The rest is just noise

"Coach Lu, do you think the Celtics' playing style is rough?"

That night, at the press conference, the reporter raised this question.

Louis said helplessly: "This kind of question is like asking a narcissistic person whether he is handsome. The answer I can give you is, yes, we are handsome."

"Can I take your answer to be another form of acquiescence?"

"No, I didn't admit anything. I just felt helpless about your problem."

"If this is the wrong question, why do you feel helpless?"

Louis smiled and said: "Because reporters of your caliber waste my time every day."

Louis' words made the other party look bad, and there might be an article slandering him published in a tabloid tomorrow.

He's used to it, and he probably won't be able to sleep well if he doesn't get a few bad words from the media.

Louis is interested in the news about the Lakers. He wants to know whether Kareem Abdul-Jabbar attended the press conference, and if so, how he explained what happened tonight.

Not long after, a reporter came to send a message for Riley.

"Coach Lu, Pat Riley thinks the Celtics are a rough team. You always seek large-scale confrontations and obscene trash talk. This obviously affects Kareem's mood. What do you think of Riley?"

What did Coach Lee say?”

Louis replied happily: "If Coach Riley's wife cheated on her, it can probably be blamed on one of our players."

"Hahahaha~~~"

Ranbir next to Louis couldn't help laughing.

"The reason why Kareem is angry is not complicated. I can tell it exactly, but it makes no sense. I think Coach Riley should be responsible for this. He did not take good care of Kareem's emotions and let them get out of control."

Steady Karim comes out.”

"This shows that he doesn't understand the players' feelings at all. Coach Riley may know basketball very well, but he doesn't understand his players."

Next, hard problems appeared.

The Globe's Bob Ryan, with his usual straight face as if everyone owed him money, asked his first question: "Coach Lu, you think Coach Riley doesn't understand his players, so, you

Do you know your players?"

"I guess so."

"perhaps?"

"Only a rough idea is enough for this kind of thing. Even for my mother and girlfriend, I can't fully understand what they are thinking."

"Bill Laimbeer seems to be getting flak from all his opponents, what's your response to that?"

"You should ask Bill yourself this question, he is right next to me."

Then Ranbir leaned his head in and said: "I have nothing to respond to those weaklings."

One sentence revealed that he was a bitch, and Louis regretted bringing him to the press conference.

Ryan's last question sounded the most normal and responsible: "How do Larry, Isiah and Ralph get along now? Is there any chemistry between them?"

Sampson's personality makes him get along with everyone.

The problem is Bird and Thomas.

Even Louis himself was not sure about this matter.

"Their relationship has been growing, and I think the strong parts of Larry and Isiah's personalities have helped them grow in each other."

Louie didn't say a word about Bird and Thomas' friendship and chemistry.

He then answered questions about Sampson's offensive status.

The media is not easy to fool, they want to answer all questions, and Louis's task is to answer the most difficult questions with the least information.

For the Lakers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar apologized to Rambis under Riley's persuasion.

He publicly stated that he was not targeting anyone, but that after seeing the injustice against black people, the nerves in his body seemed to transcend his self-awareness and help him make a decision.

That decision was to disregard Rambis's feelings and question the referee about the double standards.

In the Celtics locker room, Thomas seems ready to become the second Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

He asked M.L. Carr, who was making fun of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The referees did use two sets of standards to deal with us on the court. Kareem just popped the bubble. It's not funny. If you are a white man, I have nothing to say, but you

He is a black man, do you think this matter has nothing to do with you?"

"If you really have so much grievance, vent it out on the court and don't show off your power in the locker room." Louis interrupted him.

This issue seems like a red line for Thomas.

He would never talk back to Louis: "Don't referees have two sets of standards?"

"Even if you are color blind, you should be able to tell that the referee is black. Why do black referees use two sets of penalty standards for black players?" Louis asked funnyly.

Thomas said excitedly: "Because he, like Wilt Chamberlain, is an 'albino' who betrayed his skin color!"

"When making such accusations, it's best to have evidence. If you have evidence that Dan Crawford adopts two sets of penalty standards for black players and white players, I will support your statement." Louis said lightly.

"Didn't he do enough tonight?"

"Not enough. He just wanted to pay the Lakers a technical foul because Bill made the scene ugly. Both sides were angry. No matter it was Cedric or someone else, he would be called for a technical foul."

Louis doesn't speak with emotion.

Thomas insisted that the referee had double standards.

"Then please work harder and carefully collect evidence that he is playing double standards against you. It is best to let him be suspended indefinitely like Jack Madden."

"If you can't produce evidence in the end, now these words are just farts and stink."

There were not many people left in the locker room, half of them had already left.

Louis didn't intend to get entangled with Thomas anymore and turned around and left the locker room, ending this fruitless debate.

In the end, Thomas will not find any evidence of double standards when it comes to Dan Crawford's officiating. As the earliest black referee in the history of the league, Crawford entered the industry in 1977. He regarded his job as his life, and

, he will continue to work in this position until February 2016.

At that time, Thomas had retired for 24 years.

This little thing about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar did not become a public incident in the league.

Because everyone knows that he is abnormal. Even though he is a top five superstar in the league, there are very few fans who like him.

He is a star who is not worth liking, because even he himself does not regard his fans and his work as a career that must be fought for and the love of his life.

He plays basketball for a different reason than others.

On the other hand, this is also terrible.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has achieved such great achievements, has never liked basketball. He has never worked hard for this sport. Therefore, it can be said that he has never reached his upper limit.

Throughout his career, he has been wasting his talent.

The results he has achieved now are already the result of wasting his talent.

Once you realize that he "doesn't like basketball and doesn't take the fans seriously", you can understand why he was able to lead the team to win the championship in his sophomore year, and then openly changed his name to Karim, betraying his family and his original religion.

Believe and become a dangerous person.

Louis originally wanted to pay attention to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's matter, but as a result, the league downplayed the matter.

So this is just an internal matter of the Lakers, and how they digest it is their business.

Since he couldn't eat the melon, Louis simply didn't care so much. He had a lot of things to solve himself.

How to confess Lorraine's pregnancy to her mother, and the problems in the team. Although there are no obvious conflicts, as long as Thomas is here, we cannot be careless.

This man's character is too difficult to grasp. He is not as simple as Sampson, nor as sharp as Bird. He is very complicated.

Two days later, the Celtics challenged the Houston Rockets away.

The Rockets were so hungry for the talent in this year's draft that they did something that embarrassed the league.

Together with several other tank teams, they laid down and said, "So what if we let sportsmanship go to hell" and began to lose a lot of games in a planned way.

The 1983-84 season was the first documented failure in NBA history.

The last time a draft had a similar effect was in the 1968-69 season, but with the ABA at that time, even if you got a high draft pick, you might not be able to bring your favorite candidate to the team.

So the determination to mess things up wasn't that strong, it's different now.

If you get the top three picks, you might get Ewing, Olajuwon, Tisdale, Jordan... just thinking about it makes people crazy, and there is no need to hesitate if they fail.