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"I owe you a favor for this matter." Louis raised his glass and said, "If you need my help in the future, please feel free to call me at any time."

The most excited person about this was Lewis Shafir: “Help each other! Help each other!”

This scene was seen by Jerry West.

There were rumors last year that Shafir took Louis' advice into account when drafting. The two had a heated fight at the annual meeting, which gave people more thoughts on those rumors.

After the dinner, the two parties took a group photo in the lobby downstairs.

Louis stood next to Jane Walker with a bright smile.

After returning to New York from Washington, the first thing Louis did was to go to Baylor to question him.

"My old swan! How can you blame me because I don't have any news about Chicago?" Baylor already had an old face, but when he felt aggrieved, he became as embarrassed as a golden retriever dog being scolded, "It's not like you don't have any news.

Knowing our relationship with Chicago, I want to develop a friendship with them, what about that bastard Jerry Krause?"

Louis found that this old guy was unrepentant and made a lot of excuses.

"Shouldn't we be prepared for this kind of thing in advance? Do you understand how to prepare for a rainy day? Now if something happens, why don't you tell me this?"

"I'm scared, I'm scared to death! Who knew you could offend someone all at once? After 1986, no one in Chicago took a call from me, and my contact with them was completely cut off. What did I do?

"

"Are you still making excuses?"

“It’s really not an excuse.”

Louis was pretending to be angry at first, but now he is really angry: "You have been in this business for so many years, and you have hundreds of friends in the industry, not just thousands, right? You can't connect to the Chicago line, and neither can anyone else."

Go on? Can’t you fucking go to them and ask for clarification?”

"Ah this?"

Damn it! Louis saw the look of realization on Belle's face: "So I can still do this?"

"What else do you have to say?"

"No, there's nothing to say."

Baylor felt guilty: "Wrong, I was wrong."

"You are the general manager of the team. If I can think of everything, I won't need you, right?" After Louis got angry, he began to reason calmly, "Elgin, your connections are you.

The biggest advantage, I need you to use this advantage. Next time something like this happens, I don’t want to end up like a deaf-mute."

Baylor nodded repeatedly: "I will definitely not make this mistake again."

Now that the matter has happened and Belle is aware of his problem, Louis no longer holds on to it.

He and Baylor had a great time working together.

Although Louis always regarded himself as a loyal person, but according to his conscience, Baylor was the real loyal person.

He knows the hierarchy of the Knicks, he knows who he is working for, and he is willing to play a supporting role. This selfless team spirit was not reflected in his playing days. If he was willing to play a supporting role, he would not have played a supporting role in 1972.

He will retire midway, and then make a joke about "the team won the championship after retirement".

"This year's draft will be released in advance. Please help me ask around and collect rumors related to Chicago. Whether they are true or false, compile them all and give them to me." Louis said this with a fierce look in his eyes.

Belle asked: "What are you going to do?"

"Although this incident doesn't have a big impact on us, I have to let that fat pig in Chicago know that even a loyal person like me is not someone he can play with whenever he wants."

Louis tapped Baylor on the shoulder, picked up the can with coins on his desk and went to insert coins in the vending machine.

"Don't mess this up, Elgin." Louis greeted him with a Coke.

"Hey, I will definitely satisfy you."

After Louis left, Belle complained in a low voice: "If there are loyal people like him in the world, how will I live?"

Louis returned to the office, and within a minute, Zhao Yuanzheng came.

"You are so fast, Yuanzheng. Did you secretly watch the surveillance camera? How come you come just as soon as my front foot reaches your back foot?" Louis complained.

"How can that be possible?"

Zhao Yuanzheng handed the scouting report he compiled to Louis.

Louis opened Zhao Yuanzheng's "draft preview plan", which is his annual reservation project.

Now Zhao Yuanzheng is not only Louis' assistant coach, but also the supervisor of the scouting department. All the Knicks' scouting reports must be handed over to him, and then he will screen them himself and finally submit them to Louis.

The first sentence of Zhao Yuanzheng's opening paragraph defined the 1989 draft: "This is a below-average draft class."

This year, the Knicks' top pick is the first-round pick from the San Antonio Spurs (14th overall), followed by the Pistons' 25th pick and the Knicks' own 27th pick.

The three first rounds, if done well, can completely make up for the loss of Marly and Seikali.

Although the Knicks' draft picks are not high, Zhao Yuanzheng still summarized this year's popular rookies.

He divided potential top-10 picks into three tiers.

T1: Hank Gathes (Hank GathePF/SF), Danny Ferry★⑴, Glenn Rice★, Shawn Kemp★★★★★.

⑴★ is Zhao Yuanzheng’s habit. The more ★ numbers, the greater the hidden danger.

Camp Louis was shocked.

"Who is Sean Kemp?" Of course Louis knew who Kemp was, he just wanted to hear what Zhao Yuanzheng thought of him.

Zhao Yuanzheng said: "Coach, do you remember that I went to Indiana's Irish Hart to inspect a child in March?"

"I thought you were gone for a week?"

"Yes, I just went there for him." Zhao Yuanzheng seemed to be very intoxicated when he recalled that time, "I have never seen such an amazing high school player."

Louie's memories of Kemp are also unlocking.

In the 1996 Finals, he and Payton reached the peak of that Sonics team, and then was traded to the Cavaliers, getting fat, GG.

Then he also has countless illegitimate children.

"He has the most perfect power forward body among the players I have ever seen, and the most powerful physical fitness among the people I have ever seen."

"You have met MJ."

"In terms of visual impact, MJ is not as good as him, and Dominic Wilkins cannot be compared with Sean Kemp." Zhao Yuanzheng described romantically, "Every time he dunks, it's like lightning striking the basket.

On the basket, I saw in him the ultimate form of a power forward.":.

Louis turned the draft preview around and said, "Yuanzong, you gave him five★."

"Because the possibility of him playing is as high as the possibility of not playing." Zhao Yuanzheng said, "He was going to go to Kentucky last year, but there was a donation scandal in Kentucky and he was suspended for two years. Kemp didn't have the ball.

Playable. Over the past year, he has only been able to play amateur games in rural Indiana, but despite this, he still has great potential. I think he is the second-highest potential player in this draft, but he has many technical problems.

Needs to improve. In addition, he is not a mature person and has many off-field problems."

"But" Zhao Yuanzheng looked at Louis ambitiously, "If it were you, Coach Lu, there would be no problem."

"I feel embarrassed when you say that."

"I'm serious, Coach Lu." Louis seemed to believe in Zhao Yuanzheng, who had religious superstition on the former, "You are a mind hunter, and Sean has an immature heart. You can completely control him.

.”

The difference between Louis and Zhao Yuanzheng is that he can not only see Kemp's present, but also Kemp's future.

Do you really want to choose a time bomb that could explode at any time?

"Expedition, we will discuss this matter in a few days."

There is another name on this list that interests Louis.

Hank Gathers, Louis has heard this name, this year's NCAA All-American, averaged 32 points and 13.7 rebounds per game, and is the second person in the history of college basketball to lead the league in both scoring and rebounding.

In December last year, he scored 49 points and 22 rebounds in a game against the University of Nevada, shocking the country.

Louis had heard the name, but didn't pay much attention.

Because he was unfamiliar with it, if Gathers was really a star prospect, he should have become famous in the 1990s and then retired in the early 21st century.

Then Louis would have at least heard his name, but he didn't.

But Zhao Yuanzheng believes that Kemp's talent is the second in this draft, and the first is Gathers.

Louis trusted Zhao Yuanzheng's ability to scout rookies, otherwise he would not have handed over the scouting department to him.

He shouldn't make such a serious mistake.

"He is a powerful player, and it is difficult for me to find a suitable development template for him. He is like Barkley, but he does not have Barkley's big butt. He is also like Moses Malone, his rebounding is amazing. He

The bullet speed is like a combination of Dennis Rodman and Dominic Wilkins, with amazing bullet speed and continuous take-off ability."

"Unprecedented." Zhao Yuanzheng exaggeratedly said, "If he can successfully transform into a small forward in the NBA, I don't think anyone can stop him. He will be a 'generational genius' in this generation. Even if he continues to play big in the NBA

As a forward, he is also expected to become a player above All-Star level."

Louis said with suspicion: "Do you mean, as if he is a sure choice?"

"Yes, that's true." Zhao Yuanzheng nodded affirmatively.

Louis wanted to believe Zhao Yuanzheng, but there was an obvious problem before him.

If Hank Gathers is really that good, shouldn't he be recognized?

The stars who debuted during this period must have reached their peak in the 1990s, and then retired at the beginning of the new century. Maybe they could compete with Yao Wei. That was an era that Louis was familiar with, and the stars of that period, even if he had never seen them.

I play ball and have heard their names.

But the only thing he couldn't remember was a James in the 1990s named Hank Gathers.

Yes, this man's style sounds very much like James.

Louis was very confident in his prophetic superiority, but at the same time he was not 100% convinced.

Because in his previous life, he also didn't know Benjamin Wilson.

But now Wilson, with two championships, is being touted by the New York media as the NBA version of "The Next One"⑵.

So, is this Hank Gathers "The Next One" caused by the butterfly effect caused by his time travel?

⑵ Equivalent to the "Jordan successor" in the NHL. This nickname comes from the nickname "The Great One" (I don't know how to translate it, great man?), the best in NHL history, Wayne Gretzky, so his successors are called

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