Chapter 344: When the Meeting Proceeds
Against a team that already has the strength to compete for the championship, Chen Mo can make him the biggest favorite for the championship in an instant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 For a team that is in the process of rebuilding, Chen Mo can speed up their rebuilding process by at least 60 percent. For such a player, the general manager of that team does not want to sign him?
Whoever can take Chen Mo away can basically be sure that he will be the best manager next season.
If there is anyone who has the most bitter heart now, it must be the Los Angeles Lakers.
Originally, they could probably win three consecutive championships, and then this summer, Chen Mo became a restricted free agent, even if they couldn't negotiate with Chen Mo, they could do their best to match the contracts offered by other teams, and Chen Mo had to stay with the Lakers anyway.
By the end of Chen Mo's next contract, Kobe Bryant is almost time to retire, and the Los Angeles Lakers can declare the perfect transition from the Kobe era to the Chen Mo era without any pain, but now it's too late. However, they still have a chance to fight for the opportunity to let Chen Mo return to Los Angeles.
At eight o'clock in the morning, in the conference room of the penthouse suite of the Marriott Hotel in the heart of New York, Chen Mo and Falck met the meeting party of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Chen Mo had already learned from the news about the lineup of the team they would meet, and there was no need to say much about luxury.
Chen Mo and Kobe Bryant hugged each other, and then exchanged a few words of greeting.
For the other two Lakers celebrities, Magic and Tiangou Chen Mo also said hello.
"Jeff (Van Gundy) that guy is really slamming the door, and the case of red wine is too low-grade." Chen Mo complained.
At that time, Van Gundy made a bet with Johnson, and after Van Gundy lost, he gave Johnson two cases of red wine as promised, and Johnson quickly sent one of the boxes to Chen Mo, who was very disappointed with the red wine that Van Gundy paid for the bet.
"He's a thrifty guy." Johnson said.
Next, the meeting officially began, and Kupchak did not have any intention of lowering the price of Chen Mo, and he directly gave the Lakers' bottom line.
The Lakers offered a three-year, $85 million contract, which is more than the three-year $83.5 million that Bryant signed last summer.
Regarding the "overlord clause" owned by Kobe Bryant on the right to veto and the transaction margin, Kupchak agreed to Chen Mo.
"Of course, this is a contract according to the current collective bargaining agreement, and there will be a new collective bargaining agreement after July 1, and we can talk about the details of the contract at that time, but this is our sincerity." Kupchak said.
Chen Mo smiled: "I don't particularly care about the size of the contract, what I care about is whether you understand my playing style?" You signed me to win the championship, and if I don't fit into your system, I don't think it will work very well. ”
"We naturally know that your off-ball offense is very sharp, your running, playmaking, passing ability is top-notch, and even the quality of your coverage is very high, I have seen the highlights after you give big screens, and it is hard to imagine that your size can play such a quality of cover." Johnson said.
Chen Mo shook his head and immediately said: "But these are not my strongest, my strongest state, I need to hold the ball!" ”
When Chen Mo said the last sentence, everyone swept their eyes to Kobe Bryant, intentionally or unintentionally.
Kobe naturally understood that Chen Mo was asking him for the ball.
If he agrees to hand over the ball here today, then he has to play by it next season, that's the rules of the game.
In the end, their meeting lasted for an hour, and Bryant was reluctant to hand over all the ball, but he made concessions, and the conversation was quite successful. Chen Mo promised to give an answer before July 1.
Bryant hadn't said a word since he left the conference room, and he seemed to be fighting a mental battle. In the end, Kobe Bryant still couldn't accept being a second-in-command for Chen Mo.
"It's the limit when you have the ball." Bryant said as the plane landed at the Los Angeles airport.
The others didn't speak, the Lakers were the first team to meet with Chen Mo, and they offered very good conditions, better than those given by Jordan, but they still need to continue to meet with other teams to finally come up with a final result.
"Chris Paul's plan is also going to go ahead, and I have a hunch that Jack Chan will not choose to return, after all, he once said that 'good horses don't eat grass'." Kupchak said to his assistant.
The Los Angeles Lakers are followed by New York, and Knicks owner James Dowland is a well-known rich man and wrongdoer in the NBA, and they have almost opened the most garbage contracts in the NBA in nearly a decade.
This time, they were determined to revive the basketball mecca, bringing Stoudemire from Phoenix to New York last summer, and after colluding with Carmelo Anthony this year, Anthony forced the Nuggets to broker the deal in the middle of the season, which led to his arrival in New York.
The Carmelo Anthony trade is rumored to be very displeasing to Stern, who believes that this league cannot be the player's diction, and the player can go wherever he wants, which he cannot accept.
Back then, Stern freed the NBA from Cardinal Auerbach's single-handed situation, and his methods naturally needless to say, maybe it won't be long before Stern will use tough means and measures to give the players a blow to the head.
'It's a perfect situation to form a big three with Cameron and Amare in a perfect situation. At that time, the combination of Amare and Steve (Nash) could close to the championship, and I believe that giving him a strengthened version of Steve will play a stronger fight, and there is also Carmelo Anthony, a super wing player, as long as you come, whether it is the coach or the rest of the roles, it is up to you. "James Dolan personally negotiated with Chen Mo.
New York can be regarded as full of sincerity, but Chen Mo can't give a positive answer after all. At the end of the hour-long meeting, the New Yorker left the hotel.
Although Chicago in the back also wants to get Chen Mo, they have too little room to operate. In this case, it is impossible for them to say that they can give up on Derrick Rose and go all out to pursue Chen Mo, that would be too risky. After all, if Chen Mo didn't agree, and they said to give up Ross, it would chill Rose's heart. In the end, they lost a lot of money when the bamboo basket was empty.
Yes, the combination that Chicago can expect is the super backcourt combination of Chen Mo and Rose, but such conditions are really not attractive, not to mention that there is a huge contradiction between Chen Mo and Rose.
The Chicago Bulls are followed by the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Los Angeles Clippers have always wanted to get rid of the shadow of the Los Angeles Lakers, so they can be said to be determined to win Chen Mo.
But even so, they still don't dare to open conditions more than the Golden State Warriors.
When the Golden State Warriors, the last team to meet today, came in, Bob Myers, the general manager of the Warriors, simply dropped out the sentence, "What kind of team you want, you decide." We've been blown away by your performance in the dugout as well, and I'm sure you're just as interested in building a team with your own hands, and Auckland can give you that stage, even though it's not a big city. ”
All the teams that met today only saw Chen Mo's super performance on the field, and they all ignored Chen Mo's performance on the sidelines.
Only the warriors know Chen Mo's talent best in the coach's seat.
"I'm curious, how do you know?" Chen Mo, who was already very tired, suddenly became interested.
"We have an internal database, which is probably the most comprehensive database in the league today." Bob Myers said proudly: "Even though the database has only been in existence for a year, it has been able to be used initially. ”
"We found that the Charlotte Bobcats have two tactical styles, one of which has a very strong Jerry Sloan style. Although he has gradually adapted to the modern style of basketball, his team has always maintained some old-school habits, such as dirty. ”
"When you block and dismantle with an interior player, as long as the interior player is misplaced and holds the ball, there will be an action like elbow racking and shoulder sinking. But there was some cover, a noticeable increase in speed, more emphasis on the in-place nature of the run, and even some randomness. Bob Myers said: "We looked at all of Jerry Sloan's 23 years of coaching and found no running in this style. I think that's probably a tactic you devised to do so. The same goes for your style of play, chic, casual and flashy. ”
Regarding the database of warriors, Chen Mo expressed great curiosity. And Bob Myers also came up with a new idea, "Technology makes basketball better." ”
Bob Myers gave Chen Mo some data about the players' training, as well as monitoring the players' sleep and excitement levels during games.
"It's also part of our database, and you should be aware that insomnia is a big problem among NBA players. Players should keep themselves as excited as possible during the game, but this state of excitement is very difficult to sleep, and most NBA games are played at night. Yes, it affects the rest of the players very much. ”
At this time, the owner of the Warriors, Joe Rekabu, took over, "I invested in a company in Silicon Valley to design a sleeping pod that allows athletes to relax, and the first generation of this sleeping pod will be made by March next year." Warriors players can be the first users of the official product. ”
Chen Mo had been listening with interest, and he was very interested in these.
As for the conditions offered by the Warriors, they are also more favorable. The Warriors are a rebuilding team, their core player is Ellis, and just after this season, they have decided to continue building the team with Curry as the core, so they selected a pitcher-type shooting guard in the draft - Klay Thompson.
"I'd like to ask if your selection of Klay Thompson has anything to do with your database." Chen Mo asked.
Bob Myers replied, "There's a relationship. ”
"We were very optimistic about Stephen's projection ability, and if Stephen had a partner with the same projection ability, it would have been the best, so we chose Klay. Of course, if you come, the effect will be even better. ”
"Actually, you can think about it, two pitchers holding the ball with each other, covering each other, opening each other's space, passing the ball to each other, it's scary, don't you want to try this gorgeous and elegant style of play?"
To be honest, among so many teams meeting today, Chen Mo has the best impression of the Warriors.
Although Oakland is a small ball market, they are less than 500 kilometers from Los Angeles, close to Silicon Valley, and most importantly, Chen Mo lived in Oakland as a child. For the Bay Area, he sometimes misses it a lot.
Plus, there's his best friend, Stephen Curry.
"My brother, you are welcome in Auckland." Stephen Curry spoke for the first time.
Falck smiled and said, "Gentlemen, we are very interested in your conditions, and we are more interested in the combination of technology and basketball, but there are still 24 teams waiting to meet in the future, and we will give an answer before the 1st." ”
Seeing off the meeting team in Auckland, Chen Mo stood up and stretched, he felt very tired at the moment, and the meeting and conversation were much more tiring than playing a game.
"David, I'll go to the gym and think about what we're going to eat in the evening." Chen Mo said: "Of course, you invite you for dinner, you have added too much workload to me." Even though I don't think there's any need for us to meet the team behind us, you've said yes. Let's talk more about it in the evening! ”
From Chen Mo's words, Falck keenly captured a piece of information, Chen Mo has made a choice, if Michael Jordan has no other changes, Chen Mo's next stop is Oakland, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago.
Although Chen Mo said that he was discussing it at night, Falke still habitually guessed.
Capturing useful information from other people's words is a habit of Falck and one of the secrets of his success.
"First of all, excluding Chicago, Jack would never like to form a two-back backcourt with Derrick Rose, and if Jack didn't stay in Charlotte, he probably wouldn't choose to stay in the Eastern Conference."
"The teams in the East have to play Charlotte three or four times a year, and it would be cruel for him to come back to Charlotte more than once a year. Therefore, he will definitely not choose New York. While it would be fitting for Jack to join as a core guard with two offensive All-Stars, he probably won't like it. ”
"If you had to choose between the Lakers, the Clippers and the Warriors, the Lakers would probably be the first to be ruled out."
"Whether it's what he once said, 'A good horse doesn't eat grass' or he couldn't agree with Kobe Bryant on the ball issue, it doesn't look like he's going to choose there. What's more, Buss Sr. died, and his children were fighting for the management of the Lakers, and now the team is in chaos, and Jack definitely doesn't like to get involved in this kind of struggle. ”
"If you don't pick the Lakers, then the chances of the Clippers are not high. Jack has a good image in the hearts of Los Angeles Lakers fans, and he can't afford to offend Lakers fans by going to the same city. ”
"But to Auckland? Auckland is being rebuilt! If you don't win the championship next season, it's a big loss. ”
Falck had a headache, and then he thought of another possibility.
"Could it be that he is not satisfied with the five teams today, he already has the answer in his heart? Is it going to Sacramento? After all, Jack's relationship with Agalie ......"
Falke thought about it and finally chose a target, he felt that Chen Mo's favorite team was either a warrior or a king.
If it was an ordinary team, with Falke's qualifications, he would definitely not think about preparing in advance to please the boss, but now he is facing Chen Mo! Therefore, if you have a certain understanding of the boss's thoughts in advance, the following discussion will definitely go more smoothly. Falke didn't want to lose Chen Mo, the boss. (To be continued.) )