Chapter 53: Team Boss

The short summer league ended quickly, and Li Mojie played an amazing performance.

He led this team of NBA rookies, role players, and league homeless people to successfully defeat the Golden State Warriors in the finals (historically, this group of melon skin teams without Lee Mojie and Gobert lost to the Warriors in the finals and won the runner-up in the Las Vegas Summer League), won the first professional league championship in his life, and dominated the Las Vegas Summer League with an average of 26.9+7.4+7.1 luxury data per game, and won the MVP of the 2013 Las Vegas Summer League. It was a big reassurance to the Suns' management and fans.

On July 23, 2013, after playing the last summer league game and receiving the award, Li Mojie spent a few days taking Li Yayi around Las Vegas, buying some gifts for family and friends, and then separated from Li Yayi, and returned to the Phoenix team in Arizona with Fleischer, and began to participate in the team's preseason training camp.

West Arena in Phoenix, Arizona.

"Marc Marcie, you see that tall black guy is Channingflye, the team's old guy, and that short guy is Eric Bledsoe, who just traded." PJ Tucker, who was practicing shooting on the side, saw that some of the team's centaurs had returned, so he ran over and whispered to Li Mojie. Li Mojie is this year's top pick, a player that managers and owners are very concerned about, and he has played a wonderful performance in the summer league, so naturally many people will be willing to "be friends" with him.

At the beginning of August, the team began its pre-season training camp, and the team returned to the team one after another. After all, the schedule is out, the first preseason game of the Suns against the Israeli basketball team Haifa Rema will start on October 4, 2013, and the Suns will usher in the first regular season game of the 2013-2014 season against the Trail Blazers on October 31, so the team's training should also start early.

"Oh, who is that red Ferrari out there? Occupy my place? When everyone was in full swing to start warm-up training, I didn't expect Dragic, who had just returned from vacation, to shout so loudly as soon as he entered the stadium in casual clothes.

When everyone heard this, they all stopped what they were doing and looked at the door, and some people peeked at Li Mojie a few times. After all, there are only a few people in this team who can afford to buy Ferrari, and when Li Mojie came to the stadium in the latest red Ferrari 458-2013 model, it was not unnoticed.

Only Gobert walked over to Li Mojie and patted Li Mojie on the shoulder.

"Don't be impulsive, I've heard Parker's seniors say that the old guys of these NBA teams like to bully rookies." Goebel whispered.

"I know how to do it, don't worry, I won't be impulsive." Li Mojie pondered for a moment and replied in a low voice.

"It's mine." Li Mojie turned to the door of the arena and replied loudly. "I didn't expect that there were so many parking spaces outside and who was divided, so I just parked casually."

"Oh?" Seeing this, Dragic walked over and stood an arm's length away from Li Mojie. "It's yours, rookie, forgiven for not being sensible when you first entered the NBA, but the old guys know that I parked my car there every day last season, right, guys?" ”

Everyone didn't dare to respond, who was enough to participate in the struggle between the team's bigwigs, and they all kept silent.

But Li Mojie just stood firmly with the ball, staring at Dragic coldly, without the slightest intention of moving his feet.

Dragic was furious and was about to speak again. Unexpectedly, Channingfrye on the side came over, hugged Dragic affectionately and said: "Hey, forget Golan, he just came after all, right, he won't stop there tomorrow, right?" Marc Jacques. ”

"Well, I remember." Seeing this, Li Mojie smoothly descended the steps and replied in a deep voice. Damn, this bastard just came to the arena and actually gave me a dismount, and it's not good for me to force my head now, after all, it's already a tradition for NBA veterans to bully rookies, even when Durant, who signed a big contract with Nike and was the future core of the team, just entered the team that was still called the SuperSonics, he was still tricked, and the title of Schoolbag Du came from like that, he is still a rookie, and he still has to calm down.

Seeing that this conflict had subsided like this, Jack, the assistant to the general manager, who was standing on the second floor from beginning to end, asked, "Ryan, don't you care?" ”

"It's part of the culture of the NBA team, and Marc Jab needs to adapt to it on his own." Ryan said in a deep voice.

On July 5, 2012, Dragic signed with the Phoenix Suns. On July 11, 2012, the two parties signed a contract of 30 million yuan for 4 years. He was originally the Suns' replacement for Nash, and the team had high hopes.

Dragic originally thought that this season was the second year that he returned to the Suns, and he would definitely be the boss of the team, but he didn't expect the Suns to have shit luck this year and draw a top pick, and this Li Mojie himself had heard too much news about him when he was on vacation in Europe: Adidas' super big contract, summer league MVP, the future of the Suns, the new magic, it seems that no one remembers himself as Nash's successor, which makes Dragic jealous and hateful, this is the NBA, There is a big difference between the boss of the team and the boss of the team, endorsements, data, contracts...... It's all green dollars, how can anyone be willing to give up the position of team leader?

"Everybody's assembled." Seeing that everyone had arrived and the situation had calmed down, Hornacek walked over with a whistle around his neck, a blue T-shirt and casual cropped pants.

I saw that everyone had changed their clothes and gathered together. "First of all, you've all received a text message from me, I'm your manager this season, Hornacek. Today is the first day of our bootcamp and there are a lot of new faces, so let's introduce ourselves. Hornacek opened the pitch first.

Dragic was the first to speak: "I'm Glen Dragic, a two-way guard, but I mainly play point guard, I hope to be able to lead everyone to play a good record this season......" As soon as he said this, Li Mojie felt wrong, what do you mean by leading everyone? But there is only one old man on the Suns, Frye, and the others are either just traded or role players, and they are not qualified to come out and compete for the boss. Come to think of it, is this guy indeed qualified?

But when he saw Li Mojie, Bledsoe's face was not good, and Channing Fry immediately stood up and spoke secondly: "I'm Channing Frye, everyone calls me Fry, just look at my height and know that I play as a center forward......"

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Li Mojie was the last to speak, and said succinctly: "Hello everyone, I'm Mojie Lee, you can call me Mojie, I play small forward on the court, I can also play point guard, I hope I can play a satisfactory result with everyone this season." ”

So after the introduction, we first conducted some warm-up training in the morning, passing and receiving training, and then grouped against 5V5 training in the afternoon, so that the team coaches could observe the state of the players after a holiday.

Team 15-man squad: Goran Dragic (PG/SG), Eric Bledsoe (PG), Gerald Green (SF), Markieff Morris (PF), Channing Fry (C), Marcus Morris (PF), PJ Tucker (PF/SF), Miles Plumlee (C), Leandro Barbosa (PG/SG), Ismael Smith (PG), Dean Chrismas (SG), Alex Len (C), Shafrick Randolph ( PF), Jacques Lee (SF/PG), Rudy Gobert (C)

In fact, when Hornacek received this list, he refused to do so, because there were too many overlapping positions and functions, and there was no suitable candidate for the starting scoring guard, Barbosa was 31 years old and transferred to other teams and turned back, and his state was not as good as day by day, and his height was only 1.91, while Tucker's height was only 1.98 but he was suitable for playing forward, oh my God. In addition, the forward position is full, and there are many people who need to hold the ball, Li Mojie, Bledsoe, Dragic, Barbossa. There is also a four-man competition for the center forward position. To be honest, this coach is not easy to arrange, Lao Huo is very melancholy.

Lao Huo thought to himself: Let's take a look at everyone's state first. So Hornacek divided the crowd into two teams and decided to fight and decide what tactics to do. BLU: Barbosa, PJ Tucker, Lee Mojab, Markieff Morris, Gobert

Red: Goran Dragic, Eric Bledsoe, Gerard Green, Marcus Morris, Channingfrye