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Chapter 1469 Full Record of the Birth of Mythical Stories
Ernie Johnson discovered that, in addition to sharply criticizing underperforming players and stupid coaches on the show, Coach Road had added a new habit.

Recently, Louie has often been telling stories on TNT shows.

When a reporter asked Louis why he did this, he said poetically: "We tell stories to keep ourselves alive."

No habit for no reason, Louie's sudden love of storytelling was largely due to frequent lunch meetings.

Louis is now a regular guest at the luncheon.

At first, Louie didn't like lunch meetings because it was boring to fly to Washington every week to listen to old men bragging.

Later, he found that the people who came to the luncheon were not ordinary people, and he expanded his network at the luncheon, especially in the Washington area.

For a person who has lived in a foreign country for a long time, with one more connection, there may be one more solution to the problem at a critical moment.

The focus of the luncheon was chat, and there was always something to talk about among the dozen or so men.

Topics range from sports to social current affairs and all kinds of dirty gossip.

Auerbach mostly listened, but when he spoke, everyone listened.

But everyone's favorite is when Auerbach tells a story.

As a legend, he has countless stories to tell.

The last time Louie attended lunch, Auerbach told his high school story.At that time, there was no concept of state championship in high school basketball games at that time, and each city had its own high school basketball game.Auerbach's team reached the final, and the suspense lasted until the last second. Then, the head coach inexplicably sent a related household backed by the senator's father to serve the key goal.

The related account actually used the pass behind the back to serve the key ball at the moment of life and death. The result is self-evident. He paid homage to Curry for more than half a century. Championship hopes.

More than 60 years later, Auerbach is still angry about the story.

"I have no fucking idea what that bastard is thinking!"

Other than Auerbach tell stories.

For example, Auerbach's best friend Hemi when he was a student.

Haimi claims that he still has the scars from his bullfight with Auerbach more than half a century ago.

"In terms of skills, he is not my opponent at all, so he will only use those bad moves, scratching and scratching, there is nothing he dare not do!" Haimi complained.

Auerbach admits that Hymie would have achieved more than he has now if he had chosen to work in sports after high school instead of enlisting in the military.

Everyone is telling a story, and Louie can't be left behind.

Although he is less than half the age of Auerbach, he has accumulated enough stories.

Louie talked about his 1983-point performance against the Dallas Mavericks in the 84-81 season.

When Louis talked about this, everyone's eyes lit up.

This is indeed a famous game in NBA history. When a team loses by a big score, someone will think of the Mavericks.

Last year, Louie led the Lakers to another 81-point tragedy in the playoffs, but the Mavericks are still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

This is the truest aspect of competitive sports - the first to arrive has everything, the second to arrive has nothing.

Too bad Dallasites aren't all that fond of "everything" they have.

Shortly after telling the story at lunch, Louie repeated it at the Mavericks game.

Because that night, the Mavericks were killed by their opponents.

Bodi Loga, who scored 40 points and a triple-double, tore his jersey angrily.

"De Young must know that he is no longer a member of the Lakers. The situation in the past where he wanted to lose but couldn't lose is just a specific situation. There are wins and losses, and crying and laughing are the characteristics of competitive sports. Reality, and he's got to adapt because he's on a team that lost 81 points in one game."

The witty comments in Louie's Hurts made viewers more and more subscribe to TNT's TV channel.

As long as there is a program that Louis attends, the ratings will always rise. In the event of a focus battle, whether Louis will attend the program will even become the wind vane for the audience to choose the platform to watch the game.

This also made TNT go to great lengths to improve Louie's attendance rate.

From the promotion of salary to the promotion of Louie's right to speak in the program, all kinds of things that can be ceded have been given up, but Louis has no plans to change his current living conditions.

He has been coaching and managing the team for a long time, and Louis, who has been in a tense state for a long time, enjoys this kind of life very much.

In mid-January, Louis picked up the new plane.

In order to welcome this brand new Bombardier Global Express, Louis also spent millions of dollars on a piece of land near Sunset Villa as the airport and the place where the crew maintains the aircraft and is on duty.

At the end of the month, the NBA ushered in the night of history.

The Celtics played away against the Spurs.

At that time, Sampson was only 11 points away from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's total scoring record, which was no pressure for the only gentleman who could still average 5% points per game.

In order to infinitely magnify the commercial value of this night destined to be remembered by history, the Spurs temporarily moved their home court to the Alamo Dome, which can accommodate more than 6 fans.

In the third quarter of the game, the Spurs led 79 to 61.

Sampson grabbed the ball with one hand at the free throw line, attacked with his best ball-handling basket, threw his hand high from David Robinson's head, and hit the board!
That was Mr. One's 12th point in a single game.

This goal means that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's historical total scorer, which has been firmly occupied for nearly 17 years, is finally out of place.

Popovich took the initiative to call a timeout to allow the more than 4 fans who came to the scene to pay three times the ticket price for this moment to have enough time to congratulate Sampson.

The screams and cheers belong to Mister One.

Allen Iverson himself got the game ball into Sampson's hands, and then made a few jokes to make the other party laugh.

There was no suspense in the game that night, and the outcome was not what the audience cared about.

The Spurs won the game, and Sampson had done his job.

Popovich said: "Ralph is the kind of player that only comes out once in 30 years. I am honored that we can be a part of this historical moment."

Iverson said directly: "I said that Ralph is the number one center in history, no one should object?"

David Robinson didn't know if he wanted to disgust Ewing or what.

"Ralph and we were never the same species, he was the one and only man, no one could replicate his style, in his prime, I prayed to God every time I played him, I hope Ralph Be nice to me and let me finish the game with dignity. Thank God, Ralph never embarrassed me, which was a luxury for a lot of Ralph's contemporaries."

Louie felt that he might be being too sensitive.

After hearing Robinson's flattery of Sampson, his first feeling was, does this guy have any grudge against Ewing?What does it mean that the word does not mention the orangutan but never leaves the orangutan?

After the game, Sampson announced that he would retire at the end of the season.

"I never thought I'd be able to play this long or go this far... Anyway, I've done the best I can and thanks to everyone who's helped me along the way Man, my time is up."

Sampson broke the record at perfect timing and then announced his retirement at just the right moment.

There is more than half of the regular season left, and after that, every game of the Celtics is Sampson's retirement tour.

Perhaps the topic of Sampson was too hot. At the lunch meeting that week, Auerbach talked about how he and Louie persuaded Sampson to participate in the draft early.

Auerbach's rustling voice brought everyone back to 20 years ago.

The odious college professor and the indecisive Sampson leave the luncheon party pissed and suspicious.

How did Ralph enter the 1981 draft if Reid had failed?

Auerbach smiled mysteriously and looked at Louis: "You can tell the rest."

It's not that Auerbach didn't want to say it, but he didn't know the details of how Louie persuaded Sampson to participate in the draft.

At this time, everyone suddenly realized that the key person who prompted Sampson to participate in the 1981 draft was not Reid, but... Louis, who was only 21 years old at the time.

Auerbach's words brought back fond memories of the past in Louis.

Storytelling is also skillful.

It can be described in detail, briefly, or based on facts to tell myths.

The story of lobbying Sampson's candidacy itself is boring. Louie doesn't want people to know that he deliberately pretended to be a sports reporter to call Sampson's teammates to inquire about the situation, and then stopped at a restaurant that Sampson frequented. It took him several hours to drink countless Cokes before he was "arrested".

Louis smiled and said: "The story is very simple. I met with Ralph in private and explained to him the disadvantages of staying in college and the benefits of entering professional basketball early. In the end, I put Zhang [-] million in front of him. A dollar note and a can of Coke. If he stays in college, his future will be like Coke. Although it tastes good, it will not be on the stage after all. In the NBA, his prospects are worth [-] million dollars."

"As a result, you all know that although he didn't earn 20 million dollars in the NBA for [-] years, he believed in the blueprint I drew for him." Louis said jokingly, "This story tells us that if we can't provide If the other party can't refuse the price, you can make up one now, as long as the other party believes it."

(End of this chapter)