The Rest, Only Noise

Chapter 330 is sad for others, but wonderful for us

What was the biggest deal at the start of the season?

Naturally, the Spurs sent off George Gervin, the No. 1 player in franchise history.

They sent Ice Gwen, who had been a strong team from the ABA to the NBA, to the Bulls in exchange for David Greenwood.

It's a sad story, and Gervin didn't finish in the top 20 in scoring last season, which the Spurs see as evidence of his rot.

The management hopes that he will retire and reduce the financial burden of the team. Gervin is proud of his hard work and eager to get a pension contract like other superstars who have dedicated their youth to the team.

The Spurs are unwilling to give him pension, and Gervin is unwilling to give up the million-dollar annual salary with a guaranteed amount of 700,000.

Therefore, the Spurs can only trade him.

The Bulls, who are eager to rise, are willing to be the catchers. After Gervin arrived in Chicago, he said freely: "Iceman has arrived in a new city and wants to meet some new friends. He is very excited and excited, and can't wait to start the new season."

You just need to know that he is the originator of NBA stars who use the second and third person to achieve the effect of pretending.

Then Louis noticed a seemingly inconspicuous piece of news.

The Houston Rockets waived Sam Mitchell.

Louie remembers that he later worked as a coach in the NBA, and it's unclear what level he was as a player.

Mitchell's bare feet are two meters tall, a full-sized flank.

With the intention of testing the water, Louis offered him a ten-day contract.

Next, the Knicks ushered in the second game of the season at home.

The opponent is the lost Spurs, they have a boss who won't spend money, and a management who calls himself a loyal dog of the boss.

Such a superstructure makes them a confused team.

The Knicks' new aid, Mitchell, was mediocre. He was signed by Louie with an injury exception brought by Bernard King.

It can be seen that Mitchell plays very hard and is willing to use his brain, but the current combat power does not meet the standard of an NBA team.

Louie wants him to work out in the Eastern Conference for a year, and maybe next year, he'll sign Mitchell.

For financial reasons, Mitchell did not accept Louie's suggestion and chose to play overseas.

Louis had to wish him all the best, and then put this matter aside, at most let Zhao Yuanzheng pay attention to Mitchell's performance in Europe.

Louis currently has an injury exception in hand, and he wants to sign a defender or a forward.

After multiple inquiries, he found that John Paxson, who he once coached, is currently on a hiatus.

His contract expired this summer, and the Celtics did not agree to an extension.

It is no wonder that the Celtics are now in a tight cap space. Bird, Sampson, and Thomas are all million-dollar contracts. This does not include Laimbeer, Long, Walton, Ainge and others.

The Celtics were cunning, they didn't sign Paxson and wouldn't give up his priority to renew.

So every team that wanted to sign Paxson had to call the Greek Academy office and ask if they could let it go.

This is a historical legacy after the Robertson case abolished the retention agreement.

Although the player is free, it is not completely free.

The existence of priority renewal rights makes the initiative always in the hands of the team.

The compensatory mechanism is the dumbest, but Louie would very much like to apply it to the relationship between men and women.

For example, if Lippi wants to date your ex, but you don't, unless he gives you money or trades his ex for you.

What kind of world would that be?

Unsurprisingly, Jane Walker, disregarding her former friendship, put forward a condition that would leave Louis helpless: "Lu, if you want John, you have to give us a first-round pick."

"Don't be funny, I'll give you a maximum of $100,000 in cash compensation, and nothing else." How could Louie send a first-round pick for a Paxson.

"If you don't agree, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do," Walker said.

"You don't need John at all right now. He's out of business. If you don't give up the priority to renew, he won't be able to go anywhere. Is there such a thing? Who will send a first-round pick for him?" Louie heard Big fire.

Walker knows Louie is right, but he's representing the Celtics now: "I'm not alone in this."

"Then tell the old man who has the final say. With a cash compensation of $100,000, I can't give anything more. Give me an answer within a day. If it doesn't work, it's like I haven't made the call." Louis Take the initiative to hang up the phone.

Auerbach is a beast that eats people without spitting out bones, and Louis' threats don't scare him.

Paxson had a good few years with the Celtics, but unfortunately, his best performances remained in the Louis era.

In just one year, he was repeatedly dispatched by Louis as a surprise soldier at critical moments.

Louie's successor, K.C. Jones, is a solid coach who doesn't take risks easily, preferring to shorten the rotation of the main force rather than give Paxsons a chance to perform.

This led to the marginalization of Paxson's status on the Boston team.

It's not that no one wants Paxson, it's because the Celtics refuse to give up the priority to renew his contract, so he has no place to play.

So Louie is annoyed that doing business is not the way to go.

Players have the ability to play, but you have to hold on, obviously you can't use them, and you have to delay others. Is this a personnel matter?

Half an hour later, Louis received a call.

Volker gave the latest plan, the Knicks can sign Paxson, the price is $ 100,000 in cash + first-round pick swap.

"It seems that what I just said was not clear enough."

Louie clapped the table and said loudly: "This is my last offer, $100,000 in cash, nothing else, you don't need John, in fact we don't need it that much, I just want to have an acquaintance under my command, if you don't care And he has worked hard for you for a few years, and if you want to delay his youth, then please do it, I have no regrets."

By the way, Louie also laughed at Volker: "Mr. Jane, you are really useless. I heard that the old man had an operation in the summer and almost died. How can you still control the team so strongly?"

Volcker had long accepted that he was a doll until Auerbach retired.

Louie's jokes, he only took it as the wind blowing by his ears: "Goodbye, Lu."

Later, Louie heard that Paxson had signed with the Blazers.

Portland paid $100,000 in cash, plus a second-round pick.

Typical Auerbach style.

In fact, he had already done the same operation once.

Another Celtics guard, Gerald Henderson, who claims to be the only player in the league who can control Isiah Thomas, wants to sign a $500,000 contract. Auerbach certainly wouldn't give such a big contract to a backup defender.

So the team won two consecutive championships, and Henderson became a restricted free agent.

He's one of those very attractive players, and the Sonics signed him for a first-round pick in 1986.

Louie was horrified by the deal.

Why? Louis had this idea at the time.

Why would the Sonics dare to send out next year's first round for a Henderson?

They only had 31 wins last season, the fifth-worst in the league, and they didn't introduce any big names in the offseason. They selected Xavier McDaniel with the fourth pick in the first round and traded him for Jim Paxson on draft day. The full-fledged All-Star. Can he help the Sonics out of trouble?

And then look at the general manager who made the deal: Lester Habegger, who has been the Sonics' general manager since 1977, didn't get the go-ahead until last year.

And then he did this shit.

It's both ordinary and confident.

Sometimes Louie really wonders if Auerbach's performance in the past few decades is so dazzling because there are only a handful of general managers with an IQ over 100 in the entire league?

Otherwise there's really no way to explain operations that seem outrageous.

The strange thing is that when Louie wants to do something, his opponents are always on guard.

He seems to meet some smart people, when can there be a fool? When can a pie fall from the sky? He also wants to trade a player of Henderson's caliber for a lottery pick.

If it can be exchanged, a bunch of people from the Knicks can be exchanged.

What does it mean to not make the playoffs for two years in a row? Give him a few more lottery picks and his team will rise.

At that time, I will start flying with my sword, and I will point at the champion.

Louis was looking forward to it, maybe his mind power was too strong, maybe God heard his call, or maybe it was simply that a certain city deserved bad luck.

Cleveland Cavaliers' third game of the new season, against the Nets, the team's core player Bill Cartwright suffered a fracture.

Worryingly, the fracture site is exactly the same as the one injured in New York last year.

"The more unfortunate news for the Cavaliers is that New York has the right to swap their first-round picks for the next two years."

"Does ~www.readwn.com~ God hate the Cleveland Cavaliers?"

It's sad that the Cavaliers are struggling to get out of the Steppi era, and now, they've fallen into the same hell.

Losing the best player on the team, relying on a patchwork of role players, and lack of talent recruits, how can the record be guaranteed?

Louis, who got the news, had nothing to say. Sometimes, you can't stop when luck comes.

Elgin Baylor burst into his office cheering and opened two bottles of Coke to celebrate: "This is a chance for nothing!"

"Don't you drink Coke?" Louis asked.

"I have to drink Coke for this tragedy that's sad for others but wonderful for us!" said Baylor excitedly.

Sad for others, but wonderful for us.

What a great sentence that perfectly encapsulates the current situation for the Knicks and Cavaliers.

(1) In the same summer, the Lakers renewed the 38-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s one-year, 2 million contract.