Chapter 43: The Family Crisis
After a few trades and drafts, the Warriors' roster was filled with 13 players, although the normal rotation is enough, but it is still necessary to prevent injuries, sign two water cooler players, plus the Warriors need to play in summer league this season, so Richard began to look for some cheap and bench players in the free market.
There are many players eliminated in the NBA every year, which leads to a large number of players appearing in the training halls of various NBA teams for tryouts in the summer league every year, and Richard also attaches great importance to such trials, after all, there are not a few star players who grow up from marginal players in the NBA every year, such as Brad Miller, Brad Miller is a rookie who was undrafted, but Brad Miller has started the Bulls last season and performed very well.
On July 1, the first day of the free agent market, a large number of players gathered in the Warriors' training hall, and the team's four newly selected rookies, Joe Johnson, Gilbert Arenas, Gerard Wallace and Memet Oku, are all in the training hall.
In addition to the four rookies, Morris Evans and Rasonestrovic will also play in the Summer League.
Richard came to the training hall early, and then began to supervise the training of these new signings, at the beginning of the season, the Warriors' training will be based on shooting, and Joe Johnson They just came to the team, and they were also asked by Richard to practice shooting first, Chip Engelland, Mitch Ridgemond, Chris Mullin and Ganon Baker all appeared on the training court, at Richard's request, to help these players practice shooting in the NBA way.
On the other side of the gym were the NBA fringe players who came to tryout, and after Richard watched the training of the new signings for a while, he ran to the other side, ready to see if there were any good seedlings.
Just as Richard walked to the other side, he heard a "boom", a loud bang, which immediately attracted Richard's attention.
Richard couldn't help but look up, and a frighteningly tall man with white clothes was hanging on the basket.
The big tall man landed on the floor, and Richard looked at it, only thinking that this big tall man should be a purebred white man, with very white skin, and then with a short head of hair and a body of muscles, it seems to be a bit of a Hollywood tough guy.
However, Richard looked at it for a long time, and always felt that this tall man was a little familiar, but he always felt that something was missing, so he turned to Frank Vogel, who was in charge of the trial, and asked: "Frank, what is this guy's name, the bounce seems to be very good." As he spoke, the tall man made another violent buckle, much to Richard's surprise.
Frank Vogel, on the other hand, flipped through the roster in his hand and gave a name that left Richard dumbfounded: "Chris Anderson." ”
Chris anderson?! Richard couldn't believe that this big tall man who was white and translucent, white and clean would actually be the later tattooed brother Birdman Anderson, in fact, Richard didn't understand, at this time Birdman was still fighting in overseas leagues, playing for the Jiangsu Nangang team in the CBA last season, but most of the time he could only serve as a substitute.
At that time, Birdman Anderson did not have a single tattoo on his body, and even in the early days of joining the NBA, he did not have too many tattoos, until he joined the Nuggets, and his body was covered with tattoos, and then he won the title of Birdman.
And Richard stood under the basket and watched for a while, Chris Anderson's trial has been going on, he gave Richard the feeling that the physical fitness is very good, but the technique seems to be a little rough, but the air defense and blocking under the basket have surprised Richard, the appearance of Birdman Anderson makes Richard have a feeling of picking up a treasure, after all, he can sign this inside beast for free, and his experience playing in China may also help Yao Ming integrate into the team as soon as possible next year.
"Frank, let this Chris Anderson know that we can sign him a tryout contract."
"Okay." Richard decided to sign Birdman Anderson to a trial contract, and the team would give him a permanent contract as long as he did well in Summer League.
met the later Birdman Anderson at the trial site, and Richard could sign this later inside beast at no cost, which can be regarded as a treasure.
Next, according to Darryl Morey's data analysis, the Warriors have successively signed several players with good strength to form a summer league team lineup, and Frank Vogel will lead the team to participate in the summer league.
Richard, on the other hand, had to do something else.
Chris Cohan, that is, the old Cohan chose to retire last year, has not asked about the family's business, but some things often do not go as smoothly as people think, Richard will be the Golden State Warriors, and Richard's eldest brother Ben Kehan has also developed the family's real estate industry very prosperous, but Dick Cohan is not good, the old Cohan called, the family's cable TV industry, it seems that there is a problem.
Richard arrived early in the morning at a mansion that the elder Cohan had now bought in Las Vegas, and by the time he arrived, the elder Cohan was already sitting in the living room with Benko and Dick Cohan.
This time Richard was late again, but Dick Cohan didn't laugh again, Richard also knew that his half-brother might never laugh anymore, as far as Richard knew, the Cohan family's cable TV industry ushered in a huge crisis in the hands of Dick Cohan, originally as the largest cable TV interface in the United States, Cohan Cable TV Company, in just half a year, lost the support of more than 30 states in the United States, and this point was discovered by Chris Cohan, it has developed to the most serious stage.
Seeing Richard walk into the living room, Chris Cohan sighed, this time his favorite youngest son had made a big mistake and had proven himself to have no business talents, perhaps the youngest son was only suitable to be a shareholder and share the money from the family business.
"Richard, you also know what happened this time, this is a counterattack carefully planned by the Dolan family, fortunately I found out early, otherwise the family's cable TV company would have collapsed, but now the situation has reached the most dangerous time, we must react." Chris Cohan told Richard about the current situation with a cold face.
Richard didn't say anything, he knew that this time the family wanted to save the cable company, maybe they had to hemorrhage.
"What does that require me to do?" Richard reacted quickly, and old Cohan came back to him, obviously needing him to do something.
"Yes, you are in charge of the NBA Warriors, which is in charge of the family's sports industry, and now the San Francisco City Government has proposed to us to help us buy the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, as well as buy a Major League Soccer team, and move to San Francisco, and the NBDL Santa Cruz Warriors need a new investor, as long as we agree to these three, more than 30 states, San Francisco will help us solve it."
Chris Cohan quickly said what he needed Richard to do, but the elder Cohan's words silenced Richard, the acquisition of the San Francisco 49ers and the acquisition of a Major League Soccer team, as well as moving to San Francisco, and finally investing in the Santa Cruz Warriors. Where did it come from!
[Today's three shifts, there will be one more later, which is considered to pay off last week's chapter of debt, and there are two chapters left in the debt, which will be paid off one after another. 】