Updated: 2012-09-11

Stephen hesitated for a moment and called Robert Horry. He knew Robert Horry's feelings for his daughter, so Stephen didn't want Robert Horry to come here too much. Although the relationship between the two was very good and the cooperation was very pleasant, he came to a strange team and had a few acquaintances. However, Stephen didn't want to force the other party.

After receiving the call, Robert Horry looked very happy and laughed heartily on the phone: "I thought you kid forgot me as soon as he became the boss, and I remembered to call me, but I guess you kid can't remember me for no reason. There must be something wrong. Tell me, except that you have never been the boss of the team and cannot give you guidance, there is no problem for everyone else."

"You are really right. If you want to ask for advice on how to be the boss, and I really don't look for you, I will go to Tim directly. There is something else to call. Are you interested in coming to Seattle?" With the relationship between the two, Stephen didn't need to be polite, so he asked straight to the point.

"Ah? Seattle, let it go. I was about to retire. Pope kept urging me to play for another year. I'm still hesitating now." Robert Horry certainly didn't want to. He was about to retire, but he still had one year of contract. **Vicci advised him to fulfill his contract before retiring. However, he felt that his body was getting worse and worse with the current game, especially when the Spurs left Stephen, he did not make any reinforcements. He was worried that he would need him more this season, so he wanted to retire. As for playing in other teams, he had never considered it.

"Presti said, if you come here, wait for retirement, but the team will find you an assistant coach position. What do you think? If it is appropriate, I will let him do it. If it is not appropriate, I will refuse him now." Stephen was also a very happy person, directly setting the conditions and letting Robert Horry decide by himself.

"Oh, is this? How about I think about it?" Robert Horry was a little moved when he heard it. Although he wanted to spend more time with his daughter after retirement, he could not live without basketball. However, as the team increasingly hired more professional people, he was not very famous like him, and he was a retired player who wandered with many teams. He rarely found a job in the team. He didn't like jobs like TV commentators, so he retired because he was mainly worried that his body could no longer adapt to the game.

Stephen didn't have much confidence, but Presty knew the current situation of players like Robert Horry. Their salary was not high and they had no other business income. They only rely on annual salary. After deducting taxes, although they were much better than ordinary families, they were used to spending money with big hands and feet, so they would definitely not be able to save money.

According to statistics, 60% of the players who retire after the league will go bankrupt within five years, and this proportion will increase year by year, and there is a possibility that it will rise to 80% in the near future. No matter how many years you have played in the league, of course, ten-day short-term work contracts are not included. The league will pay you a monthly pension after you are forty-five years. Of course, this pension is linked to the number of years you have played in the league.

It's about 300 dollars times the number of years you play. If you play for ten years, you can receive about 3,000 dollars a month. For ordinary people, this money is already considerable, but for these players who are used to being big-tied, it's not enough for them to spend a day.

In addition, for those players who like ridiculously, there is another big expense after retirement, that is, child support. Because they don’t pay attention when they are young and don’t pay attention when they are old, they often receive a text or email a few months after the night of fun: “Dear, let me tell you a good news, I’m pregnant.”

Due to legal and religious reasons, in the United States, there are few choices for abortion after pregnancy. Of course, if the father is a poor and poor boy, there may be exceptions. After the child is born, whether you want to or not, as long as you can prove that the child is yours, you must pay child support based on your income. This is an extremely huge and time-span of a very long expense.

About one-fifth of the players in the league will be troubled by this, including Dwight Howard of the Magic and Iguodala of the Seventy-Sixers. This expenditure may not be of much to them when they are still playing, but once they retire, it will be unbearable.

Although Robert Horry did not have this problem, he did not save much money, especially his daughter's illness continued to develop and needed a lot of money. So after considering it, he decided to agree, so he picked up the phone and called Stephen.

While agreeing, he also said that his body could no longer support him in too much playing time. There is no problem in each game about twelve to fifteen minutes, and it will not work if it is long. The reason why he said it in advance was that he did not want the Supersonics to put too much high expectations on himself.

Stephen told Presti that Presti didn't care. He had expected Robert Horry's condition, and the Supersonics had enough personnel reserves and did not need so much time to play. He was mainly for his experience, especially his understanding of the playoffs. These young people need his help.

Stephen just acted as a coordinating role. After coordination, it was Presti's job. He was the general manager of the team. Stephen was just a player. It was not his responsibility to trade players, so he put his mind into the team's training.

Calesimo kept testing the team's lineup, trying to find the best cooperation. Since he took over a strange team, he still had to understand the characteristics and abilities of each player, and then he still found ways to adjust their status, and was busy with the sky and the earth.

However, no matter how the adjustment is, Stephen and Durant's positions are fixed. After trying various cooperations with outside players, he found that Earl Watson and Stephen were better when they were together, while Lucredno's condition was still unstable and he was unwilling to take the initiative to cooperate with Stephen and the others.

As for inside players, since he knew that there would be a deal happening in the near future, except for Wilcox and Cott Thomas, two players, who could not be involved due to their annual salary, there were other players, so he relied on them more, which also made these young players think that he liked older players and became dissatisfied with him.

Time passed day by day, and the preseason was about to start, and the transaction had not yet happened. However, the news had already spread, making the team panic. I don’t know who would get involved, such as Stephen, Durant, and Cote Thomas, they would definitely not worry, because they are in an untradeable state and the team will not trade them, but others can’t be so calm.

Of course, players like Wilcox also received comfort from the team, telling him that he was not in the team's trading plan. As the season was about to begin, at least he had to ensure the stability of the main lineup, which was also necessary.

Just three days before the preseason started, news of the transaction finally came out. The first thing that was reached was Robert Horry's deal. Robert Horry asked **Vic whether the team had his position after he retired. As a result, **Vic told him unfortunately that there was no, so he chose to leave.

Since the Supersonics did not have a player that the Spurs could like, and the Supersonics they liked were unwilling to go out, so after negotiations, the Spurs finally chose to buy out Robert Horry's contract for the last year, and then Robert Horry joined the Supersonics with a veteran's basic salary.

This is a win-win option. The Spurs spend less than a third of their salary and reduce their salary expenses. The Supersonics signed the key finals gentleman with less than one-third of their salary, and the money on both sides was added to one dollar. Due to tax reasons, Robert Horry got a little more.

Before Robert Horry came to Seattle, another deal was successful. The Supersonics sent Mohamed Heeney and Michael Grabel to trade with the Clippers. Their salaries were added to the same amount, higher than Cooper, but not a limit of 125%. In order to balance, the Clippers will give the first-round draft pick next season to the Supersonics, and the Supersonics will give the second round pick of the same year to the Clippers.

In this way, the Supersonics' roster became inside players: Wilcox, Robert Swift, Johan Padro, Cott Thomas, Robert Horry, Copperd, and Collinson, became seven.

The point guard trio has not changed, and there is one missing from the forward and guard line, Michael Grabel, Stephen, Durant, Wilkins, and Szebiak, and there are still fourteen people. In this way, the team is a bit lacking in the forward and guard line, but in the free agent market, there are never a shortage of forward and guard players, so Presti is not worried, and there are two good players with temporary contracts. Presti is still considering who to stay.

In this way, there are already three people in Stephen's sect, including veterans and younger brothers, and Durant and Stephen have a good relationship. With the support of the management and coaching staff, Stephen has firmly taken the position of the boss, and no one has any doubts about Stephen's position anymore. At this time, the preseason is about to begin.

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