In his previous life, Lin Yiming was a Hupu basketball guru, a 2K grind addict, and a data fanatic. His greatest achievement was writing hundreds of “If I were the GM” fantasy posts on the forums.
His greatest failure: getting face-slapped by reality so hard he shut himself away.
After suddenly dying, he woke up in New York in 2011, still wearing his suit.
Position: Assistant general manager of the Golden State Warriors.
Team record: 26 wins, bottom of the Western Conference.
The owner had just paid $450 million to take over, and fans were calling it “the dumbest investment in the Bay Area.”
Everyone was waiting to see him become a laughingstock.
Only Lin Yiming knew: he’d already seen how the next ten years would play out.
The front office said he was crazy.
The scouts said he was all talk.
An old-school legend declared, “That kid doesn’t know the first thing about basketball.”
Lin Yiming didn’t argue.
He simply pulled up a chart generated by a data model that would silence them all, right there in the war room on draft night.
Then, on a trade call, he said in a tone no one could understand:
“I know what Larry Bird is thinking.”
“I know where LeBron is going next year.”
“I know Durant will be calling me in tears three years from now.”
The new author is pretty good
I don't dislike AI, but I dislike that AI won't modify it after running it. Chapter 2 of the draft has a preface and a sequel that don't match up. The Internet has no memory. In order to recreate the Warriors, they traded for Bogut. Even if you try hard to replace Gasol, I will consider you to have an idea. 2.0 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2014. Wait a moment. 2014? He was stunned for a moment, then counted 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 - and then jumped directly to 2014. Wrong. It's 2012, and the Spurs have only four championships in franchise history. That flag from 2014 should not be here. But the flag did fly. Lin Yiming blinked, and the number on the flag changed back to 2007. Again. The above is the original text. 😅[vomiting]