the rest, only noise

Chapter 104
Chapter 1
On the day of the draft, the Knicks decisively used their sixth pick in the first round to win Floyd, and then used the sixth pick in the second round to win Hodges.

In this draft, there are no definite top picks like Bird, Magic, and Sampson.

The Detroit Pistons, which won the No. [-] lottery, ended the tragic fate of being ravaged by all parts of the league while helping the Celtics. They came out on top in the coin toss war and won the No. [-] lottery.

Ironically, the Lakers, who just defeated the 76ers to win the championship, have the second pick in this draft just like the Celtics did last year.

There are three undisputed top-three picks in this draft.

North Carolina talent wing James Worthy, DePaul University's pinnacle Terry Cummings (Terry Cummings) and Dr. J II Dominique Wilkins.

Relatively speaking, the voices of Wilkins and Cummings are more forward.

However, Worthy is more of a team player than these two players and has a good reputation for doing whatever it takes to win.

Wilkins and Cummings have a reputation for being selfish in pursuit of personal data.

Pistons general manager "trader" Jack McCloskey did not choose Wilkins or Cummings in accordance with the tradition of choosing the best talent for bad teams, but chose Worthy.

McCloskey wants Worthy to bring the winning streak back to Detroit.

This time, it completely changed Louis' cognition.

Isn't the famous Mr. Worthy a Lakers legend?How did the piston go?
The culprit, Louis, was quite surprised by this incident. If it really needs to be traced back, he really can't get rid of it.

Originally, according to the original trajectory of history, the Celtics' signing of ML Karl's trade compensation triggered only the Pistons' two first-round picks in 1980.

Louie "overwhelmed" and dug out the Pistons' illegal operation, which cost them the 1981 first-round pick.

They were going to use that first-round pick to pick the Smiling Assassin, which is in line with the history Louis knows, but now, Thomas is wearing Pinru's clothes, the Pistons' team building plan, and their proper road to revival, at least the one Louis knows, has been blocked.

What will happen in the future, Louis does not know.

He also didn't want to know.

The butterfly effect he triggered made the Bad Boys Legion doomed not to appear in history.

The Pistons snatched Worthy, and the Lakers, holding the second pick, had only one option left if they wanted to strengthen their wings.

The Lakers selected Dominique Wilkins with the second pick.

In terms of honor alone, Worthy has only been selected to the third team twice in the Lakers.

And Wilkins was selected to the All-NBA team eight times, once for the first team, four times for the second team, three times for the third team and scoring king-level offensive ability, and the leading wing athletic ability in the 80s. From the perspective of technical characteristics alone, he is more suitable for the Lakers than Worthy.

Magic doesn't know how many top-[-] shots he's going to send Wilkins with his pass.

The question for the Lakers is how they deal with the selfish side of Wilkins' style of play.

Louis was surprised to see the Lakers choose Wilkins.This person does have a reputation for being selfish, but Magician is a top animal trainer who can comfortably serve the most unpopular, most capable, and most difficult superstar in the history of the NBA since the birth of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He really doesn't believe that Magician can't handle Wilkins.

Isn't that selfish?Feed him a few more balls and you'll be done.

Louis was on vacation again, and Auerbach did nothing but promote him.

Although Fitch intends to continue to recruit a team of assistants, he refuses to part with his salary to pay these people's wages.

He needs the team to pay these people extra.

This again goes against Celtic tradition.

The conflict between Auerbach and him came to the fore. He either used his salary to support the teaching assistant, or maintained the status quo.

Louis became Auerbach's weapon: "We didn't have so many assistants the year before last, but we could win the championship; this year you have so many assistants, and we can't even beat the 76ers. What use are they?"

Auerbach, the old stubborn coach who was the head of the family, will not understand Fitch.

Only this time, Auerbach didn't intend to let Louis rest for a few more months.

Louis, who had nothing to do, was sent to Italy by Auerbach, accompanied by Jane Walker.

Before David Stern came to power, NBA teams could freely sign broadcast contracts with countries around the world in the name of local TV stations.But most of the countries do not broadcast the games live. What they broadcast are basically videotapes sent from the United States.

The time-lapse live broadcast of Americans is usually a day or a few hours apart, and most of the NBA live broadcasts seen by foreigners are the product of a season.

It's just that the NBA is not such a popular thing for Americans, and signing contracts with countries other than the United States is inevitable.

The reason why Louis agreed to come on a business trip together was that he was tired of staying in the United States. Anyway, the negotiation was presided over by Volker, so he regarded it as a public trip.

"Mr. Jian, who wants to sign a contract with us?"

Louie and Volker have always been more open in their private relationships.

Out of Auerbach's control, Volker also released his true nature: "It's actually just a TV station in a small city."

"My God, a broadcasting contract for a small TV station?" Louis didn't think there was anything lucrative in it.

Volker said flatly: "Young man, don't take petty money as money."

Louis and Volker came to Castello, Umbria, Italy. To Louis' surprise, most of the houses here were a bit old, and there were many monasteries.

The architecture and layout of the town looks very retro, which must have been intentional by the locals in order to maintain a sense of antiquity.

Along the way, Louis and Volker aroused the cold eyes of many Italians.

The whites of their eyes run from Louie's American cowboy outfit to Walker's long hair.There was obviously no communication between them, but the two Celtic expatriates, who were traveling at their own expense, deeply felt the contempt in the eyes of the locals.

Their first priority is to find a place to stay.

Now that it is close to the city center, Volker is very disappointed. The closer to the city center, the more messy it is. There are stalls everywhere, and the environment is very bad: "Are we coming from a third-world country?"

"!%...%#"

"@￥%@..."

Suddenly, a half-dead man on the side of the road jumped up and yelled at them.

Walker stepped on an abandoned painting. He pointed to Walker's feet and then to the painting on the ground, chattering in Italian.

"Speak English!" Volker said impatiently.

"You stepped on my painting! You have to lose money!" The man complained in broken English, "This painting was passed down from my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather. It is worth thousands of dollars. You have destroyed its artistic value!"

The man roared ferociously: "Losing money!"

Then it wasn't just him, a group of people gathered around to ask Walker to lose money.

Volker is a civilized person. If he doesn't work in the operation department of professional basketball, he will definitely become an excellent lawyer. A typical cultural person. His verbal skills are a hundred times better than his fists, but now oral sex is useless at all.

And he didn't want to cause trouble, he just thought it was a dung beetle's shit that was stepped on at the door, and the dung beetle became a spirit, so if he lost money, he would lose money.

"How much?" Volker asked.

The man saw through some means that Louis and his party were foreigners—in fact, it was obvious—pointing to the painting on the ground, he said, “You must compensate me 100 million lire!”

Volker yelled, "How much?"

Volker hasn't figured out how much local currency is equal to one U.S. dollar, but it's scary to put a million in front of most currencies.

"One million lire!" the other party shouted in the same voice. (100 US dollar was about 1983 lire in 1)

Louis never imagined that while he was enjoying the scenery, he would meet Pengci just after he arrived in Italy. His methods were so low-level, but the opponent had a lot of people, and Walker was a gentleman, so how could he yell at them on the street.

But he was asked to pay 100 million lire for this shitty painting, how could he swallow it?

Louis patted Volker on the chest. He was 1 meters tall. Standing here, although his fists were no match for his four legs, he was definitely a deterrent.

When Louis put on a straight face, he was undoubtedly a very intimidating existence.

Louis took out a coin from his body and stared straight at the leader: "You can either take this coin and get out of my way, or I'll take you to the police station to find out. I'm curious if the painting that your damn grandpa left you is worth so much money!"

There are scoundrels who cheat foreigners everywhere, and once they give in, they will only be wiped out.

Lu Yi's figure and the performance of wanting to do something at the slightest disagreement made the other party timid.

The group of scoundrels who are suspected to be accomplices around, although they cooperate, none of them are willing to fight for each other.

Louis sneered and threw the coin to the ground, "Just use this coin to say hello to your grandpa who has turned into ashes."

Louis led Walker away from the crowd, no one dared to stop them.

The scoundrels looked at each other and quickly dispersed.

This kind of stubble happens every day. For them, it means being seen through in person, and then pretending that nothing happened, changing a painting on the ground, and waiting for the next person to come.

(End of this chapter)