Nash returned to New Orleans with Tang Tian and quickly signed a three-year contract with the Pelicans.

The position he got was the same as Tang Tian had said before, a player development consultant, whose main job was to be responsible for the players' shooting training.

However, this signing didn't attract much attention.

Because at the same time, the Warriors announced the dismissal of their head coach Mark Jackson and hired former TNT commentator Steve Kerr as the team's new head coach.

It was reported that the two sides reached a five-year, $25 million contract.

Kerr had never served as a head coach before, and the $5 million annual salary was already very high among head coaches.

Even Gregg Popovich, who earns the highest salary in the league, only has a $10 million annual salary, and Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle's salary is only $7 million.

This news caused a wave of heated discussion among fans, and it was polarized.

"Mark built a defensive system for the Warriors and helped them reach the playoffs for consecutive years. The Warriors management's decision is very cold-blooded!"

"This is capitalism. There were many reasons why the Warriors lost the playoffs last year, but the scapegoat is always the head coach!"

"And the Warriors management is stupid to give Kerr, a rookie coach, a $5 million annual salary, and a five-year contract. This is just throwing money away!"

"The Warriors will regret this decision. Maybe in two years we will see that chaotic team again!"

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"I think the Warriors management's decision is very wise. I've had enough of the Warriors' constipated offense!"

"Look at the Warriors' games last season, they really need a new coach!"

"Their defensive system is already in place, Mark Jackson has completed his part, now someone needs to unleash their offensive firepower!"

"Steve Kerr is one of the smartest people in basketball. He hasn't coached before, but I believe he will surprise us!"

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Tang Tian wasn't too surprised by the news.

For him, Kerr's arrival signaled that the Warriors were officially taking shape, and the Pelicans had to list them as a major competitor.

But in reality, he didn't pay too much attention to it, because after Nash joined, he brought a completely different shooting training method to the Pelicans.

In the past, the Pelicans' shooting training was mainly based on spot-up shooting, but what Nash required was more catch-and-shoot in motion.

The reason is simple, the small-ball era has brought not only a change in the speed of offensive and defensive transitions, but also half-court defense, and help defense and rotation will become faster and faster.

So compared to previous games, there will be fewer and fewer spot-up opportunities on the court.

On the contrary, catch-and-shoot in motion will increase a lot.

Nash is a superstar of the last century, but his understanding of basketball is not old at all, and can even be said to be ahead of its time.

In addition to this general direction, he also added a lot of shooting training content that the Pelicans players didn't have before.

For example, the single-knee shot.

As the name suggests, it is standing on one knee and using one foot to complete the shot.

This is an abnormal shooting training method, and should not even appear on the NBA stage, but Nash values it very much.

In his theory, this shooting method is beneficial to increasing the player's shooting proficiency and body balance when shooting.

In other words, this kind of shooting training is very helpful for drifting shots and fadeaway shots.

Tang Tian was slightly excited when he heard this, because he is now practicing fadeaway shots!

It was worth it to go to Toronto to invite Nash!

Nash's joining made the Pelicans' training enthusiasm even higher, and they were very interested in this new training method.

Nash always had a smile on his face.

The Pelicans reached the Western Conference semifinals last season and have a lot of potential, and the positive training attitude in front of them is really likable.

He felt that Tang Tian's saying that they would win the championship in the next two or three years was not just to persuade him.

The Pelicans really have this potential.

Not long after Nash arrived at the training camp, Fagen brought Tang Tian good news.

His new contract with BMW has been negotiated. The current price is $30 million for three years, waiting for Tang Tian to nod.

Tang Tian agreed.

An endorsement fee of 10 million a year is considered quite high in the automobile endorsement industry.

After Tang Tian agreed, BMW officially put Tang Tian's image on the homepage, and changed from the Chinese region spokesperson to the global spokesperson.

After seeing Nike making a lot of money, BMW seemed to be impatient.

Two days after signing the endorsement, Tang Tian received the first year's endorsement fee from the new BMW contract, which was almost 6 million US dollars after tax.

In this way, his krypton value exceeded 12 million US dollars!

At this time, he had a choice, whether to continue to save krypton value to save enough 50 million to exchange for Kobe's fadeaway, or to exchange for a purple skill in advance.

After consideration, he chose the latter.

The Nike China tour gave him enough confidence, and he was very confident in the shoe dividends.

And at that time, not only that dividend, but the Coca-Cola endorsement fee in November, and the "Little Bee" shower gel endorsement fee in February will be received one after another.

In addition, after returning from the China tour, several domestic companies were talking to Fagen about contracts, and he now has many sources of income.

So his krypton value is not as tight as before, and more importantly, the season is about to start, and he also needs to improve his strength before that.

Among his current offensive moves, shooting is a purple skill, but breakthrough is only blue, which definitely needs to be upgraded.

You must know that in basketball, being able to break through others will greatly increase personal offensive threat, which will mean a lot.

This is the same as the purpose of exchanging Kobe's fadeaway.

Tang Tian pulled out the system interface, and then focused his attention on the God Turtle Bombardment (Westbrook) column.

God Turtle Bombardment (Westbrook): Increases breakthrough starting speed and finishing stability by 20%, increases aerial confrontation and dunk by 5 points, condition: must exchange for Dynamite Pack (Maggette) in advance.

This is the only breakthrough skill in the purple skills.

Dynamite Pack (Maggette) has already been exchanged before, so the value of this skill is 10 million krypton value.

And increasing the breakthrough speed and stability, including adding confrontation and dunk, is a good supplement for the current Tang Tian.

After he thought about it, he directly chose to exchange it.

After the exchange, many changes occurred on his attribute panel.

Speed and agility have both reached 75, the sprint speed in the secondary page has reached 80, the confrontation dunk and sprint dunk have also passed 70, and the attributes such as confrontation shot have also increased by 1~2 points.

The improvement brought by this skill is the same as the previous McGrady pull-up jumper, which is all-round.