Chapter 114: Tali's Office Situation
New York's decline in the new century can to some extent legitimate the already stigmatized Patrick Ewing.
As we all know, the Knicks are known as the giant because they are located in New York and have won 30 championships with the Lakers and Celtics.
Abandoning Ewing, New York began to fall, and the subsequent accidents made Allen Houston, one of the best defenders in the Knicks' history, lying on the bed to count money. The Knicks, who was determined to get rid of the big contract, led to the emergence of the "amnesty clause". This thing called the Alan Houston clause was ultimately used on its owner.
Isaiah Thomas slapped his head for the nth time and a mysterious inspiration flashed through: "It's a big deal! I've pardoned the team's merits, where will there be any stars willing to come to New York to play? No pardon! No pardon!" Perhaps we should like to praise the Smiling Assassin's loyalty to the players, but he didn't seem to understand that since the Knicks distributed Ewing, who had devoted all the good times of his career to Seattle, no player thought that the city had any loyalty to the heroes.
The King of China Investment continued to make funny whispers year after year, "I'm ready", "I can make a comeback at any time", "I can play for 10 years", and those who joked about him only need to think that they can make hundreds of millions of dollars by making money if they don't do anything.
Thomas began to play with the power in his hands.
Throw away the madman who seems to be scrapped at any time, and then get Marbury, the son of New York who has not undergone socialist transformation. After a gratifying 39 wins and the first round of the playoffs, the New Yorkers shouted that the revival was in sight, Thomas knocked his head again. Why not introduce a single-handed fighter? Look, if you can enter the playoffs with Marbury, you may be more competitive. Who said that a single-handed fighter cannot win the championship? Slap Jordan's story in the face in minutes!
The Knicks welcomed Jamal Crawford.
Crawford is a well-known one-on-one scoring power. In terms of his strength in one-on-one scoring, he is no less than an active superstar when he is in good shape, but his existence swallowed Marbury's ball rights, and his good chemistry was buried last season.
The Knicks returned to the starting point.
Thomas knocked his head again, yes, it would not work if this continued.
He has a complete set of plans to keep the lineup unchanged, and introduces champion coach Larry Brown, and plans to restock in the offseason. The most important person in his signing plan is Bulls center Eddie Curry. Although this guy has a heart disease and can't control his weight, he doesn't like to defend or grab rebounds, and has the league's top pick-and-roll quality, but he doesn't like pick-and-roll like a clean obsession - so what? We New Yorkers love you such a weird thing!
Behind a series of reinforcement plans, there are also plans for temporary additions.
For example, today's trial.
Wei Xia is extremely popular in New York. When he was a freshman, he led the team to defeat the national champion of the season at Madison Garden, and has accumulated a lot of reputation since then. He led the team to win all this season and brought the national champion back to Philadelphia. With his announcement of participating in the draft, bringing him back to New York became the most urgent wish of Knicks fans.
The New York son Marbury's opinion on the possibility of Weisha joining is as follows: "He is a hard-working player and loves running. It will be fun to play with him."
"Incredible enthusiasm and athleticism, detached leadership and execution, if we are to get back on track, we must get hope" - The New York Times published on May 2, 2005.
Madison Garden home announcer, also a Hall of Fame player and best point guard in the Knicks history, Walter Fraser gave Weisha an extremely high evaluation: "We have fallen to the lowest point in all aspects. You can't see the Knicks getting worse. To transform the team in a short time, you must have players who can change everything. Visa is the one who can make changes."
As a result, the old thief's words were all right except that the conclusion that "we have fallen to the lowest point in history in all aspects" was a bit too optimistic.
This is the current atmosphere in New York.
They want Wei Xia, very much.
But they only have the eighth pick in the first round. With Wei Xia's draft, unless the Charlotte Bobcats, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Toronto Raptors are disconnected at the same time, there is no reason to let Wei Xia fall in front of him and not choose.
To get Wei Xia, the only way to trade is to get the trade.
"Mark, does Larry have any comments on 'New York Hope'?" Thomas looked at Wei Xia's trial through the office glass window, and then asked another middle-aged black man in the office.
The person's name is Mark Aguirre, the first NBA draft No. 1 pick in the 1980s, and the only person who was selected as a shooting guard as a shooting guard in the 16 years before Allen Iverson. Aguire's 1980 draft was rare, and the first two picks were wrapped up by defenders.
The second pick in that draft was Isaiah Thomas, who was in the same office with him at this time.
They came from the same class and had close relationships. Aguile went to the Dallas Mavericks and spent the peak of his career in a key deal in 1989 and was sent to Detroit. His selflessness replaced Adrian Dantley's selfishness and helped the Pistons break Lake Kai's monopoly on the championship and completely rewrite the alliance pattern in the 1980s and 1990s.
Now that Thomas is developed, he naturally calls his friends to join him. Aguile, who has no coaching talent, is Brown's chief assistant coach. What he is best at is not giving advice or arranging training for Brown. What he is best at is opening Thomas' office every day to tell him, "What did that old Brown do again today."
"'New York Hope' was late, Larry was very dissatisfied, but his trial result was supported by everyone, and this was his result." Aguile put Weisha's transcript on Thomas' table.
Thomas asked with a smile: "What is Larry's attitude towards him now?"
"It's hard to say," according to Aguile's observation, he thought Brown did not like "wish". "But his trial score was too outstanding, and Larry didn't show it. I didn't see a smile on his face from beginning to end. He must be still thinking about what he was late."
"Didn't see Larry's smile? What's this?"
The smiling assassin jumped up from his position and said majesticly: "Since he walked into the tower, I have never seen him raise his mouth to me. This stereotyped old thing is just like this, just get used to it!"
Well, even though they don’t like each other, why do you have to force a couple?
Larry Brown has some legitimate reasons: I hate Thomas's silly. I think the Knicks can't even be considered a basketball team. How could a coach with professional ethics come here to coach? Do you really think I'm a backbone person? It's because they give too much money! (annual salary of tens of millions)
Yes, the reason is justified.
What about Thomas? He obviously looked down on Brown, so he still gave Brown a salary of tens of millions. After giving him a salary of tens of millions of yuan, he still didn't take the other party seriously. His words still showed the meaning of "I'm a good man, I will kill this bastard soon." What are you trying to do?
Chapter completed!