Bishop of the Devil

Eleven people were already confirmed on the roster. For the remaining two, Richard asked Miles to sign two casually in the free market to make up the thirteen players.

Richard definitely doesn't need to accompany the newcomers every day during training. Several assistant coaches and even Jordan appear at the training ground in rotation to supervise the newcomers' training.

In fact, there is no need to supervise. These people chosen by Richard are all very conscious players. Even if there is no one to supervise them, they will definitely not cheat.

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The NCAA recruitment period has already begun in full swing. What Richard didn't expect was that Oden actually refused to join Purdue...

This made Richard a little confused. He asked Brownie Jr. to give Oden full attention. Brownie Jr., the head coach, personally went to New York State to invite Oden, but he was still rejected.

The reason Oden gave is very simple. He is currently suffering from a wrist injury, and Purdue University's medical team is too poor...

Oden is actually right about this. Although Purdue University has enjoyed great success in recent years, its medical team is actually somewhat inconspicuous.

In fact, it's not just Purdue. Most teams in the NCAA actually don't have a medical team at all, and they all use school doctors. Thinking about such medical standards, it's no wonder that the NCAA is criticized.

After making so much money, they don't take the health of these young players seriously, and they don't even have a professional medical team.

Many NBA players in later generations are quite unhappy with the NCAA. Whenever a popular player in the draft is injured, this matter will be brought up and discussed.

Not only NBA players, but also many American TV series have profoundly exposed this dark side of the NCAA.

Of course, there are exceptions. Some universities have the top medical majors in the United States, so their medical teams are pretty good.

Oden does not dare to risk his future. Who knows what kind of bad situation he will encounter after joining Purdue. If he suffers a serious injury and Purdue has no treatment ability, he will be completely ruined.

Oden is actually injured right now, so it is naturally impossible for him to joke about his future.

Richard understood Auden's decision.

Because of this incident, Little Brownie directly applied to Purdue senior management, hoping to form a top medical team in the United States to avoid this kind of thing happening again in the future.

It is said that the NCAA has too much staff turnover, but in fact it is not necessary to form a first-class medical team.

Most of the strong players play for one or two years and then go to the draft.

Minor injuries and illnesses don’t require a top-notch medical team.

Severe injuries require a long period of treatment. Maybe after you are cured, people will go directly to participate in the draft, and the bamboo basket will be in vain.

As for those corner players, not to mention the NCAA, even the NBA, it is impossible to go all out to help him treat his injuries. At worst, they will be abandoned directly.

This is why the medical teams of most teams in the NCAA are terrible, because the necessity is not great.

Originally, Purdue's senior management didn't really want to spend this money. A first-class medical team would cost one or two million US dollars a year, and this would have to be a part-time job for the team doctor.

However, after Brownie's repeated requests, Richard interceded and the matter was finally approved.

Purdue is well aware of Richard's importance to the Boilermakers. Without Richard, Purdue would not be as brilliant as it is today.

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Oden took his high school teammate Mike Conley to join Ohio State University, completely missing out on Purdue.

However, the recruitment of other players in the list given by Richard was quite successful.

Durant didn't waste any effort here. He came here with his luggage without even having to call Purdue to notify him.

The Lopez brothers also joined Purdue University together.

His older brother, Brooke Lopez, is nicknamed Luo Yibo. Just hearing his name, you can tell how bad his rebounding ability is.

Just looking at his statistics, it's hard to imagine that this is a seven-foot All-Star center.

Especially in the middle and later stages of his career, after developing his three-point ability, this guy no longer looks like a center...

His younger brother, Robin Lopez, has a completely different style from Ronaldo. He is a relatively old-school traditional center. To put it harshly, he is actually a blue-collar player.

In terms of strength, his brother Da Luo is definitely stronger.

In addition to the Lopez brothers, Thaddeus Young and Ty Lawson also joined Purdue.

In this way, Purdue University has Durant, the Lopez brothers, Huang Ama, Lien Zhang, Thaddeus Young and Lawson, a total of seven players, and its strength continues to remain unparalleled.

The Purdue University lineup has been set up, and the Pirates have entered the training schedule again. Richard has nothing to do.

Richard takes advantage of this period to spend time with his wife and children. When the season starts, he will not have so much free time.

At the end of September, just as the preseason was about to begin, Richard received a call from Cowens.

Rondo and Paul got into a fight during training.

And it wasn't just a small fight. The two people may have gotten impatient during the training and started fighting directly. Both of them were bruised and swollen.

Richard felt like he had one head and two heads. The tempers of these two boys were a bit extreme. Now that he had put them together, this situation was not particularly surprising.

Richard drove to the training ground, and the Pirates players were pulling the two of them to prevent them from continuing to fight.

Although it was rude to laugh out loud at this moment, Richard still laughed out loud when he saw the bruised and swollen appearance of the two people.

Apparently neither Rondo nor Paul noticed that Richard had arrived.

"My sister's sons are more mature than you."

"A little guy like you is only worthy of playing in elementary school." Rondo was stopped by Mourning and several strong men. At this moment, he was pointing at Paul and yelling...

The point of his attack was Paul's baby face.

Even though he has played in the league for a season, Paul still looks no different from a high school student.

"You're a low-level guy with the fifteenth pick, and I'm the third pick!"

"You want to compete with me for the starting spot?" Paul was also anxious and didn't notice that his words accidentally hurt many teammates.

But no one cares about this at the moment. No one can understand why these two are fighting so crazily.

It was as if the two were enemies in the previous life, and the enemies were extremely jealous when they met.

But as far as they know, Paul and Rondo had no interaction before joining the Buccaneers.

This is surprising, several veterans have never encountered this situation.

Although Mourning had had internal conflicts with Johnson, the team's aunt, when he was a rookie, he was not so angry that he would directly fight with each other.