Chapter 1: David Adelman

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"David, are you packed? Our flight to New York was 11:30 and we had to pick up Rick later, he's not an old guy who likes to be late......"

A noisy sound woke up Lin Dawei, he shook his head, touched his forehead and sat up.

Although it has been more than a year since China in 2020 came to the United States in 2007, Lin Dawei still feels trance sometimes, especially when he wakes up every morning.

Every morning, he woke up a little scared, because he couldn't tell whether he was the same Chinese citizen in his previous life or a member of the current basketball family, the Adelman family.

Every time he woke up, two memories kept fighting in his mind, one would be Lin Dawei, a junior civil servant in China, and the other would be David Adelman, Rick Adelman's youngest son.

Two memories kept spinning back and forth in my mind.

When Lin Dawei had just crossed over, the two memories were distinct at the beginning, but slowly the two memories began to merge.

Lin Dawei got up and went to the bathroom to wash, and looked at the skin he possessed after his rebirth from the mirror.

26 years old is the age when a man has some experience and vitality, a height of more than 1.9 meters, brown hair, and an angular face - Lin Dawei, who had a "beer belly" early in his previous life, naturally couldn't be satisfied with such a figure.

As the two memories continued to merge, Lin Dawei didn't know if his memory was integrated into David's memory, or David's memory was integrated into his own memory.

Anyway, now the two memories are completely mixed together, and it is difficult to distinguish each other.

With the fusion of memories, David also began to come out of his trance, and he also determined many things.

David Adelman, the youngest son of NBA coach Rick Adelman, followed his father as a scout for the Sacramento Kings after graduating from college until Lin Dawei crossed over.

Lin didn't come at a good time, as the Kings had just lost to the Spurs in the playoffs, and Rick Adelman had negotiated with Pierre, the Kings' general manager and teammate who played together in Portland three decades ago, to end his contract.

After Rick Adelman broke up with Past, the Kings swept away RJ Adelman and David Adelman, two scouts who were able to get a job with the team because of their father.

All in all, Lin Dawei was unemployed as soon as he crossed.

He also speculated before, maybe he crossed over to David Adelman, or maybe his predecessor couldn't stand the blow and committed suicide drunk?

Anyway, from this moment on, Lin Dawei became David Adelman.

Rick Adelman really didn't say anything about his son, and contacted David Adelman for a position as head coach of a high school basketball varsity.

Head basketball coach at Lincoln High School in Portland, and that was his first job after the crossing.

Although this middle school does not have any special recruitment powers, David Adelman won the state championship in Oregon last school year with the quality of being an assistant teacher during the king + the artifact system in his hands, and with the three melons and two dates of Lincoln Middle School!

David was also named the best basketball head coach in Ohio!

After the 2006-07 school year, the NCAA basketball powerhouse Ohio State University even extended an invitation to David to coach at their school.

Unfortunately, at this time he already had a better position - the first assistant coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets.

In May of this year, the Houston Rockets led the Utah Jazz 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs, but the Jazz reversed and went out with a total score of 3:4, and head coach Jeff Van Gundy was fired, and then the Rockets hired Rick Adelman as the head coach on a four-year $16.25 million contract, and Adelman also became the 11th head coach in the history of the Rockets.

And after serving as the head coach of the Rockets, Rick Adelman quickly agreed with the Rockets on his own coaching team - basically his "old man" for the Kings.

On May 19, the Rockets officially hired five assistant coaches for new coach Adelman, including former NBA All-Star Jack Sicoma and veteran coach Adelman's two sons, RJ Adelman and David Adelman.

The other two assistant coaches are Adelman's "old subordinates" and former Kings assistant coaches Elstone Turner and T.R. Dunn.

A seven-time NBA All-Star selection, Sicoma averaged 15.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per game over 14 seasons. For the past four seasons, he has been an assistant coach for the SuperSonics.

RJ Adelman was a scout for the SuperSonics last season, and he served as a scout and video coordinator for the Kings when his father coached the Kings.

Turner played eight seasons in the NBA, playing for the Mavericks, Nuggets and Bulls. In 2001, he began working with Adelman on the Kings coaching staff.

Dunn was a head coach in the WNBA in 2000 and spent eight seasons as an assistant coach with the Hornets and Nuggets in the mid-'90s.

Although David is a big step behind the other three assistant coaches in terms of experience and qualifications, and even compared to his brother, his coaching talent is praised by the whole United States.

After all, before he came to Lincoln, this team was a standard fish belly team, let alone a state champion in Oregon, a distance of 108,000 miles.

Moreover, Rick Adelman is obviously trying to support his youngest son.

After securing the No. 1 assistant coach spot on the Rockets, David declined an offer from Ohio State.

It's not that the NCAA is bad, it's just that he prefers the NBA, which has a stronger business atmosphere.

The head coach of Ohio State University is paid five or six times the annual salary of the Rockets' first assistant coach, but David is not so short of money at the moment.

Just back in 2006, David was a wealthy family in the United States, and David was ambitious at the beginning, intending to quickly become a proud son on the Forbes list by relying on his foreknowledge and family funds.

But in fact, it turns out that if you really plan according to those rebirths, it is already a great blessing to be able not to starve to death.

In fact, there has never been a shortage of far-sighted people with forward-looking vision in the world, nor is there a shortage of talented people with talents but few opportunities, and David's tens of thousands of dollars in assets and some "foresight" obtained by his "predecessor" can only be a joke in front of real capital predators.

IT'S LIKE HE WANTS TO INVEST IN FACEBOOK TOO, BUT WHAT CAN HE BRING TO MARK ZUCKERBERG OTHER THAN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS?

What's more, in his previous life, as a civil servant in the country's third-tier cities and towns, David did not have those talents at all - he would not remember the trend of the domestic and foreign stock markets as he cherished, and he would not clearly remember which companies had good opportunities to intervene before they made their fortunes, and he would not have a conclusive memory of any winning lottery numbers.

But would David be so idle when he had the opportunity to be born again?

But David, who is inactive, knows at least some of the major events of the 2006 World Cup.

Because of Italy's victory, the amount of deposits in David's bank has increased dozens of times.

Although compared with those "science fiction", 50,000 US dollars of sole proprietorship, nearly 1 million US dollars of income, David's performance can be described as waste wood, but this is the down-to-earth reality.

At least, he's not so hungry for money now.

After becoming the Rockets' No. 1 assistant coach, David's first job was not to meet with players on vacation, but to prepare for the 2007 draft.

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