Chapter 64

Focusing on the joint trials of rookies, Richard's purpose is not to pick out any good ones

This is the job of scouts, and Richard is no stranger to the '96 draft!

In fact, no fan is new to the draft of 1996. This is the most star producing draft in NBA history. Even Jordan's diamond generation and the platinum generation in 2003 can't produce as many stars as the 96 gold generation.

I'm afraid it's easy for him to say at least five of the 96 generation's stars

Kobe, Iverson, Nash, Ray Allen, Marbury, Camby, Big Ben

Richard, of course, is no exception. He knows that the reason why he pays attention to joint training is to see the situation of his four favorite students in the draft

Iverson, Big Ben, Miller and Rahim!

After the joint trial, it is to start the individual trial of each team. This trial will continue until the start of the draft convention!

As a team ready to knock down the reconstruction, the trailblazers must not be indifferent before the draft Conference

Because the day before the draft conference, the door of the trade market opened, Richard must start to clean up the team without players, in order to exchange for draft rights, or powerful new players!

It can be said that Richard will be very busy in the future

Coach group, trial training, trade, draft, no matter which one or two days can not be completed!

Until now, Richard has realized the difference between NBA and NCAA

Before the start of each new season, the NCAA head coach doesn't have much to do. Most of his work is centered on recruiting new players

But NBA coach is not, need to deal with more affairs!

The key salary is not necessarily as high as the NCAA coach. No wonder those top coaches are not willing to come to the NBA

A fool is willing to do such a job with less money and more work!

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At 9:30 the next day, Richard set out from the hotel that the team rented him. He took Stevens with him to attend the press conference at 10 a.m.

When local reporters in Portland met Richard, the "legendary" coach, they all exclaimed

It looks so young. Compared with the old coaches who look like they are going to die, Richard is definitely a little fresh meat.

In addition, Richard's handsome, but melancholy face made some female reporters under the stage talk to each other and cover their mouths and laugh from time to time.

At ten o'clock, the press conference officially began.

"Friends of the press, I believe you have guessed it out. Today is the day when coach Richard takes the post of our pioneer coach!" Team CMO Huggins opened with a smile and told reporters off the stage.

Reporters are not surprised by the news. In fact, when Richard arrived in Portland yesterday, there was news that Richard would sign with the trailblazers.

"Here is the question time. Please raise your hand to ask..."

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"Mr. Richard, as far as I know, many teams in the league have invited you. What's the purpose of your choice of trailblazers?" A reporter stood up and asked all the reporters some curious questions.

When the NCAA black March ended, at least ten teams' management visited Richard, which was a hot news at that time

But until yesterday, there was no further news.

When reporters thought Richard would continue to take office in NCAA, in a blink of an eye, Richard signed a contract with the trailblazers

"Sincerity, the sincerity of the pioneers moved me!"

"Mr. Richard, according to our understanding of you, does your joining in the trailblazer mean that the trailblazer is ready to start rebuilding?" Another reporter stood up to ask.

Richard nodded slightly on this question, but did not give a specific answer.

Next, the reporters asked Richard what changes he would make to the pioneers, but all of them were prevaricated by Richard

"Mr. Richard, are you in the NBA because of Larry Brown? As you once said, after entering the NBA, Larry Brown will not win the championship in his entire coaching career? " A reporter asked a very sharp question.

Haggins also wanted to get up and block the reporter's further questions.

But he was stopped by Richard. In his opinion, this kind of question is easier to answer

At least easier to answer than those questions about the team building plan!

Can you tell anyone about the team building plan? Definitely not

Tell the media all about your plans. That's not what a fool is

"First of all, I want to make it clear that I didn't enter the NBA because of Larry Brown. In fact, if you don't mention the name, I will even forget the existence of this person...""Oh, by the way, I remember. It's like the first round of the playoffs that just ended. Did his Pacers lose to the sixth Eastern hawk?"

"It's wonderful. The third round was eliminated by the sixth round. It's wonderful. To be honest, if I were him, I would immediately quit my job as head coach..."

"What's more, my original words are still valid. Although I didn't enter the NBA because of Larry Brown, I won't let him win the championship!"

"However, in the current situation, this is a little superfluous, because he didn't have a chance to win the championship..."

Richard jokingly said that he had no respect for a coach like Larry Brown!

And Larry Brown's Liangzi has already been married, and has reached the point of irreconcilable, in this case, Richard even if a little good to Larry Brown, it will definitely be interpreted by the outside world as he is in the confession!

The manager is the spiritual leader of a team, a recognized coach?! Not to mention that other people look down on you, but the players under their own hands look down on you

So Richard will definitely continue to be tough, even if he provokes a group of enemies, even if he will become the public enemy of the League!

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The reporters under the stage looked at Richard in surprise. They thought Richard would be nice to Larry Brown. After all, in the same league, they couldn't look up and look down

But Richard's toughness was obviously beyond the expectation of the reporters!

Richard's attitude has shown that he will definitely fight Larry Brown to the end, and journalists have not continued to pester on this issue and asked other questions instead.

"Mr. Richard, the high school volume of violence black has been completed for nearly a year. Is it time for the University volume to appear?"

Richard was shocked. Unexpectedly, someone asked this question at his inaugural press conference

What's more, Portland has its own readers?!

It's obvious that Richard underestimated the influence of violent black. Now the novel has gained momentum across the United States. In the past year, it has been ranked in the top 50 bestsellers every month!

Seeing Richard's strange face, the reporter who asked questions could not help asking: "Mr. Richard, don't tell me, it's almost a year, you haven't finished writing the University Paper..."

"No, of course it's finished. I just didn't expect that I had readers in Portland..." Said Richard with a smile.

The reporter looked at Richard in surprise

Don't this guy know how hot his violent black is?! Don't say Portland, as long as there is basketball in the United States, someone is reading this book!

"Mr. Richard, this joke is not funny. Don't you know how good the sales volume of this book is? Even if you don't know, won't the dollars in your account tell you? " The reporter said with a smile

Richard is even more confused, the dollar in the account?!

In this era, there was no bank card, no bank balance SMS notification, only passbook account, so Richard went to the bank for a look in the first two months and didn't pay much attention to it later

He clearly remembered that there was a balance of about $3.5 million in the account at that time.

The money includes Richard's 800000 salary in Purdue University for one year, plus the copyright income of hundreds of thousands of high school volumes

Of course, the total amount must be more than that. These are all after tax income, which is directly paid by the publishing house.