Super Basketball Manager

Chapter 116 First Visit to Phoenix City

morning.

The afterglow of the plane flying from Houston to Phoenix is ​​dotted with many colorful light spots...

Ron didn't have time to take care of these things. He wasted a whole night's sleep, but he finally experienced Houston at 4:[-] in the morning, and he sincerely admired the man named Kobe Bryant...

"Sir, sir..." The kind-hearted stewardess shook Ron awake from his deep sleep. He wiped the spittle from the corner of his mouth, stood up and stretched. The sun shone on his face through the window, taking away the exhaustion all over his body...

As soon as he got off the plane, Ron felt the sunshine in Arizona deeply. In February, you can hardly find such a warm morning sun in other places, which is comparable to the sunshine in California.

Here is Phoenix, also known as Phoenix City, built on the ruins of ancient Indian towns, located in the desert on the west coast of the United States, with little annual precipitation and abundant sunshine, so the Phoenix people use "Sun" as the team name, which is the most representative...

The Suns are also one of the few teams in the league who dare to challenge the Zijin Dynasty all year round. This season, they are also regarded as the most promising "Beat-LA" team in the league.

As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, not to mention the previous three-party deal, the people of Phoenix seemed quite satisfied. As soon as Ron stepped out of the airport, he saw a stretched Lincoln and their manager Steve Kerr standing aside and waving to him...

"Hey! I finally met you! My good buddy! Luo!"

Westerners like to throw themselves into their arms when they meet friends. The white man in front of him, who is about the same age as Ron, is Steve Kerr, who has witnessed the Bulls Dynasty and the Spurs winning championships in odd-numbered years.

After some polite conversations, Steve Cole respectfully invited Ron to get in the car. He obviously knew this well. After Ron sat down, a cigar from Cuba was thrown over...

"Try this! Mr. Ron!"

That awesome look, no, it's not a cigar, it's that guy's movement of flicking the cigar...

Just like Gangnam Styel, with a flick of the finger, let's go!

Is this the temperament that a mature team manager should have?

Ron was stunned for a moment...

Of course, Houston also has good cigars, and of course there are bonus Lincolns, and so on, but Ron, who can't even squeeze in his personal rest time, really hasn't had the chance to enjoy these things.

"By the way, why did you recognize me at first sight..." Ron asked with a smile.

He was a little surprised, and shrugged helplessly: "Oh! Dude, don't blame me! No one in the entire league knows you now, do you know what people call you..."

"Ok?"

"Auerbach from the East! It's crazy..." Steve Kerr raised his eyebrows at the management people beside him with a slight sarcasm, and several people laughed silly in front of Ron...

"Auerbach? The champion godfather of the Celtics?" Ron couldn't hide his inner joy for a moment, and blurted out, "Really? What did they say?"

"Hey! Don't make a mistake!" Steve Kerr's face was almost deformed with a smile: "They mean that when you save money, you are just like a cardinal! Iron cock! Haha..."

The truly great iron rooster is the one who makes the world around him, including his opponents and his own people, hate and fear him at the same time. In the end, everyone thinks that he has spent a lot of money and has to obey.

I bargain and I exist - this is one of Cardinal Auerbach's famous sayings.

How stingy his old man is to the players, except for the generous extension of Russell's contract, no one else will have a good face.

The Cardinals aren't just stingy with players.He himself is a Jew, and he is used to careful planning.

The team needs scouts, managers, coaches, and directors of player affairs, and he takes care of everything.

Which player is fancy, before signing, cut the salary of the opponent in half.

Relying on the idea of ​​"wanting to fight for the Celtics and want to win the championship" embraced by the whole world, he seduces young teenagers.

There were 3 or 4 people in the whole car laughing, and even the driver had a snicker on his face, which made Ron extremely embarrassed...

Steve Kerr realized that he had lost his composure, bent over with a smile, and shook his hand at Ron hurriedly, couldn't help laughing: "...Cough, actually, I have to boast that you have done a good job in terms of saving money for the team owner! Look at the total salary of your entire Houston Rockets, poof..."

save money?Ron blinked innocently...

Thinking about it carefully, whether it is sending away Brooks, Battier, or Kevin Martin, it really indirectly saved a lot of salary for the team...

"But if you want to stay in the position of team manager for a long time and find a way out in the future, you can't just save money without a convincing record!" Steve Kerr quietly approached him very self-sufficiently: "Actually, you came here this time for nothing else! You came to discuss with us about the draft pick next year! I guessed it a long time ago... Hehe, tell me, Mr. Luo, what is your offer..."

Tsk... It really gave Ron a headache to meet such an arrogant manager, but his skills are not good.

"I'm really bored, I came here to visit the pier!" He had to pretend to be happy, and by the way, he patted Steve Kerr's flattery: "How can I compare to Mr. Steve, look at how good Phoenix is ​​now? The entire league is second to none except for the damn Los Angeles people! Do you remember what those grandchildren said about you before the season started? Thinking about it now, they are humiliating themselves! What an honor!"

Anyway, it's just fooling around, if you Steve Kerr can be considered an excellent manager, the sows will climb trees!

Since he took office in 07, the Suns, who have played successively pleasing bombardments and won the first place in the league, suddenly couldn't run.

Remember when he took office, he vowed to turn the Suns from an excellent regular season team into a playoff team?
The results of it?Barely ranked 7th in one season, and didn't even play in the playoffs in one season.

The most classic handwriting is to use Marion to get the old Shaquille O'Neill, throw away the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds, and the result is well known...

But right now he was being fooled by Ron...

"Hey! Mr. Luo, you are really good at talking. I saw that Mr. Luo is a fellow of 'Beat-LA'. I am very pleased! I, Steve, come out to travel the rivers and lakes, relying on a word of 'righteousness'! Since you are here to investigate in person, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!"

Look, the guy is beaming and completely carried away with pride now... Ron chuckled to himself.

"Then respect is worse than obedience...I want to visit your medical system..."

Cole was startled, and looked at Ron for a long time: "Speaking of our Sun's medical team, you've found the right place. But... you're okay, are you? Why did you come here in person for such a trivial matter? Could it be that you are really like Auerbach, with scouts, managers, coaches, player affairs directors, and a team doctor, all covered by you? Haha..."

Everyone laughed again...

Hello!Hello!Hello!If you don't wear it like this, you're always adding salt to the wound!Ron smiled wryly...

All smiles, but there is one thing Ron understands very well - even if the cardinal is so stingy, there will never be fewer championships that should be won!

Until the spring of 2006, when big-screen TVs, worldwide broadcasts, popcorn, mascots and cheerleaders filled NBA arenas, the Celtics maintained an old and solemn tradition -- they didn't have lap-dancing girls.

Because, the Cardinal insists, this is a bad thing that costs money and does not let the players worry about it. "Want a cheerleader? Then step over my dead body!"

Stingy?Does it mean that it is necessary to spend a lot of money to squander the salary space, spend a lot of money, be extravagant and expensive, and put on an attitude of a wealthy family. Is this the eternal law of basketball?
No!Look at the story of Cardinal Auerbach and the rising 16 championship banners and you'll know...

When you look at the plain green Celtics jersey, you get a hallucination.

There seems to be a soul floating outside the green uniform.

16 championship banners, and a world he's tired of conquering...

...

In Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, on the streets near the American Airlines Center, there are posters of Steve Nash all over the street. Fans wearing No. 13 blue and white jerseys come and go. In the cold February weather, only Arizona is still sunny.

"This is Houston's manager, Ron!" Steve Kerr enthusiastically led Ron to the team doctor's office at the American Airlines Center...

"Hi! Nice to meet you!"

The man named Thomas Carter in front of him is the number one genius doctor of the Suns who has long been known throughout the major leagues. Almost every home game of the Phoenix Suns, Thomas Carter will come to the center of the American Air Corridor, go in and out of the media dining area, greet the reporters he knows well, sit on the sidelines with his friends, and communicate with the Suns fans with a smile...

But it's hard to notice him if you don't do it on purpose.

"It's better to meet you than to be famous! Hi! How are you? My name is Ron! I've wanted to know you for a long time, but I can't find your contact information!" Seeing his actions, knowing his abilities, don't look at Ron's innocence with crooked eyebrows and squinted eyes, but in fact he observes carefully in secret...

"I'm the invisible man of the team," Carter spread his hands, laughing at himself humorously.

There are also objective reasons for Carter's difficulty getting into the public eye.Each team has many jobs, and the team doctor is one of the most sensitive positions. He holds the secrets of the physical conditions of the players in the team, and these secrets are likely to affect the team's future transactions and lineup rotation.

It's just that when Ron suddenly saw that this guy was using the Celestial People to make pepper gadgets and some unknown herbs, Ron almost rolled his eyes out...

(End of this chapter)