The rest is just noise

Mike Budenholzer becomes the Celtics' head coach for the new season.

For many people, this is an expected result.

At the same time, this is also Budenholzer's reasonable reward for following Louis for many years.

From the Lakers to the Chinese national team and then to Boston, Budenholzer followed Louis for nearly 20 years and finally took the top spot on the coaching staff.

Bird had doubts about Budenholzer being the head coach because Budenholzer usually showed poor adaptability and slowness during intra-team competitions.

Louis reassured Bird.

"Don't think too much. As the league becomes more and more professional, the responsibilities of the head coach will also change. Mike has problems like this, but looking at the league, how many coaches can you find who have no problems? We just need to find him

Just put a few assistant coaches around him who can help him solve problems."

Louis did not convince Bird.

Bird convinced himself.

If Laimbeer can lead the team to win the championship, why can't Budenholzer?

That's what he thought.

The Celtics fell into calm.

But the Celtics were calm, but other teams were not.

This summer, Michael Jordan sold his shares in the Hornets.

It was another victory for Benjamin Wilson over Jordan.

Over the years, Wilson and Jordan continued to struggle for power in the front office. As time went by, it turned out that Wilson was the one with more professional management qualities, and Jordan lost control of the team on the board of directors.

Jordan couldn't bear the humiliation and chose to quit.

Jordan, who is addicted to food, said he would seize every possible opportunity to return to the league.

"Sports Illustrated" commented harshly: "History has proven that MJ is a bad manager, so for the sake of a better tomorrow for professional basketball, he should give up any chance of returning to the league."

What's even more hurtful is the title of this article - "Teams close to MJ will be unlucky".

Due to the critical review of Pictorial, Jordan had already blacklisted this media for interviews.

Therefore, the pictorial also let itself go and never let go of any opportunity to black Jordan.

Wilson bought Jordan's shares and became the Hornets' second-largest shareholder.

There are rumors that the majority shareholder of the Hornets has little interest in owning an NBA team, so Wilson is likely to realize his wish and become the team's majority owner in the near future.

Unlike Wilson's smooth road to becoming a boss, Ewing's dream of being a boss after his retirement is currently in an incomplete state.

Is he the boss? Yes.

But he is just a small owner. He cannot compete with Louis and other shareholders in the Celtics, and he is not directly involved in team construction.

In the past few years, Ewing has looked away and given up his obsession with being a big boss. He has become a regular at lunch parties and has met many people through Louis's influence.

Although his career as an NBA boss has not gone smoothly, Ewing's career in the business has been smooth sailing, and his net worth has tripled since his retirement.

Ralph Sampson has quietly retired from Celtic's coaching staff.

Yao Yueban said: "Ralph is not only the greatest center of all time to me, but also the most important mentor in my life."

Sampson didn't say anything. He just felt that there was no point in continuing to serve as the team's interior coach. The Celtics had not selected an interior coach worth cultivating for more than ten years.

Someone asked him what he wanted to do after retirement.

Sampson laughed and said: "I may return to my hometown to do something for the community or attend some other activities. I will not just retire. I still want to do many things... Oh, by the way, the most important thing is

Yes, starting next week, I can freely attend Coach Lu’s lunch meeting.”

Yinthia Thomas took a long leave of absence from TNT to focus on writing her second autobiography.

The accusations of racism against Louis in Thomas's previous autobiography caused an uproar at the time, but in the end, the matter was quietly ignored.

In his last autobiography, he described his playing career in detail, while in his second autobiography, he will focus on his coaching and broadcasting careers.

If you want to attract someone's attention, you must definitely write Louis.

Moreover, Thomas believed that what Louis did to him would arouse the sympathy of many people.

Suddenly, Thomas heard that Laimbeer had left the coaching position.

He was a little surprised. If Laimbeer was fired before and his record was not good, but he won the championship this time, why didn't the Celtics renew his contract?

Louis again?

Another victim?

Thomas called Ranbir and wanted to know what happened, but Ranbir laughed and said, "You don't think Louis still wants to come back to this day, do you?"

"if not?"

"The NBA championship means nothing to him anymore. He has won 15 championships as a coach. He is already the greatest coach in history. Will continuing to win do anything to help his reputation?"

Thomas was wrong about Louis.

This isn’t Louis’ carefully choreographed Return of the King season 2.

Laimbeer could have continued to coach the Celtics for 10 years, but his body did not allow it. It was as simple as that.

Thomas was a little disappointed.

Then, Ranbir asked: "Are you free next week?"

"Is something wrong?"

"Let's go to a lunch party together? Let's get together with some old guys."

"Louis doesn't want to see me, right?"

"It's time for you to move on, Yin Saiya."

New Knicks general manager Alex Stevens has doubts about the team's future.

Injuries have struck Dwyane Wade, and after all, he is not as indestructible as LeBron James.

Love is good, but the inside line formed by him and Bosh is a disaster on the defensive end.

Hill has retired, McGrady is on the injured list. As an athlete, his end is approaching, and the Knicks' future has no direction, even though James Dolan promised fans that the team will return to the NBA championship within three years.

final, but the management had no confidence in it.

The glorious Knicks dynasty seems very far away for the Knicks.

The irony is that Stevens, as a meritorious veteran of that team, was unable to imitate that team in any way in building the team.

"Only when I sit in this position do I understand what a great job Coach Lu accomplished back then." Stevens sighed when calling Miller, "How did he do it? The more I see Coach Lu's performance back then.

The more amazing the operation was, every trade was correct, every draft hit talent, and his coaching was perfect... If he were here, he would never tolerate LeBron in such a critical game.

Got 8 points.”

Miller laughed: "Yes, he will wake up LeBron."

Later, Miller said: "If you really want to know, why don't you ask him yourself?"

"Call?"

"Such an important thing, a phone call? Of course it has to be face to face. You can come to the lunch meeting next week."

Stevens hung up the phone, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes, and for some reason, he remembered the time when he asked Louis not to lay off him in the office.

To this day, Stevens believes he didn't let Louie down, just like everyone else on that Knicks team.

Mohamed Abdul-Raouf walked quickly to the coach's office.

He is now the Knicks' shooting coach.

The team currently only gives him one task, which is to teach Jimmy Butler, the second-round pick selected the year before, how to shoot correctly.

This is the talent that General Manager Stevens values ​​most.

Stevens said Butler reminded him of himself.

Rauf thought that even if Butler became a player like Stevens, he would be "just" an important rotation member of a dynasty team.

But after contacting Butler, Rauf changed his view. He believed that Butler has a force that cannot be ignored and that one day he will amaze the entire league.

Rauf came to Rudy Tomjanovich's office and submitted his plan to reshape Butler's shooting motion.

"Mo," Rudy said, "did you see the construction team outside?"

Rauf nodded and said, "I saw it."

"The scale is larger than I imagined." Rudy said enviously, "Mr. Dolan seems to really want to build the most spectacular statue in the world for Louis."

Rauf quipped: "Even if he did this, the fans would still scold him."

"No, as long as Louis comes to say a few good words to him, or even give him some ideas, as long as he does it, Mr. Dolan will regain the love of the fans." Rudy shook his head and sighed, "That's it.

Guy’s magic.”

Rauf didn't like Dolan, but when he heard Louis' name, he felt a little touched in his heart, "Why does Coach Lu want to retire?"

"You could ask the same question to Coach Reed Auerbach and Coach John Wooden."

Rudy lamented: "It's a pity that they can't give us an answer. Moreover, even Louis has a hard time giving us an answer. I have been coaching for so many years, but as long as I can continue, I don't want to stop. This question

I also asked Billy (Donovan), and he didn't answer. We don't understand Louie, or in other words, we haven't reached the highest point, we don't understand the feeling, and I will definitely never understand it.

"

Rauf listened and thought about himself.

Was there ever a moment in his life when he felt that his life was complete and he was willing to end it there?

Suddenly, he said: "I kind of understand that feeling."

"Huh?" Rudy asked, "Really?"

Rauf nodded and said: "After Game 7 of the 1993 Finals, I thought about retiring because I knew I would never play for such a good team again."

"When you said that, I kind of understood it." Rudy smiled, "I was there at the time."

"In the blink of an eye, that was 20 years ago."

Shawn Kemp looked at Rodman uneasily. He now really felt that following this lunatic to Asia was a mistake.

It's not that Asia is bad, it would be fine if he went to countries like China or Japan, but Rodman only did an extraordinary thing. He insisted on going to North Korea to coach the general in playing, and he even treated him harshly before going to North Korea.

The media criticized the new President of the United States, Lucian ⑴.

⑴You laugh at me for typing the wrong name, and I laugh at you for not knowing how to pass the examination.

"Are you sure we can return to the United States smoothly later?" Kemp said anxiously, "The coach and I made an appointment to have dinner together!"

"What the hell are you afraid of? Of course you can go back! Don't worry, we have already agreed. I will also have dinner with the coach next month, and we will be together then."

Kemp swallowed hard. Although the dozen or so illegitimate children in his hometown were enough to give him a headache, the thought of going to a country with Rodman as a coach (legend) where dunks count as five points gave him an even bigger headache.

"Dennis, I want to go home."

"Huh, want to escape? There's no way! Unless you jump out of the plane!"

John Stockton never thought that Lu Wuxia would come to him for help.

In Stockton's view, there are too many people in Lu Wuxia's network who can provide greater help.

But he still found himself.

He wanted to know what the secret was to stealing.

To be fair, Stockton does have a say in this matter. After all, he is the historical steal leader.

"Is your dad okay?" Stockton hadn't seen Louis in many years.

Lu Wuxia smiled and said: "Well, he looks more energetic after leaving the basketball court. Now he has endless things to do every day, and he even invites a group of people to have dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles every week."

"I know, Brad (Rohaus) told me." Stockton returned to the topic, "Why do you want to know the secret of stealing?"

Lu Wuxia said matter-of-factly: "I want my game to be flawless."

"When you're about to turn 30?"

"age is not a problem."

Stockton smiled and said, "You may have forgotten that the first stroller you rode in when you were a child was assembled by me."

Lu Wuxia remembered that the stroller was even in the old warehouse of his hometown in New York.

However, before he could respond, Stockton said: "Anytime you need my help, I will help you. Come on, I'll tell you the secret of stealing."

"Thanks" to John Stockton, Lu Wuxia established a reputation as "the league's dirtiest player" in the next few years, but he also used this to be selected to the All-Defensive Team consecutively at the age of three.

"That's pretty much it, right?"

"Mike, don't put too much pressure on me."

"Look at K.C. He has no pressure."

After Mike Budenholzer took over as head coach, someone suggested that he take a mafia-like photo with the previous Celtics coaches who led the team to championships.

This is a good idea, but why is it so good? Because Auerbach and Bill Sharman took similar photos back then. Now that the Celtics have entered a new era, why not be nostalgic?

Moreover, the proposer shrewdly chose to use "leading the team to win the championship" as a precondition, and excluded a black sheep like Yinthea Thomas who was suspected by everyone.

On the day of the photo shoot, Louis, K.C. Jones, Tom Heinsohn, Larry Bird, and Bill Laimbeer all wore black suits and red ties.

"Is it done?"

After only filming for a while, Louis was already bored because everyone else had poses to pose and he just sat solemnly in the middle like a puppet and that was it.

"Stop complaining. If Reid was still here, you wouldn't be in this position." Bird looked at the GOAT coach with disgust.

Louis said arrogantly: "Even if Reed is still here, this position still belongs to me. However, we Chinese people respect the old and care for the young, so I will take the initiative to give up this position."

"You are too hypocritical. What is yours is yours, why should you let it go?"

"Country boy, you make me worry about you for the rest of your life. Do you want your children to do the same to you?"

K.C watched Louis and Bird bickering with each other, as if everything was the same as it was 30 years ago, when Louis first became the head coach.

Neither of them has changed.

But he has changed, he is no longer young, and he is no longer well-known. If the NBA were to conduct a historical survey and randomly select out-of-town fans and ask them who K.C. Jones is, at least 9 out of 10 people would be confused.

This is the power of time.

But Louis and Bird's influence transcends time.

Even in a hundred years, whenever anyone discusses basketball, their names will be mentioned.

How did it all begin?

K.C suddenly smiled and said: "Lu, maybe you should give up this position to me."

Louis and Bird were both stunned for a moment.

Heinsohn laughed: "K.C, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"No, no," K.C said, "I'm serious. If I hadn't walked out of Greek College at the right time, Lu wouldn't have met me. If Lu hadn't met me, he wouldn't have been able to create an opportunity to get close to me and join me.

Celtics. That summer of 1978, I changed Lu's life and allowed him to dominate the league for the next thirty years."

K.C became arrogant, and he finally became younger: "Yes, both emotionally and logically, I should sit in the center. My decision 35 years ago changed the NBA and changed everything."

Bird stared at Louis with wide eyes. What does that mean: Is this really happening?

Louis could foresee that this story would become the NBA version of "If Qiu Chuji hadn't passed by Niujia Village." Is it true? Yes, that's right. If it hadn't been for K.C, what would have happened later, Louis didn't know, but he was sure.

, the past 35 years have been the best period he has experienced in his previous life and this life. It is magnificent and wonderful and cannot be repeated.

The person who started this period was K.C.

In this way, he is indeed one of the two most important people in Louis' life.

So, Louis stood up and said: "I've had enough of sitting here like an idiot, K.C, it's yours, I'm going to place 10,000 POSS next to you!"

In the end, the group photo with K.C as the core was not spread to the outside world, and it became K.C's private collection. Since then, he always likes to open the album to look at those photos. He always wants to see more of the energetic Louis in the photos.

, even he himself has become younger.

However, in fact, they are no longer young. However, Louis used his lasting dominance to make people remember his youthful appearance.

He stepped onto the top of the mountain and stayed there forever. No matter how long time passes, the great legend is destined to be engraved in the memories of fans.

He won't grow old. Forever.