Chapter 407: The Benefits of Being a Coach (Part 2)
The announcement of Min Congda as the head coach of the Clippers sent a stir through the league.
The last person to work part-time as head coach from a general manager position was Popovich.
He spent two years as general manager from 1994-1995 before starting as head coach of the Spurs in 1996.
Then he has been in these two positions until now, becoming the godfather of the Spurs.
Popovich was 37 years old when he held both positions, which is very young.
And Min Congda is even younger than him, only 33 years old.
There has been a lot of commentary, with some believing that the Clippers will have a turning point this season.
But some people think that Min Congda is a great achievement, and a good manager has to be a head coach if he doesn't do it.
NBA-Batman, a well-known NBA Twitter commentary account, broke the news: "The original intention within the Clippers was to put Steve Kerr in the head coach position, but Smart announced himself as the head coach of the Clippers without consulting others, which fully reflects his arbitrary personality." The Clippers' performance in the new season is worrying. ”
As for why this mysterious account is tireless Black Clipper and Min Congda, everyone is puzzled.
It's been more than a month since the NBA officially sued Twitter and NBA-Batman.
Twitter is still unable to find everyone in the NBA-Batman and refuses to ban it because of free speech in the United States.
In the end, it was just a matter of deleting the NBA-Batman's tweet about Stern's game rigging, and that's it.
The F.B.I. has intervened in the investigation so far, and there is no clue about Donathy's death or the true face of NBA-Batman.
As the heat of public opinion gradually subsided, this matter was gradually forgotten.
Of course, the FBI will not easily abandon its investigation into the matter.
The NBA and the FBI are inextricably linked.
Stern has a deep network at the FBI, because to maintain such a super sports league brand that spreads all over the United States and has a global influence, it is far from enough to rely on laws, contracts, and money.
In the '70s, the NBA was mired in drugs, violence, and gangsterism.
After that, Stern made a lot of efforts to purge the coalition, and naturally needed the help of the police and the FBI.
Later, Stern could even monitor the daily life of each rookie to ensure that these black lads with hormones, low literacy, and overnight wealth would not do anything outrageous and destroy the good image of the NBA.
Anthony became a star within a few years of entering the league, which is quite unbeatable.
He likes to show off his gang background to others and also has a DVD of the gang party in Baltimore.
After being punished for the Madison brawl in New York, he went so far as to question Stern over the phone.
As a result, Stern told him, "I know exactly where you live, where your friends live, what time you wake up every day, what you do, you be honest with me!" ”
This scared young Anthony enough, and then he realized that this diminutive old Jewish man could control the Union for decades, and he really wasn't a vegetarian.
After falling ill, Stern gradually recovered, but he was in no hurry to return to the presidency.
The new Acting President, Adam Silva, continues to preside over the new season.
Silva made a special call after learning that Min Congda had become the head coach of the Clippers.
On the one hand, Silva expressed his concern and congratulations to Min Congda as the head coach, and on the other hand, he also reminded him.
"Smart, you have to pay a little bit more attention to the game in the future. The referee can blow a technical foul on the head coach and not do something impulsive. By the way, is your psychotherapy over? ”
"Psychotherapy? Oh, it's over, Ms. Mia has already prescribed me a recovery diagnosis, don't worry, I'm fine! ”
"Okay, then I wish you all the best in your coaching career."
"OK, if I do something wrong, don't be polite, punish me hard!"
There is also the benefit of being a head coach, he will be under the jurisdiction of the referee.
Before being the general manager, he was a spectator on the sidelines, and if he wanted to clash with the referee, he had to go up and do it.
Now that I am a coach, I can just move my mouth, and when the time comes, I will blow a technical foul for Min Congda or expel him from the game.
It's much more comfortable and convenient than hands-on, after all, it's very unseemly to put a popcorn bucket on the referee's head.
The league would ban him from admission and ask him to undergo psychotherapy, which was too annoying.
According to NBA rules, a technical foul is punishable by a fine.
The first to fifth fouls are fined $2,000 each.
Sixth through tenth fouls, $3,000 each.
11th to 15th fouls, $4,000 each.
The sixteenth technical offense is fined $5,000 and banned for one game.
After the sixteenth, a fine of $5,000 will be imposed for each of them, and a one-game ban will be imposed for every two
Min Congda calculated for himself, 82 games in a season, if he filled the number of technical fouls, it would be two fouls per game and he was sent off.
He will be fined $215,000, or more than 1.6 million yuan, and will miss 33 regular season games due to a suspension.
Of course, Min Congda knew that it was impossible to have two technical fouls on a game, and that would be too much.
But more than 16 are a must, and 16 technical fouls are full, which is $50,000.
Thinking about it this way, the situation of losing less games this year due to the reduction of the number of matches and the lack of wages for losing games can be alleviated.
The Clippers lost 35 games last season, and Min Congda only received a $70,000 loss salary.
The revenue is all supported by fines from the league and dividends from Apple stock.
As such, his current savings are not enough to buy a house in downtown Los Angeles.
High housing prices in big cities are just too unfriendly to the working class.
Min Congda appears to work for the Clippers, with two positions and two salaries.
In fact, he was working for the system, and the old man of the system made Min Congda operate miserably with this amount of money.
Not to mention head coaches like Dunleavy and Kerr, millions of dollars a year.
Assistant coaches are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, to say the least.
Jeff Ball's specially hired shooting coaches are all priced at a million dollars a year.
Thinking that he has a lot of work and his salary is so difficult to earn, how can Min Congda have any enthusiasm for work.
Anyway, he was the head coach just to put it on the, and he was late on the morning of the first day of training as a head coach.
Call over and have Steve Kerr lead the team training and he'll come over for lunch at noon.
After lunch, in the afternoon, the team conducted the whole team's tactical run-in training, and Min Congda watched the whole process.
All the training content was led by Cole, Kim Hughes and others, and Min Congda didn't say a word.
After the training, it is logical to hold a regular meeting of the coaching working group to summarize the results of today's training and arrange tomorrow's training plan.
Because the summer league and preseason were canceled, and the regular season started directly on January 10, the training schedule was very intensive and large.
As a result, Min Congda said: "Everyone is tired, don't have a meeting, go home and rest!" ”
asked everyone to leave the training gym, and even Curry, Harden and others were not allowed to practice.
All the teams were in full swing training, and only the clippers looked like they were fishing for three days and drying their nets for two days.
Fisher, a veteran player who joined the team, was puzzled and asked Kerr: "Has the Clippers' training been so loose?" ”
Cole said, "Uh... No, Smart should want everyone to have a good rest. ”
"But we've all had half a year off."
"Trust Smart, the Clippers have always been slow to heat."
Judging from the performance of the previous two seasons, the Clippers are indeed slow to heat up, always working hard in the middle and late seasons.
In fact, the reason is very simple, because Min Congda always moths in the early stages of the season.
As a result, in the middle and late stages, the team's inertia was too great to brake the car, and it became what it is now.
This season, Min Congda decided to step on the brakes from the beginning of the season, and he didn't believe it, the team can still be good!
Fast forward to January 10th, and the Clippers' opener game was the same as last season, still playing the Trail Blazers.
It's just that this time it's an away challenge to the Trail Blazers, and Min Congda flew to Portland with the whole team.
A season has passed, and Min Congda wants to pass the Trail Blazers to test what level the Clippers are now.
Some people died, but not completely......