In the early days of NBA, the league was very bleak, with no advertisements, no broadcasts and no endorsements, so many teams could not survive for two or three years! So it doesn't matter if the record is not good at that time, but it will be a big problem if the ticket can't be sold!
Celtic was one of the founders of the NBA in 1946, but until 1956, the team still didn't make any achievements, so this year the Green Army turned its attention to bill russell. Before the draft, Russell not only won two consecutive championships in NCAA, but also led the American team to win the Olympic champion! But unfortunately, the Celtics didn't sign the first round this year. How do they operate?
First of all, Celtic owner walter brown is rich. His main business is his figure skating team, and Celtic is just his sideline! So the Celtics found the Rochester Royals and wanted to exchange their players for the top draft, but the owner of the Royals insisted that the Green Army choose Heinsohn in the regional draft (Heinsohn beat Russell and KC Jones in the 56-57 season to win the best rookie award, and scored 37 points and 23 rebounds in the seventh game of the finals, which was more important than Russell in the team at that time), so the two sides broke up in discord!
So the Celtics had to settle for the second best, and traded Cliff Hagen and Edward Macaulay for the second place in the eagle's hand. Because all fools knew that Russell would be the top scholar at that time, the second place was of little value, so the eagle agreed to the Green Army deal without thinking!
After winning the second prize, Russell could not be taken away. At this time, the owner of the green army walter brown whimsical. He found the owner of the Royal Team and told him that if Russell was not selected by the Royal Team in the first round, Brown would let his figure skating Shang Yan team go to Shang Yan, the home of the Royal Team, for a week, and all the tickets would go to the Royal Team! You know, Brown's figure skating team is very popular all over the country. At that time, a week's ticket for the troupe was even worth two seasons' tickets for the Royal Team! Therefore, in the face of this temptation, the Royal team finally failed to control it and made a decision to give up Russell!
In the end, the Celtics chose Russell, and then 13 won the 1 1 championship, establishing the Celtic dynasty! However, the Royals signed a player named Sieglin with the No.1 pick, with a career of 9 points and 4 rebounds, and then the Royals sank to the Adelman Kings in 2000. If the team chose Russell, maybe the king is one of the giants now!
We all regard the merger of NBA and ABA as the starting point of modern basketball, but in fact, many interesting things happened when they merged! 197 1 year, the NBA began to compete for the broadcast contract of CBS in ABA. It can be said that whoever can win this contract will take off quickly! Finally, 1973, Colombia announced that it had reached a super contract of 270 million US dollars with the NBA, and the NBA won! So ABA, as a loser, began to decline rapidly!
Finally, 1976 ABA could no longer be maintained and began to be annexed by the NBA, but it was not so easy for ABA teams at that time to enter the NBA! First of all, you need to pay $3.2 million to join; Secondly, in the first three years, you won't get a penny of broadcast dividends!
This is a little worse for the Nets, because in addition to the above two conditions, the Nets also need to compensate the Knicks in the same city for 4.8 million US dollars, because the development of the Nets in new york will divide the Knicks' market! So the Nets had to put their ideas on Julius Owen, the first ABA player at that time!
At that time, Owen won two championships, three MVPs, two playoff MVPs and five ABA best teams. As a result, the Knicks didn't know the goods and chose not Owen but money! So Dixon, the owner of the 76ers, took advantage of this opportunity. They were willing to bid 6 million yuan to take Owen away, so Owen was abandoned by the Nets and sent to the 76ers before entering the NBA.
In the first year of getting Owen, the 76 ers won the first place in the East, and then reached the finals three times. Finally, in 1983, the 76ers beat the Lakers 4-0 and won the third championship in the team's history! Choose 4.8 million Knicks and sink to the post-90 s!
With the perfection of NBA, there will never be such a "creative" deal in the league again! After Owen, the most innovative thing may be that Green Army coach Rivers changed the draft pick on 20 13! At that time, the Green Army traded Garnett and Pierce for reconstruction, and the champion coach who had been 2 1 10,000 for three years was naturally unwilling to coach a fishing club, so Anji pushed the boat in exchange for the first round signing of the Clippers 20 15!
As a result, Angie's eyes in the draft are really not very good. They chose a young man named Hunter, but only one year later, the Green Army abandoned him. Does Angie have money and people?