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Chapter 204 What if we let sportsmanship go to hell
"Coach Lu, do you think the Celtics play rough?"

That night, at the press conference, the reporter asked this question.

Louis said helplessly: "This kind of question is like asking a narcissistic person if he is handsome. The answer I can give you is, yes, we are handsome."

"May I take your answer as another form of acquiescence?"

"No, I'm not admitting anything, I'm just frustrated with your problem."

"If it's the wrong question, why should you feel helpless?"

Louis said with a smile: "Because reporters of your level waste my time every day."

What Louis said made the other party look bad, and tomorrow an article about him might be published in a tabloid.

He's used to it, he probably won't be able to sleep well if he doesn't get blackmailed by the media.

Louie is interested in the news of the Lakers. He wants to know whether Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has attended the press conference, and if so, how he explained what happened tonight.

It didn't take long for a reporter to send a message for Riley.

"Coach Lu, Pat Riley thinks the Celtics are a rough team. You always seek large-scale confrontation and dirty trash talk. This obviously affects Kareem's emotions. What do you think of Coach Riley's words?"

Louie replied happily: "If Coach Riley's wife cheated, it may be blamed on one of our players."

"Hahaha~~~"

Lambiel beside Louis couldn't help laughing.

"The reason for Kareem's anger is not complicated. I can say it outright, but it doesn't make sense. I think Coach Riley should be responsible for it. He didn't take good care of Kareem's emotions and let Kareem, who was emotionally unstable, play."

"This shows that he doesn't understand the mood of the players at all. Coach Riley may understand basketball very well, but he doesn't understand the players under him."

Next, the stubble appeared.

The Globe's Bob Ryan, with his usual stern face as if everyone owed him money, posed his first question: "Coach Road, you think Coach Riley doesn't understand his players, so, do you understand your own?"

"probably."

"perhaps?"

"This kind of thing only needs to be roughly enough. Even my mother and girlfriend, I can't fully understand what they are thinking."

"Bill Laimbier seems to be under fire from all his opponents, what's your response to that?"

"You'd better ask Bill yourself that question, he's by my side."

Then Lambiel leaned his head in and said, "I have nothing to say to those jerks."

A single sentence revealed that he was cheap, and Louis regretted bringing him to the press conference.

Ryan's final question, which sounds the most normal, is also the most responsible: "How are Larry, Isiah, and Ralph getting along now? Is there any chemistry between them?"

Sampson's personality allows him to get along with anyone.

The problem is Bird and Thomas.

Even Louis himself was not sure about this matter.

"Their relationship has grown and I think there's a strong part of Larry's and Isiah's character that has helped them improve each other."

Louie didn't say a single word about Bird and Thomas' friendship and chemistry.

He then answered a question about Sampson's offensive status.

The media is not easy to fool, they want to clear up all the doubts, and Louie's task is to answer the most difficult questions with the least information.

For the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar apologized to Rambis under Riley's persuasion.

He publicly stated that he was not targeting anyone, but after seeing the injustice against black people, the nerves in his body seemed to override his self-awareness and help him make a decision.

That decision was to question the referee's double standards regardless of Rambis' feelings.

In the Celtics locker room, Thomas seemed ready to become the second Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

He questioned ML Carr, who was joking about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "The referee did use two sets of standards against us on the court. Kareem just burst the bubble. This is not funny. If you are white, I have nothing to say, but you are black. Do you think this matter has nothing to do with you?"

"If you really have so much grievance, vent it on the court, don't show off in the locker room." Louie interrupted him loudly.

This question seemed like a red line to Thomas.

He would never talk back to Louis: "Don't referees have two sets of standards?"

"Even if you are color-blind, you should still be able to tell that the referee is black. Why do black referees adopt two sets of penalty standards for black players?" Louis asked amusedly.

Thomas said excitedly: "Because he, like Wilt Chamberlain, is an 'albino' who betrayed his skin color!"

"When making such an accusation, it is best to have evidence. If you have evidence to prove that Dan Crawford adopts two sets of penalty standards for black players and white players, I will support your statement." Louis said lightly.

"Isn't he doing enough tonight?"

"Not enough. He just wanted to pay the Lakers a technical foul at the time, because Bill made the scene ugly, and both sides were angry. Whether that person was Cedric or someone else, he would be called a technical foul."

Louie doesn't speak with emotion.

Thomas insisted that the referee was a double standard.

"Then please work hard and carefully collect the evidence that he played double standards against you. It is best to let him be suspended indefinitely like Jack Madden."

"If you can't produce evidence in the end, now these words are just fart, which stinks."

There are not many people left in the locker room, half of them have already left.

Louis didn't intend to entangle with Thomas, turned and left the locker room, ending the fruitless debate.

Ultimately, Thomas won't find any evidence of a double standard in Dan Crawford's calls.As the earliest black referee in the history of the league, Crawford entered the industry in 1977. He regards his work as his life, and he will continue to work in this position until February 2016.

At that time, Thomas had retired for 24 years.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's little jiujiu did not become a public event for the league.

Because everyone knows that he is abnormal, even though he is a top five superstar in the league, there are very few fans who like him.

He is a star that is not worthy of liking, because even he himself does not regard fans and work as a career that must be fought hard and the love of his life.

His reasons for playing basketball are different from others.

On the other hand, it's also scary.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has made such great achievements, has never liked basketball. He has never worked hard for this sport. Therefore, it can be said that he has never reached his upper limit.

Throughout his career, he wasted his talent.

What he has achieved now is the result of wasting his talents.

Once you realize that he "doesn't like basketball and doesn't take fans seriously", you can understand why he can lead the team to the championship in the second grade, and then blatantly change his name to Karim, betray his family and original religious beliefs, and become a dangerous element.

Louis originally wanted to pay attention to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but the alliance downplayed it.

So this is just the internal affairs of the Lakers, how to digest is their business.

Since he can't eat melons, Louis simply doesn't care so much, he has a lot of things to solve.

How can I tell my mother about Lorraine's pregnancy? Although there is no obvious conflict in the team, as long as Thomas is around, he can't be careless.

This person's character is too difficult to grasp, he is not as simple as Sampson, not as sharp as Bird, he is very complicated.

Two days later, the Celtics challenged the Houston Rockets away.

The Rockets were so hungry for talent in this year's draft that they did something that would embarrass the league.

They lay flat with several other tank teams and said "so what if we let sportsmanship go to hell", and began to systematically lose a lot of games.

The 1983-84 season was the first time in NBA history that there was a record of poor performance.

The last draft that caused a similar effect had to be the 1968-69 season, but there was the ABA at that time, and even if you got a high draft pick, you might not be able to bring your favorite candidate to the team.

So the determination to be bad is not so strong, it is different now.

If you get the top three picks, you may get Ewing, Olajuwon, Tisdale, and Jordan. Just thinking about it makes people crazy, and there is no need to hesitate to play badly.

(End of this chapter)