The rest is just noise

After the small meeting, Louis left overnight.

Although the league invited him to watch the All-Star Game in the VIP area of ​​the Alamodome, he declined.

He's not interested in the All-Star Game.

Watching the All-Star Game live has no other meaning than meeting a few old friends.

You can see old friends at any time and it's not worth wasting an extra day on it.

Time is like money, he would rather lie at home all day instead of socializing.

What's more, what if there is any major transaction in these two days?

Regarding the league, Louie is only interested in one thing, and that is whether Stern will repay him with next year's No. 1 pick in exchange for his support for the policy.

If Stern could make the decision early, then Louis would be willing not to mention attending the All-Star Game, but to stay after the All-Stars to clean up the arena as a janitor.

Unfortunately, Stern did not give him a reply, so Louis had no choice but to leave. He wanted to keep a certain distance from the other party.

As the saying goes, distance creates beauty.

Perhaps with the distance between the two of them, Stern can feel his importance more deeply.

This is a bit like the battle-hardened veteran Megumi Fujiura. She was worried that her Noble Phantasm would leave irreversible risks during the competition, so she decided to spend a year storing her eggs. This made many fans disappointed. A year is long enough. Fortunately, she has left enough classic games to review the past and learn the new. By looking back on the past, her image becomes brighter and brighter in the hearts of fans.

However, Los Angeles has been peaceful for a long time. If we could ignore hot news such as a madman holding a gun and shooting people indiscriminately, a black man being violently enforced by the police and causing chaos on 26th Street, and major highways still being suffocatingly blocked.

The Lakers front office has nothing to do.

No transaction.

Since Louis took office, there have been very few calls seeking deals.

Because Louis is so good, it is difficult to get an advantage from him.

Also, if Louis is interested in the deal you proposed, then you really need to take a hard look at yourself.

This is the disadvantage of having a high status in the world. Louis can no longer pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.

When colleagues do business with him, they always have the workplace version of a hundred thousand whys in their minds.

Why is leader lu willing to make a deal with me?

Shouldn't I do this deal?

The players I picked weren't that bad?

What are leader lu’s plans?

Damn, although I really want to do trading, I don't want to be like those idiots who were put into shame because of leader lu and asked for trouble...

After such a series of psychological activities, the people negotiating with Louis often choose to give up like those sober people who give up after chasing a girl halfway and are never heard from again.

For a while, Louis suspected that there was something wrong with his negotiation skills. It wasn't until he found out that the guy he was negotiating with had made an even stupider deal with another team that he was sure that it wasn't his negotiation skills that had declined, but It's because his deterrence has been greatly improved.

To his peers, he is a being with perfect intimidation value.

Even if the transaction seems normal, as long as it is done with him, people can't help but think too much about it.

It is also for this reason that the Lakers passed a trade deadline that no one cared about.

Then comes the All-Star Game.

The Western Stars were defeated by the Eastern Stars.

The strange thing is that the two star players of the Western Conference Stars, Wilson and Jordan, both performed well, but they still lost.

This has nothing to do with strength.

There's only one problem for the Western Conference Stars. While others treat the game as a game and a low-stakes showcase, Wilson and Jordan treat the court as a continuation of their rivalry.

On the morning of the game day, Jordan said in an interview that he wanted to win amvp.

When Wilson heard this, he said, good guy, although we don't care about amvp, isn't this thing usually prepared for star players who are at home? Have you considered the feelings of San Antonio people when you say this? Have you asked Jia Jia

Mal Mashburn’s opinion? Do you know how to be polite? Do you know what is the duty of a guest?

Since you don't know anything, then I will defend the fat people in the Holy City, amvp, I want it.

I think you have figured out that Wilson is just making excuses for robbing amvp.

But the unseemly man was Jordan, and Wilson had perfect reasons.

Moreover, he didn't do it for the limelight, he just did it to disgust Jordan.

Although this motive is not pure, at most it only disgusts Jordan alone. What Jordan did did disgusted countless San Antonio people.

Therefore, although these two people were in full form on the night of the game and were the most serious players in the game, they were not united and grudged each other, which ultimately led to the Eastern Stars winning the game.

The most effective scene of the show happened.

The man who won the amvp trophy is - Patrick Ewing.

He won this trophy that lacks gold content with 18 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists and 7 blocks.

Then, the orangutan said something rare: "If they (Western Stars) were more united, maybe we would lose."

Barkley, who had never dealt with Ewing, said bitterly after the game: "Only a fool would go all out in the All-Star Game."

Sir Charles' words accidentally spilled onto Wilson and Jordan.

Ewing didn't take it seriously: "This is what Charles would say. This is why he has not been able to win the championship so far. This is also the reason why he was kicked from Portland to Los Angeles. He and Michael could not succeed, but Benj and I did not

I can win seven consecutive championships, what can I say?"

In fact, he has already said a lot...

It's a pity that Wilson didn't get the AMVP, but it seemed good that Ewing got it.

Anyway, as long as the person named Jordan doesn't win the award, then he has no objection.

Why does Wilson have such a big opinion against Jordan? This starts with external public opinion.

Wilson and Ewing together created seven consecutive championships that shocked the past. They are the greatest duo in NBA history, but strangely, they are not recognized as the number one small forward or number one center in history.

The first center is Sampson, and Jordan is the active player who has the greatest impact on the game from the perspective of high-level statistics.

Knicks haters usually believe that if Wilson and Ewing were replaced by other stars of the same level in the league, the Knicks' number of championships would not be reduced.

Moreover, this group is huge in number.

In the United States, there are only two types of basketball fans, those who are Knicks fans and those who are hostile to the Knicks. No matter how large the Knicks fan base is, it is far smaller than the group that is hostile to them.

Not as good as Sampson, Ewing himself acknowledged it.

But Wilson had every reason to be indignant.

Why? Sampson has six championships. If he were a few years younger, he would still be the monster who knocked out all the current centers. What does Jordan have? A man who has not won a championship in 12 years since his debut is being used by him all day long.

Isn't it shameful for a stupid fan to be called the strongest?

Is it the fact that he shot down the Trail Blazers with one foot in 1992 and allowed the Knicks to complete five consecutive championships, or is it that his 66 points in a single game against Jordan in the 1993 Game 7 was not shocking enough?

The best player on active duty may not be him (Wilson), but it definitely cannot be Jordan.

In fact, the view that Wilson is inferior to Jordan was completely shaken after 1993. Nowadays, the only people who think Wilson is inferior to Jordan are the latter's idiot fans.

After Wilson left New York, Knicks haters began to recognize his ability.

With Benj leading the team in scoring this season with an average of 34 points per game and leading the team to the first record in the Western Conference, his personal abilities have received more recognition.

Wilson's supporters can finally say with confidence that Wilson's statistics in the past were relatively unspectacular because he had to make sacrifices to play in the Knicks. Who can't really improve the statistics for football rights?

This is also the reason why Louis let Wilson gain points.

He also feels that if Wilson wants to completely crush Jordan in terms of reputation in the future, or even surpass Bird to be elected as the best in history, he must have a personal performance season and win a championship before the Lakers team is fully formed.

Wilson is running out of time to prove himself.

If you beat the numbers this year, you have to find a way to win the championship next year.

Louis thinks so too, but how to win the championship next year is a problem.