When Li Rong and other players stepped into the conference room of the training hall, they found that the team owner Taylor and manager McHale had been sitting in the conference room for a long time.

In the past few team meetings, the players sat down early to greet the boss, but unexpectedly Taylor turned out to be abnormal today.

What is even more surprising is that when Taylor saw Li Rong come in, he smiled and waved to him: "Li, your foot injury is not serious, right?"

It seems that I should ask the team doctor more about this?

The hypocritical politeness and care made Li Rong a little disgusted with Taylor.

However, as the saying goes, don’t hit people with a smile, Li Rong had to nod: “He has recovered 100%.

"That's good!" Taylor said with a smile, then his face turned up. "This meeting is mainly about announcing something to everyone. The team has decided to change the head coach, and Kevin (McHale) is now temporarily the team's interim head coach."

McHale actually served as the team manager and coach!

The news is no less than Whitman's fire.

Of course, there have never been many people who have held two positions in history.

From Bill Russell's player and coach to Park Riley's manager and coach in Miami's championship season, this is nothing new.

It is true that McHale has had a coaching experience before, but he has never coached a full season.

What the hell is this doing?

After Taylor finished speaking, he did not give the players a chance to question him, but immediately took the lead in applause.

The players had no choice but to applaud and welcome the newly appointed interim head coach Mike Hale.

McHale's face was very calm and he could not see any emotion. After delivering an encouraging speech, he took the initiative.

At this time, Li Rong was a little hesitant. If he questioned Taylor now, it seemed that he would be suspected of not being drunk.

The players still respect McHale very much. Now, if you ask why Whitman was fired for no reason, it means you are dissatisfied with McHale's premiere as head coach.

The players had already agreed in advance, and the meeting started to attack Taylor.

Who knew that Taylor actually took action to make it stronger, and turned passive to active.

Now even if Li Rong wants to angrily criticize Taylor in public, he still has to consider the ideas of McHale and other players.

As the current hot All-Star player in the league, Li Rong is naturally not afraid of a stalemate with the team.

But other role players, especially these newcomers, still have a hint of awe of management.

McHale is the team's general manager again. He can't trade Li Rong, can't trade others?

Old fox!

Li Rong cursed in her heart.

He is worthy of being a big boss with a net worth of billions of dollars. His scheming and tricks are incomparable to the players, and he easily eliminated the crisis invisible.

After announcing the decision, Taylor turned around and left the conference room to let the newly appointed head coach Mike Hale communicate with the players.

In his mind, these people are just tools for making money by themselves. They just looked at Li Rong with kindness because he was a bigger US dollar bill.

At first, he had a lot of complaints about Li Rong playing in the Olympics, especially when he injured his feet in the last final.

However, Li Rong's last key goal raised his popularity to a new level.

Returning with injuries and a fatal blow to his opponent, almost everyone in the Chinese now regards him as a hero.

The Timberwolves became the most direct beneficiary of this key goal.

Since the end of the Olympics, the team has received cooperation invitations from dozens of advertisers from China, with a cumulative amount of over 100 million yuan.

This is just a part of the income, and other incomes such as TV broadcasting have doubled compared with previous years.

According to preliminary estimates, the team's revenue this year is about to tie the benefits brought to the team by Garnett's peak period.

I heard that Li Rong himself is also negotiating sneaker contracts with several major sneaker manufacturers, and the endorsement price is close to LeBron James.

These are just the benefits brought by the Olympics.

If you want to have a steady stream of US dollars, the team must perform well in the regular season.

The reason why Taylor hates Whitman more and more is not because his grades are not good now.

It's because of the principle of defensive supremacy that Whitman has always emphasized.

Offense wins the box office, defense wins the championship.

As the boss of the team, the box office is undoubtedly more realistic than the stupid champion.

As long as you can make money, it doesn’t matter whether the champion has or not.

The team's fast break system was good last season, but Whitman insisted on playing the position this year.

That's why Taylor couldn't wait to fire Whitman when the season started just 6 games.

He has already made a request to the newly appointed McHale that the team must play a good offense and if he doesn't work, he has to be replaced!

Taylor regrets why he didn't fire Whitman at the end of the season. Mike D'Anthony, who he likes very much, really parted ways with the Suns after the end of the season.

However, now D'Antoni has taken over the Knicks, so he has to let McHale serve temporarily.

It is easy to get a thousand gold, but it is hard to get a handsome man.

Nowadays, most coaches are still influenced by the principle of defensive supremacy in the 1990s, and there are very few people who can understand how to train and attack.

After all, McHale is just a temporary candidate, and the right candidate has to be found slowly in the future.

"I know you're still not sure about changing coaches," McHale glanced at the players in the conference room, "To be honest, I don't want to be this coach either!"

McHale spoke in shock, and everyone raised their heads in surprise when they heard this.

"But this team was created by me in the offseason again," McHale's voice became excited. "I believe in my own vision, and I believe that we will work together to do some big things. There are many doubts about the team outside now. I want to say, let the media go to hell!"

"Smack!"

Li Rong took the lead in clapping and expressed his support for McHale as head coach.

Seeing that Li Rong had already expressed his opinion, Billups and Jefferson also applauded.

Then, there was applause in the conference room.

"We have to play well," McHale continued. "Last season, our offensive efficiency was ranked among the top ten in the league, but this season was at the bottom. We will try some new starting lineups in the next few games."

After McHale said this, Li Rong and Jefferson and Billup's mood had not changed much. No matter how much adjustments were made, these three of them would be the team's starting players.

Instead, the other players in the conference room began to feel nervous.

Especially McGee and Jordan Jr., two new players who joined the team, were full of heat.
Chapter completed!