Chapter 51: Why Don't You Give It a Try?
After the wizard communicated with Wang Xiao, there was no follow-up.
It seems that he was also frightened by Wang Xiao's direct request for the right to decide the transaction.
Wang Xiao also thought that there was no play, and while he was a little disappointed, he couldn't help but wonder if his requirements were too high.
In the final analysis, the right to decide on transactions is one of the biggest rights of the team's general manager, and as soon as he comes, he will divide the most important power of others, and no one will be happy to change it!
But Wang Xiao didn't expect that half a month later, the wizard actually contacted him again.
"Mr. Wang, we have carefully and carefully considered your proposal." On the phone, the tone of the Wizards' general manager was not particularly friendly. "If there are no other special requests, I think you can take the time to come to Washington, D.C., and we will go through the details of cooperation."
"Huh?"
Wang Xiao was a little dumbfounded, what does this mean?
Did the Wizards agree?
Wang Xiao didn't know that in the past half a month, the Wizards' management team held several meetings to discuss this matter, and the meeting was quite intense, some people thought that Wang Xiao was too arrogant and should not give the team head coach so much power, and some people thought that it was completely okay to give it a try, Wang Xiao's performance in the NCAA was not comparable to ordinary coaches, and maybe he could really lead the Wizards to rise.
Wizards general manager Ernie. Grenfield was against it, for the simple reason that Wang Xiao's request was to fight for power from his hands, and it was impossible for any general manager to agree to such a request.
When the discussion reached an impasse, the team's new owner stepped in.
The former owner of the Washington Wizards was named A. Pauline, who is the longest-tenured owner of the NBA, bought the team since the Wizards were still called the Baltimore Bullets, and it has been 45 years now, the 85-year-old man passed away recently, and his heirs inherited the ownership of the Washington Wizards.
There is a way that the new official has three fires, and Pauline's son also wants to do something in this situation to get the wizard out of the quagmire.
So there was this call to Wang Xiao before.
"You can grant him what he asks, Ernie, and you don't have to worry about who is in charge of the deal." Pauline's son, who is also in his sixties, has far more experience than Wizards general manager Glenfield. "If he doesn't do well enough, you can just fire him, it's your right or yours at that time, if he does well enough, then it can also prove that your decision to hire him as the general manager is correct, why not give it a try?"
In fact, the general manager Grunfield did not agree with the boss's words, because if Wang Xiao really did not do well, it would be too late to find out, even if Wang Xiao was fired, it would still have a great impact on the team, and when the time came, he Grenfield would have to carry part of the pot.
But the team owner has already spoken, and he is not sure what the new boss's temper is, and he doesn't dare to say anything more, so he can only make this call.
Wang Xiao simply packed a few clothes and boarded the plane to Washington.
As for the team's daily training and games, Wang Xiao handed it over to Jack to deal with.
Since the beginning of this season, many times, Wang Xiao has consciously handed over various tasks to Jack to do, on the one hand, Wang Xiao is not sure when he will join NAB, and on the other hand, this is also fulfilling Wang Xiao's promise to Jack - if Wang Xiao leaves Harvard, he will suggest that Jack be the head coach of the team.
So now, Wang Xiao's trip to Washington will not have any impact on the team.
However, when Wang Xiao explained the matter of his departure for the past few days, Jack still felt quite unbelievable that the wizards invited Wang Xiao for an interview.
"Dude, are you sure you're not kidding? Are you really going to coach in the NBA? ”
"Not necessarily, an interview doesn't mean a contract." Wang Xiao said with a smile: "What's more, even if I sign a contract, people can fire me, just like when I was a pioneer......"
"It's not a good joke." Jack laughed even though he said that. "May God bless you."
God forbid?
Perhaps.
Wang Xiao didn't know if there was a god or not, he was originally a staunch atheist, but traveling through parallel time and space and the system in his body made him really unsure what else was impossible.
But he was more willing to believe in himself than in God.
On the plane to Washington, Wang Xiao has collected all the information of the Wizards, including the development of the Wizards in the next few years.
Truth be told, the Wizards are not in a good situation, and they definitely can't afford to drag on.
Arenas, the team's main man, is about to explode like a ticking time bomb next season, and he must be traded before then.
The problem is that Arenas signed a six-year, $110 million contract extension with the Wizards, and it's not easy to find a contract from other teams that can match.
Thankfully, Arenas is only 26 years old, at least in the eyes of many, as an All-Star point guard with a long career ahead of him, in other words...... There is still trading value!
Another thing that Wang Xiao cares about very much is that he remembers that it seems that the Grizzlies' roster pick in '09 was obtained from the Wizards' trade, and it seemed that the Wizards used the first-round pick to replace the Grizzlies' backup point guard, which seemed to be called Christenton.
This guy averaged 5.3 points and 1.8 assists per game in his career, a standard trick in a trick.
And the Grizzlies, who traded this waste from the Wizards for the Eye Sign, signed a scum that was more wasteful than him.
Hashem. Tabit, even throughout history, is one of the best parallel imports.
In the same year as Tabit, the draft pick is below Tabit, and there is the third pick, James. Harden, seventh overall pick Stephen. Curry, DeRozan with the ninth pick.
Curry and Harden are proper Hall of Fame-level players, and DeRozan is slightly inferior to the two, but in Wang Xiao's time and space, DeRozan is also an All-Star level player, averaging 19.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game in his career!
In addition to these three, there are also such as the peak of his debut, with an average of 20+5+5 data per game in his rookie season, beating everyone to win the best rookie Tyrek. Evans, the legendary European golden boy Rubio, and Zhu Brown. Holiday T. Lawson and other great players.
Wang Xiao was quite puzzled, among so many high-quality players, Tabit could be selected, and the Grizzlies' scouting vision was really good.
Now, now that Wang Xiao has the opportunity to be the head coach of the Wizards, the trade between the Wizards and the Grizzlies must be halted, so that he has at least a top-five draft pick at the beginning. (It should be noted here that the Grizzlies and the Wizards traded in early December, when the Wizards were still thinking about turning the tables, so they traded a point guard from the Grizzlies to replace the injured Arenas in an attempt to return to the top eight in the East, but in the end the Wizards were at the bottom of the East, and because of their bad record, they were drawn to the top of the list, for the sake of the rationality of the plot, when the Wizards were looking for the protagonist, it was already a time when there was no hope of impacting the playoffs, and the deal in this book was postponed, just as the butterfly effect changed some.) )