Generally speaking, the more players in a team, the stronger the team.

However, this sentence is somewhat inapplicable to the king.

There are really a lot of West Lafayette players in the Kings team, a full four, and there is really no team other than the team Richard has coached with so many West Lafayette players.

But although these four players can also make it to the top half of the Western Conference playoffs this year, they are still far from winning the championship.

On the Western side, whether the Kings meet the Spurs or the Suns, they are all beaten.

Of course, at the moment, these four certainly don't know their results this season.

The night before the game, Richard had a meal with the four of them and had a good chat.

Originally, Artest wanted to order some wine and get drunk tonight to relieve his sorrows, but was stopped by Richard.

There's a game tomorrow night, and if you get drunk and return to the hotel tonight, Adelman is expected to explode on the spot.

They are now both excited and apprehensive.

Excitedly, the four West Lafayette brothers got together, such a configuration, which is rare in the whole league, and may have a chance to win the championship.

The question is what if anyone gets injured again this season......

"Coach, do you think we can win the championship this season?" Artest was in a hurry, and asked Richard.

Richard smiled bitterly and shook his head, "No one can say this, Ron, as long as you can all stay healthy, then the Kings are still quite competitive." ”

"Rahim, cheer up, you're only twenty-nine years old now, how do you look older than me, like an old man."

Richard patted Raheem on the shoulder and said solemnly.

When Rahim first entered the league, it was such a beautiful scene, but after so many years, this once glorious man has gradually been crushed by injuries and reality.

Not only him, but in addition to Artest, Bibby and Miller are also dull and deprived of vitality.

Artest has won a championship with the Trail Blazers, and he is an optimist by nature, so he didn't pay attention to the current difficulties.

The other three are gone, these three have not even touched the floor of the divisional finals, they are all close to thirty years old now, and it is really hard to say whether there will be a chance to reach the divisional finals in the future.

"I regret now that I should have taken a pay cut to join the Trail Blazers after I completed my rookie contract."

"Even if I only get an annual salary of five million, play for a few years, and win the championship, then I will have no regrets in my career."

Raheem sighed, and he now regrets why he didn't take a pay cut to join the Trail Blazers in the first place.

If he had joined the Trail Blazers for $5 million a year or $10 million for two years, he would have a championship in hand right now.

Bibi and Miller, who were on the side, also nodded......

"Don't be so frustrated, it's like you're going to retire tomorrow."

"You're all young, and you all have opportunities in the future."

"I told you that when you really can't move, you can come to me, and I will make your career complete."

"It's just a championship, and it's not a rare thing."

When everyone heard Richard's words, they couldn't help but smile bitterly.

It seems that Richard is really qualified to evaluate the championship in this way, because Richard already has five championship rings in his hands......

"Coach, how is the situation with the Buccaneers right now? Do you have a chance of winning the title in the last season or two? ”

Richard nodded, "There must be a chance, what the specific situation is, tomorrow's fight, you will know." ”

"Have a good rest tonight, don't think nonsense, if you really can't get around, at least there is a way out for me to go."

……

The four of them returned to the hotel one after another, except for the heartless Artest, the other three were full of emotion.

Probably the luckiest thing in their lives is to join the West Lafayette gang.

Even if you are depressed now, at least you have Richard's way out.

If the marginal players in the league knew what these three people thought, I am afraid they would cry to death......

Are you still down? All of them have an annual salary of tens of millions, and they dare to say that they are down!

……

At noon the next day, Richard answered the phone.

It was his cheap cousin Beasley who called.

He is now enrolled in Oak Hill High School, a basketball school, and has joined up with his good friend Durant.

And this Oak Hill High School is located in Virginia, next door to North Carolina, and it is less than a four-hour drive away.

Tonight was the opening game of the regular season for the Pirates, and Beasley thought he could come to watch the game live, so he called his big cousin Richard.

It's definitely impossible for Richard to refuse this kind of trivial matter, just three tickets, even if all of them are VIP seats, it's not worth a few dollars.

Beasley and Durant are definitely not allowed to drive, and this time they found a senior who was repeating the grade, and the temptation of a football ticket was used to be their driver.

After telling the boys to be careful, Richard gave him a phone number and told him to contact the team's ticket manager before entering.

On the ticket manager's side, Richard had already greeted him and asked him to reserve three VIP seats.

……

As soon as Beasley's affairs were taken care of, Richard's office welcomed guests.

This guest is considered a bad customer, because the goods are uninvited.

"You are?" Richard frowned as he looked at the middle-aged man who had barged into his office.

Asian faces, but Richard could still tell that these eighty percent were Koreans.

The facial features of Koreans are quite distinctive, and if you look closely, you can easily distinguish them.

Of course, the premise is that you haven't had plastic surgery......

……

"Coach Richard, hello, it's an honor to meet you, I'm Ha Seung Town's agent, my name is Park Youtian." This middle-aged man was really not polite at all.

After entering the door, he pulled a chair directly and sat opposite Richard.

Richard frowned, Ha Sheng Town's agent? How did you get here?

Do you want to come here to fight the autumn breeze?

Ha Seung entered the league last season and was drafted by the Trail Blazers in the second round, but the Trail Blazers didn't use him much at all and kept putting him in the development league.

Wrong......

To be precise, it is not a development league, but the ABA league, a basketball league created by the American Basketball Association.

In the basketball circle of Lao Mei, this ABA league may not be as high as the NBA Development League.

The Trail Blazers sent him to play for the Portland Rulers, and they ended up playing an entire season, and maybe they forgot that such a person existed.

Now that the new season is about to start again, it seems that the Trail Blazers haven't remembered the existence of Hasheng Town......