The rest is just noise

As soon as the draft ended, the details of the deal between the Lakers and Suns were also announced by the league.

The Lakers spent a lot of money, sending Byron Scott, Kevin Johnson's signing rights, and the 1993 first-round draft pick from the Suns in exchange for Scottie Pippen's signing rights.

However, what is really scary is not this.

It was a deal that was finally reached after the Lakers and Spurs negotiated day and night from July to August.

The news was first broken by Peter Conley, a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News.

The Lakers are seriously seeking a trade from the Spurs, and they want the rights to sign David Robinson.

Transactions are progressing almost daily.

The Spurs sent an entire team to Robinson's home to persuade him not to fulfill his obligations at the Naval Academy and to enter professional basketball and play for the Spurs.

The advantage of this is that he can enjoy the benefits of the professional league in advance without having to waste two years doing things that many people besides him can do.

Robinson is an ordinary college graduate. He was in a burger restaurant with only five dollars in his pocket. He could only afford an ordinary burger and not even a drink, but he refused the opportunity to become a millionaire immediately and insisted on going.

Fulfilling his obligations as an ensign in the Navy.

This scene, this transaction, is linked to the original deal in which the Spurs gave away two first-round picks in order to acquire Bol.

When the Lakers initially wanted Robinson's signing rights, the Spurs ignored them.

The matter became serious when Robinson actually gave up a million dollars and insisted on missing two years to serve.

Then, the Lakers brought out Dominique Wilkins, a top-10 star in the league, and the two sides made progress.

In August, the Lakers and Spurs reached an agreement.

The Spurs gave away David Robinson's signing rights and received Wilkins and $500,000 in cash from the Lakers.

In this way, the Lakers became the biggest winner of the offseason, and the league's structure also changed.

The Lakers, the dominant team in the Western Conference for eight years, sent away almost the entire team's key personnel.

The winning Lakers only had Magic and Dennis Johnson on their roster, and the rest were traded.

What he got was a young man from the Knicks and a star from the second-tier league, and he was actually the No. 4 pick?

Magic expressed frustration that he did not want to play for a team that was not aiming for a championship.

While he is still under the contract, his complaints are invalid and no one will listen to him.

What is unimaginable is that these things are all related to Louis.

Whether the Lakers acquired Pippen or traded Robinson, it was all the plan provided by Louis. In the end, these inside stories will be revealed in a book called "Twilight of the Show Era". By then, it will be nearly twenty years later.

Already.

These are things for later, let us go back to the end of June.

Louis has been on vacation since the deal was completed.

On June 27, 1987, Louis' second child was born, a girl.

The eldest baby is called Lu Wuxia, and the daughter naturally has to be a no-name generation. At first, Louis was named Lu Wuyou. His mother liked it very much, but he rejected it because the name Wuyou always reminded him of a certain person in China.

A controversial street ball player. Then I changed it to Lu Wuchou. As I thought about it, I felt that the word "chou" was inconsistent.

The road is impermanent?

How can you, as a Chinese, name your child Wu Chang?

In the end, a drama "Zhong Wuyan" that Li Xuanbing watched saved him. Louis decided to name his daughter Lu Wuyan. Historically, Zhong Wuyan's real name was Wuyan, and later generations changed her name to Wuyan, which means this

The woman has no beauty.

Louis did not choose this name because he hoped that her daughter would not be beautiful. This is too difficult. He himself is not bad in qualifications, and Lorraine is a beauty. How unlucky is she, a one-in-a-million lucky person, to inherit it?

What about not being as good-looking as your parents?

He chose this name because he combined his own name with Louis. His parents must have hoped that his future life would go smoothly. In fact, it was not an easy journey for him, so it is obvious that the meaning of the name is actually opposite to that of life.

Therefore, he named his daughter Lu Wuyan, which has a very good meaning.

Because she is ugly, she is beautiful.

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If anyone is blind and thinks, "Then why do you call the eldest son Lu Wuxia, why don't you call him Lu Youxia? You are obviously discriminating against women, you know it all."

Then Louis can only tell you this: Are you trying to pick on you? Mr. Za, is it easy for me to give you a smooth name?

That's it for the name matter. Louis hopes he won't have a third child in the short term. These two children alone are enough for him. If there is another child, all his brain cells will be used to think of a name.

What's the point of coaching? You can just quit your job and go home to raise your children.

On the last day of June, Louis had to leave his family and come to Washington to attend the NBA annual meeting.

The old collective bargaining agreement is about to expire. As the league has gained unexpected revenue in the field of cable television broadcasting, the salary cap in the initially negotiated collective bargaining agreement only included the revenue sharing of the television broadcasting contract. Wireless television broadcasting is another piece of fat for the union.

It was impossible to miss, so the two sides started another scolding war.

Just like what was said last year, the union will refuse to recognize the salary cap and sue the league in the name of antitrust to force the league to regress, allow players to share cable television revenue, and if possible, cancel the draft system so that players can be free

to join the team he wants to play.

Everyone knows that it is impossible to abolish the draft system.

This is the foundation of the NBA. If the draft system is abolished, the weak teams in the NBA will have no way out except developing their own youth training like European football leagues, because it is impossible for super rookies to join them.

This is disturbing the very foundation of the NBA and cannot be accepted.

Abolition of the salary cap is a reversal of history and is unlikely to be adopted.

Therefore, the union put forward these two demands in accordance with Master Lu’s Chinese-style roof-lifting theory.

First lift the roof, and then if the person is in a hurry, he will say, "You can just open the windows."

This year's annual meeting saw four more teams present, including four new clubs that will join the NBA in the next two years.

Although they have not officially joined, the NBA has recognized their existence, and the two teams have also established their own operating teams. The general manager has to be there before the players are available.

The two teams that will be the first to expand next year will use observations in the new season to figure out which young people in the team are underappreciated.

Future Magic general manager Pat Williams nodded at Louie.

This is not as simple as nodding, it is simply sending an alarm to him.

Who doesn't know that the Knicks have the most young players? It is almost certain that in the next two expansion drafts, the Knicks may lose two players for nothing in two years.

Thinking of this, Louis said to himself that he had to make preparations early.

There is no doubt who will enter the Knicks' protection list, and who will be selected. Louis has to make an estimate in advance and then think about how to make up for the losses.

This kind of draft is not mandatory. If you don't want to lose talent, you can choose to trade with the other party, such as sending draft rights to the other party to prevent the other party from selecting one of your players.

However, this matter will not be considered until today next year at the earliest.

At this year's annual meeting, the most intense competition was about shortening the rounds of the draft.

This year's draft has been shortened to seven rounds. After discussions at the meeting, it will be shortened to three rounds next year and to two rounds the year after that.

In this way, the NBA will no longer select female players, track and field stars, management personnel select themselves and then brag everywhere, "I was also selected by the NBA" and other weird things.

This year, Louis also prepared a proposal.

In view of the increasing influence of the inside on the game, in order to make the game more balanced and weaken the influence of the inside, he proposed the return of zone defense to the NBA.

In this way, everyone no longer has to practice zone defense in the name of pocket formation all day long.

The majority are opposed to Louis. They do not support the restoration of zone defense for various reasons.

Louis didn't expect them to pass now. He just mentioned it casually and stopped speaking if it didn't pass.

After the annual meeting, Stern left Louis alone.

The alliance hopes to spread its influence overseas, and Louis is an important chess piece in expanding the Chinese market.

"How is the Chinese guy on your team doing this year?" Stern asked.

Louis smiled and said: "He is MSG's favorite."

"When necessary, you should let him play more." Stern, an old bitch, actually took charge of the Knicks' team affairs.

Although his voice is girly, his personality is not girly at all.

According to rumors, if his subordinates did something badly, he would scold them for more than ten minutes using the same level of vulgarity as "NMLGBD".

"Mr. President, I know what you are looking for from me. I am personally very willing to go to China on behalf of the alliance to promote cooperation between the two parties." Louis smiled, "However, since it is cooperation, the alliance should show sincerity."

Stern liked Louie's attitude, and he was Jewish.

Jews love trading the most.

"what do you want?"

"It's not me who wants something, but Mr. President, what can you give China?" Louis asked.

Stern thought seriously for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed and said: "Don't call me Mr. President, it's too foreign. Call me David."