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Chapter 390 Trouble, trouble, or TMD trouble
"I swear on my life, if that child has smoked dope before, I am willing to die!"

On the phone, Auerbach and Louis argued.

Because Louie said that the Knicks discovered the pinhole in Bias's arm during a physical examination.

"It's useless to say this. He's dead. You should thank me for letting you escape. You know I had a chance to destroy you." Louis said on the phone.

Auerbach countered: "Then why don't you do that?"

"Compared to using this method to destroy you, I would rather lead my team to defeat you in an upright manner." Louis put down his harsh words, "Just wait, your good days are coming to an end."

The fallout from Byas' death has been enormous.

He is one of the most watched college students in the United States. Many children regard him as a hero. Now that this hero kills himself because of a drug, how many children will plant the seeds of fear in their hearts?

This is the positive significance of his personal tragedy to society.

Some people didn’t learn their lesson, like Cleveland Browns safety Don Rogers pulled the trigger on himself because he couldn’t stand his own depravity anymore, but he didn’t think he could fight drug addiction, so letting his life end was the only way he could defeat drugs.

Louis was scolded again, this time by the Chicago media.

Because Klaus implied in the interview that Louis knew about Baias's situation and deliberately traded with them, putting them in such a difficult situation.

This time, Louis himself didn't have to respond.

"The New York Times" has a protective mentality of "I can scold this person whatever I want, but it's not your turn to scold him anyway", and gave Chicago a positive yin and yang qigong wave: "When you screw things up, everything you say is like an excuse."

On June 6, Kevin McHale arrived in New York with his manager, John Sandquist.

Louie and Baylor hosted him.

Louie had met McHale many times on the court, in private, up close, and the width of his shoulders and wingspan made him look creepy.

"Kevin, do you know where I put you in?" Louie asked.

That's what McHale was curious about, too.

"Coach, you don't need to hide from me."

"Of course, I know you are a good comrade who is willing to make sacrifices for the team." Louis said his plan with a smile, "There will be no fixed starter between you and Charles Oakley. Every game, I will adjust according to the opponent's style. Unless, you can develop a threatening three-pointer."

"Coach Lu, if I'm not mistaken, you want the second highest salary in the team to be a substitute?" McHale's agent asked displeased.

Louis denied: "It's not a substitute, it's the sixth man."

"What's the difference?"

"There is no difference between the sixth man and the main force. Sometimes, the sixth man will play a more critical role, and as I said, it is between the main force and the sixth man." Louis patiently explained, "And I also said that if Kevin can practice three-pointers, he will definitely be able to start."

McHale's agent wanted to say a few words about it, but was stopped by McHale.

"Coach Lu, I'm willing to accept your arrangement." McHale said with a sudden smile, "I don't want to start at all. It's the most tiring to play as a starter. If I play the sixth man, I can face more opponents' bench players. Then you will know how good I am!"

If McHale wanted to, his agent would have nothing to say.

John Sandquist decided to leave.

Before leaving, McHale gave him a hug: "I completely understand why you are in a bad mood."

"Just as you please." Sandquist and McHale's relationship seemed extraordinary.

It is a good thing for Louis that McHale is willing to accept the arrangement.

Oakley is an obedient person. If McHale was the one who took him away from the starting lineup, he must have nothing to say.After all, he just finished his rookie season, and Louis also said that except for Ewing and Stockton, no one's position is fixed.

Once the draft is over, Louis can take a vacation for himself.

According to Louis' instructions, Baylor first activated the Byrd clause and reached a three-year contract extension with Bernard King, who was recovering from his injury.The Knicks have a team option for the first year of the contract.

Louis has never regarded King as the team's long-term plan, and renewing him is to keep a bargaining chip.Although he has suffered serious injuries, he should still have five or six points of skill after he recovers.

As long as you have patience, you will be able to make a move sooner or later.

But until external factors stimulate Louie's "patience," Kim will lie wounded.If you still can't make a shot in the next year, activate the team option and let it go.

As for signing with rookies, he threw it all to Baylor.

Baylor loves to negotiate, fights with players' agents, and especially loves to drive down players' rookie contracts.

While the players' agents were quick to threaten to forfeit their rookie season, Baylor never did.

The choice of giving up the rookie season, which completely ignores the player's future, can only bluff a small number of people.

Next, Louie's work focused elsewhere.

Originally, he wanted to hire a defensive coach from the university, but later, he changed his mind and asked Zhao Yuanzheng to make up lessons to learn things related to the press.

In the new season, Zhao Yuanzheng will take care of the training of the pressing lineup.

In addition to these, it is to pay attention to the signing progress of rookies.

Louis found that Baylor was really a bit dark, and he was not usually fierce in suppressing the price.

No matter what price the player quotes, he will lower the price by 50%, and finally sign the contract with 60%-70% of the player's offer, and rarely exceed it.

Benjamin Wilson was the only one he couldn't hold back.

In the end, the Knicks and Benjamin signed a four-year, $4 million rookie contract.

With the signing of Wilson's rookie contract, the Knicks will have three players with an annual salary of more than one million in the new season. Ewing is still the league's highest salary. They are destined to activate Clause 54, and the penalty for exceeding the salary cap will be calculated separately.

Article 54 is the proposal passed by Louis before.

Any team can cross the salary cap and sign rookies, but the amount of excess money will be multiplied by 1.5 to pay a fine.

Although the salary cap has risen to 520 million U.S. dollars this year, and tens of millions of cable TV broadcast contracts have been signed, the money from cable TV broadcast contracts has not been included in the salary cap.

Therefore, the trade union has recently begun to prepare for trouble.

There are great contradictions between the two parties, but according to past experience, no matter how big the contradictions are, they will eventually reach a consensus.

Louie has all but disappeared from the media, as work at this stage is all over.

He's only tokenized if Baylor manages to sign a rookie.

Louie rested until July and was busy again.

This time, on behalf of the Knicks, he will send an invitation to the Chinese team to come to New York to play a few exchange games with the Knicks.

By the way, talk to Song Tao about signing the contract.

At the end of June, the league and the union reached a consensus in the long wrangling.

The number of registrations for each team has increased from the original 12 to 14. The two new additions do not account for the salary cap, but the annual salary must not exceed $15.

The Knicks were originally full. The Pistons made a three-way deal to bring them along. Louis sent Webber away, so there are 13 people on the account now.

Louis vaguely remembered that Song Tao was seriously injured in the past few years. If he could be brought to the United States, maybe he could escape the trouble.

For this matter, Louis flew to China himself.

After all, it was unclear on the phone. The two sides reached a consensus last year to enhance basketball exchanges between the two countries.

If Louis' school in China wants to continue to expand, it is necessary for the national team to come to the platform.

In addition, Louis College's first batch of students, including Hu Weidong and other seven top students who are widely expected to travel to the United States, also needs to be handled by Louis.

At the beginning of July, Louis met with relevant personnel of the Basketball Association.

He happily agreed that the Knicks would reimburse all the expenses of the national team after they arrived in the United States, and agreed to allow the national team to conduct a one-month special training in the Blue Palace.

The first one was promised, and the second one was a back door that Louis personally opened for them by taking advantage of his position.

Song Tao's stay in the United States is much more complicated. Domestic relations must be smoothed, external resistance must be dispelled, and the influence of public opinion must be considered.

In more than ten days, Louis cleared Song Tao's passage to America.

Next, all that remains is to bring this big guy back to New York.

Louie signed a formal NBA contract with Song Tao in China.

Since FIBA ​​does not allow professional players to participate in the competition at this time, this is also the biggest obstacle for Song Tao to enter the NBA, but with Louis, the contract can be manipulated to take advantage of the loopholes in the rules.

Song Tao's rookie contract is $2 for two years, which is unique in China. However, after the tax is deducted, he has to follow the regulations of the General Administration of Sports. All overseas players in the system need to pay 20% of their income.So he ended up pocketing no more than $50.

Before returning to the United States, Louis purposely brought Song Tao to Louis College.

The name of an active member of the national team is much louder in the eyes of many children than Louis, the NBA champion coach.Because many of them don't understand what the NBA is, but they know Song Tao's importance in the domestic basketball world.

Song Tao had a great time with the children, and Louis also took the opportunity to talk to the people in the academy about this year's enrollment and training situation, as well as the plans of the six top students after they travel to the United States.

It was another heap of headaches, and Louie just had to find the right high school for them.

Louis is willing to negotiate with someone like Klaus for a month, and he doesn't want to do such a thankless thing, but he just has an ambition to strengthen the national basketball team with his own strength, and the more setbacks he has, the more he will work harder.

(End of this chapter)