From today on is the king

Chapter 1473 1472. Three-Year Plan
During the playoffs, Schwartz received instructions from Liu Mang to go to Argentina to contact the golden generation of power forwards and Barcelona to contact another player named Gasol.

In Argentina, Schwartz felt that he was very capable after seeing it. He could have a very good older player who could enter the NBA directly, but he had already been selected by other teams.

As for Gasol, at the time, Schwartz thought Liu Mang and Pau Gasol had a good relationship. He knew that Pau Gasol's younger brother was very powerful. Who knew that after going there, he saw a big fat man, 22 years old, and he had reached the age for automatic election. He was 135 meters tall and weighed [-] kilograms.

Schwartz thought that Liu Mang had been fooled by the big Gasol, and communicated with Liu Mang several times, but in the end he couldn't hold back Liu Mang, so he could only contact the little Gasol.

After more than a month, after several discussions, Gasol seemed to have discussed it with his brother. In the end, Gasol fired his original agent and joined Liu Mang's agency.

Now Schwartz is celebrating the signing with Marc Gasol. Seeing that Marc Gasol is 135 kg and still eating, thinking of Liu Mang's order to find a way to help Marc Gasol lose weight is a headache.

To lose weight...you have to control your mouth first!

This fat man doesn't seem to be able to lose weight...

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After receiving a call from Schwartz, Liu Mang knew that Marc Gasol had signed the contract.

Now we are waiting for the draft and the free market starting on July 7st.

The current list of the Eagles includes: Liu Mang, Rondo, McGrady, Wade, Jason Terry, Battier, Grant Hill, seven outside players, Marion, Kwame Brown, and Gortat, three inside players. To be precise, in Liu Mang’s vision, both Grant Hill and Battier can play power forwards at some point, just like Granger did this past season.

Swift and Blake, want to test the free agency waters.

Among them, Blake's rookie contract just ended, and the Eagles gave a qualification offer, but gave Blake the right to contact other teams.

Wade may come back in December at the earliest. Blake will definitely not have much chance to play at that time, but it is not a bad thing to keep such a third point guard. Blake has things that Rondo and even Wade cannot do.

As for Swift, he wants to try to see if he can get a high salary. When he was laid off before, his 580 million salary of the team option in the last year was gone, so he must not be reconciled.

Now the Eagles currently have 9 players with guaranteed contracts. Grant Hill's contract extension is estimated to have to wait until the summer signings are completed. Anyway, using the veteran's basic salary exception or the two-year exception to renew Grant Hill's contract on the cap.

After watching a trial training with no surprises, Liu Mang rested all night. On the 26th, the day before the draft, Liu Mang resumed training.

Originally, Liu Mang hadn't planned a clear training direction this summer. He might continue to hone his basic skills. As long as he was still playing basketball, he couldn't relax for a year. No matter what he practiced in the summer, he couldn't relax his basic skills such as shooting, passing, and footwork.

But during the finals, Liu Mang got Anthony's three-threat shooting action shooting bag, and it still has an additional 30.00% shooting speed bonus shooting bag, which gave Liu Mang a clear training direction.

Goal of the summer, develop a triple-threat shot!

Anthony's three-threat stance is the core of his offense. The effect of this shooting bag is the same as that of the fast shooting master, a skill that Liu Wei has always relied on, which makes Liu Wei very excited.

However, the three-threat play is not practiced by one person, but can be better trained with defenders.

Granger is about to leave the Eagles, and Liu Mang has to find another training partner.

"Long is the center forward! He has long arms and good defense, and I should be very happy to help him hone his defensive skills." Liu Mang didn't care whether Rondo would really be happy, anyway, it was decided like this.

It is expected to train with Rondo after the summer commercial activities are over, probably at the end of July. Before that, Liu Mang will not be idle.

Normal basic skills training has to be practiced every day, anyway, he is not worried about physical problems.

What's more... Follow Anthony's video to practice the three-threat stance first. It's true that the three-threat stance mainly depends on on-the-spot reactions, but if you don't have any preparations before practicing, Rondo can easily prevent you...

Thinking of Prince's expressionless but obviously disgusted eyes back then, and thinking that Rondo and Prince are both expressionless masters, Liu Mang didn't want to lose that face.

At the entrance of the backyard, little Lolita watched Liu Mang start training again, so helpless...

Originally, Little Lolita wanted Liu Mang to take her to the amusement park in Orlando, but Liu Mang had just rested for less than ten days and started training again.

Little Lolita felt that Liu Mang didn't even have a rest for ten days, and there were various things every day.

Helpless, but there is no way, little Lolita knows that Liu Mang's competitive spirit will make him train harder after losing the championship, so she can only come and watch when she is bored like this.

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"It's a pleasant cooperation. I hope this draft pick can help you..." Price hung up the phone and asked the secretary to fax the signed letter from the Pistons to the league headquarters.

"I finally gave away the draft picks. What does Ace think? Wouldn't it be better to directly ask for the draft picks for next year and the year after next?" Coach Kruger complained.

"This year's pick is more valuable than next year," Price recalled what Liu Mang said about the use of the current No. 15 pick when he went to Liu Mang's house for lunch at noon yesterday, and couldn't help sighing: "Ace is too scary. Our eyes are on this summer. He has already thought about things three years later, and he has been thinking about this summer since 2005. We were the defending champions at that time, it's crazy."

"Yeah..." Coach Kruger thought of something the boss said when he came to New York yesterday, and exclaimed: "I brought Ace into the NBA six years ago. I never thought it would develop like this. Fortunately, I made such a decision back then."

"Haha, Lang, if you hadn't made that decision, I guess I would have to sell the team now like that guy from the Sonics."

Coach Kruger smiled and didn't answer Price's words. If it wasn't for Ace, he estimated that after Price sold the team, he would probably lose his job.

Coach Kruger looked at the details of the deal with the Pistons.

The Eagles sent out the No. 15 pick in the first round of this year and the second-round pick of the Eagles next year. They got the Pistons' first-round top-five pick protection pick in 2008 and the Pistons' first-round lottery protection pick in 2010.

The Pistons have been trying to trade for a mid-first-round pick to select their favorite point guard. This is no longer news, but the mid-season deal for Billups has not been completed. Now that Billups has jumped out of the contract, they can only trade up with the pick.

Unlike most teams, the Pistons desperately need draft picks. After all, Billups has left and they urgently need point guards.

When Price regarded the Pistons as a trade target and called to negotiate with the other party, the other party accepted it without hesitation and was actively negotiating. The Pistons were quite surprised that the Eagles did not want this year's pick that seemed to have a lot of talented rookies.

With Bosh at the All-Star level, the Pistons must of course rebuild the team as soon as possible while Bosh is young.

"But Ace has plans for the future, so there should be no need to worry about renewing the contract." Coach Kruger breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's right..." Price has been the owner for so many years, and he has never seen a player like Liu Mang, not only his own team, but also the entire league.

Will Liu Mang fail to guess the purpose of the management talking about McGrady with him?

At the beginning, I really didn't expect that the management would propose to trade McGrady, but after going back and thinking about it for a night, it was easy to understand the management's thinking.

That being the case, Liu Mang has to give some response, reveal his thoughts about the future, and he needs to control more initiative.

The day of the draft has arrived. Price and Coach Kruger arrived in New York yesterday, and they were talking with the Pistons about the draft pick trade last night.

The Pistons were in a hurry. After thinking about whether the chips they paid were worth it, they agreed early this morning.

Now that the deal is completed, the Eagles only have one pick at No. 28 this year. Coach Kruger asked: "Boss, Ace has never told me who to choose, saying that the goal has already been told to you. I still don't know who to choose."

Price took out an envelope and said, "I don't know who to pick. Ace invited me to his house for lunch yesterday. He only gave me an envelope. He told me not to open it until the draft."

Are they disassembled during the draft?Coach Kruger is itchy!

Coach Kruger bewitched: "Boss, what if the person Ace wants us to choose is picked early? Let's take a look first."

"Is this really good? I promised Ace that I would disassemble it before selecting people..." Price said so, his hands already began to tear: "It was Lang, you insisted that I read it first, and I couldn't stop it, after all, you are the general manager."

"..."

If this guy is not the boss, Coach Kruger wants the guy in front of him to taste his leather shoes.

Price tore open the envelope. It was a piece of letter paper with a name written on it.

"Marc Gasol? Who? Pau Gasol's relative?" Price asked curiously.

Coach Kruger shook his head, saying that he didn't know either.

"Help me find this person." Price said to the secretary next to him.

The secretary moved quickly, looked at the name, found Marc Gasol's information from Wikipedia, and moved the computer screen to the direction of Price and coach Kruger.

"It's really Pau Gasol's younger brother! He's still a real brother!" Price said in surprise, "Let's see... I gained 25 pounds in a year? 300 pounds? The body fat percentage was seriously exceeded? I was suspended by the Barcelona team for two weeks and ordered to lose weight? And failed to lose weight? What are these..."

Coach Kruger's eyes widened when he saw the introduction in Wikipedia!

Especially when the two of them saw the fat man with the picture next to them... It's amazing!

"Coach, don't worry, there will be no surprises now that you know..."

Coach Kruger thought of the expression on Liu Mang's expression when he said this when he had dinner with Liu Mang the night before yesterday, and finally understood what "surprise" meant!
It's frightening okay!

(End of this chapter)