The rest is just noise

Chapter 1460: Fired a thousand times, it’s not enough

The day Louis returned to China was something he would never forget.

Countless crowds celebrated outside, and a large number of fans waved small flags to greet the men's basketball team outside the airport.

In and outside the airport, in any corner of the city, on TV programs, no matter where you are, you can see the news that the men's basketball team won the Olympic championship.

Every player is treated like a hero, and the coaching team represented by Louis is among the groups that will be ignored by the public at this time.

After all, the game is played by the players. How much work the coaching staff has done behind the scenes can only be revealed in the future.

After coaching the national team for three years, this is the first time that Louis has fully participated in the domestic celebrations.

There are constant banquets and banquets every day, and invitations from TV stations are also inundated.

Louis is still the same, only attending important occasions.

No matter where he goes, people will ask how the contract renewal negotiations with the national team are going.

Louis didn't answer. When Li Yuanwei interviewed him about contract renewal, he expressed his thoughts.

Running back and forth like this for three consecutive years seriously drained Louis' energy.

Now that the merits are complete, it is time to withdraw.

"Director Li, I am an outsider, right?"

Lu Yi is very knowledgeable about all aspects of domestic business, especially the sports industry.

When a person becomes a benchmark in the industry, there will be overwhelming business activities, high expectations from the bottom up, and various constraints that are useless for improving performance.

Li Yuanwei has been blocking him for three years. If he continues like this, his job will not be easy to do.

Moreover, Louis, who led the men's basketball team to the Olympic championship, did enter a sage state and lost his enthusiasm for coaching.

Louis also gave his own suggestions for the selection of the next coach.

His idea is to continue hiring high-level foreign teachers.

It is undeniable that there are good coaches in local education.

But the biggest problem of Tujia is not its ability, but the intricate background behind it.

All native religions will be kidnapped by the people behind them, thus making some helpless compromises.

Louis is an outsider, endorsed by his unparalleled industry status, Li Yuanwei's support and the results of achieving good results year after year.

Although it is impossible for foreign teachers to find a famous coach like Louis, at least the foreign teachers have no direct interests in the country, and all the pressure will return to Li Yuanwei.

If Li Yuanwei doesn't handle it well, Louis' successor will be like Jonas in his previous life and complain about why he can't recruit all the players he wants.

These things have nothing to do with Louis anymore. He just suggested that foreign teachers are not omnipotent. If you want to continue the glory of the national team, the Basketball Association and the coaching staff need to work hard in both directions.

Louis could only wish them good luck.

On October 15, Louis returned to the United States.

He returned home as soon as possible and prepared to give himself a week's vacation.

After the summer of 1978, Louis became unemployed again.

This is different from the short window he had after leaving the Knicks in the summer of 1994.

At that time, Louis was already looking for a new home and was in the job hunting stage. Now he has no desire to work and just wants to spend more time with his family. Especially now that Wu Xia is about to enter his third year of high school, his attention to his son has greatly increased.

Already.

Entering the senior year of high school can be regarded as a new threshold.

There are many late-developing players who will experience qualitative changes in their physical fitness during their junior and senior years of high school, thereby growing into players of another level.

The flawless early development advantage will be lost at this stage.

Only if he proves that he is still one of the best at this age can Louis be assured of his future.

However, even though Louis had already said that he wanted to take a break, the offers still came one after another.

For example, Donald Sterling, the owner of the Clippers, heard that if he got Louis, he would get a dynasty, so why didn't he spend a lot of money to hire him?

Donald generously quoted a price of $20 million over five years.

This offer was used as fuel by Louis during the barbecue.

Not to mention that he has no intention of leaving the mountain now, even if he wants to leave the mountain, he cannot go to the Clippers, not to mention the cabbage price of US$20 million in five years?

As early as the late 1980s, the second contract Louis negotiated with the Knicks already exceeded this offer.

That was Louis' worth more than ten years ago, but if you want him to join now, you don't even have the qualifications to be looked at by him even if you don't have an eight-figure salary.

The most sincere of these people is Paul Gaston, the minor owner of the Boston Celtics.

The Celtics have been under the control of the Gaston family since Gaston Jr.'s father, Don Gaston, became the owner of the Celtics in the early 1980s.

The Celtics have also welcomed their second enlightened owner after John Brown who is willing to own the team for a long time and has little interference in internal affairs.

In the mid-1990s, Gaston Sr. basically left the Celtics to Gaston Jr. to run the team.

Gaston Jr. initially had the ambition to revitalize the Celtics, but the gravity of reality was too heavy, and the dream of rebuilding the dynasty was quickly shattered.

For Gaston Jr., the Celtics have become a burden. If the team's lack of competitiveness cannot be quickly reversed, the Bostonians will abandon them.

Because in Boston, there are so many sports teams that people can support.

In order to revive the Celtics, Gaston Jr. took the initiative to visit Louis at Sunset Hills and offered him a five-year, $90 million contract.

You know, the top contract a coach can get right now is Rick Pitino's annual salary of 8 million.

The contract provided by Gaston Jr. to Louis was as high as 18 million, not counting various bonuses.

"Is Reed okay?" Louis asked with a smile.

He felt that young Gaston was not so stupid that he did not know why he decided to leave Boston in the first place.

Little Gaston said cautiously: "Coach Lu, in fact, Reed only has a nominal title now and has little interference in internal affairs."

Louis smiled and asked: "Can I understand it this way? If he wants to interfere, he can still interfere?"

Little Gaston did not dare to deceive Louis, "The management does value Reed's suggestions, but Reed also respects the management's decision-making."

Louis, who only wants to rest, has no intention of being moved by this. Even if he cannot bear the loneliness in the future and wants to go out for fun, he will not consider the Celtics.

The key is that Paul Gaston. Louis has read some reports. This young man no longer has any confidence in revitalizing the Celtics. Now that he is spending a lot of money to hire him, he is just using his influence to increase the market value of the Celtics.

, and then sell the team when the time is right.

Once he sells the team, what awaits Louis will be a new owner full of uncertainties.

It's better to avoid such a team.

"Paul, I thank you very much for your invitation. I have always missed my time in Boston very much, but I really need to take a break now." Louis refused Gaston bluntly, "Maybe I will change my mind in the future.

, but not now. I just finished three full years of full-year employment, and the last thing I want is to take another job."

For most coaches, 90 million for five years is a sky-high price contract that is enough to make them lose their minds.

But for Louis, this contract just shows that the Celtics respect him enough.

Damn it, is it still not possible?

Gaston did not expect Louis to refuse so simply. In this way, who else can save the Celtics market? Isiah Thomas?

To be honest, if his father Don Gaston hadn't liked Thomas very much, he would have kicked this guy away long ago.

No matter how you look at it, what Isiah Thomas can bring to the team is disaster, not hope of revival.

Don’t forget, who was the person who advocated trading Grant Hill for Scottie Pippen against all odds and not even listening to Reed Auerbach’s suggestion?

It's that bastard!

If it weren't for him, would I have been reduced to a city joke focusing on providing old man music performances?

Thinking of Thomas's various foolish actions, little Gaston felt that firing this man a thousand times was not enough.

(End of chapter)