The after-tax income of $22,000 made Min Congda feel good, which made his mentality of watching the game a little more normal and less distorted.

$20,000 is equivalent to the salary income of the Clippers losing 10 games, which is twice the total assets of Min Congda at present.

With this money, Min Congda can buy more Apple shares and save some money for pocket money.

This money is enough for him to spend a long time.

One of the great benefits of being the general manager of the Clippers is that you can save a lot of money on daily expenses, such as having a restaurant for dinner, and transportation and communication expenses can be reimbursed through the team's finances.

Christmas is coming next month, and Min Congda also plans to give benefits to employees, get some shopping cards and discount coupons, and he can get one himself when the time comes.

Thanks to the new world factory of China on the other side of the ocean, prices in the United States are still relatively cheap, and clothes, electronic products, and daily necessities are all large in quantity and low in price.

In the current single state where one person feeds the whole family and is not hungry, Min Congda's daily expenses are very small, and the biggest expense is to go to Santa Barbarbera to meet friends with martial arts.

However, Min Congda could have allowed Davis or Randolph to have a treat, and he didn't dare to let him go alone.

With such a mentality, Min Congda and the whole Clippers rushed to Memphis overnight.

The NBA schedule is very dense and the players are very tired, and Min Congda has a first-hand experience of running a long-distance road trip with the players for the first time.

After playing the Hornets on the 17th and losing, the players didn't have much time to adjust their mentality.

After taking a shower, you should immediately board the airport bus and rush to the airport to take a flight in the starry night.

At two o'clock in the morning, the plane arrived at the destination, and then took the bus to the hotel.

Once at the hotel, the players had to get to sleep because they had a game against the Grizzlies on the night of the 18th.

It's the most grinding back-to-back on the NBA schedule, and some teams have some veterans or injured players resting in games like this, reducing playing time and reducing the risk of injury.

Min Congda followed the players around, and when he arrived at the Memphis Hotel, he yawned profusely, and it was almost three o'clock in the morning.

As a result, at the front desk, there were some problems with the players' check-in procedures, and the hotel's system could not enter the players' identity information.

The team leader is Carmen Sloan, the old cop who used to work for the Los Angeles Police Department, retired and opened a security company, and worked with the Clippers.

The previous fight between Randolph and others was the first time he dealt with the aftermath.

However, he clearly made some mistakes in the team's logistics tonight.

Min Congda sat on the suitcase and asked, "Hey Carmen, what the hell is going on?" I'm going to die, the players have to play tomorrow. Isn't it possible to communicate with the hotel about identity information a long time ago? And you should be prepared for emergencies, shouldn't you? ”

Sloan was a white man in his fifties, bald, with a beard, and at first glance he was the kind of person who was very calm and reliable.

He said in an apologetic tone: "I'm sorry Mr. Smart, the person in charge of this trip is a newcomer, some of the work is not very skilled, and there is a problem with the communication with the hotel." ”

Min Congda yawned again and said, "Novices, it's always easy to have problems. But I'm going to give you a 20 percent increase in your salary, and you're still going to have to do things beautifully. ”

Sloane had an embarrassed look on his face and said, "Uh... Mr. Smart, your salary increase is for the Clippers employees, and our security is an outsourcing cooperation, not your Clippers employees, so the salary will not be added to us. ”

Min Congda sounded like this, Carmen Sloan opened her own security company.

In addition to being in charge of the security of the Clippers, some Hollywood stars will also ask him to serve as a security guard, responsible for the confidentiality and safety of the trip.

"Yes, it seems that my work is not in place, so in this way, the price of the security agreement signed with you will be increased by 20%, are you satisfied?"

Min Congda is now spending more money on the team and squeezing Rosher to death.

I heard that Rosser has been busy losing his hair recently in order to take out a loan to open a restaurant, and if he knew that Min Congda's words had increased the team's security expenses by 20%, he would definitely buy himself a wig.

When Sloan heard Min Congda's words, he hurriedly said, "Oh... Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Smart, to be honest, the company is doing very badly right now, and people keep quitting, so it's hiring a lot of new people. Otherwise, you wouldn't have made such a low-level mistake. If you have your help, I think we'll do our best to do our best to secure the logistics..."

Min Congda waved his hand, he didn't care how the logistics and security work was doing, he was so sleepy now, he just wanted to be able to lie on the soft big bed and sleep well.

Carmen Sloan knew that Min Congda's style of doing things had always been like this, and on a whim, he said that if he added 20 percent, he would definitely add it.

Sloane was both grateful and amazed that the new general manager and owner Sterling had very different styles.

Sterling, the boss, is notoriously picky, although his net worth has reached more than one billion, he often cares about some small money.

For example, the shooting to win the prize money event held at the Clippers' home court, which is held at every home court in the NBA, a fan won a $1,000 bonus, and Sterling didn't want to give it.

Later, he was sued by this fan for fraud, and this fan is a lawyer by profession, so don't you hit the muzzle?

In addition, the Clippers' backroom has always been understaffed, with the total number of personnel being less than half that of the Lakers.

There are departments that Sterling doesn't think important are simply eliminated, such as the Basketball Strategic Development Center, which sounds like a retreat.

But in fact, it is precisely because of the Clippers' lack of strategic planning that Sterling has been the owner of the Clippers for 30 years, and the team has been rotting in the quagmire, constantly falling in the same place, getting up, and falling again.

Other necessary departments Sterling also have fewer personnel, and there has even been a shortage of staff in the team's medical team, and Sterling asked the manager to wrap the players in bandages.

Some big teams have their own professional security teams, which are only responsible for the security, transportation, and logistics of their own teams.

There is a famous saying in security work, "Security that does not feel like it exists is the best security", which means that the so-called good fighters have no great achievements.

Good logistical security allows the players to play with peace of mind, not to worry about anything else, everything will be arranged properly.

But it takes money and people to do this, and Sterling didn't want to set up his own security team at all, it was too expensive to raise, so he outsourced to Carmen Sloan's security company.

Sloan is an experienced and responsible man who always puts the Clippers' work first.

But Sterling was always picky on payments, and from time to time he used some excuses to deduct money, which made Sloan very unhappy.

However, after Smart took office, there was more money and less to do, and now it has increased by 20 percent in one go, Sloan thought to himself: "Sterling's brain has finally opened up, and I will pay more attention to the work of the Clippers in the future, send a few more veterans over, and do the work steadfastly, so that the players can have a better state of play." ”

At half past three in the morning, the hotel finally completed the check-in procedures, and Min Congda's yawning tears came out.

And such a situation has never appeared again in the future road trip of the Clippers.

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