The rest is just noise

Louie may have opened Pandora's box.

From now on, the operations department of every NBA team may have to follow the Celtics' approach in promoting male and female employees and providing certain proportions to minority groups.

Once this trend is formed, the Celtics will be at the forefront of history. As the first team to diversify the team's internal structure, their achievements will go down in history just like they did in the 1960s.

At this point, all unreasonable accusations of racism have been eliminated.

Garcia-Lynn immediately accepted the Celtics' complaint on behalf of the league and promised that the league would improve referees' professional capabilities in the future and that specific measures would be taken soon.

The Celtics have escaped accusations of racism and subsequently become LGBT friends around the world.

This result is not what Louis wants to see. He himself has no good or bad feelings towards LGBT. Now that he is involved in this, he is just following the trend.

Faced with the fact that radical equal rights organizations ignored the facts and slapped them with a racist label, if they did not use greater magic to fight in the ring, only failure awaited them. One day later, Louis returned to the players and explained to them the current situation

Situation: "From now on, it's time to focus on basketball."

"If any media bothers you with this matter again, you can completely refuse to answer and tell them to go away. I made it clear at yesterday's press conference. Let's move on."

Subsequently, the league also announced what they called measures to supervise referees.

It can be said that it is neither painful nor itchy.

The league announced that starting today, they will publish the referee's report on the last five minutes of each game. Any wrong or missed calls will not escape.

The problem is, they don’t have any punishment for those referees who make repeated mistakes. If they don’t mention the punishment plan, then fans can naturally interpret it as meaning that the referee who made the mistake will not receive any punishment, so what is the meaning of this referee report?

?You want to tell the fans, "I was wrong, hey, but I just won't change"?

The fans are disappointed. The league has no attitude of admitting its mistake. Everything the Celtics victim has done has no impact except proving his innocence. What the fans don't know is that this is what the league and the Celtics want.

need.

The Celtics need a stage, a victim identity, and the league can just go with the flow.

But it is impossible to really admit your mistake or even give eye drops to the referees for this matter.

Originally, the referees were a knife in the hands of the league. They would do whatever they were told to do. The Celtics' black whistle this time was a reflection of the league's control over the referees.

The NBA looks to be back to normal.

Competition and controversy have once again become the dominant theme in the basketball world, and aside from some prescient team executives taking a look at the male-female ratio of their own staffs, the rest has remained largely unchanged.

But Louis discovered that nothing had changed.

Two teams openly recruit new employees through their own local mouthpieces.

For example, the Los Angeles Lakers, and their goal is very clear, to only recruit female employees. Another team is the Miami Heat.

Since they entered the league, they have always followed Louis' lead, and this time is no exception.

Godfather Lewis Shafir, who is rumored to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, directly chose to do it in one step, disclosed the personnel reduction plan, and prepared to use three years to bring the ratio of male and female employees in the team to the level of the Celtics. Moreover, they are also

Consider setting aside part of the space for the LGBT community.

Someone broke the news that Lewis Shafir thought this would be the last big thing he did in office.

As long as you accomplish this, you will have no regrets even if you retire.

Louis was surprised to hear that Shafir was considering retiring.

Because Louis remembered that Shafir entered professional basketball in the late 1980s, less than 20 years ago. Then, Louis realized that he was comparing himself to others. He entered the league at the age of 18, and Shafir was in charge of the Heat.

He was already 52 years old.

Nearly 20 years have passed, and Shafir is now nearly 70 years old.

An old man, his energy is not as good as before, but under his leadership, the Heat have been a league team since the 1990s and have won four championships in these years. This achievement is enough for him to retire as the legendary godfather.

Throughout NBA history, apart from Louis and Auerbach, no other godfather has done a better job than Shafir.

On February 21st, the Celtics challenged the Hornets away.

As a team targeting Oden/Durant, the Hornets did not bring any difficulties to the Celtics, but Louis still found problems in the game.

Pau Gasol seemed to be moving slower, and his game mood was not high.

Since the All-Star break, Louis felt that Gasol had gained weight, but he was affected by external problems at the time and had no time to take care of Gasol.

Now that external interference has been lifted, Gasol's condition remains unchanged, which forces Louis to have a chat with Gasol.

This conversation really gave Louis something to talk about.

Gasol admitted that he has gained nearly 26 pounds (12 pounds) from the beginning of the season to now.

Louis asked with a serious face: "Do you know what you are doing, Paul?" Gasol said: "I know that if I continue to gain weight, I won't be able to play the four position."

In fact, based on Louis' requirements for the fourth position (sweeping, switching defenses, wiping Yao Yue's butt), Gasol's current speed is obviously not enough.

"If you know, why do you do it?" Louis asked.

Gasol was silent for a while before replying: "Because I want to become a better player."

"The way you were in the past is the best version of you."

"No, that way I just fit the Celtics." Gasol said, "If I want to be dominant, I have to gain weight. This is very important to me and also very important to Spain."

"Spain?"

Louis vaguely guessed Gasol's purpose of gaining weight.

"I want to win more honors for the Spanish team. To do this, I need to gain weight. Only in this way can I become a player who can stand on the inside." Louis greatly respects Gasol's belief in winning glory for the country, but he

I must give some advice. "You don't necessarily need these weights. Look at our captain. He has not gained weight like you. As you can see, this has ensured his health. At the same time, it has not affected his performance in the country.

The team’s performance.”

"This is different, coach." Gasol said soberly, "I am the number one player in the Spanish team, but Yao is not. He had Jiang Duo in 2000, and Ish in 2006. In that case,

He just needs to do everything he can do like he did at Celtic, and leave the rest to others, and I can't. If I fail, the whole of Spain will fall into panic and confusion."

Is this the confidence of the King of FIBA?

In any case, as a boss and coach, Louis’ first priority is his own team. Therefore, he said: "You are right, but what about health? If you gain the weight you said you can

To the extent that you can gain a foothold under the basket and become dominant, your health cannot be guaranteed."

As a result, Gasol actually said: "So, I may need more rest time, just like Yao."

Hearing this, Louis smiled.

Good guy, wait for me here.