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Chapter 682 It's You, Derrick Rose

In just ten minutes, Su Yang and Sam Hinkie worked out the negotiation strategy, confident that it would be no problem to win the Lakers.

The biggest shortcoming of the Kings is that George's contract has only one year left. When making deals with teams outside of Los Angeles, most of them will be threatened not to renew their contracts. High stakes.

But trading with the Lakers will become an advantage instead.

The main thing is that George wants to go to the Lakers too much, and the Lakers have enough salary space to match the draft picks and potential young people, send away Luol Deng or Mozgov's contract, and directly change from the league's weak team to the Western Conference. The playoffs are favorable competitors. Anyway, the Lakers are currently focusing on potential players such as Russell, Ingram, and Randall, and they are not interested in cultivating them.

Since the Lakers played Kobe, they have never been able to train a rookie with all their strength and for a long time. The longest Bynum was traded.

So the core strategy of the negotiation is one: procrastinate if you can. George’s team and the Lakers are mostly unwilling to take risks and gamble. After all, with Su Yang’s style, if he dares to make trouble, it is entirely possible to directly give George DNP for most of the season or a season. If that happens, the Lakers will miss the opportunity to accelerate their rebuilding, and George will have a hard time, and additional risks may arise.

If George is dishonest and chooses to play seriously, then the Kings can also hit the four consecutive championships, nothing more than a loss of future assets.

The core is to see who will be subdued first.

After making up his mind, Su Yang instructed Hinkie to reply to Aron Mintz: Let the Lakers get the second overall pick and the first round of the next 18 years, plus Larry Nance Jr. for exchange, and the Kings can send the first pick at the end of this year. round, and Paul George.

The two first rounds of the Kings in 16 and 18 were previously used in the trade of Jokic and George. The first round of 17 was retained because of the rule that the first round of the two consecutive years cannot be traded, but it is actually worthless. After the selection A guarantee contract must be signed, not to mention occupying salary space in vain, and it will not have much effect in the future. It is better to be a favor and make the Lakers feel that they are not so bad.

Nance Jr. is used as a backup center forward. Jason Thompson doesn’t need to stay. Zhou Qi is almost embarrassed. Served as a substitute for the center position.

"Aron Mintz replied..."

Sam Hinkie said happily, "It only took 3 minutes. It seems that they are indeed in a hurry. It is estimated that there are some related arrangements, but the process is still going on. If they want to study and discuss seriously, they can do it in person tomorrow at the latest. discuss…"

Su Yang nodded in response.

Alon Mintz's reaction was also expected. After all, it involves the upcoming draft. Whether to get George or not will have a great impact on the Lakers' draft direction and subsequent operations. George may send Ingram away. Choose the backup striker and backup guard with the low pick in the round. Without George, he may have to send D'Angelo Russell away and choose Lonzo Ball or Fox.

The negotiations with the Lakers came to an end, and Su Yang continued to browse through the accumulated work emails, mainly about the work of the new season in the commercial department, rookie promotion plan, season ticket and general ticket re-pricing plan, new season venue sponsor selection plan, etc.

"We want to increase the price. The three-peat champion team should have that kind of treatment, but don't increase the ticket price of the middle-level stands, mainly increase the ticket prices of the high-level hilltop stands and courtside seats. Season tickets can only be slightly increased. After all, Saskatchewan's Consumption base deviation..."

"Sponsorships are only accepted by well-known and regular brands. Don't accept such things as Youwodai and BETWAY. Then don't accept their double sponsorship. We need to manage our own image. In addition, we reserve a certain position and time for each game. Advertise for free for charities, social affairs, etc., but ignore the Humane Society and Encirclement orgs..."

"The championship's visit to the White House has been cancelled. If the reporter asks why, they will say that we have made arrangements in advance, and we will demonstrate how to play basketball to elementary school students in Washington that day..."

Responding to many emails one after another, Su Yang got up and walked around twice to relax his neck. Sam Hinkie, who was also in the office, smiled and said, "I just wanted to tell you that the Celtics chose to trade with the 76ers. In exchange, the 76ers sent an additional conditional first-round pick in the future, which seemed to be a sudden overturn of the previous decision, and temporarily decided to choose other rookies..."

Su Yang chuckled lightly when he heard the words, "It's interesting..."

As someone who has been there, I did not expect to be able to witness this transaction under completely different circumstances, which is truly miraculous.

This is the Celtics who did not make it to the Eastern Conference finals, or even the playoffs. After winning the No. [-] pick for the first time in team history, they still chose to give up Fultz. It can only be said that Danny Ainge does have an idea. And very bold.

Hinkie nodded and sighed, "Yeah, Fultz was confirmed as the No. The news broke that Celtics coach Stevens was worried about Fultz's tactical understanding, so their general manager Danny Ainge specially flew to watch Josh Jackson's game, even if Josh Jackson released him. The pigeon didn't care either, it seemed to be interested..."

"That's all blindfolded..."

Su Yang smiled and waved his hand, "Their real goal should be Jayson Tatum. If the deal between us and the Lakers is reached, we will choose the second pick in advance, and let Danny Ainge experience the experience of being robbed back then. human feelings..."

Hinkie thought about it, squinted his eyes and asked: "Could it be that they are already in the free market and have potential point guard candidates? Or have they decided to let Smart play point guard, or the rumored Hayward will serve as point forward, point guard? Changing Wei into a functional type?"

"Whatever, anyway, let's choose Tatum first..."

While chatting and laughing, at eleven o'clock in the morning, Aron Mintz directly made a video call. After connecting, the screen showed that Jenny Buss and Magic Johnson were also there. It was obvious that they had discussed George's deal together a long time ago, and they were ready to start the first round. round of negotiations.

Su Yang sat down casually, and while chatting casually, he quickly thought about whether he should talk about the transaction first.

Just as he was thinking about it, the magician suddenly said: "Su, after we discussed for two hours and asked about Larry Nance Jr.'s personal thoughts, we are willing to accept the terms of the transaction you proposed. Given the time constraints, we suggest canceling the interview, but We hope that we will not disclose the conclusion of this deal for the time being, and wait until the day of the draft to formally report to the league, how about that?"

Su Yang was a little surprised. He didn't expect the deal to be concluded so easily, and the key magician also took the initiative to cooperate in keeping it secret.

After the leaks happened last offseason, the Kings have been catching the insider, but they failed to catch them. In the end, they suspected that it was an employee of the publicity department who had joined for less than half a year and then left in a hurry. This time, there can be no leaks again.

The main purpose is to ambush Danny Angie, to prevent Angie from jumping over the wall in a hurry, making some showy operations, and forcing Tatum to be chosen.

"I feel OK!"

Su Yang nodded in agreement, and then he naturally thought about how to better train Tatum. By the way, he thought about the saved salary of 50 million US dollars, whether to save the luxury tax or rush into the free market. Fan.

The negotiation on the details of the deal ended soon, and Hinkie turned to study and check the details of the deal, as well as work arrangements related to the draft.

Su Yang came back to his senses and continued to process work emails, only to find that he had received several new emails, all from player agents.

After a closer look, it turned out that it was the notice that Wood and Mbah a Moute were about to jump out of the contract to test the free market, and there was also a letter of thanks from Langston Galloway. The person should have already confirmed the signing target, with a high probability of 3 million in 2100 years Dollars go to Pistons.

Su Yang replied to the emails one by one, and sent a text message to thank the three for their efforts, and reminded the official to thank them in due course.

Putting down the phone and picking those players to fill the void left by the three became a whole new focus.

"Derrick Rose, it's you!"

(End of this chapter)