Almighty Coach

At the Los Angeles International Airport, Li Dai stood at the exit of the pick-up channel, staring at the crowd coming out.

Finally, Xiao Yunan's figure appeared in Li Dai's sight.

Li Dai immediately greeted the past and took the suitcase from Xiao Yunan.

"You're usually so busy, I really didn't expect to take the time to visit the United States to see me." Li Dai said with a smile.

"Smelly! I didn't make a special trip to see you. I came to the office in the United States, and I came to see you by the way." Xiao Yunan's tone of voice, listening to Li Daixin tickled.

Then Xiao Yunan lowered his voice, and then said: "We bought the Los Angeles Clippers. The contract has been signed, but some legal procedures have not been completed, so it has not been announced."

"You bought the Clippers?" Li Dai expressed a surprised expression, and then he said: "I have read some news reports about the Clippers' transactions, there are many rumors, and some of them want to buy the Clippers. The news of the fleet, I thought it was just fake news released by the media for hype. I didn't expect it to be true, and the Chinese buyer is still you. "

"Over the years, many domestic companies have begun to deploy overseas, large-scale purchase of overseas assets, we who are engaged in real estate, are more keen on overseas investment, especially some overseas fixed asset investment. However, overseas fixed assets are held The cost is relatively high. Compared with it, the NBA team is a better asset. Operating the team can make money, and the team can also appreciate. In the future, even if it is sold, it can make money. "Xiao Yunan said.

"As far as I know, the Clippers boss Stark, his asking price is not low, how much do you spend?" Li Dai asked.

"1.7 billion US dollars." Xiao Yunan replied.

"So much?" Li Dai took a breath.

Li Dai and Blake had exchanges before. At that time, Blake believed that the Clippers could sell more than 1 billion US dollars. Li Dai felt that even if there was a premium component, at most it would be 1.12 billion. But did not expect the final transaction price reached 1.7 billion. This is more than half of Li Dai's previous estimate.

"Actually, the $ 1.7 billion purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers is indeed a bit expensive, but the development of the NBA has been very good in recent years. If more outstanding Chinese players can join in the next few years, it will open up the domestic market. Then this investment will have a relatively good return. "Xiao Yunan continued:" If there is no accident, in the future, I may have to stay in Los Angeles to take charge of the operation of the Clippers. "

"Really? That's great. We finally don't need to separate." Li Dai immediately showed an excited look, and he couldn't help holding Xiao Yunan's hand.

Xiao Yunan sighed: "It's just that the Clippers now have only a mess. The team has no star players, and the results are countdown to the West. More importantly, even the head coach has left."

"I have seen relevant reports. Because of Stark's racist comments, the Clippers' black coach refused to work for Stark and had resigned from the Clippers." Li Dai said.

"Then do you know that the head coach has already got a head coach's job with the Bucks?" Xiao Yunan smiled disdainfully, and then said: "He just resigned on the pretext of racial discrimination, Starr. Kerr is a miser. He paid his head coach a salary of only $ 3 million, ranked second from the bottom of all NBA coaches, and lower than him was the Memphis Grizzlies head coach's $ 2.8 million. So he had long wanted to leave the Clippers. Now with the excuse of racial discrimination, he does not have to pay a penalty even if he resigns.

Li Dai nodded silently: "California's $ 3 million salary is really not as good as Tennessee's $ 2.8 million salary. California's various tax rates have always been high, and Tennessee is one of the seven state-tax-free states. One, and there are a lot of tax relief policies. So in this way, the Grizzlies head coach will get more salary. "

Several states in the United States are exempt from state taxes, such as Texas and Nevada; some states are exempt from consumption taxes, such as Oregon; and some states have exemptions on property taxes and gasoline taxes.

For a coach with an annual salary of millions or an NBA player with an annual salary of tens of millions, saving a few percent of the state tax is equivalent to earning a lot of money, so it is like the Rockets and Spurs. Of teams, they are in Texas, and they have an advantage when they give players a salary, because the actual salary of the players will be more.

In places like California where taxes are relatively high, the actual salary of the players will be discounted, and all kinds of taxes are enough to take off once. Fortunately, California's teams are all in the big ball city, and players can make up for more taxes through commercial value.

Just listen to Xiao Yunan then said: "Now the Clippers' head coach position is temporarily represented by the assistant coach, but this is not a long-term strategy. So I came to the United States this time to solve the Clippers coach's problem. I Dad means, I hope you are the head coach of the Clippers. "

"Me?" Lee Day suddenly felt a little caught off guard.

Li Dai would like to tell Xiao Yunan that he is not a basketball coach, and he has a poor understanding of basketball, and he is not even as good as a professional player, so he may not be able to be the head coach of an NBA team, but when it comes to his mouth, he swallows Go back.

"I became famous by track and field, not basketball. I am not a professional football coach. This is known all over the world. Dingtian Group spent 1.7 billion US dollars to buy the Clippers. How important is the team coach, How could Yunan ’s father easily hand over this position to my coach, who is from track and field? Track and field and basketball are different sports. A good track and field coach does not mean you can coach basketball. "

"Xiao Dingtian can do hundreds of billions of business, even if he doesn't even have this common sense? Even if Xiao Dingtian doesn't understand sports, there is no sports knowledge at all, but people around him will not know anything about it? It involves 17 There will always be someone to remind Xiao Dingtian of the US $ 100 million team. I do n’t believe that Dingtian, a real estate giant like this, has no professional think tank team. With regard to the investment of US $ 1.7 billion, Xiao Dingtian will never make a hasty decision. "

"And there are many excellent basketball coaches in the United States. I know that there have been four or five people who used to be NBA coaches and are now at home. In addition, the assistant coaches of those strong teams are not idle people. For example, the assistant coaches of the Spurs and Warriors are more than enough to be head coaches of other teams. It should not be difficult to invite such people to the Clippers as head coaches. "

"According to the current NBA market, please hire an excellent coach with coaching experience, that is, spend four or five million US dollars. I can get this amount. Dingtian Group is rich in money, and the acquisition fee of 1.7 billion US dollars is all taken out. , Should n’t you care about spending more than four or five million dollars to find a professional basketball coach? ”

"Then Xiao Dingtian asked me to coach the Clippers. That was done on purpose. I proposed to Yu Nan a few days ago, and now Yu Nan's father wants me to be the head coach of the Clippers. Is this a promotion? It ’s not that simple. In addition to promotion, it may still be a test. "Li Dai thought of thinking here, frowning and thinking.

"Xiao Dingtian is not testing my ability. I can get Lawrence's best coach. My personal ability is naturally unquestionable. I believe no one in the world will question my ability. So, he is testing. Can I make a contribution to Dingtian Group? In layman's terms, it is to see who I am, is it useful for Dingtian Group. I am a coach, I am not in business, so I am the coach of the Clippers, maybe it is me The most useful place for Dingtian Group. "

"Alternatively, Xiao Dingtian hopes that I can contribute to Dingtian Group. Xiao Dingtian only has such a daughter as Yu Nan, and Yu Nan is also the future heir to Ding Tian Group, so my future son-in-law also needs to make Some performances, at least, can't make outsiders think that I am a little white face that is useless to Dingtian Group. "

At this time, Li Dai couldn't help but think of the "Kowloon snatching the heirs" during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Kangxi sent errands to the princes in order to test the princes, and in order to make a good impression on Kangxi, the princes also showed their magical powers across the sea.

Li Daichang sighed: "I can't refuse the position of the Clippers as the head coach. For Yu Nan, I must also take over this job. This rich son-in-law is not easy to do!"

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Back home, Li Dai asked Xiao Yunan to go to rest first, pour out the jet lag, and he sat in front of the computer and started to check the Clippers' information.

Most of the NBA team's information is public and can be easily found on the Internet, so through the Internet, Li Dai can understand the Clippers' situation.

The Clippers currently have a record of 16-40, ranking second from the bottom in the West. From this record alone, the playoffs have missed the Clippers.

For a team destined for the playoffs, the best option is to completely lose the game, lose as much as possible, get an extremely bad record, and then rush to a high pick in the new round of the draft. The right to draft, select a potential newcomer in the draft conference. If you can get the top three picks and pick one of the top picks in the top pick list, then naturally it would be better.

However, the Clippers 'first-round draft pick is not in the Clippers' own hands.

Five years ago, in order to impact the championship, the Clippers formed the so-called "Big Three", which is to bring three star players together. This "Big Three" model was the best NBA team to win the championship at that time. Lineup combination.

At that time, in order to form the Big Three, the Clippers used the first round of draft picks in the next few years as a bargaining chip in exchange for two All-Star players from other teams, and this behavior is equivalent to using the team's future to exchange for the ball. Team now.

However, luck does not stand on the side of the Clippers. The Clippers ’three giants have been suffering from injuries since the day they were formed. The three star players will always be injured, sometimes one. At the same time, two people were injured at the same time. The injured person came back, and the other one will be injured again immediately. In the 82 games that season, the Clippers played fewer than 20 games together.

Immediately after the next season, one of the "giant" seasons was reimbursed, and when he returned, his condition was much worse than before, and he had not reached the standard of "giant".

At the same time, the problem of age also began to show. When the "Big Three" joined the Clippers, they were all over 30 years old, and they themselves entered a state of decline. The so-called years are not forgiving. After these two years, the Clippers' "Big Three" data is obvious The decline in the year, the data of the All-Star level no longer exist.

The "Big Three" also knew that it was impossible for the old guys, who had fallen rapidly in three states, to hit the championship, so the three of them chose to run their own things after the expiry of the contract and went to other teams to hug their thighs. A champion, the Clippers' "Big Three" was dissolved. The Clippers not only failed to win the championship, but lost the team's future because they traded the team's draft rights in the next few years.

So it ’s pointless for the Clippers to put it down. They do n’t have the right to draft. Even if they get the penultimate result, they just make wedding dresses for others. Ping Bai is cheaper to get the draft right from the Clippers. Team.

The "Big Three" fall apart, the only benefit to the Clippers is to clear the team's salary space. The salary of star players is relatively high. If the high-paid players leave, the Clippers will naturally get more salary space, and the Clippers can also use the high salary to go to other teams to tap the potential of some star players or rookie contracts just ended. Newcomer.

As a big ball city, Los Angeles is still more attractive to players. If the Clippers are willing to pay the top salary, those All-Star players who are not trying to win the championship and only make more money may still be attracted to the Clippers. The team came.

The potential rookie who has just concluded the rookie contract, although it is a restricted player, the Clippers can also dig a corner with a high salary and make a higher offer. As long as the opposing team is reluctant to match the Clippers ’offer, then the Clippers can also Get a potential newcomer.

Whether it is a direct salary to attract All-Star players, or a high-quote digging for potential stocks that have just concluded the rookie contract, they can immediately form a fighting force, and the Clippers can quickly recover their vitality. Although they are not enough to win the championship, they still have the opportunity to impact The playoffs.

However, the Clippers have chosen another path, that is, to completely push to reconstruction.

Without the draft picks in hand, the Clippers naturally can't rely on the rookie to get the rookie with the high rank. Therefore, the road rebuilt by continuously rotting and hoarding a few top picks cannot be implemented immediately.

Since the Clippers have sufficient salary space, they adopted the garbage contract to obtain the draft.

There will always be some junk contracts in the NBA. For example, the team spent a lot of money to sign a player, but the player's performance did not meet expectations. Obviously, high salary and low energy, this formed a junk contract. Every year in the NBA league there is the kind of "waste man" who holds a salary of ten million but does not play.

As a team, of course, I hope to clean up these junk contracts and let those "waste people" who can't play and hold a high salary get out, but other teams are not fools, and they won't be receivers if they are not good. Therefore, if the team wants to get rid of the junk contract, it must pay some price, such as adding an excellent player, a potential rookie, or simply giving a future draft right. With such benefits, there will be a picker. Come pick up.

The Clippers were once the catcher ~ www.readwn.com ~ They took over the junk contract from other teams and at the same time won the opponent's excellent players and draft rights.

The negative effect of this is that the huge garbage contract also locks up the Clippers' salary space. Before the garbage contract ends, the Clippers have no extra money to attract big-name stars.

Looking at the Clippers' data, Li Dai showed a depressed expression.

"The Clippers eat the junk contract, so that they have no extra money to recruit new people, which means that the Clippers can only rely on the current lineup to fight, with the Clippers' current weak chicken lineup It is impossible to achieve good results. "

“And the Clippers’ draft picks are all traded out, and it ’s useless. The draft picks obtained by taking over the junk contract now seem to be ranked lower. There is no high draft pick. Quan, this team has no future at all. "

"As for the past, the Clippers' best result is only the second round of the West, not to mention the championship, not even the Western Conference finals."

"It seems that I am about to take over, a team that has no past, no present, and no future! It is a hell-level challenge!"