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Chapter 282 The Strongest Teammate Comes to Vote

After making up his mind, Su Yang responded to Presti by phone and email according to the procedure, clearly stating that he would not accept Thunder's counter-offer.Presti was silent on the phone for a while, and then wished Su Yang smooth sailing in the future, and thanked him for the time of cooperation.

Out of tacit understanding between adults, the two didn't talk much, Su Yang hung up the phone and started preparing for the interview directly.

Taylor dug out the itinerary that had already been made, and compared it: "Tomorrow, the Lakers delegation can come to Oklahoma City to visit, including general manager Kupchak, and the new president Jim Buss, and Dr. Buss is in poor health and cannot go far OK."

"The day after tomorrow, the Warriors delegation can fly to Oklahoma City or Los Angeles. The new boss Lacob will personally lead the team, as well as several of their executives. , a change of approach is required.”

"As for the Clippers you specifically mentioned, their president Ossie thought you were teasing him deliberately, and did not promise to meet."

After listening to Taylor's introduction, Su Yang made some calculations and said, "It's not necessary for them to come to Oklahoma City. Let's fly to Los Angeles. Don't arrange two-day interviews. Instead, interview the Warriors in the morning and the Lakers in the afternoon. Try to get it done as soon as possible to participate in the draft."

In Su Yang's view, the Lakers and Warriors delegation flew to Oklahoma City just to give him the face a champion coach deserves.

But what's the use of face?

It's not worth a penny of face!
It's better to get the work done early and make full arrangements for the following things, especially the key node of the draft.

This is a draft with Thompson and Leonard in the first round, and Bojan and Parsons can be grabbed in the second round. Whether you go to the Warriors or the Lakers, you must find a way to win these four players. The Warriors themselves will choose Thomp. , the Lakers must make suggestions.

"OK, I'll do it right away..." Taylor got up and walked out of the room and started making phone calls, arranging various travel plans.

Su Yang thought for a moment, and was going to pick up his mobile phone to send text messages to Durant and other people, and then call a few of them.

Then I thought, as soon as I picked up the phone, Durant called and sent several text messages at the same time, obviously something happened.

When the call was connected, Durant completely exploded: "Coach, you just abandoned us like this? For $100 million?"

Hearing those words, Su Yang knew that Durant had misunderstood something, and immediately explained in detail for a few minutes, and finally let Durant figure out the ins and outs. There is no room for it.

That kind of statement is the truth and lies together. It is true that there is no more discussion, but it is true that there is no room for discussion.

Anyway, Thunderbolt's board of directors didn't want him to go back, and they didn't want to bear the reputation of being stingy and stingy, so it took all the benefits.

Su Yang is not entangled, as long as Durant and the others figure it out, he also welcomes a few temporary workers and has the opportunity to cooperate again.

As for the reaction of the media and fans, I am too lazy to care about it, and I can’t care about it. There will definitely be various remarks, but sooner or later it will pass.

For a full hour, he talked with Westbrook on the phone and told Westbrook to continue to practice shooting while keeping calm; he also called Harden and told Harden to practice mid-range shots more, get out of his comfort zone, and stop thinking about free throws; I also talked with Green on the phone to remind Green to have a regular physical examination for heart problems; I also talked to Ibaka on the phone and warned Ibaka not to play with injuries in the future...

After chatting for a while, Su Yang felt lost. He understood that he was about to leave Oklahoma City, where he had struggled for three years. The feeling of reluctance was many times stronger than when he left Portland before, but he soon became full of expectations. Still the Lakers are very interesting.

While thinking about it, the phone rang again, and I looked down carefully, and it turned out to be a call from assistant coach Quinn Snyder.

When the phone was connected, Snyder said directly: "Half an hour ago, the management asked me to take your place as the head coach."

"Then congratulations..." Su Yang responded sincerely. Snyder is considered a good colleague. When he fell behind the Cavaliers by 34 points at halftime and faced the danger of being dismissed, he firmly stood by his side, which was a great help. Now he can be the head coach Naturally very good.

"NO, I don't think I'm ready yet. I plan to continue learning from you. You won't reject me, will you?"

Hearing Snyder's words, Su Yang suddenly had mixed feelings, thinking that the so-called sharing weal and woe is probably the case.

It takes a lot of courage for an assistant coach to voluntarily give up the opportunity to become a head coach. The last one who did that was Thibodeau. Back then, Thibodeau refused the invitation of the head coach and went to the Celtics to continue to serve as an assistant coach, which was surprising.

Of course, Thibodeau regretted it a bit later, but fortunately, his talent was so overwhelming that it was hard to hide, and he received invitations from the Nets and Bulls one after another.

"of course not!"

When Snyder got to that point, Su Yang didn't think much about it, "Let's create miracles together again."

Between the words, Su Yang simply assigned a task to Snyder, saying that he would go to Los Angeles to participate in the interviews of the Lakers and Warriors. When the time comes to participate together, it is best to understand the current situation and future goals of the two teams first, and try to do their best to fight against each other. Improve efficiency.

"How do I feel that you are squeezing my working hours, remember to add money to me..." Snyder responded jokingly.

"I guarantee you a million-dollar annual salary..."

Su Yang categorically made the promise. Firstly, he was grateful to Snyder for following him, and secondly, Snyder joined the camp, which would be a great bonus to the success of the interview. After all, many teams thought he was young and needed older assistants. Help hold the line.

The key is to be able to give the Warriors and the Lakers management a great impact. Imagine that Snyder left the head coach job and followed Su Yang to other places. That fool can also see that Su Yang is definitely not just occupying the Thunder as rumored The combat power of the five young masters is increased.

More importantly, it allowed Su Yang to demonstrate super leadership ability, and it would not be a big problem to replace those veterans with equivalent leadership.

As for the annual salary of one million dollars, it is the salary level of many head coaches in the league. For example, the annual salary of the Pistons head coach John Custer last season was only 150 million U.S. dollars, the Suns Gentry 185 million U.S. dollars, and the Eagles Larry Drew 167 million U.S. dollars. .

"I'm just kidding, don't put more pressure on yourself." Hearing that Su Yang became serious, Snyder panicked.

"I'm not joking anyway..." Su Yang knew that the difficulty was indeed quite difficult, but he still had to deal with it even if he took less money.

The two exchanged a few more key points of work, then agreed on a meeting time and place, then hung up the phone and started preparations.

Su Yang asked Taylor to book an extra ticket for Snyder, and then saw ESPN announce an unexpected news on TV.

"BreakingNews! The Oklahoma City Thunder announced that they failed to negotiate a contract extension with Su Yang, and said that they have received a reply that Su Yang will not continue to negotiate and accept the contract, and temporarily promoted assistant coach Scott Brooks as head coach..."

At the same time that ESPN announced through TV, WOJ and other reporters also released the news of Su Yang leaving the Thunder on Twitter. The number of fans' comments and discussions suddenly increased to tens of thousands, and Arenas and other players also expressed their shock.

The opportunity for the three consecutive championships is in front of them, but they parted ways at this time, there must be some irreconcilable contradictions.

The previous twitter that smeared Su Yang for asking for the team's shares was once again pushed to the top of the hot topic, with various discussions.

Su Yang was too lazy to care about all kinds of discussions, but Taylor tweeted in the name of the economic company to explain: The main reason is that the money was not negotiated, and the second is that the Thunder bosses are not happy. .

After a round of counterattack, the fans turned to discuss how likely the Thunder would be to win the three consecutive championships after losing Su Yang.

The gossip website TMZ retweeted Tom Ward, one of the suspected Thunder bosses: "Whether the Thunder will achieve three consecutive championships, I can't guarantee, but I can guarantee that if Su Yang stays in the West, the Thunder will definitely beat his new ball. Team…"

　Thanks to the Northern Thieves of the Southern Kingdom and Hu Ruyun Mengze for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)