In addition to the cruelty of this NBA, what makes Richard a little speechless is ......

At least four or five media newspapers and magazines have published "The Lakers defeated the Trail Blazers, the head coach was fired, who is the next head coach to be fired?" title.

This made Richard jump into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it away......

Harris himself will be fired this season, and even without Richard, he can only coach a dozen more games.

Now that the time to be fired has been brought forward, it may be a little related to Richard, if it weren't for such a fiasco in the opening game, maybe Harris could hold on for a while......

After reaching Denver Heights the next day, Richard immediately asked Zhang to arrange a small pre-match press conference.

The reason for this small press conference is that Richard must have wanted to find an opportunity to help himself and Harris clarify it.

"Coach Richard, do you think Harris was terminated by the Lakers, does this matter have anything to do with you?" The reporter was quite tactful, and asked Richard as soon as he came up, whether you were the fault of Harris being fired......

"Nope!"

"There is no connection!"

"I'm taking advantage of this press conference today, and I want to say a few words for Harris......"

Richard cleared his throat and continued to the reporters in the audience.

"Harris is definitely a conscientious head coach, and now he has been terminated by the Lakers directly, which is a great regret for me."

"I think Harris is a pretty good coach, and if he's willing to come to our Trail Blazers, we'd be very welcome!"

The reporters in the audience were stunned, Richard is recruiting Harris?!

Looking at this posture, is Richard thinking of letting Harris come to his own team as an assistant coach?

Can Harris say yes......

……

Speaking of which, Richard actually really wants to recruit an assistant coach at the moment, mainly after Carlisle is gone, in terms of tactical research, there is only one Stevens who can help him at the moment, which is obviously not enough......

Stevens is too young to take on the role of an assistant coach at the moment.

If Harris could come to the Trail Blazers, Richard would welcome him with a raised hand.

And Richard knows that there are four or five teams in the league that will fire their head coach this season, and if these teams terminate their contracts with the head coach after playing against the Trail Blazers, I'm afraid these basins will have to be buckled on Richard's head.

Although insiders know that this matter has little to do with Richard......

But laymen spread false rumors that these coaches were all beaten and retired by Richard, and the face of the victim will definitely be ugly at that time.

For example, Richard's old acquaintance, Hornets head coach Dave Cowens, and Nets head coach Cary Perry were both fired this season, and if their dismissal is detained on Richard's head, it will inevitably affect the revolutionary friendship......

Now Richard simply stepped forward and extended an olive branch of friendship to Harris.

If Harris did come to be an assistant coach, Richard would definitely make ......

If he didn't come, Richard would certainly have nothing to lose......

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Generally, when playing Nuggets, because the altitude of the Nuggets is too high, many teams will come a day in advance to adapt to the altitude of the Nuggets.

Pathfinders are no exception......

After a day of training in Denver, the Trail Blazers ushered in their second game of the season.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the starters of both sides began to enter.

What Nuggets fans didn't expect was that the Trail Blazers came up with a completely different starting lineup this time.

The interior combination is still Auburn, and the point guard is still Kobe, but on the front line, there are two newcomers in the starter.

Nowitzki and Mobley!

Nuggets fans don't know whether to cry or laugh right now......

The funny thing is that the Trail Blazers didn't play their strongest starter, and their strength must have been damaged, which is good for the Nuggets.

The crying is that the Trail Blazers must have completely ignored the Nuggets, otherwise, playing the strongest starting lineup on the Lakers, playing the Nuggets will be on the semi-starting lineup, isn't this obviously looking down on the strength of the Nuggets......

"Driver, you play the position of small forward in this game, don't have any psychological burden!" Richard smiled and patted the driver on the shoulder.

Nowitzki still didn't react to his driver's nickname, and it wasn't until Richard patted him on the shoulder that he remembered that the driver was talking about himself......

He couldn't figure out why he would give himself the nickname of driver, even if you were an artilleryman. Then you can roughly know what the reason is.

But since the coach calls himself so, then the driver is the driver, anyway, it's just a nickname......

"Cat, you are also in the position of the guard, the same, don't have any psychological burden, come on!" Richard patted the old cat Mobley on the shoulder again.

Unlike Nowitzki, Mobley's old cat nickname was actually given when he was in college, mainly because his name was Catino......

Cuttino, nicknamed cut, sounds like cat, and the acceleration is fast, so it has the nickname of the old cat.

……

Two newcomers got a chance to start, and to say that they weren't nervous, that's impossible!

Maybe in those weak teams, these two people won't have any psychological pressure to start, but this is in the strong team Trailblazers!

If they lose because of themselves, then they probably won't be able to hold their heads up in the team......

Now Richard comforted them a little, and they relaxed a little.

……

There are two newcomers in this game, and there must be a reason for wanting to develop newcomers.

Next season, Richard's five players who joined the team in '96, Big Ben, Rashid, Kobe, Xiao O, and Bowen are all facing the problem of contract extensions.

No matter how Richard thinks about it, it is impossible to keep all five of them, and if one of them leaves the team, a new person will definitely need to be replaced.

It is worth mentioning that Rashid signed a one-year contract with the Trail Blazers for $9 million.

Because of the introduction of the maximum salary regulation, the $9 million is the maximum salary he can get......

As for the other old Curry, who has renewed his contract, it is a three-year, $4 million contract.

At the moment, the Trail Blazers' salary is definitely not at all pressure, just over the poor ghost line of less than half a million dollars......

And next season, the salary pressure will be great.

Therefore, Richard must take precautions and train newcomers in advance to prevent a serious decline in the overall strength of the team at that time.

In addition to the purpose of cultivating new people, another very important reason is the mission of god-making.

If a player wants to brush up on the data, the first thing to ensure is that the game does not go into garbage time too early......

Once the game goes into garbage time, continuing to farm the stats will become a career black spot, which is not uncommon in NBA history.