The rest is just noise

Louis returned to the hotel and habitually pressed the phone to see if there was any voice message.

I didn't expect it to exist.

"Louis, I watched tonight's game and it was very exciting. I have a few questions to ask you about the draft. If you have time, please call me back."

Larry Weinberg took the initiative to leave a message for himself, which surprised Louis.

This incident once again proved the value of mobile phones.

If you have a mobile phone, you don't have to be so troublesome to contact me.

Louis still owed Weinberg a favor.

Without the face of this generous real estate developer, Lorraine's mediocre grades, even if she had been reporting for ten years, might not have been able to be admitted to New York University.

This favor is extraordinary.

Because Lorraine was admitted to New York University, her family allowed her to come to the United States.

If he is not admitted, Louis will have to maintain this long-distance relationship between two places. Not only is it not conducive to maintaining a relationship, but the gentian gun under his body is also very easy to rust.

Although there are many ways to sharpen iron, he prefers to use ethical, formal and safe methods to remove rust.

From this point of view, Weinberg gave Lorraine a good future and solved his nightlife problem.

If you look at it this way, the favors Louis owes are endless.

Louis immediately called Weinberger back.

After a while, the phone call came through.

"Little Lu, it's really hard to wait for your call." Weinberg's voice sounded like he was still asleep.

Louis was very direct: "Mr. Weinberg, just ask if you have anything. I will tell you what I know. If I don't know, I will let you know after I understand it."

"Actually, it's very simple. I want to know what talents are available in next year's draft." Weinberg said with a smile. "Everyone around me says that picking any player next year can regenerate the team."

Although it is still uncertain who will participate in next year's draft, Weinberg's words are correct when you think about it.

"It is indeed possible."

If you don't open your eyes, next year's draft may be filled with the most outstanding talented players in history.

The first is those talented junior supernovas.

Olajuwon of the University of Houston, Ewing of Georgetown, Jordan of North Carolina, Barkley of Auburn University, Chris Mullin of St. John's University.

Two sophomore supernovas, Wayman Tisdale (C/PF) and Benoit Benjamin (Benoit Benjamin).

After Ralph Sampson made the unprecedented choice to enter the draft after his freshman year, many talented players no longer persisted in attending college for three or four years.

Once this concept is broken, it may have surprising effects.

Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that Olajuwon and Ewing, two unparalleled superstars, appeared in the 1984 draft at the same time.

If Ewing is also running, it means that Louis really caused a lot of changes when he persuaded Sampson to run early.

At this moment, Louis was very cautious about Weinberg's question.

"If it were you, who would you choose?" Weinberg asked.

If Louis were asked to choose, of course he would choose Jordan, an undoubted choice. But if you are recommending it to others, why recommend Jordan? Is it fun to give GOAT to others? The Trail Blazers are a team that can play.

The team that makes the playoffs, coupled with Jordan and Drexler who is about to take off, is very likely to grow into another super team in the short term.

This relates to how Louis plans to repay Weinberg.

Although he is very scheming and cunning, he is a person who knows how to repay kindness.

Weinberg helped him so much, and now they are at a critical turning point in history. He should help this team out of trouble.

Even if the Trail Blazers own Jordan, they may cause him big trouble in the future.

Do things with a clear conscience, and he really doesn’t believe that Jordan teaming up with Drexler is better than teaming up with Pippen

"If it were me, I would choose who I want based on the needs of the team. Therefore, I think the focus should be, Mr. Weinberg, what kind of player do you want to choose?"

Weinberg smiled lightly and said: "Actually, it's not me. It's the management who decides on this matter. I only have the right to make suggestions."

"If you only have the right to make suggestions, my suggestions are irrelevant, because no matter who I suggest you choose, Mr. Inman will only bring home a center in the end." Louis deliberately piqued Weinberg's interest.

Weinberg is a gentle, wealthy man who listens to opinions and respects professionals.

But he is no different from other businessmen in the mall, he is ruthless.

He could hear Louis' words, and he was deliberately trying to lure him in. The problem was that Louis didn't intend to do business with him. This was a mutual help between friends.

"If I am willing to interfere in the team's internal affairs as the owner, what should I do?" Weinberg asked patiently.

"I still say that, it depends on what kind of players you want."

"How to say?"

Louis said confidently: "If you want a core insider, I have three suggestions, Akeem Olajuwon of the University of Houston, Patrick Ewing of Georgetown University and Charles Barkley of Auburn University.

"

"If you want a point guard, I would recommend Gonzaga's Alvin Robertson."

"If you want an offensive guard, there's only one guy." Louis believed Weinberger could conclude from his tone, "North Carolina's Michael Jordan."

The only thing Louis retained was John Stockton. On the one hand, Gonzaga at this time was not yet the strong basketball school in the future. In the D1 league, Gonzaga was not popular, and Stockton was even less popular.

Draft prospects. Good prospects like this that are easy to miss should be kept to yourself.

Weinberg asked: "Where's Chris Mullin at St. John's?"

"If you can't get Jordan, Mullin is good, but they are much worse." Louis said with certainty, "Jordan will become the new generation of Dr. J, and he is more aggressive than Dr. J. In the era of cable TV,

This means more attention and exposure, and perhaps, his commercial value will be countless times that of Dr. J."

If we just talked about how powerful Jordan was, Weinberg might not be too concerned.

Now when it comes to the commercial value he may create, Weinberg's interest suddenly rises.

Louis could feel that he was changing history. Once the Trail Blazers made another choice, for example, Jordan did not go to Chicago, then all the history he knew in the 1990s and all the stories about how Jordan became the GOAT would be wiped out.

, no longer exists.

He was excited to change history, and he knew he was doing something that would seriously offend the Blazers' front office and coaching staff.

Once they know that he secretly advised Weinberger, he will directly lose the friendship of Portland management, and the friendly relationship he has just established with Ramsey will also be severed.

In diplomatic terms, Louis was grossly interfering in the internal affairs of the pioneers.

Louis and Weinberg talked on the phone for more than half an hour.

He said that Weinberg was very excited and said that he would study it carefully after returning home.

This year is the Olympic year. The Olympic Games will be held in Los Angeles. The US team will gather the elites from all the NCAA to participate in the competition. At that time, young talents headed by Jordan will join the selection team, and their exposure will be amazingly improved.

It stands to reason that a player of Jordan's caliber would be observed by scouts when he was on the Olympic selection team and training in public. The scouts could not fail to see his strength, but the Blazers still missed out.

Are insiders really that tempting?

Louis couldn't understand it.

The next day, news of the internal strife between Louis and Byrd came out.

This piece of news is much more exciting than the fact that Maxwell was traded.

Louis' media friends have contacted him one after another, wanting to know the situation.

Louis' answer disappointed them. There was no so-called internal strife at all, it was just him and Bird bickering in front of the media.

However, the media on the West Coast of the United States pounced on him like sharks smelling blood.

They took the fight between Bird and Louie and envisioned Bird as an arrogant white man (fact) who disrespected coaches and an arrogant asshole (fact) who did more than Magic drove away coaches and

My teammates are even more outrageous. A mentally ill person cannot become a great person no matter how powerful he is.

"It's clear that in many, many ways, Larry Bird doesn't deserve to be called a legend. He's absolutely overrated."

Unseen by professionals, CBS executives and the league office have noticed that the rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics is the only publicity tool that the NBA can promote to the outside world.

The skin colors of Bird and Magic are just the right two extremes.

Once the machine of public opinion starts operating, its power is unimaginable.

The California-based media on the West Coast, led by the media, began to disparage Bird, saying he was overrated.

This kind of thing is also done by the media on the East Coast. They have been advocating that magicians are overrated a few years ago.

Another result of media public opinion is extreme color supremacist confrontation.

White people spontaneously sided with Bird, and black people spontaneously sided with Magic, just like the media did before the 1979 NCAA National Finals.

Color and racial discrimination are among the most sensitive red lines in this country.

Since the 1980s, racial confrontations have become less frequent than in the past. It seems that in just a few years, racial problems in the United States have ceased to exist.

The debate between Bird and Magic, the theory that black and white heroes are overrated, and the phenomenon of blacks and whites spontaneously choosing sides based on skin color and belittling each other, profoundly prove that those who advocate that racism has disappeared in the United States have a brain problem.