The rest is just noise

"I can't make this decision."

Louis looked at the list and shook his head.

He picked up Charles Oakley's player card, and then picked up John Salley's player card.

"We have nine guys who are untouchable," Louis said.

"It is almost certain that the team with the right of first choice will select Dell." Zhao Yuanzheng frowned and said, "For the second choice after that, it is foreseeable that we will lose another player. In fact,

Our choice is between Coop and John."

Song Tao and Brad Rohaus are unattractive, and Stevens is a purely defensive player and is of little use.

So the other team must choose between Sely and Cooper.

Cooper still had a defensive record last season, but he is older and Selley is almost certain to be drafted before him.

Unless, an emergency plan is activated.

Some teams will give the other party some compensation through trade to prevent them from drafting a certain person.

Expansion teams generally won't force others to do anything, and will skip it if they ask for some benefits.

But the Knicks players are too tempting, does it really make sense?

Louis hesitated.

John Salley's value lies not only in his ability to serve as an interior lineman in a murderous pressing lineup, but also in his versatility and willingness to sacrifice.

A 210-centimeter inside man who can run and jump well, can adapt to fast-paced running and gunning, and slow-paced melee fighting. He likes to laugh but is ruthless.

As long as the Knicks don't change their style of play, players like Selly will have value.

Cooper's level is higher, but he may suffer a sharp decline at any time. Among the veterans in the 1980s, only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar still maintained a high level in his later years, and the others all fell apart.

So the Knicks must keep John Salley.

"Is the road that difficult?"

Tomjanovich, a heartless guy, didn't know how troubled Louis was.

"It's difficult!" Louis said tangledly, "It's like two stunning beauties are naked and lying in front of me. Which one do you think I should have first?"

Tomjanovich said matter-of-factly: "You still have to choose? If they have no objection, we can go together. How enjoyable would it be to have a threesome?"

"To say such vulgar words." Zhao Yuanzheng said purely, "Can you control yourself in front of a little virgin like me?"

This shocked Louis.

"No, you've been in the United States for so many years, and you're still a young kid?"

"Yes, original export, guaranteed replacement if fake."

Louis didn't want to lead Zhao Yuanzheng into trouble, but the doctor made it clear that suppressing one's desires for a long time, regardless of men or women, would be bad for the body and mind.

"You'd better go out and walk with Patrick and the others more often." Louis knew that Ewing was wild.

However, Zhao Yuanzheng was determined to have his first time in the wedding room on a night of flowers and candles. He was so pure.

"Oh, what a loser." Louis no longer cared about Zhao Yuanzheng's virginity. "Even if we keep them this year, there will be two expansion teams next year. Damn it, what are you doing by expanding so many teams? The United States is so

Do you have a lot of talents?⑴"

This matter is not something Louis and the others can decide, so they can only complain a few times.

"Forget it, let's wait until their coin tossing contest is over."

The order of selection in the expansion draft is determined by the result of a coin toss.

The league wants to attract older fans this way.

Louis had no interest in this, and they already knew that the team with the first choice opportunity would definitely choose Dale Ellis.

Therefore, when the time comes, you only need to secure the second-choice team, and at the worst possible outcome, you will be given the draft picks.

This is considered a disguised payment of protection money.

Give them draft picks in exchange for their tacit understanding not to draft XX.

The league also agrees that each team can retain its players in this way. As long as it is discussed well, there are many loopholes that can be exploited.

"Today was tough."

After a busy day, Louis invited the teaching assistants to have dinner at a restaurant two kilometers away from the Blue Palace.

"Coach Lu, have you decided who to give up?" Shooting coach Sharif asked.

"It's too ugly to talk about giving up." Louis corrected Sharif's statement of low emotional intelligence, "This is a forced resignation."

"Then who do you decide to let go?"

Louis shrugged: "It depends on Miami and Charlotte."

Basically, two out of three Dale Ellis, Michael Cooper and John Salley.

After a while, they stopped talking about work.

One person who subscribed to Sports Illustrated said: "I feel like Michael Spinks' daughter is right. He shouldn't fight Tyson. Tyson will kill him!"

The person who said this was Knicks interior coach Truger Robinson.

They are talking about the fight of the century between Michael Spinks and Michael Tyson on June 27th.

Louis doesn't understand boxing, but he has heard of the name Tyson.

This is evidence that American pop culture radiates around the world.

When you think of basketball, you think of Jordan. When you think of boxing, you think of Tyson and Ali.

Louis didn't know when Tyson's decline began, so he believed that Tyson, who was still at his peak at this time, had no reason to lose, so he thought Tyson would win the game.

"You are wrong. Spinks is different from the dolls Tyson encountered before. Who is not an undefeated boxing champion!" Tomjanovich firmly supported Spinks.

Robinson said disdainfully: "If he was really confident, he wouldn't have refused to fight Tyson a few years ago!"

"So, he is back and he will prove himself!"

Tomjanovich believes that Tyson is a bubble, a god deliberately created by the media, and is no match for Spinks.

Louis read the Sports Illustrated article Sharif had read.

The article was discovered to be a letter written by Spinks himself to his daughter.

At the beginning, he quoted a conversation he had with his daughter, so Sharif would say that Spinks' daughter was right.

""Dad, please, don't fight Tyson."

"Why do you say that, honey?"

"He'll knock you unconscious, Dad."

"But I might as well knock him out."

"He's going to hit you hard, Dad."

"He might. But it's also possible that I hit him hard."

"dad"

"Shelly, don't tell me this, this is wrong. Just pray that I won't get hurt. Just praying is enough."

After reading this paragraph, Louis felt like Spinks knew he was going to be fucked to pieces.

He asked his daughter to pray for him.

In fact, the title of this article is called "Pray for Me, Baby."

Isn't this ominous sign obvious enough?

Later, Spinks gently put all kinds of harsh words in this article, which seemed very encouraging, but between the lines there was a sense of heroism and martyrdom that "I may not be able to defeat you, but I will fight."

Spinks ended the article by repeating: "Pray for me, baby, just pray."

"What are the odds for this match?" Louis asked.

Zhao Yuanzheng said: "The odds of Tyson winning are plus 300."

In other words, you need to bet $300 on Tyson to make money.

Instead, the reward for betting on Spinks is higher.

But Louis, a time traveler, didn't believe that Tyson would lose to anyone in his prime, especially when his opponent was a man who used Sports Illustrated to write a letter to his daughter in the name of "Sports Illustrated" before the fight started, "Baby, pray dad doesn't get beaten by Tyson."

Kill the guy who wrote the letter.

No, Louis believes that regardless of whether he is a time traveler or not, even if he really knows nothing, as long as he sees this letter, Spinks will be out of the game for him.

Tyson will win, and he will win beautifully.

Then when Louie placed his bet, Spinks would win.

He spent $500 and lost odds of three hundred.

1 pays 300. If Spinks wins, he will also make a small profit. If he loses, his judgment is correct and the loss will be 500.

No matter what, he wins and Louis wins.

Hearing that Louis bet that Spinks would beat Tyson, Tomjanovich was so excited that he took out $3,000 and placed the same bet.

Louis had a strange expression. He knew that Tomjanovich really supported Spinks, and that he was just taking conservative measures to prevent accidents.

"Well, Rudy, come to my house for dinner on the night of the game. We will just watch the game together."

"Okay, I'm worried that no one will watch it with me!"

⑴The league expanded by six teams in the years 1988-1995. The influx of international players into the NBA is a matter of the new century. In other words, before 2000, the United States had to rely on the United States to support 29 teams. The result

It is conceivable that there will be a lot of bad teams and weak teams. One thing I will never avoid is that during the Bulls' last three consecutive years, the overall competitiveness of the league was very weak, very weak. The veterans in the 1970s have almost retired.

Now, relying on the pan-84 generation, excessive expansion has led to the dilution of talent, so the wins of the strong teams in those years were very high. The Bulls in the last three consecutive years created the best record in history at the right node.