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Chapter 650 The Next One
"I owe you a favor in this matter." Louis raised his glass and said, "If you need my help in the future, please feel free to call me."

It was Lewis Shafier who was most excited about this: "Help each other! Help each other!"

This scene was seen by Jerry West.

Last year, there were rumors that Shafier referred to Louie's suggestion during the draft. The two had a fierce fight at the annual meeting, which gave people more thoughts on those rumors.

After the dinner, the two sides took a group photo in the lobby downstairs.

Louis stood beside Jane Walker, smiling brightly.

Returning to New York from Washington, the first thing Louie did was to go to Baylor to question him.

"My old swan! How can you blame me because I don't have any news about Chicago?" Baylor had an old face, but now he was wronged, and his face was twisted like a golden retriever being scolded. "It's not like you don't know our relationship with Chicago. I want to develop friendship with them, Jerry Krause, that bastard?"

Louis found out that the old guy didn't know how to repent and made a lot of excuses.

"Shouldn't this kind of thing be prepared early? Do you understand that you should plan ahead? Tell me this now that something has happened?"

"I'm sick, I'm dead! Who knew you would offend someone so quickly? After 1986, no one in Chicago answered my phone call. I completely lost contact with them. What's wrong?"

"Are you still looking for an excuse?"

“It's really not an excuse”

Louis was pretending to be angry at first, but now he is really angry: "You have been in this industry for so many years. There are hundreds of friends in the circle, not to mention thousands? You can't connect to the Chicago line, and neither can others? Can't you fucking go to them and ask them to understand?"

"Ah this?"

Fuck!Louis saw the expression of "So I can still do this?" on Baylor's face.

"What else do you have to say?"

"No, there's nothing to say."

Baylor felt guilty: "Wrong, I was wrong."

"You are the general manager of the team. If I could think of everything, I wouldn't need you, wouldn't I?" Louis said after losing his temper, he began to reason calmly, "Elgin, your network is your biggest advantage. I need you to use this advantage. Next time I encounter this kind of thing, I don't want to feel like a deaf-mute."

Baylor nodded again and again: "I will definitely not make this mistake again."

Now that it happened and Baylor was aware of his problem, Louie stopped holding on.

He and Baylor have had a great time working together.

Although Louis always regarded himself as a loyal person, he felt that Baylor was the real honest person.

He knows the ranks of the Knicks, he knows who he's working for, and he's willing to play a supporting role.This kind of selfless team spirit was not reflected in his player days. If he was willing to play a supporting role, he would not have retired halfway in 1972, and then made a joke about "the team won the championship after retiring".

"This year's draft will be released in advance. You can help me inquire everywhere, collect rumors related to Chicago, whether true or false, sort them all out and give them to me." Louis said with a fierce look in his eyes.

Baylor asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Although this matter doesn't have a big impact on us, I have to let that fat pig in Chicago know that even a loyal person like me is not something he can just play with."

Louie tapped Baylor on the shoulder, and picked up the can of coins on his desk and went to the vending machine to insert coins.

"Don't screw this up, Elgin." Louie greeted him with a Coke.

"Hey, I'm sure you'll be satisfied."

After Louis left, Baylor complained in a low voice: "If the world is full of loyal people like him, how will I live?"

Louis returned to the office, and within a minute, Zhao Yuanzheng came.

"You are so fast, Yuan Zheng, did you secretly watch the surveillance, why did I come when I was on your back?" Louis complained.

"How can it be."

Zhao Yuanzheng handed over his integrated scouting report to Louis.

Louis opened Zhao Yuanzheng's "Draft Advance Plan", which is his annual retention project.

Now Zhao Yuanzheng is not only Louis' assistant coach, but also the supervisory director of the scouting department.All scouting reports under the Knicks were handed over to him, screened by himself, and finally submitted to Louie.

The first sentence of Zhao Yuanzheng's opening sentence defined the draft in 1989: "This is a below-average draft class."

This year, the Knicks' top pick is the first-round pick (No. 14) from the San Antonio Spurs, followed by the Pistons' No. 25 pick and the Knicks' own No. 27 pick.

The three first rounds, if handled well, can completely make up for the loss of Marly and Sekali.

Although the Knicks are not ranked high in the draft, Zhao Yuanzheng still made a summary of this year's popular rookies.

He divided the potential top-[-] picks into three rungs.

T1: Hank Gathers (Hank Gathers PF/SF), Danny Ferry★⑴, Glen Rice★, Sean Kemp★★★★★.

⑴★ is Zhao Yuanzheng's habit, the more ★, the greater the hidden danger.

Camp?Louis' body trembled.

"Sean Kemp?" Of course Louis knew who Kemp was, he just wanted to hear what Zhao Yuanzheng thought of him.

Zhao Yuanzheng said: "Coach, do you remember that I visited a child in Irish Hart, Indiana in March?"

"I remember you went for a week?"

"Yes, I went for him." Zhao Yuanzheng seemed intoxicated when recalling that time, "I have never seen such an amazing high school player."

Louie's memories of Kemp are also unlocking.

In the 1996 Finals, he reached the peak of the Sonics with Payton, and then was traded to the Cavaliers, getting fat, GG.

Then he has countless illegitimate children.

"He has the most perfect power forward body I've ever seen, and the most athletic body I've ever seen."

"You've met MJ."

"In terms of visual impact, MJ is not as good as him, and Dominique Wilkins can't be compared with Sean Kemp." Zhao Yuanzheng described romantically, "Every time he dunks, it's like a lightning strike on the basket. I saw the ultimate form of a power forward in him."

Louie turned the draft prospect around and said, "Expedition, you gave him five."

"Because he is as likely to play as possible as he is not to play." Zhao Yuanzheng said, "He was going to Kentucky to go to school last year, but there was a donation scandal in Kentucky and he was suspended for two years. Kemp has no ball to play. In the past year, he can only play amateur games in Indiana townships, but despite this, he still has great potential. He's had a lot of off-field issues."

"However." Zhao Yuanzheng looked at Louis with ambition, "If it's you, Coach Lu, you'll be fine."

"I'm ashamed of you saying that."

"I'm serious, Coach Lu." Louis seemed to believe in Zhao Yuanzheng, who had a religious superstition on the former. "You are a soul catcher, and Sean has an immature heart. You can control him."

The difference between Louis and Zhao Yuanzheng is that he not only sees Kemp's present, but also sees Kemp's future.

Do you really want to choose a time bomb that may detonate at any time?
"Xuanzheng, let's talk about this matter in a few days."

There was one more name on the list that Louie cared about.

Hank Geithers, Louie has heard of this name, this year's NCAA All-American, averaging 32 points and 13.7 rebounds per game, is the second person in the history of college basketball who can lead the league in points and rebounds at the same time.

In December last year, he blasted 12 points and 49 rebounds against the University of Nevada, shocking the whole country.

Louie had heard the name before, but didn't care.

Because he is not familiar with it, if Gaithers is really a star embryo, he should have become famous in the 90s and then retired in the early 21st century.

Then Louie would have at least heard his name, but he hadn't.

But Zhao Yuanzheng believes that Kemp's talent is the second in this draft, and the first is Gaithers.

Louis can trust Zhao Yuanzheng's ability to scout rookies, otherwise he wouldn't have given him the scouting department.

He should not have made such a serious mistake.

"He is a player full of power. It is difficult for me to find a suitable development template for him. He is like Barkley, but he does not have Barkley's big ass. He is also like Moses Malone, and his rebounding is amazing. His bounce speed is like a combination of Dennis Rodman and Dominique Wilkins, amazing bullet speed and continuous jumping ability."

"Unprecedented." Zhao Yuanzheng said exaggeratedly, "If he can successfully transform into a small forward in the NBA, I don't think anyone can stop him. He will be a 'generational genius' in this generation. Even if he continues to play power forward in the NBA, he is expected to become a player above the All-Star level."

Louie said skeptically, "It sounds like he's a definite choice, from what you're saying?"

"Yes, that's true." Zhao Yuanzheng nodded affirmatively.

Louis wanted to believe Zhao Yuanzheng, but there was an obvious problem before him.

If Hank Gaithers is really that good, shouldn't he know it?
The stars who debuted during this period must have reached their peak in the 90s and then retired at the beginning of the new century. Maybe they could compete with Yao Huang. That was the era Louis was familiar with. Even though he had never seen them play, he had heard of their names.

But the only thing he can't remember is a James in the 90s named Hank Gaithers.

That's right, this man's style sounds too much like James.

Louie is very confident in his prophetic advantage, but not 100% convinced.

Because in his previous life, he also didn't know Benjamin Wilson.

But now Wilson still brings two championships and is blown up by the New York media as the NBA version of "The Next One"⑵.

So, this Hank Gaithers, is "The Next One" caused by the butterfly effect caused by his time travel?

⑵Equivalent to the "Jordan successor" in the NHL.This flower head comes from the nickname "The Great One" of Wayne Gretzky, the best in NHL history (I don't know how to translate it well, great man?), so his successors are called "The Next One".

(End of this chapter)