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Swift gave him a grateful look.

After the concert ended, Swift said to Tang Shuai: "Don, thank you really for the front." ”

"It's okay, you also wear high heels to cooperate with me, if you really get hurt, I can't get over it." Tang Shuai said with a smile, Swift is one meter eight tall, not much shorter than him.

"Anyway, thank you so much, do you have time? When it's over, let's go out for a coffee? Swift spoke.

"Let's change it, it's not too early." Tang Shuai refused politely, although he was on stage for the purpose of protection, but before he came, Su Mei said that he would watch the live broadcast, and he was still a little uncertain in his heart.

"Well, that's what I said, then you go back to rest early, and I'll ask Hunter to send you off." Swift continued.

"No, I'll drive myself." Tang Shuai said with a smile.

Swift nodded, and after sending Tang Shuai away, her expression was a little complicated, and then she turned around and went to the press conference, where there were still a bunch of reporters waiting for her.

Like her and artists of this level, they really don't have a minute to rest.

After Swift's concert, Tang Shuai will soon be in the villa.

When I went back, I found that Su Mei was still studying with a tactical hand test.

"There was something unexpected at the concert." After Tang Shuai entered, he spoke.

"Well, I saw it, don't worry, I won't be jealous." Su Mei heard Tang Shuai talk about it as soon as he entered the door, and spoke.

Seeing that Su Mei really didn't care about this matter, Tang Shuai didn't say much, the two of them warmed up for a while, and then fell asleep.

The next day, Tang Shuai arrived at the stadium early.

Speaking of which, the Lakers have been unlucky enough lately, with games on the first day after the trade deadline, and now, it has only been 3 days since the new signings arrived in the team, and they are about to welcome the league's strongest opponent, the Warriors.

The two sides have already met once before, when the volatile team ended up losing badly, and it is destined to be a difficult game to play against the Warriors at this time.

After Tang Shuai arrived at the stadium, he saw that Xiao and many of his teammates had arrived, especially the five new members of the team, all of whom had already arrived at the stadium, and they had been practicing for a while.

Seeing this atmosphere of the team, Tang Shuai still felt very gratified, putting aside the strength, this positive attitude is very rare.

"Don, you're here, just right, come with me later." Xiao saw Tang Shuai coming and said to him.

"Where to go?" He looked at Xiao suspiciously.

"You'll find out later." Xiao said mysteriously.

Tang Shuai saw what Xiao didn't mean, and didn't ask again.

After the training went on for a while, a staff member came over to say hello to Xiao, and Xiao called Tang Shuai, Noel and Batum and walked directly to the coach's office.

Tang Shuai looked at Noel and Batum, and then at the place where he was going, and suddenly realized what might happen next.

It should be that the Lakers have found a new head coach.

Sure enough, they pushed the door open and went in to see someone sitting at the manager's desk, looking at the team roster.

"Chauncey, I've called someone." After Xiao entered, he spoke directly.

Tang Shuai heard Xiao's voice, saw the person sitting on the stool with a big bald head, and then saw that familiar face, he suddenly felt excited.

Billups! It turned out to be Billups!

"Well, let's sit down first." Billups motioned for them to sit down, then looked at Tang Shuai, and said with a smile, "Don, long time no see." ”

"Long time no see, Coach Chaunce." Tang Shuai suppressed his excitement and said that there had been no rumors that Billups would be the coach of the Lakers before, and this sudden meeting made him both surprised and excited.

"Sit down." Billups gestured to him.

Waiting for Tang Shuai to sit down, Xiao continued: "I believe that you should all know each other in Chauncey, especially Tang, I know that when you were on the Clippers, you had a period of cooperation. ”

Tang Shuai nodded vigorously, Kassel is the coach who brought him into the door, Billups is the coach he admires the most, tactics, insight, getting along with players, all abilities are top-notch, and he was an assistant coach in the Clippers before.

"The team has not officially announced it yet, but Chauncey has signed a contract with the team, and he will be our head coach in the future." Shaw followed, his face did not have much emotional fluctuations, although he also served as a head coach, but he also knew that he was capable of a few pounds and a few taels, and as an old Laker, he also performed well in interpersonal relationships.

"I called you here today mainly to take a picture, I was supposed to come to the team after the official announcement, but because I have to play the Warriors tomorrow, the time is pressing." Billups followed.

Noll and Batum both nodded, although they have not been coached by Billups like Tang Shuai, but Billups still has a great reputation in the league.

"Then don't say anything else, you guys go back to training first, and I'll be at the training ground in the afternoon." Billups continued.

The three of them nodded, and then walked out of the office, and Xiao got up and went out.

"Don, you stay for a while." Billups stopped Tang Shuai.

Tang Shuai motioned to Noel and Batum to go back first, and then walked back to the office.

When Xiao went out and closed the door, there were only two people left in the office, Billups and Tang Shuai.

"Chauncey, I really didn't expect you to come to the Lakers, I'm really excited." When there were only two people left, Tang Shuai didn't hold back his excitement anymore, and said directly, he still had some regrets about Wharton's departure, after all, Wharton's coaching level is still very good, but now that Billups is in charge, it is definitely an improvement, and more importantly, Billups values it from the heart, and his development will definitely become smoother.

"The Lakers messaged me early on, and I thought it was a good opportunity." Billups said with a smile on his face.

"It's definitely an opportunity." Tang Shuai said.

"Compared to the Clippers, although the Lakers' strength is a little weaker, as long as they play a good record this year, they will be attractive in the free market next year, and at most next year, the team will be able to rise quickly." Billups said and looked at Tang Shuai, "And you're in the team, I have a lot of confidence in you." ”

was said by Billups in person, Tang Shuai's face flushed slightly, and he said that he was bent on breaking gold, and Wharton had a gap with him before, although his performance was not bad, but he always felt a little uncomfortable, and now it is okay, Billups's joining, there is no worry about this aspect at all.

"Okay, it's still a long time, we have time to catch up, you go back and train with them first, I still have a lot of information to familiarize myself with." Billups said, gesturing to the shoulder-high piles of materials beside him.

"Well, then you get busy first." Tang Shuai got up with a smile, and then left the coach's office.

Just when the Lakers players were training at the venue, the Lakers officially announced the personnel of the team's head coach without any rumors before.

Chauncey Billups will be the new head coach of the Lakers on a four-year, $40 million contract.

After this news was announced, it immediately caused an uproar.

Billups is quite good as a player, grassroots MVP has earned him a lot of popularity in the league, and even as an assistant coach, he did well with the Clippers last season, but the problem is this contract.

Similar to the situation when Kidd was the head coach of the Nets, Billups's contract is really big, 4 years and 40 million, which is worth a middle-class player.

The annual salary of this contract is directly the same level as that of Big Van Gundy and Thibodeau, and even more than Lu, who just won the championship, and the second highest salary in the league. Povich's annual salary is 1 million less.

It's no wonder that there is such public opinion, after learning the news, the old Barry even joked: The new salary cap has skyrocketed the salary of the coach, is it not when will the commentator's salary be raised?

Coincidentally, after Kenny Smith learned the news, he said that the purpose of this signing was to reassure Tang Shuai, after all, the two had a successful cooperation with the Clippers before, which is equivalent to directly tying the two people together, and the signing itself does not make much sense.

Billups was calm, facing the pressure of media public opinion, at the press conference of the franchise, he only talked about his responsibilities, and finally was forced to say something under repeated pressure from the media.

'My salary is what the management thinks I'm worthy, whatever the reason, that's the way it is, I don't have to prove anything because everything just went according to the flow.'

Billups didn't argue head-on, but there was a considerable momentum in his words, which was like saying that success, or victory, was not something for him to fight for or prove, it was something that would come naturally.

After the press conference, Billups met with the players as head coach during the afternoon training session.

"Don't be too nervous, just think of me as your friend, I'm not a few years older than you, although I do look older than Luke." Billups' opening remarks are full of humor.

The team members laughed, and the distance between them was much closer.

After a brief exchange and getting to know each other, Billups wasted no time and then began to lay out the things for the game against the Warriors that night.

The Warriors have been really strong this season, 38-2 before the All-Star break, and just another wave of 20 consecutive wins, so to speak, their performance is even better than the scouts expected before the game, and for them, wins seem to have become the norm.

'It's going to be tough tonight and I'm sure we have a chance, but only if we need to play a quality defence.' Billups said and glanced at everyone, and finally looked at Tang Shuai and said, "Then give the problem of attack to Tang." (To be continued.) )