The Rest, Only Noise

"I swear with my life, if that kid ever smoked alone, I'd die!"

On the phone, Auerbach and Louis argued.

Because Louie said the Knicks discovered a pinhole in Bias's arm during a physical exam.

"It's useless to say that, he's dead, you should thank me for letting you escape, you know I had a chance to destroy you," Louie said on the phone.

Auerbach asked back: "Then why don't you do that?"

"Rather than destroying you in this way, I would rather lead my team to defeat you in an upright manner." Louis put down his harsh words, "Wait, your good days are coming to an end."

The fallout from Byas' death was enormous.

He is one of the most watched college students in the United States. Many children regard him as a hero. Now this hero kills himself because of his unique product. This will plant the seeds of fear in the hearts of many children?

This is the positive meaning of his personal tragedy to society.

Some people didn't learn their lesson, like Cleveland Browns safety Don Roge, who pulled the trigger on himself because he couldn't bear to keep falling, but he didn't think he could fight his addiction, so he let his life end It's the only way he can defeat the unique product.

Louie was scolded again, this time by the Chicago media.

Because Klaus implied in the interview that Louis knew about Bias's situation and deliberately traded with them, putting them in such a difficult situation.

This time, Louis himself did not have to respond.

"The New York Times has a calf-protecting mentality of "I can scold this person any way you want, but it's not your turn to scold you anyway", and gave Chicago a positive yin-yang qigong wave: "When you screw up things , everything you say is like an excuse."

On June 24, Kevin McHale came to New York with his agent, John Sandquist.

Louie and Baylor received him.

Louie has met McHale many times on the court, and the close contact in private, the shoulder width and the wingspan of the other party, look really scary.

"Kevin, do you know what position I put you in?" Louis asked.

That's what McHale was curious about.

"Coach, you don't need to hide from me."

"Of course, I know you are a good comrade who is willing to sacrifice for the team." Louie said his plan with a smile, "There will be no fixed between you and Charles Oakley, every game, I will be based on the opponent. to adjust the style of the game. Unless, you can develop a threatening three-pointer.”

"Coach Lu, if I'm not mistaken, you want the team's second-highest-paid substitute?" McHale's agent asked displeased.

Louie denied: "It's not a substitute, it's the sixth man."

"What's the difference?"

"There is no difference between the sixth person and the main force. Sometimes, the sixth person will play a more critical role, and I also said that it is between the main force and the sixth person." Louis explained patiently, "And I also said, if Kevin can make a three-pointer, he can definitely hit it."

McHale's agent wanted to say a few words about this, but was stopped by McHale.

"Coach Lu, I'm willing to accept your arrangement." McHale suddenly smiled and said, "I don't want to play at all, I'm the most tired, if I play the sixth man, I can face the opponent's bench players more. You know how great I am!"

If McHale wanted to, his agent would have nothing to say.

John Sandquist decided to leave.

Before leaving, McHale gave him a hug: "I totally understand why you're in a bad mood."

"Just be happy with yourself." Sandquist and McHale seem to have an unusual relationship.

McHale's willingness to accept the arrangement was a good thing for Louie.

Oakley is an obedient man, and if McHale was the one who took him, he must have nothing to say. After all, he just finished his rookie season, and Louie also said that, except for Ewing and Stockton, no one's position is fixed.

Once the draft is over, Louie can give himself a break.

Baylor followed Louie's orders and first activated the Byrd clause and reached a three-year contract extension with Bernard King, who was recovering from an injury. The Knicks have a team option in the first year of the contract.

Louie never regarded King as the team's long-term plan, and re-signing him was to leave a bargaining chip. Although he has experienced a serious injury, he should still have five or six points of skill after recovery.

As long as you have patience, you can get out sooner or later.

However, Kim will lie down as a wounded until external factors stimulate Louie's "patient". If you still can't make a shot in the next year, activate the team option and let it go.

As for signing a rookie, he left it all to Baylor.

Baylor likes to negotiate, fights with players' agents, and especially likes to undercut players' rookie contracts.

While players' agents often give up rookie-season threats, Baylor never does.

Abandoning the option of a rookie season that completely ignores the player's future will only fool a small number of people.

Next, Louie's work focused elsewhere.

Originally, he wanted to hire a defensive coach from the university. Later, he changed his mind and let Zhao Yuanzheng go to make up lessons to study things related to full-court pressing.

In the new season, Zhao Yuanzheng will focus on the training of the pressing lineup.

In addition to these, is to pay attention to the progress of the rookie signing.

Louie found that Baylor was really a bit dark, and his price was not ordinary.

No matter what price the player quotes, he will lower the price by 50%, and finally sign the contract at 60% to 70% of the price quoted by the player, rarely exceeding it.

Benjamin Wilson was the only one he couldn't hold back.

Ultimately, the Knicks and Benjamin signed a four-year, $8 million rookie contract.

With the signing of Wilson's rookie contract, the Knicks will have three players with an annual salary of more than one million in the new season. Ewing is still the highest salary in the league. They are destined to activate the No. 54 clause, and the penalty for exceeding the salary cap will be calculated separately.

Article 54 is the proposal that Louie had passed before.

Any team can cross the salary cap and sign a rookie, but pay the penalty by multiplying the excess amount by 1.5.

Although the salary cap has risen to $5.2 million this year, and tens of millions of cable TV contracts have been signed, the money from cable TV contracts is not included in the salary cap.

Therefore, the union has recently begun to prepare for trouble again.

The contradiction between the two sides is huge, but according to past experience, no matter how big the contradiction is, a consensus will be reached in the end.

Louie almost disappeared from the media because the work at this stage was all over.

He only appears symbolically when Baylor successfully signs a rookie.

Louis rested until July and started busy again.

This time, he will send an invitation to the Chinese team on behalf of the Knicks and let them come to New York to play a few exchange games with the Knicks.

By the way, talk to Song Tao about signing the contract.

At the end of June, the union and union reached a consensus in a lengthy wrangling.

The number of registrations for each team has been increased from the original 12 to 14. The two new places do not account for the salary cap, but the annual salary cannot exceed $150,000.

The Knicks were already full. Before the Pistons made a three-way deal to bring them together, Louie sent Webber away, so now there are 13 people on the account. If Song Tao is willing to come, it will be enough for 14.

Louis vaguely remembered that Song Tao was seriously injured in the past few years. If he could be brought to the United States, it might be possible for him to escape a hardship.

For this matter, Louis personally flew to China.

After all, it was not clear what it said on the phone. Originally, the two sides reached a consensus last year to enhance basketball exchanges between the two countries.

It is also necessary for Louis's domestic school to continue to expand its scale, and it is necessary for the national team to come to the platform.

In addition, the first batch of students of the Louis College, including Hu Weidong, the 7 top students who are widely regarded as the top students, also need to be handled by Louis.

In early July, Louis met with the relevant personnel of the Basketball Association.

He happily agreed that all the expenses after the national team to the United States would be reimbursed by the Knicks~www.readwn.com~ and agreed to let the national team have a month of special training in the Blue Palace.

The first one was promised, and the second one was the back door that Louis personally opened for them by taking advantage of his position.

Song Tao's travel to the United States is much more complicated. Domestic relations must be dredged, external resistance must be dissipated, and the influence of public opinion must be considered.

In more than ten days, Louis cleared Song Tao's passage to the United States.

Next, all that's left is to bring the big guy back to New York.

Louis signed a regular NBA contract with Song Tao in China.

Since FIBA ​​does not allow professional players to participate at this time, this is also Song Tao's biggest obstacle to landing in the NBA, but with Louis there, the contract can be manipulated to exploit the rules.

Song Tao's 2-year rookie contract is 200,000 US dollars, which is unique in China. However, after the tax is deducted, he has to follow the regulations of the General Administration of Sport. All overseas players in the system need to pay 50% of their income. So he ended up pocketing no more than $50,000.

Before returning to the United States, Louis specially brought Song Tao to the Louis College.

In the eyes of many children, the names of active national team members are much louder than Louis, the NBA champion coach. Because many of them don't understand what the NBA is, but they know Song Tao's weight in the domestic basketball world.

Song Tao had a good time with the children, and Louis also took the opportunity to learn about the enrollment and training this year, as well as the plans for the six top students after their trip to the United States.

It's another bunch of headaches, and Louie's just finding the right high school for them.

Louis is willing to negotiate with someone like Klaus for a month, and he doesn't want to do such a thankless thing, but he just has an ambition to use his own strength to strengthen the national basketball team. The more setbacks, the more energetic .