"What?" Tang Shuai was stunned for a moment, and looked at Smith in surprise.

"Shhhh Smith glanced around, pulled him to the back of the tunnel, and then continued to say in a low voice, "My agent just told me that the Rockets' trade with our team is almost complete, and if nothing else, I will have to leave the team after tomorrow's game." ”

Tang Shuai couldn't help but tremble, and then said in disbelief: "Why you?" ”

Smith smiled bitterly: "Business is just business, you should have heard this sentence, right?" ”

Tang Shuai nodded, and suddenly there were all kinds of feelings in his heart.

"This is business, you don't have to care too much, I have been a teammate with you for so long, although it is not long, but you are one of the few people in my career who can match the taste, you come on! I will always have your back! Smith patted him on the shoulder and headed back to the locker room.

Tang Shuai stood there in a daze, still a little unable to react.

Smith, are you really leaving?

"Don! The coach told me to call you and go to the press conference with Blake later! At this moment, Stephenson came out of the locker room and shouted at Tang Shuai, who was stunned.

Tang Shuai came back to his senses and glanced at Stephenson suspiciously.

"Press conference, hurry up!" Stephenson said and pulled him up, and Griffin came out of the locker room and gestured to him.

Tang Shuai heard clearly that Stephenson was asking him to attend the press conference, nodded, and followed Griffin to the press conference.

The Clippers have had a good record lately. And after Kassel took charge, he rushed to the fifth place in the West. The media attracted was naturally indispensable, and the press conference was full of reporters. The battle was huge.

Tang Shuai and Griffin sat behind the table of the press conference together, looking at the group of reporters in front of them, and somehow felt very uncomfortable in their hearts.

When he first made a deal with Kassel, he thought that things would go well, Redick for Brewer, maybe some fringe players, and the deal was reached, but he didn't expect it to involve Smith, after the change of coach. Smith played very well under Kassel, and the general manager's negotiations really exceeded his predictions.

Now that Smith is going to be traded, he is really uncomfortable in his heart, you must know that the Clippers can talk to him the most are Smith and Stephenson.

"Coach Sam, this is your sixth win in charge of the Clippers, you've won six of your last seven games, can you tell us why?" At the beginning of the press conference, the first reporter to ask questions asked about the current state of the Clippers.

"The main reason for the team to win is that the players have worked hard and played everything that they have in training. Of course, it also has to do with the schedule and the opponent. Kassel's answer was straightforward.

"We all know that the team's win started with Coach Doug's dismissal, does that mean there was some conflict between Doug and the team before that?" The reporter's first question was a mild one. Then the second one is quite sharp.

The atmosphere of the whole press conference suddenly became a little strange, and the reporters all looked at Kassel with blank eyes, waiting for what kind of answer they would get from his mouth.

The PR lady on the sidelines was even ready to stand up and skip the question.

Cassel coughed lightly. He continued: "You're not the whole answer to the question, and I'm sure no one who watched us play the Pacers would say anything like that. In that race, the hero of our victory sat right next to me. ”

He said and pointed at Tang Shuai.

Tang Shuai was thinking about Smith. Hearing Cassel mention himself, he turned his head in confusion.

Cassel continued: "Our bench played a key role in that game and we won the game, so I say your guess is not right, there is no contradiction between Doug and the team, like I said before, the team won for a lot of reasons, you can't tie him to one person. ”

Cassel was clever not to answer the reporter directly, but it seemed to answer again, and the reporter pondered for a while and didn't know what to say, so he sat down stupidly.

"Don, your confrontation with Kobe Bryant today is very exciting, I saw a brief exchange between the two of you before the game, can you reveal what the content of your exchange is?" The second reporter who was named to ask questions opened his mouth to ask Tang Shuai.

Griffin turned his head and looked at Tang Shuai curiously at this time, Paul asked him this question during the game.

"Just a few simple greetings, and nothing." Tang Shuai said hastily that after knowing the news that Smith was going to be traded, he couldn't help but be irritable, and he didn't have the heart to deal with reporters' questions.

The reporter was stunned for a moment, in the past press conferences, Tang Shuai's answers were very sincere and targeted, but today he didn't expect to say a polite word directly, he asked a little unwillingly: "Is it really just some simple greetings?" If it's just a few simple greetings, then why is there such a targeted offense and defense between you and Kobe Bryant after that? Even almost caused Kobe's injury? ”

The reporter's questions are tricky, and they are always aggressive and want to ask something that others don't know, which is why the players attending the press conference need to be careful to deal with it.

Tang Shuai also learned this before.

But today because of Smith's matter, he was already a little depressed, and this reporter's question was even more merciless, and he was so angry that he wanted to stand up.

Griffin, who was next to him, noticed his actions and hurriedly grabbed him.

Tang Shuai's body tensed for a while, then slowly slowed down, and said calmly: "It's just a simple greeting between us, as for what happened in the game, it was all for the victory of our respective teams, and it has nothing to do with that." ”

"Okay, next question." The beauty PR also noticed Tang Shuai's abnormal state, and directly skipped this reporter and named the next one.

Although the reporter was a little unwilling, he had no choice but to sit down.

The press conference continued, but Tang Shuai was no longer interested here, and as soon as the press conference ended, he went to take a shower, and then left the villa directly.

On the way back to the villa, he bought two bottles of wine for himself, and when he returned, he drank it alone.

When Duffy came back, he smelled a room full of wine and couldn't help asking, "Don, aren't you going to play back-to-back tomorrow night?" ”

"Race?" Tang Shuai was in a half-drunk state at this moment, leaned back on the sofa and smirked, and then said, "Jaime, isn't it stupid for you to say that I suggested a deal to Sam in the first place. Force? ”

When Duffy heard what Tang Shuai said, he immediately knew what he was talking about, sat next to him, and said, "You mean Smith's thing, right?" ”

"You know?" When Tang Shuai heard what Duffy said, he sat up from the sofa and grabbed Duffy directly.

ps: Thank you for the 588 reward of the natural soldier, thank you for the monthly ticket of the fart piglet, thank you for your support and understanding! (To be continued.) )