After much deliberation, Chuck Daley decided to move around New York to discuss whether or not to become an assistant coach.

Li Wei immediately extended a warm welcome.

Chuck Daley went to New York, first to visit Holzman, a generation of famous coach and Knicks honorary chairman for life, and then to the Knicks training gym to check the team's offseason schedule and learn about the team.

During the old handsome's inspection, Li Wei accompanied him throughout the whole process, trying his best to make him feel at home!

Knicks defensive coach Brandon Malone is Daley's old subordinate, and the two have a great conversation. KC Jones was the coach of the Celtics team in the 80s, and he and Chuck Daley are old rivals, and the two also cherish each other. In addition, Jeff Nick also talked to Daley very well, and tried his best to instill the idea of the team's white-collar salary to Daley, which made Li Wei cry and laugh!

Everyone was chatting happily when Daley suddenly received a phone call.

After making this call, the old man chuckled and said, "The Magic team also wants to ask me to be the head coach." ”

Li Wei's face changed: "Do you want to go to magic?" ”

"Hahahaha!" Daley laughed, "Look at the one who makes you nervous, I'm an old man, is it that important?" ”

Li Wei said: "Mr. Daley, I really think that you are the most suitable person for the Knicks!" ”

"I told them that I was too old to make a comeback," Daley said. Even if he comes back to coaching, he doesn't really want to be a head coach. The head coach's work is too heavy, so I can be an assistant coach and just mix the salary. ”

Jeff Nick hurriedly glanced at Li Wei and said, "David, Chuck is going to be an assistant coach in our Knicks, why don't you hurry up and get a contract?" ”

Li Wei said: "Great, the Knicks most welcome people like you to mix salaries, and I will let people prepare a contract!" ”

Daley smiled, "Don't be busy, David, I really just want to mix the salary, the same as Old Jeff." I found it quite interesting to live a comfortable life like his. The contract with an annual salary of eight million was too high, and in my opinion, cut it in half, four million is enough. All you need me to do is give some guidance to the young players, not to lead the team to victory, don't give me so much money! ”

Li Weidao: "Look at what you said, that contract is my respect for you, and the amount must not be less!" ”

KC Jones smiled: "You two, the one who takes the money thinks that the money is too much, and the one who gives the money is too much money, it's too unusual!" If you don't want money, give it to me! ”

Daley said: "KC, it's not that I don't like a lot of money, it's that he gives too much." Now the league's highest-paid coach Phil Jackson only has an annual salary of six million, and I get eight million as an assistant coach, is it appropriate? ”

Li Weidao: "It's so suitable, how can our Knicks' assistant coach be comparable to the head coaches of other teams?" That's it! ”

The two sides pushed again, but Daley still couldn't cut the price, but he asked that the contract be shortened to three years.

"I'm so old, I'm going to be 70 in three years, and whether I can continue to coach is another matter. 24 million in three years, so be it! ”

Daley didn't bargain, he only asked for a shortened contract, and of course Li Wei immediately agreed, so the most expensive assistant coach in history appeared!

His salary not only crushed all the assistant coaches, but even the head coaches of the whole league were crushed!

However, Chuck Daley is not a person who likes to show off, and Li Wei doesn't want the Knicks to make big news all day long, so the two decided not to disclose the details of the contract.

When the contract was signed, Li Wei's heart finally fell to the ground.

He knew that Chuck Daley and Larry Brown were two completely different styles of coaching.

Larry Brown is a master tactician who only endorses his own set of tactics, and all players have to play according to his tactical ideas. So he hates newcomers, and newcomers mean less experience, less knowing, and easy to make mistakes. His old-fashioned, stubborn temper caused him to either have conflicts with the players or disputes with the management, and thus constantly wandered from team to team.

Chuck Daley's coaching career is known for his ability to bring together players with different personalities and types. Whether it's Dream Team superstars Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, or personality players Dennis Rodman and Isaiah Thomas, they all get along very well with him and play well in his hands.

Never stubborn and rigid, knowing how to teach according to aptitude, this is Chuck Daley's greatest charm.

In addition, Daley has been a coach in high school and college for 25 years, and is best at dealing with young people. When he first became the coach of the Pistons, he was a group of youth troops under him, and he was the one who united them into an invincible team!

In that team, Chuck Daley is the brain, the soul, and everyone loves him, trusts him, respects him. As long as Daley makes a request, everyone will not hesitate to carry it out, no matter how physically demanding, how embarrassing, and how ruined the image of those requests!

The "Bad Boy Army" was pointed at by thousands of people, and thousands of people spit on it, but for Chuck Daley, no one cared!

The smiling Assassin Isaiah Thomas once recalled, "We were all children, trying to find a hole to let in some sunlight...... Chuck came, put us together with his arms, taught us how to win, taught us to compete, taught us to stand up straight and not get down. ”

Vinnie Johnson said: "Sometimes we don't really think of fighting for the championship, we just fight for him, for the coach! ”

Yes, the group of bad boys who made the entire league famous and frightened were actually a group of good boys who couldn't be better behaved in front of Daley, and Rodman, who had always been known for his rebellion, even tattooed Daley's phone number on his body.

In addition, the Bad Boy Army has a fierce and dirty style of play, which makes Jordan, Bird and others suffer. Before winning his first championship, Jordan was losing to Daley's team every year. But these superstars not only did not resent Daley, but also respected him. When he participated in the Olympics, Jordan kept pulling Daley to play golf!

Friends respect him, enemies respect him, this is Chuck Daley, an unbelievable man!

In his previous life, Li Wei didn't know much about Daley, and could only get a glimpse of the leopard through some reports. In this life, after getting along with Daley for a short time, he also felt that this old handsome man was not simple.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about chatting with Lao Shuai, he has a feeling of spring breeze. Anyone who is with Daley will probably feel the same as him, thinking that this is a good teacher, a good friend, and at the same time an admirable old man!

Of course, if you want to become a qualified coach, it is not enough to rely on good people, but also to be good in skills and tactics. In this regard, Li Wei has no need to worry.

In this league now, the only famous coaches who can be on the same level as Daley are Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, and even the famous coach Popovich in the future is just a rookie now, waiting for further growth.

The prestige is incomparable, the top three in the league in coaching level, good at bringing newcomers, uniting the team, such a person is outstanding as the team's first assistant coach, presiding over the team's work, and the spirit of the young people in the team will definitely be able to bring up!

Looking at the silver-haired old handsome, he seemed to see a brand-new Knicks rising like the rising sun!