Legend of Tomorrow

The Suns cannot conquer the world with just a few young people. The management is actively recruiting in the free market and wants to find two more outstanding helpers for Guo Xu. Unfortunately, no capable free agent is willing to join, let alone a well-known veteran. Hold your thighs in the future.

Even Magic substitute forward Timon Williams, an ordinary guy who can't hit the ball quickly, looked down on the Suns. When the two teams made the same offer, he chose to join the 76ers.

The Cavaliers' backup power forward Brian Skinner, who scored 3.4 points and 4.3 rebounds last season, also made the same choice. The Suns manager asked him why? He said he thinks the 76ers have a better future than the Suns.

Looking at the lineup, this is indeed the case. The 76ers' trident of Iverson, Van Horn, and Coleman have all proven their ability to score 20+ points, with two No. 1 picks and one No. 2 pick. Defender Snow has excellent defense and solid organization. McGee leads the bench and has a balanced offense and defense.

What do the Suns have? Two rookies from the 2002 class and one from the 2001 class. Even the eldest and second eldest were rookies in 2000 and 1999. The rest are marginal players from last season and veterans in the decline period.

Looking at the lineup, no one thinks they can make the playoffs next season, so naturally no one wants to come.

Manager Brian Colangelo is extremely anxious. As the new season approaches, he wants to go out with two watermelon knives and put the knives on the necks of free agents to force them to sign.

There are only two years left for Brian. His father, Jerry, has already discussed it with him. If he can help the Suns rise and reach the playoffs in these two seasons, it will prove that he is capable and let him take over in the future. Be the boss.

If the Suns continue to be at the bottom of the league and show no improvement, Jerry will sell his shares to the team's minority shareholder, partner Robert Savile, in two seasons, and he will run for the position of general manager of the U.S. national team.

Guo Xu was invited by Jerry and had already laid a solid foundation for his son. If he couldn't even recruit a few auxiliary players, how could he be qualified to be the boss if he couldn't even be a good manager?

Brian cheered up and continued to contact players' agents. He had to get a 15-man lineup.

Veteran guard Berthut Davis looked down on the Suns and joined the Pistons with a minimum salary.

Bucks backup forward Darwin Hamm didn't like the Suns and joined the Hawks with a minimum salary.

Even the Hawks can successfully compete with the Suns because they seem to have a very strong lineup, with four major attackers including Terry, Hardaway, Glenn Robinson, and Raheem. Previously, the Hawks sent out blue-collar insider Theo Ratliff in exchange for the Bucks' star forward Big Dog.

When Brian saw the Hawks' current lineup, he wanted to beat his chest.

If he had gone to the Bucks to trade before, he might have exchanged Hardaway for Big Dog Robinson, but now he only got back Kukoc.

Robinson and Ray Allen became new enemies in the NBA. After they parted ways, they began to exchange bad words and had a long-standing grudge.

Although Robinson, Ray Allen, and Cassell are known as the Three Musketeers, in fact, none of the three obeys the other. The Bucks have no real core and are always scattered. This is an important reason for their inability to achieve results.

The trigger was Ray Allen, who had open conflicts with coach George Karl and team boss Robinson.

Karl never got used to Ray Allen's style of play and wanted him to be tougher, but Ray Allen was always unwilling to change. Karl once publicly mocked Ray Allen as a Barbie doll because he cared more about his beauty than winning. Ray Allen said Karl was too arbitrary.

Robinson was originally the boss of the team, but the growth of Ray Allen led to a dispute between the bosses. The two refused to give in to each other, did not pass each other on the field, and had no cooperation. The Bucks, who were still an Eastern Conference finals team in 2001, became a lottery team in 2002. Ray Allen said that Robinson was lazy and lonely. Robinson countered that Ray Allen was lonely.

Although Ray Allen looks like a gentleman, he actually doesn't have a good relationship with his teammates. He doesn't get along well with each other, and he even had a public fight with Robinson and Tim Thomas in training.

Brian can now guess that the Bucks will definitely trade Ray Allen in the near future, but it is a pity that the Suns no longer have any leverage.

As big-name players in the free market are signed one by one, the media increasingly feels that the Suns' future is bleak. Expert analysis believes that their inside line is too poor. In addition to newcomers who lack experience and veterans who cannot defend, they will not be able to play in the new season.

Even if Guo Xu is extremely capable, it's only on the offensive end. If he can't defend, how many games can the Suns win in a season?

Brian also believes that if this continues, Guo Xu will definitely be unable to thrive alone, but he can't find good players to join him in any position.

In this era, power forward Tim Thomas, who can shoot three-pointers well, can sign a 6-year, 66 million contract. Swift, the second-best parallel importer, is regarded as a treasure by the Grizzlies and cannot be exchanged for ordinary chips. The Suns want to Signing a great free agent big man is a pipe dream.

What's worse is that Guo Xu currently doesn't even have a qualified point guard substitute, which is unjustifiable and makes the manager very incompetent.

After thinking about it, Brian came up with a good way to satisfy Guo Xu. He also poached those unpopular free agents in the market and let Guo Xu decide who to poach.

The person designated by Guo Xu himself cannot express his dissatisfaction if he does not perform well in the new season. What results the team can achieve will depend on the strength of the core. In this way, Guo Xu will not blame the manager for his inaction, and it will also show that Brian respects the opinions of the core team.

Brian is a person who likes to do small tricks. In Guo Xu's previous life, he did many such things and lost his job because of it.

In 2018, when Bryan was the president of the 76ers, it was revealed by the American media that he had multiple Twitter accounts, and he used these accounts to criticize NBA players and peers, including members of the 76ers. For example, he criticized former 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie for disclosing some medical information about players Okafor, Embiid, and Fultz that should not have been made public.

After this incident was exposed, the entire NBA was shocked. The 76ers launched an independent investigation and found that these accounts were indeed used by Brian for a long time. Then Brian's reputation was seriously affected and he was forced to resign from the 76ers.

On September 15, Guo Xu was surfing the Internet with the air conditioner on in his apartment when he received a call from Brian.

Hey Jason, are you busy right now?

Hello, Brian, I'm not busy. I'm at home. What do you want?

Brian said straight to the point: There are currently three player quotas in the team that have not yet been determined, so I would like to discuss with you to see if you have any free agents you want to cooperate with. If so, I can contact their agent and let them know They come to the team's training camp for preseason games. Sign if it's a good fit. Do you have time to look into this?

Would you like to take my advice? That would be great. Do you have a list of free agents?

Yes, I can send it to your email. Once you decide, call me. Just choose three people. Brian smiled. As soon as he saw Guo Xu so happy, he knew that his goal had been achieved.

I will definitely select someone as soon as possible... Guo Xu said his email address.

Brian wanted to use this method to make Guo Xu happy, but he didn't know that what Guo Xu wanted to do most was to participate in the team's recruitment plan, but he was new to the team and was too embarrassed to take the initiative.

He is a reborn person. No matter how much sand there is in the NBA, he can pick out some real gold with potential!