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Chris Hansen’s first impression of Presti was not very good. The first was that Presti was too young to fit his image of a general manager in charge of such a great team. He felt that he should This position should be filled by an experienced professional.

Chris Hansen is only in his early fifties, which is already considered a prime of life, but Presti is only in his 30s, and he is not a player or coach. In Chris Hansen's view, this is not a professional. .

The most important thing is that he is too young. When he first entered the San Antonio Spurs, Presti was analyzed to work in the video analysis room as an intern. In a team training with a wager, Duncan won a game. When passing by the video analysis room, I saw that Presti was still working overtime, so I gave Presti a hundred dollars, which made Presti happy for several days.

Can such a young guy manage a team well?Especially when he was planning to invest heavily in this team, Chris Hansen expressed his doubts. When the team does not belong to him, he still thinks that Presti's management ability is still very good, and he is also very good at dealing with transactions. He admired the steady style, but once the team was about to belong to him, he was a bit critical of Presti.

Presti was keenly aware of Chris Hansen's dissatisfaction with himself, and immediately handed in his own "Five-Year Development Plan for the Team". From the perspective of design and strategy, to finally achieve the goals of good team operation, reasonable expenditure, and value preservation and appreciation, from the development trend of sports in the previous period to the development of the Asian advertising market with Stephen, I wrote dozens of pages.

This five-year development plan was planned and written since Presti entered the Seattle SuperSonics, and it was not completed until the playoffs were about to start. It was originally intended to be reported to Bennett, but because Bennett The relocation plan was blocked, and Presti had a premonition that the team might change, so he temporarily kept it in his hands and further improved it.

In his plan, he didn't have too high pursuit of the team's performance. It was completely designed based on the standard of a mid-range team. As long as the team can maintain a proper record, even if it occasionally fails to make it to the playoffs The game will not affect the development of the team.

This plan was designed based on this premise, but the city where the team was originally planned was Oklahoma City, and now it has been changed to the Supersonics. The income of the local market has been lowered, but other aspects have been raised. After all, Seattle is also a big city in the west, far from what Oklahoma City in the middle can compare.

According to the plan, the team can be fully responsible for its own profits and losses, while maintaining an annual appreciation of 13.00%. It must be known that being levied a luxury tax does not mean that the team is losing money. If the football market is good and the team’s business development is good, Just like the Los Angeles Lakers, even if they spend tens of millions in luxury taxes every year, they can still make a profit.

Some bosses don't value the team's cash return. Chris Hansen should be such a boss. He pays attention to the appreciation of the team. As long as the team can maintain a reasonable appreciation every year, it is a success for investment , As for the team's record, championship and so on, they are not included in the investment plan.

Just like Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets, what he values ​​is not the championship. It doesn't matter to him whether the team can win the championship, as long as the team can make money for him. Proposing big goals and big plans is just a means, a strategy to attract fans to watch the game and pay attention to the Rockets.

As for the operation of the team, it insists on focusing on the existing structure, reasonably supplementing and strengthening its strength, taking the draft and free market recruitment as the main means, and appropriately supplementing it with transactions, so as to keep the team's salary expenditure at a high level in the league. And a series of restrictive clauses.

After Chris Hansen looked at it, he nodded involuntarily, and then passed the plan to Steve Ballmer next to him. Ballmer took a rough look and was very satisfied with it. Team, but by analogy, they all agree with the development plan made by Presti.

Seeing their reaction, Presti's heart fell into his stomach. For this job, he still pays more attention to it. If he loses his job, it may not be so easy to find another team to accept him. It is impossible for the team to have such conditions as the Sonics.

For this non-radical and pursuing plan, Chris Hansen intends to use it to impress the investment team behind him, although after Steve Ballmer joined, he and he have been able to decide most of the affairs, But there is still a need for communication.

Although the two of them didn't express their opinions on the spot, they had already decided in their hearts that they would keep Presti. Naturally, Stephen said that no one would be willing to trade Stephen out and start a new one, and who would trade Stephen now.

No one can completely compete with Stephen in terms of commercial value and competitive value. LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, even in the Chinese or Asian markets, Yao Ming’s influence is not as good as Stephen’s now, no one will give up like this foolishly players, and there is no deviation in Stephen's behavior. This season is completely a model of a professional player.

But for Carlesimo, Chris Hansen's opinion is okay. After all, this season is relatively successful, and the salary is not high. A rash substitution may break the current good chemistry of the team. It is better to let him Coach for one more season to complete this contract and see.

Of course, the most important thing is Stephen’s opinion. As the head coach who deals directly with the players, whether the core players of the team can accept the coaching of the head coach is the most important thing. If the coach is strong, he can deny the players. But as strong as Phil Jackson, he can only coexist peacefully with Kobe Bryant.

If the player is strong, then he has a great say in the choice of the head coach. If Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant are representatives of strong cooperation, then LeBron James and Mike Brown are strong players. The typical weak head coach, as for Stephen and Carlesimo, is a strong player with a neutral head coach.

Under such circumstances, whether to change the head coach depends on Stephen's opinion to a large extent, but according to Chris Hansen's understanding, Stephen and Carlesimo's cooperation is quite pleasant, and he should not agree to change the head coach .

So Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer simply listened to Carlesimo's team introduction, from the game situation to the training situation, as well as the head coach's comments on the key players. Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer were not interested in the tactics they were going to talk about, and Carlesimo also wisely didn't mention it.

The reason why I put Stephen at the end is because Stephen is the most important person in the team now. Both of them had smiles on their faces when they met Stephen, and their attitudes were very amiable. Steve Ballmer even took out an autographed book and handed it to him. Gave it to Stephen, saying that he promised his daughter, and brought back Stephen's autograph.

The meeting ended in a harmonious and peaceful atmosphere. Since the acquisition has not been officially completed, Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer cannot appear on the team, and even go to the scene to watch the game, worrying that it will affect the team The acquisition, so the two did not say much, but expressed the hope that the two parties will be very happy in the future cooperation.