Fort Wayne Pistons owner Fred Zorner looked at the NBA logo and kept nodding. He was very satisfied with the logo.

Among the people present, he didn't know much about basketball. This giant in the American automobile industry, playing basketball is like a rich man in the future playing mobile games. Don't worry about whether he understands the game or not, first recharge and buy a set of equipment that can show off. What he is concerned about is whether the new league is tall and outstanding enough, and whether it is good enough. As for other things, he just pays for it.

Others are not such rich tycoons, they are focusing on other aspects. For example, Walter Brown, general manager of Boston Gardens, Peter Tyrel, owner of Philadelphia Stadium, and Miguel Yulin, owner of Washington Yulin Stadium, are concerned about the schedule of the game.

"Each team in the regular season will face their opponents four times, two home games and two away games. We now have eight teams. To sum up, a team will play 28 games a season, including 14 home games and 14 away games. That is to say, my gymnasium has to host 14 games a year." Boston Gardens general manager Walter Brown said while calculating how much profit 14 games can bring to himself.

In the future, a team will play a full 82 regular season games in a season, but at that time, there were 30 teams in the NBA league. Now Chen Qiang has only 8 teams in the new league, and a team will play 28 games in a season.

What's more, the transportation in the 1940s was not well developed, and it took a day's train from New York to Washington, so it was impossible to arrange back-to-back games like in the future. Under normal circumstances, it would take a day to go to the competition location, a day to play, and a day to come back. It would only take two games a week for a full-time game, and it would take more than three months to finish 28 games.

However, for several stadium owners, there are not many 28 games a season. These stadium owners are eager to play games every day, and the stadium can also sell more tickets and make more money.

In the future, many players will complain that the NBA has many and dense schedules, and the degree of physical confrontation is still so high. It is too many games in a season, which is too easy for players to be injured. Look at the NFL of Rugby, playing one game in a week is much easier than the NBA. In order to cope with this situation, the team coach even invented the main players' on-round tactics.

However, the NBA League does not intend to reduce the schedule. Once the game number is reduced, it will affect the league's revenue. The income of team owners, stadium owners, advertising sponsors, etc. will also decrease. There are too many interest groups behind the NBA. It would be nice if they do not require the number of games to be increased. How can they allow the number of games to be reduced?

The players just complained, after all, NBA stars are very high. Not to mention those star players with annual salary of tens of millions, even if they are ordinary rotational requests for help, their annual salary is comparable to that of ordinary Americans' lifetime income. Since they earn this money, they should bear higher-intensity work.

Boston Gardens general manager Walter Brown continued to look down: "After the regular season, the top four will enter the playoffs. The playoffs are in knockout mode, with the first place vs. the fourth place, the second place vs. the third place, and the final winner will win the championship. The playoffs adopt a five-inning three-win system, and the teams that are ranked ahead will have a home advantage."

Chen Qiang nodded: "It's right. In theory, the teams that win the championship can have up to six more home games than those that have not entered the playoffs, so the teams will also get more ticket returns. I designed this rule to encourage all teams to play hard, because the performance of your team will directly affect your income."

After listening to Chen Qiang's explanation, Walter Brown, Peter Tyrel and Miguel Yulin, the three owners with large stadiums, nodded in agreement. For them, this is a very favorable rule. As long as the team plays well enough, their stadium can also enjoy more benefits.

I heard Chen Qiang continue: "Gentlemen, these schedules are actually small things. The most important thing about my new league planning is to change the rules of basketball. Please turn to page 10."

Everyone turned to the tenth page, and then everyone's expressions changed.

Among the people who came to the meeting, some knew the ball, and some didn't understand the ball. For example, the Pistons' boss, the rich man Fred Zorner, didn't understand the ball, so he had no opinion on changing the rules and other things.

For example, Celtics boss Walter Brown, Warriors boss Peter Tyrell, and Washington Congress boss Yugar Yulin, who runs stadiums, must have some understanding of basketball. But they are more concerned about the benefits that basketball can bring to the stadium, rather than changes in basketball rules.

Rochester Royals manager Leicester Harris and Baltimore Bullets manager Ben Kramer both serve as coaches, so both of them understand football. However, because Chen Qiang gave investment to these two teams, these two masters of football dare not speak out about Chen Qiang's proposals. The big money owners all said they wanted to change the rules, and they had no other choice except to play with them.

In addition, the one who really understands the ball is Ferris, the general manager of the Buffalo Buffalo team. In the 1950s, Ferris also formulated many new rules for the NBA.

Now, Ferris was the first to speak, and he said with a serious look on his face: "Mr. Chen, I'm right, you plan to change the rules of the entire basketball game!"

Since basketball was invented in 1981, the rules of basketball have been constantly changing and improving. In the beginning, basketball used a bamboo basket with a bottom as a ball basket. Every time you score a ball, you have to step on a ladder to take the ball out of the bamboo basket. And after each score, it is not the one who lost the point serves, but comes back to the middle of the court, and both sides jump the ball again. Theoretically, as long as you jump the ball well enough, the ball rights will always be yours.

In the 1940s, although the rules of basketball have changed a lot, they are still completely different from those in the future. For example, there was no 24-second offensive violation and no three-point line in that era. In comparison, the rules of football, baseball and ice hockey are already very similar to those in later generations. For example, the T-type formations of football have begun to become popular, and the rugby tactics of later generations have also been developed from T-type formations.

Chen Qiang knew that the basketball rules at that time made basketball seem dull and boring, so basketball did not attract too many spectators, which also restricted the development of basketball. If the new basketball league wants to become bigger and stronger, it must be changed. Therefore, Chen Qiang wrote all the new basketball rules in the planning book, and his new league will implement new basketball rules.

Chen Qiang said slowly: "I do want to change the rules of the entire basketball game. First of all, I think the three-second rule should be re-activated."

"Mr. Chen, I am bluntly speaking, the three-second rule has little impact on basketball games. No player will stay in the three-second zone." Ferris said.

Chen Qiang said, "The reason why there are no players staying in the three-second zone is because the three-second zone is too small, so my three-second zone should be expanded. The existing three-second zone is 5.8 meters long and 1.8 meters wide. I think the width should be doubled, that is, to 3.6 meters. In this way, the three-second zone will become useful! The situation where players stay on both sides of the basket and wait for the ball will not happen again."

As early as 1987, basketball had a free throw area. In 1932, the three-second rule was added. Later, the three-second rule was cancelled for a while, but it was restored in the 1950s. In other words, in basketball in 1942, there was no three-second rule. There was no offense or three-second defense. As the offensive side, you can stay at the basket for unlimited time waiting for the ball to pass. As the defensive side, you can also stand at the basket for unlimited defense.

However, the three-second zone at that time was 5.8 meters long and 1.8 meters wide. The length of 5.8 meters was set for free throws. The width of 1.8 meters was equivalent to a two-step distance, which was the three-second zone at that time. It was just a long zone. Except for the 1.8 meters front of the basket that could not be left for three seconds, both sides of the basket could stand. Middle school students could easily throw the ball in at the position outside the basket, and it didn't matter whether there was a three-second zone. The most commonly used basketball tactic in that era was to stand at the position outside the two sides of the basket and shoot the ball in. Therefore, the three-second rule became a redundant thing, so it was cancelled in 1932.

In the 1950s, the three-second rule was re-activated, and the three-second zone was doubled to become 3.6 meters wide. The reason for the expansion was because of George McCann's emergence. As the first-generation super center of the NBA, George McCann, who was 2.08 meters tall and weighed 110 kilograms, it was probably a bit far-fetched to play center in the CBA today, but at that time, he was definitely a giant under the basket. In order to limit George McCann's scoring ability, the NBA had to change the three-second zone range.

The second one to expand the NBA's three-second zone was Chamberlain. At that time, Chamberlain was not at the same level as other players. Just imagine the abnormal data of 100 points and 55 rebounds in a single game. This is basically the rhythm of beating children. The 3.6-meter-wide three-second zone is difficult to limit Chamberlain, so in 1965, the three-second zone became 4.8-meter-wide.

Later, as the players became more and more awesome, the three-second zone of 4.8 meters wide was not enough, so the three-second zone became six meters wide, and the three-second zone later became a trapezoidal three-second zone.

It is worth mentioning that among the basketball rules of that era, there were only three seconds of offense, but no three seconds of defense, so the "three-second rule" mentioned by Chen Qiang refers to three seconds of offense.

In the future, there is no defense for three seconds in the FIBA ​​rules, while there is a defense for three seconds in the NBA rules. The reason for this is that NBA has produced a fat man named O'Neal.

O'Neal was too strong at his peak, and the NBA league could not continue to expand the three-second zone, otherwise the three-second zone would be expanded to the three-point line. So the NBA had to modify the rules and allow the use of joint defense tactics to target O'Neal. In addition to limiting O'Neal, the joint defense tactics can also limit the breakthroughs of outside players. This not only limits a lot of breakthrough hands, but also reduces the viewing of the game. Therefore, the NBA can only formulate another three-second defensive rule to limit the joint defense tactics, thereby reducing the impact of joint defense on outside players.

So although the defense in the NBA is not intended to directly limit O'Neal, it was indirectly born because of O'Neal.

Re-activate the three-second rule and expand the three-second zone are the trends in the future basketball development. Chen Qiang simply proposed it ten years in advance. Chen Qiang hopes to use this method to promote the development of basketball.

However, Buffalo general manager Ferris did not understand Chen Qiang's intention. He said: "Mr. Chen, if the three-second rule is re-activated and the three-second zone is added, it will become more difficult for players to attack at the basket, and the tactic of standing on both sides of the basket to catch the ball and score is completely ruined, which will greatly slow down the offensive rhythm of the game. In basketball games now, the offensive rhythm is already slow enough, and so many boring attacks make people drowsy. I don't oppose changing the rules, but I think the pace of the game should not be slower, but the pace of the game should be accelerated."

"Mr. Ferris, I agree with your idea very much, so please see the next one. My second modification is to modify the five-second rule. The current five-second rule is that after the player holding the ball is strictly guarded for five seconds, it will be judged as a scrambler. I changed it to the player holding the ball being closely guarded. If there is no passing, pitching, or dribbling within five seconds, it should be punished for violations and the opponent throws the ball out of the boundary." Chen Qiang said.

What Chen Qiang said was the five-second violation rule.

In 1932, basketball formulated a five-second rule. The five-second rule at that time was that after the player holding the ball was closely defended for five seconds, it was determined to be a competition for the ball. Chen Qiang used this rule in 1942. The reason why there was such a strange rule at that time was because there was no 8-second violation in that era, and the original intention of designing this five-second rule was to allow players to pass the ball through half the court as soon as possible.

In 1956, due to the 24-second offensive violation rule, there was no need to worry about the player dragging time in the backcourt, so the five-second rule became that the player holding the ball kept tightly against the opponent in the frontcourt for five seconds, and was determined to be a scramble. In 1985, it became that the ball was held and the ball was closely guarded. If there was no passing, pitching, or dribbling within five seconds, it would be judged to be illegal, and the ball was also turned into an opponent's throw-in ball. This rule has been used to this day.

So in basketball games, we often see that the player holding the ball is prevented from moving in the same place, unable to dribble, and the ball cannot be passed out, and will immediately call a timeout and then re-send the outbound ball, because if it is not called a timeout, the ball will be the opponent after five seconds.

In addition, the future NBA has a special five-second rule, that is, when an offensive player is in the frontcourt and the free throw line is located below the free throw line, he must not dribble with his back or sideways to the basket for more than 5 seconds. The reason why NBA has this rule is mainly because of a big butt named Barkley. This guy can always use his butt to arch the defender to the basket step by step when holding the ball on his back, and then score easily. Therefore, the NBA had to formulate this rule to limit Barkley's big butt. Therefore, this rule is also called Barkley's rule.

In the 1940s, there was no Buckley's big butt. Although Chen Qiang knew about the Barckley rules, he did not mention the five-second rule when he proposed to modify the five-second violation rule.

Ferris, the general manager of the Bison team opposite, frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head: "Mr. Chen, I admit that such a rule modification can increase the frequency of players' passing, dribbling or pitching, but this does not mean that the pace of the game will be accelerated. Players can still use many methods to delay the progress of the game."

Chen Qiang said calmly: "So please see my third rule modification, adding the eight-second violation rule. After serving, the offensive party must bring the ball to the frontcourt within eight seconds, otherwise even if the violation is violated, the opponent will throw the sideline ball. In this way, the offensive party cannot delay time in the backcourt, and they must transport the ball to the frontcourt as soon as possible. Once the ball reaches the frontcourt, they will face the opponent's strict defense. With the five-second rule modification, if they do not dribble, pass or shoot as soon as possible, once the opponent defends, it will cause the ball rights to change. This rule will naturally not force the players to speed up the pace of the game."

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Chapter completed!