The rest is just noise

Chapter 102: Meeting a noble person on the road

On the day of the draft, the Knicks decisively used their sixth pick in the first round to take Floyd, and then used their sixth pick in the second round to take Hodges.

There is no sure-fire number one pick in this draft like Bird, Magic, or Sampson.

The Detroit Pistons, who were drawn with the No. 1 pick, ended their tragic fate of being ravaged by other parts of the league while also helping the Celtics. They came out on top in the coin toss and won the No. 1 pick.

Ironically, the Lakers, who just defeated the 76ers to win the championship, have the second pick in this draft just like the Celtics last year.

There are three unquestionable top-three picks in this draft.

North Carolina's talented wing James Worthy, DePaul University's key player Terry Cummings and Dr. J II Dominick Wilkins.

Relatively speaking, Wilkins and Cummings are more vocal.

However, Worthy is more of a team player than these two players and has a good reputation of doing whatever it takes to win.

Wilkins and Cummings have a reputation for selfish pursuit of personal data.

Pistons general manager "dealer" Jack McCloskey did not choose Wilkins or Cummings in accordance with the tradition of selecting the best talent from a bad team, but chose Worthy.

McCloskey hopes Worthy will bring that winning tradition back to Detroit.

This time, Louis' perception was completely changed.

Isn’t Mr. Worthy, the famous big-hearted man, a Lakers legend? Why did he end up with the Pistons?

The culprit, Louis, was quite surprised by this incident. If we really trace it back, he really can't get rid of his involvement.

Originally, according to the original trajectory of history, the trade compensation caused by the Celtics signing M.L. Carr only required the Pistons' two first-round draft picks in 1980.

Louis "unnecessarily" dug out the Pistons' illegal operations, which cost them their 1981 first-round pick.

They were originally going to use that first-round pick to select the Smiling Assassin. This is the history that fits Louis's perception. But now, Thomas is wearing good clothes, the Pistons' team building plan, they deserve the road to revival, at least Louis has already

The one I know has been blocked.

What will happen in the future, Louis doesn't know.

He doesn't want to know either.

The butterfly effect he triggered made the Bad Boys Legion destined not to appear in history.

The Pistons snatched away Worthy, and the Lakers, holding the second pick, wanted to strengthen their wings and had only one option left.

The Lakers selected Dominique Wilkins with the second overall pick.

In terms of honors alone, Worthy was only selected to the third team twice with the Lakers.

Wilkins was selected to the All-NBA Team eight times, once in the first team, four times in the second team, three times in the third team, and had scoring champion-level offensive capabilities. He was the leading wing athlete in the 1980s. From a technical perspective alone, he was better than Worthy.

More suitable for the Lakers.

Magic doesn't know how many times he's going to have to hit Wilkins with his passing game.

The question left for the Lakers is how they deal with the selfish side of Wilkins' style of play.

Louis was surprised to see the Lakers choose Wilkins. This person does have a reputation for selfishness, but Magic can make Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the most unpopular with the media, the most domineering, and the most difficult to get along with since the birth of the NBA.

A top animal trainer who is comfortably served by a superstar, he really doesn't believe that the magician can't handle Wilkins.

Isn't it selfish? Just feed him a few more balls and it will be done.

Louis is on leave again, and Auerbach has made no other moves except to promote him.

Although Fitch plans to continue recruiting a team of assistants, he is unwilling to part with his salary to pay these people.

He needs the team to pay these people extra.

This again goes against Celtic tradition.

The conflict between Auerbach and him was brought to the surface. He could either use his own salary to support the assistant coach or maintain the status quo.

Louis became Auerbach's weapon: "We didn't have so many assistant coaches the year before last, but we could win the championship; this year you have found so many assistant coaches, and we can't even beat the 76ers. What's the use of them?"

A stubborn old man like Auerbach, who has been the coach for a long time, will not understand Fitch.

Only this time, Auerbach didn't intend to let Louis rest for a few more months.

Louis, who had nothing to do, was sent to Italy by Auerbach, along with Jan Walker.

Before David Stern came to power, NBA teams were free to sign broadcast contracts with countries around the world in the name of local TV stations. However, most countries did not broadcast live games. What they broadcast was basically provided by the United States.

The video tape was sent.

Americans' time-lapse video live broadcasts are usually a day or a few hours apart, while the NBA live broadcasts seen by foreigners are mostly the product of a season.

However, the NBA is not that popular with Americans, and signing contracts with countries other than the United States will inevitably involve some wrangling.

The reason why Louis agreed to go on a business trip together was that he was tired of staying in the United States. Since the negotiations were presided over by Volker, he regarded it as an official trip.

"Mr. Jian, who wants to sign a contract with us?"

Louis and Walker were always more open-minded when they got along in private.

Freed from Auerbach's control, Volcker also released his true nature: "It's actually just a TV station in a small city."

"Oh my god, a broadcast contract for a small TV station?" Louis didn't think there was any money to be made in it.

Walker said calmly: "Young man, don't use small money as money."

Louis and Walker came to the city of Castello in Umbria, Italy. To Louis' surprise, most of the houses here were a bit old and there were many monasteries.

The architecture and layout of the town look very retro, which is definitely done intentionally by the locals in order to maintain an ancient feel.

Along the way, Louis and Walker earned the cold looks of many Italians.

The whites of their eyes started from Louis's American cowboy-like outfit and ended with Walker's long hair. There was obviously no communication between them, but the two Celtic expatriates traveling at their own expense deeply felt that the locals

The contempt in his eyes.

Their first priority is to find a place to stay.

Now that we are close to the city center, Walker is very disappointed. The closer we get to the city center, the messier it becomes. Stalls are everywhere and the environment is very bad: "Are we in a third world country?"

"!%...%#"

“@￥%@……”

Suddenly, a half-dead man on the roadside jumped up and yelled at them.

Volker stepped on an abandoned painting. He pointed at Volker's feet and then pointed at the painting on the ground, chattering in Italian.

"Speak English!" Walker said impatiently.

"You stepped on my painting! You must pay for it!" the man complained in broken English. "This painting was handed down from my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather. It is worth thousands of gold. You have destroyed it."

art value!"

The man roared ferociously: "Pay up!"

Then not only him, but a group of people around him gathered around and demanded compensation from Walker.

Walker is a civilized person. If he didn't work in the operations department of professional basketball, he would definitely become an excellent lawyer. He is a typical cultural person. His verbal skills are a hundred times better than his fists, but now his oral skills are completely useless.

use.

And he didn't want to cause trouble, so he just thought it was a dung beetle stepping on the dung at the door, and the dung beetle became a spirit, so he would pay the money.

"How much?" Walker asked.

The man somehow figured out that Louis and his party were foreigners - in fact, it was obvious - he pointed directly at the painting on the ground and said: "You must compensate me 1 million lire!"

Volker shouted: "How much?"

Volcker hasn't figured out how much local currency one dollar equals, but having 1 million in front of most currencies is scary.

"One million lire!" the other party yelled in the same voice. (In 1983, 1 U.S. dollar was about 1,650 lire.)

Louis never imagined that while enjoying the scenery and enjoying the wind, he would meet a gangster who had just arrived in Italy, and his tactics were so low-level. However, there were so many people there, and Volker was a gentleman. How could he yell at them on the street?

But he was asked to pay 1 million lire for this piece of shitty painting. How could he swallow this?

Louis patted Walker on the chest. He was 1.9 meters tall. Although standing here with two fists was hard to beat with four legs, he was definitely a deterrent.

When Louis puts on a serious face, he is undoubtedly a very intimidating presence.

Louis took out a coin from his body and stared directly at the leader: "You can either take this coin and get away from me, or I will take you to the police station to ask for information. I am very curious.

Is the painting your damn grandpa left to you worth that much money?"

There are scoundrels who deceive foreigners everywhere. Once you give in, they will just be wiped out.

Louis's figure and his tendency to take action whenever he disagreed made the other party timid.

Although the group of scoundrels who were suspected of being accomplices cooperated, no one was willing to take action for each other.

Louis sneered and threw the coin to the ground, "I only use this coin to say hello to your grandfather who has turned into ashes."

Louis took Walker away from the crowd, and no one dared to stop them.

The gangsters looked at each other and quickly dispersed.

This kind of quarrel happens every day. For them, it means being seen through in person, then pretending that nothing happened, changing a picture on the ground, and waiting for the next person to come.