Bishop of the Devil

　　Following the joint trial training of the rookies, Richard's purpose is not to pick out some good seedlings from it......

　　 This is the job of scouts, and Richard is no stranger to the 1996 draft!

In fact, any fan is not unfamiliar with the 96-year draft. This is the most drafted NBA history. Even for Jordan’s diamond generation and 03-year platinum generation, the number of stars they produce is not On 96 golden generation.

　　 Ran a fan, let him talk about the 96 generation of stars, I am afraid I can easily say at least five...

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

　　Richard is naturally no exception. He is well-known to powerful rookies. The reason why he pays attention to the joint trial is actually to see how his four proud disciples participate in the draft...

　　 Iverson, Omoto, Miller and Rahim!

　　 And after the joint trial, it is to start the individual trial of each team. This trial will continue until the start of the draft conference!

　　The Blazers, as a team preparing to overthrow the reconstruction, must not be indifferent before the start of the draft...

　　Because the day before the draft conference opened, the trading market door opened, Richard must start to clean up the players who are not used in the team, in order to use it as a bargaining point in exchange for draft rights, or a powerful rookie!

　　 It can be said that for a period of time in the future, Richard will definitely be too busy to deal with...

　　The coaching staff, trial training, trading, drafts, no matter what, can not be completed in a day or two!

　　 Until this moment, Richard was really aware of the difference between NBA and NCAA...

　　 Before each new season begins, the NCAA head coach actually does not have much to do, most of the work revolves around recruiting new people...

　　 But NBA coaches are not, they need to deal with more affairs!

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

　　Fools are willing to do this kind of work with less money and more work!

　　……

　　At 9:30 the next day, Richard departed from the hotel the team rented to him, and took Stevens to prepare for the press conference at 10 am.

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

　　 is really too young. Compared with the old coaches who seem to be on the verge, Richard is undoubtedly a small fresh meat.

　　 Coupled with Richard's heroic hair, but with a trace of melancholy face, some female reporters under the stage whispered and laughed from time to time.

　　It was ten o'clock and the press conference officially started.

　　 "Reporter friends, I believe you have all guessed it. Today is the day when Coach Richard took office as our Blazers head coach!" Team CMO Hudges said to the reporters at the beginning with a smile.

　　 The reporters were not surprised by the news. In fact, when Richard arrived in Portland yesterday, the news that Richard would sign the contract with the Blazers had already come out.

　　 "The following is the question time, please raise your hand to ask questions..."

　　……

　　 "Mr. Richard, as far as I know, many teams in the league have invited you. What is the purpose of your choice of pioneers?" A reporter stood up and asked questions that all reporters were curious about.

　　When NCAA black ended in March, at least the management of ten teams came to visit Richard, which was a great news at the time...

　　 But until yesterday, no further news was heard.

　　When reporters thought that Richard would continue to serve in the NCAA, in the blink of an eye, Richard and the Blazers signed a contract...

　　 "Sincerity, the sincerity of the Blazers touched me!"

　　 "Mr. Richard, according to our understanding of you, does your joining the Blazers mean that the Blazers are ready to start rebuilding?" Another reporter stood up and asked.

　　This question Richard nodded slightly, and did not answer specifically.

　　Next, the reporters asked some questions about what changes Richard would make to the Blazers, but they were all fooled by Richard...

"Mr. Richard, is it because of Larry Brown that you entered the NBA? As you said, after entering the NBA, Larry Brown will not get the championship for the entire coaching career?" A reporter Asked extremely sharp questions.

　　 Hudgens had originally thought of blocking the reporter's further questions.

　　 But was stopped by Richard, in his view, 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? Certainly not...

　　Tell the media all your plans, that’s not a fool...

　　 "First of all, I want to clarify that I did not 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..."

　　 "Ah, yes, I think of it. It seems that the first round of the playoffs just ended. The Pacers he led lost to the sixth eagle in the East?"

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

　　 "Also, my original statement was still valid. Although I didn't enter the NBA because of Larry Brown, I would not let him win the championship!"

　　 "However, judging from the current situation, I am a little redundant, because he had no chance to win the championship..."

　　Richard joked that he did not have the slightest respect for a coach like Larry Brown!

Liang Zi and Larry Brown's Liangzi have already been settled, and have reached an irreconcilable point. In this case, even if Richard is slightly good to Larry Brown, it will definitely be interpreted by the outside world as he is admonishing him. !

　　 The head coach is the spiritual leader of a team, a head coach? ! Let’s not talk about whether others will despise you, that is, the players under their hands are probably despised...

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

　　……

　　 The reporters in the audience looked at Richard in surprise. Originally they thought that Richard would show his favor to Larry Brown. After all, in the same league, I didn’t look up and look down...

　　 Richard's toughness is obviously beyond the expectations of the reporters!

　　Richard's attitude has already shown that he will definitely torture with Larry Brown, and the reporters will not continue to entangle on this issue and instead ask other questions.

　　 "Mr. Richard, the high school volume of Violent Black has been completed for almost a year. Is it time for the university volume to be available?"

　　Richard Richard~www.readwn.com~ I didn't expect someone to ask this question at his inaugural press conference...

　　 Even more unexpected is that Portland even has its own readers? !

　　Obviously Richard underestimated the influence of "Violent Black". Now that the novel has gained momentum across the United States, it has been ranked among the top 50 best-selling books every month in the last year!

　　 Seeing Richard looks strange, the reporter who asked the question could not help but ask: "Mr. Richard, don't tell me, it's almost a year, you haven't finished the university paper..."

　　 "No, of course it was finished. I just didn't expect that I even have a reader in Portland..." Richard said with a smile.

The reporter from the audience looked at Richard with surprise...

　　Don't this guy know how hot his "violent black" is? ! Not to mention Portland, as long as there are basketball places in the United States, someone is reading this book!

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

　　Richard was even more embarrassed, the US dollars in the account? !

　　Because there was no bank card in this era, and there was no SMS notification of bank balance, only the passbook account, so Richard also went to the bank to look at it for the first two months, and there was not much attention later...

　　 He clearly remembered that the account had a balance of about 3.5 million US dollars.

　　The money includes Richard’s 800,000 salary for one year at Purdue University, plus the copyright income of the hundreds of thousands of high school volumes...

　　 Of course, the total amount must be more than that, these are after-tax income, the tax paid directly by the publisher.