Sports Almighty King

Chapter 700 Give Howard a chance for trial training
Brentwood is an affluent area in Los Angeles, where more than 3000 people live, and more than 95% of them are white.

The environment here is very good and quite livable.

Wang Fei fell in love with it immediately after watching it.

"Not bad! It's a great house, I like it very much." Wang Fei nodded and said.

"Wang, why don't you buy this house? I can assure you that there is a good room for appreciation here, even if it is an investment." LeBron James and Wang Fei came to him together. The newly rented house, at this moment persuaded Wang Feidao.

"There is no plan to buy it for now, it's better to wait." Wang Fei smiled.

"Don't you plan for your future? The United States is relatively friendly to rich people, and life here is still pretty good," LeBron said.

"The United States is indeed good, but I am more family-loving, and I still like my own country." Wang Fei said with a smile.

"Okay! In fact, China is not bad, and I like it very much." LeBron shook his head and said.

In addition to renting a new house, Alisa also hired two bodyguards, a gardener, and a maid.

Wang Fei met with these people and gave them some advice.

These people are naturally very respectful to Wang Fei.

Wang Feixin said, this is the way of life of the rich.

After a night's rest, Alisa drove Wang Fei to the Lakers base in person the next day.

There, Wang Fei was interviewed by Jenny Buss, Pelinka and other high-level Lakers.

"Wang, you know, we are currently inspecting a new center, hoping that he can fill the vacancy after Cousins' injury. Today, we are going to inspect three alternative targets for trial training. You should also participate." Palin Ka said to Wang Fei.

Wang Fei agreed with a smile.

"Now, we mainly want to investigate these three people, Joakinoah, Speights and Gortat, are you familiar with them? Would you like to talk to them in person?" Pelinka laughed.

Wang Fei only had a superficial understanding of these three people.

These three are all insiders with relatively high cost performance.

They're all veterans.

The youngest Speights is also 32 years old.

But the key point is that they are all cheap, and it will not cost the Rockets too much to sign any of them.

In the current NBA, centers are becoming less and less valuable.

Good strikers are more popular.

A center who can average double-doubles and stable output per game can get more than 1000 million US dollars at most.

However, what surprised Wang Fei was why Pelinka didn't mention Dwight Howard.

Anyway, Howard is better than Noah, Speights and Gortat, right?Howard is a super insider who has averaged a double-double so far.

"I heard that Dwight still needs to be investigated?" Wang Fei added another word.

Pelinka froze.

He didn't expect Wang Fei to take the initiative to mention Howard.

Pelinka glanced at Wang Fei and asked, "Wang, do you have a good relationship with Dwight?"

"No, no! I haven't met him before." Wang Fei shrugged and said.

When Wang Fei entered the NBA last year, Howard was already injured and truce, so Wang Fei never played with Howard at all.

"Oh! So, you used to be his fan, right?" Pelinka said with a smile.

"Yes! I used to like him very much!" Wang Fei said.

"Wang, Howard is a guy with a personality problem, you know, he has a strong personality, he's a big mouth, he can't get along with his teammates. He often makes the locker room a mess, and almost our players don't like him. , including LeBron, don’t have a good impression of him.” Pelinka said with consideration.

"Oh! If that's the case, forget it." Wang Fei said.

Pelinka hesitated for a moment, and he said: "Actually, Howard has been asking us to give him a trial training opportunity. He really wants to play for the Lakers. He told us that he wants to make up for the shortcomings of the year."

Back then, he went from the Magic to the Lakers. At that time, Kobe was still there. The Lakers valued the combination of Howard and Kobe very much. The Lakers executives hoped that the two could cooperate to reproduce the glory of the Lakers.

However, the cooperation between Howard and Kobe was not pleasant.

It is said that Howard was disgusted with Kobe talking to himself in a teaching tone.

Just because Kobe said to him, "I will teach you how to win the championship", he completely hated Kobe.

The two were at loggerheads in the locker room.

Even so, the Lakers hoped to keep Howard.

But Howard actually abandoned the Lakers and switched to the Rockets.

This is the grievance between Howard and the Lakers.

This is also the main reason why Howard has been showing favor to the Lakers, but the Lakers have not responded much.

"Or, Howard has reformed himself. He is no longer what he was back then. Howard is about to turn 34 years old. After so many years of ups and downs, he should have matured a lot." Wang Fei said with a smile.

Pelinka nodded and said, "Very likely. Wang, if you think we should give Howard a chance to try out, then that's totally fine."

"I just suggest that everything depends on the real needs of the team." Wang Fei said with a smile.

"Then, I will contact Howard immediately and ask him to come to the Lakers tomorrow. We will talk to him together. Of course, I also hope that all other players will participate in the inspection of Howard. As long as everyone agrees to Him, that's totally fine," Pelinka said.

So it's settled.

On this day, Wang Fei participated in the trial training of Noah, Speights and Gortat.

The three centers are all long-established practical blue-collar players.

Among them, Noah was also the DPOY in the 2013-14 season, and he also made the first team of the NBA All-NBA team that year!Also made two All-Stars!
It's just that Noah's ability has declined quite quickly, and his scoring and rebounding are declining rapidly.

But Gortat is not bad. He plays with passion and moves quickly. He is known as the Polish Hammer. He is very accurate in mid-range shots and has various offensive methods.

However, he also has a fatal weakness, that is: his defense is not good enough, not even up to the average level of the league.

Worst of all, he is 35 years old.

He is really old.

Speights is the youngest of the three, only 32 years old. His offensive ability is also good, but the defensive end is not reliable.

After examining these three players, Wang Fei feels that no matter how he compares them, the best choice for the Lakers is still Howard.

Howard has strong scoring ability and even stronger defense. He is known as a rebounding monster and has great destructive power inside.

Even the youngest Speights is not enough to compare with Howard.

When examining these three inside candidates, LeBron was also there.

After inspecting them separately, LeBron shook his head and said, "They all have flaws."

"Because of their defects, they are not so sought-after. Until now, they have not been able to find a new owner." Wang Fei said with a smile.

"Yeah! Wang, I heard that you suggest recruiting Howard?" LeBron asked.

"I just made an opinion. If it is not appropriate, I think we can sign Speights as a supplement. During the regular season, McGee is still the main center." Wang Fei said.

In fact, the McGee signed by the Lakers now is relatively economical and applicable.

The Lakers are just relatively thin at the center position.

LeBron pondered for a while and said, "You can talk to Howard. It depends on the thoughts of the team's top management. Wang, as players, it's better not to interfere too much with the club's affairs."

"I know." Wang Fei said.

Wang Fei said in his heart, you, LeBron, are probably the one who interferes the most in club affairs?

When you were in the Cavaliers, which operation of the team did not follow your ideas.

In other words, Dwight Howard has been really in a hurry recently.

After he was bought out by the Wizards, he has been looking for another home.

However, he has not been looted, and even, it can be said that he has become less popular.

As soon as he was bought out by the Wizards, he took the initiative to show his favor to the Lakers, hoping to return to the Lakers.

However, the Lakers' response was not enthusiastic.

It can also be said that there was no positive response at all.

Because of that gesture, the Lakers have signed Cousins ​​for only $350 million.

The Lakers have no shortage of people at the center position.

However, later, Cousins ​​was injured again during training, and it is very likely that he will be reimbursed for this season. Howard believes that his chance has come.

Howard once again warmly expressed his goodwill to the Lakers and even took the initiative to call LeBron.

The goal is to return to the Lakers.

However, it frustrates Howard that the Lakers still don't seem to like him that much after he's been so aggressive.

"Damn! Do you really refuse to give me a chance to try out? This is too bad." Howard paced back and forth in his apartment room, he was very anxious.

Don't be anxious!

Because he was too romantic in his early years, although he is not married yet, he already has eight illegitimate children!

Every day when I open my eyes, I have to face a huge amount of alimony!
The pressure was too great, to the point where Howard was almost unbearable.

"Honey, don't worry, I think the Lakers will choose you in the end." A young black girl came over, hugged Howard's waist from behind, and said with her face on his back.

This girl is called Tia, also a basketball player.

The two just got engaged to a high profile.

"Tia, why do you think so? I feel that I have lost hope." Howard said.

"I saw a report that Wang Fei, the leader of the Lakers, praised you a lot when he was interviewed by reporters. He seemed to appreciate you very much. I believe he will definitely recommend you to the top management of the Lakers," Tia said. .

"Really? My God! Why didn't I see this report? Bring it here, let me take a look." Howard said impatiently.

Tia took her mobile phone and showed Howard a report from the Los Angeles Times she saw.

Howard read it carefully, and he immediately became happy: "Haha! Unexpectedly, Wang was once my fan! This is too unimaginable!"

Tia looked at Howard affectionately, and said, "Dwight, it's not unusual. Back then, you had countless fans all over the world. It's just that you were unlucky and suffered too much, so you became a little down."

Howard was about to speak again when his cell phone rang.

He picked it up and took a look, then exclaimed excitedly: "Damn it! It's Pelinka! He called me."

"Then pick it up quickly!" Tia was also quite excited.

Howard answered the call in a hurry.

"Hi! Dwight, hello! After careful consideration, we decided to give you a trial training opportunity. Can you come to the Lakers base at 9 am tomorrow?" Pelinka said.

(End of this chapter)