From today on is the king

Chapter 562 561. Feeling that our appearance has been lowered

Time flies to the end of August, and the Eagles players have returned to Atlanta one after another.

Liu Mang was not the first to return to Atlanta for training, but Stockton, who rented a house in Atlanta at the end of July, came to Atlanta early to prepare for next season.

Although Stockton, who was born in 62, is 41 years old and a full year and a half older than Malone, he still wants to make his own contribution to the team, and he averaged 27 points, 11 assists and 7.7 steals per game in 1.7 minutes of playing time last season.

Liu Mang returned to Atlanta on August 8, rested for two days, and then joined Stockton's training.

Back on the team, there is Stockton, a more experienced physical fitness master, leading the training, and Stockton's shooting is also excellent, and together with Chip Englander, he provided Liu Mang with a lot of good advice.

But at the end of August, after Boozer also returned to team training, Liu Mang obviously felt that he was "out of favor". Stockton was very interested in coaching Boozer, mainly because Liu Mang improved too fast.

Stockton was amazed by Liu Mang's talent of hard work. He himself is synonymous with hard work, but he thoroughly polished his long-range shots and took five full seasons. He officially became the top pitcher in the league when he was 27 years old. Liu Mang just turned 21 years old...

As for Boozer being surprised why Stockton would take extra care of him, Liu Mang was also surprised. Stockton didn't meet Boozer a few times, so how could he teach him as patiently as seeing his own son?Liu Mang was quite jealous, so he asked Boozer to do odd jobs and bully Boozer.

But it was just a joke. As time came to September, all the teammates came back.

They returned to the team at the end of August and early September. For most ordinary stars, the time can be said to be very early. The old players who stayed in the Eagles before were because of two consecutive losses in the Eastern Conference Finals.

From what it looks like now, the team has 14 players, and there is enough staffing for each position. With only 12 active rosters, some of them will definitely wear suits for a long time.

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"Ace, are you sure this guy won't bite me?" Jason Terry looked at Rasheed Wallace who had a good chat with Raheem, and was still very worried. When Rasheed Wallace was playing on the court, it was as if he was going to bite someone.

Although Liu Mang repeatedly assured that Rasheed Wallace is a good person, Raheem also proved this point. He was the one who introduced Liu Mang to Rasheed Wallace back then, although the way was a bit "special".

In that game, Liu Mang had just cheated Rasheed Wallace into two technical fouls and was sent off. Raheem was worried that Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace would have a bad relationship, and they were friends, so he gave Liu Mang the ticket to the opera.

With the assurances of Raheem and Liu Mang, most people in the Eagles can still accept Rasheed Wallace, mainly because the rumors about this guy are too bad, and his performance on the field is too exaggerated.

"Don't worry, Rashid usually only hits people and doesn't bite people. By the way, he likes to bully people who are less than 1.9 meters tall. He can't bully people who are taller." Liu Mang shot a basket and ran away after speaking.

"... Ace, your skin is itchy again! Stop! Don't run!"

The daily double-wave fight brought a little flavor to the teammates who were restless and looking forward to the start of next season.

For Rasheed Wallace, the Eagles players had a good first impression this time. First of all, they just moved and came to the team to report the next day after moving. They are very active and passionate about basketball.

And although he looks comparable to Boozer, he is smiling in private, and he doesn't play big names. He can talk to a few rookies who have just arrived. It seems that he is easier to get close to than Boozer.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry fought for a while, and the teammates couldn't help laughing, especially the new players, who felt really good about the atmosphere of the Eagles.

The good team atmosphere of the Eagles brought about by a group of frustrated people working hard together is very rare in the NBA. Even Stockton, who played in a championship-level team all the year round, has never experienced this kind of team atmosphere. Seeing that Jason Terry, who was "squeezed" to the bench by Liu Mang, has such a good relationship with Liu Mang, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.

After Liu Mang made Jason Terry too tired to run, he winked proudly at Jason Terry. At this time, Liu Mang saw Mike Woodson and his agent Schwartz leading a familiar person towards the general manager's office.

Jose Calderon!

When ranking the 03 generation in the future, Calderon was ranked ninth in the 03 generation.

Speaking of which, Liu Mang felt that the 03 generation, if James hadn't signed up for a team, would be so pitiful. Except for the top five picks except Milicic, the other players basically failed to make waves in the NBA.

After the Four Heroes, the 03 generation has dropped a notch, directly from the ranks of super giants to the ranks of first-class stars and even quasi-first-class stars. Except for the four heroes, the player with the highest achievement in the 03 generation is David West.

The draft of the 03 generation can be said to be a cliff-like draft. Except for the top five picks, the rest are not at the same level at all. Unlike the 84 and 96 generations, the stars of those two generations include superstars, superstars, top stars, and first-class stars... There are players of all levels.

Mike Woodson and Schwartz saw Liu Mang looking at them, and brought Calderon to Liu Mang's side to say hello. Mike Woodson introduced Liu Mang: "Ace, this is our new teammate, the Spaniard, Jose Calderon. Let's sign the contract first. When there is a press conference for your contract extension later, you call your teammates to support the scene."

"Ace, this is our company's new player, please take care of him." Schwartz recommended Calderon to Liu Mang.

Calderon?How did our team get Calderon?

Liu Mang nodded in astonishment, then recalled which team chose Calderon, and then went from the first pick to the last one in the second round. After thinking for a long time, he found...no team chose Calderon!
This high-quality shooter with a career three-point shooting rate of more than 40.00%, a total of more than 1000 three-pointers, and a solid big-hearted point guard who averaged 8+ assists per game when he first started in the third year of his career, was actually undrafted!

Liu Mang didn't notice that Calderon was not drafted at all!

Liu Mang really admires Schwartz's vision of finding talents from undrafted draft picks. Although most of the draft picks signed by Schwartz are not very good, he is indeed good at finding frustrated players!
correct!Liu Mang hurried to find Stockton. Didn't Stockton always dislike my old Liu's desire to score more than pass, and failed to inherit his mantle.

Steady shooting, big heart, pass first... Isn't this the best person to inherit the legacy of Stockton!Recommend a disciple to Stockton!

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On September 9, Rasheed Wallace finally moved his family to Atlanta, and reached an early contract extension agreement with the Eagles.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Eagles held a press conference to welcome the players who joined and renewed their contracts.

Rasheed Wallace, Stockton, Willie Green, Korver, and Calderon have just signed, Kwame Brown, who has just been traded, and Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Rasheed Wallace, who have just renewed their contracts, are the protagonists of this press conference.

Regardless of the outside world's comments, the Eagles have ushered in a player with real All-Star strength, and of course they must treat Rasheed Wallace with the specifications of welcoming a superstar.

Likewise, a welcoming ceremony for Stockton.

The contract renewal of Liu Mang and others is also a key point.

As for the joining of Korver, Kwame Brown and others, it is just a foil.

The NBA is such a cruel place, if you have no strength, you can only serve as a foil.

At the same time, I would like to express my gratitude to Dean Grove, Newbell, Chris Crawford and others who left the Eagles for their contributions to the team.

As for Raheem, Boozer, Prince, Ratliff, Kevin Willis, Barnes, Muhammad and others who had nothing to do with them, they also came to the scene to support the scene, allowing the media to feel the unity of their own teams.

After owner Price spoke the team's official words, he took the jerseys handed over by the staff, handed the No. 36 to Rasheed Wallace, and handed the No. 12 to Stockton...

Regarding the taste of the teammates in choosing jersey numbers, I think it is not bad. There are no weird jerseys, okay, but when Kwame Brown comes, the weird ones come.

Looking at the No. 38 jersey that Kwame Brown took over, Liu Mang looked so painful, probably because the American women's day is only March [-], Liu Mang is very curious when the American women's day is...

After the joining ceremony, the Eagles announced two contract extensions.

With a starting salary of $810 million, Jason Terry signed a six-year contract extension of $6 million. As Jason Terry wished, his salary will exceed $5600 million in the fourth year.

Liu Mang’s contract renewal is simple. With a 4-year starting salary of 1225 million US dollars, a total of 5500 million US dollars, the maximum salary has reached an intention to renew the contract in advance. The contract will be officially renewed in the summer of 2004. The first three years of the contract are fixed, and the fourth year is a player option. If the team still needs to operate next summer, Liu Mang’s official contract renewal can be postponed to avoid occupying the team’s salary space.

Both the Eagles and Liu Mang are very satisfied with the contract extension. The Eagles are because Liu Mang’s next contract expires in 2007, and they can build a team around Liu Mang with peace of mind. Liu Mang got a relatively short contract. The total income of the NBA is increasing year by year, and the salary cap will increase by several million every year. If the contract is shorter, the renewed contract will be bigger at that time.

Liu Mang is now short of money again. When he returned to China to promote, Schwartz didn’t just simply follow Liu Mang to play. When the publicity announcement was confirmed, Schwartz actually had nothing to do, and Liu Mang was Chinese. He didn’t need an agent to communicate with various matters like other NBA players. He could live well by himself. and shops.

Now the school district housing in the imperial capital is less than 3000 square meters, and the school district housing of more than 80 square meters is only 30 RMB.

On July 7, the after-tax money that Liu Mang got was about 1 million U.S. dollars, which is about 1300 million yuan. Schwartz spent more than 7000 million yuan to register a housing rental company on the grounds of "low rent for migrant workers who can't afford houses in the city", and took away 200 sets of school district houses in various places in BJ.

Of course, these houses are rented out, and the current rent is only a few hundred thousand yuan a month, but what Liu Mang cares about is not the rent, but the house price that will almost double every year in the future!
Therefore, Liu Mang’s goal for the leasing company is that the rent can maintain normal company operations, and he does not expect to make money from the rent. It is a little bit of help for the workers who bring their children to work in the city.

As for shops, this Liu Mang didn’t buy much, and many people didn’t see the upside of housing, but the value of goods has always been the most important thing for major real estate developers. Liu Mang’s little money is far behind, and the main investment can only be in the imperial capital. As for other places, he really has no money.

It is precisely because of this that when the house rental company registered by Liu Mang was exposed that he was the real boss, there was no criticism or anything, and because he promised to rent to migrant workers with cheap rent in the future, the mayor of the imperial capital also praised Liu Mang for his help to migrant workers in an interview.

The main reason is that these days, the average monthly salary in the imperial capital is only 2000. At any time, it is impossible to buy a house by working part-time. It is a great thing to be able to buy so many houses and rent them to migrant workers at a relatively cheap price. It is a surprise that Liu Mang has gained a good reputation in the imperial capital because of this.

As for not being able to have more investment opportunities, such as franchising for domestic e-commerce companies, he only bought 100 million US dollars of stocks during Alibaba’s financing, and he couldn’t grab other ones. Liu Wei didn’t care too much.

Rasheed Wallace also renewed his contract with the Eagles with a five-year contract extension of 5 million yuan. This contract extension was reached directly. Rasheed Wallace’s contract next season is more than 5000 million.

The decline in Rasheed Wallace's value is certain, mainly because of his reputation. In the Trail Blazers, he doesn't like to defend and has a bad temper on the court. Because of the salary cut and the bad relationship with his teammates, his market value has been greatly damaged.

The basic salaries of Korver and Willie Green are both signed 2+1+1 contracts. The Eagles recognized Liu Mang’s vision, so they gave him a contract with a skyrocketing price increase for the first two years, and a team option for the next two years.

Stockton is a one-year contract with a bi-annual exception of $175 million a year.

Calderon is a 1+1 non-guaranteed basic salary.

Then came the routine interview session.

The media seemed to feel that the Hawks players valued and welcomed Rasheed Wallace completely different from the attitude they had when the Big Dog joined last year. When the Big Dog joined last year, the preseason games started, but none of the teammates at the press conference came.

This makes the media feel very uncomfortable!What about another big outbreak of conflict?
After the interview began, the media first launched an offensive against Coach Kruger.

"Coach Kruger, I heard that it was your idea to introduce Wallace. Aren't you worried that Wallace's too many technical fouls on the court will affect the team?"

It was very ruthless at the beginning. When Rasheed Wallace's technical foul problem has not been solved, this problem is very unsolvable!

But coach Kruger has already thought of the answer: "I think our team is too moderate and needs someone who can bring us a positive influence, and I believe Rashid will restrain his temper. I can't be indifferent when I have the opportunity to get one of the best power forwards in the league."

Hearing this, Rasheed Wallace was ashamed. When did he become the number one power forward, and he was not even among the top four forwards.

The media had only one thought for coach Kruger's answer-speak hard!
Can't you see that both fans, media and experts are unanimously unhappy with the introduction of Rasheed Wallace!

People felt that the Eagles might as well wait for Liu Mang, Boozer and others to continue to improve.

Unable to pry Coach Kruger's mouth away, the media launched an offensive towards Liu Mang: "Ace, what do you think of Wallace's joining?"

The media felt that after Liu Mang experienced the big dog incident last season, he should be very disgusted with this kind of troublesome teammates!
And Liu Mang's answer was: "Rashid joins, oh...my God..."

Liu Mang's expression seemed to be very desperate and sad, which made the media happy. This guy who likes to make trouble seems to be able to dig out something.

The media all looked at Liu Mang with eager eyes
Liu Mang continued: "We already have Carlos, who is such a scary-looking teammate, and we also have Rashid. I feel that the appearance of our team has reached a new low!"

Appearance, that is, the scoring of appearance, this word is quite new when it comes out for the first time, but the media don't care at all when a new word comes out... What Liu Mang actually cares about is that the team's appearance has been lowered!
Did you make a mistake!
Not only the media wanted to vomit blood, but Boozer and Rasheed Wallace also wanted to vomit blood...

　There is another chapter at 12 o'clock~ Today is a bit late, mainly because I have something to do in the afternoon.

　　
　
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