The Rest, Only Noise

Louie looked at the twelve teams with lottery picks, thought about the chips in his hand, and pondered how to trade.

After one season, the Lakers' untradeable roster increased from two (Wilson, Ellis) to four.

In addition to these two, we have to add Garnett and Liu Yuqing.

Tragic division has a special status, the Lakers will not trade, and other teams are not interested.

Aside from these five, the rest of the Lakers are chips.

Looking at it this way, Louis has a lot of cards in his hand.

There are three main high-quality assets: Finlay, Latner, Ostertag.

There are so many talents in the '96 class, and Louie's goal is not just Kobe.

The most important thing right now is to develop draft picks, and the second is to do a good job of keeping secrets.

After West was scolded by him, Louie's authority reached a peak in the Forum office building.

All the staff treated his orders like eunuchs receiving imperial edicts.

Louis took great pains to set up such a game for West, not just to gain power, but to grasp the initiative of "Kobe".

This initiative has nothing to do with the draft.

The history that Louie knows has proved that Kobe is a player who is not easy to control. Once he gets into trouble, he will become the poison in the locker room and become the destroyer of chemical reactions.

If Louie really can't take him, he can only trade.

At that time, West could only accept it, because Louie also said that he didn't like Kobe, and you had to choose.

Of course, the probability of this happening is very small.

Louie mainly wants to grasp the handle of a West, just like arranging Bird to be the development coach for Garnett.

Garnett has a problem, and Louie can spray with Bird.

In the same way, if Kobe gets mad at Louie in the future, who will suffer? Of course it's West.

However, this is all just an idea.

Before Kobe was drafted, many things were uncertain.

The job of the Lakers front office before the draft comes in three parts.

Trials, trades, renewals.

Try out new recruits - although Louie knows who to choose, the surface work has to be done, and it can also have the effect of confusing others.

In terms of transactions, the Lakers have the draft right from Portland this year, but because the opponent's regular season record is so good, the signing is very late.

1996 is known as the golden draft year, but the players who are really worthy of selection are concentrated in the middle of the first round.

If they want to select a few powerful players, including Kobe Bryant, the Lakers need to initiate a trade. Due to the need for multi-line operations, Louie simply handed over the job of acquiring Kobe's draft rights to West.

Interestingly, West didn't know that the pick he was fighting for was going to be used to pick Kobe Bryant.

Louie's request is that, except for those who cannot be traded, everyone else can be traded as long as they can use it, and if necessary, they can also add draft picks to facilitate the completion of the transaction.

West frowned and said, "This year's pick value is extraordinary, and if we're going to get a lottery pick, we might have to send Michael Finley."

"The Age of Rebirth"

"Michael is a good player, but it doesn't meet my needs." Louie said indifferently, "Let him go to a team that can prove his worth more."

Finally the contract was renewed.

In fact, the only player the Lakers need to renew is David Robinson.

Robinson was out last season due to injury and was unable to play for Louie. There is a view that if he can play, the Lakers have a chance to beat the Blazers.

But that's just an unconvincingly optimistic view.

In Louie's opinion, even with Robinson, the Lakers have no chance.

Because Robinson is the famous dream maid, he gets beaten up every time they meet.

Moreover, Louie doesn't like Robinson either, so, knowing that the other party's contract has come to the last year, he still does not renew his contract in advance, insisting on letting the other party test his worth in the free market.

The above is basically the focus of the recent work of the Lakers management.

In terms of trial training, the Lakers, with the 27th overall pick in the first round, actually sent out invitations to trial training to the top picks Allen Iverson and Marcus Camby.

The way the two responded was also mysterious.

Camby politely declined the invitation from the Lakers.

Iverson's team dismissed it, citing physical discomfort.

In fact, only Ray Allen and Kerry Kittles (SG) came to Los Angeles for a workout in the top ten.

However, Allen only participates in individual training, and Kittles only participates in physical tests.

This is not difficult to understand. The Lakers are late in the draft, and it is difficult to select them without a trade. They could have refused. Since they came, it was to give the Lakers face, but in order not to increase their risk of injury, they had to control the intensity of the trial.

"Coach, choose me, you won't regret it."

Kittles said so to Louie.

Louis smiled and said nothing.

West observed secretly that if he had to choose one of the two, he would definitely choose Ray Allen.

From the college game, Kittles is a well-rounded two, but Allen has the potential to be a core cornerstone like Jordan.

It's just that he is not interested in selecting these two people.

Kobe is what he cares about the most.

Tomorrow, 10 rising stars, including Kobe Bryant, will arrive in Los Angeles to try out for the Lakers, and that's the highlight.

West prayed in his heart that he hoped Kobe Bryant could show a satisfactory performance for Louis.

next day

Although Louis was out at six in the morning, he was blocked for an hour and a half.

I've heard people say it's been lucky.

In Los Angeles, rush hour is from 6 am to 8 pm.

That is to say, as long as you choose to go out at this time, you will encounter the problem of traffic jams.

Louie felt more and more that it was necessary to buy a private jet, and if he went on like this, he would become a road rage sufferer.

At this time, several new stars have arrived at the forum to start trial training.

There's Royin Rogers (RersPF) from the University of Alabama, Walter McCarty (Walter; PF) from the University of Kentucky, John Wallace from Syracuse University, and... Kobe Bryant, the No. 1 high school student in the class of 1996 Bryant.

"How do we try out?"

Louie heard that Kobe was the first to come to the forum.

It's a testament to how much he wants to play for the Lakers, no matter how low the draft pick is.

Therefore, he will take the initiative to ask about the trial training process.

"Don't worry, you warm up first, someone will tell you the whole process of the trial training later." Zhao Yuanzheng is the only teaching assistant who still maintains high-intensity work around the clock.

He has to arrange trial training, invite trial training, take notes for players who come to trial training, and at the same time, he has to win over the relationship with Jr. Buss and other colleagues in the office. Louis feels that he will die sooner or later if he goes on like this. .

But doing so is also fighting for his own future, and Louis will not persuade him to rest.

He looked at Kobe Bryant, who had become agitated, with a special interest.

In Louis' previous life, a figure like Kobe was a legendary god. It was not difficult to meet him, but it was difficult to get in close contact with him.

Now, Louis has come into contact with too many great gods, so even the young version of the Black Mamba who left a deep impression on the post-80s generation in China will not make him excited.

At this time, Kobe actually shaved all his hair off.

He should still have hair.

So, Louis asked; "You're not yet 18, why are you losing all your hair?"

Bryant replied: "Philadelphia wants me to play for LS, my family wants me to play for Duke, but I know I don't belong in college, and I want to cut my ambitions and prove to them my ambitions in this way."

OK, enough for middle school.

Thinking back on it, what an arrogant person he is, the mere number one high school student in the United States, who thinks that the pool of college basketball is too small for him?

"Sir, when will the tryouts start?" Kobe looked impatient.

Louis looked at him playfully: "If you really can't stand your loneliness, you can dunk a few **** to warm up the court."

"is it okay?"

"Sure, do you dunk with your crotch?" Louie laughed. "It's that kind of action that puts the ball under your crotch in the air to complete a dunk."

"Simple!"

This proud teenager, holding the ball in front of Louis, completed a very exciting dunk in front of other freshmen on the field.

Not only is he pretentious, but he likes to be in the limelight.

Louie started to have a big head.

What is this like?

It's like a more rebellious ~www.readwn.com~ more arrogant Benjamin Wilson, and Louie didn't save him.

When Kobe completed his third dunk, Wilson, who was supposed to be on vacation, walked into the arena in his training uniform: "Not bad, another one!"

Benj's voice caught everyone's attention.

When Kobe saw the "Conqueror", he first widened his eyes, confirmed it carefully, and then tried to grab the ball with one hand, but found that his hand was too small to make any movements at will, so he adjusted the angle slightly, and then pointed the ball at Wilson : "Benjamin, I want to duel you!"

"Son, what are you doing crazy?"

Kobe's father, Joe Bryant, was shocked by his son's bold move.

Then, Wilson walked up to Kobe, and the natural winner who had won seven championships said flatly, "Okay."