Joe Dumas has just been retiring for a few years and has become Joe Duphas.

It’s already a bit difficult to wear XXXXL’s suit.

Moreover, like most people, Du Pangsi was bald after he retired. Now he looks like a fat and bald old man.

Seriously, young players might be surprised if people knew that the NBA's "Sports Ethics and Style Award" was named after him.

This guy is not fashionable at all, and he is a member of the Bad Boys Legion!

He? Sports Ethics and Style Award?

What an international joke!

In this case, then Li Ang is simply the most polite player in the league.

In fact, Dumas is really a weird flower in the Bad Kids Legion.

In that rich second-generation Bill Ranbill, who didn't fight well on the basketball court, had to go back to inherit the family business and beat people up at every turn.

In the Pistons, where the smiling Assassin can say hundreds of trash words in every game.

But Joe Dumas just did his own thing silently. He was low-key, restrained and gentle.

Just so, the word "out of the mud without staining" is fully reflected.

As a member of the Bad Kids Corps, he was the first winner of the Sports Ethics and Style Award.

What does this mean? It is equivalent to having a serious basketball player among a group of fighting athletes.

On the day he won the award, Dumas thanked his teammates.

People all know that Dumas’ thanks to his teammates is not a false idea, because it is really all due to his teammates.

Because of this, Dumas immediately joined the Pistons' management after retirement.

After only one year of study, he became the general manager of the Pistons.

Although he is a gentle person, he also knows very well how the Pistons won the championship back then.

He himself is a good person, but he does not reject bad people. He even believes that if a team wants to succeed, it will definitely need some tough characters.

And this summer, Dumas felt that his chance had come.

He had several plans and he decided to introduce several players.

For example, the person sitting in front of him at this time.

"Joe, really, you don't know how I got through over the years. The NBA has made me rich, and I also demand myself according to NBA standards.

But I was at a loss before, I cried. Why did I cry? Because they called me a parallel product!

Just because they never taught me, they asked me to play like a super defender.

I'm not a parallel person. Last season at the Timberwolves, I feel like I've found myself.

However, the outside world still doesn't believe that I can survive in the NBA. They are still saying that Chauncey Billups is simply the worst draft of the Celtics in the last century.

My agent told me that in order to be fair, we must go to His Excellency Joe Dumas!"

Billups cried at Dumas' desk, and Dumas waved his hand, like a godfather, ready to let his assistant give Billups a glass of wine.

But after a few seconds he realized...

I have a nonsense assistant, I am not a real black boss.

Dumas cleared his throat awkwardly, and said that he should not watch gangster movies last night, and he should be immersed in the show!

"Why don't you come to me before you go to find the Timberwolves?" Dumas asked again.

"I...I was traded!"

"Oh, that's all right. That's it, Chauncey. I know, you've had a hard time in the past few years.

You tell me what you feel is holding you back to being the kind of player you want to be. No matter what you say, I can make sure you don't have such a barrier in Detroit.

This team is different from any team you've ever been before, Detroit is not as bleak as Boston or Denver, nor as wild as Minneapolis.

This is the City of Cars, a car, you know, needs every part to be perfect in order to run far.

You are the kind of guard we are looking for, you are in Minneapolis, beside your big Gordrell Brandon, and learn how to control the game, you can do our engines.

And I also know that controlling the game is not everything for you. You can shoot three points, you can break through with the ball, you can do whatever you want in Detroit.

You don't have to be a super guard, you don't have to be Michael Jordan, you just have to be yourself."

Dumas finished speaking and held Billups' hand.

The halibut was so grateful that this was the first time in years of entering the industry that someone said to him: "You don't have to be Michael Jordan, you just need you to be yourself."

Nonsense, it seems like he can be Jordan.

"only......"

Dumas's words "just" made the sensitive Billups nervous.

Co-working, did I still find the wrong person? Detroit is not my place?

"Just, you know, our contract..."

"Contracts are easy to negotiate, and they are easy to negotiate. Just follow the price you agreed on before, 35 million yuan in 6 years. Isn't it light to withdraw money? Let's make friends, hahahaha." Billups hurriedly took the matter.

After the Timberwolves had a pretty good performance last season, Billups chose to test the free agent market.

After all, he averaged 22+5+5.7 per game last season, with a shooting percentage of 45% and a three-point shooting percentage of 40%!

This is considered a quasi-All-Star guard's statistic.

Although Mulang was swept out by the Mavericks in the first round,...

What does it have to do with me, Billups, if you average 33 points per game?

As a result, after coming to the free agent market, Billups found that no one was birding himself at all.

Because his character has become deeply rooted, who would open a big contract for a psychologically immature parallel company?

Therefore, although Dumas lowered the price, Billups was still willing to accept it. If he didn't accept it, he would probably not even get the 35 million yuan!

"This... are you really willing to accept 35 million for 6 years?"

"I'm willing, a hundred willing! I have no money at all, I have only the Revival Pistons, a big cause!" Billups patted his chest.

"Okay, go back and have a rest first, and live a few days to sign a contract with your agent."

After seeing Billups away, Du Pangsi slapped the table.

Damn, if I had known that he was so straightforward, I would have suppressed the price again!

Forget it, 35 million in 6 years is also a big advantage.

Fatty Du knew very well that after the Timberwolves found themselves, Billups had actually fulfilled his talent, and his performance in the playoffs was the best proof.

Billups' real value is more than 35 million in 6 years.

But there is no way, the piston is poor!

He wanted the horse to run and the horse to stop eating grass, so Dumas could only find low-paying and high-energy players like Billups.

Dumas would not look for those who were too expensive, nor would he look for those who were too prominent.

He firmly believes that basketball is a sport of five people. Even without superstars, he can piece together a team with outstanding strength.

The matter of Billups has been settled, and the Wizards' deal to trade Starkhouse for Hamilton has been confirmed.

And now, Dumas still has one more person to do.

But he was struggling whether this person was worth a first-round draft pick in 2003!

Because this first-round pick of the Pistons can be quite valuable or worthless.

Although the Pistons ranked second in the Eastern Conference last season, this draft pick was not the Pistons' own, but where did they get it from the Grizzlies in 1997.

In 1997, Doug Collins, then general manager of the Pistons, traded veteran Thorpe to exchange for a protected draft pick in 2003.

What is the mood for a protected selection? If the Grizzlies draw the No. 1 pick in 2003, then this draft pick is protected and will still belong to the Grizzlies.

If the Grizzlies could not draw the No. 1 pick in 2003, then the pick would belong to the Pistons.

The Grizzlies thought at that time that six years later, I would have to grow into a playoff team. This draft pick is a hair on Jiuniu.

Then it turns out that being a bear will never overestimate yourself.

The grizzly bears moved from Vancouver to Memphis to play cotton, and they were still the boy who had no change at all.

How to rot or how to rot.

Although the Grizzlies had Paul Gasol joining last season, the team's record did not improve much.

And the draft pick that the Pistons accidentally obtained at that time actually became very valuable.

In Dumas's view, with the Grizzlies' extraordinary strength, their probability of winning the No. 1 pick next season is extremely high.

By then, this draft pick will be worthless.

Besides, Dumas can't wait for the rookie to grow.

What he is doing now is to build a team that is ready to fight and can achieve results immediately.

The Pistons are not rebuilding the team, and this draft pick can only be an unexpected surprise. They have no plans to train rookies.

After careful consideration, Dumas called Babcock.

If Li Ang really can join the Pistons, then Detroit will be very different next season!

Babcock was tempted. The Grizzlies' first-round draft pick in 2003, plus the Pistons' No. 2 scorer, veteran Clifford Robinson, who averaged 14.6 points per game and had three-pointers.

This is equivalent to the future potential and immediate combat power, which the pistons have given.

Although Robinson's salary does not match Li Ang, because the Raptors' salary does not exceed the salary cap, it can be traded even if it doesn't match.

The only question is whether this draft pick can be used for your own use.
To be continued...