The rest is just noise

Chapter 779 Boston’s past and future

"He actually plans to exchange all our draft picks for this year with a parallel import!"

Baylor believes that Louis will not suffer.

He looked at Louis carefully: "Can you hang up the phone before you say bad things about people?"

"Don't worry, I covered it." Louis smiled.

Belle sighed: "Want to drink Coke?"

"Thank you, Elgin."

Belle had no choice but to find a small box containing coins among the many things he had just taken from Louis' desk, and then took the coins in it and put them in the vending machine in the office.

Louis got the phone back.

"Dave, Elgin and I have given your trading proposal serious consideration."

Louis deliberately slowed down his speech and used an appetizing tone to make Gavitt anxious.

"Do you have any ideas?"

"We believe that this transaction is not feasible..."

"Why?" Gavitt continued, "Chris Jackson was the No. 3 pick last year. He is a talented point guard with rare shooting ability. Isn't this what you value most, Coach Lu?"

Louis casually took the Coke brought by Baylor, which already had a straw on it.

This old guy can't always understand that drinking Coke from a can with a straw is soulless.

"Rare shooting ability?" Louis took a sip of Coke through a straw. "Do you mean averaging 12 points per game with a 39% shooting rate?"

Gavitt was immediately embarrassed.

"Coach, I think you also know that some players need more games to find the feeling."

"I'm not sure I need a sharpshooter who shoots only 39%, not to mention paying all our draft picks this year. If he's as good as you say, why would the Celtics trade him? Lose.

After acquiring Isiah, don’t you lack the No. 1 position?”

Gavitt had heard of Louis' reputation.

In the eyes of different people, Louis' image is completely different.

West considered Louie the smartest executive in professional sports. Harry Weltman said that no matter what Louie said on the phone, he couldn't believe it. Both Auerbach and Jan Walker reminded him that the negotiations with Louie were not trustworthy.

Be extra careful when doing so.

He is a demon who eats people without spitting out their bones.

"Coach Lu, please believe that we are sincere in reaching a deal. If you are not satisfied with our quotation, you can increase the price appropriately."

“Can I really overweight appropriately?”

"certainly."

"Then I'm not welcome. Everything is to reach a deal that satisfies both of us."

Louis still doesn't know what Gavitt's status is within the Celtics.

To be sure, he has overtaken Jan Walker, but can he surpass Auerbach in power?

"If you are willing to exchange the Celtics' 1994 first-round pick and the swap rights for the 1996 first-round pick to me, maybe we can make a deal."

"This," Gavitt said awkwardly, "Coach Lu, your price is too high, and I can't agree to it."

"Is it high?"

"Dave, what are your top priorities?"

Gavitt was startled.

"Isn't your top priority, seize as much as possible the short remaining peak period of Ralph and Larry, and add as much fresh blood as possible?" Louis smiled lightly, "Although our draft pick position is not particularly high.

, but it’s not too far behind. As long as you don’t screw up, you can definitely pick a few useful players. Don’t forget, this is a big year for the draft, and the depth of talent is very good. The value of these two picks is much higher than in ordinary drafts.

The top five picks in 2014 were even higher. All I want is a first-round pick and a first-round pick s Do you think you paid a high price? Could it be that the Celtics were no longer competitive in 1994?

?Are you going to be a weak team in 1996? Dave, you are the Boston Celtics!"

"We need to take a long-term approach to this matter."

Gavitt hung up the phone.

Seeing Louis hang up the phone, Belle asked directly: "Did you get hooked?"

"Can you talk? What do you mean by being tricked? Do you think I'm a liar?" Louis said dissatisfied.

Baylor immediately had a look of ridicule like "You don't know what the hell you are?"

"I feel that my asking price is not high and not particularly excessive, but whether the transaction can be completed depends on Boston's determination to strengthen and Dave Gavitt's voice within the Celtics."

Belle could hardly believe her ears.

What did Louis say? "The asking price is not high, it's not particularly excessive"? How dare he say that?

Three draft picks for a No. 3 pick plus future first-round and first-round pick swaps. If the No. 3 pick wasn't so ridiculously good, who would agree?

This is where the problem lies.

Chris Jackson is already recognized as a parallel import.

The Hornets have scratched the lottery for a season and have already seen the four words "Thank you for your patronage." The Celtics' internal assessment of Jackson's potential should be the same. They believe that Jackson cannot reproduce the style of his college days in the NBA.

After already getting the fifth pick, they also want the Knicks' 11th and 13th picks.

With the Celtics' draft success rate, it would be really scary if they suddenly had so many high-ranking draft picks.

But Louis saw in this trade an opportunity to win twice and the Knicks to win twice.

Is Chris Jackson really a fake?

Louis asked Baylor to call Zhao Yuanzheng.

Contact Billy Donovan to prepare video of Jackson's best and worst games from last season.

In his rookie season, he averaged only 24 minutes of playing time per game.

Judging from the playing time, the Hornets did not give him enough patience.

He averaged 12 points, 3 assists and 1 rebound per game and shot 39% from the field.

It is worth noting that his free throw percentage is 85.7%, but his three-point shooting percentage is only 24%. Obviously, he has not adapted to the NBA's three-point line.

His overall shooting percentage is low, his shooting skills in college are not good, and the NBA does not allow him to shoot unscrupulously. Coupled with his weird personality, it is normal to think that he is a parallel import.

But in Louis' eyes, he is not a parallel import.

He is just a bankrupt version of Stephen Curry who has character flaws, failed to act as a guiding light, and debuted on a team that is not suitable for him.

Jackson may be one of the proofs that Curry couldn't play well in the 1990s, but Louis feels that whether a player plays well or not is determined by many aspects.

If Curry had not been forced by his father to change his shooting posture in high school, if he had always played the second position in college and not changed to the one position, if the team that selected him was not the Warriors but the Knicks, if he had signed his first contract

Before the end, he did not learn to use his hips to exert force to reduce the burden on his ankles. If he had not met Steve Kerr⑴, would Curry still be the Curry we remember?

The rise of Curry, like the founding of the Universe, is a lucky combination of many small-probability events.

Jackson had no such luck.

Now, he has a point. Dave Gavitt's plan to trade Jackson for the Knicks draft pick is his luck.

Louis wanted him very much and was 100% sure that Gavitt would regret it, but he would rather not make money than make big money, so he asked for a future first-round and first-round s

This can also confirm Gavitt's status with the Celtics.

If Auerbach still had the control, he would never agree to this deal.

After Gavitt arrived in Boston, Louis paid close attention to the Celtics' developments.

When Gavitt became vice president of the Celtics six months later, Auerbach showed his contempt for the former. When asked by a local TV station about the Celtics' then-pending Thomas trade controversy, Auerbach replied: "

I’ll hear from the vice president, what’s his name? David, right?”

Jim Baker, a TV sports commentator for the Boston Herald, noticed this.

And the next day, he published an article titled "Why can't Auerbach even remember Gavitt's name?"

What is ridiculous is that Baker concluded that Auerbach may have dementia, which may have also accelerated the transfer of power within the Celtics.

Anyone who is familiar with Auerbach knows that he did this to satirize Gavitt, who has not achieved any significant results in half a year since joining the job.

For example, Louis, who had been peeking at the screen remotely, had left his name deeply in the red head's heart just a few days after arriving in Boston.

This is the unspoken rule and evaluation index of new employees in the Celtics office: If Auerbach knows your name within three months, it means you have done a great job, and this situation will extend to appearing in the Oval Office.

to anyone under Auerbach, including, of course, the senior executive vice president. In fact, to some extent, everyone in the world was a potential "what-is-his-name" to Auerbach, except those who

The legends who played for him include Russell, Cousy, Heinsohn, the Jones brothers, Havlicek.

Now, to what extent Gavitt's power within the Celtics has reached, and whether the rumors of Auerbach delegating power are true, all questions and speculations can be confirmed through this transaction.

Investing the future in a deal for less than generous returns is not Auerbach's style.

If it is finally reached, it means that the Celtics are already Gavitt's team.

Auerbach may still be a transcendent being, but he certainly no longer dominates.

"Jingle Bell!"

The phone in Louis' office rang again.

⑴ Without Cole, Curry's off-ball skills would not have been so thoroughly developed, Curry's gravity would not exist, and the picturesque Warriors team of 14-16 would not exist. Cole was the one who matched up with Curry.

The man who pushed the nuclear bomb button redefined the threat without the ball and the threat with the ball in the pick-and-roll, ushering in the small ball era. As for the fact that he went so far as to let Curry be a dog to Green and others is another matter.

Things you did well and things you didn't do well should be looked at separately.