the rest, only noise

Chapter 1192
Louis looked at the twelve teams with lottery picks, thought about the chips in his hand, and thought about how to trade.

After one season, the Lakers' untradeable list has increased from two (Wilson, Ellis) to four.

In addition to these two, Garnett and Liu Yuqing had to be added.

Tragedy is a special status, the Lakers will not trade, and other teams are not interested.

Except for these five people, the other players in the Lakers are all chips.

From this point of view, Louis has a lot of cards in his hand.

There are three main high-quality assets: Finley, Leitner, and Ostertag.

There are many talents in the 96th class, and Louie's goal is not just Kobe.

The most important thing now is to get draft picks, and the second is to do a good job of keeping secrets.

After West was scolded by him, Louis' authority reached a peak in the Forum office building.

All the staff treated his orders like eunuchs who received imperial edicts.

Louis took pains to set up such a situation for West, not just to gain prestige, but to grasp the initiative of "Kobe".

This initiative has nothing to do with the draft.

The history that Louis knows has proved that Kobe is a difficult player to control. Once he gets mad, he will become a poison in the locker room and turn into a chemical reaction destroyer.

If Louis really can't subdue him, then he can only trade.

And at that time, West could only accept it, because Louis also said that he didn't like Kobe, and you insisted on choosing him.

Of course, the probability of this happening is very small.

Louie mainly wanted to grasp a handle of West, just like arranging Bird to serve as a development coach for Garnett.

Garnett has a problem, Louis can spray with Bird.

Likewise, who would suffer if Kobe pissed Louie off in the future?Of course it was West.

However, these are just assumptions.

Before Kobe was selected, many things were uncertain.

Before the draft, the total score of the work of the Lakers management is divided into three parts.

Trials, trades, contract extensions.

Trial training for newcomers—Although Louis knew who to choose, but the superficial work had to be done, and it could also have the effect of confusing others.

In terms of trading, the Lakers have a draft pick from Portland this year, but because the opponent's regular season record is too good, the pick is very late.

1996 is known as the golden draft year, but the players who are really worthy of selection are concentrated in the first round.

If they want to select several powerful players including Kobe, the Lakers need to initiate a transaction.Due to the need for multi-line operations, Louis simply handed over the work of obtaining Kobe's draft pick to West.

Interestingly, West didn't know that the pick he was fighting for was going to Kobe Bryant.

Louis' request is that, except for those who cannot be traded, other people can be traded as long as they are needed, and if necessary, draft picks can also be added to facilitate the completion of the transaction.

West frowned and said: "This year's draft picks are of extraordinary value. If we want to get a lottery pick, we may have to send Michael Finley."

"Michael is a good player, but it doesn't meet my needs." Louis said indifferently, "Let him go to a team that can better prove his worth."

Finally it was renewed.

In fact, the only player the Lakers need to re-sign is David Robinson.

Robinson was reimbursed due to injury last season and failed to play for Louis.There is a view that if he can play, the Lakers have a chance to beat the Blazers.

But this too is an unconvincingly optimistic view.

According to Louis, even with Robinson, the Lakers have no chance.

Because Robinson is a famous dream maid, every time she meets, she will be beaten ugly.

Moreover, Louis doesn't like Robinson either, so knowing that the other party's contract has reached the last year, he still doesn't renew his contract in advance, insisting on letting the other party test his worth in the free market.

The above is basically the focus of the Lakers management's recent work.

Besides the trial training, the Lakers, who have the 27th pick in the first round, actually sent a trial training invitation to the top picks Allen Iverson and Marcus Camby.

The way the two responded was different.

Camby politely declined the Lakers' invitation.

Iverson's team turned it down on the grounds of physical discomfort.

In fact, only Ray Allen and Corey Kittles (Kerry? Kittles? SG) came to Los Angeles for a workout in the top ten.

However, Allen only participated in individual training, and Kittles only participated in physical tests.

This is not difficult to understand. The Lakers draft picks are late, and it is difficult to select them without a trade.They could have refused. Since they came, it was to give the Lakers face, but in order not to increase their own risk of injury, they had to control the intensity of the trial training.

"Coach, choose me, you won't regret it."

That's what Kittles told Louie.

Louis smiled and said nothing.

West secretly observed that if he had to choose one of these two, he would definitely choose Ray Allen.

Judging from the college game, Kittles is a comprehensive second position, but Allen has the potential to become a core cornerstone like Jordan.

It's just that he's not interested in picking these two.

Kobe is what he cares about most.

Tomorrow, 10 new stars, including Bryant, will arrive in Los Angeles to try out for the Lakers, and that is the highlight.

West prayed in his heart, he hoped that Bryant could come up with a performance that satisfied Louis.

The next day
Although Louis had left the house at six o'clock in the morning, he was stuck in traffic for an hour and a half.

I've heard people say it's been a stroke of luck.

In Los Angeles, rush hour runs from [-]:[-] a.m. to [-]:[-] p.m.

In other words, as long as you choose to go out at this time, you will encounter traffic jams.

Louie felt more and more that it was very necessary to buy a private jet, otherwise he would become a road rage patient.

At this time, several new stars have arrived at the forum and are ready to start trial training.

There was Roy Rogers PF from the University of Alabama, Walter McCarty PF from the University of Kentucky, John Wallace from Syracuse University and Kobe Bryant, the top high school student in the .1996 class.

"How do we try out?"

Louie heard that Kobe was the first person to come to the forum.

This can prove how much he wants to play for the Lakers, even if the pick is low.

Therefore, he would take the initiative to ask about the trial training process.

"Don't worry, you warm up first, and someone will come and tell you the whole process of the trial training later." Zhao Yuanzheng is currently the only teaching assistant who still maintains high-intensity work around the clock.

On the one hand, he had to arrange trial training, on the other hand, he had to invite trial training, and on the other hand, he had to take notes for the players who came to the trial training.

But doing so is also fighting for his own future, and Louis will not persuade him to rest.

He watched Kobe, who had become agitated, with special interest.

In Louis's previous life, people like Kobe belonged to legendary gods. It was not difficult to meet him, but it was difficult to get in close contact with him.

Now, Louis has come into contact with too many great gods, so even the youthful version of the Black Mamba who left a deep impression on the Chinese post-80s generation will not make him excited.

At this time, Kobe actually shaved off all his hair.

He should still have hair.

So, Louie asked; "You're not even 18, why did you lose all your hair?"

Kobe replied: "Philadelphia wants me to play for LS, and my family wants me to play for Duke, but I know I don't belong to the university. I want to cut my ambition and use this way to prove my ambition to them."

Okay, enough for the second grade.

Thinking about it in turn, what a proud person this is, the number one high school student in the United States, who actually thinks that the college basketball pool is too small for him?

"Sir, when does the workout start?" Bryant looked like he couldn't wait.

Louis looked at him playfully: "If you really can't bear the loneliness, you can dunk a few balls to warm up the field."

"is it okay?"

"Of course, do you dunk with the crotch?" Louie laughed.

"Simple!"

This proud boy, holding the ball in front of Louie, completed a wonderful dunk in front of other freshmen on the field.

Not only is he pretentious, but he also likes to show off.

Louie started to get dizzy.

what does this look like
This is like a more rebellious, more arrogant Benjamin Wilson, and Louie has no life-saving grace for him.

When Kobe completed the third dunk, Wilson, who was supposed to be on vacation, walked into the arena wearing a training suit: "Not bad, one more!"

Benj's voice attracted everyone's attention.

When Kobe saw the "Conqueror", he first widened his eyes, checked carefully, and then tried to grab the ball with one hand, but found that his hand was too small to make any movements at will, so he adjusted the angle slightly, and then pointed at Wilson with the ball: "Benjamin, I want to challenge you one-on-one!"

"Son, what are you crazy about?"

Kobe's father, Joe Bryant, was stunned by his son's bold move.

Afterwards, Wilson walked up to Kobe, and the natural winner who had won seven championships said flatly, "Okay."

(End of this chapter)