Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 370 Five-Year Plan
Internally, everyone has clarified their goals, and the next step is to deal with some details, and the focus of work has also shifted to the free market and the renewal of the team's players.With the increasing salary cap, the value of Billups and Artest's two cabbage long-term contracts is becoming more and more obvious. The instruction is "Deny All".

Externally, in order to prevent the internally determined rookie target from being intercepted by some people with ulterior motives, the Lakers also used the media to release a lot of smoke bombs.

For example, the craziest piece of news is that the Lakers are very interested in St. Joseph High School's 17-year-old center Andrew Bynum, and are actively seeking to trade a top ten pick in order to pick up the future center of the league. hope.

"Yes, we have great interest in Andrew Bynum, I think he will lead the next era of center, he will be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Shaquille O'Neal combined, We will do whatever it takes to find a way to get Andrew Bynum." At the press conference during the Lakers' public workout, Jim even showed up to express his love for Andrew Bynum.

"I said, are you really going to trade for Andrew Bynum's draft pick? We expect him to be selected around the 9th to 16th pick. Suitable trading targets are the Clippers, Nuggets, Celtics ...Forget it, and the Trail Blazers and Raptors, pay some price, such as Battier's sign-and-trade, Nene or David West plus the package deal with the last pick in the first round...But You make it so that the whole world knows that others will wait for you to propose a deal, and then kill you severely." Kupchak is still dutiful.

"Are you kidding me? I don't need Andrew Bynum. This guy is a fool. Whoever chooses him will regret it for the rest of his life..." Jim said viciously, venting his resentment towards Bynum in his previous life. Adding skyhook passers cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and missed the opportunity to trade Jason Kidd and Kevin Garnett. As a result, Bynum, who is mentally defective, made all kinds of brain-dead moves and finally ruined his future. Well, countless bad elbow injuries, nearly disabled Gerald Wallace, unprofessional behavior on the court, and corrupt private life off the court, finally let Bynum have no ball to play in his prime. , completely reduced to washing, cutting and blowing.

Jim's hideous face gave Kupchak the illusion that Bynum or Bynum's father had offended this unreliable guy in front of him.

Seeing Jim viciously smashing a stack of documents on the desk, Kupchak wisely chose to move on to the next topic.

"Regarding the situation of the trial training, we did have a few unexpected discoveries, such as this, Brandon Bass, short power forward, strong body, good mid-range shooting ability; and him, Jason Maxie Er, full of energy and physical fitness; Amir Johnson, also short inside, but very active, fit our system."

Jim glanced at the report handed over by Kupchak. It was full of acquaintances. Compared with last year's draft, this year's draft has improved in quality and quantity.

"Jason Maxhill and Brandon Bass are expected to be at the end of the first round. Unless we fail to get David Lee as planned, these two will not be our main targets... As for Ah Mill Johnson, if our late second-round pick has no other suitable targets and he falls, we can take a look."

"Speaking lightly, my phone is buzzing with people coming in with their picks for offers. Dealing with them every day...another call...hello, this is Mitch Kupchak... what , 10th pick Gavoshan Leonard for Chauncey Billups? Kiki, I thought you would come up with more constructive opinions, we can't trade the starting point guard for a potential rookie , That's it." Kupchak put down the phone with a helpless expression.

"Kiki Vanderweghe calling?"

"That's right, he took a fancy to Chauncey Billups, tried to trade with their No. 10 pick plus Voshan Leonard, reimbursed for one season, and the person who won't know if he can play next year and Do I look like an idiot for a young center who you called worthless and wants to replace our only starting point guard?" Kupchak raged.

Jim stifled a laugh, and ignored it.Many teams are testing each other, and the offers they throw are true and false. Usually, in order to avoid mistakes, the real transactions are carried out secretly. If the two parties really want to complete the transaction, the details will not be passed through the media. Exposure, and the news that is exposed is usually a negotiating technique for the purpose of putting pressure on the other party.

"At least the Denver Nuggets already know that our urgency to get Andrew Bynum is not that high."

"It's just Bynum, it won't cause any disturbances, speaking of it, how are we doing with our major affairs.

"The other side is also actively taking action. In principle, it can be done. Now we have to wait until the start of the free agent market, but this means that we will have to pay a lot of luxury tax next season. Jim, seriously, put the fishing line Put it so far, do you really have confidence? Let me see, no one can say for sure what will happen a few years later." Kupchak was a little worried.

"Glenn Taylor is not a patient guy, and Kevin McHale is also a guy who doesn't see the rabbit and shoot the eagle. If you want to get something out of them, you have to be willing to bleed. Compared with what we are about to get It's not worth mentioning what we have to lose. And even if it doesn't go as expected this time, we still have time to make amends. But as long as we succeed, until 2020, we will remain competitive for the championship." Jim's eyes lit up. This evil plan was conspired and researched by the two after Don Nelson joined. Now the Lakers have the capital, like the Celtics did many years ago, to catch big fish with a long line. On the other hand, making long-term investments and reclaiming draft picks at the right time not only maintains its own competitiveness, but also has other teams to help with poor draft picks. It is perfect to kill two birds with one stone.

And Jim's "vision and sagacity" has become the key to the success of this plan.

"I'm not worried about Glenn Taylor. That guy won't be successful. I'm worried about Pat Riley. You should know better than me about his ability." Kupchak said seriously.

"It doesn't matter, as long as I'm still with the Lakers, he will never get the biggest bargaining chip." Jim has a well-thought-out plan.

(End of this chapter)