Chapter 570: The Future Little Overlord Becomes a Younger Brother
The next day, at 9 a.m., the league announced the national live broadcast schedule of each team for the new season.
In 2002, in January of this year, the NBA reached a new broadcast contract with several major television broadcasters. A six-year contract of US$4.7 billion, with a yearly income of nearly US$800 million, was distributed to each team.
There is also 27 million U.S. dollars. The market value of the entire NBA league has skyrocketed, and the salary cap for the new season has also increased to 43.5 million U.S. dollars.
Ten years ago, when Pharaoh first entered the league, the salary cap was only over 12 million US dollars. Ten years later, it had skyrocketed three to four times, and the market value of each team also skyrocketed several times.
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The number of live broadcasts across the United States represents huge benefits. The more games there are, the easier it is to win the favor of big advertisers. Teams with few games can only get some small profits from small local advertisers.
This time the Lakers ranked first with 51 nationally broadcast games, the Knicks second with 50 games, the Nets third with 42 games, and the Trail Blazers fourth with 38 games.
The Suns will have 32 national live broadcast games in the new season. Compared with 8 games last season, it has quadrupled. The effect of Wang's comeback and return to the Suns will be immediate.
However, compared with the previous Suns and Lakers, 32 games were broadcast live across the United States, which is really too few.
Although the league does not want to support the Suns, and Stern does not want to support Pharaoh now, the league cannot influence several major television broadcasters. The reason why the major broadcasters only give the Suns 32 national live broadcasts is for one reason. They believe that the Suns and
Lao Wang can no longer attract fans.
Lao Wang's record and personal data are still the first in history, but that is history. He is also a center. After his state declined, he lost his previous violence and ferocity, and lost his enjoyment. Now he is one of the four shooting guards.
In this era, broadcasters also think that he is a thing of the past.
This live broadcast shows that TNT and other major television broadcasters are really not optimistic about the Suns in the new season, let alone Wang's status after his comeback.
However, the Suns still got 32 games, which also shows that several major broadcasters believe that Wang still has a certain influence, but it is far less than a year ago.
At this time, Lao Wang’s evaluation of the four shooting guards in an interview with the media at the gate yesterday also made the front pages of many media.
"Kobe, Old K said you are the top four shooting guards, what do you think?" Many reporters approached Kobe.
"This is really rare. He rarely praises me. Now I know that he will only praise me if I am not standing next to him." Kobe said.
Many reporters also interviewed the other three shooting guards.
"Allen, Old K said that he most hopes to cooperate with you. Do you think this proposal is attractive to you?" the reporter asked.
"I think he can join Philadelphia, and I'm looking forward to joining forces with him. He symbolizes an era, and he belonged to him in the 1990s. If I fight with him, it will inspire me even more. He is a thing of the past, and I hope
Under his inspiration, it became the present tense and the future tense." Iverson said with excitement.
"Old K thinks Kobe is the strongest among the four shooting guards. Do you have any opinion?" the reporter asked.
Iverson shrugged and said: "That's Old K's personal opinion. Everyone has the right to express his or her own opinion, right?
If Kobe was not with Old K, he would not have won four championships. Time will prove that I will not lose to him."
This noon, the Suns returned to Phoenix after finishing their preseason games.
In the afternoon, Lao Wang received a guest at home, Patrick Ewing.
It can be seen that King Kong, who is forty years old and still has nothing to gain, has a miserable face. Just this face full of misery can allow a top Hollywood director to make a blockbuster disaster movie.
Lao Wang wanted to make fun of him, but he couldn't say it, so he stopped attacking King Kong and comforted him: "King Kong, don't worry, you can stay with the Suns until you are fifty at most. We will definitely do it." The one who won the championship.”
Ewing's old face fell. Your grandma is fifty years old. At fifty years old, my coffin board is half covered. Are you lying on the bed playing ball?
"Ha ha!"
After teasing, Lao Wang quickly said: "I promised Reggie Miller, why doesn't he come?"
Ewing shook his head and said: "He wants to persevere to the end, one person and one city, and not give in to the championship."
Lao Wang sighed: "It's a pity that neither you nor I can persevere."
After saying this, he added: "But so what if one person, one city? I play basketball, and chasing the highest honor is the first goal. I don't regret leaving the Suns."
Ewing nodded and said: "I want to try what it feels like to lift the O'Brien Cup."
"..."
There was deep sadness in the words, and Lao Wang couldn't help but fall silent.
Having won 6 championships in 9 years, he could not understand Ewing's feelings of not winning a championship in 17 years. In terms of honors, they were so different that they had no common language and couldn't even talk about it to comfort him.
After thinking about it, he comforted him: "King Kong, you have been in the limelight recently. Being in the Gold Club has attracted more attention than winning the championship. I think that's not bad."
"..."
Ewing stared at Lao Wang, like a furious King Kong about to explode, with both fists clenched.
"Ha ha……"
Lao Wang collapsed on the sofa with a smile.
On the 22nd, the official training camp opens, which also means that the new season is about to begin.
A quarter before 9 a.m., Lao Wang had already arrived at the headquarters.
I walked along the familiar road to the training hall and greeted the staff I met from time to time. Some of them I didn’t recognize, and some were old people from before.
But he was early, and his teammates were earlier. When they arrived at the locker room of the training hall, even Ewing had already arrived.
When I opened the door and saw him coming, everyone including Ewing stood up.
Lao Wang walked into the familiar locker room and looked at his teammates. Except for Ewing and Randy Brown who entered the league earlier than him, and Tom Gugliotta in the same year as him, the others were all juniors, which gave him a I feel like I'm old.
He was sizing up other people, and others were sizing up at him.
Nash was very emotional. When he participated in the draft, Old K was already famous everywhere. Later, he dominated an era, created a dynasty, surpassed Jordan and became the first man in history. If it hadn't been for a sudden and serious injury, I don’t know how great old K will be now.
Penny Hardaway, Jordan's successor at the core of the Magic's competition with O'Neal, is now plagued by injuries and has long since lost the pride and spirit he once had. Looking at Old K, he felt even stronger in his heart.
He was also seriously injured, but Old K had already climbed to the top of the league before he was seriously injured, and the top in history, but he has achieved nothing so far.
However, no matter how great a person is, he has fallen into the mortal world just like him. He simply cannot understand why a rich and honorable person like Old K wants to come back?
Marion, Joe Johnson, including Stoudemire, looked at Old K. They all had their own thoughts at this moment.
But it doesn't matter what they think, because no matter what they are doing now, they have no place to speak in front of Lao Wang.
This has nothing to do with strength, just based on seniority. Even if they become the most powerful people in the Suns in the future, when they enter the locker room, they will still have to be under Lao Wang and obey his management.
From the first moment Lao Wang stepped into the locker room, he was the leader of the locker room.
"From now on, I decide everything here."
Lao Wang said this with a smile and a casual tone. After finishing speaking, he sat beside him, under the first wardrobe next to the door, and placed his sports backpack at his feet.
He didn't even look to see if the name on the wardrobe belonged to him, because he believed that it must be his name, and there was no second possibility.
However, when he said these words, Marion and others felt the domineering force and power coming towards them, making them somewhat breathless.
It is the boss who decides everything. What is a boss? He is the leader of the locker room and the core of the field. He has the final say in the team. This is the boss.
"Call me boss?"
At this time, Ewing, who couldn't hit a fart with three punches, actually spoke.
This change surprised Old Wang. He raised his head and glanced at Ewing. This old man has changed. He can actually flatter him?
"Boss."
Only then did a group of Suns players react and shouted.
"Um."
Lao Wang sat there and nodded, raised his hand and hooked his fingers at Stoudemire, and said: "Rookie, come here and help me organize the wardrobe."
"ah?"
Stoudemire didn't react.
"Go quickly, rookie, the boss is calling you." The clever Marion pushed the high school student.
Only then did Stoudemire react. He quickly stepped forward and opened the closet door behind Lao Wang. He took a look and said, "Boss, it's empty inside. How do you organize it? I'll get it."
Get a towel and wipe it off?"
Lao Wang was speechless and threw his bag at the high school student's feet and said, "Put it away for me."
"oh oh."
Stoudemire acted quickly and finished the task clumsily. In the late October temperature, he was already sweating profusely.
He is 9 years younger than Old K. When Old K became famous in the NBA, he was still a child and watched Old K destroy the entire NBA league. Now he is playing next to Old K. For him,
, is an honor, so I am very nervous.
"Boss, it's sorted." After finishing it, he nervously said to Lao Wang.
"Not bad, there is potential."
Lao Wang, who was chatting with Ewing, nodded and praised him.
"Thank you for the compliment, boss."
Stoudemire stepped into the role of younger brother very quickly and thanked him right away.
He himself is extremely talented, very proud, and does not easily convince others, but Old K is the number one player in the history of the league. Even if he knows that Old K is not as strong as before, his status in the league is still 108 levels higher than that of a rookie like him.
, being able to receive a compliment from Old K is a reward for him, and he is very proud.
After changing their equipment, under the leadership of Lao Wang, the Suns players came to the training ground.
The management and coaching staff are waiting for them. After everyone arrives, the management will speak first.
Mrs. John trusted little Colangelo so much that she not only appointed him as the general manager, but also served as the team's vice president and was actually in charge of the team, so he gave the speech.
After the players lined up, he stood at the front, that is, in front of Lao Wang, and said with a smile: "Gentlemen, the new season has begun, and our Phoenix Suns will also have a brand new and promising team.
season, because we welcomed back the Sun King who belongs to Phoenix."
"Pa bang bang..."
The management group clapped their hands excitedly first, and then the players who were not aware of it applauded. There was no excitement from the management at all.
None of these players were players when Old K was with the Suns, so they have no emotion at all about the return of the Sun King and cannot be excited at all.
After Colangelo Jr., head coach D'Antoni also said a few words, and finally Wang also said a few words, which was considered to have completed a process.
Then the management leaves and the coaching staff starts arranging training sessions.
First, move your body for fifteen minutes, and then conduct a physical test. The purpose of this physical test is to allow the coaching staff to fully understand the physical condition of the players after an offseason.
"Why doesn't Lao K take a physical test?"
"He is the boss, so he still needs to take a physical test?"
Seeing that Lao Wang was practicing hook shots and had no intention of coming for a physical test, the players started talking quietly.
Xiao Fan heard this and explained: "The coaching staff has already obtained Lao K's physical test data, so there is no need to conduct another physical test."
Marion and others also wanted to see the current status of Old K, the number one man in history, from the physical test data, but now that they can't see it, they can't help but feel a little regretful.
The physical test was conducted at ten o'clock, and it was almost noon when it was completed. Training continued in the afternoon, and all players had meals at the headquarters.
Old K took a look at Ewing's physical test data and found that the old guy was really in trouble. At the age of forty, he would probably have to retire next year.
The management only gave Ewing a one-year contract and will probably not give Ewing another contract. Therefore, if he fails to win the championship this season, there is a high probability that Ewing will never win a championship. If that happens, there is nothing he can do.
The only blame is that Ewing himself signed a four-year contract with the Pacers. If he had signed two years less, he would have won the championship with the Lakers.
"Old K, is there hope for this season?" While eating lunch, Ewing suddenly stopped and asked in a serious tone.
Lao Wang secretly sighed, "Are you bothered? You asked me at least ten times at my house yesterday, and now you're here again?"
"Don't worry, King Kong, I won't let you down. You haven't played in the Western Conference Finals yet, right. I will definitely let you play in the Western Conference Finals this time. I keep my word." He said.
Ewing's forehead was throbbing with veins. I've been in the Eastern Conference. Of course I can't make it to the Western Conference Finals. Also, I'm not going to make it to the Western Conference Finals. What I want is the Finals and the championship. Don't lower my standards.
!
Marion next to him glanced at Lao Wang, then at Ewing, lowered his head and smiled.
Lao Wang took a look at Marion and felt that this guy and King Kong should be close relatives.
"Sean..." he said.
"Ah, boss, if you want anything, do you want soup or salad? I'll get it for you," Marion said in a confused voice.
"How is your offensive ability with the ball?" Lao Wang asked.
"this?"
Marion said awkwardly: "It's okay."
Lao Wang looked at Marion, nodded and said: "I am also a man, and I understand that men don't want to say that they are not good, but if you are really not good at this, don't insist on it."
"ah?"
Marion was stunned. Boss, what exactly do you think I'm bad at? Don't mislead others!
"Pfft!"
Others laughed.
D'Antoni was at another table. After hearing the conversation here, he put down his knife and fork and said: "Sean does have the ability to shoot three-pointers. His cutting dunks and throws are good, and he also has fast break ability, and
Defensively, he can even play the four position."
"Isn't it a little shorter?" Lao Wang said.
"At 201 centimeters, he is indeed a little short and too thin to be able to carry people." Van Gundy Jr. said.
Everyone chatted and ate, and rested for an hour after eating. It was almost two o'clock before returning to the training ground to continue training.