The rest is just noise

Come 1983, Louis took a few days off because his girlfriend, Lorraine "Marlena" Molina, was in the United States.

Louie and Lorraine spent the day north of Boston.

Because the northern part of Boston has a nickname, "Little Italy."

There, Lorraine can find the feeling of hometown.

"Why don't you want me to watch the game live?" Lorraine wanted to know what kind of environment Louis worked in.

"Because I love you, Marlena." This is definitely sincere, not sweet.

As long as the Celtics still play home games at the Boston Garden, Louis doesn't want Lorraine to watch the games live.

For non-locals, once the game starts, it becomes hell.

Louis didn't know how he got used to the Garden environment. He really admired Bill Fitch and all the head coaches who came to the Garden for wearing suits and remaining elegant on the cesspool-like court.

If it were him, he would be willing to give orders while shirtless.

Lorraine came to the United States for the first time, and it was not as scary as she thought. By the way, she also met Louis' mother.

To Louis' surprise, Li Xuanbing didn't like Lorraine.

Because she is so beautiful.

"Haven't you seen "Yi Tian"? The more beautiful a woman is, the easier it is to deceive others." Li Xuanbing's reaction was too normal.

Lorraine is so beautiful and sexy that women imagine her as the embodiment of evil.

"It just so happens that I can also lie to people, such as tricking you into studying in school, but actually working in the black drug league." Louis said jokingly.

Li Xuanbing was very serious: "I don't object to you being with her, but you'd better get to know her better."

"Yes Yes."

True intimacy means discovering sides of the other person that others don't usually know. Even if you don't want to see them sometimes.

Louis and Lorraine had reached this level of distance. He saw Lorraine's face without lipstick, the true size of her bra, and the cute little mark on her hip that she had been born with, as well as her somewhat self-consciousness.

Big, contented, and likes to show off and be noticed.

At Lorraine's insistence, Louis decided to take her to the Boston Garden to watch a game.

Before departure, Louis reminded her not to put on too much makeup. Even though it was winter in Boston and it snowed for a month, tens of thousands of fans in the old warehouse-like garden were enough to turn the inside of the arena into a burning place.

A slum with a fire bed and an airtight atmosphere.

Entering inside is like taking a sauna. No matter how exquisite the decoration is, it will be ruthlessly destroyed by the temperature.

Lorraine didn't listen to Louis. After she arrived at the garden, she was approached at least 20 times.

Louis could only hold her hand in a high-key manner, and then sat in the front row without permission.

Anyway, he, the assistant coach who would not give any advice to Fitch, would be the same wherever he sat.

On this day, the Celtics' opponent is the Houston Rockets, who currently have 3 wins and 28 losses.

Their record closely reflects the value of Moses Malone.

With Malone, they are the brave men who can defeat Goliath in the playoffs.

Without Malone, it would be difficult for them to win even a game.

What's even more outrageous is that the Celtics played very anxiously against them.

Lorraine is not that interested in competitive sports, and Italy is a country that values ​​football more than anything else. But football only scores a few goals in every game, and Lorraine's attention cannot sustain the arrival of wonderful moments.

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The rhythm of basketball is just right, and he can score goals before her patience wears out and continue to keep her hanging.

But Louis could tell that she didn't like basketball. She acted like she liked it purely because he was sitting next to her.

The sweltering environment of the garden made Lorraine understand why Louis did not want her to come to watch the game.

The Celtics defeated the Rockets with a low score of 88 to 87.

A narrow 1-point victory over the league's top team is not something to be happy about.

It's foreseeable that Bill Fitch is going to get angry again.

Louis didn't go back to the dressing room, he took Lorraine back home.

Lorraine is applying for study abroad opportunities in the United States. Considering her grades, it is not easy, but Louis will help her.

Two days later, Lorraine returned to Italy.

Louis returned to work. His work was no longer as hard and complicated as before. Sometimes, he was just waiting for the opportunity to come.

Auerbach is no longer in the mood to quarrel with Fitch, and is more focused on the new round of labor agreement negotiations.

The progress of the negotiations will affect the future of the alliance.

Conservatives like him hate Fleischer's practices.

"That bastard was playing the piano behind Hondo's back!" Auerbach cursed in the office. "He almost brought Hondo to the ABA!"

Louis knew the inside story of this matter. In the mid-to-late 1960s, players' incomes increased rapidly.

The origin of premium contracts began when the Knicks gave Cazzie Russell (SF/SG), the No. 1 pick in 1966, a six-figure rookie contract. From then on, the NBA entered the top ranks. Rookies got big contracts when they debuted and then lost progress.

The era of motivation.

By the early 1970s, the Celtics did not give Havlicek a contract worthy of his worth.

Looking at it now, Havlicek's demands are completely fine, and Fleischer is just trying to help him get a bigger contract.

In his heart, Louis ignored Auerbach's complaints. The most successful NBA godfather in history was limited by the times and did not fully keep up with the pace of the league's commercialization.

As for words, he approved of Auerbach.

"This time they proposed to distribute the league's total revenue, which is nonsense!" Auerbach said unhappily. "In that case, the relationship between players and teams will no longer be an employment relationship, but a partnership relationship."

Louis smiled lightly and said: "Reed, things are not the same now as they were then. Players want more than you think."

"That's right, today they want a share of the TV broadcast contract, and next time they will even share the arena parking fees!" Auerbach lamented the decline of the league.

"Instead of focusing on these things that are beyond our control, it is better to think about how to change the team's current predicament." Louis said, "There is something wrong with the smell of the team recently."

"What's wrong?"

Louis said vividly: "In recent games, what I saw was five players wearing Celtic jerseys playing on the field, but I didn't see a team."

"This is Fitch's job." Auerbach smiled, "Just watch it."

Louis joked: "I can do this job."

However, they did not expect that the real destruction of the team, and the hidden dangers of this season, still came from off-field negotiations between the league and the union. At a critical point of orderly progress, they suddenly took a big step back - this completely detonated the relationship between both parties.

contradiction.