the rest, only noise

Chapter 1122 Restless Summer

The first thousand and 130 chapters and four Lakers stopped operations, but the summer just started

After repeated weighing, Bird decided to join Louie's coaching staff, but he wanted to keep a low profile.

"How low-key?"

"Nobody knew about it until the season started."

"Hee hee, I promise you."

Bird is not happy with Louie's attitude, but what can he do?

As long as he agrees to join the coaching staff of the Lakers, from today onwards, Louis will be his immediate boss, which is a very direct level gap.

Remember when you were at the Celtics, although Louie was the coach in name and had a higher status than him, the game was not played by players?

Get betrayed like Bill Fitch, and the players have their own way to get him out.

The same is not the case between the head coach and the assistant coach.

Louis promised to keep Bird a secret, but the signing of Bird had to go through the hands of many people. Could it be possible to shut everyone's mouths?

This is of course impossible.

The "Los Angeles Daily News", which has an exclusive inside news channel, exposed the matter immediately after Bird signed the contract.

Lakers fans have mixed feelings.

The media was very happy that Louis dug the Celtics.

Auerbach also called to inquire.

Louie gagged the old man with two questions.

"Does Larry still have a contract with the Celtics?"

"No."

"Then what does it matter to you if I sign him?"

So Auerbach was speechless.

However, the public was soon distracted by another news.

That was the comeback plan that the tragedian had been planning for days.

On July 7, the tragedian and manager held a press conference.

"That night, I walked out of the forum," Tragedy said of the night he announced his retirement in 1991. "People told me they'd lived decades and never seen anything like it—they mean, a star was forced to retire because of some kind of disease. My wife cried and thanked me for supporting this family with the money I made with my hands. I cried too, and that was the happiest time of my life, and I felt like that was what God wanted me to do. What I have to do for the rest of my life, it's not about winning, it's about a love that lasts until the day I die. I thought, that's it, I'm never coming back."

This is a well-prepared comeback show.

Unlike his hasty comeback in the fall of 1992, the Tragedian is in a different world.Americans are now more aware of HIV, and players are less afraid.

There was a natural emotional transition when his comeback speech went from being about spreading love, to returning to the court with love and a mission to beat HIV to prove he can still play.

Louis believed that he must have practiced the draft hundreds of times.

Then there was only one question left for the journalist friends of the Tragedian.

"Ervin, which team do you want to come back in?"

"You know the answer."

Yep, the tragedies aren't going anywhere but the Lakers.

What's more cruel is that apart from the Lakers, no other team is willing to take in a superstar who is carrying the HIV virus.

The Lakers' coaching staff is divided on Tracy's comeback.

Kareem Jabbar is very loyal, and he clearly supports the tragedy teacher: "The latest research has proved that the HIV virus will not infect others through sexual contact. I think there is nothing to worry about."

"We don't worry about that," Carlisle said bluntly. "What we worry about is his competitive level. Excluding the 1992 Olympics, Irwin has been out of the league for four years."

Nelson laughed; "In my day, no matter who it was, if they didn't play for four years, they would never play again."

Boozer Holden declined to comment.

Bird listened to everyone's opinions before saying: "This is not going to end well."

"Oh?" Louis teased, "You don't want your half-brother to come back?"

Bird said seriously: "I don't think HIV is a problem, and I don't doubt Irvine's current competitive ability. I mean, his existence will be a problem for the Lakers. He was a superstar before retiring. Even after retiring, he has never left the spotlight. If he comes back here, he will still be a leader, but after four years, no one will accept his leadership."

What Bird was worried about was exactly what Louis was worried about.

Although the tragicist admits that Benj is the leader of this team, wouldn't he act like a superstar when facing other people?

Except for Robinson who is recuperating, the Lakers no longer have his old subordinates.

Louis didn't believe that any of these young people would think highly of the tragedy teacher.

Can he accept this feeling of falling from the top of the clouds to the mortal world?

"What you're talking about now is just speculation." Louis didn't expect Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to be so supportive of the tragedian. "Whether Buck (buck/nickname/referring to the tragedian) can accept his role, we'll wait until the end of the preseason training camp to make a conclusion."

Louie also didn't want to make a decision now.

This can be regarded as exploring the bottom line of the coaching staff.

Except for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who clearly supports the tragedy division, everyone else is against it.

Louis also had doubts, but no matter how he said it, he had to give the tragedian a chance.

Otherwise, wouldn't he have let down his perfect comeback show?

In August, Louie fell in love with veteran Derek Harper PG.

This person was considered a powerful guard in the 80s, but his reputation was mediocre because he was given to the uncompetitive Mavericks during his peak period.

At the time, the Knicks wanted him too.

But the Knicks are only willing to offer a basic salary and a 50% chance of winning.

Harper asked rhetorically: "Is a 50% chance of winning worth $200 million?"

He said this because the Lakers used the middle class exception for Harper.

Championships are important, but not everyone takes them seriously.

Harper prefers money.

Therefore, he accepted the Lakers' 2-year 600 million.

The Lakers then used a minimum salary exception to sign homeless Joe Kleine C

Klein was a lottery pick in the same year as Ewing, and he was also a typical example of a white insider selling fake goods. Fortunately, he has a good personality and is a high-quality locker room coordinator. He also won a ring with Louis in New York a few years ago.

The signing of the Lakers was here, but Louie stopped it.

There are currently 11 players on the roster, and there are still 4 places short of full.

Louie hopes to save the remaining spots for preseason training camp.

West is also happy to relax, since Louis let him sign free agents full-time, he is very uncomfortable.

On the surface, this is a big job for him.

But actually?He still doesn't have the right to operate freely!
After all, the management has to communicate with the coach if they want to sign someone. Who is the coach of the Lakers?Isn't that Louis?
Going around and back again, as long as Louis shakes his head, West has to let go of the one he chooses.

For a whole month, the only candidate recommended by West accepted by Louis was Klein.

But Louie accepted this person only because he had played in New York.

If it wasn't an acquaintance, Louis would definitely shake his head again.

Now, the signing is suspended, and West is also happy to relax, just waiting for the preseason training camp.

However, the Lakers stopped their actions, but other teams continued to operate.

Like the Trail Blazers.

The boss, Paul Allen, first asked Riley to fire the coach of the team, and then pretended to recruit for a long time. As a result, the applicants for the coach were either inexperienced, lacked real materials, or had no achievements.

Anyway, as long as you want to find faults, you can always find them.

After Allen eliminated those candidates one by one, he found that the Blazers would have no coach in the new season if this continued, so he turned his attention back to Riley.

Allen's trust in Riley was running out.In fact, as early as the end of the 1993 Finals, he wanted to fire Riley.The Trail Blazers, who didn't look like they should have lost the Finals, squandered a 25-point lead in two consecutive games, and the coaching staff should be responsible for the loss.

But Jordan is a Pauli party, which made him have friction with Allen.However, it was impossible for Allen to offend Jordan to death in order to fire Riley, so he let Riley be promoted to management.

But Riley's successor could not meet the standards of the championship team at all. Allen gritted his teeth and decided to let Riley take charge of the coach again.

In line with the fearless spirit of "I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell", Riley serves as the general manager and coach.

This is godfather-level authority, and Paul Allen has no problem with it.However, he said his ugly words up front and only gave Riley two years.

Within two years, if the Blazers can't end the nightmare of successive runner-ups, Riley will have to pack up and leave.

This left Riley with no choice but to strengthen the team at any cost, justified or not.

When the "Oregonian" reporter asked him if he had woken up from Barkley's nightmare, Riley shook his head seriously: "I said, I'm the fire captain, which means I won't stay in this position for a long time, because coaching has long been no fun for me."

In this way, Riley became the coach of the Trail Blazers again.

He put Sabonis on the shelf while recruiting players in free agency.

Soon, Riley split the mid-level exception into two, signing Tyrone Corbin and veteran LS Thompson (LaSalle Thompson C).

Riley no longer wants to lead the trend, keeping up with the trend is the most important thing.

The Knicks won seven consecutive championships with defense, and the Heat won the championship by copying the answers. Riley wanted to build a strong defensive team that surpassed the Knicks to make the Blazers reach the top.

To achieve his goal, he still needs to get more talents.

Immediately afterwards, Philadelphia was preparing to put the cornerstone insider on the shelf because of the disadvantage of renewing Alonzo Mourning.

Team executives eager for talent quickly rang the phone in the 76ers general manager's office.

(End of this chapter)