the rest, only noise

Chapter 1499

Such a gentle and grateful gorilla may never exist again.

That night, Louis was also very emotional. Thinking of the ten years he worked with Ewing, now it seems that it is undoubtedly the most interesting, challenging and magnificent period of his career.

Ewing's retirement speech was sincere and full of gratitude from beginning to end.

The person he thanked the most was Louie, followed by John Thompson.

In this speech, Ewing reviewed all the controversies of his career, especially the most sensitive ones, the conflict with Benj, and the break with Kemp.

Today, Ewing confessed his mistakes in front of Benj: "Now that I think about it, if I could let go of my insignificant self-esteem and talk to you calmly about what we each want, maybe we would be together." Go to the end. I apologize for everything."

Louis didn't know what other people thought, but Benj liked it anyway, and Red Eyed and Ewing embraced each other, as if they had completed the reconciliation of the century.

Finally, an apology to Kemp.

Kemp was the only member of the Knicks dynasty core who wasn't there.

The breakdown of his relationship with Ewing was one of the most dramatic events at the end of the Knicks dynasty, especially when one considers how Kemp followed Ewing around like a younger brother in the early days. The traditional fate reincarnated.

Just like Ewing didn't have a good relationship with Benj, he also couldn't deal with the rift between himself and Kemp, which eventually made the gap bigger and bigger, making it difficult to bridge.

Finally, Ewing said: "After tonight, my name will be history. I would like to express my gratitude to all the people who have helped me in the past 17 years. Without their help, Hakeem and I would not be any different. I hope all the fans will continue to support the Knicks in the future, even if we old men are gone, they are great, Tracy and Grant will definitely make the team win the championship again."

At this point, Ewing's speech should be over, but he still threw out the last cold joke of the night.

"I believe in them, but if they don't live up to it, you can write to me jointly, and I will 'bring basketball back to New York' again"⑴.

(1985) When the Knicks won the No. [-] pick in [-], Stern said: "Basketball is back in New York."

Seeing Ewing's retirement with his own eyes made Louie's mentality a lot older.

In the past, he liked to flaunt a youthful mindset.

No matter how old he actually is, he has to be as positive as a young man.

However, the retirement of Ewing's generation of players gave Louis a clear signal that those people and things he put his heart and soul into will eventually grow old and decay, either forgotten or become history, just like him.

After attending Ewing's retirement night, Louie invited Wilson back on his private jet.

"Looking at you, it seems that you were moved by Patrick?" Louis asked on the plane.

Wilson really felt deeply, especially after being teammates with O'Neal, he found that the shortcomings of Ewing were not unacceptable.

Wilson has partnered with many super insiders. If you put aside the short-term teammates experience in the Dream Team and Sampson, the best inside teammate in his career is Ewing, the best inside teammate is Duncan, the worst and the worst. The easy inside teammates are O'Neal.

If it was Benj in New York, he couldn't coexist peacefully with O'Neill.

Having received Ewing's education, coupled with the reshaping of his personality through meditation, Wilson can calmly accept O'Neill's series of unprofessional giant baby behaviors and princess-like squeamishness.

Most importantly, Wilson didn't know why O'Neill thought he could.

Although Ewing is mean and difficult to get along with, he really can't fault him in the game.

The blue-collar job that O'Neill hates the most is Ewing's favorite.

O'Neal's worst defense is Ewing's lifeblood.

O'Neal looked like a better insider, but Ewing's ring was almost full of hands.

During the period when Wilson hated Ewing the most, he once agreed with a certain extreme scarlet point of view, that is, replace Ewing during the Knicks dynasty with any top insider of the same era, and the Knicks will also win those totals. champion.

The longer he was separated from Ewing, the more absurd the idea seemed to him.

In his view, only Duncan and Sampson can replace Ewing.

If it were O'Neal, the Knicks would still win a few championships, but definitely not the one in 1993.

That crown was the foundation of the Knicks' dynastic culture, and without it, everything after 1993 would have turned out differently.

Hearing what Louis said, Wilson smiled wryly.

"I used to hate Patrick." Wilson said, "Later, I gradually understood Patrick. After working with Shaq for a few years, I found that my biggest wish is to make the insiders around me become Patrick."

Hate Ewing, understand Ewing, become Ewing. What kind of devil trilogy is this?

"It's more realistic to expect that fat man to become Patrick than to expect him to keep his weight normal before the new season comes." Louie complained.

Hearing this, Wilson's mood became even bitterer: "Coach, let me be honest, what you said is also very unrealistic for Shaq."

"So, there's a reason why that fat man hasn't won a championship yet."

In the final analysis, the reason lies with Louis.

O'Neal in the previous life also had this virtue, but he won three consecutive championships in a row with Kobe, and then took advantage of the peak tail to hug Wade's thigh to win another championship. In this life, he does not have such good luck.

Louis indirectly increased the difficulty of winning the championship. O'Neill's lack of professionalism is very likely to make him a modern version of Chamberlain.It's just that Chamberlain has two championships anyway, so it's okay for you pig to want anything, do you dare to rub it hard?
Louie had just returned to Los Angeles when he got the good news from Chris Wallace.

Ginobili has signed a five-year rookie contract with the Celtics, and he will officially play for the Celtics after the start of the new season.

Louie is starting to like rookie contracts in this era.

Regardless of the first round or the second round, it takes five years to come up.

Signing a five-year rookie contract like Ginobili is really confusing.

Just as Louie was secretly delighted at Ginobili's arrival, there was an unsurprisingly big news from Portland.

Rick Pitino, who was rhetoric at the beginning, is now talking nonsense. He held a press conference and publicly announced his resignation from all positions in the Trail Blazers.

"Due to irreconcilable differences, I have decided to end this journey early."

At the press conference, Pitino only did two things, whitewashing himself, criticizing and blaming everyone except himself.

Pitino criticized Paul Allen for breaking his promise and repeatedly intervening in team affairs, making him unable to let go.Then, he began to worry about the future of the NBA, because today's players simply can't understand his tactical intentions, and the winning formulas that made him successful in college basketball don't work in professional basketball.This is definitely not because his tactics are only suitable for college basketball, but because NBA players are blinded by money, and they no longer play purely like they did in college.

In the end, Pitino sarcastically mocked Jordan.

"I know who Mr. Allen chose to interfere with my plans," said Pitino. A great reputation, a lot of players and coaches left because of him, and the Blazers never succeeded. He was always right, always invincible, and we are the only ones who failed."

"That's the problem with the Blazers, it's just us that failed."

Everyone knew that Jordan was the ultimate loser, but Pitino didn't.

In what could have been a disastrous press conference, the Blazers ended the Rick Pitino era hastily.

Jordan has never responded to Pitino's accusations.

It was Paul Allen who came out and slapped Pitino hard: "Michael is the only player who doesn't want Rick to leave."

The 39-year-old Michael Jordan's response to the boss' support for him was to renew with the Blazers for another year at a price of $1 million for one year.

After finishing this contract, he will be 40 years old.

The hopeless Jordan seems to be setting himself up as a benchmark.

The benchmark of one person, one city.

A benchmark for racing all the way down the wrong path.

Knowing that it can't be the benchmark for it.

A reverse Barkley benchmark.

If future star players fail to win the championship after guarding their home team for many years, someone will use Jordan's deeds to warn him.

"If you want to know how happy it is to win the championship, you can look at Charles Barkley. If you want to go all the way to the dark, you might as well think about the ending of Michael Jordan."

Louis was also surprised to hear that Jordan had renewed his contract.

He glanced at the old Joe's data. Unexpectedly, the 39-year-old teacher Da Dan could still average 80 minutes per game in a sample of 35 regular season games, scoring 25 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists. Sweeping, but facing the powerful Lakers, they also averaged 30 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game after four games.

Obviously there is still a chance to compete, why do you have to stay in Portland?
Is your self-esteem so strong?
Louis believes that if Jordan left Portland in order to win the championship and went to play for anyone in the Miracle Generation, the public opinion would not be harsh on him.

A 39-year-old veteran wants to win the championship, what's wrong with him?

Karl Malone did just that.

He demonstrated how the veteran's championship speeder should sit. Jordan can do the same thing, but he chose to stay and rot with the Blazers.

Just for this, Louis respects him as a man.

(End of this chapter)