Chapter 353: King of Europe
Doug Enstat has not had a good time lately, and as an NBA professional agent, he has never been able to find quality players to work with. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info has been in the NBA for many years, and he is one of the first people to go to Europe to pan for gold, because the American market is already controlled by those large capital broker groups, and independent agents like him can only go to these undeveloped places in Europe to find opportunities.
Schramf, Tony Kukoc, Petrovic, these are all very good basketball players in Europe in the 90s, and in the 21st century, Pau Gasol entered the league as a tanhua, Yao Ming became the first real foreign champion in 2002, and then Andrew Bogut in 2005 and Banjani in 2006 all illustrate the rise of international power in the NBA.
Unfortunately, none of this has anything to do with Doug Enstadt. It can be found that these international players who have been selected by the high picks are all tall insiders without exception, because in the NBA, where the interior line is gradually withering, these international centers and power forwards can be used, and those excellent international outsiders are a little uncomfortable in front of the flying American domestic outside line and the rules of the NBA.
Of course, a small agent like Enstat has no way to provide services for those international giants, so he can only try to contact the best guards in Europe like gold panning, hoping that one day he can discover an international superstar like Manu Ginobili, enter the NBA, sign a big contract, and then make a lot of money and become a middle-class agent.
In 2005, Ensas seized the opportunity to catch up with Lithuanian star Jascovis, who had just shone at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and the brother had helped his country defeat the American Dream Team in Athens. You know, that dream team has Duncan, Ray Allen, Iverson, Marbury, Marion and other stars, and Jascovisi scored 28 points in that game, deserving of the MVP.
Following the momentum, Jascovius wanted to prove himself in the NBA, and he was eventually drafted by the Pacers, and from then on Enstat became his agent, because Enstat had experience helping European players get into the NBA, and he gained Jascovis's trust.
However, the fate of the agent is forever tied to the player's performance on the court, Jascovis, before entering the NBA, has a high reputation in Europe, known as the king of Europe, and also came to Indiana, the state of basketball in the United States, with the name of defeating the Dream Team, and the team's general manager is the legendary superstar Larry Bird.
However, Jascovis' days in the NBA were not good, and under the Pacers Jim O'Brien, among a group of black players with a rough black style and a brutal style of play, the 30-year-old who was deeply influenced by the European basketball style did not receive enough respect. His playing time was limited, his teammates didn't give him passes, and in the eyes of players like Stephen Jackson, his style of play was too weak for anyone to talk to him after the game.
Even so, he also set a record for the number of three-point shots made by a rookie in a single season for the Pacers, but he averaged 7 points and 3 assists per game, which could not satisfy the Pacers, Jascovis, and Enstat.
Last year, Engstaert single-handedly helped Jascovise send the Golden State Warriors, where there was Nelson Sr., there was Bombardment Tactics, there was Baron Davis and, of course, Stephen Jackson.
In this year's playoffs, Jascovises and the Golden State Warriors performed a miracle, pulling down the invincible Dallas Mavericks in the regular season, creating another heart-wrenching Black Eight miracle in NBA history. However, Jascovisi still hasn't found a real role in this team, and his scoring has even slipped even more, averaging only 3 points per game.
Now he's 31 years old, he's still in his prime as a guard, he doesn't want to live in the NBA without playing and without friends, he wants to go back to Europe, where he's the king of Europe.
Engstadt is certainly reluctant to let Jascovise go to Europe, and even a regular contract in the NBA would pay more than most players in the Euroleague. What's more, Enstat wants Jascovises to make a name for himself in the NBA, that big contract!
Enstat was with Jascovisi in San Francisco today, constantly lobbying him to stay and try other teams, maybe with a different result. But after three years of disappointment, Jascovise seems to have made up his mind, and no matter how Engstadt analyzes the pros and cons to him, he is determined that Aoyama will not let up - buy out the Golden State Warriors and return to Europe.
Just when Enstat was desperate and could no longer find any reason to convince Jascovis, on June 20, he received a phone call from Los Angeles, who said that his name was Pars Mills, saying that there was something he wanted to talk to about Justcovis.
"I know you're Jascovis' agent, and we think he has a lot of potential to continue working in the NBA for the afternoon, but of course you have to ask me why, and I don't know, I'm not in charge of the basketball side, I'm just in charge of informing you."
This Pars-Mills tone is a bit arrogant, just to inform you, but Engstaert is desperate, and he really wants Jascovis, the only valuable client in his hands.
So he agreed, but he didn't know how the other party was going to keep Jascovis.
"Don't worry, there's going to be someone waiting for you at the Blue Soul Coffee Shop behind Oracle Arena in Oakland this afternoon. Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm representing CAA here, so please be assured of our professionalism. ”
Finally, Pars-Mills said that Engstaert took Jascovise to a coffee shop near Oracle Arena to find someone, and Engstaert was worried that the other party was a prank, but he dared to move out of the signboard of the CAA agency, which shows that he is confident.
Of course, the CAA agency Ernstat knew that the American entertainment and sports brokerage giants had just entered the NBA brokerage industry in recent years, but Enstat knew a friend of CAA, so he called to inquire and learned that there was indeed a staff member named Parles Mills, who was responsible for peripheral contact and liaison work.
So Enstat called Jascovius one last time, explained the situation to him, and persuaded him in the most sincere words and manner to meet the man.
"If not, go get a cup of coffee!"
Enstat eventually convinced Jascovis, and he decided to make a trip.
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Jascovis, disappointed with his NBA career and feeling the same way about the United States, has booked his plane ticket for next week and is leaving to practice in Europe for the new season before he talks a buyout with the Warriors.
Walking the streets of San Francisco, no one knows him, and to this day Jascovises is very unaccustomed to the American environment, where everything is big, super big, skyscrapers, stadiums, stadiums, bridges, streets, and even cafes.
So when he arrived at the Blue Soul Cafe, he almost wanted to turn around and walk away when he saw that the big café was full of coffee drinkers. Because Enstat said that someone was waiting for him at the Blue Soul Cafe in the afternoon, but he didn't say what the other party looked like, who it was, where he was sitting, what characteristics he had, and what time it would be.
Maybe this man didn't show up at all, or maybe it was all a prank, and he really had enough of it.
Jascovises was about to leave, and before leaving, he glanced at the café and suddenly saw a person sitting in a very conspicuous position with his legs crossed, holding a newspaper with a large cover and headline, and Jascovisi could roughly see that it was about the San Antonio Spurs defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the Finals and winning the 2007 NBA championship with a score of 4-0.
Jascovises felt that something was wrong, the Spurs did win the championship, but that was a week ago, who would hold the newspaper a week ago and read it with such relish?
So, Jascovisus stepped forward, sat down across from the man, and said, "Hello? “
Ren on the other side put down the newspaper, a middle-aged man with black curly hair and dark skin, he looked into Jascovis's eyes, and he couldn't look at it deeply.
“Hello,King-of-Europe。 (Hello, King of Europe)"