The draft is finally over, but the real main course is on the first day of the draft. There will be a lot of trades, including some of the biggest stars being traded!

But Bruce's New York Hans don't have any valuable players to trade right now.

Except for Alonzo Mourning, who has trade value, the other players are, to put it bluntly, players given up by other teams.

Because the league requires teams to sign up for a 15-man roster, Bruce is also preparing to arrange preseason trials for free agents or undrafted players to supplement the team's lineup.

Then, Bruce asked general manager Mitch Kupchak to hold a signing ceremony with Alonzo Mourning.

Although there is only one person, after all, he is the first person selected by Bruce's New York Hans, which is definitely of historical significance.

Currently, NBA rookie contracts generally include 3+1 and 2+2.

The first round must be 3+1, and the second round can choose the 2+2 mode.

Taking 3+1 as an example, the player in the first 3 years is a restricted player. If the team has no intention of exchanging him, he must stay with the team for 3 years. The last year after 3 years is a restricted free agent.

The team has priority to renew his contract. If the team wants to renew his contract, he cannot leave, even if the player does not accept it. If the team does not renew his contract, he can leave. In the fifth year, he will be a free agent and can make an appointment.

Talk to interested teams, conduct negotiations, and sign contracts.

Under the condition that there was no rookie salary cap at the time, the New York Hans actually signed an eight-year, 35 million contract with Alonzo Mourning. (Compared to the 25-year contract the Los Angeles Lakers signed with Magic in 1980.

A $25 million contract is considered a lifetime contract)

The main reason is that Alonzo Mourning is a "kidney warrior" and will need to recuperate for a long time, so he dare not sign a larger contract.

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Starting in early July after the draft, during the NBA offseason, the summer league will start during this time.

Let's put it this way, every summer is the time for big-name and main players in the NBA to take a vacation. However, free agents, rookie players, and even second-year players do not enjoy this preferential treatment. They must prove their ability to play in the NBA through the summer league.

League play.

Therefore, in order for these people to gain the trust of the team management and even enter the team's starting 12-man roster, the summer league is the best platform for them to showcase themselves.

Of course not all rookies will participate in summer league.

Unless requested by the team management, high-ranking rookies like this year's No. 1 pick Shaquille O'Neal and No. 2 pick Alonzo Mourning will basically not choose to participate, because these people no longer need to be in the summer league.

Prove yourself.

On the one hand, the team spent a lot of effort and money to acquire them. They are not asked to sit on the bench and serve as water dispenser managers. It is not difficult to enter the team's starting lineup.

On the other hand, if these high-ranking players get injured in such a training game, the team's losses will be huge.

Bruce has already ordered that all players on the team must participate.

There are many undrafted players and free agents who come to join the New York Hans, but they are all unknown players. Because New York is a big city, they also come to try their luck.

Of course, there are many well-known stars, but they were rejected by the New York Hans. An old player who has played in the league for many years, who knows how long it will take you to retire to get Bruce's year-end bonus? You have a good idea, but Bruce will not be fooled.

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Besides, Bruce doesn't need these veterans to lead this group of rookies. In the past few years, they have only been in the stage of selecting team players, and they are not aiming to compete for the championship.

Bruce can win the championship in the shortest time. With the memory of his previous life, doesn't he know that those stars can be traded? Trade these players and hire a famous coach to win the championship in minutes.

thing.

Just doing this will lose the fun of running the team. Bruce likes to run the team slowly, so running the team slowly is more interesting, isn't it?

Furthermore, to win the championship so quickly, the league had to call in scientific researchers to slice up Bruce and study it. I really think those people in the league are fools.

In the end, Mitch Kupchak and Paul Westphal finally signed several undrafted players through the performance of these players in the summer league.

Bruce was also very satisfied with the attitude of the players participating in the summer league this time. He discussed it with head coaches Mitch Kupchak and Paul Westphal and prepared to give the players a holiday. After all, the new NBA regular season will not start until November.

The fight only started on the 6th, and it’s only the end of July, so I can relax a little.

Bruce also hurriedly returned to China. He stayed abroad for more than half a year. If he didn't come home, his butt would probably be swollen by his mother.

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In November, Bruce flew back to the United States again. As the team owner, he had to hold a media meeting in advance to prepare the team for the new season.

A media meeting for the team was held at the Island Garden Arena.

Bruce was the only one sitting on the stage in the main seat. The management and players were also sitting below. Specially invited media reporters were also standing on both sides to record videos.

Bruce looked at the people sitting in the audience, and he didn't know how to describe it. In the future, he would be the owner of a team. This was impossible in his previous life, but now his dream has come true.

"Gentlemen, hello everyone, first of all, it's an honor for you to come to the New York Han Chinese players' meeting..."

After introducing the full team players.

Bruce continued.

"Then here I announce the official establishment of the team. Alonzo Mourning will become the first captain of the New York Hans."

Let Alonzo Mourning be the captain in the early stage, and then choose someone else to be the captain in a few years.

Alonzo Mourning has no leadership skills as a captain and is just fine as a thug.

Bruce talked with the team's general manager Mitch Kupchak for a long time about this matter, and then talked with Alonzo Mourning. Mourning also agreed to temporarily act as captain. He knew that he was not the captain.

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"Everyone knows that this year is the first time the New York Hans will play in the NBA."

"So I need the management and players below to do a few things. If they can't do it, please look over there... Players can submit a trade application to general manager Mitch Kupchak."

Bruce pointed to Mitch Kupchak and said.

Bruce set the team's "rules", and many teams later followed these rules, which are definitely a "good medicine" for managing the team.

"I don't care who it is, even if it's the team's top management or a superstar-level player, if you commit the following, I'm sorry, you can leave the team. If you can't do it or are unwilling to do it, you can also find the general manager.

Mitch Kupchak requested a trade."

"1. Neither the management nor the players of the New York Han Chinese are allowed to talk about politics. I know that America is a country of free speech. What I mean is that you are not allowed to publicly make political remarks in the name of the team. Once discovered, the management will be fired directly.

Players will be placed on the injured list, and players will no longer be scheduled to compete during the contract period."

The Rockets' fat guy incident has always been a thorn in Bruce's side. It had not been resolved before he was reincarnated in his past life, so Bruce would not let this happen again.

At this time, there were many voices whispering underneath, as were the media reporters nearby. However, they were told not to interrupt before Bruce spoke, so these media reporters were also holding back.

Bruce doesn't care about this. Today he is here to give the management and team players a blow. In the past, these messy things would always happen in the NBA, so Bruce also wants to purify his team.

"2. Neither the management nor the players of the New York Han Chinese allow racial discrimination or verbal abuse of their family members. Once discovered, the management will directly expel the player, and the player will receive an official notice of criticism and then be traded. I would rather lose the value of the player.

Don’t let a player like this do this to anyone else again.”

"3. Neither the management nor the players of the New York Han Chinese team allow alcoholism, drug abuse, or sex with women to occur. You are professional players. Please respect your sports life. You can do this if you want to. You can retire.

You can play however you want. As long as you are still a player of the New York Hans, you must abide by this law. Once discovered, the same as above."

Privately, there are still players in the NBA who take drugs or play with women. Take the "Eagle County" incident as an example, which almost ruined Kobe Bryant's wise life.

"4. Neither the management nor the players of the New York Han Chinese are allowed to have any prostitutes, friends with wives, or fights with teammates over women. Once discovered, the same as above."

Kidd and his teammates fought over a female star in jealousy, but in the end no one got it, and the players who were originally very united fell apart. Bruce doesn't want to do it again.

"Okay, these four rules above are the rules I have set. If someone breaks it, follow the rules."

After Bruce finished speaking, he sat down and started drinking Coke. After talking for a long time, his face turned red and his neck became thick. He was very tired and needed to take a breather.

However, the following players or media reporters will not give Bruce a chance to rest.

"Boss, I want to ask, if we are verbally abused while playing on the court, can we fight back?"

Bruce raised his eyes and looked at the speaker, Alonzo Mourning. Only this tough guy dared to talk to him like this.

"I would like to reiterate here that I do not agree to respond to violence with violence, and I do not want my team's players to insult the other team's players. I know that many people in the NBA like to talk trash to disrupt the opponent's mood.

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"Of course I don't object to people talking trash, but I don't allow people to racially discriminate against their opponents or insult their family members. You must know that some players in the NBA are from single-parent families, and their mothers or fathers have been working hard to raise them. You are so

You said you can only make the other person fight with you. If you and the other person exchange roles and someone insults your family like this, what would you think?"

"Alonzo just said, since we won't take the initiative to say it, what if the other party takes the initiative to say it? Everyone, look around the arena. As early as October, I had arranged for 16 sound cameras to be placed around the arena.

Shooting the game scenes in the stadium.”

"Whether you are playing at home or away, I will arrange no less than 10 such cameras to film the whole process. If the opponent's players or fans insult your family or racially discriminate, I suggest you go to the referee on duty to explain the situation clearly and let the referee

Definitely, if the other party doesn't do anything or sees it, our legal team of the Tianhan Empire Consortium has already prepared for everyone, and then I will ask the best lip language experts in the United States to translate the other party's language."

All the players and media reporters looked around. They were all cameras.

Bruce's legal team had also been waiting aside for a long time, waving hello.

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After the team press conference.

In fact, many players still want to stay with the New York Hans, but there are too many rules here. Some people are not so aware and want to leave. Since the boss has said that they can be traded, then go ahead and sign up.

The general manager just needs to arrange coaches to make the data more interesting.

Little does Bruce know that today's player conference has already been broadcast live across the country on NBC, which means that almost every family in the United States now knows about it.

There was an uproar. Although Bruce's four rules were tailor-made for the team, there were always a lot of evil elements who used words and made random comments.

After hearing Bruce's remarks, Stern just said, "This brat has nothing to do all day long, causing trouble everywhere, and he still wants me to wipe his ass." After that, he congratulated Bruce for being fined 200,000 by the NBA for improper speech.

USD fine.
Chapter completed!