When Yang Rui went to Los Angeles to find Thomas Bentley, he was already crazy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Thomas met a lot of celebrities at the wedding, liked to be lively, went to a lot of parties, and found a B-movie actor named Gina Fleck as his girlfriend.

Gina is very beautiful, blonde and blue-eyed, and has a hot body, but unfortunately she has no impression of her name Yang Rui at all, and she should not be very famous in the future, at least not a big-name actress.

Yang Rui has rarely asked about Thomas's private life, but when he heard that he attended Charlie Sean's party, he couldn't help but give his opinion.

"Tom, now that we have money, we have a good life, but there must be a limit to play, and we must not lose ourselves. Someone like Charlie Sheen, I suggest you don't associate with him. ”

"It's not that serious, is it?" Thomas laughed.

"I don't want to visit you in the AIDS hospital in the future, when he may live next door to you, do you think it's serious?" Yang Rui is colorful.

"Don't worry, I'm measured, I won't get on drugs."

"Cannabis doesn't work either."

"Okay, I'll pay attention."

Drug use is widespread in the United States, with about 8% of adolescents taking or having used drugs. In Yang Rui's previous life, as well known as Obama and Clinton, admitted to taking drugs when they were young, but they changed their ways in time and did not become addicted to drugs.

Every year, 40 million people in the United States become ill from alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse, and 460,000 of these deaths are related to drug use. Drug, alcohol and tobacco use costs hundreds of billions of dollars are lost annually in traffic accidents, unemployment, crime and medical bills.

Because of the rapid rise to fame and the amount of money in their hands, many celebrities are obsessed with drugs and regard drug use as a fashionable thing. It's not news that celebrities can always be spotted smoking marijuana or inhaling cocaine through their noses at private parties in Hollywood.

Charlie Sheen is one of the more famous, known as the "Negative Maker". In Yang Rui's previous life, in 2011, he died prematurely due to drug overdose, lost his teeth, and later contracted AIDS.

Even if people just smoke marijuana, they will have some sequelae, slower reactions, worse memory, and the promising NBA player Michael Beasley is just that.

Thomas showed his determination with his actions and returned to the Silicon Valley company to take his heart; Stana gets the role of the movie and goes to act; Yang Rui returned to Toronto alone, worrying about reinforcements.

The Raptors had a tough summer season, with Christie, Maddy, and Hornacek gone, the Raptors had three fewer swingmen, and Carter didn't even have a qualified bench. If Carter switches to shooting guard, the small forward position will have to start for Jhomey-Jones, which will definitely not qualify.

Michael Reid is only a rookie, and it is difficult to ensure consistency in the starter, and it is not enough for him to be a new player.

At the end of July, the Raptors still failed to sign the right players, and other teams were like joining forces to deal with the Raptors, not only spending a lot of money to poach the Raptors, but also not making a trade with the Raptors.

Glenn contacted veteran Sabonis and wanted him to come to the Raptors as a meat shield against O'Neal. But the playmaker, who can shoot basketball, chose to stay with the Trail Blazers and continue to play, even if the team has no future.

His reason is that he is used to living in Portland and does not want to change the environment, and he still wants to continue to play, and he does not want to go to Canada to retire as a marginal person.

The veteran who rejected the Raptors is also swingman Cedric Cebaroz, a former Lakers boss who averaged 16.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game with the Mavericks last season. This is also a disobedient old man, only 31 years old, unwilling to accept the basic salary.

There are also people who took the initiative to contact the Raptors management and recommended themselves, such as Oliver Miller, who played in the Raptors, but Yang Rui disagreed.

Miller's weight is similar to last year's tech stocks, all the way up and down, when he was in the Raptors in '96 and '97, his body size can at least be seen, and now he is 206CM tall, weighs 142 kilograms, and continues to grow.

He may be the most densely populated player in the league's history, and American fans have given him the indecent nickname of the Universe's Super Invincible No. 1 Fat Pig.

Yang Rui doubted his ability, he moved too slowly, and it was useless to simply make a meat shield, what should O'Neill do if he pulled out to block him? Watching a guard drive to the basket?

Another option is the non-draft player Garth Joseph, who is 218cm tall and weighs 143kg, a player born in '73, a white rookie who has a good summer league performance.

Last season's data was too terrifying, and the management felt that they needed strong men to fight against him, and the famous ones were too expensive, so they could only find this kind of one that no one wanted.

This was also denied by Yang Rui, he didn't have the impression of Gas-Joseph, and his strength was not good.

Yang Rui proposed to exchange cash for a second-round rookie, and the Rockets originally wanted to send Nahura to the Mavericks, but when they saw that the Raptors wanted it, they directly kept it as a baby.

For three consecutive years, Yang Rui has brought out excellent newcomers, and the players he fancied were directly identified by other team management as having potential to be tapped. Pistons management was adamant about keeping Brian Cardinal for that reason too.

In exchange for this year's rookies, Yang Rui raided the free market list, and also checked the rookie information of previous seasons to see if there were any free agents who played famous in the past life and are now unattended.

On August 1, Yang Rui and Glenn Gruward met in the manager's office.

Glenn smiled wryly and said no. "Jerry, I'm really sorry to have you come back from the holidays, I didn't expect this summer to be so difficult."

"It's okay, I'm not here to ask the teacher when I come back, the key is to solve the problem, isn't it? Those who don't want to join the Raptors, we don't need to force it, and the teams that don't want to trade, they may not be able to use those people who stay. I don't care about that. Yang Rui smiled.

Glenn was immediately relieved, he felt that with this calm bearing, Yang Rui was worthy of the best coach award, not inferior to any famous coach. In the past, the head coach of the Raptors led the team to poor results, and he knew that complaining and shirking responsibility was too big.

Glenn asked, "How?" Do you have someone you want to bring in? ”

"There are four candidates, and if there is no big surprise, they can all sign smoothly." Yang Rui smiled: "And you don't have to worry about the salary exceeding the standard, the four of them don't need a big contract." ”

Yang Rui wrote down the player information on a piece of paper with a brief introduction and handed it to Glenn.

The first is the 37-year-old veteran swingman Mario Elie, who is 196CM tall and weighs 95 kilograms, who won the championship in the '94 and '95 seasons with the Rockets, and the 99-year championship with the Spurs, and has a lot of experience in the playoffs.

Last season, he started 79 regular season games with the Spurs, averaging 28.1 minutes per game, 7.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists.

The Spurs did not renew Mario's contract because he was in poor form in the playoffs, averaging 7.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists in a series with the Suns, averaging 7.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.8 assists while shooting 27.3% from the field and 14.3% from three-point range.

Yang Rui explained: "I think his poor playoff performance is because Duncan is out, the Spurs don't have a star who can attract the bag on the offensive end, can't open up space, he's good at playing off the ball, and the shooting percentage is so low. The Raptors are the defending champions, and I think he'll be interested. And the Raptors' tactics suit him, and he should be able to see it. ”

"Then I'll contact his agent in a moment."