Chapter 161: Andy Miller

?Recently Andy Miller has been following the news of the Boston Celtics in newspapers and TV. "The Celtics lost to the Wizards, and Stackhouse played the best of the season. "Good performance"," the Celtics defeated the Hornets away, Joe Johnson played poorly in the old host"," the Green Army started a trip to Texas, the first game Dallas was defeated by the Mavericks, Cuban avenged his revenge", "Spurs The Celtics at home, the Greens suffered a losing streak", "Yao Wang fights, the Chinese Derby, the Celtics shot down the Rockets away, Wang Zhizhi played the best performance of his career"..................
These are all news headlines related to the NBA's recent game with the Celtics in the past week. In early 2003, the Celtics began to encounter fierce battles, and their continuous road trips made their state a little ups and downs. The addition of new players not only enhanced the team’s strength, but also allowed the team’s tactics to enter a new period of running-in. After a round of the terrible Texas triangle, the Celtics had three wins and three losses after the new year. The performance was not So satisfying.
Miller was very satisfied with this. He cut out all the news pages and posted them on his notebook. If someone opened his notebook, he would find that he didn't play the Celtics game this season. All the post-game news has been collected. People who don’t know will think he is a fanatical Celtics diehard. After all, the most diehard team in the United States is the Los Angeles Lakers, which is the more brilliant Boston Kyle. Special people.
But Andy Miller is not a Celtics fan. In fact, he is not a fan of any team. Since 1995, he has set foot in the NBA agent industry. Andy Miller is a leader in this circle. He has agility. His sense of smell, strong negotiation skills and a never-ending greed. Unlike old agents like David Falk, Andy Miller represents the characteristics of new agents at the moment-everything revolves around economic benefits, they are not like David Falk to be good with superstars friend. Become part of the nba circle. On the contrary, they call themselves a faction, with an independent attitude between the NBA and the players. Provide a bridge for negotiation between labor and management. Of course, sometimes they will make trouble for commissions.
For Andy Miller, 2002 was a turning point in his career. The NBA’s new broadcast contract was signed. He sensed the advent of a new round of super-large contracts. In fact, he entered the NBA broker circle when the salary cap soared in 1995 and the summer of billions of yuan contracts emerged endlessly. This is a trend in the money pile. How could I miss this opportunity? He resolutely terminated his contract with his old club in the summer, and left with a group of players under him, preparing to establish his own sports agency this season, for which he paid a high price of $4.6 million. Enough to see his ambition.
However, the Boston Celtics and his head coach became an obstacle in his mind. Since the 2002 All-Star Game, Andy Miller knew that the Celtics didn’t know where it came from. The assistant coach wants to get Kevin Garnett and let him join the Celtics.
Garnett is the biggest star under Andy Miller, and he is also Miller’s cash cow. Garnett’s league’s largest contract is also Miller’s proud work. He has made extremely generous profits from it. It can be said that this The profit is Miller's confidence and foundation for daring to spend $4.6 million to break the contract with his old club. Because he knows that Kevin Garnett is still in the upswing of his career, although he has been playing in this league for 8 years. But she joined the league after graduating from high school. He is only 26 years old this year and has not yet reached the peak age of an inside player.
And Garnett’s contract will expire next season, reaching a staggering $28 million. Miller knows that next year will be another year for him to show off his skills. Although the league’s rules have changed, there is no way to sign another one. Such a terrible big contract, but Miller is still confident that Garnett will get another top-level super big contract in the league if he will stay in the Timberwolves.
If Garnett does not stay in the Timberwolves, then Miller also hopes he can go to New York and Chicago. A commercial city like Miami has fully tapped Garnett's commercial value. His unique and modern style of play makes this power forward extremely popular in the league. And his talent in fashion and aesthetics also makes him different from traditional insiders and has a special attraction. Miller is also confident to use his characteristics to bring enough commercial advertising contracts for Garnett-if his city has a sufficiently open and inclusive business atmosphere.
The problem is that the team that wants Garnett, the Celtics, has the longest and most brilliant basketball history in the league, but his city is conservative, cold, small and has a notorious history of discrimination. The long-established city-Boston, Massachusetts, this city that has been avoided by all black players in the league, this city has created the famous "Boston clause" in the nba contract-that is, black players can indicate in the contract , When they are traded to Boston, they can choose to veto the deal.
At first, Miller didn’t care about it, because he knew that yy transactions like this happen every day in the league, from fans to media to management, from TV shows to paper media to people’s mouths to their hearts. No one can stop the imagination of others. He puts his mind on preparing his new company and constantly signing new players. He needs enough players to maintain the operation of his company in the future..
But when the 2002-2003 season was about to start, he gradually realized that something was wrong. First, the Timberwolves laid off Garnett’s friend Malik Ciri, which made Garnett very unhappy, and even worse, Kyle. The specials signed Ciri; after the start of the season, the Timberwolves' record was extremely unstable. Throughout November and December, they did not win more than two games in a row, and they did not lose more than three games in a row, which means the team Just losing one game and winning one game, losing two games and winning two games is a painful swing, which may be more terrible than a bad one, because Garnett has gone through seven such seasons.
On the contrary, the guy who did not know where he came from became the head coach of the Celtics, and then led the Celtics to the top of the league after the start of the season, once occupying the league's first position for two weeks. . Miller, as Garnett's closest collaborator, has begun to hear from Garnett's dissatisfaction and a trace of yearning for the Celtics.
This is a very dangerous signal. Miller knows Garnett. He knows that this is a contradictory and complicated guy. His personality seems uninhibited and wild, but the style of playing on the court is very open. He is as agile and gorgeous as a small forward. His style of play is loved by fans, but in fact his real strength lies in his unpretentious and strong defense. He loves Minnesota very much and is loyal to the Timberwolves, but he also longs to betray and seize the highest throne in the league. Miller and Garnett have been together for many years, and this contradiction in understanding him may be due to his growth experience, or inherited from his unreliable father-the man who provided a chromosome and then drifted away.
But Miller is not a psychologist. He doesn't want to uncover the secret of this contradiction. He just wants Garnett to stay in the Timberwolves, or to leave, but he can't go to Boston or the Celtics.
Finally, when the Celtics visited Minnesota, Malik Siri and Garnett participated together and chatted at the hotel entrance. Minnesota’s questioning of Garnett, Garnett’s counterattack to the media, and later The resulting series of discordant events made Miller determined to sway the Celtics and create some confusion for them.
What Miller is most worried about now is that the Celtics can really reach the finals this season. He still remembers that at the beginning of the season, their head coach set the goal "to the finals" that was ridiculed by many people. As time went on, I felt that he was not joking, let alone stupid. His goal was told to Garnett, just like he said in the All-Star Game that he would use the champion as a bargaining chip.
So after learning that the Celtics were about to make a deal, he used his relationship with Popper ~EbookFREE.me~ to reveal the content of the deal to Joe Johnson, which triggered a small Celtic There was a small civil turmoil; then he collected black materials about the Celtics coach. It turned out that he was a gangster who fought fake punches in a bar boxing ring. He had also been involved with the underworld, beat people and went to jail.
Miller’s design is very ingenious. First, he sent a message on the less-known local media in Boston to make the public feel as if there was something like this. Then, he used the relationship to name and criticize the well-known big media pages in the United States, which immediately aroused people. The enthusiasm for gossip, relying on reporters to turn that guy's dark history upside down.
It’s just that he didn’t expect the opponent’s reaction to be so quick. Miller, who originally wanted to play a time gap, gave the opponent a chance to remedy. But Miller knew that this matter could not be so dying. He believed that as long as Kyle If the performance of the Celtics gets better and better, more and more people will be interested in this kind of thing. What if the performance of the Celtics gets worse? That was exactly what Miller wanted.
Thinking of the recent Celtics' performance becoming unstable, Miller couldn't help feeling a little proud. At this moment, he was sitting in his office at 223 South Dean Avenue in New York, waiting for one of his guests, a lesser eye-catching one. Guys. So he had been thinking about things related to the Celtics in his mind, and he didn't think too much about the small business in front of him. (To be continued.)