the rest, only noise

Chapter 1486 Both of us have a bright future

In September, the Boston Celtics announced that former Lakers assistant Mike Budenholzer and former NBA Clippers head coach Jeff Van Gundy would join Isiah Thomas' coaching staff.

This incident is not surprising. Both Van Gundy and Budenholzer were assistant coaches when Louie coached the Chinese team.

Now Louie came to Boston, and they came with him.

The addition of Van Gundy and Budenholzer turned Thomas' coaching staff into a behemoth.

Counting chief assistant Bill Lambir, Thomas' coaching staff has six assistants, and is equipped with shooting coaches, inside coaches, trainers, and nutritionists.

On October 2001, 10, the opening game of the new NBA season, the Celtics were scheduled to play against the Cavaliers at home.

Many Celtics supporters have high hopes for the new season.

After Louie's operation, the whole team is not only full of youthful vitality, but also has a strong white body fragrance - no one dares to speak out about the white body fragrance.

The caliber of the Boston media is: all this is the result of operation.

This game was Louis' first since he became president, so he also came to the Fleet Center.

Of course, he didn't come alone.

He was also on the scene with Reid Auerbach.

On the day Louis took office, he called Auerbach the team's banner, and his intention was self-evident.

We should keep such a totem-like character in our hearts and respect them, instead of just lifting him up to talk about things.

Unexpectedly, today Louis broke the unspoken rule that the king does not see the king, and sat side by side with Auerbach.

"I still don't get it, why aren't you coaching?" Auerbach asked. "Aren't they paying you enough?"

Louis really doesn't have any desire to coach now.

Moreover, he has no idea what kind of style of play this team should use.

Instead of crossing the river by feeling the stones by yourself, it is better to sacrifice an Isiah Thomas first, and wait for him to touch all the difficulties that should be encountered, and then he will fight to pick the fruit. It sounds a bit like Larry Brown.

After all, Louis really has no idea of ​​coaching.

The days of flying around every day are too tiring, and the team's special plane is not as comfortable as our own plane.

Louis said with a sullen face, "I think so too, but when I took office, Isiah secretly told me that he might be a one-in-a-million coaching talent, but he suffers from not having an excellent team. As long as I put together a championship team for him, he can lead the team to win the championship."

Auerbach didn't even believe a comma in what Louis said.

"Do you believe it?" Auerbach asked with narrowed eyes.

"I believe it!"

Every great liar will lie to himself before he deceives others. If he can't even win the trust of himself, how can he win the trust of others.

"Who said Isaiah is the bottom coach in the NBA? I think he is pretty good. With him coaching at the front and I planning at the back, big things can be decided."

Auerbach said angrily, "Do you really think I'm demented?"

"Don't worry, I gave Isaiah a chance. If he doesn't work, I will kick him into the Somali Trench."

The Celtics entered the first game of the Louie era. After discussing with the assistants, Thomas dispatched the starters: Tony Parker, Latrell Sprewell, Hedo Turkoglu, Pau Gasol, Yao Yueban.

"Only one black player?"

Auerbach was taken aback.

Louis quickly appeased the old man: "Reed, what you said is not rigorous. You are obviously two and a half white players. Tony is of mixed race, so he is also black in theory."

Auerbach can be said to be a pioneer in the NBA's vigorous promotion of black players. He will not talk about the old stories of letting blacks be the head coach and letting five blacks start.Starting with Auerbach's Celtics, black players began to dominate the basketball court. Until the 70s, Americans chose not to watch the NBA because of the excessive black content in the league.

After entering the 80s and 90s, discrimination against black people suddenly disappeared, just like those indigenous people who "inexplicably" disappeared in the American land hundreds of years ago. Everyone accepted black people and they could have fun together, so the proportion of black people in professional basketball became higher and higher.

In the new century, the addition of European players has slowed down the process of NBA blackening a little bit, but the general trend is hard to change.

Auerbach really didn't expect the Celtics to be the whitest team in the NBA again.

Then he stood up.

Auerbach looked at the Celtics' bench from a distance, and his expression became even uglier.

The number of non-black players is overwhelming!

"Louis!" Auerbach instantly realized what the Chinaman was up to, "Are you really crazy?"

Louis smiled and said, "Don't get excited, sit down and talk."

Auerbach regretted telling that bullshit story at lunch.

He unleashed a demon!

"Please tell me clearly!" Auerbach said, "What the hell are you doing?"

Louie was frank, "I really want to do that."

"Are you fucking crazy?!"

"Reed, you should know that I don't try to do something I can't do. If I find I can't, I stop, but you gotta let me try."

Auerbach lowered his voice and said, "Try? To put it mildly, you are challenging a certain historical record. To put it bluntly, it is blatant racial discrimination in the NBA!"

"So I, until I confirm that my Angels team that is destined to make history is capable of winning the championship, there will still be 'demons' on my team."

Angel demon
Auerbach felt a chill run down his spine.

He realized that not only should he not tell that story to Louis, but he should not have helped Paul Gaston as a lobbyist to ask him to come out.

This bastard is probably a racist!

Hasn’t this been revealed in a book before?

He seems to have publicly called Ewing the gorilla in private?
Seeing Auerbach turn blue and white, Louis was a little worried that he died suddenly in the center of the fleet.

"Reed, things are not what you think."

Auerbach snorted coldly: "Who knows what you think?"

"If I'm that kind of person, how can I achieve so many achievements?" Louis said frankly, "I'm just like most ordinary people, just a little vain."

Auerbach dissatisfied: "You can have vanity, but you should not bundle the entire Celtics team as a tool to satisfy your vanity."

Hearing this, Louis laughed: "Don't you think the Celtics are the most suitable team for this? Just imagine, as the most notorious city for racial discrimination, it also has the most tolerant professional sports team in the United States. If this professional sports team inadvertently succeeds in the black-dominated basketball game with a suspected racist image in the future. Think how many Americans will go crazy for this? I get very excited when I think about it."

Auerbach hesitated to speak, and Louis continued: "However, in the final analysis, this is a by-product of that incident. What I pursue is only that incident."

Auerbach has mixed feelings. He wants to stop Louis, but in what name?What's more, as long as Louis turns his head and refuses to admit what he just said, everything will be fine.

He no longer has the ability to stop Louis.

After all, Louis was invited back by him.

Even if the Celtics in the future under the leadership of Louis bankrupt the reputation that took 50 years to build, it will be his fault. He is the wrong person.

He should have thought of it, since Louie had shown his enthusiasm for it at the lunch meeting that day, he should have thought of it.

Thinking of the possible consequences of this incident, Auerbach felt physically exhausted.

"How sure are you?" Auerbach asked softly. "That's what I said."

The old man finally recognized the reality, Louis replied with a smile: "70%."

Auerbach quipped: "I thought you only shot when you were 100 percent sure."

"There is no 100% certainty in this matter." Louie said, "Basketball is a black sport after all. If you want to win the NBA championship without them, you must gather the rest of the elite, but this is impossible. I believe I can identify potential talents, but I don't know if they have the ability to win the championship."

"Then you still let Isiah lead the team?"

"This is a job that is doomed to hit a wall. My first life's fame cannot be ruined here. Is it okay to let Isaiah help me hit a wall?" Louis said righteously, "On this matter, Isaiah and I have reached an unprecedented agreement. Both of us have a bright future."

Hearing this, Auerbach looked pitifully at Thomas off the court.

There should never be such a good partner as him and Louis again.

Poor Isaiah, how much virtue did he lack in his previous life to meet this crumb?
PS: Did you pay attention to the earthquake-level news that happened in CBA last night?
(End of this chapter)