NOVEL WEB i am legend
Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Throughout September, Bruce lived a fulfilling life. Under Cole's rigorous preparations for the film "Slim Girl", the roles and director's work in the film were selected!
And Bruce also paid a lot of attention to this Miracle Film and Television's virgin movie. Even a small extra actor, he told Cole very rigorously.
In his memory, this movie can be regarded as a movie with a small cost and a large income, and he is extremely vague about the actors and directors in it. In his previous life, he only saw it occasionally in an article, so the choice of the director and actors Extremely cautious.
Bruce returned to Oakland, picked up the thousands of newspapers on the table, casually read the media's reports on the labor negotiations, and put them aside.
The document on the other side made him scratch his head. It was about Tel Aviv Sprewell's trade application.
This trade application was placed in the team manager's office long before Bruce fully took over the Warriors. Now that he is a little free, he can't help but think of this difficult document!
"What a crazy guy!" Bruce reluctantly picked up the information about Sprewell, and couldn't help but recall the famous case in his mind!
During a practice during the 1997 season, Carlesimo was the head coach of the Golden State Warriors when he was attacked by Latrell Sprewell.
In the incident, Sprewell grabbed Carlesimo's neck for 15 seconds before being pulled away by several teammates and elbowing him minutes later, narrowly escaping the serious " Screaming coach "choke to death!"
The Warriors then imposed a decision not to pay him a dollar salary, and the league also had such a bad influence on him, giving him the strongest ticket in league history, banning Sprewell from participating in the remaining 68 games.
"It can't all be blamed on this irritable guy!" Some Bruce, who knows Sprewell's character, still understands this guy's approach. A star was mercilessly accused and preached by the head coach, and even more The whole team shouted mercilessly, even an ordinary player would be a little disgusted, let alone this guy has a weird and violent personality!
"It's really difficult!" Bruce said the same words again. Although his memory told him that the Knicks would accept this irritable guy, he still wanted to get some extra from Sprewell. reward.
When Bruce was worrying about Sprewell's deal, there was finally good news from Cole!
"Man, the final preparations for this film have finally been completed, and the official shooting will begin in October!" Cole excitedly talked about his final results. After being advised by Peter Jackson in his spare time, he has directed many films in particular. Robert Iskoff of the American Academy of Sciences to direct this multi-element teen comedy film.
What puzzled Bruce even more was that when Cole named the two leading actors, he couldn't help but fell into the only memory of the movie!
Hearing Cole excitedly talking about the preparation plan, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind. To his surprise, Cole actually invited the original crew to create this movie by a very coincidence!
"Dear Cole, you are such an omnipotent genius!" Bruce sincerely admired Cole's ability, even if it made him think about it, he never thought that this film with a global box office of over [-] million was reborn after him. The post-horror brought those original works together in various ways.
"Of course!" Cole said without humility.
"Then let's start a big fight!" Bruce waved his arms excitedly, as if he had already seen those Mr. "Washington" exuding the smell of ink!
October is an eventful season. The NBA has been underestimated by many fans and media time and time again. The lockout seems to have settled down. Even though there were several small negotiations during the period, the two sides have never been able to reach an agreement!
The stalemate between the two sides lasted until the end of December, which was Christmas Eve on December 12th. All games will be cancelled.
Since the NBA officially announced the cancellation of the All-Star Game on December 12, players with ordinary salaries in the league were the first to feel unprecedented pressure.
When Stern issued the ultimatum, ordinary players in the entire league attacked the players union at the same time. Taking "we were betrayed by these people" as the flashpoint, the entire players union was in the midst of splitting and subversion!
Holding the fax from the NBA official in his hand, Bruce was not only not worried at all, he also laughed out loud!
"Is it finally over?" Bruce threw the fax into the trash can excitedly, and cheered loudly: "Thank you to the arbitrator, and thank you to those superstars who made sacrifices!"
The biggest turning point of the entire negotiation came in the judgment of the arbitrator. Previously, because the two sides refused to give in at all, the arbitration committee strongly intervened and even ruled that the NBA team did not have to pay the players nearly half of the season's salary. The ultimatum, the entire ordinary players completely broke out.
Bruce walked excitedly on the lawn outside his residence, glanced at the Bay Bridge in the distance between the sea, and glanced at the couple holding a beautiful leaflet 50 meters away, and said expectantly: "Slim Girl It will definitely be a success!"
Since the filming started, Bruce told Cole to prepare for publicity. In the era of information explosion in his previous life, he knew the importance of advertising.
In his previous life, this youth comedy that swept the world with over 1000 million US dollars received so much box office due to the low promotional expenses. Now Bruce, who knows the importance of advertising, uses 200 million of the 400 million US dollars budget on the basis of the original budget. The publicity fee increased to 1200 million, and the total investment of the entire film was [-] million US dollars.
And the money spent now is very meaningful, just look at the topics that couples talk about loudly, you can know the promotional effect of this movie!
On January 1, under the strong protests of the players, Billy Hunter, the vice chairman, reluctantly accepted the NBA's official agreement.
And Jordan, who felt that he didn't get the respect he deserved, chose to retire from the NBA forever. This day is remembered by many fans.
Bruce hung up the phone with some headaches. Since the players union made concessions on the 6th, a large number of free agent agents and managers of various teams have been calling him frantically, as if his place is a supermarket. There are fantastic goods to offer these guys!
And the most outrageous thing is that a substitute agent who averaged only 3 points and 2 assists per game opened his mouth wide and asked for a salary of nearly 0 million US dollars for his client. For this kind of stupid offer, because of the rookie, Bruce chose to hold back his anger and reject it!
Among these looting calls, Bruce was a little surprised by a call from Los Angeles!
"Little Bruce, how are you doing recently?" Baylor's gentle voice came from the receiver.
From his voice, Bruce could clearly hear the exhaustion in his words, smiled, and asked knowingly: "I'm fine! What's the matter with you now?"
"Hehe! You are really direct!"
"You don't know what my place has become, it's not as clean as a supermarket!" Bruce smiled helplessly.
"Okay! Let's make a long story short!" After a pause, Baylor said tentatively: "We had a pleasant experience last time! Now we have a deal and want to talk to you!"
"Please tell me!" Bruce was pleasantly surprised after hearing this.
"You also know that we chose Mike, and now we need to build a team around him, so we need some experienced veterans to help him grow quickly." Baylor paused, thought for a while, and said: "And You happen to have these seasoned veterans on your team, so."
"Okay! I understand!" Bruce heard Baylor's meaning, thought carefully about the team's roster, and said with some reluctance: "What position does your team need?"
"All, we want veterans in all positions!" Baylor said outright.
Bruce frowned and looked at the information about the Clippers' roster. Although he saw the names he knew in his previous life, he basically didn't find any players on his team whose contracts matched!
After hesitating for a while, Bruce said with some frustration: "Mr. Baylor, can you give me a few days?"
"Okay, as long as you think of a deal, I believe we will get what we each want!"
After finishing the call with Baylor, Bruce rubbed his temples with a headache. He didn't know how to complete this potentially meaningful deal. In other cases, it reached 115% + the minimum amount of 10 US dollars, but now Bruce has a headache to find that more than half of the players on the team have contracts worth more than 150 million US dollars.
Just when he was having a headache about the deal, a doomed call was made.
"Hi, Mr. Bruce, I'm Scott Raiden!"
"Is it finally here?" Bruce couldn't help having some small expectations when he thought of the other party's status as the manager of the Knicks team. Even though the deal was completed two weeks after the agreement was reached on January [-] in his previous life, now But he needs this deal very much: "Hello! Mr. Scott. What can I do for you?"
"To be honest, we are very interested in Ratwell, and you know how bad his reputation is now!"
"MD, is this implying me to change direction?" Bruce cursed secretly, and said unhurriedly: "Of course I know, but, don't you think that apart from his bad personality, his performance on the court Is it still the All-Star?"
"Hahaha! Mr. Bruce, you are really interesting, who in the league will accept him now? Don't be kidding!"
"Mr. Scott, don't bother you, even if I keep him in the team, I still have the ability to tame this raging beast!" Bruce responded forcefully to the other party's ridicule, and he didn't feel it at all. Seeing the sincerity of the other party, he laughed loudly!
"Okay! Let's talk about him!" The receiver was silent for a while, until Bruce wanted to end this meaningless phone call, but the tone of the other party was quite serious!
"Tell me about your bargaining chip!" Bruce asked bluntly. In his opinion, this kind of manager had to be treated like this.
"John Starks, Chris Mills and Terry Cummings are the main bargaining chips. Do you think we are sincere enough?"
Bruce frowned and thought about it. This offer, which was the same as in his previous life, made him a little uncomfortable. Except for Starks and Mills, they are not bad. Even though Cummings is experienced, this kind of transaction is not satisfactory to him!
"What kind of sincerity do you think of a veteran who has been fighting for more than ten years as a head?" Bruce asked calmly.
"Bruce, don't you know the value of Travel now? What kind of sincerity do you want? If you think you are at a loss in this deal, then we can do it!"
Bruce could clearly hear the opponent's anger, but the current situation in the Knicks team is a bit delicate, with a lot of injuries, and they lack a star-level scorer.
"Then do you think the 37-year-old Patrick will be injured in this tight schedule? His knee is really worrying! Is Larry's back injury better?" Bruce calmly described the Knicks' current situation. Not only is Ewing a potential injury hazard, but even the knee of another star player in the team, Alan Houston, is injured once or twice from time to time!
"you."
"You should still think about it!" Bruce interrupted the other party simply. In his opinion, he who has the memory of his past life knows them better than the players in these teams now, especially for superstars like Ewing. them.
Bruce didn't wait impatiently for the other party's decision, until he had just picked up the coffee when the other party's helpless voice sounded again in the receiver!
"Tell me! Who do you need!"
"We offer Latwell and "Robber" Boggs an offer in exchange for the three of them, Garbac Williams!" Bruce exchanged Boggs's $300 million for the reason of freeing up salary space, excluding Mills The contract that is about to expire is what he will do!
"You!!" Although the contracts are basically equal, Scott Layden is somewhat unwilling to accept that Boggs has two years left on his contract, and the situation in the team must also change, which makes He is a bit difficult to do!
"Latwell's scoring ability is still super strong, and his body is still considered healthy. In terms of personality, it seems a bit insignificant in front of the data!" Bruce deliberately and calmly described Sprewell's super personal ability as if he read a textbook. I told Scott, and when he said this, he was inevitably nervous, because he was afraid that this guy would be scared away by his asking price!
After struggling for a while, Scott Layden sighed helplessly and said, "Okay! I wish Mills and the others a good journey in the Warriors!"
Because those good scorers in the league are basically under contract, and the team's status is extremely high, it is a bit difficult to trade, but Sprewell is a little different, which is what Scott means. !
"I am very glad to complete this transaction that is beneficial to both parties with you!" Bruce hurriedly finalized some details with Scott with a look of surprise. When he hung up the phone, My Fair Lady entered the final cut!
(End of this chapter)
Throughout September, Bruce lived a fulfilling life. Under Cole's rigorous preparations for the film "Slim Girl", the roles and director's work in the film were selected!
And Bruce also paid a lot of attention to this Miracle Film and Television's virgin movie. Even a small extra actor, he told Cole very rigorously.
In his memory, this movie can be regarded as a movie with a small cost and a large income, and he is extremely vague about the actors and directors in it. In his previous life, he only saw it occasionally in an article, so the choice of the director and actors Extremely cautious.
Bruce returned to Oakland, picked up the thousands of newspapers on the table, casually read the media's reports on the labor negotiations, and put them aside.
The document on the other side made him scratch his head. It was about Tel Aviv Sprewell's trade application.
This trade application was placed in the team manager's office long before Bruce fully took over the Warriors. Now that he is a little free, he can't help but think of this difficult document!
"What a crazy guy!" Bruce reluctantly picked up the information about Sprewell, and couldn't help but recall the famous case in his mind!
During a practice during the 1997 season, Carlesimo was the head coach of the Golden State Warriors when he was attacked by Latrell Sprewell.
In the incident, Sprewell grabbed Carlesimo's neck for 15 seconds before being pulled away by several teammates and elbowing him minutes later, narrowly escaping the serious " Screaming coach "choke to death!"
The Warriors then imposed a decision not to pay him a dollar salary, and the league also had such a bad influence on him, giving him the strongest ticket in league history, banning Sprewell from participating in the remaining 68 games.
"It can't all be blamed on this irritable guy!" Some Bruce, who knows Sprewell's character, still understands this guy's approach. A star was mercilessly accused and preached by the head coach, and even more The whole team shouted mercilessly, even an ordinary player would be a little disgusted, let alone this guy has a weird and violent personality!
"It's really difficult!" Bruce said the same words again. Although his memory told him that the Knicks would accept this irritable guy, he still wanted to get some extra from Sprewell. reward.
When Bruce was worrying about Sprewell's deal, there was finally good news from Cole!
"Man, the final preparations for this film have finally been completed, and the official shooting will begin in October!" Cole excitedly talked about his final results. After being advised by Peter Jackson in his spare time, he has directed many films in particular. Robert Iskoff of the American Academy of Sciences to direct this multi-element teen comedy film.
What puzzled Bruce even more was that when Cole named the two leading actors, he couldn't help but fell into the only memory of the movie!
Hearing Cole excitedly talking about the preparation plan, suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind. To his surprise, Cole actually invited the original crew to create this movie by a very coincidence!
"Dear Cole, you are such an omnipotent genius!" Bruce sincerely admired Cole's ability, even if it made him think about it, he never thought that this film with a global box office of over [-] million was reborn after him. The post-horror brought those original works together in various ways.
"Of course!" Cole said without humility.
"Then let's start a big fight!" Bruce waved his arms excitedly, as if he had already seen those Mr. "Washington" exuding the smell of ink!
October is an eventful season. The NBA has been underestimated by many fans and media time and time again. The lockout seems to have settled down. Even though there were several small negotiations during the period, the two sides have never been able to reach an agreement!
The stalemate between the two sides lasted until the end of December, which was Christmas Eve on December 12th. All games will be cancelled.
Since the NBA officially announced the cancellation of the All-Star Game on December 12, players with ordinary salaries in the league were the first to feel unprecedented pressure.
When Stern issued the ultimatum, ordinary players in the entire league attacked the players union at the same time. Taking "we were betrayed by these people" as the flashpoint, the entire players union was in the midst of splitting and subversion!
Holding the fax from the NBA official in his hand, Bruce was not only not worried at all, he also laughed out loud!
"Is it finally over?" Bruce threw the fax into the trash can excitedly, and cheered loudly: "Thank you to the arbitrator, and thank you to those superstars who made sacrifices!"
The biggest turning point of the entire negotiation came in the judgment of the arbitrator. Previously, because the two sides refused to give in at all, the arbitration committee strongly intervened and even ruled that the NBA team did not have to pay the players nearly half of the season's salary. The ultimatum, the entire ordinary players completely broke out.
Bruce walked excitedly on the lawn outside his residence, glanced at the Bay Bridge in the distance between the sea, and glanced at the couple holding a beautiful leaflet 50 meters away, and said expectantly: "Slim Girl It will definitely be a success!"
Since the filming started, Bruce told Cole to prepare for publicity. In the era of information explosion in his previous life, he knew the importance of advertising.
In his previous life, this youth comedy that swept the world with over 1000 million US dollars received so much box office due to the low promotional expenses. Now Bruce, who knows the importance of advertising, uses 200 million of the 400 million US dollars budget on the basis of the original budget. The publicity fee increased to 1200 million, and the total investment of the entire film was [-] million US dollars.
And the money spent now is very meaningful, just look at the topics that couples talk about loudly, you can know the promotional effect of this movie!
On January 1, under the strong protests of the players, Billy Hunter, the vice chairman, reluctantly accepted the NBA's official agreement.
And Jordan, who felt that he didn't get the respect he deserved, chose to retire from the NBA forever. This day is remembered by many fans.
Bruce hung up the phone with some headaches. Since the players union made concessions on the 6th, a large number of free agent agents and managers of various teams have been calling him frantically, as if his place is a supermarket. There are fantastic goods to offer these guys!
And the most outrageous thing is that a substitute agent who averaged only 3 points and 2 assists per game opened his mouth wide and asked for a salary of nearly 0 million US dollars for his client. For this kind of stupid offer, because of the rookie, Bruce chose to hold back his anger and reject it!
Among these looting calls, Bruce was a little surprised by a call from Los Angeles!
"Little Bruce, how are you doing recently?" Baylor's gentle voice came from the receiver.
From his voice, Bruce could clearly hear the exhaustion in his words, smiled, and asked knowingly: "I'm fine! What's the matter with you now?"
"Hehe! You are really direct!"
"You don't know what my place has become, it's not as clean as a supermarket!" Bruce smiled helplessly.
"Okay! Let's make a long story short!" After a pause, Baylor said tentatively: "We had a pleasant experience last time! Now we have a deal and want to talk to you!"
"Please tell me!" Bruce was pleasantly surprised after hearing this.
"You also know that we chose Mike, and now we need to build a team around him, so we need some experienced veterans to help him grow quickly." Baylor paused, thought for a while, and said: "And You happen to have these seasoned veterans on your team, so."
"Okay! I understand!" Bruce heard Baylor's meaning, thought carefully about the team's roster, and said with some reluctance: "What position does your team need?"
"All, we want veterans in all positions!" Baylor said outright.
Bruce frowned and looked at the information about the Clippers' roster. Although he saw the names he knew in his previous life, he basically didn't find any players on his team whose contracts matched!
After hesitating for a while, Bruce said with some frustration: "Mr. Baylor, can you give me a few days?"
"Okay, as long as you think of a deal, I believe we will get what we each want!"
After finishing the call with Baylor, Bruce rubbed his temples with a headache. He didn't know how to complete this potentially meaningful deal. In other cases, it reached 115% + the minimum amount of 10 US dollars, but now Bruce has a headache to find that more than half of the players on the team have contracts worth more than 150 million US dollars.
Just when he was having a headache about the deal, a doomed call was made.
"Hi, Mr. Bruce, I'm Scott Raiden!"
"Is it finally here?" Bruce couldn't help having some small expectations when he thought of the other party's status as the manager of the Knicks team. Even though the deal was completed two weeks after the agreement was reached on January [-] in his previous life, now But he needs this deal very much: "Hello! Mr. Scott. What can I do for you?"
"To be honest, we are very interested in Ratwell, and you know how bad his reputation is now!"
"MD, is this implying me to change direction?" Bruce cursed secretly, and said unhurriedly: "Of course I know, but, don't you think that apart from his bad personality, his performance on the court Is it still the All-Star?"
"Hahaha! Mr. Bruce, you are really interesting, who in the league will accept him now? Don't be kidding!"
"Mr. Scott, don't bother you, even if I keep him in the team, I still have the ability to tame this raging beast!" Bruce responded forcefully to the other party's ridicule, and he didn't feel it at all. Seeing the sincerity of the other party, he laughed loudly!
"Okay! Let's talk about him!" The receiver was silent for a while, until Bruce wanted to end this meaningless phone call, but the tone of the other party was quite serious!
"Tell me about your bargaining chip!" Bruce asked bluntly. In his opinion, this kind of manager had to be treated like this.
"John Starks, Chris Mills and Terry Cummings are the main bargaining chips. Do you think we are sincere enough?"
Bruce frowned and thought about it. This offer, which was the same as in his previous life, made him a little uncomfortable. Except for Starks and Mills, they are not bad. Even though Cummings is experienced, this kind of transaction is not satisfactory to him!
"What kind of sincerity do you think of a veteran who has been fighting for more than ten years as a head?" Bruce asked calmly.
"Bruce, don't you know the value of Travel now? What kind of sincerity do you want? If you think you are at a loss in this deal, then we can do it!"
Bruce could clearly hear the opponent's anger, but the current situation in the Knicks team is a bit delicate, with a lot of injuries, and they lack a star-level scorer.
"Then do you think the 37-year-old Patrick will be injured in this tight schedule? His knee is really worrying! Is Larry's back injury better?" Bruce calmly described the Knicks' current situation. Not only is Ewing a potential injury hazard, but even the knee of another star player in the team, Alan Houston, is injured once or twice from time to time!
"you."
"You should still think about it!" Bruce interrupted the other party simply. In his opinion, he who has the memory of his past life knows them better than the players in these teams now, especially for superstars like Ewing. them.
Bruce didn't wait impatiently for the other party's decision, until he had just picked up the coffee when the other party's helpless voice sounded again in the receiver!
"Tell me! Who do you need!"
"We offer Latwell and "Robber" Boggs an offer in exchange for the three of them, Garbac Williams!" Bruce exchanged Boggs's $300 million for the reason of freeing up salary space, excluding Mills The contract that is about to expire is what he will do!
"You!!" Although the contracts are basically equal, Scott Layden is somewhat unwilling to accept that Boggs has two years left on his contract, and the situation in the team must also change, which makes He is a bit difficult to do!
"Latwell's scoring ability is still super strong, and his body is still considered healthy. In terms of personality, it seems a bit insignificant in front of the data!" Bruce deliberately and calmly described Sprewell's super personal ability as if he read a textbook. I told Scott, and when he said this, he was inevitably nervous, because he was afraid that this guy would be scared away by his asking price!
After struggling for a while, Scott Layden sighed helplessly and said, "Okay! I wish Mills and the others a good journey in the Warriors!"
Because those good scorers in the league are basically under contract, and the team's status is extremely high, it is a bit difficult to trade, but Sprewell is a little different, which is what Scott means. !
"I am very glad to complete this transaction that is beneficial to both parties with you!" Bruce hurriedly finalized some details with Scott with a look of surprise. When he hung up the phone, My Fair Lady entered the final cut!
(End of this chapter)
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