Chapter 197: Team Meeting (Call for Team Names)

In fact, Lisi called Wang Meng and only told him that the team's top management was going to have a meeting and invited him to go with him.

This meaning is already very obvious, Wang Meng's performance during this period of time has made the team very satisfied with him, coupled with the Chinese market behind Wang Meng, has made the Hornet's senior management decide to build a Hornet dynasty with Wang Meng as the core.

Although Liz's father is the owner of this team, it does not mean that this team is completely his father's, in fact, when buying the Hornets, Lis's father is only the largest shareholder among them, and there are many shares shared in the hands of partners who paid the same money as Lis's father to buy the Hornets, these people are very concerned about the prospects of the Hornets, although they do not expect the Hornets to become a giant like the Lakers or Celtics, but at least to become a qualified team that can effectively promote them.

This meeting was the first time they had joined the players for a meeting, and they discussed with Wang Meng the future direction of the Hornets, of course, this was to reassure Wang Meng that Wang Meng wanted to stay in the Hornets team.

There was a lot of discussion in the meeting, including the manager, the players, the rest of the team, as well as the stadium and the team name.

Many people want to change to a more famous coach, but under the arguments of Wang Meng and Lis, the position of head coach will eventually remain on Monty's head, of course, if Monty can't play well, he will naturally step down.

In terms of players, the Hornets have no better way to bring in players for the time being, but after this season, they will definitely bring in reinforcements in the free market, and the meaning of this group of guys is very clear, we can tolerate teams with high salaries, but we have to produce results, and try to sign a few people that the team needs without exceeding the salary cap. For this, Liz pouted very dissatisfied, she can tolerate high wages, but she can't exceed the salary cap, isn't this nonsense? Is it still a high salary if you don't exceed the salary cap? What about when you were the Bobcats owner Jordan?

The first two items are still trivial, but the back court and the team are very important things, Rao is Wang Meng, the core player of the team, and he can't intervene at this time.

Everyone means the same, the city of New Orleans, in all respects, is not suitable for a commercial NBA team to stop, in order to be able to sell the team bigger, it is necessary to move the city.

The question is, where to switch?

Everyone's first thought was New York, Los Angeles.

But is it realistic? Los Angeles now has two teams, the Lakers and the Clippers, which are already very crowded, and the two teams also share the same court, how do the Hornets move to play?

Let's talk about New York, although there is only one team in the Knicks, the Nets have long wanted to move to New York, and the home court of the Nets has been built in New York, and it is estimated that it will be built soon, and New York will also be the home of the two teams at that time.

Under these two cities, there are also many suitable cities, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and the like, all of which are very good cities, but these cities already have teams without exception, and they are all teams that have been established for many years and have a very good background.

This is undoubtedly unrealistic.

Discussions come and go, and there seems to be only one city that fits in.

The city is called Seattle.

There used to be a team called the SuperSonics, their home court was in Seattle, they used to be brilliant, but they quickly declined, relying on the list of picks, they selected Durant, moved from Seattle to Oklahoma, and changed the name of the team to Thunder, this is something that every fan who watches the NBA knows, the Thunder's rebuild has been very successful, and in less than 4 years, the Thunder has been one of the most favorable contenders for the championship, Oklahoma fans also often cheer the young team win game after game, and many forget about the city of Seattle, which once had its glory.

In terms of the market, although Seattle is not as strong as Los Angeles and New York, it is definitely much better than the city of New Orleans, and most importantly, in Seattle, there is definitely no worry about hurricanes every day like in New Orleans, and the beauty of the city is far greater than that of New Orleans, which is in disrepair.

Seattle, also known as the Emerald City, is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest and the commercial, cultural and high-tech center of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Needless to say, the most important thing is that in Seattle, the Hornets can rent the Key Arena as their home stadium, which was also the home arena of the SuperSonics back then.

Of course, moving the team is not a trivial matter, and it needs to be discussed not only within the team, but also with Stern and his staff to discuss practical possibilities.

Wang Meng doesn't have much feeling about moving the team, he doesn't usually go out to play, what the city is really like for him, but every time he goes to the stadium and sees those potholed roads on the street, he always feels uncomfortable.

The last item is the discussion of the team's name, this Wang Meng cares a lot, he doesn't want to make a very painful name, making it difficult for him to be called a nickname. The leader of the Hornets is called the Queen Bee, although it is not good, but Wang Meng is barely acceptable, and there are many very domineering nicknames in the league, such as the boss of the Atlanta Hawks is called the King of Eagles. The boss of the Timberwolves is called the wolf king, and the boss of the Clippers is called the captain, these nicknames are very comfortable to listen to, Wang Meng is most afraid of what kind of mess the team has such as pigs, dogs, turkeys and other names, it will be a bit of a pain.

Fortunately, most normal people don't associate the name of a team with those animals.

Most of the teams in the league have a very distinctive way of naming, and there are three kinds of things to sum up, which are animals, people, or other things, the most of which are animals, such as the Grizzlies, Hawks, Bucks, Raptors, etc., followed by people, such as the Lakers, Celtics, 76ers, etc., and the least are other things that are difficult to define, such as the Rockets, Heat, Thunder and the like.

The ideas of this group of guys are nothing more than these, and in the end, the names are unsatisfactory, and in the end they are not really discussed, and it is a little late at this time, so they can only put this matter down now, and wait until the end of the season to move the team and then set the team name.