The Rest, Only Noise

On June 23, the NBA's expansion draft went well.

The Knicks lost two players in this expansion draft.

The Charlotte Hornets were overjoyed to select Dale Ellis, who was not on the protected list.

The Miami Heat gave up John Salley and chose veteran Michael Cooper because of an agreement between the two sides.

And, they are all preferred.

It can be said that Ellis and Cooper are the No. 1 picks in the expansion draft.

The two people who were selected feel different.

Ellis was very sad, although he only spent four seasons in New York, but the four most important seasons of his career.

Louie allowed him to find his way to the top of the league, and he rewarded the Knicks with a record-breaking performance in the 1988 Eastern Conference finals.

He's willing to come off the bench, he's system-savvy, and he's probably one of the smartest players on the team...

Abandoning him was a difficult decision, but Louie couldn't take Ellis' sacrifice as the norm.

It's not fair to him. He has the strength to be the core of other teams and get big contracts. This season, he would rather play off the bench to stay and help the Knicks win their first championship in the era of Louis, which has made Louis grateful to him. Now, he sends Ellis to a team that has nothing.

There, he can do as he pleases, and as long as he doesn't get into trouble off the court, he'll do well.

Still, Ellis appeared heartbroken.

At the news conference leaving New York, he cried terribly.

"I know I've let everyone down..."

"Wherever I go, New York is my home."

Ellis's cry was so moving that some media could not help but criticize Louie for letting Ellis go.

Ellis's off-court troubles cost him his popularity, but his turnaround performance against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals won him back the hearts of fans.

The fans were as saddened as he was when he left.

Louis ignored the gossip.

He took Lorraine to Ellis' "Final Party" and explained to Ellis why he wasn't on the protected list.

He made it clear to Ellis that it wasn't that he wasn't good enough to let him go.

While these explanations didn't make Ellis feel better, Louie did unravel his knot.

Saying goodbye to Ellis, Louie's center of gravity once again returned to work.

After the expansion draft is the draft.

But before the draft, there was the battle of the century between Tyson and Spinks.

Interestingly, the boxing match between the two was on the eve of the draft.

So Louie wants to get the behind-the-scenes work done as soon as possible so that he can go to the game with complete relaxation.

On June 24, Phil Jackson officially announced that he had joined Chicago as the chief assistant coach under Doug Collins.

This has several implications.

Jackson and Jordan were not together after all. The "Zen Master" of this world may never be the person he knew.

It was also on this day that Louis called a scout for a meeting at the Blue Palace to summarize recent trade rumors.

This year may not be a big year for the free market, but it is definitely a big year for the trading market.

The draft has not yet started, and trade rumors are already flying around.

With no hope, the Dallas Mavericks decided to dismantle the team.

They wanted to send 1981's No. 1 pick, Mark Aguirre.

The Pistons also made big moves. They knew that their team was going in the wrong direction and wanted to adjust it back. So, Adrian Dantley, Moses Malone and Robert Parish are being sold all over the world.

They went from "just insiders" to "no insiders".

Louis couldn't see if this was the right way.

Anyway, the success of the Knicks is inseparable from the inside.

The Bulls also started touting Joe Barry Carroll.

The Pacers decided that Weyman Tisdale was not the man to lead the team's revival and decided to send him along with Herb Williams.

The Bucks also put Terry Cummings on the shelf.

The Sixers are fed up with repeatedly injured Sam Bowie.

"The basic situation is roughly the same." Zhao Yuanzheng introduced, "Some teams are preparing to rebuild, and some teams want to form a better team. If they operate properly, one or two strong teams will rise this offseason."

Louie asked, "How's it going in Chicago?"

Elgin Baylor says what he knows: "My friends say they're interested in trading for Robert Parish."

"How can they have any leverage?"

"They probably have Joe Barry Carroll as the main chip..."

Louis shook his head directly.

How sick would the Pistons front office be to consider swapping Malone or anyone from Parrish for Carroll?

No, it's impossible to get sick.

Unless the Bulls are crazy and offer 3 first-round and 3 first-round pick swaps for stud.

If this happens, the Pistons will reluctantly accept even if they disgust Carroll.

"Where's Portland, what's going on?" Louis asked.

Tomjanovich replied: "For sure they will do a deal, but it's really strange that there are no rumors at the moment."

The team with the Danny Manning draft pick this year is not the Los Angeles Clippers of the original timeline.

The Indiana Pacers have the No. 1 pick, the Cleveland Cavaliers have the No. 2 pick, the Clippers have the third pick, the fourth pick belongs to Don Nelson's Golden State Warriors, and the fifth pick is the San Antonio Spurs, who are not ideal. The sixth pick is the New Jersey Nets, the seventh pick is the Knicks, and the next two are the Hornets and the Heat.

This is the base case for the lottery.

A day later, the first team to make moves was the Portland Trail Blazers.

Like Tomjanovich said, they will definitely make a move.

They reached out to Don Nelson for their No. 4 pick in the first round.

All signs point to the Warriors taking Mitch Richmond with the fourth overall pick.

Will there be variables?

Louie believes Nelson is unlikely to accept Portland's leftovers.

He noticed that the Bulls' Jerry Krause was eager to trade with the two new teams that had just joined the league.

His target, of course, is their draft picks.

Preventing the bulls from reinforcing is Louis's main goal.

Because the Bulls still have draft picks in their hands in the future, and the relationship between him and Krause is not very good, they will harm the enemy and benefit themselves. If they don't do it, they will be struck by lightning.

So he first called the Hornets general manager.

Lewis Shafir was the only one to worry about when he learned that the opponent was adamant about not trading a first-round pick.

If Krause takes out Carroll to seduce him, maybe this cheap guy will really take the ninth pick in the first round for a quasi-All-Star center.

When Louis called Shafir, the other party was not enthusiastic.

"Coach Lu, I tend to keep the draft picks," Shafir said. "And I don't see the benefit of swapping picks with you guys. I don't think swapping the ninth pick in the first round for the eleventh pick in the first round. bit is a good idea."

"Well, if you're willing to keep the draft pick, of course I'll wish you the best of luck." Louis said, and suddenly said, "But,"

But what? Shafir felt that he was being led by Louis by the nose.

"If, I mean if. If the Bulls make a very attractive offer for the ninth pick, Lewis, I welcome you to my office with open arms. I'd be more than happy to make an offer."

Shafir got a lot of information from Louis's words.

Louie doesn't really want ninth, he just doesn't want the Bulls to get ninth.

He's at odds with the Bulls.

"What if other teams make favorable offers?"

"Uh...besides Chicago, I also love competing with New Jersey. I have a 'very good' personal relationship with the general manager of both places, and we're always competing, so, there are two places Offer, you are welcome to tell me. As for other places, you don't have to, we are not familiar with it."

Shafir felt more and more that Louis was a ruthless character. Judging from his tone, he was not interested in the ninth pick.

He's interested in deflating both teams.

If necessary, he will do everything possible to prevent the two teams from strengthening.

"What a terrible guy, it's better not to provoke him." Shafir suddenly felt that developing a lukewarm friendship with Louis was the best.

Because with his experience in professional basketball and his ability to operate, getting too close to Louie will be taken advantage of. If you go too far, you can easily get trapped. If he is enmity with him, wouldn't he possibly be screwed up by the other side in any deal?

Too cruel this man.

Louis is actually not that ruthless, he is a man of principles.

Work is just work. But Nets general manager Harry Weltman and Bulls general manager Jerry Krause both chose to mix work into personal feuds and smear him to salvage their failures.

It became a personal grudge.

Since it was a personal grievance, of course he had to give them eye drops as much as he could.

He New York's little Zhou Yu is not well-known, or he is small-minded, narrow-minded and poor in temperament. What's the matter?

Louie awaits news from Miami.

The operations of other teams are also going on simultaneously.

The first is trade news from Detroit.

The Pistons and the Spurs made a deal.

Detroit traded Moses Malone and a 1989 first-round pick to San Antonio in exchange for a 1988 first-round fifth overall pick.

The Spurs chose to trade, aiming to enhance the team's immediate combat capabilities.

They were in a hurry because their 1989 first-round pick was in the Knicks' hands.

If next year's record is still pulling the hips, you have to give the Knicks a big gift.

The Pistons' approach is easy to understand~www.readwn.com~ They want to get some useful chips back while the players in their hands still have value.

It's not a loss to get the fifth overall pick. At that time, you can train as a rookie while looking for a future path. If the road doesn't work, then completely tear down the lineup and rebuild it.

Still, Louie feels they may keep trading.

Because Parish and Dantley are also players they want to shoot.

These two people may have no role in the Pistons. If they are given to other teams, they are not ordinary.

Especially the Blazers. If the Blazers can have one more Robert Parish, the strength of the lineup will be improved by another level.

Just as Louie was anticipating what would happen next, San Antonio made another move.

This time, they chose to send away Alvin Robertson of the 1984 generation.

The one who made the deal with them was the Utah Jazz.