It's fast approaching July, and the Phoenix Suns' summer league season is about to begin, and they will start their first game at training camp in Las Vegas on July 9. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info D'Antoni went from head coach to assistant coach and had to start coming over to direct the summer league. But to D'Antoni's surprise, Fox Leon was involved in team management and talent selection for the summer league, much to D'Antoni's baffle.

Before the departure, Leon explained, "A coach has to start by getting to know the most marginalized players and rookies to really get to the heart of the team's culture, which I used to play in summer league when I was in Boston. Did you know that Pat Riley's old fox also likes to go to summer league and don't miss any chance to make up for it? ”

D'Antoni didn't object, because if Leon went with him, he would feel a little better, and the psychological gap from head coach to assistant coach was not yet fully adjusted.

But this time in Las Vegas, Leon won't meet the old Foxes of Pat Riley again, because the Miami Heat have always played in the summer league in Orlando, and the Las Vegas league mainly plays to teams in the Midwest. There are a total of 22 teams participating in the Summer League, but the Suns don't play against every team, and the format of the Summer League is now a tournament. The players on both sides are, of course, some fringe and rookies who have participated in the team's training camp, and there are some buried pearls.

So after arriving at the hotel in Las Vegas, Leon turned on his computer and began to look at the information of these players at the table, except for the rookies, these players were selected by the Suns' scouting and basketball talent department. Among them is Leon's familiar old face, which is Marcus Banks, who was cut by the team after Leon left the Celtics. The Suns signed him to a short-term contract last summer, and after a year, they asked him to continue playing in summer league this summer to see if he could continue to sign him.

It's so cruel in the NBA, you have the ability to be a star, and the team will wave a check and beg you to sign a contract; You can't afford to be a fringe person, and you're going to work part-time jobs for a short-term contract, playing summer league, playing the NHBL. Leon has long been familiar with this, in a place where the operation of capital is extremely developed, it is so realistic and naked.

Leon quickly swept through the heights, game stats, and scout evaluations of these people in his mind, using his unique picture memory method and super abstract thinking skills to evaluate each person, and the result was that almost everyone in this group could use it except for the rookies who had not yet played.

"Did the Suns' scouts all eat dry rice before? Or is it that the Arizona sun has sunburned their heads into brain stems? Every year in the summer league, there will be some players with potential and characteristics, and in this list, basically those players are cleverly avoided. Leon sat down at the table and couldn't help but complain to D'Antoni.

Unlike the Celtics, the Suns and Celtics basically built their scouting system, starting with the most basic scouting work and groping little by little, weaving one of the best scouting networks in the league. Now, some resources are no longer available, and the Suns' draft performance in recent years is really unflattering. Since they drafted Stoudamire in 2002, they have spent several years in the draft with little success, including selecting Rajon Rondo in 2006 and sending him to the Celtics, who had left by then.

"You know, the Phoenix people don't like drafts, they like to have people who are frustrated and downcast come here and come here to be reborn like the city stands in the desert. Paul Westfale, Charles Barkley, Steve Nash, there's a magic here, but that magic rarely works on rookies. D'Antoni lay on the bed and said to Leon like a troubadour.

Leon smiled and didn't say anything, in fact, D'Antoni was right, the Suns do have this kind of magic that makes the star nirvana and elevate it to a higher level. In the Celtics, Westphall was a newcomer who couldn't play his expectations, but when he arrived at the Suns, he led the team to the Finals against his old club Celtics; In the 76ers, Barkley couldn't find a breakthrough for a long time, came to the Suns, and experienced a fantastic 93 years; Nash was just an All-Star in the Mavericks, but he became the MVP in the Suns for two years in a row.

This is also one of the reasons why Leon chose the Suns, he is not short of championships, but he wants to have a new promotion in the position of coach.

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In the afternoon, Leon left the hotel to check out the arena in Las Vegas, where a training camp will be held at the Thomas Mark Center Arena today, with the Suns splitting the two to four o'clock hours to practice. The Suns' training coaches and staff have arrived, and Leon and D'Antoni have said he's going to drive around. It doesn't matter if you go out and go around, the security of the hotel and casino is tense again, anyway, every time Leon arrives in Las Vegas, it is not an exaggeration to say that the whole city is on guard.

However, this time, Leon asked for a car from the hotel and drove directly to the suburbs, and the managers and owners of the casinos received the news, and their hearts were relaxed, because in the suburbs of Las Vegas, there are residential areas and playgrounds, and there are no big casinos. However, it was still the same as last time, the owner of Leon's hotel and casino still sent two security guards to follow him, this is not nervous or agitated, but to treat these big gamblers, there must be some restrictions, otherwise they will not be able to stop once they start.

Leon drove all the way southwest, along 515 Avenue, the road to the Hoover Dam. The hotel's two bodyguards thought Fox-Leon was going to the Hoover Dam, and the Las Vegas casino manager and security knew that Leon liked to go to the Hoover Dam and often stayed all day. But when the car drove to Henderson City, a suburb of Las Vegas, Leon found an intersection and drove the car into the residential area of Henderson City.

Henderson City is a satellite city of Las Vegas, located in the southwest corner of Las Vegas, on the border of Nevada and Arizona. Because of its proximity to Arizona, many Arizona residents come here to invest in real estate and buy a home.

Leon drove into a neighborhood of residents, suburban satellite towns like the United States, all of which were single-family houses with small lawn gardens and clean roads lined with lush trees. Some of the larger homes also have swimming pools and swing racks, which together are a beautiful home for middle-class families in the United States. And the same is true of the residential community that Leon has visited, but there is one thing missing here: people.

Leon drove around the newly built neighborhood several times, but there was no one to be seen, and the road, yard, lawn, and swing were all empty. In the end, he finally met two people, the two security guards who followed him in the car.

Leon parked the car on the side of the road, and then two security guards in black suits also stopped the car, and Leon waved at the two. The two looked at each other, but walked over, for Leon, the security guards of each casino have been trained on how to deal with it, and one of them is not to be casually separated. Now let the two pass, of course they will.

Leon took two thin cigars out of his pocket and handed them to the two, who shook their heads and said no, dealing with another rule of Fawkes-Leon, not to accept any small favors from him.

Leon smiled and said, "I just won some money in Las Vegas, so you can't treat me like a felon." "Yes, a little money was won, and a casino was directly short-cashed out, and finally went bankrupt.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to gamble today, I'm going back in a while, and I'm going to camp in the afternoon. I'm just here to see the house, can you give me some advice? Leon asked.

As soon as I heard that Leon was coming here to buy a house, it was scary enough that he was based in Phoenix, and he was going to buy a house in Henderson? But one of them said, "It's so easy to buy a house here, but it's better as soon as possible, because prices are going to go up." ”

Leon asked again, "Will it go up?" I don't think there's any one living here. ”

Another person said, "Don't look at the people who live there, in fact, these houses have been sold, and they are all owned by homeowners, many of them are from Arizona, from Phoenix." ”

"Have you bought a house here?"

"Well, no, we don't have enough wages. However, there are many dancers or hostesses in the hotel, all of whom have houses here, and it is easy to get a loan now. "Yes, it's very easy."

Leon nodded, and he turned to get into the car, ready to go back to Las Vegas. Lately, he has little interest in harvesting casinos, and he thinks that he will reap a big sum before the season starts.