Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 410 This is Coach D’s answer!

With the fermentation of public opinion throughout the NBA, the ladder has been directly driven to Du Kang's feet. Du Kang has to get up even if he doesn't want to. If he doesn't get up, it will definitely damage his reputation.

Therefore, everyone is very excited now, especially within the Lakers team. The players, management, coaches, and staff have completely lost the emotion of the failure in G1 of the Finals, and everyone is looking forward to something in high spirits.

As the current acting head coach of the Lakers, Popovich looked at the Lakers players who were training on the court with a blank expression.

His face was expressionless, but his heart was filled with huge waves.

Unexpectedly, I still failed to prove myself in the end.

I didn't expect that this day would come so early.

Now the public opinion of the entire NBA, for Coach D, the ladder is already at his feet.

The same is true for Popovich.

Public opinion has fermented to what it is now. If he continues to be ignorant of current affairs, he will be humiliating himself.

Therefore, now he has made his own decision. After completing his last training session, he decided to go to Coach D, submit his resignation to Coach D, and then leave the Lakers.

After handing over the Lakers to Coach D, he accepted Coach K's invitation to become the head coach of the US team. After leading the US team to win the 2016 Olympic championship, he will retire gloriously. The current NBA belongs to Coach D and Magic. It's time for these young men Monty.

If he continues to stay here, he can only humiliate himself at the end of his career like his teacher Larry Brown.

Therefore, many people say that his master Larry Brown and his second master Old Nelson are very different in structure.

Not only is there a big difference in the coaching structure, the master is utilitarian, which is despised by many people, but the second master is full of idealism and is respected.

In terms of gains and losses, the master can't see through fame and wealth. He is always hesitant about starting and stopping, and in the end he continues to fail, which is ridiculous.

And the second master, Nelson, whether he left the Mavericks who were just one step away from the peak, or left the Warriors who led Black Eight to become an eternal legend, he walked so coolly and was absolutely not greedy for the peak that the Mavericks may soon reach in the future. , and will never forget his position as a priest in the Warriors. Although every time the second master leaves, it is not a rapid retreat at the peak, but the handsome back every time he leaves always makes people particularly admire, that kind of broad The mind is admirable.

Therefore, when everyone talks about Larry Brown and Nelson, their evaluations and attitudes are not only completely different, but also basically completely opposite.

Although he is closer to Larry Brown, as a person who has never seen through fame and fortune, he naturally hopes that he can be evaluated like his second master, Old Nelson.

I think so.

But as the direct descendant of Larry Brown, he is known as the head coach carved in the mold of Larry Brown.

How could Popovich really have the kind of mind that Nelson had when he waved his sleeves without taking away a cloud?

If it weren't for him, he would stay in the head coach's position even if he was in the lottery every year or at the bottom every year. For no other reason than to prove once that without Duncan, I, Popovich, can lead the team. Get the championship!

Otherwise, how could Popovich accept Du Kang's invitation to come to the Lakers?

After being defeated by Cole at the end of Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals, he thought about resigning, but was reluctant to do so. Although he resigned in the end, he was retained by Coach D.

But this time, he knew very well that Coach D would not be able to retain him.

Even he couldn't help but stand up in the face of such public opinion, let alone Coach D who was stronger than him.

Although he didn't want this training session to end so early, how could there be a training session in this world that never ended?

The Lakers players all want to end this training session early.

Popovich wants it to never end.

At this time, it is obvious that the Lakers are thinking a lot.

Therefore, this is why everyone says that Coach D will definitely come out.

Because people's thoughts change, and if Coach D doesn't come out, not only will his reputation be ruined, but the Lakers' morale and morale will also be severely hit.

This is a conspiracy.

A very powerful conspiracy.

Even if Reggie Miller, Magic and the others know that by defending Coach D they are actually putting Coach D on fire, they still have to defend.

Even if Coach D knows this is a trap, even if the Lakers players know that Coach D's return may harm Coach D, Coach D will still come back, and the Lakers players will still want Coach D to come back.

With Coach D there is hope.

Hope can pierce all impossible despair.

Coach D is the brightest hope in the NBA.

And they made such a big move not only for the final victory and championship, but also for the sake of whitewashing, deifying, and lifting up someone. What they want most is to erase this smear that has always been there. The bright colors that hung over them kept them from covering the world.

There should be no existence like Coach D in this world!

They want to completely destroy this hope and completely extinguish this light!

The Lakers' training session ended, and everyone looked at Popovich.

After Popovich noticed everyone's gaze, he originally had a lot to say and felt that he had a lot of farewells to say.

In the end, Popovich found that there was nothing he could do.

In the end, Popovich just smiled, turned around, and prepared to leave.

It came in a hurry.

He was also in such a hurry when he left.

Looking at such a back, many Lakers players felt a little strange for a while.

Of course they don't like Popovich, most people don't like it, but Popovich has actually done a great job as the head coach of the Lakers these days.

Although it was Coach D who stood up and defeated the powerful Warriors and Cole at the most critical moment, Popovich did make a huge contribution to the Lakers.

If it weren't for Coach D who was about to welcome back their coach, they would actually be willing to give Popovich applause when he left.

However, at that moment, they could not give Popovich applause.

With the whole world looking forward to Coach D, do you think Popovich has done a good job?

Do you think Popovich should leave? What do you mean?

Are you prepared not to let Coach D return to his loyal Los Angeles Lakers?

So what kind of composition are you?

Don't you want to stand on the opposite side of all Lakers?

If you really want to give Popovich applause at this time, then you will definitely be defeated by the Lakers.

Even quit the NBA.

Popovich can't go back to the Spurs now. If he leaves the Lakers, can he give anyone a job?

What's more, their feelings for Popovich are really not enough to give up their jobs.

Popovich is such a smart person, so after thinking about this, he suppressed all his reluctance, kept all his emotions to himself, and suppressed all his words.

There is no need to add trouble to everyone.

And just when Popovich walked to the door with heavy steps...

"Bobo!"

A loud voice came from behind.

For a moment, Popovich even thought he heard wrong.

Therefore, I didn't react at the first time. I just stopped and didn't react.

Until, the applause from behind sounded!

Snapped!

Snapped!

clap clap!

Clap clap clap!

Popovich's heart was trembling, not only his heart was trembling, but his whole body was trembling slightly.

Looking back, the person who just called him out and applauded him was someone he would never even think about.

Kevin, Garnett!

Popovich looked at Garnett in disbelief.

In fact, not only Popovich, but also the Lakers players next to him and the two Lakers supervisors Kobe and Tracy McGrady looked at Popovich in surprise.

Garnett, what does this mean?

I never thought you and Popovich had such a deep relationship before.

Even Pierce wanted to pull Garnett, but Pierce reacted and wanted to hold Garnett back and stop him from applauding. However, Garnett shook off Pierce's hand and continued to applaud.

And the applause became more determined and louder.

Seeing Garnett like this, Pierce felt like he was going to despair.

Is KG crazy?

If the two hadn't worked together in Boston for so many years, Pierce would now feel that Garnett was really an undercover agent sent by the Celtics to the Lakers.

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Popovich should be applauded at this time.

Even if Popovich does a really good job with the Lakers and does his best for the Lakers, is this the time to applaud Popovich and oppose the return of Coach D?

Pierce's head is about to explode now.

He didn't believe Garnett was an undercover agent.

But you can't think that Garnett and Popovich have a deep relationship. Garnett is Tim Duncan in disguise, right?

KG has recently fallen in love with some of Tim Duncan's behaviors, such as touching the back of other people's heads, but he's not blind!

Facing Pierce's shocked gaze, Kobe, McGrady, and all the Lakers players' incredulous gazes, Garnett not only applauded.

And he walked towards Popovich while applauding.

Looking at the old man in front of him who had almost lost all his hair, Garnett was really filled with emotion.

Perhaps no one in the world knows Popovich better than him.

In his dream, Popovich has been his mentor, opponent, enemy, and friend for many years...

In his dream, he not only won the championship with Popovich, but also pissed Popovich to death in the finals after leaving the Spurs.

He even made Popovich, his narrow-minded predecessor, angry to death more than once.

In the dream, Popovich was at his most glorious, killing him as a traitor and leading the Spurs to a championship.

In the dream, Popovich was most unlucky when he was defeated by him in the finals. He died of anger on the spot due to his trash talk.

Therefore, Popovich knew what it meant with a casual movement or look.

The Popovich just now was definitely the Popovich he had ever seen, the one who needed the most help, the most applause, and the most recognition.

He even suspected that if he was allowed to walk out of the training ground in obscurity, maybe he would never see Popovich again.

At the very least, in the basketball circle and in the NBA, Popovich will never be seen again.

He wanted to be strong all his life, but in the end he left in such an embarrassing and humble manner. Spurs fans laughed and Lakers fans cheered. His departure was so heartbreaking.

This fucking thing is too miserable.

This is even worse than when he was kicked out by the Celtics.

He didn't want to see anything like this.

He doesn't want Popovich to be like this either.

Although he and Popovich have been in love for who knows how many lifetimes, he confirmed that he still likes this stubborn old man.

"Pop, no matter what others say, you are one of the best head coaches in the world. If you are not as good as Coach D, not as good as Magic Monty, or even not as good as Cole, it does not mean that you are the worst. Time will move forward. Let's go, when the finals are over, everyone will return to God again, and will know once again that you are great. Spurs fans will know, Lakers fans will also know, Pop, look forward, time will bring everything to you, You don’t have to do anything, just sit there, smile, wait for the applause, the flowers, they will all come back again.”

Garnett hugged Popovich and spoke in Popovich's ear as calmly as possible.

Garnett knew that nothing he said was of any use. In fact, it didn't matter what he said at this time.

For Popovich, the most important thing is this shout, this applause, and this hug.

All these let Popovich know that the world has not abandoned him.

The most cruel thing about forcing Coach D out is to completely destroy Popovich.

Therefore, Du Kang had actually arrived outside the training hall gate early, leaning against the door, ready to wait for the end of the training session when Popovich opened the door.

If there is no applause from the door, then he will directly take over as the Lakers head coach and give Popovich the final respect and recognition.

Even if he knew that there was an abyss waiting for him ahead, he couldn't push Popovich to step on this pile of thunder.

but……

The door creaked open.

There was applause from behind.

Literally, there was applause behind Popovich.

Popovich was hugged by Garnett, and applause came from behind.

Looking at the man standing there smiling behind him, Garnett was shocked.

Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Pierce, Antetokounmpo, Ebanks, McAway, Yao Ming, Yes, Seth Curry...

All the Lakers players were shocked.

Coach D!

He's applauding Popovich!

Popovich had a premonition of something from the looks on the faces of the Lakers players in front.

Turning around tremblingly again, Popovich was stunned.

"Pop, I don't want you to be forced to leave the position of Lakers head coach. If there is one last person in the world who wants you to stay in this position, then that person is me."

Popovich has lost his sight.

"Bobo, I hope you leave here with honor and respect from the world. At the very least, I hope you leave here with a smile and willingness."

"And now, you have no honor, no respect, and no smile on your face."

"So, you can't leave."

Du Kang finished speaking with a smile, and behind him clicked, and bright lights flashed crazily!

Only then did Popovich realize that a bunch of reporters had rushed in behind Du Kang! ! !

Yes, the Lakers' security guard let Coach D go according to Coach D's instructions the moment he pushed in the door.

While Popovich was still down, Du Kang turned around and looked at the group of reporters behind him.

"That's my press conference for you."

"same."

"This is also Coach D's answer. Pop is still the head coach of the Lakers!"

The originally boiling world became even more boiling.

And in another high-end hotel in Los Angeles.

James was a little confused.

The person in front of James gritted his teeth, with an uncertain expression on his face.

Coach D resolved all this!

However, you will come back, you will definitely come back!

Popovich can carry the dirt for you, but he can't carry everything for you!

"Do I need to continue crying in the next game?"

James asked weakly.

And what is waiting for James is...

"cry!"

A word that shattered James' luck, a cruel word!

He doesn’t hate crying…

However, he hopes to cry like Jordan did when he won the championship...

(End of this chapter)