Author: Smart Min

Preface: I think people have been looking at me a little strangely lately, maybe it's because I'm too careful.

One

Today during the day, good sunshine.

I haven't seen my players for three days and they've come back from away. I met them today, and I felt that they were in good spirits.

Two straight wins on the road, first against the Suns and then against the Kings, 32-26.

I realized that the team was getting closer and closer to the playoffs, and I was still in a coma.

I need to be very careful, otherwise why would the chef at the training center have to give me an extra spoonful of food?

The Clippers could make the playoffs.

My fear is justified.

Two

It was raining heavily today, and there was no sunshine in L.A.

I know it's not good.

I rarely went out early in the morning, and the owner of the breakfast shop looked strange: as if he wanted to congratulate me, but seemed to have something to ask me for.

There were seven or eight people who had breakfast together, talking about me one after another, smiling at me with their mouths open, saying "playoffs", "clippers", "four wins in a row", "hopeful", "Chinese general manager", ......

I went from head to heel, knowing that their expectation was that the Clippers would lose money if they made the playoffs.

I'm not afraid, I still go to work at headquarters.

When the girls at the front desk saw me, they said hello and seemed to be talking about me behind my back.

His eyes were the same as those of the breakfast shop owner, flickering and his face was hesitant.

I think I have some kind of enmity with these girls at the front desk, and I don't miss my salary at all.

I couldn't help but ask, "Tell me something!" ”

They went their separate ways.

I thought: What is my enmity with the owner of the breakfast shop? What do I have against the team's junior staff?

When I first came here, I went to eat at a breakfast restaurant in Chinatown, and the owner said that Smart must be an idiot, and the Clippers are going to be yellow, and they can't get out of the NBA.

It's all good words, auspicious words.

Later, when I saw me, how could I say that I was a crow's mouth?

Did he hear something? Know if I'm going to lose money in the playoffs?

It was agreed that those people on the road would harm me and laugh at me, and that the Chinese people should help me more.

But what about those front desk staff?

They're the ones I've brought in to decorate the façade.

Why do you look at me with strange eyes, as if you respect me, and seem to pity me?

This really taught me to be afraid, and it made me wonder and be sad.

I see, it's ESPN's news-breaking mess!

Say something about a streak of wins over the Jazz and Suns, and the Clippers are going to the playoffs!

Nonsense.

Three

I can't sleep at night. Everything needs to be studied to be understood.

They also have the top three in the West (Jazz), the top two in the East (Magic), the Lotto (Bobcats), and the Clippers for eighth in the West (Spurs).

Their recent home game doesn't seem to be as good as it used to be, and it's not as strong as they expected before the game, and they all lost to the Clippers.

The strangest thing is playing the Bobcats in Charlotte on March 12, Curry's dad is a courtside commentator, and he hired a bodyguard for Curry before the game.

During the pre-game warm-up, the fans surrounded Curry and almost couldn't get in, and I didn't expect Curry to be so popular.

The game was in Curry's hometown, and the Bobcats were no match for the Clippers at all, Curry scored 30 points, and the Clippers won again.

At the end of the game, Curry hugged me hard, and everyone came over and hugged me, saying that the record was on par with the Spurs and Thunder. The playoffs are one step away, and Curry can't guess the details.

On March 13th, back-to-back away games, San Antonio, everyone said that the Spurs were the big villains in the West, and everyone wanted them to die, so that they could dig out their hearts and livers and fry them in oil.

I interjected, saying that the Spurs are very strong, be careful, and it doesn't matter if you lose, relax and play, and Dunleavy and Kim Hughes both looked at me a few times. Only today did I know that their vision was exactly the same as that of the group outside.

When I think about it, I went from the top to the heels.

It turns out that the coaching staff also wants to make the playoffs.

You see that Dunleavy's words of "going all out", the hideous encouragement of a group of assistant coaches, and the words of motivating each other with the players, are obviously a code.

I could see that his words were full of victory, and his laughter was full of morale. Their eyes are all bright, and this is the determination to enter the playoffs.

In my own opinion, I don't want to make the playoffs, but Anschchutz has made conditions, but it's hard to say.

I'm also hesitant to just forget it, enter the playoffs and pull down, losing two dollars is nothing. But when I think of all the things I have done to weaken the team, I am unwilling. ESPN's report said in a while that the Clippers could make the playoffs and would be a dark horse; For a while, it will be said that the Clippers' schedule is difficult and dangerous. Where do I know the bullshit predictions of these media, I still don't want to lose money.

Everything has to be studied to understand. I heard that there were these teams that stepped on the line to enter the top eight before, and they were called dark horses, but I don't know very well. I opened the history and looked up, 1994, 1999, 2007...... On each page is the words "eighth in the regular season". I couldn't fall asleep, and I looked carefully for half the night, only to see the words in the cracks, and there were two words written all over the book as "Black Eight"!

There were a lot of articles written on the forum, and the fans said so many things, and they all looked at me with a strange smile.

I'm the general manager of the Clippers, and they think I want the Clippers Black Eight too.

Four

On the evening of March 21st, Stamp VIP room.

Christopher came in, a pizza, a steak; This pizza is divided into eight portions, what does it mean, and it also implies that it is going to be black. I ate a few pieces, which was good, but I really didn't have much appetite.

Lost to the Hornets and Bucks two days ago, and fell out of the top eight again, but today against the Kings, the Clippers have been leading, and the Kings are too bad.

I said, "Mr. Anschutz, can you please not make the playoffs a condition for building a stadium?" ”

Anschutz refused, saying that another guest would come later.

I didn't move, studying how they were at my mercy, knowing that they wouldn't let up. Really! The bodyguard led a tall fat man with a round face, and walked slowly, he was smiling, but I think he had a knife in his smile, and he wouldn't want to invest in the Clippers.

Anschutz said, "This is Ballmer, the president of Microsoft. I said, "Fortunately." ”

"I'm here today to talk about the new arena," Anschutz said. I said, "Yes!" ”

In fact, I don't know the true purpose of this Ballmer! It's nothing more than wanting to invest in the Clippers sideways and contribute to the team's construction. I know the amount of assets of this person, the amount of money is terrible, if he enters the game, it is almost impossible to want the Clippers to go bankrupt!

I'm not afraid, Sterling is under my control, I'm bolder than them. With a cold face and not talking about the team's shares, saying that Sterling has no idea of introducing new investors now, and everything is still in the plan, Ballmer finally said helplessly:

"I love basketball, and when I retire, I'll consider buying a team, or taking a stake in it, and the Clippers are really good."

Do you like basketball? Then why do you buy other teams, why do you want to play the Clippers. Ballmer's tens of billions of assets have bankrupted the Clippers, so it is better for me to build a nuclear pop-up to flatten Los Angeles. I'm going to put it bluntly, if Ballmer wants to buy the Clippers, he probably won't think about buying Sterling until the Clippers win the championship.

Ballmer and Anschutz, both discolored, were suppressed by my exaggerated tone.

But the more I boasted, the more interested they became. By the time Ballmer left the VIP room, the game was over and the Clippers had beaten the Kings to move into eighth place in the West. Ballmer whispered to me, "I'm expecting the Clippers to win a championship, I really love basketball, I heard about you, and if I had a team, I'd want to hire you as general manager." ”

He wanted me to be the general manager!

Am I a good team manager?

Have I been pranking myself? I don't believe it, I don't believe it.

Six

These days, I took a step back and thought: if what Ballmer said is true, I am a good team general manager, and it doesn't mean that I can't get the job done. Are there fewer examples of the best general managers bringing teams apart?

Jove Petri, the general manager of the Kings, the best manager twice, has brought the Kings apart in the past few years and has not been able to make the playoffs.

If the Kings are a little stronger, they will not lose to the Clippers in that game on the 21st, and they will not lift the Clippers back into the top eight in the West.

Team No. 23 is going to Dallas to play the Mavericks again, and their owner, Cuban, is the kind of guy who loves basketball like crazy, staring from the sidelines every game. Constantly spending money on the team, 2.5 billion in assets, is five times as much as Sterling, and it is even more difficult if the owner wants to bankrupt the team.

And what are Ballmer's assets? It's 15 billion of TM! Sansheng and III can't be defeated, and he must not be allowed to join in.

Six

It's pitch black, and I don't know if it's day or night. The Houston dog barked again.

The Spurs are old, the Mavericks are weak, and the Rockets are strong...... The Rockets lost to the Clippers again.

Seven

I know what tactics the Clippers have been playing lately, the combination of high and low posts on the inside, a lot of pick-and-roll double cover on the outside, double Davis reduced to a fixed-point shooter, Curry shoots from a distance, and Gordon explodes. This lineup has abandoned high-intensity defense, and the offensive efficiency has been improved by a notch, and the scoring has become more and more ferocious in recent games, breaking 110 points in several games.

On March 28, he played the Golden State Warriors, 133-102, and won the Warriors by 31 points, and Curry scored 34 points, killing crazy.

I'm also going crazy, I actually got into a big fight with the referee in such a suspenseful game. The referee tonight was Sean Corbyn, and his hair was oily and slippery, and I just didn't like him because of a penalty that scolded him.

He knew that I wanted to find fault, and he was afraid that I would put the popcorn bucket on his head, so he never returned the favor, and stayed away from me.

I wasn't fined, and I was disappointed.

But everyone was very happy to win the game and came to hug me again.

I cursed the guy who wanted to make the playoffs, and the first one who said he was going to make the playoffs was going to get him out.

Later, it turned out to be related to Ada.

Eight

In fact, I should understand this kind of truth by now...... What does it mean to be a tiger in three people?

Ida is still very beautiful, with the charm unique to Italian women, and more of a small jasper feeling than D'Addario.

I've always trusted her, but I didn't expect her to hurt me and spread rumors about me.

"Why did someone say I'm going to die?"

"No, it's not! It was someone who spread the truth and spread it wrongly. ”

"What did you say in the beginning?"

"Say if the Clippers can't make the playoffs, you're going to resign."

“……”

"Who did you listen to?"

"I heard from Uncle Christopher, and he said that Linda heard it in the VIP room."

“……”

"Why didn't anyone mention this to me?"

"Everyone respects you very much, and they are afraid that you will be too stressed and dare not mention it."

"Why do the Clippers have to make the playoffs for me to stay?"

"It's always been like this, the general manager wants to have a ...... record"

"It always has been, right?"

"Mr. Nasmart? What do you mean? ”

"I don't agree with you talking about these things, in short, you shouldn't spread nonsense about me!"

"I'm sorry Mr. Smart, are you going to fire me?"

“…… Forget it, you go out, I don't blame you, go to work. ”

Ida left the office, I sighed deeply, I was tired.

Ida and her family, uncle, and aunt came together to backstab me?

I wonder if his dad will come? It's impossible, it's impossible.

Nine

There are teams that want to make the playoffs and want to get a lottery pick, like the Toronto Raptors.

Chris Bosh will also be a free agent in the summer of '10, and if he doesn't make the playoffs, Bosh is likely to leave. Starting to enter the playoffs, what future can the Raptors have? Why don't you get a lotto.

So, it lost to the Clippers again.

Ten

Early in the morning, I woke up from my sleep, and lately I've been dreaming about Black Eight and the championship.

I came to work at the team's headquarters at the Staples Centre as usual, and the weather was exceptionally sunny and warm today.

It's spring, but I feel like winter is coming, and the Clippers are 46-29, and they have only lost three games in the last three weeks.

I don't think I've done anything, the Clippers have been winning inexplicably, Curry is playing better and better, and the Rookie of the Year selection has surpassed Evans.

When I arrived at the headquarters, I found that there was no one at the front desk, and the three front desk ladies were not there.

I went into the office area, and it was empty, could it be the weekend? Am I sleeping?

Today is obviously Thursday, what happened at the headquarters.

I came to the third floor, and there was no one on this floor, where did everyone go?

When I entered the office, I found that my computer and office supplies had been cleaned out.

Did the mission fail and I was fired?

I panicked and asked the system, and the system said "No. 】

I calmed down and called Ada, unable to get through.

I heard footsteps, and Rosser pushed the door in, his face heavy.

He said to me, "Mr. Smart, there is an emergency I want to inform you, please be prepared. ”

I nodded, I could take it all.

"The team filed for bankruptcy in the league yesterday because of excessive debt and expenses, as well as a collapse of a financial product, and the Clippers are about to disband," Rosser said. ”

When I heard the news, I was stunned and then ecstatic.

Am I just lying down and winning? Is the Clippers bankrupt? My mission is accomplished!

The Clippers are bankrupt, and I'm going to have $300 million! It's time for the next mission!

But nothing is happening from the system, what's going on.

When cheers were heard outside, and the sound of crowds of people, I knew I was fooled when I heard "Happy April Fool's Day".

Today is the fucking April 1st, damn April Fool's Day.

Eleven

The sun doesn't go out, and I don't want to go out, so I stay at home three meals a day.

The Clippers' final closing game was a stinky fish and shrimp, and a bad team like the Knicks came to send experience.

Fortunately, Daddario came to accompany me, I cooked for her, watched the game while eating, and I felt much better with someone.

The players played on the pitch, I played in the bedroom, and everybody was fair.

On April 8 and April 12, the Clippers lost to the Trail Blazers and Mavericks, and whether they can finish in the top eight in the West depends on the final game.

I still have a glimmer of hope.

twelve

The final regular-season finale was on April 14 against the Los Angeles Lakers, who were No. 1 in the West.

They have locked up the No. 1 spot, and a win against the Lakers would see the Clippers make the playoffs.

A loss to the Lakers would leave the Clippers in ninth place in the West, which is the best.

I can't wait to beg the Lakers head coach and Kobe Bryant to go to a different round of rest in the last game and give it their all.

The Clippers are in the playoffs and are playing against the Lakers.

A baker's dozen

Bryant has been resting since last week.

The Lakers stated that Kobe Bryant would not play in the last game.

Save the Clippers, Save the Kids......

April 2010.

(End of chapter)