Chapter 33: The End of the Season

On April 18, the Warriors welcomed their final game of the season at the Oakland Arena, and the game was preceded by a ceremony called the stadium naming ceremony.

After half a season of searching and negotiating with Richard, Richard finally negotiated this title cooperation with his old buddy Larry Page, Google will bid 4 million for two years, naming the home arena of the Golden State Warriors, and Oakland Arena will be officially renamed Google Arena next season, for Richard, the annual cost of 2 million is enough for him to bear the annual losses of the Warriors.

However, for Richard, this money is just a small amount of money, Richard has long worked with Larry Foster to formulate the Warriors' next five-year plan, in that plan, including the construction of a new arena in San Francisco within three years, compared to Oakland, San Francisco is the real big city, although the two cities are just a bay apart, but in the final analysis, if the arena can be built directly to San Francisco, it will be a huge improvement for the Warriors' business operations!

After all, it is good to enjoy the shade with the back of the big tree, and the identity of San Francisco as an international metropolis is destined to be in line with international standards, just like the Knicks, although the Knicks have not been able to make the playoffs for many years, James Doron can make money in the Knicks' business, which is enough to show the impact of the city on the team.

The naming ceremony of the Warriors Arena was still very grand, not only Larry Page, who has recently become a venture capital in the IT world, but also California government officials, the mayor of Oakland, and many Silicon Valley elites attended the ceremony.

The atmosphere was lively, but some Warriors fans didn't look good.

"What a fuck! And that's not the result yet! Is the Cohan family thinking about making money from the team? ”

"yes, I heard that little Cohan is still thinking about moving the team to San Francisco!"

"What!? Are you telling the truth? Cohan Jr. wants to move the team to San Francisco!? ”

"Of course it's true! This is information from within the team, and it is said that little Cohan already has a full plan! ”

"! If that's the case, we won't say yes! ”

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Just when this group of fans were talking with black faces, a Warriors fan next to him put forward a different opinion.

"The team moved to San Francisco? That's great! ”

This sentence immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the group of fans next to him: "Hey! Now, San Franciscans should be happy! Who made that Richard Cohan a pure San Franciscan! ”

A cold sarcasm, but the Warriors fan who raised a different opinion did not turn his face unexpectedly, but still smiled, and he opened his mouth to give this group of fans the benefits of the Warriors moving to San Francisco.

"I'm not from San Francisco, I'm from Chicago, you can tell the Chicago accent in my accent, but I'm also a fan of the Warriors, and as for what you said about the Warriors moving to San Francisco, at least I think it's a good thing, because moving to San Francisco, the Warriors can be backed by a cosmopolitan city, and their prestige will go up a notch. What's more, by that time, the Warriors will become a team like the Lakers, and many star players will rush to play for the Warriors! ”

The group of Oakland Warriors fans next to him were speechless, and even the last sentence he added made the fans directly convinced: "And you don't have to think about what happened to the Warriors when they left Oakland!" You can still go to San Francisco? At the end of the day, the Warriors aren't the Oakland Warriors, they're not the San Francisco Warriors, they're the Golden State Warriors! ”

This group of Oakland Warriors fans immediately felt that the Warriors moving to San Francisco was the right way!

And this Warriors fan who persuaded this group of fans left the stands as if he had done a good deed without leaving a name, and if Richard saw this fan, maybe he would exclaim: "Hey! Larry! What are you doing! ”

That's right, this so-called Warriors fan from Chicago is Larry Foster, Richard's right-hand man, and the man behind the Warriors' business operations.

After the arena naming ceremony, the game between the Warriors and the Grizzlies began, and the importance of this game is equal to nothing, before the game began, the Warriors had locked up the 12th place in the West with a record of 31 wins and 50 losses, and the Grizzlies also fell to the bottom of the West because of the strong rise of the Warriors in the second half of the season.

Even so, it was a game of worse than ever, the Grizzlies never wanted to win, and their original task this season was to play badly, so the Warriors easily took the lead in this game.

Then he scored one after another, expanding his advantage strongly.

The NBA regular season, which was more of a friendly game, came to an end quickly, with Richard fielding almost all of the Warriors players to get their chance to play in the final game of the season.

In the end, the game ended with the Warriors winning completely, and the Warriors' final record became 36-46, and finally ranked 12th in the West, and if Dave Cowens's leading record is removed, then Richard's record in his first season in charge should be 26-15, with a winning rate of more than 50%!

And if you compare it with Dave Cowens's coaching data, it can highlight Richard's level, the same Warriors, Dave Cowens' record is 10-33, the winning rate is only 23%, and the winning rate of the team led by Richard is 63.4%, compared with the two, Richard only through a few mid-season trades, plus his personal efforts, increased the Warriors' record by 40.4%! It's horrible!

And if the winning rate of the Warriors is calculated by the winning rate of the team led by Richard, then if Richard leads the team at the beginning of this season, the Warriors' record should be about 52-30, which can be ranked sixth in the West, behind the Spurs, Lakers, Kings, Mavericks, Jazz, and even before the Suns, Trail Blazers and Timberwolves!

You know, this is still in the terrifying West, if you put this record in the East, the Warriors' record will jump to second in the East! Tied with the bucks!

From these data alone, some NBA expert reporters can conclude that Richard is not a sloppy head coach, and even more, some media have said in their articles that the Warriors will be the dark horse next season!

At the end of the regular season, the team couldn't go to the playoffs, the players were on vacation, and Richard was busy.

The team's assistant sent Richard a schedule that would require him to attend the league owners' gathering on May 1 and the NBA Draft lottery on May 23, which is still important for the Warriors because they have a lottery pick.

Then, Richard is going to start hosting the Golden State Rookie Training Camp, and if you want to select the right players for yourself in the draft, the rookie training camp must be held, and you must also pay attention to it. Next up is the draft on June 26.

And these are just the important schedules listed by the team's assistants, and if you add Richard's own plans, then Richard will not have to rest all summer.