Personal experience
Senior high school career
Mitch Kupchak played for brentwood High School in Long Island, New York, and made great contributions to the division champion in brentwood 1970- 1972.
College career
During his college years, Kupchak played for the North Carolina tar high heels team and won the best in the United States. Kupchak's team won the gold medal at the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympic Games.
NBA career
1976, Mickey Kupchak was selected by the Washington Bullets as a rookie and was selected as the best rookie team in the NBA. He had four years of efficient performance in Washington, and as a member of the team, he helped the team win the NBA championship of 1978. 198 1 At the request of Magic Johnson, the Los Angeles Lakers signed a long-term contract with Kupchak. Magic Johnson told then team owner Jerry Buss, "If we can get Mitch Kupchak, we can win the championship." Unfortunately, Kupchak only played 26 games and was reimbursed for his knee injury. He didn't come back until the season of 1983- 1984. Nevertheless, Kupchak played a key role in 1985 NBA Finals against Boston Celtics, helping the Lakers win the championship. 1985- 1986 After the end of the season, Mitch Kupchak ended his NBA career with 5 10 regular season games and 68 playoff games, averaging 5.4 points and 4.7 rebounds in the regular season and 7.7 points and 4.7 rebounds in the playoffs.
Changes in management
Kupchak showed his foresight by planning his career immediately after retiring from NBA. Since his player contract, he has worked as an intern in team manager Jerry West and the board of directors, and has established a solid relationship with the management of the Lakers. At the same time, he obtained an MBA from Anderson School of Management at UCLA at 1987.
Team general manager
1986 After retiring, Kupchak became the assistant to the general manager of Jerry West, and took over all the work of the general manager, but he did not have the real power of the general manager. It was not until 2000 that Jerry West resigned as the vice president of the league and went to Memphis Grizzlies as the team manager that Kupchak completely completed the transition from player to management. In his first big deal, the team brought in superstars karl malone and gary payton. However, Kupchak's subsequent transactions are still controversial, including trading shaquille o'neal for Odom, caron butler and brian grant, and trading Bynum for Jason. Although these were supported by team owner Deribas, Kupchak had to face strong doubts from Lakers star Kobe Bryant. However, in February 2008, Kupchak made a shocking deal-kwame brown, some other players and the first-round draft pick were exchanged for pau gasol from the Grizzlies-which finally made Kobe compromise: "This deal made Kupchak directly change from F to A+!" In addition, Brian Cook and Maurice Evans traded Ariza in 2007 and signed Artest freely in 2009, both of which made important contributions to the Lakers' two consecutive championships in 2009 and 20 10 season.
The 20 12 offseason has created another amazing deal, which is equivalent to trading Andrew Bynum for Howard of Warcraft and signing two mvp Nash.