The rest is just noise

As expected, the fact that Ewing's team proposed to re-sign the contract but was rejected spread to the media.

No matter where the media is, they have no obligation to maintain the harmony of the local team.

Attracting attention is their first priority.

As a result, many reporters who had no contact with Louis reconstructed the quarrel between Louis and "Ewing" as if they were there.

As long as they can restore this non-existent picture, we can conclude that they are just making guesses based on clues.

How dare Ewing mention this to him?

The entire process was initiated by David Falk, and Louis firmly disagreed. Without terms to rely on, people in the Ewing camp could only make trouble outside.

Louis really wanted to talk to Ewing.

But the reason he wanted to chat with Ewing was not because of the contract re-signing, but because this guy actually became the spokesperson for Pepsi-Cola.

What's so great about this?

As soon as the finals ended, Ewing signed a five-year, $10 million endorsement contract with Pepsi. But Louis was the spokesperson for Coca-Cola, and he hated Pepsi the most.

Louis wanted to know Ewing's journey in accepting this endorsement.

Are you just disgusted with him, or are you simply unable to refuse Pepsi's $10 million offer?

If it's the former, then this orangutan deserves death.

If it's the latter, well, the love between father and son is not worth 10 million US dollars, right?

Someone wants to ask what is the father-son relationship between Louis and Ewing? The logic of this matter is very simple. Louis believes that his relationship with Ewing is like a strict older brother and a dull younger brother. Over the years, he has been trying his best to spur Ewing. The so-called

An eldest brother is like a father. Under certain circumstances, he is Ewing's wild father.

Is there anything wrong with it? Please put it in this chapter if there is anything wrong with it.

Another incident happened at the end of June.

At that time, the draft had not yet ended, the new television contract had not yet been signed, and the Knicks had not yet experienced all the things that made Louis irritated.

This matter has nothing to do with the Knicks, only Louis' wife.

Louis' wife Lorraine Molina was elected Best Supporting Actress at the 17th Daytime Emmy Awards as Monica Bellucci.

The running legend of Susan Lucci, the invincible queen who is becoming more and more courageous, continues. This year is her 11th consecutive nomination, but she still has not won.

In fact, it is no longer important to her whether she wins or not. Her repeated defeats have become a cultural phenomenon that people talk about.

As the saying goes, no one will remember the top 16 unless you make the top 16 every year.

Audiences who don't watch daytime dramas may not remember the names of any Daytime Emmy Award winners, but everyone, including Louis, knows that there is an actress who has been nominated for 11 consecutive years but did not win.

Throughout July, Louis was obsessed with trivial matters.

In early August, Louis terminated his annual trip to China.

He accepted the invitation of USA Basketball and went to Argentina as an assistant coach of the US Men's Basketball National Team.

This is unusual, there are many excellent coaches in the United States.

Louis is an outlier among them. He is not an academic, nor can he be considered a grassroots person.

He has never coached in the NCAA, and he is not like those players who directly turn to coaching after retiring. For professional basketball, he is like a purple star falling from the sky. In 1983, as the fire captain of the Celtics, he made that broken team

The team left the playoffs with dignity. In 1984, he revived the glorious Celtics. In the next five years, he created another legend in New York.

After he won his fourth career ring, all active coaches recognized him as the best active coach.

Would such a person be willing to accept an assistant coaching position?

There are many reasons why Louis accepted this job.

The two biggest reasons are that one is Old K and the other is the needs of the alliance.

Today, the Olympic Games and FIBA ​​have lifted the ban on professional players. In theory, Americans could form a dream team in 1990. However, the NBA has considerable resistance to this. They represent various teams.

Players are important assets to the team. If they are injured while playing for the national team, who can be held responsible? But the NBA does not want to bear the reputation of being unpatriotic, so it did not reject the desire of the American Basketball Association, but just postponed it.

Allow professional players to participate in international competitions within a period of time, and at the same time find a reliable coach to confirm their strength in championships.

They want to know whether world basketball has really developed to the point where the U.S. team cannot win the championship without sending professional players.

This is the motivation brought by the alliance, and on the other hand is the warm invitation from Old K.

Perhaps it is more appropriate to call him Little K now.

Louis met Little K through Reed Auerbach, and the two have kept in touch over the years.

Although Louis does not agree with many of Auerbach's bad habits inherited from the 1950s, his connections in college basketball are unimaginable to others.

Auerbach's high shooting percentage in the draft is not accidental.

He has contacts with most college coaches and uses their opinions and his own on-the-spot observations to determine candidates.

However, this method is no longer reliable as the NBA becomes more and more commercialized.

Because there are more and more college coaches telling lies and using personal information.

So Louis won't broadcast his connections like Auerbach, but with a top-level college coach like Old K, it's definitely not wrong to maintain a friendly relationship with him.

These alone are not enough. If Louis himself is not willing, he still cannot be allowed to go to the US team to serve as an ordinary assistant coach.

The main reason why Louis chose to join the U.S. national team was to become familiar with him.

His ultimate goal is to become the head coach of the Dream Team.

As a non-American Asian, if you want to be the head coach of Meng Yi, you must have an overwhelming advantage.

Therefore, it is necessary to visit some places first and leave a deep impression on others.

There are certain problems with the selection of coach Little K.

Although he added the best center in college basketball in Alonzo Mourning to Team USA, he didn't bring in the best guard.

Gary Payton and Chris Jackson, who just entered the league through the draft, are still eligible to play, and their playing style is also suitable for international competitions, but Old K did not recruit them.

Most of the people he recruited were guards whom Louis didn't know.

Based on this alone, Louis dares to say that the guards of this American team have no future in the NBA.

The most famous defender is Kenny Anderson. Although he has not yet entered the league, his reputation has spread throughout the United States.

Because he performed well against Duke in the 1989-1990 season.

In addition to Anderson, there are also players such as Billy Owens and Chris Gatlin who are highly praised.

One thing that Little K is better than John Thompson is that he clearly understands that the FIBA ​​game is different from the NCAA.

So the players he selected are all suitable for playing FIBA, but relying on these people to compete for the championship? Louis is not optimistic.

When the U.S. team came to Argentina, Louis said in an interview: "I hope these kids can show resilience and the spirit of never giving up. The result is not important, what is important is the process."

When did results not matter to Americans?

Considering Louis's character, he can say this, which shows how unfavorable he is towards the American team.

In the group stage, the U.S. team defeated Spain and Greece without any danger, brutally defeated South Korea, and easily advanced.

But in the knockout round, they met the host Argentina. And, for some reason, the organizers actually set the game late at night. All the spectators who came to watch the game were drunk, and even the referee was sleepy.

Lost patience.

Coach K had many conflicts with the referee during this period, resulting in himself being ejected.

After Louis took over, Kenny Anderson was established as the core of the offense. Because he was in excellent condition that night, combined with the pick-and-roll and his sudden shooting style, he narrowly defeated Argentina 104 to 102.

In the second knockout match, the American team met the brutal Australia. In the first 2 minutes, the team's general Billy Owens was injured and came off the field.

Little K and Louis are in a hurry, so the players of the US team, who are on average 20 years old, must be as patient as the 30-year-old veteran players and not take the fast pace for granted.

The Knicks-style high-post dynamic offense provided by Louis broke the Australian's savage defense and allowed the US team to defeat its opponent 82-76.

In the game against Puerto Rico, the U.S. team unexpectedly fell into a tough battle. The opponent's three-point shots made the game anxious. The two sides played into overtime, and finally relied on the advantage of the back line to steal and counterattack to win the game.

In the knockout round, for three consecutive games, the American team was forced to decide in the last minute.

In the semifinals, facing the strong Yugoslavia, the American team saw its upper limit.

Even though Mourning made Divac evaporate on both ends of the offense and defense and scored 26 points and 11 rebounds, the rest of the US team had no answer when facing Petrovic and Kukoc.

The Croatian duo scored 50 points together, halting the U.S. team's gold medal journey.

In the bronze medal match, the U.S. team met Puerto Rico again, and it was another hard-fought battle before they defeated their opponent with difficulty.

"Although we didn't win the gold medal, the hard work of this group of boys will be remembered by Americans."

Louis just wanted to laugh.

Which Americans will remember this World Championships?

In any case, his plan to become the head coach of the Dream Team has successfully taken the first step. Why does he want to be the head coach of the Dream Team? This is due to vanity.

Everyone knows that was the best team ever, and it's every coach's dream to be the head coach of that team.

Only the best coaches can handle the biggest stars.

In addition, there was an episode in the finals of the World Championships.

In Yugoslavia, which finally won the championship, the domestic and Croatian independence movements intensified, and there were even bloody conflicts. Serbs Divac and Zako Paspa and Croatians Drazen Petrovic and Toni Cuco

Oddly enough, Dino Raja and his team members were all told by the team leader: If flags and slogans related to racial independence are found on the field, they must ignore them.

When Yugoslavia defeated the Soviet Union by 17 points to win the championship in the final, and was about to start celebrating, a fan holding a Croatian flag (later the national flag) walked into the stadium. Divac, who had been asked to ignore the racial independence flag, walked

In front of this fan holding a Croatian flag, he told him "this flag should not appear here", but the fan just replied "your Yugoslav flag is shit". Divac took the flag from the fan in anger.

, and threw it off the field.

All the Croatian players in the Yugoslav team saw this scene, but they did not react excessively. They just celebrated together holding the Yugoslav flag and kept shouting "Yugoslav".

Before mountains and rivers are broken, the first thing to be broken is the connection between people.

Louis returned to the United States with a bronze medal, and he was about to face more difficult problems.