Chapter 589: Stirling's Death (1/4!) )
The news of Howard's signing shook the league, but it also marked the end of the booming free agent market.
The follow-up small signings have been carried out one after another, but most of them are also petty fights.
After the Thunder signed Morrow, they also signed rookies one after another, and the roster for the new season was basically released.
Point guards: Westbrook, Barria, Smith
Shooting guards: Harden, Bazemore, Morrow
Small forwards: Durant, Middleton, James Ennis
Power forwards: Tucker, Collisson, O'Quinn
Centres: Ibaka, Brown, Rudy Gobert
The 15-man roster, and then the signing of some undrafted picks to play games, the Thunder's preseason roster is basically determined.
After completing the signing of the lineup, Tang Tian could finally take a little rest.
The matter of the summer league, Tang Tian handed over all the things to Stevens.
intends to let this succeed him, Tang Tian naturally wants to give him a chance to grow.
As for himself, he can finally rest well.
The company recently made a lot of money by investing in Marvel movies, and he had nearly 100 million more liquidity in his hand, and he instantly felt rich again.
Hathaway and Swift both have activities, he is idle in the manor alone, and he is idle every day to read the news.
At this moment, a piece of news from TMZ attracted the attention of the public, including Tang Tian.
Scott Sterling, who was only 32 years old, died of poisoning in his home.
Scott Sterling is the son of Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
In this report, TMZ also added some news information that Sterling was often whipped by his father Sterling as a child, which is why he contracted drugs and addictions.
After the news broke, Sterling immediately denied the facts and warned TMZ not to make up the story or he would consider taking legal action.
TMZ is an entertainment gossip media, and the factual nature of such reports remains to be verified.
However, shortly after that, free agent "bearded" Baron Davis said in an interview with reporters that Sterling is a shit-like guy, and he claimed that he had been abused by Sterling when he played for the Clippers before, and there was no lack of discriminatory titles such as "nigger" among those swearing, and Sterling took his girlfriend in and out of the players' locker room at will, without any respect for them.
Coincidentally, after Davis, former Clippers assistant coach Mike Murphy also came out to speak out, saying that when he was in the Clippers, Sterling actually greeted the management directly and asked them not to pay for his medical expenses during his time with the team.
One news after another broke out, making the Clippers owner feel like he was in turmoil.
However, because they are all accusations and there is no real evidence, these are just some negative effects for Sterling and his Clippers.
Tang Tian saw this, and also remembered the words of his previous life, Sterling was forced to sell the team in 2014 because of racial discrimination, it seems that this guy is a complete scumbag.
However, Sterling still sat firmly on the throne, and after seeing the subsequent successive voices, he turned his anger on TMZ, claiming that his personal lawyer was already gathering information and preparing to prosecute TMZ in order to protect his image and reputation.
TMZ also did not back down, claiming that the news they had was true.
As the situation between the two sides intensified, Sterling's team announced that they had formally indicted TMZ, and it looked like they were about to go to court.
However, Tang Tian knows this kind of thing, and in the end, Sterling will most likely pay for it, although he doesn't know these processes, but in his previous life, Sterling did not fall at this point in time.
Sure enough, a week later, TMZ announced that it had fired Lenny O'Brien, the reporter who covered the news, and that O'Brien had reported in a way that was not in line with the facts, and that he was deeply sorry for the reputational damage caused to Sterling.
Sterling also appeared generous and also announced that he had withdrawn the charges against TMZ.
Obviously, this is the money in place.
"Boring." After reading the latest news, Tang Tian felt very bored.
The saying that you can do whatever you want with money is true at all.
After the storm of the Sterling incident, Tang Tian also paid attention to his domestic basketball school and Liao Basketball.
He flew back to China to participate in the official groundbreaking ceremony of the basketball school, and Liao Basketball officially transferred Zhou Qi, who was only 17 years old, to the first team, and Zhou Qi will participate in the new season of CBA with the team.
The CBA recently introduced a rule that only players who are at least 18 years old can compete in the CBA, but then added the "Guo Allen clause", that is, members of the national team can ignore this rule, Zhou Qi and Guo Allen participated in the London Olympics with the team in 12 years, so they also meet this clause.
The new season of Liao Basket officially began to attack the championship of the CBA.
After staying in China for half a month, Tang Tian also returned to the United States.
After that, he had to go back for a while every summer.
Back in the United States, Tang Tian began to work with the coaching staff to develop new members and role positioning.
It was also at this time that the Stirling incident, which had already subsided, had further fermentation.
O'Brien, the dismissed TMZ reporter, claimed to have a wealth of evidence from Sterling, which he would make public if Sterling and TMZ did not apologize to him within three days.
Sterling didn't respond to the matter, he had already used a lot of money to settle the TMZ, this O'Brien was nothing more than a clown to him, and TMZ didn't take it seriously, they had already emptied everything on his computer before they fired O'Brien.
O'Brien, in their opinion, was just trying to borrow something unwarranted to extort them out of money.
After all, after being expelled, this benevolent brother has stinked in the media circle, has not found a job so far, and lives a life similar to that of a homeless man.
Tang Tian was very curious at this time, because in his previous life, he had never heard of such a person as O'Brien.
The Spurs' previous elimination by the Warriors made him realize that although history will correct some things, there will also be surprises, as if he didn't want to control everything.
Three days later, Sterling and TMZ still didn't react, and they didn't even do anything like a threat warning, treating O'Brien as if they were air.
In a fit of rage, O'Brien posted a recording on social media.
After this recording was released, the entire alliance was shaken, and even Tang Tian was confused.
Because what O'Brien released turned out to be a recording of a quarrel between Sterling and his girlfriend Steviano in his previous life!
This recording is also the recording that ruined Sterling in his previous life!