The rest is just noise

On Thanksgiving Day, one of the problems Louis faced was how to invite Lorraine to his home for the holiday.

Because Li Xuanbing obviously doesn't like Lorraine, although she hides it well in front of Lorraine, as long as Lorraine is not present, she will use various methods to express the reasons why she is not optimistic about this relationship.

Finally, Louis officially invited Lorraine to his home for Thanksgiving.

Italy also has Thanksgiving, but it's not as formal as Americans.

In some big cities, some Italians will celebrate Thanksgiving, but Lorraine's hometown is a small city and it is basically no foreign holiday, just like people in China's fourth- and fifth-tier cities never care about Christmas.

The way Louie's family celebrates the holidays is different from the way every American family eats turkey.

They prepared a sumptuous dinner according to the Chinese way of celebrating festivals.

Steamed fish, roast duck, dumplings, various dishes, typical Chinese family holiday meals.

"Aren't you going to help in the kitchen?" Lorraine asked.

"Mom thinks that my presence in the kitchen is questioning her cooking skills." Louis said helplessly, "So I can only stay here."

Lorraine said with a smile: "My mother is the same. She worries about me catching a cold when I don't wear enough clothes. She worries about whether I am injured when my feet slip. She worries about whether I am lost if I get home a minute late."

Louis understood why Lorraine's mother had these worries.

If he had such a beautiful daughter, he would be worried too.

"That's okay. When I was a kid, I could only trick-or-treat within a 50-meter radius of my house during Christmas. Beyond this distance, my mother would bring a stick and force me back to the 'safe zone.'"

Thinking of Louis Benyi's childhood, Louis was very emotional.

Lorraine didn't expect the usually amiable Li Xuanbing to be so violent.

“It doesn’t look like it”

"You will see her true face in the future."

Louis was vaccinated in advance to prevent Lorraine from being disillusioned with her good impression when Li Xuanbing's small universe broke out in the future.

In the evening, there were only three people at the table.

"Are we going to pray?" Lorraine never had Thanksgiving.

Li Xuanbing said with a fake smile: "No one in our family seems to be religious, right?"

"Thank you to the Europeans who set foot on this land hundreds of years ago, and to the Indiana people for their kindness." Louis smiled, "but I guess they won't thank the Europeans for the Bibles they threw over."

Lorraine, who knew nothing about this period of history, asked: "Why?"

"How many times have I told you, don't mention this kind of thing again!" Li Xuanbing said with disdain, "Why are you causing trouble outside all day long and even beating the referee? You are really bad at it in the NBA!"

Louis said unjustly: "You should really watch the video. I was chased for dozens of meters before I was forced to fight back."

"It's true, I can testify!" Lorraine naively thought that Li Xuanbing really cared about how Louis clashed with the referee. "If Louis didn't punch, he would be the one who ended up in the hospital."

After Thanksgiving, Louis and Lorraine had no other plans.

Louis sent Lorraine back to the apartment and told Li Xuanbing that he would not go home to sleep.

"Pay attention to safety measures." Li Xuanbing reminded.

Louis' head was pounding after hearing this: "Mom, if I didn't have this consciousness, you could hold a grandson in one hand now."

"That's not bad. Give me your grandson quickly, and then I won't care about you anymore!" Li Xuanbing's eyes lit up.

Does this mean that the big toy is no longer fun and you need to switch to a smaller toy?

Louis spent a night of ecstasy in Lorraine's apartment, and he was not dissatisfied. Lorraine fulfilled all his fantasies about women, which was an important reason why he stayed away from home without getting caught in the dust.

Sometimes, Louis mentally wants to cheat, but when he sees those who might make him cheat, and then compares it with Lorraine, he will despise himself.

How could he be easily seduced by a seductive traitor outside when he had an SS-level girlfriend at home? Then wouldn’t he be a Chen Gou?

After Thanksgiving, an article from the New York Post began to circulate in Boston.

The content of the article is about the trade rumors between the Celtics and Suns.

The player the Celtics were involved in the trade was Maxwell, and the Suns were actually willing to send any player to get him.

This surprised many media outlets.

Because Maxwell is not worth such a large price in their impression, how come the Suns are willing to let anyone on the team trade for him, but Louis rejects it?

It's outrageous that Louis rejected the Suns' "willing to trade for anyone" offer.

Because even if he refused, it was Auerbach who refused, so why does Louis have anything to do with it?

Even if Louis had the power to make the decision, how could he refuse such an attractive offer?

Maxwell's dissatisfaction with the sixth man position is well known.

The impact of this news quickly spread to the Celtics, and Maxwell earned the nickname "The Man Worth More Than the Suns."

Maxwell had discussed this matter with Louis.

But Louis didn't give him a chance and always dismissed him with "next time".

On November 25, the first day after Thanksgiving, the Celtics' season restarted against the Atlanta Hawks.

This is a struggling team and one of the teams indirectly affected by the butterfly effect caused by Louis.

Because the Pistons gave an extra first-rounder that year, they got the No. 1 pick in 1982; because they got the No. 1 pick but chose Worthy, the Lakers could only choose Wilkins;

Although they wanted to strengthen the wings, Worthy and Wilkins were both selected, and they could only choose Terry Cummings, one of the top three players in the same class.

Cummings has All-Star prospects, but it is basically impossible to go further.

The eagle can't move up or down, which is very embarrassing.

Many teams failed in order to get a piece of the talent-rich 1984 draft, and the Hawks were heading astray.

The Celtics defeated them and vented their anger about losing to the Knicks before Thanksgiving.

This started a three-game winning streak for them and they entered December.

In the first game of December, the Celtics once again attracted a lot of attention, because their opponent was the 76ers who not long ago staged a battle with them that could be included in the future ESPN Classic Channel.

As the two teams meet again, observers naturally hope to see the 76ers play in better form.

Some people still think that the 76ers' embarrassing loss to the Celtics by 38 points was due to their own poor condition.

As a result, the two teams met again, and the 76ers once again lost by 26 points. If Louis hadn't talked about martial arts in the fourth quarter and replaced the main players to rest, it would not have been impossible to beat the 76ers by 38 points.

"Perhaps the era of the 76ers and Celtics competing for hegemony in the Eastern Conference has really passed."

"The 1983 championship took away the Sixers' ambitions and they could never move forward."

"Is Bill Fitch incompetent, or is the Celtics realizing their shame and being courageous?"

"Why is no one willing to believe that this is the change brought about by Little Lu?"

All kinds of comments and endless comments came from all directions.

What Louis answered most was the trading rumors about Maxwell.

The media asked repeatedly and he answered repeatedly.

He did not admit the existence of the trade, just like the Suns did not admit that they had any communication with the Celtics.

Both parties insist that there is no deal.

It's just that Louis would deny it to the media while admitting to Maxwell that he had talked with the Suns. However, even if the Suns were willing to trade Larry Nance and two first-rounders for him, he would not agree.

"Why?" Maxwell asked.

Louis wanted to flatter Maxwell, but he didn’t want him to notice that he was flattering, so he had to use this roundabout way to make the other party happy: “Because I don’t want to use a champion who has proven himself in the playoffs.

Players are exchanged for weak teams."

If Auerbach, who prevented Louis from exchanging champion players who had proven themselves in the playoffs for weak teams, saw this, he would first stab Louis with a cigar and then explain to Maxwell why he did this.

He believed that Maxwell would do the same thing after learning the truth.

December 4th, New Moon’s second game.

Louis took the team to Portland.

The Trail Blazers' record wasn't bad, and Louie remembers them having the second pick in 1984 and making one of the most famous bad choices in draft history.

It's impossible to get this pick based on their record, so some team must have made a stupid trade a few years ago.

They didn't expect to lose in a few years, so they gave away future draft picks.

Perhaps this is the reason why Auerbach is unwilling to trade the first round. He does not want his team to work for others one day.

Although his concerns are reasonable, it is still wrong to worry about something that will never happen and miss the opportunity to make the team have no blind spots.

Now things have turned upside down. Louis is still preparing to use this failed deal to control Maxwell.

Memorial Stadium(Me touch alColi color um)

The home court of the Trail Blazers, Louis visited here many times for scouting before he became the coach.

He is very familiar with this place.

The Trail Blazers were his key observation case in the early days. It only took one year for this team to collapse from a perfect team. Moreover, the reasons for their collapse were very classic. Injuries, misdiagnosis by team doctors, and the second boss wanted a big contract.

Not being satisfied, the championship defender played color politics within the team. White players seemed to get more care while black players were always treated harshly.

They managed to build a flawless team and made every possible mistake in just one year.

When Louis walked up to Jack Ramsey, the head coach he admired, he said slightly meekly: "Let's have a good game."

Ramsay found that Louis was not as flamboyant as he was rumored to be.

"Of course."

He only replied this sentence, then turned around and returned to his team members to make pre-game arrangements.