: 842. The General's Decision-Part 1

"Leonard, can we trade off the boss?"
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Coach Hollins and Chris Wallace glanced at each other, speechless, and wanted to cry two lines.
More than three hours ago, at 10 o'clock in the morning, Bill Duffy came back by mail.
Bill Duffy’s response was ultimately honest, and as expected by Chris Wallace, Chris Wallace helped Bill Duffy and signed Randolph to avoid Randolph. A top star like Husband doesn't have the embarrassment that the team wants. Bill Duffy gently expressed Sun Ce's disappointment that he could not test the free market, but said he would decide on the contract before the end of the finals.
This answer is not much different from Chris Wallace's guess. Sun Ce, like many young players, wants to see how popular he is, but this kind of thing is actually not important.
The boss likes "exploring the inside of the team" so much, Chris Wallace emailed Bill Duffy's answer to the boss.
Then, at 12 noon, coach Chris Wallace and Hollins also experienced a "fan's feeling", they saw from the news that their team authorized Sun Ce to contact other team management .
After a brief silence, coach Hollins said: "Don't worry, even if Noah goes to communicate with other teams, we will not lose, you forget, we have the right to match, even if the rookie renewal terms are changed beyond expectations , But Noah is not like other stars. He is like Yao from the Mavericks. If he really wants to go, we can only let him go, and he has to sign and change to help him get more money. This is the basketball market. ,You understand.
And I believe Noah will not choose to leave, he just wants to try. "
"You always favor him so much, Leonal." Chris Wallace smiled helplessly, "but our boss..."
"Our boss, it's cool!" Coach Hollins quipped. This matter has nothing to do with him. He is the head coach.
"You're right. I have worked in the NBA for so many years. It is the first time I heard that the general manager may be the last person to know the boss's decision. This is cool..." Chris Wallace madly vomited.
"However, Chris, so we can go directly to Noah and talk about contract renewal, right? We are also free market contenders, right?"
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Like Chris Wallace said, he may be the last person to know about it. At 11:30, Bill Duffy received an email from Robert Pella, at 11:50, Robert Pella The secretary sent the president's application to the NBA official and team news officer. The NBA official website and the Grizzlies official website announced this at 12 o'clock.
As soon as this news came out, people quickly felt that the Grizzlies management was crazy. On the second day after the Western Conference, they agreed to let their team's restricted free agents come in contact with other team management!
This year may be the easiest year for NBA teams to renew their own players, because there is no offseason for the lockout, and there is no free market. Many players have no time to renew the contract after the lockout, just like many NBA players in the 98-99 season. Unemployed, quickly renewed early.
Among them, the players whose rookie contracts expire are the most enthusiastic, and they are in the middle and middle of their careers and need more stable development plans.
Let’s not talk about how people guess whether Sun Ce will stay in the Grizzlies. It’s just the matter of renewal. The fans think that the Grizzlies don’t have to worry at all. The change of the second-round rookie renewal terms has basically become a foregone conclusion. , Only the small city team owner and the big city team owner game, the big city team owner wants to remove the restrictions of the Arenas clause on this basis, hoping to join the home team can be on the condition of renewal, non-mother The team can give top salary this clause, but the owner of the small city team is not willing.
But the matchmaking power of the home team will not be given up by the boss of the big city team or the owner of the small city team, so the Grizzlies don’t have to worry about making room for Sun Ce. After the contract is renewed, in the eyes of fans, they only need to wait until Sun Ce agreed to renew the contract.
As a result, the Grizzlies actually agreed with Sun Ce to contact other teams...
Why did so many people regret that in 2006 Yao Ming did not go to Los Angeles and Kobe to join hands without thinking about the Rockets owner's idea?
Because teams such as Yao Ming and Sun Ce are determined to leave the team, the boss can only wait for them and make a contradiction no matter who's fault. The Chinese market that has been operating for many years cannot be guaranteed.
Fans are wondering, is the Grizzlies management brain circuit so clear?
Think of the Grizzlies picking Tabbit with the top spot, and then Tabet played only 10 games and then used Tabit to change to a second round show... Although the final result was good, the Grizzlies made a lot of money.
But the fans recalled that incident, plus what is happening now, they found that the minds of the Grizzlies management are not so special!
Of course, some fans saw Robert Pella's idea and thought that Robert Pella's idea was bold and courageous, but they felt that the courageous team was the Grizzlies management. This is the first time in NBA history. Management, when Yao Ming’s rookie contract expired 5 years ago, the Rockets promoted the name of
Yao Ming’s mother team
everywhere, put themselves on the
big right
side, and blocked all the roads that Yao Ming left. Blocked.
And the Grizzlies are really special!
But even fans who feel that the Grizzlies management is very aggressive can't help but spit on the Internet...
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Online, the fans are crazy about the Grizzlies and the media are constantly speculating, predicting Sun Ce’s decision, guessing which team Sun Ce will meet, after the official NBA and Grizzlies official website announced this matter, the major media’s They sent reporters to the team they guessed they wanted to get Sun Ce's team.
There is no doubt that 80% of the league's teams want to meet Sun Ce, even if they have no salary space, they want to meet.
Not now, and there is a future?
And most of the team’s management did not have the luxury of having to win Sun Ce this year. The first is James’s experience. They don’t think Sun Ce will leave, but they have the same guess as Chris Wallace. I feel that Sun Ce just wants to see the attitude of other teams towards him, find the sense of identity that young players want, and really decides to stay, maybe these meetings are not important.
Also, even if the Grizzlies management looks so generous, when the time comes for their offer, will the Grizzlies management be so generous...unlikely.
However, Sun Ce is only 21 years old!
The labor-management agreement has not yet been reached, mainly focusing on the share ratio and the veteran contract qualification clauses, some of which have been finalized.
For example, in terms of the contractual life of the players who took a step back, they agreed to shorten the contractual renewal of the home team from the 2006-like labor agreement to a maximum of 6 years to 5 years. Years old, at its peak, now has a good relationship, and then there will be opportunities to operate.
But they can’t have a good relationship at that time, and once Sun Ce renews their contract, they don’t have a chance to have a good relationship with Sun Ce. Now it’s the best chance to get a good relationship, or the Grizzlies give it for nothing. live.
Even the management team of the Bucks, where the team is located in a city that is less shy than Memphis, has revealed the desire to meet Sun Ce.
then……
For a while it was the news of the Lakers’ marketing operations president Jenny Bass traveling to Memphis, and the Los Angeles media broke the news that Sun Ce joined the Lakers with good prospects. He is the successor to Mamba; for a while, the Heat’s general manager Pat Riley went to Memphis. News, a Florida reporter broke the news that James wanted a teammate with better rebounds...; while the new Raptors general manager Ugeri went south, trying to attract Sun Ce with the advantage that Canada is currently the largest Chinese immigration country news……
For a while, the fans forgot that it was only May 30th, and it felt like June 30th, when the free market opened.
The Grizzlies "management" does not know for what purpose to agree that Sun Ce can contact the management of other teams in advance, stunned to make the free market on the eve of the finals!
For a time, the Grizzlies swipe the screen, fans have forgotten that the Bulls have lost 1 to 3 and returned to the home to want to continue their life. They have forgotten that the Mavericks have advanced to the finals. Aoao wanted to meet Sun Ce.
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Turning their attention to the Mavericks, they are 60 wins and 22 losses, the record is better than the 58 wins and 24 losses of the Heat, it seems that the Heat can almost reach the finals, they returned to Dallas, waiting for the Heat to challenge them The Mavericks players are also ready to enjoy the fans and the media.
However, in the morning, the fans and the media are mainly chasing the future of the Grizzlies, who have a promising future. Seeing that the style of speech should change in the afternoon, discuss how they have never been optimistic and hit the finals. Team, the Grizzlies got involved...
The fact that they reached the finals did not even come out!
Sun Ce was eliminated, and he could still stir up trouble in the NBA. Even when the boss of their team returned to Dallas, they flew to Memphis by private plane...
Cuban is the media and the fans who have the most chance to get Sun Ce after five years, because they have Yao Ming, and Yao Ming will retire after five years. At that time, Sun Ce can just take over and Mavericks is also a famous international player team. After Yao Ming laid the foundation there for a few years, I believe that Sun Ce will not face too serious racial problems in the past.
Now Cuban has never thought about forming a Sun Ce + Yao Ming + Nowitzki combination, and there is no need for that extravagance. One is enough. According to media reports, Cuban wants to persuade Sun Ce to stay with the Grizzlies. That one……
The mind of each team owner is always different.
But this is so suffocating for the Mavericks players!
They were the ones who reached the finals, and no one took care of them!
According to unreliable domestic gossip media reports, Yao Ming bought a cottage red and white machine called Xiaobawang, and played fiercely all afternoon...
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On the Heat side, who is almost certain to advance to the Finals but is also robbed of the limelight, James does not have Yao Ming's resentment of being robbed of the limelight. Instead, he has to deal with Bosh's relationship.
He dismissed the team's inside rebounds. That's right. Some people guessed he couldn't help it, but don't say it so clearly!
Especially when General Manager Pat Riley went to Memphis...
If it is revealed that James dislikes the team's inbounds rebounds and Pat Riley goes to Memphis, these two things are separate, and the farts are not. Now they are added together, giving their team a way to use Bosh to replace Sun Ce. a feeling of.
Except for Bosh, they currently have no chance of getting Sun Ce, even if Sun Ce wants to come.
Admittedly, if Pat Riley really got this thing done, James was mad, but now they are about to reach the finals. This kind of thing happens, which affects the team unity.
People Bosh took the initiative to join, and as a result, there was a rumor that he was going to trade him before the end of a season. James felt that bitter!
And Pat Riley is really the kind of person who does nothing for the benefit, which makes James feel more bitter...
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As for Sun Ce, he has no mind to watch the news and no time to control the mood of the stars who have been affected by his affairs.
He is busy now!
Bill Duffy received requests from 21 teams to meet!
When James was leaving the team last summer, 11 teams were fiercely pursuing, and almost came over to him here.
Because James was the first to experience the free market last summer, when the rookie contract expired in 2007, he renewed the 3+1 contract early. Other teams did not think that James would leave the Cavaliers so early. In 2009, the Cavaliers were eliminated early in the playoffs for two consecutive years. The bosses of the teams found that James had a high probability of leaving. Because the Greens Big Three and Howard who were there, it seems that James, who was not in the Cavaliers, can cross. of.
So the preparation time is only one year, and there are 11 teams that can make room, and they are desperately freed.
But Sun Ce is different. Now contact in advance and have 5 years to prepare! Even the Heat and Mavericks bosses who are about to play in the finals want to join in the fun.
So, on the evening of May 30th, Sun Ce looked at Bill Duffy's laptop in the living room and looked at the meeting requests of the 21 teams, and his brain was about to burst.
After hearing Bill Duffy talk about the boss's operation at noon, he guessed that something might happen, but this thing was too scary!
The Lakers, Heat, Mavericks, Celtics, Suns, Warriors, Rockets...These teams Sun Ce felt acceptable, and the cities in which these teams are located are still very attractive.
But what do the Raptors, Bobcats, Bucks and Pistons mean?
Sun Ce really wanted to ask their management, for example, boss Qiao: How powerful are the operations of your management, don't you know? How many stars do you want to follow with you? You don’t know?
What's more, in the 21 meeting request list, Sun Ce saw his team...
This is the point of Sun Ce Tucao's weakness: you just make a phone call and ask. one Year! I never saw you ask!
"Noah, which team do you decide to meet?" Bill Duffy's mentality is about to collapse. He should have suggested this kind of thing, but his team is going crazy.
I have never seen a boss like Robert Pella!
The rich, especially the young rich, cannot understand their world.
After being a professional manager for so many years, Robert Pella also encountered such a team owner for the first time.
But Sun Ce's egg hurts only this matter itself, and Robert Pella did this kind of thing. He is not difficult to understand. This is a year when the salary of the NBA has not yet skyrocketed. The boss of the sky-high contract directly forced the teams to give up the idea of ​​trying to lower the top salary after the salary cap skyrocketed.
Conley is 30 million a year, and the others are more powerful than 35 million a year, which has led to several 50 million annual salary cases in the future.
Sun Ceying said: "Is it all rejected? They almost have no room to sign me! I remember they spent all their salary caps in order to avoid shutting down and stop people from using it. Isn't this a waste of time?"
Things are relative. Players are worried that the lockout will not work, and the management of each team is also worried that the lockout will affect their renewal. Most of the players in the mid-season renewed the contract early. The Grizzlies have not yet renewed the contract for Gasol Jr. and Conley. The team is a few cases, the Grizzlies also have to prepare for two hands, in case of failure to change the terms, still have to start with freeing up salary space, to provide Sun Ce without bird rights to match the salary space of the contract.
"I think they are for 5 years." Bill Duffy said quickly: "It can't be like this, we will work with them in the future..."
In this way, Sun Ce understood at once that the other party was waiting for his next contract to expire.
As for Bill Duffy’s cooperation, Bill Duffy has more than one player, but he dare not offend more than 20 teams.
Hesitating for a moment, Sun Ce sees that this is the case, and simply breaks the jar and breaks: "Bill, we will be busy in the next few days, you let them simply tell you their future plans, and it is reasonable that we all meet, they Come all come."
"I know, I will handle these things tonight, and I will send you their answers tomorrow..."
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Sun Ce originally wanted to play with ease for a few days to see if the first and second games of the finals were crushed as he expected. After knowing the specifics of the finals, he went to discuss with the Grizzlies Things to renew.
As he said, there is no free market, it is a pity not to feel the pursuit of other teams, but this is no way, he also wants to reassure the team early, before the trading window opens after the finals, let The team is ready.
He never dreamed that his team boss would play so well...
Even after a day without rest, he started working overtime.
On the evening of May 30th, the Heat beat the Bulls 86-82 to reach the finals.
Fortunately, James has strong communication skills. After Pat Riley found that he was not doing right, he also called Bosh to appease Bosh, saying that this is a future plan in five years.
And Bosh is also a person with a heart, he will not give up, but try to prove his worth.
Therefore, with the Bulls facing the World War I, the Heat won the Eastern Conference on defense. Both James and Wade reached the finals for the second time in their careers.
This year's Finals team may be the worst Finals team. After four seasons, the Heat and the Mavericks will meet again in the Finals. The Mavericks have the big three of Kidd + Yao Ming + Nowitzki. The Heat have In the true sense of the Big Three, the two teams played against each other, and all the limelight was taken away by a second-year player who had been eliminated.
This makes them feel so sad.
And what is more tragic is that this situation has continuity. On the afternoon of May 31st, Sun Ce began to meet with the management of each team. The first one was imaginative-Lakers President Jenny Bass...
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Sun Ce appreciates Bill Duffy's personhood. Maybe Bill Duffy's contract negotiation method is so-so, but his character is good, and he has a sense of honesty. He once forgot to submit executive players to his team because he overslept. Option notifications, and also use the money to subsidize the players’ losses
Therefore, Sun Ce asked Bill Duffy to find the team that requested the meeting to give a preliminary future plan. When each team gave it, Sun Ce received a list of 21 or 21.
Now that everything is here, Sun Ce will see you.
On the afternoon of the first day, Sun Ce met with the bosses of the Lakers, Bobcats and Clippers.
These three teams are not within the scope of Sun Ce's consideration. The Lakers will be incredibly chaotic in the next few years, so I don't think about it for the time being. The Clippers and the Bobcats... just a friendly chat.
At the beginning, Sun Ce decided to meet 6 teams in a day's itinerary. Sun Ce bought a concert in Memphis. Except that the first day was in the afternoon, he only met 3 teams~EbookFREE.me~ There are 6 teams a day, and it takes 4 days to get it.
The order of the meeting was decided by Sun Ce himself. There are also teams that I really want to talk about, such as the Suns, Eagles, and Nets, all of which are placed in the back.
There was a team Sun Ce who wanted to put them directly on the first day and let them get out. Sun Ce was a little sick when he heard the name of their team general manager, but after seeing the plan they gave, Sun Ce suddenly broke into bad water. Extending the four-day meeting time to five days, the first 19 teams got it in four days, and finally left two teams, one of which was naturally the Grizzlies, on the afternoon of May 4, the last meeting, And the team on the morning of May 4-the Rockets!
The meeting of the three teams on the first day ended, which was easier than Sun Ce imagined. As Bill Duffy predicted, except for the Clippers, the other two teams were not very urgent. The urgent Clippers, Sun Ce concluded the meeting in 10 minutes.
After he got it, Sun Ce called the producer's phone that T.N.T had been cooperating with. After a brief chat, Sun Ce said: "I have a plan... Don't promise to be so fast! I heard I said it first!
On May 5th, I want a live broadcast in prime time, yes, it is my decision... dare to play? The decision to broadcast the general of the United States! "