Chapter 670: Three New Players with Their Own Characteristics and the Pride and Expectations of a Country!

Marc Gasol, Ibaka and James Harden came to the Seattle SuperSonics to sign with the Seattle SuperSonics at almost the same time. It was not a coincidence.

Instead, the Seattle SuperSonics unified the signing times of the three.

This is also related to the fact that the Seattle SuperSonics did not gain anything in this huge free market this year.

Other teams have more or less gained something in this year's free market.

Only the Seattle SuperSonics didn't gain anything at all, which really made the Seattle SuperSonics lose face. Both the team's general manager and management were complained about by die-hard Coconut Pippen.

Pippen complained that Yes was not good at eloquence and would not recruit free agents. That was love. He thought Yes was cute, honest, upright, and full of idealistic dream aura, just like characters in fairy tales and novels.

But when Pippen complained about Presti and the rest of the Sonics front office, it wasn't love.

"After the historic trade, the Seattle SuperSonics completed the reconstruction in two years and unexpectedly won the championship. When a team achieves such great results, we always want to praise the team in all aspects. From the management to the players, we all praise the greatness of the team, but unfortunately, the one we praise the most is Yes. This is not our preference for Yes. In fact, in essence, the Seattle SuperSonics, regardless of Neither the management nor the players are that good. This is not an offense to Kevin. He is an excellent player and an excellent comrade, but he himself will admit where his excellence comes from.”

"The whole world knows that Yes has been carrying a heavy burden in the past two years, but it is difficult for the world to imagine what kind of weight Yes is carrying!"

"To go from nothing to a championship in two years with the worst team in history and perhaps the worst management, that's the weight that Yes carries and why it's incredible."

"I once said that no player in Seattle was worthy of Yes. In the end, I was slapped in the face by Yes. He trained some losers and recognized garbage very well."

"Now, I would say, it's time for Yes to build a group of qualified managers for himself. He doesn't need to be a general manager like LeBron James, but he at least has someone who knows what he wants to take care of him. Of all people, his strongest team leadership ability in history can turn useless players and trash players into treasures, but there is no way to turn useless trash and trash management into treasures!”

"If the Seattle SuperSonics had a great general manager, the SuperSonics wouldn't need Yes to come out and draft. This general manager would take care of everything so that Seattle's two important first-round picks this year would not be selected. Harden and Ibaka!”

"Yes is a great player. As the closest comrade of Michael, the greatest player ever, I am willing to call Yes the greatest player in NBA history. This is on the court and off the court. He really needs help."

"If it weren't for Michael's existence, I would actually prefer to say that Yes' management team is the worst in NBA history. This is not disrespectful to Michael. His achievements in team management are as good as any person with a normal IQ in the league. The difference in grade.”

After the season ended, Pippen, whether on the Internet or on TV, was full of enthusiasm for the Seattle SuperSonics' work this summer.

This puts a lot of pressure on the Seattle SuperSonics' management.

The reason why Pippen's complaints have such great influence is obviously because the things he said hit the pain points of coconut fans and Sonics fans, and they were unanimously approved.

Simply put, for the Seattle SuperSonics' operations this summer,

The fans are worried, very worried!

Durant was injured and almost ended the season. The team suffered the loss of such a fighting force, and its strength has dropped significantly. In addition, the team is the defending champion and the target of the entire league. If it does not advance, it will retreat, not to mention this. In the state of planting a target.

This would be really weird if it wasn't worrying.

It can be said that there is a huge voice on the Internet and in public opinion about replacing the management of the Seattle SuperSonics.

Although Presti knows that the management he leads has the full support of Yes, there is no crisis for him to be dismissed from the Seattle SuperSonics.

But he is still quite sad to be complained about by so many people. He is indeed lacking in eloquence, and his signing of free agents is not of a good standard. When it comes to transactions, he has no connections, but it is not that he has not worked hard.

Ibaka, Harden and Gasol were all signed by him.

But it was obvious that no matter how aggrieved Presti was, he could not tell the truth that he was the one who signed these three people.

Now that the entire fan group is dissatisfied with him, James Harden and Ibaka, if he really speaks out, he is not justifying, he is committing suicide. The fans' saliva can drown him and Harden and Ibaka.

It turns out that the undercover agent next to Yes is you, the general manager of the team!

These crazy fans will come to their senses, for sure.

Presti doesn't dare to fight the fans head-on, but he is also a very characterful person. He can't fight hard, but he can fight softly.

Aren't you complaining that I'm a waste?

Aren’t you complaining that we don’t have reinforcements?

I just want to give you the largest signing ceremony!

I want to tell the world that the strongest man is already in the team!

Presti really took great pains for this signing ceremony. He not only invited all the active players of the Supersonics who were not on vacation to welcome the three new players, but also invited a large number of media.

This posture is comparable to the appearance ceremony of James, Bosh and Ben Gordon of the Heat some time ago.

James, Bosh, Ben Gordon...

Harden, Gasol, Ibaka...

It's just that the difference in the cards is really too big.

So big that Gasol, Harden and Ibaka themselves felt very embarrassed.

Facing the silence of the fans below the stage, the three new players of the Seattle Supersonics were really embarrassed standing on the stage built for them by Presti.

"Yes does not allow Seattle fans to boo their players, so Seattle fans remain silent about them. This is the most serious way for Seattle fans to vent their dissatisfaction with their players."

"I swear, if it weren't for Yes's order, these Seattle fans would definitely boo Harden and Ibaka to death!"

"Presti is really a talent. I heard that when he invited the Seattle Supersonics players to watch the ceremony, he only gave the Seattle Supersonics players an hour to consider. I have never seen such a weird general manager in my life. Didn't he realize that most of the Supersonics players did not welcome Harden and Ibaka?"

"Now that I think about it, Pippen is really right. Yes has been burdened too much in the past two years. We only saw that the Supersonics players dragged Yes's feet and needed Yes to lead. We really didn't realize that the Supersonics had a group of more incredible management!"

"Otherwise, you used to Are you kidding me that I am the most unlucky player in history? Do you think that the most hellish start in history is a joke? James dared to say that he was not happy in the Cleveland Cavaliers and was screwed to death by the team owner. He didn't even look at Yes. Didn't he still win the championship in the crazy division of the West in two years? "

"So Pippen said that Yes is the greatest player? Comparing Jordan with Yes, it's still possible, but comparing James with Yes, isn't it bullying James? Hahahaha..."

"What are you laughing at? Comparing James with Yes is bullying James? Yes is great, but I only know that the king of the NBA next season will definitely not be Yes. No matter how big the objective difficulties Yes faces, in the NBA, the winner is always the king!"

The impact of the signing ceremony that Presti created, which imitated the appearance of the Big Four of the Heat, was very "big", or in other words, very bad.

The fans were silent, and the media below were arguing with the coconut powder media and the coconut black media. The entire signing ceremony was in chaos.

Looking at the scene like this, even Yes frowned.

Presti on the other side was dumbfounded.

Yes was very satisfied with Presti's ability.

He was very good at identifying Westbrook and James Harden at a glance.

You know, Westbrook and Harden have both appeared in the superstar system with five-star cards!

This shows that the future achievements of these two people are superstars!

He has a superstar system and knows how to select people, but Presti doesn't have any superstar system.

It's just...

In addition to his excellent vision in the draft, Presti's management ability, to be honest, is very, very average, even bad.

However, this is not Presti's fault. After graduating from college in 2000, Presti worked in the Spurs for six years, and most of these six years were scout-related work.

His talent is excellent, but he is still a little too young. In addition to ability, IQ, talent, nothing, no experience, no connections, and not enough experience.

And being a good general manager in the NBA requires more than just ability and IQ.

An event that was originally intended for Presti to show off his work in the Seattle Supersonics was eventually ruined by Presti, and it was a very bad one.

In the end, the three newcomers of the Seattle Supersonics were quite embarrassed.

"Mark, don't worry, they are not targeting you."

Gasol nodded to the comfort of his agent Dean Simmons.

Of course, it was not targeting him, he could see it.

When he was introduced just now, the fans and media below applauded him, although it was very chaotic at that time.

He is different from Ibaka. Although he is also a newcomer, he is the MVP of the Spanish League!

In the current world basketball world, the NBA is of course the only one that stands out, and in addition to the NBA, the Spanish League is definitely the mainstream league of the first echelon. As the most outstanding player in such a league, his strength can still give Seattle fans expectations.

The expectations he can feel are not only from the fans, but also from the Seattle Supersonics team.

This can be seen from the contract that the SuperSonics gave him. The rookie contract is 10 million for 3 years, and his buyout fee in the Spanish league does not need to be paid by him, but by the team.

It can be said that the price paid by the Seattle SuperSonics for him is absolutely equivalent to signing a player with a top five pick.

Being valued by the Seattle SuperSonics, this makes Gasol feel very good.

At least this will give him the feeling that this is a team that can have a future.

What's more, this team is still... Yes!

Gasol couldn't help but look at the young man surrounded by the media. He knew this young man very well.

Even in Spain, the country of football, Yes's reputation is quite big.

In Europe, the most popular basketball player is not Nowitzki, his brother, or Parker, but Yes!

Yes's popularity in Europe is not much different even when compared with those popular football stars.

It can be said that Yes is the idol of most young basketball players in Europe.

Of course, he is 23 years old this year, and of course he is not a teenager, and his idol is not Yes, but he still has great respect for Yes' achievements in the NBA.

"Ye is a very easy-going person. Here, Mark has nothing to worry about. You can regard Seattle as Memphis, as Spain, and as your real home."

Gasol nodded and came to the United States. He received a lot of help from his agent Dean Simmons.

For foreign players like him, the team will recommend that they find an agent or a team of agents so that they can adapt better.

Although he didn't need it, as he had lived in the United States for many years, he still followed the team's suggestion and chose Dean Simmons, the most popular agent in the NBA, as his agent.

Kevin Durant's agent is not only his agent, but also the agent of Beasley, this year's hottest rookie.

The day before yesterday, he heard that Dean Simmons signed an endorsement contract for Beasley, which was very large for a rookie.

How big are endorsement contracts?

Gasol didn't know, he only knew that after Beasley signed the contract, he immediately bought a French manor house worth 40 million US dollars in the Bay Area!

This really shocked the whole world!

This move directly brought Dean Simmons and Beasley into the spotlight of the world.

If Yes is the most sought-after teammate in the NBA, then Dean Simmons is the most sought-after agent.

Of course, when thinking about this, Gasol doesn't envy Beasley.

He knows his position very well. He is just an ordinary player and will never be as good as a talented player like Beasley.

only……

It's really a blessing for an ordinary player like him to have the most sought-after agent in the NBA like Dean Simmons.

According to the team general manager, this was arranged by Yes...

Because Yes was worried about any problems with his and Ibaka's lives in the United States, he asked his two friends Simmons and Washington to take care of one.

He was assigned to Simmons, while Ibaka was assigned to Washington.

"Sure enough, just like what my brother told me, the Seattle SuperSonics are an extremely unique team in the NBA..."

Finally, after Gasol withdrew his grateful gaze from the young man surrounded by reporters, he thought secretly in his heart.

Gasol felt the care of Ye Si, and soon he also felt the care of other Seattle SuperSonics players.

After Kwame Brown left, the team lacked an excellent big center substitute. Everyone in the SuperSonics knew that Gasol was the replacement for this candidate.

And his strength has also been verified by the European League. Whether he can fulfill this role is still unknown, but at least it will not make people feel that the position left by Kwame Brown is like feeding a dog.

Moreover, other Seattle SuperSonics players are so enthusiastic about Gasol. Another intention is to deliberately make Harden and Ibaka feel the gap.

It can also be regarded as a stimulus to Harden and Ibaka.

In fact, without the differential treatment and stimulation of these Seattle SuperSonics players, Harden has long felt the attitude of Seattle towards him.

After being selected by Yes with the 11th pick, his Twitter account became the 'home base' of coconut fans. If you don't troll him on his account every day, don't say that you are a die-hard coconut fan.

His Twitter has one of the most amazing comments.

All kinds of insults and comments are endless, and the most common type is of course "I want to beep your big beep, sissy!"

The video of him holding his chest and throwing back his right hand during the draft has now been viewed over 100 million times on YouTube.

His uncontrollable actions in the draft will indeed cause a lot of misunderstandings. He is really not the kind of person they imagined.

Even if he wants to... Yes, he doesn't want it.

No, he doesn’t want to either!

In order to change these people's impression of him, he has now begun to grow a beard, and he is ready to let others see his tough side.

In addition, in order to change Shou's impression, he has been standing outside the nightclub every day for half a month since the draft, specifically staring at the big beeping girls. He is not looking for a big beeping girl. When my young lady went to Harbin Beer, she mainly let reporters take photos and let the world know that she liked him.

He really took great pains to clear up the misunderstanding.

If it weren't for the purpose of clearing up the misunderstanding, he would never cover his rather handsome face with an ugly beard.

If he hadn't resolved the misunderstanding, he would never have gone outside the nightclub to hang out with those big-butt ladies. He is such an upright person.

After signing with the team today, in order to make them believe that this was a misunderstanding, he planned to stop hanging out outside the nightclub after getting his salary. He would go inside the nightclub to find the ladies to help him resolve the misunderstanding.

Coming to the Seattle Supersonics was a major turning point in Harden's life. He really didn't want to leave the Supersonics sadly because of such a thing.

He wanted to be an All-Star, he wanted to be a superstar!

He knew very well that if he wanted to achieve these goals, he had to stay by Yes' side!

At least before becoming a superstar, stay by Yes' side!

Although everyone outside now lists him and Ibaka together, he knows very well that he and Ibaka are different!

Ibaka and James Harden are indeed different. When the two faced the criticism of coconut powder all over the world, the two showed completely different ways.

James Harden has a soft personality. You say I am, and I don't refute it. I will prove to you that I am not.

But Ibaka, under the advice of his agent Anthony Washington, also has a Twitter account.

But facing insults and humiliation, Ibaka's calmness is incredible.

Yess is very experienced.

Yess heard from Washington that Ibaka is in Seattle, and he trains every day. He is a training maniac like Yi Jianlian, another player under Washington.

If James Harden's character is a little soft and childish in Yess's opinion, then Ibaka's character is really mature and strong beyond his age.

"Ye, Serge is a very different young man, because he now has a two-year-old daughter."

Washington told Yess that Ibaka already has a two-year-old daughter, and Yess was surprised.

Washington told Yess that Ibaka was still begging when he was fifteen years old. Yess was relieved after being surprised.

When a person can do such a thing to survive, how could he succumb to such pressure in his heart?

"Serge, work hard. I believe in your efforts. Yes often tells me that people who work hard will never have a bad ending."

"Yeah."

Ibaka nodded. His English is not very good now, but he can still understand the general idea.

Yes said that people who work hard will never have a bad ending.

He also believed what Yes said.

He is a hard-working person. His efforts eventually made him completely different from those teenagers who begged for food with him...

"Maybe, this is not my ending yet..."

Ibaka looked at the person who changed his destiny, and his heart was extremely pious.

Yes gave up Jordan and chose him in the shock of the whole world. This seemed to be the guidance of God.

He is a devout Catholic. He is willing to believe that the person who changed his destiny is the incarnation of God on earth.

The signing of the Seattle Supersonics and three new players ended in a commotion.

In the hustle and bustle, this year's No. 11 rookie Harden signed a 4-year, $11 million contract with the Supersonics, this year's No. 28 rookie Ibaka signed a 4-year, $6 million contract with the team, and Gasol, who was selected in the second round of the Supersonics last year, signed a 3-year, $10 million contract with the team.

"Mark, James, Serge, welcome to join the Supersonics."

Gasol, Harden and Ibaka are very excited now. On this day, they not only gained a lot of money and attention, but also gained something more rare, Yes's smile!

The day after Yes welcomed the team's three new players on behalf of the team, Yes handled all the affairs in the United States, and boarded the special plane to China with Ye Zhi's team and Wang Han's CCTV team.

On July 10, 2008, the Magic City Hongqiao International Airport was crowded with people.

When that familiar figure appeared in everyone's vision, the entire airport, regardless of the color of the skin or the country of the people, seemed to explode!

"What's going on? The airport was attacked?!"

"This place won't be attacked. This is the safest city in the safest country. The man who insulted sprinting has returned home."

"Is it him?"

Some tall black men were stunned for a moment.

"Have you seen his influence in this country? Usain, are your legs weak?"

"Legs weak?"

Some tall black men smiled.

"I will be in his country, waiting for him at the finish line."

That must be very interesting and fun!

The evil smile of the tall black man made the teammates around him shudder.

Feeling the emotions of his teammates, some tall black men were a little disdainful in their hearts.

The happiness of the flying man is so boring and... cruel!

"Yes, are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Yes looked in the other direction.

"Did you expect that this return to your country would be so noisy?"

"However, you have to slowly get used to everything in this country. What they want to give you is beyond your imagination!"

Did what they want to give me exceed my imagination?

"You are their pride, my pride, and the pride of everyone in this land and this country."

Proud?

Listening to the crazy shouts and looking at the excited smiling faces, Yes was somewhat moved.

"Yes, China's miracle, welcome home."

Looking at Wang Han, who showed an unprecedented expression at this time, Yes nodded seriously.

"Thank you."

He knew the weight of these cheers, these shouts, and this welcome.

That was the expectation of countless billions of people in a country...