Jealousy, envy, jealousy!

But McGrady’s fighting spirit has completely burned!

A little different from the rest of the Hawks, McGrady's temperament is still tepid even after taking a rest, and he doesn't have the feeling of suppressed desires like others, which makes Liu Mang feel a little weird.

By this time last year, even the 42-year-old Stockton looked high-spirited and very excited.

It's not that McGrady has no fighting spirit, it's just that he's a little tepid.

With this look, Liu Mang could tell at a glance that he was someone who had never won a playoff game and didn't have the same drive as others.

Moreover, because he is strong and is only 25 years old and not 26 yet, he is not as worried about the future as veterans are, nor is he as young as young people who want to shine in the playoffs. There is no so-called grudge to motivate him.

This guy, just like his personality in the system's digitized form, is too "uncompetitive"!

Liu Mang thought about himself. He wanted a lot of things in the regular season, including scoring champion, MVP, first team, and best to be on the best defensive team... This is a bit difficult, but he wanted a lot anyway.

And McGrady, after playing a whole season, found an assist leader as a target.

And because the Suns were a little uncomfortable with the referees becoming more relaxed after the All-Star Weekend, Nash's assists became unstable, and the Suns were a little unable to adapt to the rhythm of the playoffs.

This actually made Stoudemire, a player with great ambitions, start to plan to practice mid-range shooting and richer face-up skills, towards the face-up version of his former idol, the flying devil version of Tim Duncan in the late 1990s.

developed.

Some people need to experience failure before they start working hard, and they have already figured it out, while some people simply let it go if they fail.

But those with talent are better, like Stoudemire, who can see their own shortcomings and take the initiative to improve.

Although Stoudemire did not improve as fast as Yao Ming in the first two years, and Yao Ming was an All-NBA player in his second year, the environment of the two teams was different. Stoudemire played with Marbury, and the team atmosphere was extremely bad. He even

Neither is considered the core. The core of the team is Shawn Marion, a top star who can reach 17-10 in his second year.

But Stoudemire went from just eating cakes in his rookie season to being able to face the basket and cut into singles with the ball in his second year, and now he is the highest-scoring power forward with an average of 26 points per game.

After March, the Suns' offensive efficiency declined slightly, and their scoring average has been surpassed by the Hawks. The Hawks averaged 111.6 points per game, while the Suns averaged 110.9 points.

Nash's assists per game were also surpassed by McGrady. Due to the decline in offensive efficiency, his assists per game dropped to 11.7. McGrady firmly held the advantage with 12 assists per game.

McGrady's talent is truly incredible, and he has transformed himself into an organizer. Although his ability to organize offense is still under development, McGrady unexpectedly won the assist title.

This makes McGrady's indisputable character become particularly prominent, giving him the same feeling of becoming more and more casual as he played when he won the scoring title in the 2002-03 season.

It's not that McGrady's performance has declined, but it feels like he can't find the goal he's pursuing.

Therefore, Liu Mang brought his championship ring to stimulate Tracy McGrady.

The championship ring really stung McGrady's pride.

When talking trash to Kobe Bryant before, Kobe said he had three championships, and McGrady could only respond that he had the scoring title and was about to win the assist title.

In the history of the NBA, there are only 4 players who can win the championship in the season that leads the scoring team. George McCann, the god of basketball in the ancient times of the NBA, and Michael Jordan, the god of basketball in the NBA, are the most dominant players in history.

center Shaquille O'Neal, and Liu Mang in front of Tracy McGrady.

If someone else wins the scoring title, it would be the same as losing the championship.

That is to say, Kobe was so proud and didn't talk about honor a second time, so McGrady won the fight.

But that incident was like a thorn in McGrady's heart, but he didn't care about so many things, so it didn't hurt him.

But now that thorn was punched by Liu Mang, and that thorn pierced McGrady's heart.

The only players who can win a championship in the season that leads the league in assists are Bob Cousy, Jerry West, and Magic Johnson.

McGrady wants to be the fourth!

It's not that McGrady didn't have the drive to compete for championships before, it's just that he wasn't so eager to wear a championship ring and tell Kobe that he also had it. Now that Liu Mang has uncovered the scars from the past, McGrady's drive is completely different!

…

…

"I have signed Ace, Monta Ellis and David Lee. Ace, are you sure they can play in the future? Well, I believe in your vision, Ace, but why don't you recommend these two to

Eagles?”

"We already have a player like Ellis in Jason. Lee doesn't match our style. He is a traditional big man. By the way, has Paul been signed?"

"Chris is still talking about it. Because of Ace, you and Dwyane's relationship, there is a great chance of signing him. But it's a pity that North Carolina didn't win any of the four young players. They became popular too fast.

." Schwartz said and took a sip of coffee.

From the end of the NCAA regular season in early February to the end of the NCAA finals on April 3, he was busy observing college students and making contacts everywhere. He actually signed a popular rookie, a mature senior center from the University of Arizona.

Channing Frye was signed by Liu Mang's company.

When the agent is busy, he is extremely busy. In the past two to three months, Schwartz has not been home once. He travels all over the United States every day. Although he has signed many agents and scouts, but when he arrived

When a slightly famous college player wants to sign a contract, he still has to go there in person.

But when the work of competing for university resources was completed, there was no time to spare. Except for Paul who was still hesitating whether to play in the NCAA for another year and compete for the championship, all other work was over.

So Schwartz came to Liu Mang's house early in the morning on the 13th, when the Hawks played the Spurs, to discuss work.

Liu Mang remembered that Channing Frye did not retire until 2019. In addition to the rookie contract, every year thereafter his contract was above the mid-level. Not surprisingly, the company will have a stable total salary of more than 200 to 3 million US dollars in the next ten years.

The income is pretty good too.

Generally speaking, players who often change agents are players with huge commercial value. They choose to change agents because there are no other players with commercial value among the players under the same agent. This is mainly because the commercial value cannot be updated.

Good development is not because the contracts signed with NBA teams are not good enough.

The vast majority of players have little commercial value. They only need an agent who can get a big contract, so ordinary players basically have the same agent throughout their careers.

As long as Schwartz has Liu Mang at his disposal, Schwartz will not worry about commercial value. Schwartz relied on Liu Mang to become a popular agent. Before the outbreak of the North Carolina Four, the top five pick was Andrew Bogut.

Special, Deron Williams, Chris Paul, Raymond Felton, Channing Frye, Charlie Villanueva.

Bogut's agent is Australian, Deron Deron's agent has long decided to be Bob McLaren, Villanueva is not favored by Schwartz, and the remaining Felton and Fleishchwartz are

Successfully grabbed one.

As for Felton, since he has already contacted Paul, he has no time to fight for it.

"The Fourth Young Master from North Carolina?" When Liu Mang heard this, he felt that his teacher might be doing something stupid again, "I can guarantee that their combined income is not as much as Chris alone."

"Haha, I think so too. Chris is so talented. Ace, I think he will be your biggest enemy in the future." Schwartz has always had a unique vision.

"Maybe... I quite like the number 58. Jeff, you can suggest that Chris wear this jersey." Liu Mang suddenly had a bad taste.

"No. 58? This number is a bit ugly! I don't think Chris will agree. Maybe he will refuse to sign with us if I say this. By the way, Ace, why would you want Chris to wear No. 58?" Shi

Watts didn't understand.

"Uh... I just think it suits him..."

"Uh, let's not talk about this anymore. I'm afraid Chris will be scared away by you. Ace, who are the Hawks planning to draft this summer? I remember the Hawks still have their first-round pick, and there's also a second-round pick from the Jazz.

Probably the 30th and 33rd picks."

"That should be the case, but the team has the idea of ​​​​trading next year's draft picks. I don't know exactly what picks can be traded, but I think we will reduce rookies and young players in the summer, so we don't have to think too much. Young players

We have too many players..."

…

After chatting with Schwartz about work for two hours, Liu Mang mainly gave advice. Schwartz was responsible for company operations and financial revenue.

What Liu Mang wants is connections, what Schwartz wants is money and the sense of accomplishment of developing the company. There is no conflict in the interests pursued by the two, so now that Schwartz has become famous, he has no interest in Liu Mang.

conflict.

After Schwartz left, Liu Mang was also preparing to go to the arena. There was a team meeting at noon and a training session in the afternoon. The Eagles coaching staff had already made full preparations for the Spurs game in the evening. When the preview of the finals came,

beat.

Before going out, Liu Mang checked the system. The superstar was worth 121,196 points and the rogue was worth more than 49.79 million points.

The superstar value prepared for the playoffs has been fully prepared after the All-Star Weekend, and the rogue value is about to exceed 50 million. When the time comes to kill Wade and James in the playoffs and make them feel real despair, Liu

Mang feels that breaking 100 million is not a big problem.

The star cards are now fully prepared, and when the season ends, you can also get a third-year Jordan star card.

Although as Liu Mang's own strength improves, the role of star cards gradually decreases. The system assists him by cultivating Liu Mang's own strength. However, for him, the star cards of superstars such as Jordan, Kobe, Wade, and Nash are

The effect is still very obvious.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the playoffs to begin!

Playing against the Spurs should be treated as a playoff game!

…

The playoffs are about to begin, fans' enthusiasm has already risen, and NBA officials have reached their busiest time.

The NBA headquarters in New York is very busy right now, making final plans for the playoff schedule, negotiating with major TV stations for live broadcasts, assigning playoff referees, helping each team negotiate with owners of non-own team arenas...

...and other things, of course, these things are all left to his subordinates. After David Stern assigned the work, he relaxedly drank black tea and browsed the website in the office.

David Stern is very discerning. He has already seen that in the future, channels will be king and information and communication will be the mainstream. Although physical newspapers and TV stations are still the mainstream media, online media has already occupied a large amount of traffic.

Although he is a bit old, David Stern is very good at computers and surfs the Internet when he has nothing to do.
To be continued...