The news that Min Congda announced that he would become the head coach of the Clippers caused shock in the league.
The last person to become a head coach part-time from the general manager position was Popovich.
He served as the general manager for two years from 1994 to 1995, and then became the Spurs head coach in 1996.
Then he has been in these two positions until now, becoming the godfather of the Spurs.
Popovich was 37 years old when he held both positions, which is very young.
Min Congda is even younger than him, only 33 years old.
There are comments from all sides, and some people believe that the Clippers will reach a turning point this season.
But some people think that Min Congda is so happy that he should be the head coach if he is not a good manager.
The famous NBA Twitter comment account NBA-Batman broke the news: "The original intention within the Clippers was to let Steve Kerr serve as the head coach, but Smart announced himself as the head coach of the Clippers without consulting others. The coach fully reflects his arbitrary character. The Clippers' performance in the new season is worrying."
Everyone is puzzled as to why this mysterious account works so hard for Black Clippers and Min Congda.
It has been more than a month since the NBA officially sued Twitter and NBA-Batman.
Twitter still cannot find the owner of NBA-Batman and refuses to ban it because the United States has freedom of speech.
In the end, the tweet posted by NBA-Batman about Stern fixing the game was deleted, that's all.
Until now, the FBI has been involved in the investigation and has no clues about Donaghy's death or the true identity of NBA-Batman.
As the publicity gradually subsided, the incident was gradually forgotten by people.
Of course, the FBI will not give up its investigation of this matter easily.
The NBA and FBI are inextricably linked.
Stern has a deep network of relationships in the FBI, because to maintain such a super sports league brand that spreads across the United States and has global influence, it is far from enough to rely solely on laws, contracts, and money.
In the 1970s, the NBA was deeply mired in drugs, violence, and gang organizations.
After that, Stern made a lot of efforts to purge the alliance, and naturally needed the help of the police and the FBI.
Later, Stern could even monitor the daily life of each rookie to ensure that these black guys with overflowing hormones, low cultural level, and getting rich overnight would not do anything outrageous and destroy the good of the NBA. image.
Anthony became a star within a few years of entering the league and was quite arrogant.
He liked to show off his gang affiliation to others and even distributed DVDs to gang members in Baltimore.
After being punished for the brawl in Madison, New York, he didn't know the bounds of justice and actually called Stern to question him.
As a result, Stern told him, "I know exactly where you live, where your friends live, what time you wake up every day, and what you do. Please be honest!"
This scared the young Anthony to death, and then he realized that this short Jewish old man had been able to control the league for decades, and he was really not a vegetarian.
After falling down due to illness, Stern gradually recovered, but he was in no rush to return to his job as president.
The newly appointed acting president Adam Silva continues to preside over various tasks for the new season.
After Silva learned that Min Congda had become the head coach of the Clippers, he made a special call.
On the one hand, Silva expressed concern and congratulations on Min Congda becoming the head coach, and on the other hand, he also reminded him.
"Smart, you have to be more careful when playing games in the future. The referee can call the head coach a technical foul, so don't do anything impulsive. By the way, have you finished your psychological treatment?"
"Psychological treatment? Oh, it's over. Ms. Mia has given me a recovery diagnosis. Don't worry, I'm fine!"
"Okay, then I wish you all the best in your coaching job."
"OK, if I do something wrong or bad, don't be polite and punish me hard!"
Another advantage of being a head coach is that he will be under the jurisdiction of the referee.
As a general manager, I was considered a spectator on the sidelines. If I wanted to have a conflict with the referee, I had to go up and take action.
Now that he is a coach, he can just use his words. When the time comes, Min Congda will be given a technical foul or ejected.
This is much more comfortable and convenient than doing it manually. After all, it is very unseemly to put a popcorn bucket on the referee's head.
The league will ban him from playing and require him to undergo psychological treatment, which is really annoying.
According to NBA regulations, a technical foul will result in a fine.
The first through fifth offenses carry a fine of $2,000 each.
Sixth through tenth fouls, $3,000 each.
Eleventh through fifteenth fouls, $4,000 each.
The sixteenth technical offense was fined $5,000 and suspended for one game.
After the 16th, each will be fined 5,000 US dollars, and every two will be suspended for one game.
Min Congda calculated an account for himself. There are 82 games in a season. If he reaches the full number of technical fouls, he will be ejected for two fouls in every game.
Then he will be fined US$215,000, equivalent to more than 1.6 million yuan, and will miss 33 regular season games due to suspension.
Of course, Min Congda knew that it would be too much to commit two technical fouls every game.
But more than 16 is a must. If there are 16 technical fouls, the penalty is $50,000.
Thinking about it this year, the number of losses due to the shortened schedule this year has decreased, and thus the situation of insufficient wages for losses can be alleviated.
The Clippers lost 35 games last season, and Min Congda only received $70,000 in losing wages.
The income is entirely supported by fines from the league and Apple stock dividends.
Even so, his current savings are not enough to buy a house in downtown Los Angeles.
High housing prices in big cities are really unfriendly to working-class people.
Min Congda seems to work for the Clippers, with dual positions and dual salaries.
In fact, he was working for the system, and the system's boss made Min Congda's business miserable with just this little money.
Not to mention coaches like Dunleavy and Cole, who earn millions of dollars a year.
The annual salary of an assistant coach is hundreds of thousands of dollars at least.
The shooting coach specially hired by Jeff Ball is priced at one million US dollars a year.
Thinking that he had to work a lot and it was so difficult to earn a salary, Min Congda had no enthusiasm for work.
Anyway, he became the head coach just to show off, and he was late on the first morning of training as the head coach.
Called and asked Steve Kerr to host the team training and he would come over for lunch.
After lunch, the team conducted tactical training for the whole team in the afternoon, and Min Congda watched the whole process.
All the training content was led by Cole, Kim Hughes and others, and Min Congda said nothing.
After the training, it is reasonable to hold a regular meeting of the coaching working group to summarize the results of today's training and arrange tomorrow's training plan.
Because the summer league and preseason games were canceled and the regular season started directly on January 10th, the training schedule was very intensive and the volume was large.
As a result, Min Congda said: "Everyone is very tired. Stop the meeting and go home to rest!"
Everyone was asked to leave the training facility, and Curry, Harden and others were not even allowed to practice additional times.
All teams are training intensively, but only the Clippers look like they spend three days fishing and two days drying nets.
Fisher, a veteran of the newly joined team, was puzzled and asked Cole: "Has the Clippers' training always been so loose?"
Cole said: "Uh... no, Smart probably wants everyone to have a good rest."
"But we all took an extra half year off."
"Believe Smart, the Clippers have always been slow to start."
Judging from the performance of the first two seasons, the Clippers are indeed slow to gain momentum and always exert their strength in the middle and late seasons of the season.
In fact, the reason is very simple, because Min Congda always messes up in the early stages of the season.
As a result, in the middle and late stages, the team's inertia was too great to stop the car, and it became what it is now.
This season Min Congda decided to put the brakes on from the beginning of the season. I don't believe that the team can still do well!
Time flies to January 10th, and the Clippers' opening game is the same as last season, still playing the Trail Blazers.
But this time it was an away game against the Trail Blazers, and Min Congda flew to Portland with the whole team.
After a season, Min Congda wanted to test the current level of the Clippers through the Trail Blazers.
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