When Demps and Stevens discussed, Tang Tian was also found.

Tang Tian is the core of the team, and several of his suggestions have worked, and now he has more and more say in the management.

Tang Tian was a coach in his last life, and these coaches are old acquaintances.

Hollins was the first to be ruled out by him.

Hollins is the star player of his playing days, who is more arrogant at heart, has a strong desire to control the team, and has poor interpersonal skills.

In other words, this is a better candidate to be a head coach than an assistant coach, and if he comes, he might argue with Stevens every day.

Then there was Brown and Bickerstaff.

Tang Tian is more inclined to Bickerstaff.

Bickerstaff is completely incapable as a head coach, but he is excellent as a defensive assistant coach, and he is young and has potential, and he will get along well with Stevens.

Brown's words are kind of somewhere between Hollins and Bickerstaff, and he doesn't have to say anything about his ability as a Spurs-born.

But after all, he has been a head coach for most of his career, and he is the head coach of James, so it is difficult to say whether he can serve Stevens, a young coach.

Demps listened to Tang Tian's opinion and then asked Stevens, and Stevens had no opinion.

He flew to Boston the next day to negotiate more deeply with Bickerstaff.

But unexpectedly, he ran away in vain this time.

After hearing that the Pelicans were coming to dig into the corner again, Angie and Bickerstaff talked all night and finally succeeded in convincing the latter to stay.

As a result, just like D'Antoni at the beginning, the Pelicans' first assistant coach also flew.

However, thanks to his previous experience in this area, Demps did not delay the time and flew directly to Cleveland to negotiate a contract with Brown.

Brown is unemployed at home, and the negotiations are going well on his side.

Soon the two sides reached a 2-year, 2 million franchise contract.

Brown's situation is unique, he returned to the Cavaliers as head coach in 2015, but was also fired after a five-year, $20 million contract was also completed.

As a result, he is still receiving a salary of 5 million a year from the Cavaliers this year.

So his pursuit of money is not so high now, on the contrary, he urgently needs to go to a place where he has exposure and can prove himself.

Because only then will he be able to get a job as a head coach in the league again.

The Pelicans are the kind of place he wants to be right now.

After signing the contract, Brown went to New Orleans with Demps.

After arriving in New Orleans, Demps arranged for Stevens and Brown to meet, and called Tang Tian with him.

After the three of them met, they mainly talked about the team's defensive system.

Brown's understanding is close to Stevens's, and he has some personal opinions.

He hopes to add more frontcourt pressing to the defense, which can reduce the time for opponents to launch positional offense, which will work against teams like the Spurs and Clippers who are good at playing position.

He also feels that the Rockets' current defensive system can be used as a reference, allowing Jokic to shrink to the basket as much as possible on the defensive end to protect him, and can also play to a greater extent Davis's defensive fast-moving and wide-ranging characteristics.

These two insights caused Tang Tian and Stevens to nod their heads one after another.

Defensively, Brown does have a set, and he hasn't been idle for a few years.

However, these were all things that Tang Tian expected, and what really surprised him was Brown's communicative ability.

This guy known as bread looks very simple, but he knows how to speak very well, and in just half an hour, he praised Stevens and Tang Tian more than four or five times.

This kind of personality thing can only be known if you get along, and now it seems to be an unexpected joy.

With Brown's character, he can quickly integrate into the Pelicans, and he can also play part of the role of Williams before.

But thinking about it, this is also a reasonable thing, Brown was complained by fans in the Cavaliers, but he has a close relationship with James.

This also shows his interpersonal skills in a different direction.

The next day, the Pelicans officially announced Brown's joining the coaching staff, but did not disclose specific contract details.

After this news was released, it also attracted heated discussions among fans.

"Brown is really getting worse and worse, he won the best head coach in the first two years of becoming the head coach of the Cavaliers, and then he was fired as a head coach in a row, and now he can only be an assistant coach......

"Didn't James give the best coach in the first place? Manual funny"

"Brown's ability to be a head coach is a little bit worse, but I believe he can still be an assistant coach, and his defensive skills are still very good."

"None of that matters, don't you see that this year is likely to be something to look forward to? The Pelicans have a chance to make it to the Finals this year! ”

"Brown, as James's mentor, is going to play against James in the Finals?"

"Not only that, but he still gets the Cavaliers' salary now~"

"Tsk! I'm suddenly looking forward to the Pelicans getting past the Warriors this year and playing the Cavaliers in the Finals, which will be fun! ”

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Fans are talking about it on social media, but the reality is more interesting than what they say.

Because Brown's first game after joining the Cavaliers was when the Pelicans faced the Cavaliers at home.

Fans are looking forward to what might happen in the Grand Finals, which will be played out in New Orleans a day later.

The Pelicans and Warriors dominated the West, but the Cavaliers dominated the East this year.

With the run-in becoming more complete and the roster stronger than ever, they now have a 34-8 record.

And they won the Warriors in the Christmas game before, and if they can win the Pelicans again, their confidence in winning the championship this season will be stronger than ever.

Not to mention Brown's point.

However, none of these became so important after a news broke by woj.

According to the WOJ report, during the 2011 Heat draft, Pat Riley asked James about whether he wanted to choose Tang Tian, and James gave the opinion at that time that the team already had Miller and Battier and did not need Tang Tian.

When the news came out, it immediately detonated the media and social media.

Woj is the most reliable journalist in the NBA, and his breaking news is basically the truth.

And he has a general relationship with James's team, and he chose to break the news before the two teams played, obviously to make trouble.

But it doesn't matter if you make a mess or not, because this news says at least two things.

James interfered with management during the Heat period, and James' opinion caused the Heat to miss Tang Tian!

Considering the various grievances between Tang Tian and James after that, this is definitely the most exciting news this year!