i am legend

Chapter 482 Conditions for Peyton to Join

Bruce was feeling helpless at Jerry West's teasing. As Wilkens walked into the office with a smile, he couldn't help but wink at the playful West!
"Lanny, why didn't you come earlier? Something interesting happened here!" West seemed to have not noticed Bruce's anxiety, and said playfully to Wilkens who looked puzzled.

"Oh no!!"

Seeing that it could not be stopped, Bruce covered his forehead in pain!

"Aha, I wasn't going to ask, but now..." Wilkens saw Bruce's depressed face, and his curiosity suddenly rose to the top!
"Hahaha!!!" West looked at Bruce with a big laugh, and then unscrupulously told about Bruce's situation before!
"Oh, God, shouldn't young people be crazy??" Wilkens suppressed a smile and exclaimed with a natural expression.

"Uh huh, that's right, some people admit to staying up all night!" West said suddenly with a strange voice, full of jokes, and the smile in his eyes really gave Bruce a headache!
"One. All night??" Wilkens looked at Bruce in surprise, and after seeing that he didn't refute, he suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, this is the style that the owner of the Warriors should have. You are many times stronger than those old guys."

Bruce was completely speechless to the two old guys, and just about to refute, he suddenly choked on Wilkens' next words!
"Of course, if you can tell me which beautiful lady it was last night, I think I will keep this secret for you!!" Wilkens said to Bruce with a face full of swearing, if there were no burning eyes The fire of gossip, he really looks like that!
"Pfft!! Hahahaha!!!"

West was thoroughly amused by Wilkens' words, he slapped his legs, his whole body shook from laughing!
"F.. K, this fucking jump into the Yellow River can't clean it up!!" Bruce was completely helpless, he was completely helpless to these two old bastards!
After a long while, when West's laughing tears flowed out uncontrollably, Wilkens, who was slowly sitting beside him, finally calmed down with a smile!

However, West, who just stopped laughing, was obviously not eager to discuss other topics. What he said afterwards directly made Bruce's face look weird, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching.

"Okay, that's a good joke, what are we going to talk about next?? Women? Mansions? Nightclubs??"

"You...you...you two old guys, can we still have fun??" Bruce pointed at the two with exaggerated crying, and he was completely defeated by these two old bastards !

"Well.."

The first time they heard Bruce's words in Chinese slang, both West and Wilkens froze there with some doubts!

And when they finally understood the hidden meaning, not only West couldn't help laughing out loud, but even Wilkens, who had restrained himself before, laughed out loud!
"Oh God, your words are so joyous!!"

Seeing that the two of West did not intend to stop at all, Bruce stood up helplessly and walked directly to the small bar in the corner of the office!

"Wow, is this guy still angry??" Seeing Bruce's appearance, West and Wilkens couldn't help but look at each other!
However, when they saw Bruce slowly filling the wine glass, they breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but stop their laughing slowly!

"Gentlemen, how about turning back to the topic we are going to talk about?" Bruce handed the wine glass to the two with a wry smile.

"Of course, wouldn't it be good to make some adjustments like this?" West took the wine glass with a smile, glanced at Wilkens who was still smiling, and finally changed his subject: "About our strategy this year, I have I want to tell you some analysis!"

"Oh? Very happy!" Bruce said with a sigh of relief while taking his glass.

"For this summer's strategy, I think we will still use veteran players as the main supplement!" West took a sip of red wine, looked up and said to the two.

"That's right, we have agreed on this issue before!" Wilkens nodded in agreement, and then he also expressed his thoughts.

"Veterans play a very important role in the team's main structure, especially for some young players to learn from experience. The energy of veterans is very important!"

Hearing what Wilkens said, Bruce nodded first: "Yes, the positive role of the veteran can be seen from the progress of Manu and Andre and others!"

"As for the issue of veterans, since we have reached an agreement, now we have to consider the situation of some veterans!" West nodded, took out a document, and continued with a serious expression: "We all know that this year Summer will be a year in which a large number of veterans enter the free market, except for the top veterans headed by Carl and Gary, there are not so many players suitable for us!"

Listening to West's analysis, Bruce opened the document and looked at it carefully, he couldn't help frowning secretly!

In this summer's free agent market, except for some top players, there are not many veteran players who can greatly help the Warriors!
Although they have not yet received an exact reply from Duncan about his contract extension, judging from the current strength of the Warriors, the probability of Duncan renewing his contract with the Warriors has reached the point where they are confident!
Before, because Mullin personally went to Salt Lake City to invite Malone, which made Bruce secretly look forward to it, but he had to consider Payton's question!
If Payton can accept the Warriors' offer of an average annual contract of $500 million, the same as that of Olajuwon back then, plus Karl Malone's previous request, the Warriors will be in the next one, or even two or three seasons. , will have the effectiveness of two exciting, experienced veterans who still maintain very good abilities!
Except for the two of them, Scottie Pippen, Verratti Divac, Mourning, Steve Kerr and Derek Coleman and other veterans with more than ten years, the rest are basically Warriors The team can't afford it and doesn't want to buy it, guys who are called superstars by everyone!

Now, considering the retirement of Barkley and Olajuwon, the three of them are the best players to replace them.

"Jingle Bell!!"

A burst of phone ringing interrupted the conversation of the three of them in an instant, and after Bruce nodded apologetically to the two, he picked up the receiver with some doubts!

"Boss, I have great news to tell you!!"

Suddenly hearing Chris Mullin's excited words, Bruce's eyes suddenly flashed with excitement, and asked with a hint of expectation: "Is there any news from Gary?"

"Hahaha, this is unbelievable!!" Mullin walked back and forth in the hotel room with an excited face. Thinking of the hot chat with Peyton before, he couldn't help but want to fly now. Back to Auckland!

"What is it?? God, Chris, can you tell me you're laughing first?" Bruce was agitated and stood up uncontrollably.

"God, you will wake up laughing from your dreams!" Mu Lin said excitedly, then picked up the wine glass on the table, gulped it down and forced himself to calm down, with an excited expression on his face, He said with a slightly trembling tone: "Gary... Gary has revealed his wish for the time being, he is willing to join the Warriors!!!"

"Oh hoo!!!"

Bruce roared excitedly, and waved his right hand vigorously, but his excited look really shocked the two of West!
"Is this???" West and Wilkens glanced at each other. They were very clear about Bruce's intention to send Mullin to Peyton's residence. Now seeing his excited and excited appearance, There was a hint of surprise on the faces of the two of them!
"God, I'm going to talk to him in person, God, this is so exciting!!" Thinking of the exciting lineup of the Warriors after acquiring Payton, Bruce couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and instantly wanted to talk to him personally. Fly over and have a good talk with Peyton!

"This... Bruce, although Gary has expressed his willingness to return to Oakland, he also has a request!!" Hearing Bruce's excited cheers in the receiver, Mullin was stunned. He suddenly thought of Payton's previous proposal Return to Oakland's request!

"What request???" Bruce's excited movements suddenly froze there, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he heard that Peyton still had a request.

"His request is that if the Warriors can win the championship this season, he will make enough concessions on the salary that the team is satisfied with. Once it is difficult for us to win the final championship this season, he will seriously consider it. Whether to join the Lakers, or other teams with the ability to win the championship!"

Hearing Mullin's explanation, Bruce sat down slowly and thought about the current situation of the Warriors winning the championship. His expression suddenly became serious: "Tell Gary, we will use the championship to welcome him!!!"

"Snapped!"

Seeing Bruce hang up the phone with a serious face, after hearing his last sentence, the two of West basically knew the conditions for Payton to agree to join!
"Lenny, we must win this year's championship!!"

For a moment, Bruce said to Wilkens with a stern expression, he didn't think Payton would belong to any other team! !

"Hehe, are you the champion?" Wilkens narrowed his eyes subconsciously, and the movement of his fists had already told Bruce with certainty!
Ending the discussion about veterans, the Warriors also ushered in the second game of their Western Conference Finals the next day!

(End of this chapter)