NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 199 Come to my coaching staff, I will support you
Time passed by, and it took ten days after Kumbu received the mission.

In the past ten days, Comb led the Philadelphia 76ers to play 5 games and won all of them.

Since then, the 76ers, who didn't even make it to the playoffs last season, started the new season with an excellent record of 7 wins and 1 loss.

Although there is not a strong team among these eight opponents, Philadelphia fans are very happy to have such a record.

Among other things, at least he won't be able to escape this year's playoffs, right?
除了76人之外，东部这边的尼克斯同样也是7胜1负，猛龙则是6胜2负。

The records of the top three in the East are extremely outstanding, while the Lakers in the West are the best, with a record of 6 wins and 2 losses, ranking first in the West.

In the recent period, the Raptors' large-scale transactions have made news headlines almost every day.

Sha Lun and Old Wilkens have always been on the cusp, especially Sha Lun, who may have been on the news more recently than he had in his previous half of his life.

Lagabel was traded to the Detroit Pistons, from the Pistons in exchange for a lottery-protected first-round pick, plus 150 million cash compensation plus former No. [-] pick Joe Smith.

This transaction can be said to be a robbery-style transaction, Sha Lun squeezed the piston to the ground.

No. 225 pick Joe Smith is indeed not strong, but his salary this year is only [-] million US dollars, which is very cost-effective. If the Raptors want to trade Dampier, they have to add an insider.

An insider with an annual salary of around two million and above-average offense and defense is normally worth at least an annual salary of around five million.

You must know that Lagabel is an undrafted pick. The Raptors won him at the beginning without paying a single price. Now that they have returned so many chips, it is not too much to say that it is a robbery.

But Dumars, the general manager of the Pistons, was still happy, and agreed to the deal without saying a word.

Grant Hill has left, and the Pistons have almost entered the rebuilding period. First, Bell is equipped with a champion jigsaw puzzle player.

Marion was also traded. As the new FMVP, his trade was beyond the expectations of Raptors fans.

Originally, the fans expected that Pierce would be traded and let Marion play the team's starting third position, partnering with Carter.

As a result, Pierce and Carter hugged each other very tightly. Marion's commercial value was not high, and he was also dissatisfied with the current status of the team. He needed the Raptors to give him a stable starting position. Sha Lun could only reluctantly sell him.

In the end, Marion was sold to the Golden State Warriors in the West.

Many teams in the East are extremely eager for Marion. It is really that Marion's defensive end is too buggy, his rebounding ability is extremely outstanding, and he has good offensive firepower.

Like the Bucks, their own strength is not weak, and they lack a forward defensive gate. Once they win Marion, their overall combat power can be improved by at least a level.

Of course, Sha Lun didn't want to continue to have strong competitors in the east, so he simply sold Marion to the warriors in the west.

Warriors coach Marlon is one of his own, and he can help his own people without posing a threat to the Raptors. Moreover, the Warriors have a bad record and a high draft pick. This is a good deal.

In the end, the Raptors exchanged Marion from the Warriors for the unprotected first-round picks in 01 and 03, as well as a first-round pick that the Warriors got from the Supersonics before, and Blaylock was added.

Blaylock was also the former master of the Hawks, who once scored a quadruple-double on the Raptors.

The price of his contract is not high. After all, he is old, and it is only about three million US dollars, which is quite cost-effective.

Nash will also be traded, the bearded Davis will sit firmly in the starting lineup, and Blaylock will be the chief backup point guard after he comes, which is more than enough.

Judging from the two transactions of Sha Lun, his trading ideas are very good. On the one hand, he hoards a large number of draft picks, and on the other hand, he trades as much as possible for some low-priced and cost-effective veterans to ensure the Raptors. Immediate combat power to maintain the competitiveness of the Raptors to win the championship.

Nash and Dampier were packaged and sold to the Suns, and the Suns almost sold the pot directly, and finally bought this pair.

Dampier's performance last season was very eye-catching, and his partner with Nash made people shine. The most important thing is that these two are very cost-effective.

Dampier only has an annual salary of 500 million, and Nash also has an annual salary of 500 million. The combined salary of these two people is worth a maximum salary. Signing two maximum salaries, as long as the operation is proper, it will directly be a top powerful team.

Except for Kidd, the Suns sold all the players with tradeable value in the team, even Penny Hardaway, who had just got a season, in exchange for a lot of draft picks, cash and cost-effective veterans, and then With the addition of his three unprotected first-round picks in the next five years, it can be regarded as impressing the Raptors and getting the Nathan combination.

The Nathan combination is definitely not as dominant as the OK combination or the Yao Ai combination, but the Suns themselves also have Kidd. Germany's salary is not high, the Suns wait until next year's offseason, if they can sign a big-name free agent, they will also become a strong contender for the championship.

When the Raptors were in the hands of Comb, the second lineup was the five-man fast-break lineup consisting of Nash, Bell, Marion, Odom, and Dampier. Now four of this lineup have been sold. Save an Odom.

Odom's popularity is good, his style is very diverse, and he can match any tactics. He has no conflicts with the players on both sides. In addition, he is a rookie player with a low price, so Sha Lun kept him.

After some manipulations, including the first-round picks that Kongbu had hoarded for the Raptors before, in the next five years, the Raptors themselves will have five first-round picks, and there will be more than ten first-round picks traded. In the last round of drafting, the Raptors had more than twenty draft picks.

No team in NBA history has hoarded such a terrifying amount of draft picks like the Raptors.

With so many draft picks, even if you choose according to the draft picks predicted by various media, it is impossible not to select a decent player.

With a solid background and a large number of draft picks, the Raptors are definitely the kind of team with a promising future.

Kumbu is an envy. After the miserable 2000 draft, the following 2001 and 02 drafts produced good quality and quantity of players.

In 01, there were Gasol, Eagle King Joe Johnson, Elvis Presley Gerald Wallace, Jefferson, Randolph, Parker Parker, General Arenas and Combe had already been booked to follow Okur with Yao Ming as his inside partner.

Not only is the quality of this draft not bad, but the key is that many players have low picks, that is, Gasol, Eagle King and Jefferson are lottery picks, and the others are all outside the [-]th pick. It is completely possible to catch all these players in one go.

As for the 02 draft, Yao Ming was originally in this draft, which made this draft not so "small". Now that Yao Ming is gone, it is not too much to say that this draft is a small year.

Of course, for other teams in Xiaonian, Comb can still get a lot of low-ranked players in this draft.

For example, Stoudemire, the No. [-] pick, and Boozer, the second-round pick, are both of high value. There is also Scola, who also has certain training value.

In addition to these two insiders, there are also two good outsiders in this rookie class. One is Prince Prince, one of the Pistons' grassroots five tigers, and the other is Caron Butler, whose style is somewhat similar to Mashburn.

Stoudemire and Butler are lottery picks. If Comb doesn't have a lottery pick, he doesn't have to worry about it. Anyway, he can easily win Boozer and Prince, two very cost-effective players.

What really made Comb envious was definitely not the 01 or 02 draft, but the 03 draft, known as the Platinum Generation.

When Kong Bu crossed over, he happened to miss the golden generation in 96. He would not miss the platinum generation this time.

After the 76ers won five consecutive victories, half of the mission of Comb has been completed, and the next thing he has to do is to win another five consecutive victories.

On November 2000, 11, the 2ers challenged the Washington Wizards away.

During the draft last season, Combe told Newman that he would look for opportunities to leave the Wizards.

It's a pity that one season has passed, and Newman has not found a suitable next home, and he is still the head coach of the Wizards.

"Old man, why do you feel that you have lost so much weight?"

After Kumbu saw Newman again after half a year, he saw that he was haggard and lost a lot of weight.

During the two years when he worked as a teaching assistant under Kongbu, Newman was a fat and fat white old man with a big heart, and now he has the appearance of a monkey cheek.

"It's just too much pressure."

"Michael was in meetings all day and he wanted the team to improve like a maniac."

"But the team's lineup is so shabby, he can't expect those guys with an annual salary of 200 million to perform at 2000 million dollars."

"Unseld has been urging me to come to you, wanting to introduce some decent young potential players from you."

"But who knows your current situation, the 76ers themselves don't have many players available, how could I tell you that."

"Michael forced me to improve my record, Unseld forced me to go to your place to rob players, I was really going crazy."

As he spoke, Newman's eyes turned red.

Thinking back to the beginning, he felt that he shouldn't be in the muddy water of the Wizards, and it would be nice to stay under Kong Bu's hand as an assistant coach?Maybe I can live more than ten years.

It's good now, after coming to the Wizards, I can't eat well or sleep well every day, the pressure is huge, my hair is almost falling out, and I have to lose at least ten years of life.

The more Kong Bu heard it, the more he felt distressed, "Why don't you just stop doing it and come to my coaching staff, I will support you."

After all, they are his own direct descendants. Kumbu expects each of them to become a top coach who dominates one side, but this also depends on talent. Newman's talent in coaching and flattery is too bad.

Since he was doomed not to be able to get out, Kong Bu didn't force him any more, and simply let him come back.

Ma Long is much stronger in this respect, and Kumbu gave him a jumping-off point. Now he can play well in a weak team like the Warriors.

"Okay, I will resign after this game."

"I'm really fed up with this kind of life. I earn less money than anyone else and worry more than anyone else."

"Whoever wants to do it!"

Newman directly made up his mind to go with Kongbu directly after tonight's game.

The main reason is that his salary is very low, only about one million, which is the lowest paid coach in the league. If he can give an annual salary of three to four million US dollars, then he can hold on for at least another year or two.

"Okay, it's hard to say if it's too much. Anyway, I can guarantee an annual salary of at least 80 yuan a year."

Of course, the salary of the assistant coach cannot be higher than that of the head coach, but Comb is now the general manager of the team, and it is no problem to offer Newman a contract close to his current salary.

Because of the arrival of Kumbu, the salary expenditure of this 76ers is much less than last season.

The scouting team alone saved 300 million. When Combe offered Newmann such a contract, the boss Schneider would not have any complaints.

After a while, the game on the field began.

The Wizards actually had something to offer, but not much. Comb sent them Larry Hughes before, but after Jordan came, he was very dissatisfied with Larry Hughes.

Larry Hughes didn't have a good basket, which was simply unbearable in Jordan's eyes.

A shooting guard with no shooting ability is still called a hairy shooting guard. There is no value in training. He simply sold Larry Hughes.

After several tosses, the Wizards now only have Uncle Huo left in the team. His contract is too big, and no team is willing to take over, otherwise Jordan will have to toss it out.

Tonight is the home court of the Wizards, and Jordan also came to watch the game.

Jordan's face turned green when he saw the lineup he had built and was brutalized by the 76ers of the new army of Kumbu.

When he played, he was eliminated by Comb in the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years.

Now that he is not playing, he is transferred to the team management, but he still cannot escape the fate of being crushed by Kumbu.

Sometimes he felt scared when he saw Kongbu, and wondered if Kongbu was specially sent by God to punish him for the stupid things he did when he was young.

Iverson's desire to attack tonight is extremely strong. If it wasn't for Kumbu's restrictions on his shots, he might have taken more than 35 shots tonight.

In front of Jordan, Iverson is always full of performance desire.

On the one hand, it is because of Jordan's status as the number one shooting guard in history. Which shooting guard doesn't want to prove himself in front of Jordan?
On the other hand, Jordan once scolded himself at the All-Star Weekend, pointing at his nose and scolding Xiaobizi. With Iverson's temper, he could only pinch his nose to recognize him at the time. There was no way anyone would let him be Jordan. Woolen cloth?
But now he is also the big boss on one side. Facing Jordan's team, he wants Jordan to take a closer look at who is Xiaobi's son.

Although there is a shot limit, the ball is all in Iverson's hands after all. He took a full [-] shots, and then monopolized the ball and began to assist his teammates.

By the end of the game, Iverson watched the audience with 31 points and 18 assists, and almost had another historical record of 30 points and 20 assists.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, he didn't dare to go to Jordan to provoke him, but he also cheered around the court, making Jordan's angry face greener.

Yao Ming is still playing steadily, after all, the Wizards are not a decent center.

The audience scored 35 points and 8 rebounds. The offensive end was almost in a state of anything and everything. In one-on-one situations, no one could prevent his offense.

The only thing is that the rebounds are still not strong enough and lack dominance.

But this is only temporary. When Kongbu completes the task in hand, Yao Ming's rebounding will be the best in the league, and there will be no opponents.

(End of this chapter)