Double stars shine in Los Angeles

Chapter 134 Inviting Dayao to ask for advice
It was already two o'clock in the morning. In the general manager's office of the Los Angeles Lakers, the desk lamp was still dimly lit. Mitch Kupchak was sitting in his boss chair with his eyes squinted. People who didn't know thought Mitch Kupchak Puchak had fallen asleep.But if someone pays close attention, they will find that Mitch Kupchak's almost completely closed eyes do not reveal a trace of light, indicating that this old and cunning guy is not asleep, on the contrary, his brain is running crazily.

"Yao Ming..." This name has been hovering in Mitch Kupchak's mind for several hours, and he has been thinking about whether to invite Yao Ming.In Mitch Kupchak's view, the risk of signing Yao Ming is too great. After all, the last two years of Yao Ming's career (NBA career) were reimbursed for the season, especially in the last season. Yao Ming's injury has recovered very well, but what he didn't expect was that Yao Ming was injured again after only five games, which directly led to Yao Ming's choice to retire.

Thinking of this, Mitch Kupchak couldn't help scolding Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, and Alexander, the owner, for going out because Yao Ming had to represent the national team to participate in many games after the NBA game, but the Rockets' medical The medical team of the Houston Rockets is indeed not very good. It is not an exaggeration to say that the medical team of the Houston Rockets is the worst of all teams in the entire league. Responsible, I think Tracy McGrady was accused by the Houston Rockets management when Tracy McGrady refused the treatment of the team doctor and sought medical treatment on his own, saying that he did not take the team seriously.

If the team does not have Lin Fengzhe and Li Yifeng, the two twin stars who have been regarded by the Lakers as the team's future, the team will see Yao Ming's performance in the London Olympics even if he takes a huge risk. Yao Ming, who played again and averaged nearly 10 minutes per game, was signed. After all, the team can get huge off-court benefits from Yao Ming and further open up the Chinese and Asian markets, allowing the team to get more benefits.But now that the Lakers already have Lin Fengzhe and Li Yifeng, Yao Ming's economic value and its role in further expanding the Chinese and Asian markets are not so great.Now it is recognized in China that Lin Fengzhe and Li Yifeng are the representatives of Chinese basketball, and the most popular athletes selected in China are Lin Fengzhe and Li Yifeng who rank first and second.

Considering the above reasons, there is absolutely no need for the Lakers to take the risk of inviting Yao Ming to come back because of the reason why the Lakers ruled out business and market.If you really want to find a backup center, you don't have to invite Yao Ming. You just need to find a coolie blue-collar who can defend. This can also minimize the risk the team will take.

Thinking of this, Mitch Kupchak turned on the computer on the table and carefully looked for available players among the free agents in the free market.Some people may ask, why didn't the Lakers choose to trade?First of all, the only people the Lakers are willing to trade now are Derek Fisher and Steve Blake and the few young players the team has acquired in the past two years.Even if those young players are used as trading chips, they have always been subsidiary scraps. As for Derek Fisher and Steve Blake, it is impossible to exchange for any good players, and the team cannot rely solely on history. Steve Nash has an organizational vacancy. In order to reduce injuries, the Lakers will try their best to maintain the current two lineups with no overlapping personnel.

Time passed by one minute and one second, and finally Mitch Kupchak leaned back on the boss chair together, tilted his head back and let out a long sigh. There is no player worthy of the Lakers' invitation on the free market , although the position of the center in the current league is becoming increasingly blurred, the pursuit of excellent big players is still hot-not important does not mean unnecessary.

"Do you want me to sign Greg Oden, that 'middle-aged uncle'?" Mitch Kupchak thought of Greg Oden's information on the list he saw just now, and laughed at himself, "If I If you really sign him, you will probably be laughed to death. Everyone knows that Greg Oden is a big joke. He is a glass man full of cracks. The risk of choosing him is higher than that of Yao Ming. Even though he is much younger than Yao Ming, if you really want to choose him, you don’t have to think about it.”

I don't know if it was 10 minutes or half an hour or an hour or more.Mitch Kupchak sat up straight suddenly, searching for something on the computer again.Soon, Mitch Kupchak found what he was looking for - all video clips of Yao Ming in the 2012 London Olympics men's basketball arena, just clips of Yao Ming alone, all the performances of his playing time It was recorded without any omission.

Mitch Kupchak stared earnestly at every movement of Yao Ming on the computer, and carefully read these video clips and the collection of highlights in them, including the analysis above.When Mitch Kupchak watched all these video materials, the sky outside the window had already turned fish-bellied—the night passed like this.

Finally, Mitch Kupchak opened the drawer and took out a delicate box, took out a cigar from it, lit it, turned his chair, faced the window, closed his eyes and took a sip of the cigar, slowly exhaling the smoke.Finally, Mitch Kupchak seemed to have made a decision, put out his half-smoked cigar, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed a number.

At five in the morning, Lin Fengzhe was sound asleep with Taylor Swift in his arms.Recently, Taylor Swift is promoting her latest album "RED" everywhere. In the past three days, Taylor Swift's promotional location is in Los Angeles, and she will also be at the Los Angeles Lakers home game against the Golden State Warriors tomorrow. During the half-time break, he sang the title song "WEARENEVEREVERGETTINGBACKTOGETHER" from his new album.

The two young people who hadn't seen each other for a long time couldn't resist the temptation of the affair, and went crazy until almost three o'clock in the morning. Now it was time to replenish sleep and physical strength, but Lin Fengzhe's phone rang at this time.Lin Fengzhe immediately connected the phone as if reflexively, and then he looked at Taylor Swift who was lying on his chest and was not woken up, so he breathed out a sigh of relief, and then whispered into the microphone, " I don't care who you are or what reason you have, in short, your disturbing people's dreams at this moment is an immoral, wrong and outrageous behavior that will be condemned by conscience. I reserve the right to take any action against you. You can't output a reason that satisfies me and makes you insist on calling me at this moment, I think you'd better hang up now, don't wait until I'm going to clean you up and you regret it..."

Before the person on the other end of the phone could speak, Lin Fengzhe was like a machine gun loaded with enough ammunition, chattering so endlessly that Tang Seng in Journey to the West was ashamed and ashamed, directly fooling the other party, and the other party didn't realize it at all. , It turns out that English can still be spoken in this way. I didn't realize that compared to Lin Fengzhe, he is an American, and he was fooled by the other party...

"Feng Zhe, why did you remember to call me? It's rare. With your personality, you might go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Otherwise, you wouldn't call me at all. Tell me what's the matter?" As long as I can do it, I will try my best to help you." Yao Ming looked at the caller ID on his mobile phone and picked up the phone.

"Brother Yao, Hua can't say that. Could it be that I can't call you if I have nothing to do? Is this how I look in your eyes?" Lin Fengzhe was also a little embarrassed, since the last charity auction After the meeting, he really didn't actively contact Yao Ming, and he couldn't help but feel a little hot on his face, but as a guy with a dark belly and thick skin, it only took less than a second for him to be far away from him. Some of them were dropped on some uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean.

"Since I have nothing to do, I will turn off the phone first. You are not busy. I am very busy recently. If there is nothing to do, I will hang up first. I will call you when I am done. You probably don't mind. "

"Hey! Yao brother, don't, I say it's okay?" Lin Fengzhe was speechless. After a period of interaction before and after the Olympics, Yao Ming's belly became darker under the influence of Lin Fengzhe and Li Yifeng.

After Lin Fengzhe organized his thoughts, he first asked, "Brother Yao, would you be willing to return to the NBA?" Lin Fengzhe directly asked the most core question.

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, and then Yao Ming's voice came again, "Actually, the Houston Rockets have contacted me before you, but I haven't agreed to them yet." Morey and Alexander had already contacted each other. During the training camp of the new season, I had already contacted Yao Ming's agent team, and even called Yao Ming directly, asking if Yao Ming would like to come back and continue to play for the shelf team, but Yao Ming was temporarily rejected because he had to consider it. up.

Although Yao Ming has deep feelings for the Houston Rockets, and he spent several years in the NBA there, Yao Ming has always had the idea of ​​playing for the team until he retires.So when the Rockets took the initiative to contact him, he was still a little moved.

(End of this chapter)