On June 29, Monday, the fifth day of Min Congda's tenure as general manager of the Clippers.

On Saturdays and Sundays, Min Congda stayed in the apartment, spending two days to learn about the NBA's complex trading system and supplement NBA common sense.

But I only understand a rough idea, and the details are too complicated, especially when it comes to salary matching, and there are so many rules and terms of design.

When he woke up on Monday morning, Min Congda felt indignant.

"It's really damn, it's going to be rotten, why do I stay at home and work overtime to read the information on the weekend?"

"Let's start the game quickly, let's lose, the system will pay me, I'm going to go out and surf, I'm going to play everywhere in the United States!"

Ida came to the apartment downstairs on time to pick up Min Congda to work, and when she saw that Min Congda was a little depressed, she was concerned: "Mr. Smart, didn't you sleep well?" ”

Min Congda said: "I didn't sleep well, I kept reading the information, and I didn't go out for two days." ”

Ida was amazed that Mr. Smart was a workaholic, and he asked his employees to go home from work, but he worked from home for two days.

Sure enough, it is not easy to become a leader in the management.

Arriving at the team's headquarters, there is a meeting on Monday as usual to decide on the week's work.

The first item discussed at the meeting was the Randolph deal.

"I think trading with the Kings is a better option, Gooden brings a strong defense, and he and Carman form an interior partner, so we will be more solid on the inside."

Sachs, the head of the player's personnel department, believes Gooden is the best alternative to Randolph.

"I think Jamison would be the better choice, he's an All-Star and has a lot of scoring ability. If he comes, it will definitely help the team's box office revenue. ”

Olsche, deputy general manager, felt that he should make a deal with the Wizards, and he thought about the box office.

Sachs retorted: "Olsie, the box office is not something that the basketball department should consider, the team has a good record to have a box office. And Jamison has long been out of breath, he is 33 years old and can't score 50 points in two consecutive games. ”

Sachs used to be a little afraid of Olshea, who was the head of basketball affairs.

But now that there is one more Min Congda on it, Sachs dares to go against Olsie.

Olsher glared at Sachs and said, "If we take Griffin, we don't have to think about the box office, but now we have to think about that, don't we, Mr. Smart?" ”

Min Congda listened to the argument between the two, and thought to himself that this Olsie is really a cautious eye, why can't he pass the little thing at the draft conference?

Forget it, let me settle your conflict and make a decision.

Min Congda interrupted the argument between the two and said, "Every player is a valuable asset of the team, and if you want to sell the asset, you must think about it." ”

"If a person does not use his talents well in a place, it may be his problem, but it can also be a problem of the environment."

"Now we're going to trade Randolph away, which shows that everybody thinks it's Randolph's problem."

"However, there are teams that are willing to accept him, which means that some teams still recognize Randolph's talent."

"That means that Randolph didn't play well, and maybe it's a problem with our team, we didn't provide him with a good working environment!"

"I looked at Randolph's work experience, the Chinese have a saying that the prodigal son does not change money, he only stayed on the Clippers for less than a year before sending him away? I don't think it's good, but we should give him a chance to stay in the team and really play his ability! ”

"So! I decided to cancel the deal and let Randolph stay. ”

Min Congda said a lot, all of which he prepared in advance, otherwise his vocabulary would not be enough.

Of course, it's all, and some leaders in the industry used to like to say this kind of, and what they said was the same as if they didn't say it.

He is justified in saying both the right and the opposite.

Olser and the others were stunned, why did a rotten person like Randolph remain? Still playing with real abilities?

But because of the authority of Min Congda's previous words, no one dared to object, so everyone had to acquiesce.

Olsie was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but he had already broken the jar, and he wanted to see what the hell the Clippers could do in the new season!

The subsequent meeting discussed some details of daily management, which Min Congda hastily skimmed and let Olsie worry about it.

Ida reminded Min, "Mr. Smart, you haven't met with the coaching staff and the health center yet. The team is going to have a training camp in the training hall today, do you want to visit it? ”

"Well, I'm going to watch the players train. By the way, does the training center have food? ”

"That's right, the team's cafeteria is located there..."

"Excellent! Then let's go right away and go to the training center for dinner... No, to watch the players practice. ”

Eating is not active, and there is a problem with the mind.

Going to the training center for dinner, Min Congda can save a sum of money on food.

In the case that the system does not start paying, the money can be saved a little bit.

Those who followed Min Congda and Ida to the training hall were also people from the scouting department.

This camp at the end of June is for the upcoming Summer League in July.

So the training was attended by young players from the team, as well as some homeless players who were looking for job opportunities.

"We're going to have a 15-man squad before the regular season starts and there are a couple of vacancies that we can pick from. Then, we can also look at the quality of the young players. ”

Scouting director Jason Piomberti handed the training camp squad to Min Congda for review.

Because of the 20% increase in everyone's salary, Min Congda invisibly enhanced his prestige.

Everyone worked very cooperatively and took the initiative to report to the leader.

Once a leader loses the hearts of the people in the unit or team, his subordinates will sweep the snow even if they do not rebel.

Only do your own thing, and don't help the oil bottle when it is poured.

Min Congda looked at the list, emmm...... I don't know anyone except Curry.

In addition to rubbing rice, this observation can also be regarded as a small acceptance of his draft results.

If Curry can't even beat the other young people on the team, it means that he has chosen the right person.

The Clippers' training center is located in the new athletic training center near Mary Del Rey, southwest of Los Angeles.

When Min Congda and his party arrived, the coaching staff and the health center had not yet arrived, and the players had not come.

Ida and the scouting team took Min Congda on a tour of the training center.

The environment around the training center is very good, there are mountains, trees and water, and the facilities inside the center are all new.

This is a training hall that broke ground in 2007 and was put into use just last year, with two basketball courts, gymnasium, physiotherapy room, swimming pool and other facilities.

Min Congda looked at the newly put into use training hall and thought to himself that with such good equipment, the team played so badly, what a pity, what a pity.

After turning around, I heard the sound of "bang-bang" on the basketball court in the center, and it seemed that some players had come to the training hall to practice first.

Min Cong arrived on the court and saw that it was none other than the only person on the list he knew, Stephen Curry.

"Hey, this kid is very diligent in playing, coming so early, it's not good, it's a bad habit, it's better to change."