kind of professional sports. Some teams spend more money, they can get powerful players and have excellent results; while those teams that spend less money do not have powerful players, their results will naturally be very bad. Even if they train excellent players, they may not be able to retain them. Large teams offer higher prices and can easily poach players."

Chen Qiang nodded, "I want to avoid this kind of money competition as much as possible. I plan to introduce salary cap restrictions in a few years."

"Salary Cap?" Walter Brown thought for a while and asked, "That is, set a salary number. Can all teams' salary exceed this number?"

"It's not just that. In my plan, the salary cap is used to restrict the team from signing free agents. That is to say, if the team's salary exceeds the salary cap limit, signing free agents will not be allowed. This will prevent a team from poaching other teams without any scruples, thus forming vicious competition. Moreover, I also plan to renew the team's players, and the players may get a higher salary if they renew the contract with the original team. The team's renewal of the contract will have more advantages than signing free agents directly. This is equivalent to encouraging the team to cultivate their own players." Chen Qiang answered.

Walter Brown pondered for a few seconds, "This is a good idea. This will make the team feel that it is a relatively cost-effective thing to train young players, so that the team will spend time on young players."

"If the salary cap can be implemented, I plan to create a luxury tax line. If a team's salary exceeds the amount of this luxury tax line, then the team needs to pay a part of the tax to the league as a punishment for the team's excessive salary." Chen Qiang continued.

"It sounds like this is another plan to limit wealthy teams," Walter Brown replied.

"If our league wants to develop, it is best not to have the dominant phenomenon. I think a team should not have more than three consecutive championships, otherwise other teams will lose confidence in winning the championship, and fans will feel bored. I don't want our league to have the phenomenon of winning the championship by spending money. I hope to see more new technologies and new tactics and more progress so that our league can develop."

Chen Qiang said this and sighed, then said, "Our new league has just been established for a year, and now there are only nine teams, so there is no way to favor small teams in terms of policy. I hope those small teams can survive. But in fact, I also know that the sports market in small cities is too small. If the team stays in small cities, they will encounter bottlenecks when they reach a certain scale. In the future, I hope that all teams will move to larger cities as much as possible, and cities of New York level should have two teams."

"You're right. Going to big cities to play is in the interests of the team and the interests of the entire league." Walter Brown nodded.

"That would be a long-term process. Our new league is still very weak, with only nine teams. When our league has nearly thirty teams, we can eliminate teams from small cities." Chen Qiang changed his voice and continued, "Okay, let's talk about this draft. Do you have any players that are optimistic about?"

"Of course there are, and there are more than one," Walter Brown replied.

"Are you sure to choose the players you value?" Chen Qiang asked again.

"Well, to be honest, I'm really unsure." Walter Brown shook his head helplessly. "The people who came to the scene today are all professionals, and the coaches of other teams are not blind. They will not let go of young players with potential. I don't know on the day of the draft. When our Celtics starts to choose, those excellent young people are still there."

"This is also a reflection of what I call 'fairness'." Chen Qiang pointed to the young players who are undergoing the test, and then said, "This kind of rookie trial can allow each player to show their own strength, and the team can clearly understand the specific situation of the players. But on the other hand, the strength of each player is exposed to all teams, so players with real strength and potential are impossible to stay. Some great players, even if they are not selected, I believe there will be teams who are willing to sign them."

"Yes, such a simple rookie trial can show the best basketball youth in the United States before us. At least this year, the best young people in the entire American basketball game have been beaten by us." Walter Brown sighed.

"It's not just this year, next year, the year after, and even the future, we will have this kind of draft! In this way, every generation of potential young players will be beaten by us and will enter our league to play. What I want is a monopoly! I want our new league to monopolize the entire American basketball!" Chen Qiang said firmly.

Walter Brown opened his mouth in surprise and sighed softly, "Your ambition is really great."

Chen Qiang smiled distractedly, and then continued, "In the United States, we are not the only one league. Now there are three professional basketball leagues in the United States. The ABL League was established as early as 1925. The NBL League was established much earlier than us. If it is worse than the foundation, we are not as good as them. But one thing is certain that the United States only needs one professional basketball league. We must defeat the ABL and NBL Leagues and become the only basketball in the American professional league!"

"So you're going to start with the young players?" Walter Brown asked.

"Yes, young athletes represent the future of a sport. If we can monopolize the best young players in the United States, it is equivalent to monopolizing professional basketball in the United States. This is also the purpose of my careful design of the draft." Chen Qiang said without hiding.

Walter Brown had a shocked expression. After a long time, he spoke, "I originally thought that you just wanted to make some money through basketball to ensure the operation of Madison Square Garden, but I didn't expect you to have such a huge plan!"

"Don't underestimate the output value of the sports industry. If this thing is operated properly, it will surpass agriculture and reach the level of the automobile manufacturing industry!" Chen Qiang said with a smile.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to be quite joking!" Walter Brown laughed. He obviously didn't think what Chen Qiang said might happen.

But Chen Qiang, who came from the future, knew that in the future, the output value of the sports industry far exceeded that of agriculture. Although there was a slight gap compared to the automobile manufacturing industry, it was not much different.

In the future, the service industry in the United States will account for more than 80% of GDP, while agriculture will only account for 09% of GDP, and the rest will be industry.

Among the service industry, the cultural and entertainment industry accounts for about 31 of the total GDP, and the sports industry accounts for more than 10% of the cultural and entertainment industry. That is to say, the output value of the US sports industry accounts for more than 3 of the GDP, which is more than three times that of the agriculture industry. The automobile manufacturing industry accounts for about 35 of the US GDP, a little more than the sports industry.

Of course, this is why the sports industry can have such a high output value in the United States. Generally, developed countries, the sports industry accounts for 1 to 15 of its GDP. As for developing countries, it is even lower. For some poor countries with a small population, there is no such thing as the sports industry at all.

In the future, China's sports industry can barely reach 1 in GDP, which is the lowest level among developed countries. With China's status as a developing country, it is already very good to have such results. Many people who don't know the truth say that China's sports development is slow and China's sports lags behind. However, in terms of output value, the development of China's sports industry is already very fast, at least comparable to developed countries.

Of course, compared with the United States, China's sports industry is still too far behind, and the two sides are too far behind in the order of magnitude. China's GDP is about 70% of that of the United States. Based on the US's sports industry accounting for US GDP3 and China's sports industry accounts for 1 in China, the US's sports industry is almost 42 times that of China's sports industry. If China's sports industry wants to surpass the United States, it will be difficult to achieve it in a short period of time.

It is precisely because the US sports market is large enough that many Americans will confidently believe that losing the Chinese market is not a big deal for the NBA, and the US market alone is already big enough.

But from another perspective, even if China's sports market is less than one-quarter of that of the United States, China is already the second largest sports market in the world. Japan, which ranks third in the world's GDP, is not only a sports power, but also a sports power. However, its sports market size is less than half of China. With lower GDP rankings, the sports industry is even worse than China.

More importantly, the Chinese sports market has just developed for a few days and is still in a stage of rapid growth. After decades of development, the US sports industry has long been saturated and has lost its growth point.

As one goes up and down, Chinese sports have the strength to continue to waste with NBA, and the two sides' play operations are developing slowly, and it depends on who can't hold on first. Of course, the premise is that Chinese people should not kneel down first!
Chapter completed!