the rest, only noise

Chapter 1535 Father's Love Like a Mountain
The 2004 NBA Draft was held on June 6.

This year, the Celtics have both the first and second rounds in their hands, so there is still some room for maneuver.

Except for Gerald Wallace, who was selected by the Bobcats from the expansion draft, the Celtics basically did not lose any players.

Among the players on the roster last season, except for a fringe player whose name Louis couldn't name, the only player whose contract expired was the pure point guard Brian Knight who came to the team the year before last.

At the beginning, Louie replaced Knight because he wanted to use his overall situation to solve Tony Parker's problem of burning CPU. Later, he chose Flawless, and Knight lost his position in the team, and directly changed from the main rotation to being unable to play. Ball was at the bottom of the bench. Although he also expressed his willingness to be traded during the season, Louis was trying to find a way to make money through the Celtics, and Ewing and Bird were in charge.

Knight wanted to be traded, and Ewing was of course willing to help.

The Lakers, hungry for a pure playmaker, came together.

The deal was close to being completed at one point, but Bird ultimately vetoed it.

Because the Celtics were very competitive at the time, and if they played well, they might have a chance to enter the finals. Knight was weak to the Celtics, but to the Lakers, he was a good medicine to neutralize the contradictions of the KG combination.

The deal with the Lakers fell through, and Ewing couldn't get valuable returns from Knight's deal, so he kept pressing no deal until the end of the season and let him leave as a free agent.

渴求奈特已久的湖人直接为奈特送上了一份4年1200万美元的合同。这份合同与奈特预期的4年2000万有一定的差距，但赵远征说服了他——你放弃了800万美元，却可能收获不止一座总冠军。

Knight said that this statement is reasonable, but people cannot hang on a tree, so he chose to sign with the Lakers with a basic salary of US$1 million for one year.

He doesn't even want 300 million, but wants 100 million. If he can win the championship, he will win the championship directly, and if he can't win the championship, he will be profitable.

With Knight gone, the Celtics vacated three spots.

Louis did not do business in his busy schedule, and took half a day to care about the team's draft.

Because the Celtics have such a good record this year, the draft pick came to the 29th place in the first round.

That makes them a bit of a tough pick.

Louis made a deal with Miami. The Celtics sent their first round plus cash in exchange for the 27th pick in the first round from the Heat.

Helping the team improve the draft, Louis didn't care about it, he only told Ewing and the others that they would go to see them if they were free on the draft day.

Ewing himself wondered, what is Boss Lu doing?
Louie is really busy.

Now that the American post bars have been created in advance by him, of course the American Youku can also do it.

On June 2004, 6, a video website named "Buzz" (the onomatopoeic word for buzzing in English) was launched.

Louie was also the first user of this site.

Through the self-operated and self-marketed viral advertisements of its own American Tieba, people in every community have learned of the existence of "Buzz".

This large online community with more than [-] registered users has a considerable number of users brought to Buzz by Louis.Regardless of the small base of these people, it can be used as the initial basic disk of the website.

The US version of Youku owned by Louis has the same attractive features as the US version of Tieba. It focuses on convenience, democracy and freedom.When thousands of people start to post videos at the same time, the video library on the website will increase rapidly at an incredible speed, and then recommended through the initial algorithm, so that users can have a better experience.Second is its social features like comments, likes and subscriptions.These features allow users to interact with other people and creators, build a sense of community, and discover new content through recommendations from others.

What Louie did was to promote the Celtics.

But he also knows that with the launch of these two new products, their value will surpass the Celtics in the near future, and it is only a matter of time before their value reaches several times that of the Celtics.But he swears that he was really just trying to boost the Celtics' commercial value initially.

Louie gradually turned Buzz's personal account into a family account. Every day, he uploaded some clips of his family life.

As a result, to Louie's fury, he found that the most popular videos he uploaded were his wife impersonating a model at home in a sexy new dress, and his mother's beagle biting his papers to pieces After also pretending innocent video.

On the day of the draft, Lu Wuxia was preparing to go to practice, and seeing his father doing nothing, he couldn't help but ask, "Dad, why do I feel that you don't care about the team at all?"

"It's the offseason, what is there to care about?" Louis pointed the camera at his son, "Come on, have a smile."

Lu Wuxia smiled professionally: "Hi, I'm Wish, and my dad took the video. Although he is the owner of the team, he is also the president of the team, and he is the best basketball coach ever. Is it right to just go around the house with a camera on draft day and not care about the team at all?"

"That's right!" Louis said happily, "This is the effect I want, you are awesome!"

Wuxia couldn't help rolling her eyes: "I'm going to train."

"Come on, don't fall in the Eastern Conference finals next year. I and the hundreds of thousands of fans in Boston are looking forward to you winning another championship for Boston!"

Wuxia waved his hand speechlessly, and quickly left the scene of the faithful father.

After shooting the video, Louis took the film to others for processing, and then calculated the time. Now that he is taking his own plane to Boston, he should still be in time for the draft.

Although it was a bit of a waste of time to take the time to care about the pick with the No. 27 pick in the first round, it was a first-round pick after all, and he didn't feel at ease if he didn't personally check it.

At 06:30 in the afternoon, Louis arrived in Boston. Boringly, he pointed his finger at the head of his driver like a gun and forced him to take himself to the training base within 15 minutes. The driver successfully arrived at the destination in only 13 minutes.

"Great, Mark, please order dinner for everyone now, I'm sure everyone is hungry." Louie signed a check, "Hurry up."

"Okay, boss."

Louis, who is enjoying his boss status more and more, quickly came to the Celtics' draft war room.

Seeing him coming, Ewing joked, "Aren't you busy with your website where you can upload pornographic videos?"

"What kind of pornography? It was an accident. We are a regular and healthy video site with zero age restrictions. It is impossible to have that kind of video!" Louis asked, "Who are you going to choose tonight?"

Ewing said immediately; "Our pick is late and there are no good candidates. I have to say that the depth of this draft is very average."

"So who do you choose?"

"Andy recommended that we choose Sasha Vujacic."

Louie's answer reflects that he is not indifferent to the draft: "Why should we draft a player similar to Kyle Korver? Is the team short of shooters?"

Ewing said: "So I prefer Larry's suggestion."

"What's Larry's suggestion?"

The candidate Bird recommended was Kevin Martin.

I have to say that the country bumpkin has a vicious vision, and it is definitely a big profit to be able to break up with Martin, who was the last pick in the first round.

But Louis still frowned.

It's not that it's bad, but they don't need Martin, just like they don't need Vujacic.

This is not due to the consideration of skin color, it is entirely because Martin's position and attributes overlap seriously with Wade and Ginobili.

As these two grow, how to balance their playing time next season will definitely become a problem for Bird. This guy is okay, and he wants to make it harder for himself.

Bird asked, "Do you have any concerns?"

Louis said directly: "We don't really need to add the second position, do we?"

Then, Louis looked at the silent Pat Riley, "Do you have any recommendations, Pat?"

Riley said: "Tony Allen from Oklahoma State University is a good choice."

Louis' eyes lit up.

At this time, scouting director Andy Greer said: "Tony Allen is basically a crude version of D-Wade, and choosing such a player requires a lot of risk."

"It's not very big, is it? After all, this is only the 27th pick." Louis thought for a while, "Let's choose Tony Allen. Coach Riley was also the only one who advocated selecting D-Wade last year. We should trust him again. .”

It's not that Louie doesn't know that the selection of Tony Allen will make his vision of a no-black team drift away, but now his thinking has changed a lot from the original.

The first thing he needs to ensure is that Wuxia can grow up smoothly, and the second is that he needs to have enough good helpers around him.

Wade is good, and if Tony Allen, the future defensive gate, is added, he will be more at ease.

This is fatherly love like a mountain!
Moreover, compared with the long-term plan of building a no-black team to win the championship, being the owner racking his brains to improve the commercial value of the Celtics seems to be a more interesting thing.

PS: You said that according to the reality of the United States, when the Mars company is established, when will Louie’s US version of Tieba and Youku be branded as “national security”?Considering this hidden danger, when is the most appropriate time to cash out?
PPS: But it seems meaningless to think about it, because I can't write about that time.

(End of this chapter)