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Chapter 1042 Larry Bird Night
On August 8, the Knicks announced that Louis stopped exercising the power of the head coach and began to rest indefinitely.

Rudy Tomjanovich, Louie's chief assistant, will take over as head coach of the Knicks.

RC Buford, director of personnel, said: "We hope that the fans will support the decision of Coach Road, who has worked intensively for this team for nearly a decade."

It's a done deal, and the fans have to support it if they don't support it.

Moreover, the official only said that Louis stopped exercising the power of the head coach, and Tomjanovich was the acting coach.

That is to say, when Louis rests well, he will come back.

This not only gave the fans hope, but also prevented Louis from being too decisive.

In fact, the reason why Louis stopped exercising the power of the head coach instead of giving up the position of the head coach is because he still has a contract, and his contract is not small.

Although the pick is down now, the Knicks still have to pay him.

Louis accepted this arrangement based on the principle of not messing with a knife that came for nothing.

Since then, Tomjanovich has come to the fore as an acting coach.

Behind this is a full 13 years of hard work.

Rudy's rewards are also generous enough.

Louie left him a team with no solution.

Especially after the operation in the summer, the Knicks' talent and immediate combat power have overflowed. How to arrange the rotation in the new season and who to enter the DNP before the start of each game will test the coach's coaching ability.

On August 8, Louis flew to Boston.

Louie hasn't been to Boston since 1984, except for road games during the season.

This is where he became famous.

It stands to reason that when he comes back here, it should be as natural as returning home.

But it's a pity that no one here will treat him as family. If a basketball fan sees Louis on the street, he may even trouble him.

Because in the eyes of many Bostonians, the culprit for the decline of the Celtics is Louis.

He walked away without hesitation during the franchise's heyday, then spent three years building a terrifying team to end the Celtics' dominance, and then made a fortune in the famous Chris Jackson trade.

And what did Boston get?
They got word that Thomas was traded.

They got word that Reggie Lewis was being traded.

And those two trades ended up giving them what they called the Mourning Birds combination—the goddamn Billy Owens.

Last season, Reggie Lewis and Steve Smith became All-Stars, while Owens stalled from his rookie season.

To be fair, Owens is an above-average starter.

He's not exactly a star, but he's a useful player.

It's just that the price the Celtics got for him was too painful.

Owens' hype went bankrupt, which meant the Celtics were doomed to waste the last peaks of Sampson and Bird.

After the 1992-93 season, Bird announced his retirement.

The Celtics don't intend to let Bird retire like this. Anyway, it is GOAT. Even if they want to retire, they have to retire gracefully under the cheers of the home fans, instead of running in front of reporters with a funeral face after being killed in the playoffs.

Therefore, in this boring off-season, the Celtics were not idle, and held a "Larry Bird Night" while the heat was still there.

Louis was also one of the invited guests.

Such-and-such nights are a special product handed down from the 70s. The specific process is a bit like the retirement ceremony of the Spurs GDP jersey.

Find a bunch of old people to come to the scene and tell the stories of yourself and the parties in front of the big guys.

Louie also attended a Nate Thurmond Night at Ridgefield Arena in 1977.Then, the following summer, he became a scout for the Celtics.

The Celtics' food was uglier than Louis imagined.

Not to mention the high price of entry tickets, the commemorative merchandise for all audiences is also ridiculously expensive.

It was a painting by Leroy Neiman, a sports painter who specialized in all kinds of art paintings of sports stars.

Tonight, of course, the protagonist of his painting is Bird.

The paintings sold on site are reproductions, only with Byrd's signature on them.

Such a painting, which usually sells for 20 US dollars outside, would be considered expensive by some people, but it was sold for 1030 US dollars just because of Bird's signature.

There were many guests on the scene, and Louis was the only one who got booed by the audience when he appeared on the stage.

"Coach Lu, I really hope to be hated by them like you."

The tragedy teacher who was also invited to the scene had a bitter expression.

When the tragic master came out, the Bostonians at the scene were as excited and cheered as if they were seeing their relatives, as if they had never been hurt by the opponent on the court-should I say it or not, really not.

Louie spread his hands and said, "Who told you to retire early? If you retired later, the Lakers should be able to win every matchup with the Celtics by now."

"What's the point of that?" the tragedian shook his head.

The Celtics have undoubtedly become his demons.

But he and the Lakers seem to have no chance to find revenge on the Celtics.

At least the Lakers of this generation will definitely not be able to avenge the Celtics of this generation.

Because they are no longer at the top level of competitiveness, two key players have also retired
Celebrities in Boston and Bird's close friends came to the center of the venue to speak one after another.

The representative elected by the Celtics is naturally Auerbach.

For this kind of activity, Auerbach is very familiar with it, because he has participated in it many times.

Every time, there will be such a line in his lines: "Although I have been a coach, it was many years ago. It is the biggest regret in my life that I have not coached Larry personally, because he is the greatest player."

Auerbach's speech received thunderous applause.

Then it was the turn of the tragedian.

The atmosphere suddenly became weird.

Although the tragedian was wearing a Lakers jacket, Bird saw that he was wearing a Celtics T-shirt, so he stepped forward and tore off his Lakers jacket, exposing the Celtics T-shirt inside.

The audience in the garden laughed, and the tragedian laughed.

Then, he used that rare eloquence to flatter Bird in all directions without dead ends.

The final ending is also the most classic of the audience: "Larry Bird once said... There will be another Larry Bird in the future. Larry, never, never, never will there be another Larry Bird."

Louis was one of the dozen or so guests sitting on the field, and he felt very special watching the tragedian make such a confession to his old enemy who had suppressed him all his life.

He watched Bird and Tragedy enter the league.

It seems like yesterday that Bird signed with the Celtics when he was just a small scout under KC Jones.

14 years on, many things have changed.

The era of the Lakers and Celtics has long ended, and teams such as the Knicks and Trail Blazers are the main theme of the new era.

Byrd and the Tragedian retired, and it seemed that something in Louie's memory disappeared with them.

The black and white duo are ready to open a new chapter in life, and Louis also has a hidden turmoil in his heart.

Does this also mean that he is also ready to start the next journey of his life?

After all, no one can go all the way to the end.

What's more, what about Louis, a fickle man?
PS: There is only one chapter today. I had a fever yesterday, and I have been tossing for a whole day. I will recover well today.

(End of this chapter)