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Chapter 647 Severe illness
"Coach, please."

Zhao Yuanzheng handed Louis a bottle of Coke.

Louis performed the unique skill of unscrewing the easy-pull buckle with one hand on the spot, and then drank a sip of Coke, which symbolized victory, in the forum.

The Knicks defended their title.

Has defeated the two biggest winners in the 80s, the Lakers and Celtics.

This is a series without any suspense. Ewing won the FMVP with his outstanding performance and became another Knicks center with one team, one defense, and M/FMVP package after Willis Reed.

Moreover, this is Ewing's second FMVP trophy.

From today, he officially surpassed Bill Walton, on a par with Wilt Chamberlain, and moved towards Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's third crown.This day may come soon, and then, only the legendary 11 crowns of the ultimate winner Bill Russell remain in front of him.

That night, the Knicks returned to New York with the championship trophy.

The city is already boiling.

Louis is not as excited about this championship as last year's first championship, because the series has no suspense from the beginning.

But for fans, hearts are always hanging before the team takes home the championship.

Now it's time to cheer.

The next day, Louie was named head coach of the year.

This is the second time in his career that he has received this honor.

But head coach of the year, like rookie of the year, is something that not many people care about.

Even Mike Brown and his like have been the head coach of the year.

Now, the top priority of the Knicks offseason is the draft.

But before the draft, there will be an expansion draft.

The Timberwolves and Magic will join the league this summer.

So Louie needs to discuss with the coaching team which eight players to protect this year.

The loss of Dale Ellis and Michael Cooper for nothing last year made Tomjanovich heartbroken.

"I really don't understand why we need to expand so many teams!" Tomjanovich was full of resentment. "With so many bad teams, will the ratings become better? The substitutes of the strong teams are all lost. Isn't the quality of the game going to drop?"

"okay."

Like last year, Louie starts by targeting five players who absolutely cannot be taken.

Ewing, Wilson, Miller, McHale, Stockton entered the list must be kept.

Then, Rodman, whose importance was no different from that of the starter, was also put on the list by Louis.

Now, there are only two left in the Knicks' eight-man protection list.

Outside the protected list are Hornacek, John Sely, Dan Marley, Ronnie Secali, Alex Stevens, Angie, Song Tao, Brad Rohaus, and Joe Klein.

The good news is that the Knicks have four players that Louie doesn't worry about getting drafted.

Song Tao, Luo Haosi, Klein, Stevens, they are basically safe.Moreover, even if they are selected, it will not affect the strength of the Knicks.

Therefore, the remaining two places are actually a choice among Hornacek, Angie, John Sely, Dan Marley, and Ronnie Secali.

Of the three people who were not selected, two of them will definitely be selected.

"We can't lose Honey." Zhao Yuanzheng said affirmatively, "He is the best combo guard in the team and can bring high-quality rotations to the two starting positions."

Hornacek was selected as the seventh man without any suspense.

It is not difficult to make this decision, it is the eighth person who is difficult.

Had to choose between Sely, Sekaly, Marly, Angie.

In terms of importance, Sely is the most important.At this time last year, Louis was ready to lose Sely this year, so he played tricks on Sely's contract extension.

In the next two years, Sely's annual salary will reach 200 million.This has little impact on the Knicks, whose salary cap is already inflated, but whether the expansion team is willing to give him 200 million a year is hard to say.

But even so, Louie was still reluctant to take the risk.

He, like Hornacek, is a high-quality backup at the [-]th and [-]th positions.

For a team that likes to play long rotations, the more swingmen the better.

Also, Salley is an unselfish player.

As long as the money is in place, he is willing to accept the substitute arrangement, doesn't care about the data, and contributes wholeheartedly to the team.

Both Marly and Sekali are rookies. Although they didn't have many opportunities in the first season, they played well.

And Louie's draft is well-known in the industry.

And Angie, who was in the same situation as last year's Michael Cooper.

As a very powerful veteran, choosing him can enhance the team's immediate combat power, bring young people along the way, and inject a champion's blood into an emerging team.

But if you don't do some behind-the-scenes work, there is a high probability that the Magic and Timberwolves will not choose Angie.

The eighth protection list still belongs to John Sely.

The Knicks' protection list is exactly the same as last year. Outside the protection list, only Angie, Sekali and Marley may be selected.

Louis is ready to lose two of these players, and the one he most wants to keep is Marly, so some work must be done.

"Which is the first choice team in the expansion draft?" Louie hadn't paid much attention to the expansion draft before.

Zhao Yuanzheng has always been sensitive to such matters, he replied without thinking: "Minnesota."

"Who's the general manager in Orlando?" Louie asked.

Zhao Yuanzheng replied: "Pat Williams."

"Yo, isn't this my old friend?" Louie said old friend without quotation marks.

Before the 1986 draft, New York won the bidding war and traded from Philadelphia for the No. [-] pick that year, shocking the league.

After that, Louis took the second pick from Chicago in exchange for McHale + two first-round picks, but what the Bulls finally got was a corpse.

Because Louis was sincere enough in the deal with Philadelphia.

So Pat Williams sighed after the transaction: "Coach Road is really a loyal man."

After that, he also talked about this past event with others at the NBA's annual meeting. In this way, the management of the entire league knew that Louis was a loyal person.

As for whether Jerry Krause, Harry Weltman and his like have gritted their teeth when they heard this comment, it is impossible to test.

"Give me the number of the Magic head coach's office."

The reason why Louis did not contact the Timberwolves was because they would most likely choose Ronnie Sekali.

If the two players are about the same level, give priority to the insider.

This is true whether it is the draft or the expansion draft.

Not surprisingly, Sekali should be picked by the Timberwolves as the number one option.

Louie got the number and called right away.

"Hello," Williams said softly, "Who is there?"

"Pat, congratulations on your reinstatement in Orlando." Louis came up with a standard flattery, "You are the best general manager I have ever seen."

"Thank you, who are you?"

"No, don't you remember me? I'm Louis."

"Oh my God, it turned out to be Coach Lu. I didn't expect you to call me at this time. I'm sorry." Williams' voice became more gentle. "Coach Lu, you didn't call me just to congratulate me, did you?"

Louis sat down from the chair to the table holding the phone, and then pointed to the vending machine not far away.

Zhao Yuanzheng went over cleverly and took out a bottle of Coke and a pack of quiches.

"Pat, the main purpose of my calling is to congratulate you. I'm so glad to see you back. Our league needs more professionals." Louis complained, "You don't know how difficult it is to deal with that group of laymen. Once they suffer a loss in a transaction, they will find ways to pour dirty water on others to cover up their incompetence."

"Ha, thank you for being so considerate of me, Coach Lu, I would love to chat with you for a while, but we are going to have an expansion draft soon, and there is a lot of work to do, so..."

Louis tried to translate the true meaning of Williams's words: "Fart, hurry up, I'm very busy, don't have time to chat with you?"
"Actually, I really just wanted to congratulate you on returning to the league, but you mentioned the expansion draft, which reminded me of something. That's right, I do have something to ask for you. Look at my brain, I'm so happy for you that I almost forgot about the business. This business is really not for people. When you get older, it's easy to forget important things, alas."

Pat Williams would love to run to the Blue Palace to give Louie a hammer.

"Older"?You are less than 30 years old, why pretend to be old!

Williams wisely chose not to answer and let Louie continue.

"Our protection list this year is the same as last year." Louie said clearly.

"That is to say, Ronnie Sekali and Dan Marley are not on the protection list?"

Sure enough, Williams was staring at those two.

It’s no wonder that the introduction of the standard rookie contract proposed by Louis at the annual meeting last year was passed in the new round of collective bargaining agreement, so Marly and Sekali are not only good players, but also very cheap, unlike Angie, who has reached the upper limit and holds a million-dollar contract.

"Yes, Pat, who will you choose?"

"Ronnie Sekali."

"What if you can't choose?"

Williams said: "That can only be Dan Marley."

"This is what I want to discuss with you." Louie's tone was almost pleading, "Pat, can you not choose Dan Marley?"

The way Williams responded to Louie was submissive, "Coach Lu, if it wasn't for help."

"Pat, I won't make it difficult for you." Louis knew that the opponent would never let Marly go without some blood. "If you don't choose Marly, I can give you the 25th pick in the first round (from the Pistons) this year."

Williams wasn't just a smart general manager, he was an egotistical one.

He is more willing to get Angie + a first round than trusting Louis' vision.

So he simply agreed to Louis' plan.

"make a deal."

After finishing the magic work, Louis still has to test the depth of the Timberwolves.

Billy McKinney, the first general manager in the history of the Timberwolves, is a former NBA player. He has been working in the marketing department of the Bulls since retiring in 1985 and is Krause's favorite general.

I didn't expect to be the general manager as soon as I jumped ship.

Finding out that he has a relationship with Klaus, Louis feels that this exchange will not go well.

Louie called, mainly to show his affection, but McKinney didn't want any contact with him.

"Coach Lu, I won't tell you what I want to do, and you can never get any information from me."

"Billy, I wonder if your attitude toward an enthusiastic stranger is based on something Jerry Krause said to you?"

"It's none of your business!"

After all, he hung up the phone.

Louis stared at the phone in a daze for half a minute.

"It seems that we have to prepare for the worst." Louis gradually realized that the expansion draft might not go as he expected.

Not every general manager knows the trade-offs like Pat Williams, nor does every general manager fully realize that "Louis is a loyal man" like Lewis Shafier.Occasionally, you'll run into Silby.

But if it's just pure stupidity, forget it, just don't get sick.

Unfortunately, today Louis met a silly boy who had a serious illness and was malicious to him.

　Thanks to @英拉白多0001 for the lord award. He is the 15th lord of the noise. I haven’t thanked for a reward for several months. During this time, there should be four million rewards. As for the countless rewards, I can’t count them. Thank you very much for your support (poor chapter +14).

　　
　
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