Chapter 1473 1472. Three-Year Plan

During the playoffs, Schwartz received instructions from Liu Mang to go to Argentina and contact the power forward of the golden generation and another player named Gasol in Barcelona.

Schwartz also thought that the Argentine player was very capable and would have a very good player of age if he entered the NBA directly, but he had already been selected by other teams.

As for Gasol, Schwartz thought that Liu Mang had a good relationship with Pau Gasol and knew that Pau Gasol's brother was very powerful. Who knew that after he went there, he saw that he was a fat man, 22 years old, and had reached the age to automatically participate in the draft. He was 2.16 meters tall and weighed 135 kilograms. He was not as strong as O'Neal in lower limb muscles, but just a fat man.

Schwartz thought that Liu Mang was fooled by Gasol, and communicated with Liu Mang several times. In the end, he could not beat Liu Mang and could only contact Gasol.

After more than a month and several discussions, Gasol seemed to have discussed it with his brother. In the end, Gasol fired his original agent and joined Liu Mang's agency.

Schwartz is celebrating the signing with Marc Gasol now. Seeing that Marc Gasol is still eating at 135 kg, he has a headache when thinking about Liu Mang's order to find a way to help Marc Gasol lose weight.

Lose weight... First of all, you have to control your mouth!

This fat guy doesn't seem to be able to lose weight...

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After receiving the call from Schwartz, Liu Mang knew that Marc Gasol's contract had been signed.

Now we are waiting for the draft and the free market starting on July 1st.

The current list of the Hawks includes: Liu Mang, Rondo, McGrady, Wade, Jason Terry, Battier, Grant Hill, seven outside players, Marion, Kwame Brown, Gortat, three inside players. To be precise, in Liu Mang's vision, Grant Hill and Battier can play power forward at some time, just like Granger in the past season.

Swift and Blake want to test the free market.

Among them, Blake's rookie contract has just ended. The Hawks made a qualifying offer, but gave Blake the right to contact other teams.

Wade may return in December at the earliest. By then, Blake will definitely not have any chance to play, but it is not a bad thing to keep such a third point guard. Blake has something that Rondo and even Wade can't do. He has a three-pointer that has averaged at least 1 shot per game and a hit rate of 39% since his rookie season.

As for Swift, he wants to try to see if he can get a high salary. When he was cut before, he lost his last year's team option of 5.8 million salary, which he must be unwilling to accept.

Now the Hawks currently have 9 players with guaranteed contracts. Grant Hill's contract renewal is estimated to wait until the summer signings are completed. Anyway, using the veteran minimum salary exception or the two-year exception to renew Grant Hill's contract is on the cap.

After watching a trial training without any surprises, Liu Mang rested for a night. On the 26th, the day before the draft, Liu Mang began to resume training.

Originally, Liu Mang had not planned a clear training direction this summer. It was possible that he would continue to hone his basic skills. As long as he was still playing basketball, he could not relax for a year. No matter what he practiced in the summer, he could not relax his basic skills such as shooting, passing, and footwork.

But during the finals, Liu Mang drew a shooting package with Anthony's three-threat shooting action, and it was also a shooting package with an additional 30% shooting speed bonus, which gave Liu Mang a clear training direction.

The goal of the summer is to develop three-threat shooting!

Anthony's three-threat stance is the core means of his offense. The effect of this shooting package is the same as the effect of the fast shooting master, a skill that Liu Mang has always relied on, which makes Liu Mang very excited.

However, the three-threat play is not practiced by one person, but requires a defender to train better.

Granger is leaving the Hawks, and Liu Mang has to find a new training object.

"Just Rondo center! He has long arms and good defense. I will help him hone his defensive skills. He should be very happy." Liu Mang didn't care whether Rondo would really be happy or not, and decided anyway.

It is expected that he will train with Rondo after the summer business activities, probably around the end of July. Before that, Liu Mang will not be idle.

Normal basic training must be practiced every day, anyway, he is not worried about physical fitness.

Also... he needs to practice the three-threat stance according to Anthony's video. The three-threat stance mainly relies on on-the-spot reaction, but if there is no preparation before practice, Rondo will easily defend it...

Thinking of Prince's expressionless but obviously disgusted eyes, and thinking that Rondo is the same as Prince, both of them are expressionless, Liu Mang does not want to lose face.

At the entrance of the backyard, the little loli watched Liu Mang start training again, so helpless...

Originally, the little loli wanted Liu Mang to take her to the amusement park in Orlando, but Liu Mang had only rested for less than ten days and started training again.

The little loli felt that Liu Mang did not even rest for ten days, and there were all kinds of things every day.

Helpless, but there is no other way. Little Loli knows that Liu Mang's competitive spirit will make him train harder after losing the championship, so she can only come and watch when she is bored.

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"It's a pleasure to work with you. I hope this draft pick can help you..." Price hung up the phone and asked his secretary to send the signed fax from the Pistons to the league headquarters.

"Finally the draft pick was sent out. What was Ace thinking? Wouldn't it be better to just ask for the draft picks for next year and the year after?" Coach Kruger complained.

"This year's draft pick is more valuable than next year's," Price thought of what Liu Mang said about the use of the current No. 15 pick when he went to Liu Mang's house for lunch yesterday at noon, and couldn't help sighing: "Ace is terrible. Our eyes are on this summer, but he has already thought about what will happen three years later. Moreover, he has been thinking about this summer since 2005, when we were the defending champions. It's crazy."

"Yeah..." Coach Kruger thought of some things the boss said when he came to New York together yesterday, and exclaimed: "Six years ago, I brought Ace into the NBA, and I never thought it would develop like this. Fortunately, I made such a decision back then."

"Haha, Ron, if you didn't make that decision, I guess I would have to sell the team now like that guy in the Supersonics."

Coach Kruger smiled and didn't answer Price's words. If it weren't for Ace, he estimated that after Price sold the team, he would probably be unemployed.

Coach Kruger looked at the details of the transaction with the Pistons.

The Hawks sent this year's first-round pick No. 15 and the Hawks' second-round pick next year, and got the Pistons' 2008 first-round top five protected pick and the Pistons' 2010 first-round lottery protected pick.

The Pistons have been trying to trade for a mid-first-round pick to select their favorite point guard. This is no longer news, but the mid-season trade for Billups has not been completed. Now that Billups has opted out of his contract, they can only trade up with the pick.

Unlike most teams, the Pistons are in urgent need of draft picks. After all, Billups is gone and they are in urgent need of a point guard.

When Price made the Pistons a trading target and called to negotiate with them, the other party accepted it without hesitation and was very active in the negotiation. The Pistons were quite surprised that the Hawks did not want this year's draft pick, which seemed to have a lot of talented rookies, but wanted the draft picks in 2008 and 2010. However, the Pistons were naturally happy to keep this year's 19th pick.

With Bosh at the All-Star level, the Pistons must of course rebuild the team as soon as possible while Bosh is still young.

"But Ace has a plan for the future, so there should be no need to worry about the contract renewal." Coach Kruger was relieved.

"That's right..." Price has been the boss for so many years, and he has never seen a player like Liu Mang, not only in his own team, but also in the entire league.

Could Liu Mang not guess the purpose of the management talking to him about McGrady?

At first, he did not expect the management to propose trading McGrady, but after thinking about it for a night, it was easy to understand the management's idea.

In this case, Liu Mang also has to give some response, reveal his ideas about the future, and he wants to control more initiative.

The day of the draft has arrived. Price and Coach Kruger arrived in New York yesterday and talked with the Pistons about the draft pick trade last night.

The Pistons were very anxious. After thinking about whether the chips they paid were worth it, they agreed early this morning.

Now that the deal is done, the Hawks only have one No. 28 pick this year. Coach Kruger asked, "Boss, Ace has not told me who to choose. He said that the target has been told to you. I still don't know who to choose."

Price took out an envelope and said, "I don't know who to choose either. Ace invited me to his house for lunch yesterday and only gave me an envelope. He told me not to open it until the draft."

Open it at the draft? Coach Kruger is itching!

Coach Kruger tempted, "Boss, what if the person Ace wants us to choose is chosen in advance? Let's take a look first."

"Is this really okay? I promised Ace that I must open it before the selection..." Price said so, and his hands began to tear it: "It was you, Ron, who insisted that I look at it first, and I can't stop it. After all, you are the general manager."

"..."

If this guy is not the boss, Coach Kruger wants the guy in front of him to taste the taste of his leather shoes.

Price tore open the envelope, which was a piece of letter paper with a name written on it.

"Marc Gasol? Who is he? Is he a relative of Pau Gasol?" Price asked curiously.

Coach Kruger shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

"Help me check this person." Price said to the secretary next to him.

The secretary moved quickly, looked at the name, found Marc Gasol's information on Wikipedia, and moved the computer screen to the direction of Price and Coach Kruger.

"He is really Pau Gasol's brother! He is a real brother!" Price said in surprise, "Let me see... Gained 25 pounds in a year? 300 pounds? Seriously overweight? Suspended by Barcelona for two weeks and ordered to lose weight? And failed to lose weight? What is this..."

Coach Kruger's eyes widened when he saw the information on Wikipedia!

Especially when the two saw the fat man in the picture next to him... It's amazing!

"Coach, don't worry, there will be no surprise now that you know..."

Coach Kruger thought of Liu Mang's expression when he said this sentence during dinner with him the night before, and finally understood what "surprise" meant!

This is a shock, okay!