"I'm in a different mood this time than I've ever felt before, Mickey, this bronze statue is new, isn't it?"

Los Angeles, outside the Staples Arena, the new Los Angeles Lakers head coach Zhuang Fei is putting his hands behind his back, looking at the bronze statue of Magic Johnson, the greatest player in the history of the Lakers, in front of him and said with some emotion, the Staples Arena is a new arena, just like the North Shore Garden of the Boston Celtics, at this time, there are only two former Lakers players who can erect a bronze statue outside this new arena, in addition to the Magic, the other is Jerry West, the NBA logo man, The greatest scoring guard in NBA history back then, of course, he took second place after Jordan came in, it can be said that the aristocratic temperament of the Lakers was created by Jerry West and Old Buss, even if the big man has left the Lakers now, but the Lakers' current leading player Kobe Bryant was personally brought by Jerry West, and O'Neal was also brought by Jerry West, so it can be said that this is a well-deserved Godfather of the Lakers. If Magic is the greatest player in Lakers history, then Jerry West is the greatest man in Lakers history.

"Erwin was erected after this year's All-Star, because of special reasons at that time, Erwin did not invite you to the unveiling ceremony" Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said with some caution, the special reason he said at the time was naturally that Zhuang Fei's relationship with the Lakers was not very friendly, in that case, the magician even Zhuang Fei's good friend he did not dare to invite Zhuang Fei to attend the ceremony at the unveiling ceremony of his bronze statue, but Kupchak thought that now this Chinese has become the head coach of the Lakers, It's amazing what this kind of thing is.

"Well, that's true, Erwin hasn't told me yet" Zhuang Fei smiled and looked at Kupchak, who was a little unnatural at this time, but soon he began to walk inside, and Kupchak and Green, as well as Thibodu, and some Staples Arena staff also followed Zhuang Fei again.

After Zhuang Fei and Kupchak had dinner at the Hilton Hotel at Los Angeles Airport, Zhuang Fei suggested that he wanted to visit Staples Arena, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers. In fact, at this time, it was already a night hotel, and the Lakers' owner Old Bass had already come to open before Zhuang Fei had dinner, so he could only be accompanied by Kupchak as the general manager, in fact, Zhuang Fei felt a little ridiculous about the Lakers' general manager, because this Kupchak was definitely the most heartfelt team general manager he had ever seen, even the Timberwolves general manager McHale was not like him back then. However, Zhuang Fei understood after thinking about it again that in the past five years, especially after his betrayed his old boss Jerry West followed the two Buss Jr. and Phil Jackson to get Jerry West away, the new Lakers general manager who replaced Jerry West's position has been suppressed by others.

And even Phil Jackson is a cut above him, even if he won the title of the league's best general manager for forming F6 this year, he is still a little daughter-in-law of the Lakers who can't hold his head up. In fact, he can poach F6 not because of his ability, but because of Phil Jackson and the Lakers, in fact, after replacing Jerry West, he has no way to do anything big, and it can even be said that he has nothing to do in his position. If it weren't for the fact that he was an old courtier of the Lakers, Old Buss would definitely be the first to take him when he came back, who forced him to get Jerry West's best partner under Old Bus, although Old Bass knew that he was not the culprit who took Jerry West. But Phil Jackson left, and the other two culprits are his children, who will open the knife if he doesn't take the knife? Even in the end, the elder Bass stayed on with Kupchak. also gave the position of general manager to Zhuang Fei in front of him, but Zhuang Fei didn't accept it.

In this case, Kupchak, who has been a little daughter-in-law for four or five years, can harden up in front of Zhuang Fei and put on the posture of a general manager, so many times the Lakers general manager has been thinking that if he hadn't betrayed Jerry West back then, although he may only be an assistant to the general manager now, at least he is more comfortable than now, and with Jerry West's cover, even the two little Bas didn't dare to do anything to him. Of course, all this is in the past tense, whether it is Jerry West or the two Bass, it is in the past tense, and now the Lakers general manager just hopes that the new big man can not be so harsh on him, and at this time he has no intention of putting the general manager in front of Zhuang Fei, and he also has no intention of confronting Zhuang Fei.

It's close to 10 o'clock in the evening, Staples Arena is located in the center of Los Angeles, so it's not dark at this time, but there is nothing to see at Staples Arena at this time, Zhuang Fei doesn't plan to visit for a long time or carefully observe this stadium that belongs to him in the future, the reason why he hopes to come here is because the house he and Scarlett bought in Los Angeles is near here, Staples Arena and Hollywood are not far away, and naturally Zhuang Fei's home in Los Angeles is not far away, In this case, it's just a stop-by.

Of course, after visiting Staples Arena, Zhuang Fei and Kupchak also left, Kupchak took Green to their new apartment, Green and Thibodo's families did not follow, and they did not have the intention of buying a house here at this time, so the Lakers also provided them with a high-end apartment that was not very far from the team, and Zhuang Fei declined the villa given by Jerry West, after all, he did not have a house in Los Angeles.

Zhuang Fei didn't say anything to Scarlett about signing with the Lakers, and even if Zhuang Fei didn't say it, in terms of his current influence, the matter between him and the Lakers is now all over the world, so when Zhuang Fei returned to his home in Los Angeles, he saw Scarlett still lying on his side in the living room watching TV, obviously, this is waiting for Zhuang Fei, he must know that Zhuang Fei will come back today, so he deliberately ran out of school, the two have been together less and more since Scarlett went to college, but it should be much better now

"Zhuang, are you still dissatisfied with this office?"

On June 26, 2004, this was Zhuang Fei's first day to work at the Lakers, and Zhuang Fei came to the Lakers early in the morning, and to Zhuang Fei's surprise, the owner of the Lakers, Old Buss, had been waiting for him as head coach for a long time.

"It's not bad, it's just that the light is a little darker" Zhuang Fei looked around his office and said, this should be Phil Jackson's previous office, but Zhuang Fei felt a little gloomy after he came in, because the light was not very strong, and even the large windows of the office were directly sealed, which also made Zhuang Fei a little curious about how Phil Jackson worked in such a place.

"Mr. Jackson prefers a darker environment," Kupchak, who had been beside Zhuang Fei and Jeribas, hurriedly explained in the face of Zhuang Fei's puzzled eyes, and Zhuang Fei nodded after getting the answer.

"Mitch, since Zhuang doesn't like this room, you can change rooms with Zhuang first, and then change back after the team is rearranged" Although Zhuang Fei didn't say anything, but soon Lakers owner Jerebus ordered Kupchak, and Kupchak naturally couldn't disagree when he heard his boss's order.

"No need, just here, just open another window" Seeing this scene, Zhuang Fei also said with a smile, and Jerebus agreed to Zhuang Fei's suggestion after being puzzled for a while.

"Then do as Zhuang wants, Mitch, and get these things done as soon as possible," Jerebus instructed Kupchak in a somewhat tough tone, and Kupchak nodded quickly.

Old Bass came to the team to introduce the situation to Zhuang Fei, for the old man in his seventies, he did not plan to meddle in Zhuang Fei's affairs, although he did not plan to meddle in the team's affairs, but Zhuang Fei could also clearly feel the support of this old man, such as the attitude towards Kupchak, it is obvious that this old man is telling the Lakers general manager to lower his voice in front of Zhuang Fei and listen to Zhuang Fei's instructions. So at this time, Jerebus has always played the role of blackface, and Zhuang Fei can naturally know this very clearly.

"Mitch, are you alright?" Zhuang Fei asked after sitting down at his desk, looking at Kupchak, who had been frowning since Old Bass left? Kupchak, who heard Zhuang Fei's question, also shook his head hurriedly at this time, obviously did not regard Zhuang Fei as a friend who talked about everything, and Zhuang Fei only smiled slightly at the behavior of the Lakers general manager who had been destroyed by the two Buss Jr. and Phil Jackson in recent years, and did not care too much.

"By the way, Mitch, wait a minute, you go and inform the Lakers players who have contracts, and return to the team at twelve o'clock at noon every day" Finally, Zhuang Fei also smiled and assigned his first task to the general manager of the team. And after Zhuang Fei assigned this evil task, the Lakers general manager also left, and now only Zhuang Fei is left in the entire Lakers head coach's office. At this time, Zhuang Fei sat in his position and opened the long-lost dynasty system.

Because of the system update prompt, there is one more team in the NBA, and after Zhuang Fei clicked on this team, there are several familiar names in the lineup of this team.

Kirilenko, Haslem, Mo Williams, Chris Anderson and the last one is Stephen Jackson (to be continued. )