Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 75 The Second Wave of New Assistants
Jim returned to the office, waiting for the triumphant return of Magic Johnson.

Under the tricks of the magician, Big Bird came out ahead of time and joined forces with McHale to promote the transaction. After successfully completing the task, the magician brought another surprise to Jim this time.

"Welcome home, Karim."

Jim got up to greet Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who entered the office. The latter announced his resignation after being an unsatisfactory assistant coach for the Clippers for two seasons. His old friend Magic tried to persuade Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to return to the Lakers.

Before, many people intended to let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar join the Lakers coaching staff to guide the team's insiders, but O'Neal didn't buy it, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is withdrawn, naturally wouldn't come to post the shark's cold ass.Now that the team has undergone a big change, it also needs such a celebrity to go to town.

Of course, Jim would not refuse the good thing that came to his door. As for the big skyhook that was called a work of art, Jim really couldn't bear to let it go away.

"Karim, we may need to individually coach a few players, like Kevin Garnett, who is a similar size to you, has the height of a power forward but plays the ball at a small forward, and his post-up attack is only Limited to turnaround jumpers and dribble step-back jumpers, under high-intensity confrontation, such offensive efficiency is difficult to guarantee." Jim threw out the bait.

Garnett's offensive ability is relatively weak, thanks to his size, subject to shoulder width and weight, Garnett can't rely on his body to kill the basket like O'Neal or Duncan, he can only rely on flexibility and Attacking with height, if you can master the hook technique well and use softness to overcome rigidity, it is also a good development direction.

According to the original trajectory, Garnett gradually developed a jump hook during the Celtics period, but his physical fitness had declined at that time, and the threat was not as good as before. Jim didn't want to wait until five years later.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's coaching career was not satisfactory. In 98, his first coaching experience was to guide a high school basketball team in White River, Arizona, for a "sky-high price" of $1.

Two years later, spending time on the rotten Clippers as an assistant to Jim Todd.

This year, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is not good at communicating with people, originally planned to coach in the USBL, but was opposed by the magician. The magician promised him that he could help him apply for a position in the Lakers, and the two came to Jim's office.

Every retired Lakers star, although he has left the basketball court, still hopes to contribute to the Lakers, such as West, the magician, James Worthy who is the guest commentator, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is no exception.

Jim was overjoyed. Where can other teams find such a luxurious celebrity team?

The three quickly finalized the contract. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will officially join the Lakers uniform team in the new season as a player development consultant and assistant coach.

As soon as the magician and Abdul-Jabbar left, another guest came to Jim's office.

Different from the five big and three thick basketball players, this time the guests are very eye-catching.It was two young girls.

One of them was a beautiful woman with long hair in a brown shawl, a delicate face, and a hot figure. She was also an acquaintance of Jim.

"Bonnie? Why did you think of coming to play with me today?" Jim asked in surprise.

"Isn't welcome? There's no way if you don't welcome. The boss asked us to come. He said that you lack assistants. Look, this is the appointment letter. 'Bonnie Jill Laughlin, will become the assistant president of the Los Angeles Lakers from now on' .” The girl named Bonnie took out a contract as she spoke, with the signature of Dr. Jerry Buss on it.

Jim secretly groaned, Dr. Bath didn't know what to do, and sent a big trouble to himself.Laughlin's father was Bath's bodyguard, and Laughlin herself made her debut as a cheerleader, and her multi-national mixed blood brought her rich capital.And being able to freely enter and leave Dr. Bath's house since she was a child shows her unusual status.

"Actually, the boss gave me two choices. One is to become the general manager of the Los Angeles Defenders, and the other is to be your assistant. My presence here shows that I have a high opinion of you." Laughlin blinked. Blinking and making a face.

We have to find a way to get her to retreat.

"Okay, let me see what you can do... I'm calculating the cap space for next season, we have to re-sign Kobe and Garnett, we need the most favorable plan to keep the core team intact , but I'm not good at math, so come on, it's time to show your value as an assistant." Jim pulled out a form from a drawer with names and numbers scrawled on it.

"You know that my math is not good, but you let people do this. You are obviously making things difficult! We don't have to worry at all. When the contract is renewed, I will talk to them and promise to give everyone a [-]% discount on the contract. !" Seeing the form, Laughlin frowned, realizing that things were not simple.

"Are you going to talk to someone? Are you using a beauty trick? I'm afraid your father is going to beat me up. I don't dare to fight with a special soldier. Since you can't help me, just stay and don't make trouble!" Jim Feigned anger.

On the other side, the girl who came in with Laughlin, who had been silent all this time, picked up the form.

"In the 05-06 season, Kobe and Garnett's contract totaled 3020 million US dollars. We don't recommend using their bird rights. It will take up more space and is not conducive to contract renewal. If you want to keep Billups, Ah Tester and Ben Wallace, then their ideal renewal time is the end of the 06-07 season. Billups’ last season is a player option, and we assume that he will jump out of the contract. Then this time point will be cut Very accurate, as for Artest, we can consider a 4-year contract next year with a player option in the final year. Of course, this premise is that the salary cap proposed on this form is accurate." Girl After glancing at the form, it didn't take long to come up with a plan.

Jim and Laughlin looked at each other.

"I'm just talking nonsense... I'm sorry." The girl put down the form and said timidly.

"It's not messy... that's great!" Jim was a little shocked. The average girl can't understand the complicated contract clauses of the NBA, but this one in front of him has obviously studied it and analyzed it quite well. plans coincided with each other.

Jim knows that in the 06-07 season, the salary cap will be raised substantially once. At that time, the combined contract of Garnett and Kobe was more than 3000 million, which only accounted for a little more than half of the salary cap. "Tie powerful players to the Lakers' chariot to maintain the team's competitiveness.

"By the way, what's your name?"

"Our Liubov is selected by the boss from thousands of interviewees. He specially arranges to help you deal with these head-scratching things. How about it? It's amazing!" Laughlin laughed, as if the one who "answered the question" just now was She does.

"Then I will reluctantly agree."

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