You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 15 About Byrd's Secret

"Fuck!"

Auerbach has lived his entire life, and he has never seen such a contradictory person.

"Forget it, Red, our era is over." The assistant coach who persuaded him is named Ryan Urs, who can be said to be his disciple, but for so many years, he has only been an assistant coach of the Green Army, and there is no hope of advancement.

"That bastard dared to humiliate me with Lun and Reggie, does he know what he's talking about?!"

Auerbach said angrily, "Damn it!"

After completing another trial training, Mo Mengchen still performed very well.

The confrontation allowed him to get 900 attribute points, and after three trials, he earned 2400 attribute points, but this was just a drop in the bucket for his needs.

He didn't rush to use these attribute points.

Just as he was about to leave, Patton called.

"Boston made a second-round commitment."

"To hell with them."

Mo Mengchen turned off his phone and was about to leave when he heard an old man's roar.

45 years ago, the old man became the head coach of the Celtics. Since then, the history of the NBA has undergone earth-shaking changes, and a dominant team has come.

The Celtics began to degenerate into a terrible plant, they were silent, tough, vigorous growth, as endless as their jerseys.Boston Garden has become a giant forest of monsters, and Auerbach is the leader of the demons there.He aggressively scolded referees and opponents, waved his fist angrily at the professional players who were a head taller than him, spit out obscenities, encouraged the players at any time, and directed the Celtics' offensive wave with dancing gestures.

What did he mean to opponents of that era?

huge shadows;
evil devil
Emperor of terror.

Today, the NBA is no longer the NBA dominated by him. He is old, and the legendary color is fading. Now he is just an unsatisfactory old man.

Mo Mengchen knew Auerbach's legend well, but most of his understanding of the old man came from Larry Bird.

He wanted to avoid it.

"Mo?"

Although Auerbach is old, his eyesight is very good, he saw Mo Mengchen.

"Hello."

Mo Mengchen nodded and said.

"Ryan, you go, I want to talk to him." Auerbach dismissed the disciple.

Before Urs left, Mo Mengchen nodded his head as a gesture of goodwill.

"I think they should have given you some promises."

Even if Kyle behaved completely against Mo Mengchen, Auerbach believed that they would give the young man a strong promise.

"They're going to take me in the second round."

Mo Mengchen said it as if it had nothing to do with him: "Should I be ready to be a Celtic?"

"No, that day won't come, they made a mistake."

With Mo Mengchen's current status, he has no right to be arrogant, and he just listens to what Auerbach said, without making any comments.

"There are many ifs in this world. Regarding the NBA, do you know what the most terrifying if in the NBA is?" Auerbach asked.

"do not know."

Many ifs did happen later, but Mo Mengchen really doesn't know the ifs of this era, or the earlier ifs of this era.

During the period when he was fanatically obsessed with Bird, in addition to the CCTV recordings and broadcasts of the domestic NBA, local stations would also broadcast some videos. This was the only way for him to understand the NBA.

In that era of closed news, no TV station would come up with a "what if" program about the NBA on a whim.

"In the 1978 draft, the Lakers also wanted Larry. You know, what would have happened if we hadn't taken Larry?"

Compared to this, Mo Mengchen had more questions.

There were many rumors about the reason why Bird fell to the sixth overall pick. The most famous rumor is that Auerbach said a cruel sentence before the draft: I want Bird, I have a kind of rush to see it!
Other teams in the league either have no shortage of forwards, or dare not speak out, there are various reasons.

Rumors have been passed down from generation to generation, and the more they spread, the more mysterious they become. But, is Auerbach really that powerful?He won't choose someone else if he doesn't let him choose?This is obviously impossible.

"And then?" Mo Mengchen asked.

"At the time, they wanted to make a deal with Portland, who had the seventh pick, and they almost made it, if we didn't take Larry with the sixth pick."

"If they succeed, do you know what will happen?"

"Because Larry will play an extra year in college, so if nothing else happens, they'll still take Magic in '79, in the end."

Bird + Magician + Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
It is indeed a horrifying if.

"I wonder why Larry fell to the sixth pick? I've heard some of your stories, is it true?" Mo Mengchen asked.

Auerbach was not at all embarrassed when he mentioned this matter, he said straightforwardly: "It's just a psychological tactic, and if I can make them give up Larry with a word, will the Celtics still be so sad these years?" ? That's just a small factor."

"Why is that?" Mo Mengchen was always very enthusiastic about Bird's affairs.

"It's all over, let's not mention it." Auerbach didn't want to get entangled in this matter, "Do you know why I brought up this if?"

"why?"

"Because the way I see it, if they give you a second-round commitment, they're doomed to lose you, and I think that's a mistake on par with the teams that missed out on Larry Bird in 1978. "

Auerbach said: "I have seen countless players, boy. In our era, there was no such a comprehensive team. I didn't have scouts, no data analysts, and I didn't have a lot of assistant coaches to analyze all aspects of you. I found People, it all depends on my eyes."

"It was my eyes that brought Bill Russell, John Havlicek, Larry Bird, and every player whose jersey was hanging over the garden to Boston. I believed in my eyes, and now someone Because I am old, and because of a few accidents, I feel that I am useless, I am not sure about people, these idiots, they will regret it sooner or later!"

Mo Mengchen was silent for a long time. The greatest coach in NBA history is now comparing him to Bird.

What can he say?
I am very honored?

"As you said, this is really a serious mistake."

Compared to this, Mo Mengchen wanted to know more: "Why did Larry fall to the sixth pick?"

"Is it important?"

"Very important."

Although this incident is a bit disgraceful, Auerbach's glorious history has always been accompanied by tricks and conspiracies. As many people love him, as many people hate him.

He invented the concept of the Victory cigar, and his vanquished opponents gritted their teeth and proclaimed, "I'd love to have a cigar down his throat!"

Auerbach's intimidation of the league is just one of the reasons Bird fell to the sixth pick.

There is another reason. At that time, Big Bird, who was doubting his life, once released the news: "I am considering not playing in the future."

And, an extremely critical matter that influenced the final result of the draft.

Bird made it clear that he would not participate in the 1978 draft and would finish his final year in the NCAA.

The first team to get the No. [-] pick that season was Bird's hometown team, the Pacers.

They hoped to win Bird, but they couldn't persuade Bird to run early, and they failed; so they traded the No. Erbach didn't even use coaxing or deception. For a while, the entire league was waiting for this old guy to make a fool of himself.

Someone was even preparing to launch a terrible showdown contest to win Bird in 1979.

And Auerbach, the old rascal, used an extremely rare rule that was boycotted and soon abolished after he used it——junior eligible.

This rule means that even though Bird is in college, he has been 4 years away from graduating from high school (Bird has transferred schools, so he has an extra year), and Bird already has the skills in his junior year. Automatic eligibility.Then the Celtics used the sixth pick to select Bird, who announced that he would not participate in the election.

The draft was then called "The Robbery"!
In fact, this rule was prepared for players who played in amateur leagues after the league issued a ban on high school students. It basically means that even though they have not attended college, they can still participate in the draft at the age of 22.

As a result, Auerbach took advantage of a loophole, that is to say, those teams with the top five picks chose other people when they thought that "Bird was not eligible for the election".

"If we don't take Larry, the Lakers will take Larry with the seventh pick. I'm not trampling on the rules, I'm just taking advantage of the loopholes in the rules. Those rigid guys will always follow the rules!"

Speaking of this, Auerbach is still plausible.

I really don't know how many grass mud horses appeared in those teams' hearts when they heard that the Celtics won Bird with the sixth overall pick.

"Anyway, thanks for telling me this, I never knew about it before."

Before parting, Mo Mengchen said to Auerbach.

"There will come a day when those who missed you because of prejudice will leave their posts with remorse."

"Stay healthy and let them regret it."

Auerbach patted Mo Mengchen's back lightly.

Some say the deaths of Len Byas and Reggie Lewis exacerbated Auerbach's aging.

However, Mo Mengchen knew how Auerbach was getting old.

Two years later, the Celtics will miss the No. 2 pick with a 36% probability, and Olba can't get the Celtics to get Duncan by all means.

From the moment he saw Duncan being selected by the Spurs as the No. [-] pick, the evil emperor who played with the NBA for half a century really got old.

In Mo Mengchen's heart, there is also an if.

What if Duncan was not selected by the Spurs?
This one would be cruel to the Spurs, but if it happened, you know what would happen?
Duncan and O'Neal, two of the four greatest players in the post-Jordan era, together ruled the NBA from 99 to 07, winning 8 of the 7 championships.

If this thing comes true, it will be the purple and green hegemony of the new century, another pair of old enemies of the era of the magician And Bird.

It's just a pity that if this will never come true, Duncan is destined to go to the Spurs, and then he and O'Neal nest in the same division and fall in love with each other. The one who wins will go to the Finals to beat up the representatives of the Eastern Conference, and then win the championship.

Mo Mengchen thought naively, but he didn't know that the roulette wheel of fate had already deviated from the intended direction.

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