the rest, only noise

Chapter 465
As soon as the draft was over, the details of the trade between the Lakers and the Suns were also announced by the league.

The Lakers spent a lot of money, sending Byron Scott, Kevin Johnson's signing rights, and the 1993 first-round pick in exchange for Scotty Pippen's signing rights from the Suns.

However, what is really scary is not this.

It was a deal that was negotiated day and night between the Lakers and the Spurs between July and August.

The news was first reported by Los Angeles Daily News reporter Peter Conley.

The Lakers are seriously pursuing a trade with the Spurs, and they want the rights to David Robinson.

Deals progress almost daily.

The Spurs sent their entire team to Robinson's house to persuade him not to fulfill his Naval Academy obligations and to step into the pros now and play for the Spurs.

The advantage of doing this is that he can enjoy the benefits of the professional league in advance, without wasting two years doing what many other people can do besides him.

Robinson is an average college graduate.He was in a burger joint with only five dollars in his pocket, and he could only afford a regular hamburger, not even a drink, but he turned down the chance to become an instant millionaire, insisting on fulfilling his obligations as an ensign.

This scene, this transaction, reached a chain with the original transaction in which the Spurs sent two first-round picks in order to get Ball.

When the Lakers initially wanted Robinson's signing rights, the Spurs ignored him.

When Robinson did give up his million dollars and insisted on wasting two years of military service, the matter became serious.

Then, the Lakers brought out Dominique Wilkins, a top-[-] player in the league, and the two sides made progress.

In August, the Lakers and Spurs completely reached an agreement.

The Spurs sent David Robinson's signing rights to Wilkins and $50 in cash from the Lakers.

In this regard, the Lakers became the biggest winner in the offseason, and the structure of the league changed as a result.

The overlord Lakers, who ruled the West for eight years, sent almost the entire team's key personnel.

In the ever-victorious Lakers, only Magician and Dennis Johnson were left in the starting lineup, and the rest were all traded.

The result is a young Knicks player and a star from the second-tier league. He is actually the No. [-] pick?

The Magic expressed frustration that he didn't want to play for a team that wasn't aiming for a championship.

While he is still under contract, his complaints are invalid and no one will listen to him.

It is unimaginable that these things are all related to Louis.

Whether the Lakers get Pippen or trade Robinson, there are all solutions provided by Louis.In the end, these inside stories will be revealed in a book called "Twilight in the Age of Performance".By then, it would have been nearly 20 years later.

These are all things to say, and let us go back to the end of June.

Louis has been on vacation since the deal was completed.

On June 1987, 6, Louis' second child was born, a girl.

The eldest child is called Lu Wuxia, so the daughter must also be of the wordless generation.At first, Louis named him Lu Wuyou, and his mother liked it very much, but he himself denied it.Because the name Wuyou always reminded him of a controversial streetball player in China.Then it was changed to Lu Wushou, and when I read it, I felt that the word "sorrow" was against harmony.

Road impermanence?
As a Chinese, how can you name your child Wuchang?
In the end, a drama "Zhong Wuyan" that Li Xuanbing watched saved him.Louis decided to name his daughter Lu Wuyan.In history, Zhong Wuyan's original name was Wuyan, but later generations changed her name to Wuyan, which means that this woman has no beauty.

Louis did not choose this name because he hoped that her daughter would not be beautiful. It was too difficult. He was not bad in aptitude, and Lorraine was a ball-level beauty. How unlucky is she, a lucky one in a billion, that she could not inherit the beauty of her parents?

The name was chosen because Louis combined with his own name—Louis. It must be that his parents hoped that his future life would be smooth.In fact, it was not easy for him along the way, so it is obvious that the meaning of the name and life are actually opposite.Therefore, he named his daughter Lu Wuyan, which has a good meaning.

She is beautiful because she is ugly.

Um.
If anyone doesn't open their eyes and say, "Then why do you call Da'er Lu Wuxia, why don't you call him Lu Youxia? You obviously discriminate against women, and you know everything."

Then Louis can only tell you this: What kind of bar to lift you up, Mr. Zha, is it easy for me to choose a name that is easy to read?

This is the end of the matter of the name. Louis hopes that he will not have a third child in the short term. These two children alone are enough for him to toss about. If there is another child, all his brain cells will be used to think of the name. What else is there to teach?

On the last day of June, Louie had to leave his family and come to Washington to attend the NBA annual meeting.

The old labor-management agreement is about to expire. As the league has obtained unexpected income in the field of cable TV broadcasting, in the initially agreed labor-management agreement, the salary cap only includes the revenue sharing of TV broadcasting contracts.

As said last year, the union should refuse to recognize the salary cap and sue the league in the name of antitrust, so as to force the league to retreat, allow players to share cable TV revenue, and if possible, cancel the draft system, so that players can freely join the team he wants to go to.

Everyone knows that it is impossible to cancel the draft system.

This is the foundation of the NBA. If the draft system is abolished, the weak teams in the NBA will have no way out except to develop their own youth training like European football leagues, because it is impossible for super rookies to join them.

This is fundamentally affecting the NBA and cannot be accepted.

Removing the salary cap is a reversal of history, and it is impossible to be adopted.

Therefore, the trade union put forward these two requests in accordance with Master Lu's Chinese-style roof-lifting theory.

Raise the roof first, and then say "then you can open the windows" when people are in a hurry.

This year's annual meeting, there are four more teams present, which are four new clubs that will join the NBA in the next two years.

Although they have not officially joined, the NBA has recognized their existence, and the two teams have also established their own operation teams. There are no players yet, and the general manager has it first.

The two teams that will take the lead in expanding next year will use observations in the new season to find out which young people are underappreciated in the team.

Future Magic general manager Pat Williams nodded to Louie.

It's not as simple as nodding, it's like sending an alarm to him.

Who doesn't know that the Knicks have the most young players?It is almost certain that the Knicks could lose two players in two years for nothing in the next two expansion drafts.

Thinking of this, Louis said to himself, he had to make preparations earlier.

There is no doubt about who will enter the Knicks' protection list and who will be selected. Louis has an estimate in advance and then thinks about how to make up for the loss.

This kind of draft is not mandatory. If you don't want to lose your talents, you can choose to trade with the opponent, such as sending a draft pick so that the opponent will not choose one of your players.

However, this matter will not be considered until today next year at the earliest.

At this year's annual meeting, the most intense competition is about shortening the round of the draft.

This year's draft has been shortened to seven rounds. After meeting and discussion, it will be shortened to three rounds next year and two rounds the year after.

In this way, the NBA will no longer have all kinds of weird things like choosing female players, track and field stars, and management personnel choosing themselves and then bragging everywhere outside, "I am also the one selected by the NBA".

This year, Louis also prepared proposals.

In view of the increasing influence of the inside line on the game, in order to make the game more balanced and weaken the influence of the inside line, he put forward a proposal to return the zone defense to the NBA.

In this way, everyone doesn't have to use the name of pocket formation to practice joint defense all day long.

Opposition to Louis accounted for the majority, they do not support the restoration of defense, and there are various reasons.

Louis didn't expect them to pass now, he just mentioned it casually, and stopped speaking if they didn't pass.

After the annual meeting, Stern left Louis alone.

The alliance hopes to spread its influence overseas, and Louis is an important pawn in expanding the Chinese market.

"How is the Chinese in your team doing this year?" Stern asked.

Louie laughed: "He's MSG's favorite."

"When necessary, you should let him play more." Stern, the old lady, actually took care of the Knicks' team affairs.

Although his voice is sissy, his personality is not sissy at all.

According to rumors, if his subordinates did something badly, he would use the same level of foul language as "NMLGBD" to curse each other for more than ten minutes.

"Mr. President, I know what you are looking for me to do. I am very willing to go to China on behalf of the alliance to promote cooperation between the two parties." Louis smiled, "However, since it is cooperation, the alliance should show sincerity."

Stern liked the attitude of Louie, who was Jewish.

Jews love to trade.

"what do you want?"

"It's not what I want, it's Mr. President, what can you give to China?" Louis asked back.

Stern thought for a few seconds with a serious face, and suddenly smiled: "Don't call me Mr. President, it's too strange, Lu, call me David."

(End of this chapter)