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Chapter 39 Sign the young marshal!youth storm
Chapter 39: Sign the Young Marshal!The storm of youth blows
Haha!

Hearing this, Jiang Chao laughed directly.

good question!
It was a question he could only lie about.

This is related to Stevens before his time travel.

The real reason is that it doesn't matter what the general manager is, because Stevens himself can be the general manager.

In 2022, Ainge retired, and head coach Stevens was promoted to president of operations.

This instead made him fully unleash his fists.

Because while coaching the Celtics, to some extent, Stevens may have been victimized by his own success in the first two years.

After Isaiah Thomas led this motley team to the playoffs in his second and third years in charge, free agents began to show interest in the Celtics, such as Al Horford (whose He will join the Celtics).

Kevin Durant (he put the Celtics on the list for the final meeting when he picked the team to join)
The following summer, Stevens reunited with his student Gordon Hayward, and in the trade case at the end of August, welcomed Kyrie Irving.

These are actually not what Stevens wants to do. What he wants to do is quietly like the first year, a bunch of rookies, and then cultivate them!
It's all driven by general manager Danny Ainge, who likes to build giant lineups.

Of course, the goal of the Celtics is still to win, but obviously the two work in completely different ways. The lineup coached by Stevens often changes due to Angie's trade changes and injuries.

This has been clearly reflected after Stevens took office as general manager, steadily improving the team's combat power in an orderly manner.

Stevens cleverly used the trade exception to get Josh Richardson;

Signed Dennis Schroeder cheaply with the mid-level exception.Seven months later they traded some of their first-round picks and some of their players for Derrick White and Daniel Theis.

Before Jiang Chao crossed over, the Green Army changed from No. 11 in the Eastern Conference to No. 1 because of this deal. He knew what the team needed very well, and cooperated very well with the head coach Udoka at the time!

The players the Celtics acquired weren't superstars, or even stars, but they were the players Stevens would have wanted to recruit and coach as a coach.

While some criticized him for paying too much to facilitate trades, others praised his ability to quickly and carefully turn players into team members after he found them.

These points coincide with Jiang Chao. Jiang Chao knows that they will become stars in the future, but at least they are all mediocre players now, and Stevens is his favorite and will be cultivated.

How many times have the fans sprayed that double-prospects cannot coexist, but he knows that their playing style and personality and mentality can coexist, so the Celtics have stabilized all the way.

Then the problem is coming.

Why didn't Jiang Chao let Stevens be the general manager with greater responsibility?
Jiang Chao had this idea, and wanted to match the original coach Uduka.

It's just that Udo Kaya, the head coach of the Green Army in later generations, is still playing with the Spurs.

Udoka became the assistant coach of the Spurs 4 years later, and became the coach of the Celtics 21 years later. He changed from a squid to a squid.

So let Stevens flourish in his familiar position.

It's not bad to make him Auerbach of the Knicks!
Jiang Chao couldn't say that in front of the young marshal, he said directly:

"Emmm, I know you are a tactical genius, so I will give you time to fully prepare our team's tactics, so that we will be strong, that's it."

Stevens believed it, and it seemed that the owner really wanted to make a different lineup.

Only a young coach like him will have new ideas.

Jiang Chao also took advantage of the situation and threw out his own shells:

“Actually, the book Influence speaks for itself.

Even if a teacher who has been teaching for decades is not necessarily better at teaching than a new young teacher.

Because decades of coaching have not changed in the comfort zone, anything radical is done according to the way of previous years.

It is obvious that young people are more flexible in thinking and driving in a more reasonable direction, which is why I choose you. "

"You're only in your early 30s, and I'm 20 this year. Let's work together to create a youth storm in the NBA and make trouble!"

Jiang Chao's words moved Stevens completely. What a wonderful young man he is.

It is trust and expectation to directly promote him to the position of NBA head coach!

"I will give you a 5-7-year contract, you can choose by yourself, with an annual salary of 100 million + winning commission + championship bonus."

hiss.
This sincerity!
If the 1-year contract is to see how good you are, then 5 years, except for sincerity.

still.

TMD.

sincerity! ! ! ! !

"I promise you."

"However, I have to go home and ask my family for advice, is that okay?"

"No problem, the family can also move to New York. I have rented you a three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan."

Jiang Chao had been thoughtful for a long time. Before his business trip, he asked people from the HR department to rent a few luxury apartments for recruitment purposes.

He spent the money that should be spent absolutely ruthlessly.

He will buy local real estate for each core employee. What he has now is money, but what he lacks is people's hearts. The long-term rental of luxury houses is to let everyone stabilize their emotions and work hard here.

Moreover, there are multi-room rooms reserved for important positions such as the head coach and general manager, the kind that can never be accommodated by one person.

The meaning is obvious, it will be no problem for your whole family to move here!

Sugar-coated cannonballs, given enough, even the gods want to come down to earth.

You must know that the young marshal has promised the entire hometown thousands of times, "I will never leave Butler because of the handsome position of other schools in my lifetime."

But the handsome position in the NBA is different, which directly shakes him.

"Thank you, Boss Jiang." Stevens raised his head excitedly. The boss has already rented a house for them, and the atmosphere is here.
To be honest, there are at least 2000 head coaches in North America who are similar to him.

There are only 30 NBA head coaches in the world, and there are five or six of them who are as stable as melon skin.

It is an honor for him to choose him.

Thinking of this, he stood up flushed with excitement and bowed and shook hands with Jiang Chao:

"Thank you, Boss Jiang, for your trust. Do you want to have dinner at my house? I'm going to go back and ask now."

"I'm not going, you guys have a good chat. After all, it's a major event in life. I understand that you have to leave your beloved hometown for at least five years."

Jiang Chao himself has not been back to China for a year, and his homesickness gushes out from time to time.

That's why he thought so thoughtfully, wouldn't it be nice to let the young coach move directly to the big ball market?

Their children's studies and circles are much better than those in small cities, and with the income of the head coach, they can live comfortably in New York.

"Okay, there are a lot of delicacies in the school, tell me your name, and I will reimburse you!"

Stevens packed his mobile phone and wallet and walked out of the conference room quickly, and then the team training was handed over to the assistant coach.

He rushed out of the arena directly, ignoring the players who called him, he was afraid that his tears of reluctance would be seen by them, and he was afraid that he would give up such a hard-won promotion job because of them
These are the children he has watched grow up all the way! !
(End of this chapter)