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Chapter 589 The Battle of the Century Outside the Stadium
"I can't make that decision."

Louis looked at the list and shook his head.

He picked up Charles Oakley's card, then John Saley's.

"Nine of us are unshakable," Louie said.

"It is almost certain that the team with the first option will choose Dell." Zhao Yuanzheng said with a frown. "The second choice after that, it is foreseeable that we will lose another player. In fact, our choice is between Kupp and John."

Song Tao and Brad Rohaus are not attractive, and Stevens is a pure defensive player, so the selection is useless.

So the other team must be Sely and Cooper.

Cooper was a decent player last season, but he's getting older, and Salley will almost certainly be drafted ahead of him.

Unless an emergency plan is activated.

Some teams will compensate the other party by trading, so that they don't choose someone.

Expansion teams are generally not overpowering, just skip it if you ask for a little benefit.

But the temptation of the Knicks players is too great, does it really make sense?

Louis hesitated.

The value of John Sely is not only that he can serve as an insider for the murderous tight lineup, but also because of his versatile attributes and his willingness to sacrifice.

A 210 cm inside line, can run and jump well, can adapt to fast-paced running and bombing, slow-paced hand-to-hand combat, likes to laugh but is ruthless.

As long as the Knicks don't change their style of play for a day, a player like Sely has value.

Cooper's level is higher, but there may be a sharp decline at any time. Among the veterans in the 80s, only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar still maintained a high level in his later years, and all others avalanche.

So the Knicks must keep John Sely.

"Lu, is it that difficult?"

Tomjanovich, a heartless guy, didn't know how entangled Louie was.

"It's difficult!" Lu Yi said in confusion, "It's like two peerless beauties lying naked in front of me. Which one do you think I should go to first?"

Tomjanovich said as a matter of course: "Is there still a choice? If they have no objections, let's go together. How happy are the threesomes?"

"Speaking such vulgar words." Zhao Yuanzheng said purely, "Can you control yourself in front of me, a little virgin?"

This shocked Louis.

"No way, you have been in the United States for so many years, and you are still a baby?"

"Yes, the original package is exported, and it is guaranteed to be replaced if it is fake."

Louis didn't want to spoil Zhao Yuanzheng, but the doctor made it clear that suppressing one's desires for a long time, regardless of gender, is not good for the body and mind.

"You'd better go out with Patrick and the others." Louis knew Ewing's way.

Zhao Yuanzheng made up his mind to stay in the wedding night in the bridal chamber for the first time, he is so pure.

"Oh, what a waste." Louis no longer cared about Zhao Yuanzheng's virginity. "Even if we keep them this year, there are still two expansion teams next year. Damn it, what are you doing to expand so many teams? Does the United States have so many talents?⑴"

This matter is not up to Louis and the others to decide, so they can only complain a few words.

"Forget it, let's wait until they finish the coin toss."

The selection order of the expansion draft is determined by the result of a coin toss.

The league wants to use this method to attract old fans.

Louie has no interest in it, and they already know that the team with the first choice will definitely choose Dell Ellis.

Therefore, at that time, only the second-choice team needs to be settled, and the draft will be given to the worst case.

This can be regarded as paying protection fees in disguise.

Give them draft picks in exchange for their tacit agreement not to pick XX.

The league also agrees that teams use this method to retain their own players. As long as it is discussed, there are some loopholes that can be exploited.

"Today was tough."

After a busy day, Louis invited the teaching assistants to have dinner at a restaurant two kilometers away from the Blue Palace.

"Coach Lu, have you decided who to give up?" asked the shooting coach Sharif.

"It's too ugly to talk about giving up." Louis corrected Sharif's low EQ statement, "This is a forced to give up."

"Then who do you decide to let go of?"

Louie shrugged. "Who it is depends on Miami and Charlotte."

Basically, two out of the three of Dale Ellis, Michael Cooper and John Selley.

After a while, they stopped talking about work.

Says one Sports Illustrated subscriber: "I feel like Michael Spinks' daughter is right, he shouldn't have fought Tyson. Tyson will kill him!"

It was the Knicks inside coach Truger Robinson who said this.

They're talking about Michael Spinks and Michael Tyson's fight of the century on June 6th.

Louis didn't know boxing, but he had heard of the name Tyson.

This is evidence that American popular culture radiates the world.

When you think of basketball, you think of Jordan.When you think of boxing, Tyson and Ali come to mind.

Louie didn't know when Tyson's weakness began, so he thought that Tyson, who was still at the peak at this time, had no reason to lose, so he thought Tyson would win the game.

"You are wrong, Spinks is different from those dolls Tyson met before, who is not an undefeated boxing champion!" Tomjanovich firmly supported Spinks.

Robinson said disdainfully: "If he really had the bottom line, he wouldn't have refused to fight Tyson a few years ago!"

"So, he's back, and he'll prove himself!"

Tomjanovich believes that Tyson is a bubble, a god deliberately created by the media, and he is not Spinks' opponent at all.

Louis showed the Sports Illustrated article Sharif read.

Turned out the article was a letter from Spinks himself to his daughter.

He opens with a quote from a conversation he had with his daughter, so Sheriff would say Spinks' daughter was right.

"Dad, please, don't fight Tyson. "

"Why do you say that, baby?"

"He'll knock you out, Dad."

"But I might as well knock him out."

"He's going to hit you hard, Dad."

"He might. But it might also be me who hit him hard."

"dad."

"Shelley, don't tell me this, it's not right. Just pray that I don't get hurt. Just pray."

After reading this paragraph, Louis felt that Spinks knew he was going to be crushed.

Let his daughter pray for him.

In fact, the title of this article is called "Pray for Me Baby".

Isn't this ominous sign obvious enough?

Afterwards, Spinks softly put all kinds of harsh words in this article, which seemed very uplifting, but there was a heroic sense of "I may not be able to fight, but I just want to fight" between the lines.

Spinks repeated at the end of the article: "Pray for me baby, just pray."

"What are the odds for this match?" Louis asked left and right.

Zhao Yuanzheng said: "Tyson's odds of winning are plus 300."

In other words, you need to bet $300 on Tyson to make money.

Instead, betting on Spinks paid off even more.

But Louie, a time traveler, did not believe that Tyson would lose to anyone at his peak, especially his opponent was a guy who wrote a letter to his daughter in the name of "Sports Illustrated" before the start of the fight, "Baby, pray that Dad will not be beaten to death by Tyson".

No, Louis thinks, whether he is a time traveler or not, even if he really doesn't know anything, as long as he reads this letter, Spinks is out of the game for him.

Tyson would win, and he would win beautifully.

Then when Louie bets, Spinks wins.

He paid $500 for negative three hundred odds.

1 to 300, if this Spinks wins, he will also make a small profit, if he loses, then his judgment is correct, and the loss will be 500.

No matter what, he wins, and Louis wins numbly.

Hearing that Louie had bet on Spinks to win against Tyson, Tomjanovich was so excited that he took out $3000 to bet with him.

Louis had a strange expression, he knew that Tomjanovich really supported Spinks, and he was just taking conservative measures to prevent accidents from happening.
"Well, Rudy, on the night of the game, come to my house for dinner, we just happened to watch the game together."

"Okay, I'm worried that no one will watch it with me!"

⑴ In the past few years from 1988 to 1995, the league expanded six teams.The influx of international players into the NBA is a matter of the new century.That is to say, before 2000, 29 teams had to be raised in the United States.As you can imagine, there will be a large number of bad teams and weak teams.One thing I will never evade is that during the Bulls' three-game streak, the overall competitiveness of the league was very weak, very weak. The old players from the 70s have almost retired, relying on the support of the Pan-84 generation. Excessive expansion led to the dilution of talent, so the wins of the strong teams in those years were very high.The last three consecutive Bulls created the best record in history at an appropriate node.

　Regarding the reform of the expansion of the draft, I did not make it clear in the previous chapter, so I will add it here.The original rule was that no matter how many teams were expanded, each team lost at most one player in the expansion draft.After this rule, there is no limit, which means that each expansion team can pick any team's unprotected players.According to the meaning of the text, it means that the Knicks have the "possibility" of losing two players.

　　
　
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