the rest, only noise

Chapter 1460 Expulsion a thousand times is not enough
Louis will never forget the day he returned to China.

Countless crowds celebrated outside, and a large number of fans waved small flags to greet the men's basketball team outside the airport.

Inside and outside the airport, in any corner of the city, on TV programs, no matter where you are, you can see the news that the men's basketball team won the Olympic championship.

Every player is treated like a hero, and Louie's coaching staff is one of those groups that would be overlooked by the general public at a time like this.

After all, the game is played by the players, and how much work the coaching staff has done behind the scenes can only be revealed slowly in the future.

After coaching the national team for three years, this is the first time Louis has fully participated in the domestic celebration.

Banquets, large and small, continue every day, and the TV station's invitations are also hesitating.

Louis is still the same, only attending important occasions.

Wherever he goes, people will ask how the renewal negotiations with the national team are going.

Louis didn't answer, and he only expressed his thoughts when Li Yuanhui interviewed him about the renewal of the contract.

Running back and forth like this for three consecutive years has seriously drained Louis' energy.

Now that the merits and virtues are complete, it is time to withdraw.

"Director Li, I was originally an outsider, wasn't I?"

Louis still knows all kinds of things in China, especially the sports industry.

When a person becomes a benchmark in the industry, there will be overwhelming business activities, high expectations from the bottom up, and all kinds of constraints that are not beneficial to improving performance.

Li Yuan has been blocking him for three years, if this continues, his job will not be easy.

Moreover, Louis, who led the men's basketball team to the Olympic championship, has indeed entered a sage state, and he has lost his enthusiasm for coaching.

For the next coach, Louis also gave his own suggestions.

His idea is to continue to hire high-level foreign teachers.

It is undeniable that local religion also has good coaches.

But the biggest problem with Tujiao is not ability, but the intricate background behind it.

All local religions will be kidnapped by the people behind them, and thus make some helpless compromises.

Louis is an outsider, and he endorses it with his unparalleled status in the industry, Li Yuanwei's support, and good results year after year.

Although it is impossible for foreign teachers to find a famous marshal like Louis, at least foreign teachers have no direct interests in China, and all the pressure will return to Li Yuanwei.

If Li Yuanhui didn't handle it well, Louis' successor would complain like Yunus in his previous life why he couldn't recruit all the players he wanted.

And these things have nothing to do with Louis. He just suggested that foreign teachers are not omnipotent. To continue the glory of the national team, the Basketball Association and the coaching staff need to work hard in a two-way journey.

Louis could only wish them luck.

On October 10, Louis returned to the United States.

He returned home as soon as possible, preparing to give himself a week off.

Since the summer of 1978, Louis has once again been unemployed.

This is different from the short window of time after he left the Knicks in the summer of 1994.

At that time, Louis was already looking for a new home, which was in the stage of job hunting. Now he has no desire to work at all, and just wants to spend more time with his family, especially when Wuxia is about to enter his third high school year, his attention to his son has greatly increased up.

Entering the third year of high school can be regarded as a new threshold.

There are many late-developing players who will experience a qualitative change in their physical fitness during the third and fourth years of high school, and thus grow into another level of player.

The flawless early growth advantage will be lost at this stage.

Louis can be confident about his future only if he proves that he is still one of the elite in his age group.

However, even though Louis had already said that he was going to take a break, the offers were still sent one by one.

For example, Donald Sterling, the owner of the Clippers, heard that if he got Louis, he could get the dynasty, so why didn't he hire the other party with a lot of money?
Donald generously quoted a price of $5 million for five years.

This offer was used as fuel by Louis when he was grilling.

Not to mention that he has no intention of going out now, even if he wants to go out, it is impossible to go to the Clippers, not to mention the cabbage price of 5 million U.S. dollars in five years?

As early as the late 80s, Louis and the Knicks negotiated a second contract that surpassed this offer.

That was Louis' worth more than ten years ago, and now if he wants to join, he doesn't have an eight-figure salary, and he doesn't even have the qualifications to be looked at more by him.

The most sincere of these people is Paul Gaston, the small owner of the Boston Celtics.

The Celtics have been under the control of the Gaston family since Gaston Jr.'s father, Don Gaston, became the owner of the Celtics in the early 80s.

After John Brown, the Celtics ushered in the second enlightened owner who is willing to hold the team for a long time and has little interference in internal affairs.

In the mid-90s, the elder Gaston basically handed over the Celtics to the younger Gaston to operate.

Little Gaston still had the ambition to revitalize the Celtics at first, but the gravity of reality was too heavy, and the dream of rebuilding the dynasty was quickly shattered.

For Gaston Jr., the Celtics have become a burden. If the team's lack of competitiveness cannot be quickly reversed, the Bostonians will abandon them.

Because in Boston, there are so many sports teams that people can support.

In order to revive the Celtics, Gaston Jr. took the initiative to visit Louis at Sunset Villa and offered him a five-year, $5 million contract.

You know, the top contract that a coach can get at the moment is Rick Pitino's 800 million annual salary.

And the contract provided by Gaston Jr. to Louis was as high as 1800 million, not counting various bonuses.

"Is Reed okay?" Louie asked with a smile.

He didn't think Gaston Jr. was so stupid that he didn't know why he decided to leave Boston in the first place.

Gaston Jr. said cautiously: "Coach Lu, in fact, Reid only has a nominal title left now, and he rarely interferes with internal affairs."

Louis asked with a smile: "Can I understand this, if he wants to interfere, he can still interfere?"

Gaston Jr. did not dare to lie to Louis, "The management does value Reed's suggestion, but Reid also respects the management's decision."

Louis, who was resting on his own, didn't care about this. Even if he couldn't bear the loneliness in the future and wanted to go out to play, he wouldn't consider the Celtics.

The key lies with Paul Gaston.Louis has read some reports that this young man no longer has any confidence in revitalizing the Celtics. Now that he is spending a lot of money to invite him out, he is only using his influence to increase the market value of the Celtics, and then at the right time the ball team for sale.

Once he sells the team, waiting for Louis will be a new boss full of uncertainties.

It's better to avoid such a team.

"Paul, I am very grateful for your invitation. I have always missed the time in Boston very much, but I really need to take a break now." Louis bluntly rejected Gaston, "Maybe I will change my mind later. , but not now. I just finished three full years of full-year work and the last thing I want is to accept another job."

For most coaches, 5 million in five years is a sky-high contract that is enough to make them lose their minds.

But for Louis, this contract just means that the Celtics respect him enough.

Damn, or not?

Gaston didn't expect Louis to refuse so simply. In this way, who else can save the Celtics' market?Isaiah Thomas?
To be honest, if his father, Don Gaston, hadn't been fond of Thomas, he would have kicked this thing off.

No matter how you look at it, what Isiah Thomas can bring to the team is disaster, not hope of revival.

Don't forget, who was the one who advocated using Grant Hill to trade Scottie Pippen when he overcame all opinions and didn't even listen to Reid Auerbach's suggestion!

It's that bastard!
If it weren't for him, would I Kai be reduced to an urban joke that focuses on providing old man music performances?

Thinking of Thomas's stupid actions, Little Gaston felt that firing him a thousand times would not be enough.

(End of this chapter)