NBA: Start with 20 billion, buy the Knicks

What if it succeeds?

Promise the New York fans and the beauties that they will let the Knicks go to the end, and it is time to act.

But what is more uncomfortable is that the Knicks roster is already full. With Eddie Curry and Tim Thomas joining the rotation, the Knicks are full of 15 people, of which Matthews is a two-way contract player.

"So we can't sign in the free market?"

"Yes, and you don't like the remaining players in the free market. You don't even want Marbury's veteran basic salary to vote."

"Haha, yes, can the transaction work?"

"The transaction is OK."

If the roster is full, it can only be traded. For example, they have discussed Eddie Curry, Larry Hughes and Tim Thomas already on the shelf. If they can be exchanged with other teams Words from players who are useful to each other couldn't be better.

The result is that Sean Marks and D'Antoni found that these plug-and-play players are either with high-quality contracts and cannot be balanced, or they are not for sale in the stable rotation of each team.

And if you want to change something not for sale, you will have to bleed.

So the way of trading is also given up, which is why Sean Marks sent scouts to watch the game with Howard tonight, and can only wait for this off-season to catch big fish.

In addition, the group of people on the Knicks shelf is no longer as sought-after as the group at the beginning of the season. The data is average when there are not many opportunities given. Those who exceed expectations are rookies. Any disease will be stained, and what the opponent wants is the peak combat power of Nate and Harrington, not the peak tail combat power of Eddie Curry.

So it's embarrassing, the Knicks have very little room for maneuver in the middle of the season.

The beginning of the season was too swollen, so many useful role players did not compete when the Knicks were in the free market. For example, the two Lakers Odom and Bynum are both good insiders.

Another example is Toronto Raptors big man Jermaine O'Neal, Oklahoma City forward Wilcox, those are very good players.

Of course, the biggest reason at that time was that Jiang Chao really had no money, and he had nothing else to offer. He went bankrupt long ago when he was really all-in.

So Jiang Chao said Max, you should watch first, all around the world is fine, even if you want Rabatel and Haddadi to try out, I will support it, the requirement is a striker or an inside player who can play inside, you must add it up.

"It's best to be the kind of player who doesn't shoot, so that there will be one less person on the opposite perimeter to guard the perimeter."

"Veterans and upcoming rookies are fine. If we can't catch up this season, next season will be okay."

This sentence of not shooting reminded Sean Marks, and Sean Marks clapped his hands:

"Hey, boss, have you forgotten? You were in Los Angeles to inspect the game. When you went to UCLA, there was a prospective freshman who just came to college to play. I inspected him. He seemed to be able to play inside. He had excellent height and Vision, you seem to know him and greeted him?"

"Are you talking about Kyle??? The essence of human creep, really doesn't shoot very much, you can call him a wave and contact him to participate in the draft this year!"

Jiang Chao clapped his hands, Wang Dahammer, I didn't expect Sean Marks to take the initiative to mention this player, so he must be interested.

Because Jiang Chao's expectations for him are not just from the NBA, maybe the naturalization of the Chinese men's basketball team will also start from his side.

For this very Chinese-looking 18-year-old high school graduate with one-eighth of Chinese blood, Jiang Chao knows it all too well in later generations.

This is a real rhythm monster, the super forward chosen by the Spurs!

Moreover, in later generations, he returned to China to worship his ancestors earlier than Jeremy Lin, and wrote Li Kaier's name on his ancestral home.

Why Sean Marks noticed him was also because Jiang Chao mentioned him at the time, the basketball star Jiang Chao mentioned, so he had to investigate it himself.

After some investigation, I found that it is still wide? ?

Kyle Anderson, born on September 1993, 9 in New Jersey, USA, is 20 meters tall, has a wingspan of 2 meters and weighs 06 kg. He is a small forward on the field.

Anderson is a rare all-round forward player. He has outstanding physical fitness and athletic ability. He can not only fight inside but also have good outside shots, which allows him to score almost anywhere on the field.

Anderson has one-eighth of Chinese blood. His great-grandfather Li Chongxin was a pure Chinese. During World War II, Li Chongxin went to Jamaica to make a living, so he met Anderson's great-grandmother Ajita. After they got married, they gave birth to a daughter named Marian, he is Anderson's grandmother.

Anderson's mother Suzanne grew up in the United States, married and gave birth to Anderson in New Jersey, USA.

Anderson's father once served as the coach of an AAU amateur sports league team. Under the influence of his father, Anderson joined the first basketball training camp in his life when he was three years old, and fell in love with playing basketball since then.

A graduate of St. Anthony High School in New Jersey, Anderson led his team to back-to-back New Jersey state championships and was named state player of the year his senior year.

After that, he actually entered the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2011 and represented UCLA in college basketball.

In the same year, the 19-year-old Anderson went to China with the UCLA men's basketball team to play 3 confrontation games, and successively defeated Qinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Shanghai Shanghai men's basketball team by a large score.

Among them, Anderson scored a team-high 21 points and 11 rebounds against the Shanghai Men's Basketball Team.

And now the player who just graduated from high school was actually selected in 2014, which is the season when the Spurs won the championship.

At that time, the Spurs were in full swing and got the 30th pick in the first round. Anderson was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the 1th pick in the first round of the NBA Draft. The two sides signed a 30-year contract worth 4 million US dollars.

Many people don't understand the Spurs' choice, because Kyle Anderson's dynamic talent is very average. He is slower than the center and shorter than the center. He has no absolute height and is a player who plays purely by rhythm.

But it turns out that the Spurs' eyes can't be wrong.

2014-15赛季，安德森代表马刺队出战33场常规赛比赛，场均出场10.8分钟，得到2.2分和2.2个篮板。

In the summer of 2015, Anderson participated in the Summer League on behalf of the Spurs, played 9 games, averaged 19.3 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, helped the Spurs reach the Las Vegas Summer League Finals, and personally won the 2015 Las Vegas MVP of the Summer League.

In the next two seasons, Anderson still has not been reused in the Spurs.

It wasn't until the 2017-18 season that Anderson became the team's main small forward. He represented the Spurs in 74 regular season games, averaging 26.7 minutes per game, scoring 7.9 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.6 steals, and shooting 52.7%. The three-point shooting rate reached 33.3%.

Of course, the mediocre data is related to the Spurs' team basketball. After he got out to get a big contract, Kyle Anderson's data exploded.

2018年7月10日，安德森以4年3720万美元的合同加盟孟菲斯灰熊队，年薪达到930万美元。

Playing for the Grizzlies for three seasons, Anderson has been the absolute main force of the team.

Before Jiang Chao crossed over, Anderson ushered in the peak of his career. He played 69 NBA regular season games, all of which were starts. He averaged 27.3 minutes per game, scored 12.4 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals, and made 36% of his three-pointers. He made 1.4 three-pointers per game and set career highs in points and assists.

In early August 2018, Anderson accompanied his mother Suzanne to Shenzhen, China, to recognize his ancestors. Xinmu Village in Shenzhen was the place where Anderson's great-grandfather Li Chongxin stayed.

Suzanne was very excited when she returned to her hometown. She heard many things about her grandfather during the conversation with the old man. She couldn't help but shed tears and wiped her tears with a tissue from time to time.

At that time, Li Tianping, Anderson’s cousin of the same generation, gave Anderson two Chinese names, “Li Kaier”, which were officially written into the Li family tree. With Anderson's grades, he can naturally enter the ancestral home.

Anderson's mother and son's trip back to their hometown was warmly welcomed by the family. Anderson also felt very cordial to his hometown. He also brought back a photo of his great-grandfather Li Chongxin back to his hometown, which can be regarded as returning to his roots.

So Jiang Chao always felt that he was more "patriotic" than Jeremy Lin, because Jeremy Lin wanted to attract money, and he didn't do anything related to interests, he simply did the thing of recognizing his ancestors and returning to his clan, and he was like a spur Leave quietly.

This is indeed the case. Anderson has a strong sense of belonging to China and is willing to play for the Chinese men's basketball team.

In the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, Anderson cheered for the Chinese men's basketball team on social media platforms many times.

Anderson is an excellent forward player who is good at playing positional warfare. He has super back-up ability and long-range shooting ability. He is smart and has a very high quotient.

You must know that although he is not a guard, his dribbling easily solves the Chinese men's basketball team's big problem of breaking the tight press.

Anderson is a mixed-race player, so it should be easier to naturalize and be accepted by Chinese fans, and he was under 28 years old before Jiang Chao crossed over, so he can play for the Chinese men's basketball team for a long time.

If Anderson can be successfully naturalized, his ability will not be inferior to the neon Rui Hachimura, and the Chinese men's basketball team will continue to dominate the Asian basketball world!

And this year, he is only 18 years old!

If Jiang Chao plans him now, the men's basketball team will not have to worry about starting forwards in the next 15 years, okay?

Unlike other naturalized foreign players from other countries, this one is of Chinese descent. To put it interestingly, Kyle Anderson will never recognize that he is an American in the Chinese team, unlike Rochelle in the South Korean team. Here, with that dark skin and a fake look, he is a proper foreign aid.

He is the first step in Jiang Chao's goal.

Naturalization, youth training, future.

Without naturalized players of this level to train together, how can the national team improve? ? ?

And this is also a potential stock. He can also cultivate his own level in the national team. With this kind of talent to become the locomotive, the youth training has the motivation, and only some people want to enter such a strong national team, so that the future will never stop!

"But why did this kid come into your sight so early, Sean? It shouldn't be."

Jiang Chao remembered that he just greeted him at that time, because he could not talk too much in front of the camera, otherwise it would not be good for other teams to notice this one-eighth Chinese, and it would have to be done in private.

So it's interesting, Sean Marks definitely didn't bring it up again because Jiang Chao and Kyle Anderson had said hello before.

This means that now 18-year-old Kyle Anderson has the strength to play in the NBA rotation?

You must know that he really entered the nba in his junior season. Are you looking at him before he is a freshman? ?

Can this really make a difference for the Knicks? ?

The players that Jiang Chao and Sean Marks discussed before can be reinforced are all major rotation players in the NBA!

"Leading the team to consecutive New Jersey state championships, I can still see such a high school student."

Jiang Chao was grinning on the surface, but he cursed in his heart: Sure enough, people from the Spurs team observed potential players 1-3 years earlier than other teams.

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Chapter 2 Sixteen: No Holidays!

But in fact, Jiang Chao ignored the role of Downey Jr. here, and Sean Marks didn't take care of everything. He said that his scouting work was so smooth, and Downey Jr. was half of the credit.

After all, he has been with the old-school general manager Old Downey for so long, and Old Downey has taught him what he is best at. He basically knows all the players who are above four stars in high school and college, which shows his scouting skills. Before Jiang Chao was promoted, he had been running around.

In fact, Sean Marks didn't run around much when he was in the Spurs. The cooperation between him and Downey Jr. is just right now.

"So that's the case. Is there a scouting report from Downey Jr. about Kyle Anderson?"

"Of course." Sean Marks saw that Downey Jr.'s dedication was seen by the boss, and he was happy for him, and at the same time he picked up the scouting report and turned to one page.

It was Downey Jr.'s own handwritten review of Kyle Anderson:

When it comes to Kyle Anderson, many people like to call him "slow-mo (slow motion)".

For such a name, Kyle Anderson himself does not have much opinion.

"It's an inventive nickname," says Kyle Anderson.

"I don't think I'm slow on the court, it's just a nickname. People may think I'm slow, but I don't think I'm slow."

Hahahahaha! !

Seeing this, Jiang Chao and Sean Marks looked at each other and smiled. This kid is a bit funny, but for fans who have watched Kyle Anderson play, it is impossible for anyone to think that he is fast.

In his previous life, Jiang Chao met this player because he saw the video of Durant playing twice in a row and he didn't know how to defend. In the highlights, he is his own rhythm superman.

aka the king of up and down steps, the essence of human peristalsis, the man who Durant has defended and landed when he makes a shot!

And he has a super team vision ability, which is equivalent to the young Turk Drew in the inside version. He will never shoot a three-pointer unless no one is 5 meters away. There have always been teams wanting him in the NBA.

In Chinese terms it is:

Young and mature.

"Liu Yan, do you see Downey Jr. in his office? Call him over."

Five minutes later, Downey Jr. appeared first. Liu Yan was a good wife, and she didn't bother her in the back. She silently put the freshly made coffee beside her and waited. A man who worked hard was the most handsome.

When Downey Jr. heard Jiang Chao calling him, at first he thought that Jiang Chao and the two wanted him to analyze the reasons for today's loss in the game. During these 5 minutes, he thought about a lot of difficulties the team is currently encountering. People actually asked an 18-year-old player who had nothing to do with the game.

"Anderson, he's pretty good. He's a weirdo in high school. You can say he's not talented, but you can't say he's unstable. He's tall, long, and smart, but isn't he too young?"

"Boss, general manager, why did you suddenly mention him?"

Sean Marks laughed:

"It's not a loss, are you looking for a reason?"

This time Downey Jr. worked again. He first talked about the introspection of the coaching staff at the meeting just now. One is that the opponent's lineup is indeed strong, basically there is no absolute weakness, and the triangle offense is also somewhat unsolvable. To put it bluntly, the Lakers only use it on one side. The triangle offense of Odom + sister-in-law + Kobe can kill the Knicks.

After all, the Knicks have no absolute strength on the defensive end.

The second point is also that the team's shooting rate is too low today, 23% of the team's shooting rate, take the lead to win?Not many tactics were played out, and the fight was very chaotic.

This chaos may also be the cause of the plummeting shooting percentage.

After all, there was no mention of the lineup that Jiang Chao and Sean Marks talked about for a long time.

Obviously, their coaching staff and analysts will not attribute the reason for the loss to the lineup arranged by the boss and the general manager, they will only find the reason on themselves.

Such a coach is a good coach. He plays whatever cards he has in his hand, and even has the ability to turn waste into treasure. Even if it is a civilian team, he must try his best to play with courage.

Downey Jr.:

"Boss, don't worry, the next time we meet the Lakers, we will play half court. It is too difficult to win the game against the Lakers. We will grind against them slowly next time!"

Jiang Chao and Sean Marks looked at each other after hearing this sentence, and seemed to say:

What about the people who grind their positions?

It is said that it is grinding, but it can't be grinding with a shot at the end.

However, they all tacitly did not directly state their purpose. To beat the Lakers does need to sharpen their positions, but they need people who can sharpen their positions.

Such as Howard, such as Yao Ming, such as this young and mature rookie Kyle Anderson.

If Downey Jr. knows that the management is determined to strengthen the lineup, he will take it with him. He will not want to create tactics for the current lineup, and he will give himself a reason to be lazy, and wait until the lineup is completely determined before deciding on team tactics.

With Jiang Chao's attitude, he naturally hopes that the analysts represented by Downey Jr. and the coaching staff represented by the young coach will become stronger and stronger.