NBA Legends Manager

Chapter 120 A New Beginning!
When Presti got off the plane, he saw all the Hornets' current team management personnel waiting for his arrival. Jeff Ball, the current general manager of the Hornets saw Presti first stepped forward, stretched out his hands, and said with a smile: "Boss, welcome."

After Presti shook hands with him, he shook hands with the Hornets' vice general manager, operations president, and HR director, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then left together. On the way, Presti told them that he would go back to the place where he lived first, and hold a unified meeting on Monday, the day after tomorrow.

On the day Presti bought the Hornets, he had already purchased a house close to the team. Presti put down his luggage, packed up briefly, and then took out the information about the Hornets that Jeff Ball had just given him, and began to think about the idea of ​​​​building a team.

The current team's lineup and salary are: Chris Paul 1352 million, Peja Stojakovic 1339 million, Emeka Okafor 1054 million, David West 908 million, Morris Peterson 621 million, James Posey 608 million, Darius Sangueira 453 million, Julian White 200 million, Darren Collison 127 million, Sean Marks 119 million, Aaron Gray 100 million, Ike Diogu 88, Marcus Thornton 46, Jason Hart 7.

Presti was a little dizzy seeing this. This poisonous contract is a bit too much. A team like this that has to pay the luxury tax but can't get the corresponding results is really Shi Lezhi.

"Rebuild" was the only word that flashed to Presti when he saw the lineup's salary.

Thinking of this, Presti immediately called Jeff Bauer and said: "I hope the luxury tax can be reduced. Except for David West, Collison can be traded. I will hear your trading plan tomorrow."

"Paul also wants to trade?" Jeff Ball asked in disbelief. In his mind, everyone except Paul could be traded, and he watched the Thunder game. Presti should be the kind of team that likes to build a team with point guards as the core.

"Well, you heard me right, let's get ready." Presti hung up the phone after finishing speaking. West and Collison were just because their contracts were overvalued, especially Collison still had a lot of potential to tap.

The most important thing is that once the rookie contracts of the Thunder players are over, the salary pressure will inevitably lead to leaving the team. At that time, with their status in their hearts, it is not easy to recruit a few of them. Isn't it a minute for the team to quickly return to the Western Conference?

In addition, after Jeff Ball was waived by the Hornets in his previous life, he went to the Pistons and was waived again. If he can't see his ability tomorrow, he will also waive Jeff Ball. He will kick out all the incompetent people on the team.

Presti began to think about a trading plan. It would be best if he could exchange for draft picks. If not, an expiring contract would be fine.

At this moment, the sound of the system sounded!

"Ding, brand new team, new start, let people see your ability!

Ding, while avoiding the luxury tax, get the team into the second round of the playoffs and reward 500 legendary coins! "

"If it fails, the mission system will be shut down for two months"

Presti was dumbfounded when he heard this. His original plan was going to go bad, but the system came out like this. Fortunately, 500 Legendary Coins is a bit uncomfortable to shut down the mission system for two months. Who knows how much it will be lost....

Hey, who is the system? In this case, Paul cannot be traded this season.

In the following time, Presti carefully studied the salaries and lineups of other teams. The draft will be held soon. The quality of this draft is still very good, but there are no good picks at the moment, and they must be changed.

Presti's expectation for this year's starting lineup is: Paul, Bradley, George, West, Whiteside, of which Bradley, Paul George and Whiteside are all upcoming rookies!

But currently they only have the No. 11 pick in their hands, not even a second-round pick. There is a reason why the Hornets have not made it to the Western Conference Finals. They are really rubbish management. If they do not perform well the day after tomorrow, they will all be fired.

But with such a high pick, Paul and West can only be used as the core of the transaction. Other teams probably won't even take a look at it. Of course, there is another way, which is to accept a rubbish contract!That last one was something Presti never wanted to see.

"It's such a mess," Presti grimaced.

Presti didn't think of any good solution for a while, let's take a look at tomorrow's plan.

The next day, in the Hornets conference room, Presti looked at the Hornets executives and said: "The content of today's meeting is about our team's culture and goals for the new season."

Presti continued: "First I plan to change the team's logo and team name."

As soon as Presti finished speaking, there was a sound of surprise, and the senior executives were discussing in whispers.

"Second thing, the team..." Presti didn't finish,
The team's deputy general manager interrupted: "Boss, I don't think changing the logo and name is a good decision. The team has been using this name since Charlotte moved to New Orleans. Once we change it, it is impossible to change it back. The Bobcats have always wanted to return to the Hornets, and..."

Presti was not interested in stopping, and waved his hand and said, "That's the decision. I will send you the new name and logo later. The second thing is that the team's goal this year is to reach the second round of the playoffs or even the Western Conference Finals."

Suddenly, there was another burst of surprise from below,
"What's the matter?" Presti was already a little angry at this time, and he was already surprised like this in the second round of the playoffs. This group of people is really embarrassing.

It can be seen that Presti was a little angry, and the executives didn't say a word, they didn't dare to make trouble at this time,

Although they think Presti, the new boss, is crazy, after all, this is not the Thunder, not the team you rebuilt little by little, and the current lineup has been determined, but this lineup is a team that didn't even make the playoffs because of the absence of Paul.

Half an hour later, the meeting was over, and Presti left Jeff Ball to talk about the trade proposal.

When I heard Jeff Ball say: When the No. 11 pick plus Peja Stojakovic was changed to a weak team to reduce the luxury tax, Presti really wanted to kick him out. All the picks in the past few years were gone, all because of this bastard in front of him.

It's decided, fire!Although I thought so in my heart, I still listened to his suggestion.

As soon as Presti went out, he called the president of personnel, released Jeff Ball's contract, and announced the recruitment of a new manager.

　Chapter 2
　　
　
(End of this chapter)