The rest is just noise

Louis sent Paul away: Gaston, a few days later, guests from New York came to the door.

Elgin Baylor visits with James Dolan.

Ever since Dolan Jr. imposed a 300 million luxury tax, he has "grown up". He finally understood that professional basketball is not that easy to manipulate. Louis' success in New York was not because of the good Feng Shui in New York, but because of the talent.

To do this kind of thing when he was in charge of team affairs for the first time really severely damaged Dolan's confidence. At the same time, it also allowed Baylor and R.C. Buford to take back some of the power that should belong to the management.

This is also the reason why the Knicks' decline has changed in recent years.

Little Dolan thought about it and gradually realized that the one who could really turn the team around must be Leader Lu.

Therefore, he asked Baylor to take him with him and go to Sunset Hills to lobby Louis in person.

Louis knew their purpose of coming, but still arranged for them to have dinner at home.

At the dinner table, Louis said straight to the point: "Elgin, you should know that I really need a good rest now, right?"

At this time, little Dolan took over: "Coach Lu, we fully understand your needs. Please rest assured that our purpose here is different from other teams."

This actually surprised Louis.

Is it possible that these two people really came here to have a meal? Isn't that true?

Baylor said straight to the point: "Louis, we don't want you to be the coach, nor will we let you be the general manager or president."

Louis smiled and asked: "Then what should I do?"

Little Dolan said: "Special advisor! You don't need to go to work in New York, or even show up in the team at all. You just need to provide your professional advice when we make key decisions."

Louis asked again: "How is the treatment?"

Baylor glanced at the prodigal son, which meant that you are the biggest, so tell me.

Little Dolan knows that Louis's worth as a coach is more than twice the maximum salary of an ordinary coach, but how much should a special consultant pay?

Just like everyone who is eager for Louis to come out and help his team, little Dolan remembered that sentence-if you have Louis, you have a dynasty.

Even if Louis is not on the front line and not a decision-maker in the management, his advice is still worth thousands of dollars.

With his assistance behind the scenes, reviving the Knicks dynasty is no longer empty talk.

After taking a deep breath, Dolan Jr. said, "What do you think of $8 million a year?"

Aha? Baylor feels that either this prodigal son is crazy or he is deaf. How can he not regard money as money before he can give a special consultant an annual salary of 8 million US dollars?

Your family really has a mine, right?

Not to mention, even though James Dolan looks like he has an incompletely developed cerebellum when viewed horizontally or vertically, even if he is mentally retarded, as long as he is generous enough, he will be pleasing to the eye.

Louis wanted to agree, because special counsel is really a job where you can make money on your own, but he couldn't live up to the love of Los Angeles.

When Louis resigned, the Lakers also proposed a plan to retain the team as a special consultant. Although the offer was not as high as Dolan Jr., if Louis wanted to counteroffer, he could still get this amount.

In the end he refused.

Louis accepted Little Dolan's offer with a smile, arranged for them to have a sumptuous lunch, and then sent them off happily.

Until he walked out of Sunset Villa, little Dolan didn't know if he had persuaded Louis.

"Elgin, what do you mean by Coach Lu?"

Baylor pouted another meaning of Louis' move: "He was very satisfied with our offer, but for some reasons could not accept the job. Simply put, we failed."

"It actually failed?" Little Dolan couldn't believe that someone could refuse such a generous offer.

After returning home, little Dolan thought for days and nights but still couldn't figure out why Louis would refuse. The prodigal son, who was distressed by this, reviewed what he thought was the best movie in history - "The Godfather".

That immortal classic line impacted little Dolan's brain.

"I can make him an offer he can't refuse."

Yes, this is the truth!

It came out so easily!

Dolan Jr. called Louis in a daze and raised the special adviser's annual salary to 10 million, and if the Knicks could win the championship, there would be a hefty bonus.

At that time, Louis really thought this prodigal son was crazy.

If your father is rich, he can't spend 10 million to raise an idle person who doesn't come to work and only talks, right?

"Coach Lu, Qiuli Gao, I must let the Knicks regain their strength. Only in this way, those damn media will not use different tricks every day to call me a waste!"

Louis felt that the media said it very well, and it was an appropriate description.

"Mr. Dolan, let's talk again when you wake up."

Louis doesn't mind making money while lying down. If little Dolan is really so crazy about spending money to buy his talk (suggestion), he will accept it.

However, this needs to be done secretly.

For example, even if things are exposed in the future, Louis can only be Dolan Jr.'s special adviser on business, not the Knicks' special adviser.

If someone asks why little Dolan would pay tens of millions of dollars per year to a special consultant who is only used a few times a year, it is easy to explain, because his cerebellum is not developed.

The next day, Little Dolan called again. This time, he was much more rational, but one thing was that his desire to pursue Louis did not decrease at all, but became stronger and stronger.

Little Dolan struggled with this matter from the middle of the month to the end of the month.

Louis finally relented.

Dolan Jr. and Louis reached an agreement worth $10 million a year, plus bonuses.

Louis serves as Dolan Jr.'s special advisor on business. The two parties only communicate remotely through the phone. Moreover, during the season, if the Knicks have no major transactions or major internal changes, no interruptions are allowed.

Moreover, Louis is not responsible for the Knicks' results.

Then, little Dolan asked his first question.

Is extending Ewing's contract this summer the best solution?

"Of course not." Louis said, "Patrick is already old. The Knicks can't win anything with him. It's time for him to retire. In fact, only when Patrick retires can Benj.

There is a possibility of returning to New York, and depending on some of what happened over the summer, New York may have missed the opportunity to get both Benj and Shaq in free agency."

Dolan Jr. was furious when he heard this: "I just said that Elgin Baylor is a fool! He is the one who advocates keeping Trick Ewing!"

"He's not stupid." Louis smiled, "He just can't bear the consequences of forcing Patrick to retire. Mr. Dolan, you are the one who really should do this."

Dolan Jr. said angrily: "Next summer, I won't renew Patrick Ewing's contract at all!"

"wrong again."

Why did you make a mistake again?

Little Dolan felt that everything he did was wrong.

"Please give me some advice." Little Dolan could only ask respectfully.

Louis said: "Now that the mistake has been made, we can't make the same mistake again and again, but make the mistake again. Next year's free market will not be as grand as this year. Even if the Knicks do not renew Patrick's contract, they will not be able to benefit from the free market.

Harvest enough rewards. Therefore, what you should do is let Patrick play the last few years with satisfaction and let him retire with glory. This will let players across the league know that the Knicks are a humane team.

This will be of great help to your future recruitment efforts."

After hearing this, little Dolan was convinced. There is really only one drawback to expensive things, and that is that they are expensive!

"Coach, your words suddenly enlightened me. That idiot Elgin only talks nonsense that I don't understand!"

"Mr. Dolan, Elgin is the hero of the team, you have to give him more respect."

"knew…"

"Also, Mr. Dolan, if there is nothing urgent in the future, don't call me. The special adviser also needs to live."

"Understand...understand..."

Louie may be making the easiest $10 million since the dawn of modern finance, but he feels no guilt at all because James Dolan's cerebellum apparently grew after a conversation with him.

I feel that I am so great.