Judging from the players selected by Richard, although Richard has passed through ten years, there are some traditions and habits that he still has not left behind.

For example, he prefers to use defensive players over offensive players......

Milicic, Vallejo, Iguodala and Ariza were all starters who excelled defensively.

Coupled with Payton in the No. 1 position, Richard made this starting lineup, and the defensive strength is quite good.

Even if there are many newcomers in the starting lineup now, in terms of defensive intensity, Richard feels that this lineup should rank in the middle of the league.

……

Compared to Mourning and Payton, Pippen is much worse at guiding newcomers.

Although he was not absent from the training camp, he obviously did not have much interest in mentoring the newcomers.

In the training ground, Pippen is often seen instructing the newcomers to buy drinks or food, and laughing at the newcomers from time to time.

Richard didn't take this situation too seriously.

This is an NBA tradition, and it is extremely normal for newcomers to run errands, and if Richard even cares about it, it is really unreasonable.

But don't care about it, it doesn't mean that Richard approves of this kind of behavior, at least in the West Lafayette player group, Richard subtly influences the West Lafayette players with his own behavior, and they rarely have this kind of thing that makes newcomers run errands.

……

Treat Pippen, Richard basically treats him as air, and if there are no special circumstances, he basically treats him as if he doesn't exist.

……

In Richard's office on October 2.

Tomorrow is the day of the first game of the preseason, and the Golden Dragon has compiled a statement of expenses for this year.

Player salaries are certainly the biggest item.

The salary cap for a normal team is about $43 million, while the Pirates have a salary cap of only $29.5 million this year.

But even with such a small salary cap, it was enough for the Pirates.

The three veterans, Mourning and Pippen, are both $5 million, and Payton is about $2.5 million.

The three of them add up to a total of $12.5 million.

Of the three new recruits to the team this year, Iguodala has the highest rank and the most salary, $13 million for four years, but the salary for the first year is only three million.

As for Vallejo and Ariza, their combined annual salaries are less than $2 million.

The rest of Milicic and the others add up to about $10 million.

The entire salary of the Pirates is less than $28 million, which is still some distance from the salary cap.

Compared with the Knicks, who have to spend more than $100 million on salaries this year, the Pirates' salary is pitiful.

Even Richard had to convince the Knicks, spending so much money and playing such a garbage record, it was really speechless.

I don't know what their boss, Mr. Dolan, thinks......

Although even if the Knicks have a bad record and even if they invest a lot in salary, they are still the most profitable team in the league, but if they can win the championship, they will definitely make more money.

James Dolan is definitely the epitome of a guy who is stupid and has a lot of money.

……

It is worth mentioning that the current total salary of the Pirates of $27.5 million is not as much as O'Neal's salary alone.

The following season, O'Neal's annual salary was as high as $27.7 million......

This salary is quite terrifying.

You must know that the second-ranked King Webb and the third-ranked Alan Houston both have salaries of just over 17 million.

As for Garnett, who was sprayed very badly because of his contract before, he couldn't even get into the top three, and his salary this season was only $16 million.

……

This bizarre situation is also the first time since Jordan that a player's personal salary exceeds the total salary of a team.

……

In addition to the large part of the player's salary expenditure, the rest of the personnel salary is not much, less than 15 million US dollars.

This also includes Richard's $8 million salary, and the three teaching assistants for a total of $3 million......

It stands to reason that even if a team is a new army, it is absolutely impossible to put together a team with only such a small amount of money.

But the pirates are in a special situation after all......

First of all, the general manager and president don't have to spend a penny, and secondly, the team didn't even recruit a scout.

If there is Richard, what do you want scouts to do, isn't that a waste of money?

Scouting alone, the Buccaneers saved more than a million dollars compared to other teams.

Anyway, now Richard and Jordan are just saving as much as possible, saving as much as possible, and ensuring that the first season of the Pirates will not lose money.

Of course, there are some necessary expenses that cannot be saved, such as cheerleading.

The cheerleaders are the best products that Richard specially asked Paul Allen to get in touch with.

Each of them is the best of the gourd-shaped figure, and the appearance is also impeccable.

The price of such a superb product is naturally much higher than that of other teams' cheerleaders, but Richard feels that there is no need to save this kind of money.

Some fans are really good at that, and if the cheerleaders are really good, maybe they will be more interested in the Pirate game.

……

"Well done, hopefully God willing, we won't lose so much this season." Richard said with a wry smile at the golden dragon.

"BOSS, even if it's a loss, it's not much, after all, we don't have much investment at all." The golden dragon said with a smile.

In total, the cost of less than 60 million US dollars was invested, which is not as much as the salary of the players of other teams, and even if it is lost, where can it be lost.

A loss of millions of dollars, in the eyes of the Golden Dragon, it is not a problem.

Just sprinkle with water.

"If you don't lose money, it's definitely better if you don't lose money." Richard said with a smile.

……

As soon as the golden dragon walked on his front foot, Richard received a call from Tiana.

This call directly made Richard's heart chuckle.

At ten o'clock this morning, Tiana and Richard talked about going to the hospital......

It's not that there is anything uncomfortable in the body, but the eldest aunt didn't come on time.

It's not that Richard doesn't understand anything in this regard, and the eldest aunt didn't come, so there is basically a high probability that she is pregnant.

Richard answered the phone excitedly.

"Tiana, don't say it yet, let me guess, am I going to be a father?"

Without waiting for Tiana to speak, Richard asked with a smile.

"Uh-huh......" Tiana's shy voice came from the phone.

Richard suddenly only felt empty in his mind, he was going to be a father, and after ten years, he finally had a child in this world.

"Boy or girl?" Richard's mouth was grinning to the back of his head......

"How can you know the gender so quickly, it takes at least five months to see the gender with a high probability."

"But ......"

"But what?" Richard hurriedly asked.

"But the B-ultrasound photo shows that there are three embryos......"

Richard was stunned, what does this mean? Three embryos?

"What do you mean? Bad situation? ”

"It's just that triplets may ......," Tiana said shyly.

Richard almost vomited blood, triplets?!

Good guy, isn't your firepower a little too fierce, and you actually got a triplet at once?!

Of course, listening to Tiana's tone, it doesn't seem to be triplets, just a possibility.

But even so, it is enough for Richard to be happy, and it is very likely that he will be the father of three children next year.

"Lee, do you like boys or girls?" Tiana asked with a smile.

"I like them all!" Richard gave a panacea answer......

But he really likes it, if he gives birth to a son, he inherits his mantle, and if he gives birth to a girl, he is an intimate little padded jacket.

And if it's really triplets, there is still a good chance that both children will be born.

It is unlikely that the triplets are all boys or girls......

"Well, I have to stay away from that Kobe guy recently, but I must not be infected by him, in case I have a daughter, it will be embarrassing enough......" Richard muttered in his heart.

Kobe's ability to give birth to a girl is simply no one, and he has given birth to four daughters in a row, which is terrible to think about.

Although the slogan was loud, Richard actually wanted the first child Tiana to give birth to a son.

It's not that Richard is patriarchal, but he has a lot of magical props on hand that he needs his son to inherit.

In other words, Richard really had the throne to pass on to his son......

Super giant suits, which are enough to elevate a player to the level of the emperor of basketball.

This is not what the throne is.

"Triplets, how can you have a son? I'm not Kobe Bryant......" Richard muttered again.

Bryant's eldest daughter was born in January '03, when Richard also went to the hospital to visit Vanessa......

Listening to Kobe's meaning, he was thinking about continuing to give birth in a few years and strive to have a son.

Richard really wanted to tell Kobe Bryant to just give up resistance, and you won't have a son.

Kobe Bryant in later generations, if he wants to say that he doesn't want a son, that's fake.

Just look at the frequency of Vanessa's births, after the birth of the eldest daughter, after an interval of three years, the second daughter was born.

After ten years of silence, the third daughter was born in 16 years......

It stands to reason that the children are almost enough, but in 19 years, Vanessa gave birth again, and this time she is still a daughter.

……

"I'm so happy today, I'm so happy!"

"Hey, I'm so happy!"

On October 3rd, the opening match of the Pirates, Richard hummed a little song with a smile on his face.

"Coach, what's the matter, so happy?" Iguodala leaned over to Richard and asked.

He has a more lively temperament, and it didn't take long for him to get quite familiar with Richard.

"Go ahead, you kid think about how to win the game in a while, don't meddle with things." Richard waved away, not telling Iguodala.

Milicic looked at Iguodala with envy, even a little jealousy.

He and Richard had known each other for so long, and if you count the time we met in Russia, it would have been years......

But he still can't be like Iguodala, who has nothing to do with Richard to brush up on his presence.

This is a communication barrier, and Milicic himself is well aware of it.

Considering that he and Richard have known each other for so many years, they both have barriers to communication, let alone these new teammates.

Therefore, when the other players got together in twos and threes, Milicic was alone and looked so lonely.

Richard glanced at Milicic and sighed, this is a disease, it must be cured......

If it is not cured, it will be difficult for Milicic to grow into a top star required in the system's mission.

Richard already has the idea of helping Milicic, but it remains to be seen whether it will work.