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Chapter 778 Boston's Past, Future
Chapter 779 Boston's past and future

"He actually plans to exchange all our draft picks for this year with a parallel importer!"

Baylor believes that Louis will not suffer.

He looked at Louis carefully: "Can you hang up the phone before speaking ill of people?"

"Don't worry, I covered it." Lu Yi smiled.

Baylor sighed: "Want a Coke?"

"Thank you, Elgin."

Baylor had to find a small box containing coins among the many things he took from Louis's desk just now, and then took the coins on it to put coins in the vending machines in the office.

Louie called back.

"Dave, Elgin and I have seriously considered your trading plan."

Louie deliberately slowed down his speech, and made Gavitt anxious with a tantalizing tone.

"Do you have any ideas?"

"In our view, this deal is not feasible."

"Why?" Gavitt continued, "Chris Jackson was the No. [-] pick last year. He is a talented point guard with a rare shooting ability. Isn't that what you value most, Coach Road?"

Louis casually took the Coke Baylor had brought, which already had a straw on it.

The old guy can't always understand that drinking a can of Coke through a straw is soulless.

"Rare shooting ability?" Louie took a sip of Coke through a straw. "You mean 39 points per game on 12 percent shooting?"

Gavitt was immediately embarrassed.

"Coach Lu, I think you also know that some players need more games to find the feeling."

"I'm not sure if I need a marksman who shoots only 39 percent and pays for all our draft picks this year. If he's as good as you said, why would the Celtics trade him? After losing Isiah, don't you have a shortage of No. [-]s?"

Gavitt had heard Louie's reputation.

In the eyes of different people, the image of Louis is also completely different.

West thought Louie was the smartest professional sports executive. Harry Weltman said that whatever Louie said on the phone could not be trusted. Auerbach and Jane Volker reminded him to be careful when negotiating with Louie.

He is a demon who eats people without spitting out bones.

"Coach Lu, please believe that we are sincere in reaching a deal. If you are not satisfied with our offer, you can increase the price appropriately."

"Can I really overweight appropriately?"

"of course."

"Then I'm not being polite, everything is to reach a deal that satisfies both of us."

Louis still doesn't know what is Gavitt's status in the Celtics.

To be sure he was above Jan Volker, but could he have power over Auerbach?
"If you are willing to exchange the Celtics' first-round pick in 1994 and the first-round pick in 1996 for me, maybe we can make a deal."

"This..." Gavitt said awkwardly: "Coach Lu, your asking price is too high, I cannot agree."

"Is it tall?"

"Dave, what's your immediate priority?"

Gavitt flinched.

"Shouldn't your top priority be to catch Ralph and Larry as much as possible in the peak period that is not long left, and add fresh blood as much as possible?" Louis said with a smile, "Although our draft picks are not particularly high, they are not very low. As long as you don't screw up, you can pick a few useful players. Don't forget, this year is a big draft year, and the talent depth is very good. The value of these two picks is higher than the top five picks in a normal draft year. A first-round pick swap, do you think you paid a great price? Did the Celtics lose their competitiveness in 1994? Did you become a weak team in 1996? Dave, you are the Boston Celtics!"

"This matter, we need a long-term plan."

Gavitt hung up the phone.

Seeing Louis hang up the phone, Baylor asked directly, "Did you get hooked?"

"You man, can you talk? What is being tricked? Do you think I'm a liar?" Louis said dissatisfied.

Baylor immediately laughed like "what the hell are you, don't you know?"

"I don't think my asking price is too high, and it's not too much, but whether the deal can be made or not depends on Boston's determination to strengthen and Dave Gavitt's voice within the Celtics."

Baylor could hardly believe his ears.

What did that bastard Louie say? "The asking price is not high, not too much"?How dare he say that?

Three draft picks for a No. [-] pick plus future first-round and first-round pick swaps. If the No. [-] pick wasn't so outrageous, who would agree?

This is where the problem lies.

Chris Jackson is already recognized as a parallel importer.

The Hornets have scratched the lottery for a season and have already seen the words "Thank you for your patronage". The Celtics' internal assessment of Jackson's potential should be the same. They believe that Jackson cannot reproduce the style of his college days in the NBA.

In the case of having already got the fifth pick, they also want the Knicks' No. 11 and No. 13 picks.

With the Celtics' draft success rate, it would be a scary thing if they suddenly had so many high-ranking picks.

But Louie saw a win-win—twice for the Knicks—opportunity in this trade.

Is Chris Jackson really a parallel importer?

Louis asked Baylor to call Zhao Yuanzheng.

Reach out to Billy Donovan for replays of Jackson's best and worst games from last season.

In his rookie season, he averaged only 24 minutes per game.

Judging from the playing time, the Hornets did not give him enough patience.

He averaged 12 points, 3 assists and 1 rebound per game, shooting 39% from the field.

It is worth noting that he made 85.7% of his free throws, but only 24% of his three-pointers. Obviously, he has not yet adapted to the NBA's three-point line.

The overall shooting rate is low, the shooting in college can't be played out, and the NBA doesn't allow him to shoot so unscrupulously. Coupled with his weird personality, it is normal to think that he is a parallel importer.

But in Lu Yi's eyes, he is not a parallel importer.

He is just a bankrupt version of Stephen Curry with a flawed personality, an elder who didn't play the leading role, and debuted in a team that didn't suit him.

Jackson may be one of the proofs that Curry couldn't play in the 90s, but Louis feels that whether a player can play or not is determined by many aspects.

If Curry hadn't been forced by his father to change his shooting posture in high school, if he had been playing the [-]nd position in college and hadn't changed to the [-]st position, if the team that drafted him was not the Warriors but the Knicks, if he hadn't learned to use his hips to exert force to reduce the burden on his ankles before the end of his first contract, if he hadn't met Steve Kerr⑴. Would Curry still be the Curry we remember?
The rise of Curry, like the establishment of Cosmos, is a lucky combination of many small probability events.

Jackson didn't have that luck.

Now, he has a point. Dave Gavitt intends to trade Jackson for the Knicks' draft picks, which is his luck.

Louis wants him very much, and he is 100% sure that Gavitt will regret it, but he would rather not make money, and make big money if he wants to make money, so he wants to swap the first round and the first round in the future.

This can also confirm Gavitt's status in the Celtics by the way.

If the dominance is still in the hands of Auerbach, he will never agree to this deal.

After Gavitt arrived in Boston, Louis paid close attention to the dynamics of the Celtics.

When Gavitt became the Celtics vice president for half a year, Auerbach showed contempt for the former.Asked by local television about the Celtics' then-pending Thomas trade saga, Auerbach replied: "I'll hear from the VP, what's his name? David, right?"

Jim Baker, a TV sports commentator for the Boston Herald, took notice.

And the next day, published an article titled "How Auerbach can't even remember Gavitt's name?".

Ironically, Baker's conclusion that Auerbach may be demented may have contributed to the accelerated transfer of power within the Celtics.

Anyone who is familiar with Auerbach knows that he did that to ridicule Gavitt's lack of obvious results after half a year in the job.

For example, Louis, who has been spying on the screen remotely, left his name deeply in the red head's heart only a few days after he arrived in Boston.

This is the unspoken rule and evaluation metric for new hires in the Celtics office: If Auerbach knows your name within three months, you have done a good job, and this situation extends to anyone who appears under Auerbach, of course, including the senior executive vice president.In fact, everyone in the world was a potential "what's his name" to Auerbach in some way, except for the legends who played for him -- Russell, Cousy, Heinsohn, the Jones brothers, Havlicek.

Now, what is the extent of Gavitt's power within the Celtics, and whether the rumors of Auerbach's decentralization are true? All doubts and speculations can be confirmed through this transaction.

It is not Auerbach's style to invest in the future in a transaction for an insufficient return.

If it does, it means the Celtics are Gavitt's team.

Auerbach may still be aloof, but he certainly doesn't dominate anymore.

"Jinglingling~~!"

The phone in Louis' office rang again.

⑴ Without Cole, Curry's off-the-ball would not have been developed so thoroughly, Curry would not have had gravity, and the picturesque Warriors from 14-16 would not have existed.Kerr was the one who pushed the button on the Curry nuke.Redefines the off-ball threat and the pick-and-roll threat with the ball, and opened the small ball era.As for him getting so mad that he made Curry act like a dog for Green and others, that's another matter.What is done well and what is not done well should be looked at separately.

(End of this chapter)