As soon as free agency opened in July, the Wizards became a team in the spotlight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the 1st, they completed a trade with the Clippers, trading Kwame Brown and Bobby Simmons for the Clippers' Corey Magetti to keep the salary equal. A lot of the media think that the Wizards management is crazy, and Jordan is crazy, because everyone knows that if Jordan doesn't nod, the Wizards won't send Brown so easily.

This seems to be about to break the jar and rebuild directly, Brown is the champion, even if he doesn't play well in the first year, most teams will train for two years to tap the potential.

That being said, the media said that in fact, the teams were not interested in Brown, and Clippers manager Elgin Baylor did not want to change at first. Yang Rui called Wizards manager Unseld again and insisted on replacing Margeti, and finally completed the deal, with Simmons as an add-on.

Baylor relented that he planned not to renew Olawokandi's contract after it expired, and the coaching staff had lost faith in Olawokandi, who was developing Kwame Brown on his rookie contract.

As for Brown, who is also recognized as a "parallel import", this is quite suitable for the Clippers, and there is nothing wrong with it......

On the 3rd, the Wizards announced that they had officially signed a contract with Yang Rui with a high salary of 30 million for 5 years, and Mike D'Antoni was also signed.

D'Antoni believes that as long as the Wizards make the playoffs, he will be worth more and pay more attention to his team. The first assistant coach in the Raptors was Thibodeau before, and he was the first assistant coach to the Wizards.

The team held a press conference, and Michael Jordan and manager Unseld were present to welcome Yang Rui. The owner, Abel Boleyn, who is 77 years old and rarely attends press conferences, did not come.

The reporter asked, "Jerry, why did you leave the defending championship team to join the Wizards?" Is it because of any conflict with the Raptors? ”

"No, I have a good relationship with everybody on the Raptors, and before I left Toronto, I had dinner with Glenn and Richard, and we'll be in touch a lot because we're good friends. I joined the Wizards for two reasons, one was for Michael, who came to me very sincerely and offered to join forces, and I wanted to help him leave with glory at the end of his career. ”

Yang Rui's words vaguely revealed that this is Jordan's last season, which will make the Wizards get more attention, if Jordan regrets it in the future and wants to continue to fight for another year, as long as the team's record is good, fans will only be happy and will not feel deceived. He just needs not to be at the bottom of the league after the tour, and make the whole team of newcomers complain.

Yang Rui continued: "The second reason is that I am confident that I can help the Wizards get stronger, and last season the Wizards were 12th in the East, which is very challenging, only slightly better than when I first took over the Raptors, when the Raptors drafted Vince Carter, and now the Wizards have also drafted Amare Stoudamire. ”

The reporter asked: "Do you think Stoudeyer can compare to Carter?" ”

"I'm optimistic about his potential, and this season he will compete with Yao Ming for the best rookie, and I think everyone should also find out, I'm very good at developing rookies." Yang Rui smiled.

Stadameyer is going to the summer league, and if he is there, he will definitely go out of his way to praise Yang Rui when he hears this.

The reporter asked: "Who will be the core of the Wizards in the new season?" ”

"Michael, of course, the Wizards won't bring in big stars in the summer, but they're going to find great role players."

The reporter asked, "What are the goals of the Wizards for the new season?" ”

Yang Rui smiled: "It's certainly hard to make the playoffs because Michael will be 40 years old by the middle of next season, but we'll work together." ”

There weren't many bright spots in these answers, and the reporter who wanted to dig up the big news asked: "As we all know, your best known tactics are fast-paced counter-attacks and creating heads-up opportunities for stars through cover, do you think Jordan can still be the perfect core?" ”

It's a question that even Jordan himself can't answer, and he obviously suffered against young stars last season.

Yang Rui thought for a while and smiled: "What is the biggest element of becoming the core of a team, is technology?" Conscious? Body? Experience? In my opinion, neither, I think the most important thing is focus, determination, perseverance, and mental strength. It's that Michael has always been at the top of the league, and I'm going to fit me with the tactics that work for him, rather than having him do the hard stuff, so his age isn't an issue. ”?

After the press conference, the reporters were a little regretful, they hoped that Yang Rui said that the goal was to win the championship, which would be too explosive.

Yang Rui will not be so stupid, if he really says so, it will make the Wizards the focus of attention, but it will also become the target of attacks by the media and fans, once he loses, even Jordan will lie down.

There is no overwhelming advantage in the lineup, and you can't be too arrogant.

At the time of signing, Yang Rui specially added a clause to participate in the team's publicity, and assigned the job of general manager, just to better promote this season, worried that someone in the team would say the wrong thing.

In Yang Rui's previous life, many people began to hate Jordan because of his two failed seasons with the Wizards. If it's just a poor record, it's not enough to get Jordan off the altar, after all, he has six championship rings and countless personal honors.

However, the Wizards did a terrible job of publicity and got the point wrong.

The Washington News has repeatedly mentioned that the league is not as good as it used to be defensively and confrontationally, and if Jordan is still at his peak, he can average 50 points per game. This is purely bragging, no taxes, and no spray, just with Jordan's three-point ability, how many times do you have to average 50 points per game? Exhaust him.

Now the confrontation is not as good as in the past, how did Jordan's ribs be broken by Artest? And that's just training.

There are also media who say that if Jordan had not retired for the first time, he would have won 8 consecutive championships, and he repeatedly boasted about Jordan's strength at the end of his career, causing young stars to do their best when they met the Wizards and fought to the death.

The most terrible thing is that the Wizards management can't control the mouths of other players, and even some staff members gave anonymous interviews, breaking the news that Jordan has a very stiff relationship with the players and management. Jordan doesn't teach young players by word and deed, he did three trivial things with the Wizards, spray you, spray you, change posture and continue to spray you......

After Hamilton was traded to the Pistons, he broke the news that Jordan would gamble with players on the team, and often gambled with him on shooting. There is gossip that Hamilton was sent away because he won too much gambling and offended Jordan.

In short, the Wizards management has failed to the extreme in promoting this.

Yang Rui plans to play the sad card in the new season to promote Jordan's injury, hard work and dedication.

Kobe Bryant was only 37 years old when he retired, and in the end, he didn't get to the point where fans have been saying for many years, "Kobe Bryant is 38 this year, who is black and who is dead". At that time, the Lakers' record was at the bottom of the league, but the Lakers' ticket prices were sold out like crazy, and the stadium was full, and Kobe Bryant was treated like a hero and was still the All-Star ticket king.

Why is this happening? Because the publicity is good!

The Lakers never mentioned Kobe's shooting percentage, scoring efficiency, the most shots on the team, affecting the growth of newcomers, etc., they talked about Kobe's fighting spirit, said that he was in the Lakers from the beginning, said that he played with injuries, and said that he knew what Los Angeles looked like at four o'clock in the morning.

Yang Rui will have a good talk with Jordan, people should recognize when they are old, and it is more suitable for him to show the enemy as weak than strong as a hero.