Legendary Basketball Tycoon

The 1992 NBA Draft.

This year's draft conference made an exception to set the location at the Island Garden Arena in New York, and the time was set on June 24, which is today.

Early in the morning, "Prince Prince" Bruce wore that Hanfu very conspicuously and took the New York Hans management at the entrance of the arena to wait for the arrival of the draft managers and coaches of the teams.

Of course, our NBA "dictator" Stern will also be the first to arrive. After all, this is the first time a new team has hosted the draft, so check in advance.

After receiving President Stern and the managers of each team participating in the draft, Bruce took them to visit the island garden arena with Chinese characteristics.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the decorations of the Eastern countries, because this is just a transitional arena, and new arenas will be established in the future. It is impossible for Bruce to spend a huge amount of money to do so many tricks. It is not an All-Star game. Bruce has long thought Well, before the establishment of the new arena, it will not play the All-Star game, which will waste the people and money.

Stern was quite satisfied, at least not much wrong.

The management team of each team also entered their "house" and began to discuss draft matters.

"The Godfather" Paul Allen found Bruce, hugged Bruce affectionately, and said to him: "Bruce, enjoy your first time in the draft, just like the first time I participated, first curious, then After choosing a rookie, I get excited."

Bruce said to the "godfather" gratefully, "Okay, I will try too."

Paul Allen pulled Bruce for a while, motioned to the side to speak.

Bruce knows what Paul Allen is asking. He is not yet a candidate for this year’s draft. In the past two years, Bruce has helped Paul Allen choose good players. The Seattle SuperSonics are also in the top four in the Western Conference, but Paul Allen Knowing that Bruce has a set of people to choose, I heard Bruce say that he has a dedicated scout team in charge.

From the selection of Gary Payton and Antonio Davis in the 1990s to the third pick of the Sacramento Kings in 1991, Dikembe Mutombo was selected by the Sacramento Kings. It turns out that the player selected by Bruce called Paul Allen is quite powerful. , Reached the Western Conference semifinals in 1991.

This year the Seattle SuperSonics have the 20th pick in the first round and the 45th pick in the second round.

Paul Allen asked Bruce to actually have another meaning. The second round of signing depends on whether he can choose a Chinese player. After all, Paul Allen also wants to support Bruce in training his own country's players.

After receiving the current SuperSonics roster given by Paul Allen, Bruce took a look and said directly: "The first choice for the 20th pick is Doug Christie. If you can't, PJ Brown will be selected. Exchange with other teams, and you can change to the second round of next year's next year."

"Then why not vote for the Chinese players in the second round?"

"They need NBA recognition, not relationship. The NBA is a business league, not a charity hall, and has no strength to be recognized by other teams. I would rather them return to China."

Bruce flatly refused.

Paul Allen agreed after listening and happily returned to his team's room. This "godson" of his own will not distinguish between public and private, which is very good.

After seeing Paul Allen gone, Huang Jianhua and the old Nelson around him also came to Bruce to talk about the draft. After all, Paul Allen is the top boss in the United States, not comparable to Huang Jianhua now, and can only be left behind.

According to old Nelson’s vision, Bruce needed to help select people. That’s really a joke. For this purpose, I want Hu Weidong and Gong Xiaobin. Apart from Huang Jianhua’s Chinese identity and want to help the national team train talents, old Nelson is also optimistic about these two players. , The individual trial training also invited the "five tiger generals" to come, but only Hu Weidong and Gong Xiaobin were seen by the old Nelson.

Huang Jianhua asked if Bruce could trade for the 12th pick in Bruce's hands. Bruce directly refused, and directly said to Huang Jianhua and the old Nelson: "Don't think about Hu Weidong and Gong Xiaobin. I will definitely win Hu Weidong. As for Gong Xiaobin Well, someone has already given a promise, so don't worry about these two people."

"What about the others?"

"I advise you not to choose. The first and the other 3 players are not up to the NBA level. You can't trade away without playing for a year or two. Now there are only two of us with Chinese ancestry. The country is also happy to see that we have domestic players competing against each other. If you do not have the strength in this election, you can trade. Who in the country still supports the Golden State Warriors."

"The other thing is that I left you a good embryo, and I promise Mr. Nelson likes it. After the draft, I will take you to recognize people."

Bruce is determined to push Wang Zhizhi out. Anyway, he was also selected by the old Nelson in his previous life.

"Okay, then I'll choose according to the alternative plan."

Huang Jianhua and old Nelson left disappointed, but they were not discouraged. In case someone missed Gong Xiaobin, they promised that this thing is nothing in the NBA and they can break the contract at any time.

Stern has been watching Bruce from a distance. He is very clear about the alliance of these three people. This is what he has acquiesced to. In order to open the Chinese market as soon as possible, Stern compromised a lot.

Bruce saw that the management of each team returned to his room, took out his eldest brother, made a phone call, and said directly: "We won Gong Xiaobin on the 17th and replaced Ratlier Sprewell; 26 Choose PJ Brown for the number pick, and change to next year's pick if you can't pick it." After speaking, hang up the phone.

All arrangements are in place, and all the rookies participating in the draft also enter the arena. Of course, there are also many managers and parents and friends. Our "five tiger generals" sits alone at a table, waiting for the fate of the arrangement for a while.

Why are these five people unaccompanied? It's not that Bruce is unkind. It's just that in addition to the difficulty of obtaining visas in the 90s, these national team players have already played abroad on behalf of the country, so the visas are easy to resolve.

There is also that many people in that era do not speak foreign languages. If you accompany the players to the United States, what will happen to life? The language is not clear. The players have to go to other cities to participate in the trial training alone.

So Bruce told the players' parents and relatives about the situation. Everyone understands it well. How about the high quality of our countrymen at that time?

Bruce wanted to arrange for Xu Jicheng and Zhang Weiping to accompany them, but now both of them are the management of the New York Hans. It would not be good to sit there. Fortunately, someone will accompany them in a while.

No, say Cao Cao has arrived. I saw this bald boy walk up to the table of five people, hand out the five documents to the five people, and then hand them a pen, and said: "Hello, I am Bruce specially invited to be your agent. , My name is Bill Duffy."

"Admiral Five Tigers" looked up in Bruce's direction, and Bruce nodded.

The five people signed without doubt. As early as last night in the hotel room, Bruce asked the five people with his agent. The five people also have friends in China to play this role, but they are not professional. This time, I came to the stranger America to work hard. , Certainly helpless and hesitating, Bruce patiently explained the role and responsibilities of the agent in the NBA, and promised to find a good agent for the five people.

Greed, cunning, scheming, unscrupulous... I don't know when these dirty words have become synonymous with brokers. However, there are also many people in the brokerage circle who walk and sit upright, called "good sirs."

That's right, Bruce personally invited this good gentleman, who was also Yao Ming's agent in his previous life to **** the "five tiger generals".

You may have to say here, why not find a few more agents? Just kidding, many well-known agents have the kind of yellow people who are not good at playing, and they are afraid of being smashed.

Bruce, who is not well-known, dare not invite him. Who knows if there will be a player's agent. Bruce is responsible for the "Five Tigers" and only hires Bill Duffy to be responsible.

At first, Bruce was flattered when he came to find Bill Duffy. After knowing his intentions, Bill Duffy took into account Bruce's background and the huge market in China. Bill Duffy quickly agreed, which of course made Bill Duffy so happy. Another reason is that Bruce promised that in the future, the Tianhan Empire Consortium will fund Chinese players to participate in the NCAA league in the United States. Bill Duffy has the priority to choose.

In this way, tying this NBA agent's good husband to a chariot dedicated to Chinese players, Bruce can be regarded as a benevolent.

In the previous life, Uzbekistan was scammed by his own agent, otherwise he wouldn't be so miserable in the Bucks.

In addition to the "Five Tigers Generals" this time, Wang Zhizhi will also be signed by Bill Duffy.

It seems that Bill Duffy handles five people at once, but at present, Bill Duffy has opened a brokerage company with a friend, and there are many assistants in charge of this aspect. Some small things are left to the assistants.

Bill Duffy has watched the video and originally only wanted to sign the brokerage contract between Hu Weidong and Gong Xiaobin, but Bruce strongly demanded that the five be a whole. You would have conflicts like this. So Bill Duffy finally discussed with Bruce and put Hu Weidong. He and Gong Xiaobin are candidates for personal speculation, and the other three can be handled by assistants first, but in general, Bill Duffy personally checks them.

These managers will also have a primary and secondary relationship. Those who have the ability will arrange them first, and then arrange secondary characters when the time is empty.

No matter how good the gentleman is, he can’t sign someone randomly. Then he won’t lose money. Some of the rookies participating in the draft of NCAA University have no money. This requires the agent to pay for it and arrange for the rookie to go to various cities for trial training. Once someone's trial results are not satisfactory and the draft is not selected, they must arrange for these undrafted candidates to continue to participate in the trial training of each team, and sign ten-day short contracts, so in fact, the agent business is not easy to do.