The rest is just noise

In early September, Louis received a call from the team. Preparations for the new season were about to begin, asking him to return to the team as soon as possible.

This is not something Louis can control, he must obey the arrangements.

Therefore, he informed Lorraine that he was about to return to the United States that day.

Lorraine already knew the job he was engaged in, although her knowledge of the NBA was limited to a few years ago when a black man beat out the brains of a white man on the court - no way, this was the only time the NBA could be featured on "News 24 Hours" before 1983.

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That night, Lorraine said no one was home and she had lost her key, so she might have to spend the night in Louis' hotel room.

Louis accepted her tacitly and helped her open another room without being too smart.

Like a shipwreck survivor on a 1950s TV show, Lorraine sat on the sofa for a while, then suddenly climbed into Louis' bed, claiming she was cold, and never left again.

Louis could feel her breath and heartbeat.

"Will we meet again?" Lorraine asked.

Louis said softly: "As long as you want to see me, as long as I want to see you, we will definitely meet again."

Louis took this relationship seriously, and he did not want to put aside the Italian affairs after returning to Boston.

Lorraine can speak English fluently, so she can go to school in an English-speaking country.

If she couldn't get into an Italian school, he could definitely get this opportunity for her in the United States.

He didn't express his thoughts because the time was not right.

Before leaving, Louis told Lorraine his address in Boston, his home phone number, his hometown phone number and address, how to send a fax to his office...all the contemporary ways to contact him.

He was afraid that Lorraine would not find him.

Before leaving, Lorraine shed tears and hugged Louis tightly. If it weren't for the fear of delaying the flight, she might have been able to hug him forever.

"Don't worry about the judicial examination, I will find a way for you." Louis touched Lorraine's face, "You are so smart, you should know that besides schools in Italy, you have many choices."

Lorraine asked: "You mean schools in America?"

"Marlena, you are indeed the smartest woman in the world." Louis' flattery made Lorraine very proud.

She smiled contentedly with red eyes: "Of course, I am very smart to begin with."

"Goodbye, Marlena." Louis took a few steps, but with something else in mind, he turned back again, "I've been missing you since the first second I turned around, ti amo, ti voglio bene (Italian)."

Louis and Lorraine went from getting to know each other to confirming their relationship without any confession.

They naturally became a couple.

This is Louis' addition to that procedure.

Lorraine looked confused or happy, but she didn't say a word. After a while, Louis left.

At the moment when he said he loved her in Italian, Louis didn't actually feel the kind of love he wanted to express too deeply. After all, it was a foreign language that he was learning and selling now, so he was a little worried that he had mispronounced it, otherwise Luo

Lin's reaction should have been bigger.

Louis was extremely eager to see Lorraine's response, but maybe his meaning was not standard. She saw Lorraine feeling happy and uncertain at the same time.

Sometimes, we exaggerate. Sometimes, we say things that are not so true, secretly hoping that when we say them, they will come true. This time, Louis felt different, because from the moment he boarded the plane, he

I started to miss Lorraine crazily.

Two months after leaving the United States, nothing else has changed here.

NBA still looks like it's about to burp at any moment.

Louis never imagined that the Celtics could maintain the same lineup as last season.

Archibald hasn't been traded yet.

This is largely due to the impact of the window period from June to August.

At that time, the teams agreed not to perform any operations. If the 76ers had not broken the rules, the management shutdown might have lasted longer.

But from August to September, the Celtics had one month to deal with Archibald, but failed.

The reason is that Auerbach is unwilling to give away Archibald, who returned to All-Star level two years ago.

Last season proved that Archibald in 1980-81 was just a flashback, and he quickly returned to the half-dead state when he first came to the Celtics.

McAdoo's trade gave Auerbach too much sweetness. He wanted to do it again, but no team was willing to hand over a future first-round pick for Archibald.

Therefore, Archibald is still on the team.

The Celtics' roster still looks luxurious.

In preseason training camp, Louis was surprised to find that Danny Ainge was getting stronger.

It used to be that when attacking the penalty area, one would either be knocked down or beaten, but now he can put the ball in after a high-quality confrontation.

Moreover, his long-range shooting has also shown some improvement.

Sampson has made little progress in the past year. Originally, Louis wanted to develop his potential specifically, but he was repeatedly sent out by Fitch. In order to prevent Louis from wandering around, Auerbach transferred him to the office to help.

Sampson had a rough year playing under a group of assistants he didn't trust.

Although Louis gave him a highlight video to learn positioning skills, and he studied it seriously, there was no on-site correction from Louis, and no one else in the team would tell him what he did poorly, so he did not make much progress in the past year.

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Last season's failure made Fitch realize Louie's ability.

Maybe he doesn't have more professional knowledge than the four assistant coaches from the university, but he has an extremely keen sense of the situation of the game and the loopholes in the opponent's offense and defense.

That is an innate ability.

Therefore, Fitch wanted to turn around and found Louis, hoping that he could participate in the construction of the team's offensive and defensive system in the new season.

Fitch believes this is an opportunity for him and Louis.

Louis needs practice to test his tactics, and he needs to use Louis' tactics to break the deadlock.

Louis decisively rejected him: "There are so many professional coaches on our team who are deeply involved in college basketball. If they can't solve the problem, how can I solve it?"

Fitch was disappointed: "Lu, you and I have had successful cooperation. This kind of bond is something that few other coaches don't have."

Louis couldn't help but want to laugh. It turned out that he still remembered that they had won the championship together.

"But we have to look forward, Bill. I appreciate your eagerness to improve. After winning the championship, you did not stand still. Instead, you hired four assistant coaches who are more professional than me. This made me also

Benefited a lot.”

Louis wants Fitch to know why they can't continue to work together now because he ruined the cooperative relationship.

Putting himself in his shoes, he can understand what Fitch did;

Thinking about it personally, I am pretty durable.

The Celtics' preseason training camp was gloomy, and the team seemed unable to integrate everyone's talents.

Outside of training camp, the league consulted Judge Kingman Brewster, who presided over Robertson's case, about imposing a salary cap.

They want to know if the league imposes a salary cap, whether it would violate the settlement agreement reached after the Robertson case ended.

The answer Brewster gave is interesting.

He said that the league's proposal of a salary cap to limit salary itself violated relevant regulations, but if the owners just mentioned it, it would definitely not be a violation, because at best it is just a suggestion.

Once it is implemented, it is illegal, let alone enforced.

This gives the Players Association a strong guarantee.

But at the same time, it also gives bosses a possibility.

Although the salary cap is illegal, if the players do not object and do not file a lawsuit, the system can be implemented normally.

The problem is how to get players to agree to a salary cap.

This seemed impossible at the time, and the players would not accept the salary cap.

Training camps across the country are in full swing, and the league and the Players Association are once again conducting pre-season negotiation meetings.

The atmosphere in this meeting, which was recorded in its entirety, was tense.

There were no pleasantries between the two sides. Fleischer asked the NBA to eliminate the salary cap proposal. Stern, the league's negotiator, rejected the proposal and urged the players association to seriously consider the matter.

Fries made his position clear: "The players will not accept any form of salary adjustment package."

Stern knew that the players must know the current situation of the league. Fleischer also expressed his willingness to improve the league's economic situation, but he needed to know the details. Stern only reiterated that 2/3 of the teams are losing money.

Fleischer likened Stern's rhetoric to a "crying wolf" story.

Stern was very angry and asked Fleischer to come up with a charter. He wanted to know if there was a better way to improve the economic difficulties faced by the league.

Fleischer’s proposal is simple and crude: “Find richer bosses and let them run the business more professionally.”

With the NBA's current situation, no other wealthy owners will be interested in investing in an NBA team.

Both sides stood firmly in their own horns and refused to come out.

This tense meeting ended without any consensus.