Min Congda turned the door handle and opened the door, and saw a woman dressed in white-collar worker standing at the door.

She has chestnut hair, neatly combed, and it looks very capable and refreshing.

The eyes are beautiful emerald green, and the high nose bridge and thin lips exuded a sense of shrewdness.

Her facial features and skin color both show that she and Min Congda are people of different races.

When Min Congda saw her, he immediately reacted, "Sure enough, he traveled abroad! Los Angeles, it should be the United States. The system reward is also US dollars."

"Since it's the United States, I have to speak English, but my English... is okay, but I have to be a manager... Alas, it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's just my advantage if I don't know anything."

"Addlers and experts are the most direct and effective way to ruin a unit. I don't understand basketball and English is average. At that time, I will just do the opposite with those professional basketball management talents~"

Min Congda was full of thoughts, but he thought a lot at once.

Ada felt speechless when she looked at the Asian man with a plain appearance, black hair and black eyes in front of her.

Just yesterday, June 24, there was still one day before the 2009 NBA Draft.

Clippers owner Sterling suddenly announced that he would remove the team's head coach Mike Dunley from serving as general manager.

A Chinese man named Smart Min was appointed as the Clippers' general manager of basketball affairs and president of administrative affairs.

The Clippers were in an uproar.

What is the origin of this Smart Min?

There is no relevant information, not even a single photo.

As an intern with the Los Angeles Clippers, Ada was appointed as the new general manager's work and living assistant.

She received this task on the afternoon of June 25, with only a few hours left before the start of the draft.

After the boss Sterling made relevant personnel arrangements, he left Los Angeles and went on vacation to Hawaii.

He said he would not return until the season starts, and all the team's affairs are fully responsible for the new general manager.

"Everything is followed by Smart's arrangement. If I am not here, he will be the team boss. His decision is mine."

Sterling gave the new general manager unparalleled power, making people wonder if this Smart Min was Sterling's illegitimate son?

Not to mention illegitimate children, even the biological son would not be able to have such great power.

The Los Angeles Lakers next door, the Bass family, and the old Bass have the final say as long as they don't die, but they won't let their son and daughter have the power.

Now the Clippers can be said to be a leaderless group, and they are all waiting for this mysterious airborne Chinese general manager.

When Ada received this task, she didn't even know where the new general manager was.

After a while, I found out that he was in Motel, a motel in Inglewood.

So he hurriedly drove over and knocked on the door, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw Min Congda in a daze.

This guy was not only dazed in the void, but also gently raised the corners of his mouth and muttered to himself.

The dull eyes emitted even more wisdom.

Looking at his outfit, a pair of wrinkled trousers, a gray blue shirt, and the collar was pilled.

Especially the leather shoes on their feet, they look inferior, with no luster, and the toe is gray, so there is no appearance of the team general manager.

Ada suspected that she had found the wrong person, but took out her cell phone and looked at the photos and information sent by Boss Sterling.

I frowned and looked at it a few times. It was indeed true, it was this person.

Seeing Min Congda still in a daze, Aida coughed, "Cough! Is it Mr. Smart Min?"

Min Congda came back to his senses from his random thoughts. He understood this sentence. His English name was Smart. After holding it in for a long time, he replied: "Yes! (Yes.)"

It's really not easy to switch to English speaking.

Fortunately, Min Congda has always been engaged in international business in the industry.

I have a lot of dealing with people in the foreign trade industry and often use English.

So his English proficiency is OK, but it just takes time to get used to it.

Aida said: "Mr. Smart, you are now the general manager of the Los Angeles Clippers. Today is the draft, and it is a very important day. Please go back to the headquarters with me as soon as possible."

Sure enough, the system helped Min Congda get the position of general manager.

As for how to do it, Min Congda didn't care.

He actually wanted to ask what a "draft conference" is. Then he thought that this must be an important event. If I don't even know this, wouldn't it be too unprofessional?

So he suppressed the questions in his heart, Min Congda calmed down and said, "OK, let's go."

To the point of being concise, Min Congda didn't want to say anything more because he didn't know much about it.

Aida, who thought she wanted to talk a little longer, didn't expect Min Congda to be so calm.

She was stunned for a moment. Min Congda had already walked out for several meters and turned around and said, "What's the problem? Let's go!"

Ada hurriedly asked, "You don't have anything left in the room, do you need to take it?"

Min Congda thought, and said, "Put on that alarm clock, it is very important to me."

This alarm clock is a prop for the system to contact Min Congda, so it cannot be lost.

Ada entered the room and picked up the alarm clock placed in the cabinet and stuffed it into her bag.

Her impression of Min Congda changed: "From this alarm clock, he must be a person with a strict concept of time. He also has to bring an alarm clock when staying in a hotel. Maybe he has calculated the time to wait for me..."

As an intern, Ada must be careful to serve the new general manager.

Ada stepped on high heels and trotted along the way with Min Congda to the parking lot and took him into the car.

When he got into the car, Ada gave the alarm clock to Min Congda.

Min Congda took the clock and thought to himself: "As soon as this system comes up, I'm really a filial son. By the way, how many years are there now?"

So he asked Aida: "What time is it now?"

Ada thought to herself, aren't you holding an alarm clock in your hand? Why are you still asking?

Is this a test for me? To test my rigor of doing things?

Ada swallowed and replied, "It's now, June 25, 2009, 2:32 pm Pacific Time, and it's about to be 33 pm. Eastern Time is 5:32 pm, and the draft will start at 6 pm."

Min Congda didn't understand the subsequent series of time.

In the past, the time issue was the most annoying thing about listening in English.

But he understood, it was 2009 now.

That was his first time in college!

It turns out that I have traveled back to my college days.

He immediately looked at his face through a reflector.

The bad thing is that the appearance has not changed, it is still the same as myself in 2022.

Even the clothes on my body were worn by the business clothes that I hadn't changed for several years.

Min Congda has long been unable to remember what happened in the United States in 2009.

When buying stocks and investing, don’t think about it. First think about how to be the general manager of this team.

This hotel is close to the office headquarters of the Clippers, a few minutes' drive away.

On the way, Min Congda admired the street scene in Los Angeles, well... that's not the case.

He wanted to ask Ada what the situation of the Clippers was, but unfortunately his English speaking skills would not be able to organize his language well for a while.

After thinking about what to ask, I have arrived at the destination - Stamps Center.

This modern stadium is very magnificent, and Min Congda not only admires it.

"A team with a valuation of $300 million is indeed rich and powerful, playing in such a big and beautiful restaurant."

Min Congda had no idea that the Stamps Center was not the industry of the Clippers.

The Clippers just rented the office area and courts here, and also shared a game venue with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Moreover, the team's valuation of $300 million is already the lowest in the league.

Ada took Min Congda to the office area of ​​the Clippers and headed straight to the "Draft-room" (draft office) on the third floor.

At this moment, the directors and assistants of the Los Angeles Clippers Basketball Affairs Department and the Administrative Affairs Department are all concentrated here.

Leading are Neil Orches, deputy manager of the team's basketball affairs department, and Andy Rother, president of the executive branch.

The original general manager of basketball affairs of the Clippers was head coach Mike Dunleavy.

But because Dunleavy is responsible for coaching the team, most of the specific matters are handled by deputy manager Orches.

Once Dunleavy is dismissed or resigned as manager, Orches will be the throne of the team's general manager of basketball affairs.

As a result, yesterday, the boss Sterling gave an instruction and a person who had never heard of it suddenly landed in the air.

Orches was depressed for a night when he learned the news and has not recovered until now.

He sat in a large backrest chair in the corner of the office, staring at the TV on the wall without saying a word.
To be continued...