the rest, only noise

Chapter 757

The fact that Ewing's team proposed to re-sign the contract and was rejected did not go unnoticed to the media.

No matter where the media is, there is no obligation to maintain the harmony of the local team.

Attracting attention is their number one priority.

As a result, many reporters who had no connection with Louie recreated the row between Louie and "Ewing" as if they were there.

As long as they can restore this non-existent picture, it can be concluded that they are only guessing based on clues.

How dare Ewing mention this to him?

The whole process was initiated by David Falk, and Louis firmly disagreed. Without the terms, people from the Ewing camp could only make trouble outside.

Louis really wanted to chat with Ewing.

But the reason he wanted to chat with Ewing was not because of the re-signing of the contract, but because this guy actually became the spokesperson of Pepsi.

What's so great about this?

As soon as the finals were over, Ewing signed a five-year, $5 million endorsement contract with PepsiCo.Louis is the spokesperson of Coca-Cola, and he hates Pepsi the most.

Louis wanted to know Ewing's mental journey of accepting the endorsement.

Is it really disgusting to him, or is it simply that you can't refuse Pepsi's $1000 million offer.

If it is the former, then this orangutan deserves death.

If it's the latter, well, father-son love can't be worth $1000 million, right?
Some people want to ask what kind of father-son relationship does Louis and Ewing have?The logic of this matter is simple.Louis thinks that his relationship with Ewing is like a strict elder brother and a dull younger brother.Over the years, he has been trying his best to encourage Ewing. The so-called elder brother is like a father. Under certain circumstances, he is Ewing's wild father.

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One more thing happened at the end of June.

At the time, the draft hadn't ended, a new TV deal hadn't been signed, and the Knicks hadn't experienced all the things that upset Louie.

This matter has nothing to do with Nix, only with Louie's wife.

Louie's wife, Lorraine Molina, was named Best Supporting Actress at the No.17 Daytime Emmy Awards in the name of Monica Bellucci.

The legend of accompanying the invincible Queen Susan Lucci continues. This year is her 11th consecutive nomination, but she still has not won.

In fact, for her, whether she wins an award or not is no longer important. Her repeated defeats have become a popular cultural phenomenon.

As the saying goes, no one will remember the top sixteen, unless you are in the top sixteen every year.

Viewers who don't watch daytime dramas probably won't remember the names of any of the daytime Emmy winners, but Louie, among others, knows an actress who was nominated for 11 consecutive years without winning.

Throughout the month of July, Louie was preoccupied with chores.

In early August, Louis stopped his annual trip to China.

He accepted an invitation from the USA Basketball Association to go to Argentina as an assistant coach for the USA Basketball national team.

That's unusual, there are a lot of good coaches in America.

Louis is an outlier among them. He is not an academic, nor can he be regarded as a grassroots.

He hasn't coached in the NCAA, nor is it like those players who switch coaches directly after retiring.For professional basketball, he was a Ziwei star who fell from the sky, and as the Celtics fire captain in 1983, he let that broken team leave the playoffs with dignity. In 1984 revived the glorious Celtics.In the next five years, he created another legend in New York.

After he won his fourth ring in his career, all active coaches admitted that he is the best coach in active service.

Would such a person be willing to accept the position of assistant coach?
There are many reasons why Louie took the job.

The two biggest reasons, one is old K, and the other is the needs of the league.

Today, both the Olympic Games and FIBA ​​have lifted the ban on professional players. In theory, Americans could form a dream team in 1990.But the NBA has considerable resistance to this.They represent each team. Players are important assets for the team. If they are injured for the national team, who will be responsible?But the NBA is unwilling to bear the stigma of being unpatriotic. Therefore, it did not reject the wish of the American Basketball Association. It just postponed the deadline for professional players to participate in international competitions, and at the same time found a reliable coach to confirm their strength in the championship.

They wondered if world basketball had really grown to the point where Team USA couldn't win a championship without sending pros.

This is the impetus brought by the alliance, and on the other hand, it is the kind invitation of Old K.

Perhaps it is more appropriate to call him Little K now.

Louis met Little K through Reed Auerbach, and the two have kept in touch over the years.

Although Louis does not agree with Auerbach's many bad habits left over from the 50s to the present, the opponent's connections in college basketball are unimaginable to others.

Auerbach's high shooting percentage in the draft is not accidental.

He has contacts with most of the college coaches, through their opinions, plus his own on-the-spot observation to determine the candidate.

It's just that this method is no longer reliable as the NBA becomes more and more commercialized.

Because there are more and more college coaches who tell lies and carry private goods.

Therefore, Louis will not broadcast contacts like Auerbach, but it is definitely not wrong to maintain a friendly relationship with a hall-level college coach like Old K.

These alone are not enough. If Louis himself is not willing, he still cannot be allowed to go to the US team as an ordinary assistant coach.

The main reason Louis chose to join the U.S. national team was to be familiar.

His ultimate goal is to become the head coach of the Dream Team.

With his non-American Asian identity, he must have an overwhelming advantage if he wants to be the head coach of Dream One.

Therefore, it is necessary to step on a point first and impress people.

There are certain problems in the selection of Coach Little K.

Although he had the best center in college basketball, Alonzo Mourning, on Team USA, he didn't bring the best guard.

Gary Payton and Chris Jackson, who just entered the league through the draft, are still eligible to play, and their style of play is also suitable for international competitions, but Old K did not recruit them.

Most of the recruits he recruited were defenders that Louis didn't know.

Based on this alone, Louis dared to say that the guard of the American team had no future in the NBA.

The most famous guard is Kenny Anderson. Although he has not yet entered the league, his reputation has spread throughout the United States.

Because he performed well against Duke University in the 1989-1990 season.

In addition to Anderson, there are also great players such as Billy Owens and Chris Gatling who are blown to the sky.

Little K is better than John Thompson because he knows very well that FIBA ​​games are different from NCAA games.

So the players he picked are all suitable for playing in FIBA, but it depends on these people to compete for the championship?Louis is not optimistic.

When the U.S. team came to Argentina, Louie said in an interview: "I hope these kids can show resilience and the spirit of never giving up. The result is not important, but the process is important."

When did results not matter to Americans?

Considering Louis' character, he can say that, which shows how unfavorable he is to the US team.

In the group stage, the U.S. team beat Spain and Greece without any risk, beat South Korea bloody, and easily advanced.

But in the knockout round, they met the hosts Argentina.Moreover, for some unknown reason, the organizer actually set the match in the middle of the night. The audience who came to watch the match were all drunk, and even the referee lost patience due to sleepiness.

Coach Little K clashed with the referee many times during this period, which resulted in him being sent off.

After Louis took over, Kenny Anderson was established as the core of the offense.Because he was in excellent form that night, with a combination of pick-and-roll and his sudden shot, he narrowly beat Argentina 104 to 102.

In the second knockout match, the US team met the savage Australia. The team's general Billy Owens was injured in the opening 2 minutes.

Little K and Louis are in a hurry, so that the average 20-year-old American team player should be as patient as a 30-year-old old ball skin, and don't take it for granted to push the fast pace.

Louie's Knicks-style high-post dynamic offense for Jr. overwhelmed the Australians' savage defense and allowed the US team to beat their opponents 82-76.

In the game against Puerto Rico, the US team unexpectedly fell into a hard fight.How the opponent shot and how many three-pointers made the game extremely anxious. The two sides hit overtime, and finally relied on the advantage of the back line to steal and counterattack the lore.

In the knockout round, for three consecutive games, the US team was forced to win in the final minute.

In the semi-finals, facing the strong Yugoslavia, the US team saw its upper limit.

Even if Mourning allowed Divac to evaporate on both ends of the offense and defense and scored 26 points and 11 rebounds alone, the rest of the US team had no answer when facing Petrovic and Kukoc.

The Croatian double star combined to score 50 points, which stopped the US team's gold medal journey.

In the bronze medal match, the U.S. team met Puerto Rico again, and it took another hard fight before defeating their opponent with difficulty.

"Although we did not win the gold medal, the hard work of this group of boys will be remembered by the Americans."

Louie just wanted to laugh.

Which American will remember this World Championship?
In any case, his plan to win the head coach of the Dream Team took the first step smoothly.Why does he want to be the head coach of the Dream Team?This is due to vanity.

Everyone knows that is the best team ever, and becoming the coach of that team is the dream of all coaches.

Only the best coaches can handle the biggest stars.

In addition, in the final of the World Championships, there was an episode.

Yugoslavia, which finally won the championship, intensified the independence movement in its country and Croatia, and even had bloody conflicts. Serbs Divac, Zako Paspa, Croatians Drazen Petrovic, Tony Kukoc, and Dino Raja were all told by the team leader: If you find flags and slogans about racial independence in the stadium, you must ignore them.

When Yugoslavia defeated the Soviet Union by 17 points in the final and was about to celebrate, a fan holding a Croatian flag (later the national flag) walked into the stadium. Divac, who had been asked to ignore the racial independence flag, walked up to the fan holding a Croatian flag and told him "this flag should not be here", but the fan just replied "your Yugoslav flag is shit".In a rage, Divac snatched the flag from the fans and threw it off the field.

All the Croatian players in the Yugoslav team saw this scene, but they didn't overreact. They just held the Yugoslav flag together to celebrate, and kept shouting about Yugoslavia.

Before the mountains and rivers are broken, the first thing to be broken is the connection between people.

Louie returns to the United States with a bronze medal, and he's about to face tougher problems.

(End of this chapter)