This year, the Warriors entered the finals again after 3 years, reaching another peak after 3 championships in 5 years. Today, Kuzma bluntly said that the Warriors who reached the finals in 8 years have become a dynasty in his mind, and this is estimated to be the common voice of many fans. In terms of merit and deeds, Bob Myers, who is behind the scenes, is inconspicuous compared to the players, but he has made great contributions. He is the architect of the Warriors Dynasty.
The Warriors entered the finals again, which also made the team owner Joe Lacob overjoyed. In a recent interview, he admitted that he was confused and wavered in the middle of the season, and it was Miles and coach Kerr who made the Warriors continue to be strong and won his trust.
Miles, 47, was born on March 31, 1975. Myers grew up in the Bay Area as a child, which seemed to foreshadow his bond with the Warriors. Initially, he attended Monte Vista High School. Here he was a member of the school basketball team, but at this time, Miles did not make it his ideal to play in the NCAA. After all, only a little-known college extended an olive branch to him. He even considered switching careers to join his brothers in rowing.
During his senior season, Miles visited UCLA, and it was this visit that kept him in the basketball world. Steve LaVine, then assistant coach of the UCLA men’s basketball team, became his guide. This LaVine is no ordinary person either. He served as the UCLA men’s basketball coach from 1996 to 2003, and later transferred to St. John’s University to coach. This year, he accepted the invitation of the University of San Diego men’s basketball team, and the coaching win rate is as high as 63%.
Back to Miles. After graduating from high school, he chose UCLA unsurprisingly, majoring in economics and trade, and became a part-time player for the UCLA men’s basketball team. In the 1994-95 season, UCLA defeated the University of Arkansas 89-78 in the NCAA Finals, and Myers also played in the finals. Although in this championship team, Miles only acted as a water cooler caretaker, but the scene where he sent a good pass to his teammates during the game appeared on the cover of the commemorative edition of “Sports Illustrated” that year. He was regarded by his teammates as a player who always brought good luck and earned him the nickname “Forrest Gump”.
By the third season, Miles had skyrocketed, with a height of 2.01 meters and a weight of 100 kilograms, and his status in the team was getting higher and higher. In his senior season, Miles led UCLA to the Elite Eight and even started as a starter. Years later, Miles also said proudly: “I never thought I could start. Looking back, I would tell my children and grandchildren, ‘I started for UCLA.'”
Leaving the NCAA arena, Myers refused to play in the Euroleague, which would later become his lifelong regret. Introduced by UCLA men’s basketball coach Jim Harrick, he got acquainted with ace agent Arn Tellem, who had served as Kobe’s agent, and interned at his company while studying at Loyola Law School. Get a law degree. The diligent and quick-witted Miles soon jumped to Talem’s chief assistant, where he excelled in contract negotiations and player recruitment. In 2000, Thalem’s company was reorganized into SFX Sports Agency, with Miles serving as vice president.
Since then, Miles has embarked on a professional scouting path, connecting with the NBA in an alternative way. In the scouting position, Myers worked for 14 years, and the last five years worked for the well-known Wasserman Media Group. According to statistics, he has represented a total of 19 NBA players, and well-known clients include Roy, Tyreke Evans and Kendrick Perkins, etc. The total contract value negotiated by him reached 575 million US dollars.
If he continues like this, Miles may become a big name in NBA agent circles, the kind of person that some general managers joke about “he comes in through the front door, I slip through the back door.” But his career took a turn in 2011. In April of that year, he accepted the Warriors’ invitation to become the team’s assistant general manager and moved from one end of the negotiating table to the other.
Originally, Myers was expected to study under then-Warriors general manager Larry Riley for a period of time. But beyond their expectations, only a year later, on April 24, 2012, Myers was righted and became the new general manager of the Warriors.
Looking back now, since Curry was selected in 2009, the Warriors Dynasty has had key personnel appear almost every year to join this big family and push the team to the end of its success step by step. After Curry was selected, Lacob acquired the Warriors in 2010, Klay Thompson in 2011, Harrison Barnes and Dream Chaser Green in 2012, Iguodala in 2013, and Kerr in 2014. handsome. If any of these steps are missing, the Warriors may also win the championship, but compared with today, it will be beyond recognition.
Among them, although the figure of Jerry West, the Warriors consultant at the time, flashed from time to time (the most widely circulated is that he had threatened to resign and opposed the trade of Love with Thompson), but as general manager Miles also Outstanding achievement.
In 2013, the Warriors advanced to the second round and lost to the Spurs 2-4. At that time, some media praised Miles: “If the Warriors are the miracle team in the NBA this season, then Miles has no role in the team. Comparable.” In the 2014-15 season, the first year of the Warriors dynasty, Miles won the first “General Manager of the Year” award in his career. During the 2016-17 season, Myers began serving as president of basketball operations, and Lacob entrusted the Warriors’ future to him. He lived up to expectations, taking home his second “General Manager of the Year” trophy that season. What happened after that is history.
As long as the dynasty team, behind the dazzling stars, the big names in management positions are also worshipped as gods by later generations. For example, “Cardinal” Auerbach during the Celtics Dynasty, such as West who personally created the brilliant performance of the Showtime Lakers and the OK combination Lakers, such as “Big Fat” Jerry who was not popular with Jordan during the Bulls Dynasty -Klaus, another example is Pat Riley (Heat) and Popovich (Spurs), who have “opened up the world” for a team without establishing a dynasty. And it’s interesting to think about what future generations will think of Miles when they look back on the Warriors dynasty years later.
Attachment: 10 major operations during Myers’ tenure as general manager of the Warriors:
1. In June 2012, Barnes was selected in the first round, and Dream Chasing was selected in the second round;
2. In October 2012, Curry was renewed for 4 years and 44 million with what later generations called the “child labor contract”;
3. In July 2013, Iguodala was traded from the Nuggets in a three-way transaction;
4. In May 2014, Cole was hired as the coach to replace Mark Jackson;
5. In June 2015, Looney was selected with the 30th overall pick in the first round;
6. In July 2016, the signing of Durant shocked the NBA;
7. In July 2018, signing Cousins again made people from all walks of life exclaim “NBA finale”;
8. In June 2019, Jordan Poole was selected with the 28th overall pick in the first round, another masterpiece of low-ranked Taobao;
9. In July 2019, Durant was sent to the Nets in exchange for Russell, etc.;
10. In February 2020, with Russell as the main body, Wiggins was traded from the Timberwolves.
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