NBA: Back to 97, to be the Jagged Bishop

Chapter 252 The strongest coaching staff
Little Adelman was very surprised, because his father had not communicated with him about this matter before.

"Boss, I really don't want to leave you. The three years I've been with you are definitely the happiest time in my life."

"You are full of humanity, you are a great leader and a qualified senior!"

Little Adelman hugged Combe, feeling extremely reluctant.

Kong Bu was completely speechless, "Where did you learn so many swear words? Now you are asked to be promoted to the king, not to play the Titanic."

"You don't have much money in Philadelphia, so why don't you go back with us, just stay in Saramento."

"I have something, I'll ask Billy King to send it to you."

In fact, Kumbu is also very reluctant to let go of Adelman. After all, he has been with him day and night for three years, just like his own brother, but he also knows very well that Adelman Jr. cannot always be his assistant. future.

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After leaving Saramento, Comb was in a bad mood, so he called Billy King and asked him to contact Adelman Jr. to send his luggage there.

Then he asked Billy King to release a message about recruiting assistants.

With the departure of Adelman Jr., there is only one Brian Hill left in Comb's hands.

Since the time travel, Kumbu's coaching staff has not been enriched.

On the one hand, Kumbu is usually busy trading players and has no time to find powerful assistants. On the other hand, Konbu wants the players he chooses to grow according to his own plan. adverse consequences.

However, Kumbu is not what it used to be now. As the most successful coach in the league, it is really unreasonable that he does not have a decent coaching staff.

As Billy King's recruitment news came out, it aroused a lot of attention.

There are so many benefits to being an assistant coach of Kumbu. If you are lucky, you can be "distributed" and become a bunch of coaches.

Or like Adelman Jr., he picked up a seat in the coaches union.

If you don't want to be a coach's assistant, then it's definitely not a serious assistant. Now there is an opportunity to become a coach, and no one wants to miss it.

"Brian, is there a suitable candidate?"

"There are too many applicants this time. It looks like there must be two or three hundred resumes?"

Kong Bu looked at the mountain of resumes in front of him, sighed and said, this made him read one by one, and he had to see the year of the monkey.

"It depends on whether you want to use academic coaches or player coaches."

"Academic coaches, there are not many of them, but they are famous, such as Jeff's younger brother Stan Van Gundy, he handed over his resume."

"There are a lot of players and coaches. At least [-]% of them are retired players. Among them are some former superstars at the Hall of Fame level, such as DJ."

Brian Hill pointed to the resume in front of him and said.

Comb curious, DJ? Is there such a Hall of Famer in NBA history?

"Dennis Johnson, you don't know him, right? He is a figure who can compete with the Magician, the MVP of the 1979 Finals."

Seeing Kong Bu's puzzled face, Brian Hill continued to explain.

Kong Bu suddenly realized that it was him!
Dennis Johnson's initials are DJ, and he later had a nickname like DJ.

Before Jordan ruled the league, it was the era of black and white duo hegemony, that is, the era of Bird Bird and Magic Johnson.

At that time, Green Kai had Bird Bird, Chief Parish and Refrigerator McHale. It was known as the most powerful frontcourt combination in NBA history.

The frontcourt combination is small forward, power forward and center. Judging from the historical status of the three of them, they are indeed worthy of this nickname.

With such a gorgeous frontcourt combination, it is easy for people to overlook Lukay's backcourt.

The world only knows that Luke's frontcourt is the strongest in history, but they don't know that Lukay has a Hall of Fame guard like Dennis Johnson in the backcourt.

Selected to the best team many times, selected to the best defensive team many times, the offensive firepower is not outstanding, but the defensive strength is extremely amazing.

With a height of 193 centimeters, he was a big guard in that era. He played shooting guard at first, but later, because he needed to fight against tall magicians, he began to play the No. [-] position.

Danny Ainge once commented on him, saying that he is the most underrated player in NBA history, not one of them.

There is a reason for this.

Multiple All-Stars, multiple All-NBA teams, multiple defensive lineups, three championships, and one finals MVP. With such a hard honor, when he was selected into the Hall of Fame, there were still many controversies.

Some people even think he is not worthy of being selected for the Hall of Fame.

If he doesn't deserve it, the Hall of Famer may have to screen out at least half of the players.

Some people will use the later Iguodala as a negative example, because Iguodala has four championships plus an FMVP. Judging from the current situation, his chances of being selected into the Hall of Fame are not high, even if Curry strongly supports it. It will not make this probability higher than [-]%.

And DJ's stats and honors are not a bit better than Iguodala's, and the two are not players of the same level at all.

"DJ let him report directly. I remember that he seemed to be an assistant coach in the Clippers before?"

"How much does the Clippers pay him?"

Comb asked curiously, he had a bad time with the Clippers helm Elgin Baylor before, but DJ didn't jump out and whimper.

"It seems to be 35, right? The Clippers' salary is low, which is well known."

"If possible, the Clippers owner would rather not have an assistant coach."

Brian Hill laughed.

"Then 70, let him report and give him an annual salary of 70."

"This kind of veteran player didn't get the respect he deserved, and he should be decent after retiring."

Kumbu directly gave twice the salary of the Clippers.

At present, there are some junior coaches in the league whose salaries are only around one million dollars. Kumbu can give an assistant coach 70 yuan, which is already a sky-high price.

Philadelphia's profitability is strong enough, and Comb decided to spend about $500 million this time to build a superstar-level coaching staff.

"What about Stan? Do you want to take him?"

"Although he and Jeff are brothers, the relationship is not that good. When the Knicks played against the Heat in 97, the two called and scolded each other for an hour."

Brian Hill knew that Comb had a bad relationship with Jeff Van Gundy, so he explained it to Stan Van Gundy.

In May of 97, a month before Combe traveled here, the Knicks faced the Heat in the playoffs. At that time, a vicious fight was caused by PJ Brown's hug.

The two brothers are their masters. Heat assistant coach Stan called Knicks coach Jeff and angered Knicks player Charlie Ward. Jeff was so angry that it was obviously your player PJ Brown who hugged and fell, and you came to criticize my player ?

The relationship between the two brothers dropped directly to freezing point.

Jeff's personality is very restrained, plus he looks very gloomy, so he is nicknamed a vampire, while Stan is very handsome and outgoing, and his personality is very outgoing. The two brothers are almost two extremes.

"Isn't he an assistant coach for Pat Riley?"

"What? Riley sent him to be a spy?"

Combe joked.

Brian Hill should have some friendship with Stan Van Gundy, "That's impossible. Stan has been Riley's assistant coach for almost ten years."

"I have never had the chance to be a coach. Now that we have a position here, of course he wants to try."

"My own brother is the coach, who wants to be an assistant coach for the rest of his life?"

Kongbu couldn't laugh or cry, because of this reason, he abandoned Pat Riley?

"Okay, then let him come over. The salary is the same as that of DJ, which is 70 US dollars."

"Are there any other suitable candidates?" Kongbu flipped through the resume at random.

"There is also Del Harris. He contacted me yesterday and felt that he didn't care too much about being an assistant coach."

"On the contrary, he really wanted to put his son Larry in our management."

"His son, Larry Harris, was an intern with the Bucks in 88. He has worked for 12 years, and now he only has one team assistant manager."

"Junior Adelman has been with us for three years, he has been plated with a layer of gold, and then he became the vice president."

"If I have a son, I'm sure I'd like to send him to Philadelphia, too."

Brian Hill said with a smile, he only has one daughter, if he had a son, he would definitely not be polite to Kongbu based on his relationship with Kongbu.

Hearing Hill mentioned the name of the silver fox Harris, many memories of his previous life arose in Kong Bu's heart.

Under normal circumstances, in 2004, Silver Fox Harris would be in charge of the Tianchao men's basketball team to compete in the Olympics, and led the team to defeat Serbia in the Olympics, tying the quarterfinals with the best record in history.

From the perspective of later generations, it is simply a fantasy that the Chinese men's basketball team can defeat Serbia, but Silver Fox Harris did it at that time.

Of course, the current Chinese men's basketball team is definitely not what it used to be. Under the training of Kumbu, let alone Serbia, even the dream team has to behave with its tail between its legs when it sees the Chinese men's basketball team.

As for Silver Fox Harris' son Larry Harris, Combe was equally impressed.

When Yi Jianlian participated in the draft, he clearly rejected the Bucks' trial training, but Larry Harris, the general manager of the Bucks at the time, still selected the UAE.

This is enough to show how bullish he is on the UAE, and it may also be that he wants to replicate Yao Ming's miracle in the Rockets, because Yao Ming and the Rockets make a lot of money, and the Bucks are of course greedy.

Unfortunately, this choice did not bring much benefit to the Bucks.

"Harris' matter, let me call him, the matter is more complicated."

"Are there any other options?"

"Yes, Wizards' assistant Mike Brown, he was the old Newman's assistant before, and then Newman left the Wizards, so he stayed."

"If you really think about it, he can be regarded as your disciple and grandson."

Brian Hill laughed.

Newman is the direct descendant of Kumbu's direct line, and he is Kumbu's first teaching assistant. Mike Brown is Newman's teaching assistant. Isn't that his grandson?
Kumbu heard that Mike Brown, the baker, also came to apply for the job, so he accepted it without saying a word.

"There is also Sam Mitchell, the assistant coach of the Timberwolves. His situation is not the same. He was personally recommended by Sanders."

The old Sanders is the Timberwolves coach. He actually recommended his assistant coach to be an assistant coach for Comb, which really opened Brian Hill's eyes.

Comb was very impressed with Mitchell. This coach who was born as a black player took the head coach position of the Raptors in the future, and he also won the honor of COY in 07.

But that's not why Combe was so impressed with Mitchell.

Black people generally give the impression of being rough, but Mitchell is different. He wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. Is a university professor.

"Take it, four teaching assistants including you as the chief teaching assistant, a total of five, enough."

Kumbu was relieved a lot.

This time the assistant coaching lineup is led by Brian Hill, followed by Stan Van Gundy, Sam Mitchell, Dennis Johnson and Bread Brother. It is definitely the most formal and decent coaching staff since Combe traveled.

After Brian Hill left, Combe hurriedly called Silver Fox Harris.

When Harris coached the Lakers before, the relationship with Comb has always been very good, and both of them left contact information.

"Old man, why don't you contact me directly and send in your resume, acting like an outsider."

"With your qualifications, even if you want to be the head coach, I have to make room for you immediately."

Kong Bu complained with a smile.

"It's because you keep saying things like this that I dare not contact you directly."

"Kong, we are old acquaintances, so I won't hide it from you."

"It doesn't matter to me whether I am a teaching assistant or not. I want my children to have a better development."

"I used to be the head coach of the Bucks. I brought Larry the kid into the Bucks. After 12 years, he is still just an assistant. I feel sorry for him."

Silver Fox Harris sighed.

His situation is too common in the NBA, at least Kumbu has dealt with quite a few.

For example, Mike Malone and his son, Sanders and his son, Adelman and his son, and the Mavericks' Nelson and his son, Dunleavy and his son.

How can a father not look forward to his son's success.

But he was just an assistant for 12 years, which really exhausted the patience of old Harris.

"I dare not ask you to be my teaching assistant. As for Larry's matter, you don't need to worry."

"The Bucks are in a bad situation this year. Don't look at me selling Dalembert to them. This will really improve their combat effectiveness."

"But the expectations of the fans and the boss will also increase. The poor record before can be explained by the poor lineup."

"Now the weak center has also been strengthened. If the record is not good, then there is a problem with the management."

"I have a hunch that their general manager, Carl, is about to leave get out of class. If you ask Larry to wait another year, maybe he will be the next general manager of the Bucks."

"Old man, believe me, my eyes have never missed it."

It's not that Comb doesn't want to help old Harris, but that there is really no need for it.

As long as Larry Harris stays in the Bucks honestly, he will be promoted to the general manager of the Bucks at the speed of light in the past two years. If he leaves now, he will lose the watermelon by picking sesame seeds.

The old Harris said that he was stunned. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that what Combe said really made sense.

I have survived for 12 years, and I don't seem to care about two more years.

(End of this chapter)