The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

After the Wizards communicated with Wang Xiao, there was nothing to say.

It seemed that he was also intimidated by Wang Xiao's request for the right to trade decisions directly.

Wang Xiao also thought it was a dead end, and while feeling a little disappointed, he couldn't help thinking whether his request was too high.

After all, the right to make trade decisions is one of the greatest powers of the general manager of the team. As soon as he came, he took away the most important power from others, and no one would be happy to change it to anyone else!

But Wang Xiao didn't expect that half a month later, Wizards would contact him again.

"Mr. Wang, we have carefully considered your proposal in a meeting." During the phone call, the tone of the general manager of the Wizards was not particularly friendly. "If there are no other special requests, I think you can take the time to come to Washington, and we will carefully discuss the details of cooperation."

"ah?"

Wang Xiao was a little dumbfounded, what does this mean?

Wizards agreed?

Wang Xiao didn't know that in the past half month, the management team of the Wizards held several meetings to discuss this matter. The meeting was quite heated at one time. Some people thought that Wang Xiao was too arrogant and shouldn't give the team's head coach so much power. Some people think that it is worth a try. Wang Xiao's performance in the NCAA is not comparable to that of ordinary coaches. Maybe he can really lead the Wizards to rise.

Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld objected. The reason was simple. Wang Xiao's request was to wrest power from him. It was impossible for any general manager to agree to such a request.

When the discussions stalled, the team's new owner stepped forward.

The original owner of the Washington Wizards was named A. Pollin. He is the longest-tenured team owner in the NBA. He bought the team when the Wizards were still called the Baltimore Bullets. It has been 45 years. The 85-year-old man passed away not long ago, and his heirs inherited the ownership of the Washington Wizards.

Youdao is the three fires of the new official's appointment, and Pauline's son also wants to do something in this situation, so that the wizard who has fallen into the quagmire can get out of trouble.

So there was this call to Wang Xiao earlier.

"His request can be granted to him, Ernie, you don't even have to worry about who has the right to make trade decisions." Paulin's son is also in his sixties, and his experience is far greater than that of the Wizards. The manager Glenn Field is much richer. "If he doesn't do well enough, you can fire him directly. At that time, it's your right or yours. If he does well enough, it can also prove that you, the general manager, made the right decision to hire him. Why not How about trying it?"

In fact, the general manager Grunfeld does not agree with the boss's words, because if Wang Xiao is really not doing well, it will be too late to find out. Even if Wang Xiao is fired, it will still have a great impact on the team. He, Grunfeld, will also bear part of this blame.

But the team owner had already spoken, and he was not sure about the temper of the new owner at the moment, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only make this call.

Wang Xiao simply packed a few clothes and got on the plane to Washington.

As for the team's daily training and competition, Wang Xiao handed it over to Jack.

Since the beginning of this season, many times, Wang Xiao has consciously handed over various tasks of the team to Jack. On the one hand, Wang Xiao is not sure when he will join NAB; Xiao's promise to Jack - if Wang Xiao leaves Harvard, he will suggest that Jack be the head coach of the team.

So now, Wang Xiao's going to Washington will not have any impact on the team.

However, when Wang Xiao explained his departure for the past few days, Jack still felt quite incredible that the Wizards invited Wang Xiao for an interview.

"Dude, are you sure you're not joking? Are you really going to coach in the NBA?"

"Not necessarily, the interview does not mean signing the contract." Wang Xiao said with a smile: "What's more, even if the contract is signed, they can fire me, just like when they were in the Blazers..."

"It's not a good joke." Even though he said so, Jack still laughed. "God bless you."

God bless?

maybe.

Wang Xiao didn't know if there was a god. He was originally a staunch atheist, but traveling through parallel time and space and having a system in his body made him really not sure what else was impossible.

But he would rather believe in himself than in God.

On the plane to Washington, Wang Xiao has collected all the information about the Wizards, including the development of the Wizards in the next few years in his memory.

To be honest, the situation of the Wizards is not very good, and there must be no delay.

Arenas, the core of the team, will soon explode like a time bomb next season, and he must be traded out before then.

The problem is that Arenas just renewed his contract with the Wizards and signed a huge contract worth 110 million US dollars for 6 years. It is not easy to find a contract that can match it from other teams. .

Fortunately, Arenas is only 26 years old this year. At least in the eyes of many people, this is an All-Star point guard with a long career.

Another point that Wang Xiao is very concerned about is that he remembers that the Grizzlies' second pick in 2009 was obtained from the Wizards trade. At that time, it seemed that the Wizards replaced the Grizzlies' backup point guard with the first round pick. Ristanton's.

This guy averaged 5.3 points and 1.8 assists per game in his career, which is a standard set of dragons.

And the Grizzlies, who exchanged this waste from the Wizards for the second pick, signed a slag that was even more waste than him.

Hashim Thabeet, even if you look at history, is one of the best parallel importers.

In the same class as Thabeet, the draft picks below Thabeet include James Harden with the third pick, Stephen Curry with the seventh pick, and DeRozan with the ninth pick.

Curry and Harden are Hall of Fame-level players, and although DeRozan is slightly inferior to the two, but in Wang Xiao's time and space, DeRozan was also an All-Star player, averaging 19.9 points per game in his career 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists!

In addition to these three, there are also Tyreke Evans who is the peak of his debut, averaged 20+5+5 data per game in his rookie season, beat everyone to win the best rookie, Rubio, the legendary European golden boy , and outstanding players such as Jrue Holiday and Ty Lawson.

Wang Xiao was quite puzzled. The Grizzlies' scouts had an excellent eye for selecting Thabeet among so many high-quality players.

Now, since Wang Xiao has the opportunity to serve as the head coach of the Wizards, the deal between the Wizards and the Grizzlies must be stopped. In this way, he will have at least a top-five draft pick at the start. (To explain here, the trade between the Grizzlies and the Wizards was at the beginning of December. At that time, the Wizards were still thinking about making a comeback, so they traded a point guard from the Grizzlies to replace the injured Arenas, trying to return to the top eight in the East, but in the end The Wizards were at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, and they won the second pick because of their poor record. For the sake of the rationality of the plot, when the Wizards were looking for the protagonist, they were already hopeless in the playoffs. The deal in this book was postponed for a while. It’s the butterfly effect that has changed a bit.)