The rest is just noise

As the Knicks suffered a rout, Louis quietly locked up the second pick in the 1985 draft.

He was interested in another "acquaintance", A.C. Green of Oregon State University.

A rare person who is not a celebrity but is very familiar to him.

Louis met this ten-year virgin in "Sports Weekly". For his own beliefs, he was able to mess around on the court like the Lakers, and also off the court. In the end, some people fucked tens of thousands of women, and some people got AIDS.

, on a team where someone almost put himself in jail, it is really rare for him to be consistent and remain a virgin only after retiring and getting married.

Louis noticed that this is A.C's fourth year at Ohio State, so he must be running this year.

But the Lakers already have this year's first-round pick in his hands, so they can skip the trade and just use the Lakers' first-round pick to select him.

It's still early before the draft, so Louis is not in a hurry, he just wants to gather the people he likes.

The Knicks are in need of talent right now. They already have a future point guard and one of the best shooters in the 1980s and 1990s. They also need pillars inside, like Sampson, and core players on the wings, such as

Bird and Magic.

The Knicks are experiencing setbacks. After the Trent Tucker trade, they can only rely on Bernard King to support the situation.

Louis' tendency to deliberately lose is obvious, and his approach has gradually won the recognition of the media.

They believe that Louis did this to get Ewing from Georgetown University.

After all, Ewing is known as the most important lottery ticket after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Whoever gets him will get the future of the NBA.

At the beginning of January, Louis King and Pat Cummings joined forces and together they won three out of ten games.

In five of the seven games lost, the score difference was within 6 points.

Cummings had a great performance, but King sprained his knee halfway through.

King began a truce, and Louis took Cummings as the core, and was assisted by shooters, both internally and externally. They met the Celtics for the fourth time this season. The two sides fought for two overtimes and were defeated by Bird with a three-pointer.

The four-game losing streak against the Celtics is a reasonable result.

With the Knicks' immediate strength, it is still too difficult to compete with the Celtics.

Louis is well aware of the strength gap between the two sides, but this game is the one with the smallest gap between the two sides.

They beat Sampson to six fouls and left the game, and Thomas was suffocated by the pocket formation when he couldn't make a long shot.

Basically, in a game with the Celtics, two of the Big Three must not perform well.

However, the Celtics' overall strength is too strong for the Knicks.

In the absence of Bernard King, the Knicks have no one capable of playing superstar ball.

So Bird made the buzzer-beater, and the Knicks lost the game by a hair's breadth.

"This is a game that shows Little's coaching ability." Tom Heinsohn expressed full appreciation for the former Celtics coach. "When he wants to win a certain game, the Knicks

His strength cannot be underestimated."

When Louis shook hands with K.C. Jones, he said, "Maybe next time?"

"Okay, you should find a way to deal with the internal conflicts." Louis has already seen the disharmony within the Celtics from these few matches.

K.C's expression was bitter: "It's not that easy."

"Isn't this the responsibility of the head coach? Soothe him if you can, persuade him if you can, and if it doesn't work, just trade." The more Louis looked at the Celtics' predicament, the more he wanted to laugh.

If he had traded Maxwell last year, there probably wouldn't be so many things happening now.

It's not that Larry Nance will be willing to come off the bench, but Nance is far younger than Maxwell.

He is a truly athletic inside man, unlike a small forward like Maxwell who has the body to attack a power forward, but he has no body and strength to defend power forwards, and no speed to defend small forwards. He is neither three nor four.

It would be fine if the Celtics didn't have Sampson. With Sampson, he would have to play as a substitute.

Last year Louis controlled them, but this year they couldn't hold it back anymore.

After signing a big contract and winning a championship, it's time to consider your status on the court.

The Knicks stumbled until the end of January, when they faced the Los Angeles Lakers and were beaten by 25 points by the Purple and Gold, which claimed to be their redemption team.

Entering February, the Knicks' record is 18 wins and 30 losses, fourth from the bottom in the league.

After beating the Lakers, they returned to their home court to rest.

On the first day of February, not long after Louis sat down in the office, DeBusschere called and asked him to come over.

Louis went to DeBusschere's office and found him talking on the phone.

"Okay, I already know your needs, but during the season, Coach Lu has the say in personnel changes for our team. You should call him, um, yes."

DeBusschere hung up the phone and said, "Some teams can't hold it in any longer."

Louis smiled and asked: "Who do they like?"

"Our only valuables."

"Pat?"

"That's right."

Hearing this, Louis chuckled: "Which team has such a big appetite? Don't you know that Pat is my most beloved player?"

"Detroit, Boston, and Portland."

There are actually three teams, and they are all teams that have ideas for the playoffs.

"They will probably call your office soon." DeBusschere said expectantly, "Since Pat is your most beloved player, you have to ask for something."

"Dave, I don't want to hear what you are saying. Can love be traded?"

"Would you trade the three first-round picks?"

"It's agreed! Immediately! Immediately! You can pack me up too!"

DeBusschere was amused by Louis and laughed.

Louis quickly returned to his office and shouted: "Rudy, please bring the personnel rosters from Detroit and Portland!"

Why not Boston?

Because they obviously want to get rid of Maxwell, and the Knicks don't need Maxwell. Moreover, Maxwell has just signed a big contract, and they want to send him over without paying two first-rounders.

Louis didn't even look at them.

Tomjanovich was still on the road when the phone in Louis' office rang.

Phil Jackson heard the noise and came over to find out.

Louis answered the phone, "Hello, who is this?"

"The road is me."

"Mr. Jane?" At this moment, Louis was the simplest fool in the world, "Why do you have time to call me? After Reed abdicates, you will be the boss of Boston. I'm afraid your life will be difficult, right?"

Walker smiled bitterly and said, "What a big boss, you should know that this is just a cover-up for Reed."

Jackson bought a bottle of Coke from Louis' vending machine and thoughtfully helped open it and put a straw on it.

Louis shook his head vigorously: NO straw!

Jackson didn't expect him to be so unhygienic, so he took the straw out of the Coke.

"Mr. Jane, we are good friends. I would be very happy if you called me to say hello to me, but I am busy now. How about we chat next time?"

Hearing that Louis was busy, Walker became nervous: "Isn't it your offseason today? As far as I know, you don't care about the team's training. Are there other things?"

"Road, Portland and Detroit rosters are here!" Tomjanovich shouted as he ran.

Louis said dissatisfied: "You can make your voice louder, so that the whole world will know that we are going to negotiate a deal with these two companies!"

"Huh?" Tomjanovich didn't expect that he would become a pawn to confuse his opponent.

"Deal? Oh, let me tell you, it turned out that we were talking about a deal, so it was indeed the wrong time for me to call. However, in fact, I called because I also wanted to discuss a deal with you."

Louis took a sip of Coke.

"Mr. Jian, you are really good at telling people off. Does the relationship between the two of us need to be like this? Just tell me who you want, and I will kick him on the plane and mail him to you tonight!" Louis said cheerfully.

Jane Walker, who was far away in Boston, could not have imagined that things would go so smoothly.

He was sweating profusely, and Reed Auerbach was sitting in front of him.

"We want Pat Cummings very much. I wonder if he is not for sale to the Knicks?" Walker asked politely.

"Pat Cummings? He's not for sale, but he is my favorite player on this team." As soon as Louis said this, both Jackson and Tomjanovich laughed.

"Furthermore, if you have been paying attention to our games, you should also know that Bernard King has recently taken a truce and we are all pointing at him. He has played at a very high level of competition. To be honest, if we were not at the bottom,

We won't put him on the shelf at all."

"So do you think Cedric can make an equal exchange with him?"

"Well, Mr. Jane, it's not that I don't like Cedric, I just like Pat too much." Louis said hypocritically and sincerely, "He is the player we rely on, and Cedric is not easy to thrive in Boston this season.

Ah, your need to sell him is greater than our need to sell Pat. I can hand Pat to you, but you have to give me a little sweetener."

"Draft pick?"

"I believe you must ask an old man for his opinion on this matter. Mr. Jian, please ask me, does he regret not making that deal last year?"

Louis hung up the phone.

Volker looked at Auerbach awkwardly: "He also wants the draft pick."

"I knew this kid wouldn't let go so easily!" Auerbach snorted, "The draft picks can be discussed, but you have to have a bottom-line mindset and don't let him take any further!"

Volcker asked: "What's our bottom line?"

"At most, give him a first-rounder or two second-rounders." Auerbach didn't really want to trade Maxwell.

In terms of strength, Maxwell is only stronger than Cummings. He also has championship experience. He is not very old, only 29 years and 1 month. If he hadn't done something for his own benefit, Cummings of the Knicks would have been better.

He has good immediate combat ability, which can just make up for the Celtics' shortcomings. He will definitely not give people away.