Chapter 111: piece

Compared with Boston, Morey really likes the city of Minneapolis. www; The two cities are in the same high latitude area. The cold winter weather is unbearable. You have to wait until the summer fully enters in June before the tail of winter will leave the city reluctantly. However, under the influence of the Atlantic Ocean, Boston is always shrouded in haze. From the end of spring to early summer, there will be a lot of haze weather, which makes Morey who prefers dry weather quite uncomfortable.
Morey was born in Midia, Ohio, on the banks of the Great Lakes. It is also a cold and humid place in winter. Growing up in such an area did not make Morey like and adapt to such an environment. To be honest, he hated it. Planted in a place where cold wind and heavy snow flies most of the year.
When he arrived in Minneapolis, he felt much better. Although the temperature here was colder than Boston, even in the summer morning, he would be shrunk by the rustling cold wind just after getting off the plane. But once you take a taxi into the city, you will not have such troubles when you hide in the buildings in Minneapolis.
As a city that is affected by heavy snow and cold wind all the year round, most of the buildings in Minneapolis are connected by closed sky bridges. When you get off the car and enter a building, you can walk through these sky bridges for most of the time. This is Minneapolis, instead of running through the freezing streets.
Morey likes these ubiquitous flyovers. Whenever he walks from one building to another, he feels that he has completed a beautiful transaction. It seems that he has become a direct flyover between the two teams. No, mutual benefit. This is what Morey has always hoped that he can do, like a real basketball manager, open the channel of the league's trade, and build an invincible team for a certain team.
Of course, he seems to be far away from such a dream, especially these days when Leon was sent to Minneapolis just to complete a trivial small signing.
But this came back to Apolis. Morey didn't have time to use delicious black coffee in the coffee shop on the flyover, but immediately rented a car to the Bert Creek Sanatorium in the northern suburbs of Apolis. As the best and oldest nursing home in Minneapolis, it has a beautiful environment and the best facilities. The people Morey will meet this time live in the nursing home.
It happened to be noon when I arrived at Bert Creek. The sanatorium is located on the shore of Fish Lake in the northern suburbs. Minnesota, the state of a thousand lakes, is full of icy lakes left over from the ice age. Morey quickly found the ward where the person he was looking for through the front desk, in a single room on the fourth floor.
"Is anyone here? Can I come in?" Morey knocked on the door of the room, although he was asking if anyone was there. But before the inside answered that he had pushed the door and entered, the door was not locked. Morey saw Malik Siri sitting on the bed with one foot hanging from a steel frame.
This is the fifth day after Malik Siri had an ankle surgery. The cast has been removed, but his feet still cannot move. He needs to be hung on a steel frame in a special protective cover. This life makes him feel bored. . Both the wife and son temporarily returned to their hometown in New York, and only the nurse came to check the situation every day. Kevin Garnett visited him the day after the operation, and no one has been there since then, including the Timberwolves management and coaching staff. He knew that he might have been abandoned.
Since being inexplicably attacked in a Boston pub two years ago, Malik Ciri’s life has been messy. In the playoffs, he missed all the games because of a dislocated jaw. Then he suffered a game in the summer. In the car accident, the ankle was injured, but the injury was not serious. But he is a professional basketball player, and any small injury can cause a devastating blow.
Finally at the end of this year's season, his ankle was injured again in training and eventually had to undergo ankle surgery. Now he has the last year of his contract with the Timberwolves. He is currently 32 years old and has entered the late stage of his career as a professional player. He has suffered such serious injuries and major operations. What he is about to face is likely to be a buyout of the contract and lose his job thereafter. Either enter the team's management or start a drifting career in the minor leagues.
In these ten days, no team called him, and his agent did not contact him, just like many non-star players in this league. This is roughly the case where the career ends. So when Darryl Morey walked into Siri’s room, Siri was surprised, and when Morey introduced him as the Celtics’ player development assistant, Siri felt that this guy was here to invite himself to nbdl. of.
"Mr. Ciri, there are only you and me here. We open the skylights to speak up. The Celtics hope to sign you after you are bought out by the Timberwolves!" Morey now speaks more and more like Leon, Chang As time follows Leon, he also likes to talk straight, and will show the confidence and confidence that Leon often has when speaking. It would be better if he could have a cigar in his hand.
"What do you want from me?" Siri is a smart man. He is thirty-two years old. He has played on many teams in the league, from Indiana to Los Angeles, from Detroit to Minnesota. He is not Wang Zhizhi or a boy. The same young chicken can convince him in a few words that he wants to know more.
Morey imagined in his mind how Leon would answer such a question, so he hesitated, thought for a while and said: "We hope you can convince Kevin Garnett to join Kyle next season. Special person."
Malik Siri smiled, not only thinking that the person in front of him is ridiculous, but also that the situation he is in is ridiculous. A team signs a player not because he is good enough, but because he needs him to recruit another player. At the same time, Xili also felt that he might only have this point of use value. When the Timberwolves was a close friend of Garnett, when Garnett closed himself in his own small world, Xili gave him Nate was warm and persuasive. Now that he is injured, only Garnett has come to visit him.
"Kevin's choice is entirely up to him. I cannot influence him. He is a superstar. He has the right and the right to freely choose where to stay. He wants me to convince him? I'm sorry I can't do it." Siri refused. After Morley’s proposal, it made Morey feel a little speechless. Why could Leon be able to persuade others with just a touch of his mouth, but he was rejected when he spoke? Obviously Leon is also a straight forward.
At this time, Morey remembered what Leon had said to him, "If you want the other party to accept your terms, you'd better give him a condition that he can't refuse."
"We will give you a three-year nine million dollar contract, using our middle class clause." Morey finally threw out his killer feature. Before coming to Minnesota, Leon spent a whole day arguing with Angie. How to use the team's middle class clause, Angie hopes to find a suitable insider of the year in the free market, while Leon only wants to recruit Malik Siri to prepare for his fight for Garnett.
In the end Leon succumbed, because the team's owner Paliuca expressed his willingness to pay part of the luxury tax for the Celtics, provided that the team must introduce superstars, and Leon's strategy is directed at the superstars.
In the face of the offensive of money, Ciri was easily shaken. You must know that his salary in the Timberwolves last season was $1.2 million a year, which is less than a tenth of Garnett's. Now because of injuries and age, he is likely to quit the league without the ball to play, but the Celtics are willing to offer him a contract with an annual salary of 3 million, which is a condition that Ciri cannot refuse. . Don't say let Ciri persuade Garnett to join the Celtics, let him persuade surrender, he is also willing to try.
"Kevin is quite loyal to the Timberwolves...I don't know how...how to persuade him, maybe I can accept your contract and terms, but I must speak first, maybe my persuasion will be useless." Siri said His concerns, in his opinion, Garnett is a very loyal to the team.
Morey knew that the matter had already become more than half of it, he shook his hand quickly and said, "No, no, Xili, you don't need to persuade him directly, we have our plan. First, you need to reach a buyout agreement with the Timberwolves. But at the same time, you have to express to Kevin that you don’t want to leave the Timberwolves. It’s best to let Kevin speak for you so that you can stay in the Timberwolves. Second, after you leave the Timberwolves, keep in touch with Garnett. Still friends like the past, stay emotionally hot. Third, you need to attack the Timberwolves appropriately, not the kind that tears the skin, but some small criticisms, especially about their team building strategy and thinking. In fact, You also know that the Timberwolves do not do very well in this regard. Finally, the most important point is to take care of your foot injury. Nine million is more than just signing a lobbyist."
When Morey finished speaking this long paragraph, he felt refreshed for a moment. He really wanted to take a cigar from his pocket and light it in front of Xili, and then quietly waited for Xili’s response. UU看书www.uukanshu .com It's a pity that he never put cigars in his pocket, and he doesn't smoke cigars either.
Of course, Leon told him these words of Morey. He wrote these things on a small piece of paper. Morey read it over and over on the way to Minnesota and practiced it in his head, and finally finished it in one go in front of Nishi Said it. And the last so-called "most important point" was added by Morey himself. He thought that if Leon heard this impromptu point, he would definitely appreciate it.
Unlike Morey’s triumphant, Ciri was stuck in thought. He could feel the Celtics in the next big chess game. Kevin Garnett was the center of this chess game, and he himself was a small chess piece. . As the highest salary in the league, and the unprecedentedly high Garnett, it is almost impossible to get him through a deal, no matter what. But compared with other superstars in the league, especially inside superstars, Garnett's chances of winning the championship are smaller than anyone else. This is his biggest loophole and weakness, and it is also the loophole and weakness of the Timberwolves.
Ciri is the vanguard and bridgehead used by Leon to dig this loophole and concentrate this weakness.
"Well, I promise you. But I also want to say, if you want Kevin to join, you Celtics will finally show some championship-winning atmosphere." Siri said to Morey, and he finally agreed to Lay Ang's condition. To be continued.