The Whip of the God of Basketball

What Fox Leon inherited from Auerbach is not just a few assistant coaches, or the experience and methods of coaching professional teams. He also learned a lot of insidious tricks from the bishop's thick black dictionary. It's just that this era is different. It is no longer so easy to conspire in private and make trouble behind the scenes, and everything is exposed in broad daylight. But this does not mean that those open and covert battles will disappear inside and outside the NBA arena. On the contrary, with the help of advanced technology and extensive media influence, some schemes are more sophisticated and deadly.

The game on the night of the 3rd was out of balance as Rasheed Wallace was sent off. The Celtics took advantage of the victory and pursued. Leon almost immediately replaced Chris Anderson with Antoine- Walker, Walker relied on his skillful pace and fiery touch to win consecutively in the paint, leading the score in the fourth quarter in one fell swoop. The Blazers, who have lost the backbone of the inside line, can only rely on the semi-disabled Sabonis and 37-year-old Scott Pippen to preside over the overall situation. After a mighty first half, Bunch Wells faced PJ- Brown's inside blockade completely stopped.

The Celtics' defense line is getting tighter and tighter, and the Blazers can't make any jump shots from the outside. Celtics, you used this to hit a 13:2 attack wave in the fourth quarter, widening the point difference to 15 points , the outcome has been decided, the Celtics finally beat the Blazers at home 111:101, with a 10-point advantage, and completed a beautiful reversal battle.

After the game, Leon didn't have much thought to celebrate with the players. He patiently participated in the post-match press conference and answered all kinds of questions from the reporters. Then he left the arena alone and drove directly to the Hilton in Boston. Hotel, go there to meet Woj who came from New York.

The place where Leon and Woj met was in a small bar on the second floor of the hotel, which contained a quiet private box for people to talk about some secret issues. As Woj gradually became popular in the sports media industry, his schedule became more and more busy. During the season, he often had to travel around, and in the off-season he was even busier, looking around for the actions of various teams. News, providing materials for his column breaking news. This time he came to Boston to take time out of his busy schedule, in order to help Leon solve the dilemma he encountered in public opinion.

Although Leon's emergency response in the first two days was quite beautiful, but he was serving a sentence in the MCI Correction Center, and some old stories about punching fake punches and gambling in bars in the past were dug up by good reporters. After all, the "New Yorker" The column report is like a reward notice, telling those gossip reporters that "the hottest fried chicken in this league has ulterior motives to dig out."

Woj is well-known in the media world, but so far he is not a person with great energy. His influence is limited to his columns and some reports. Maybe he can write some special interviews for Leon, but in the United States there is still No one can shut up all the media and stop the spread of bad news. So Woj came here not to help Leon with crisis public relations, but to help Leon formulate a counterattack strategy against Andy Miller.

"Your work is very beautiful and quite good. The negative effects of this report have been minimized...but the bad effects are still great... Sometimes I wonder, Fox, how did you Would you live that kind of life? With your intellectual level, there are so many good universities in Boston. You can study in one of them, graduate, join clubs, maybe even make a splash in the NCAA, and then go to the coaching position. How much A flawless career path, but you chose a path to hell, and then suddenly God brought you back to the world one day. But the brand of hellfire burns on you will never fade away." Woj took a sip Whiskey in front of him frowned and said to Leon in polite words.

"You are right about one thing. Indeed, God brought me back to the world. There is an old saying in China that the prodigal son will not change his money when he returns. Unfortunately, people here don't seem to understand it. This experience is my original sin. I don't mind taking the burden. The slander brought about by this, is there anyone in this world who is innocent? The more successful a person is, the more he will have a mixed reputation. Now I am more concerned about whether the fundamental purpose of these actions is to target Garnett. , How can I stop it." Leon clenched his fists and hammered the table as he spoke, causing the wine glasses on the table to jump up.

As Leon said, he doesn't really care about his reputation. Anyway, he doesn't rely on his reputation for food, and being in prison is not a bad experience. But if these news lead to a decline in the Celtics' record, a decline in their attractiveness to players, or a turmoil in the management, then the final result will make Leon's hard-working layout for more than a year completely fail, and the Celtics will enter in a short period of time. The chances of being in the ranks of the championship team will also be greatly reduced.

Leon may be able to slowly build a championship team in five years, but he is afraid that Auerbach will not be able to wait for that day. Letting the team acquire players like Garnett is undoubtedly an important way to realize the championship dream.

"Everything seems a bit confusing, but Andy Miller is a guy who is notoriously greedy and cunning among agents. He won a huge contract for Kevin Garnett, but he also blocked Garnett. The road to championships. I have some information over there in New York. The New Yorker article was written by their famous pen Ian Crouch. He is said to have a good relationship with Andy Brown. But I always feel that this The matter may also be related to greater capital operations. Since 2002, there have been major changes in the brokerage market. Andy Miller has pulled his own team to stand on the mountain, but I heard that some brokers want to unite. The plan to form a larger agent association is to gather all the superstars of the league into one group, and then manipulate the players' transactions." In front of Leon, Woj also said everything, because he knew that Leon was calm, He is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, as long as the information is put in front of him, he can find out the key points thoroughly, so even if it is just some hearsay, he will tell Leon and listen to his opinion.

Leon thought for a while and said: "This will be a trend. Those vampires will adsorb on the stars and form a parasitic relationship. They are responsible for making the players' wallets grow and then sucking profits from them. However, if Andy -If Miller is in line with this trend, he should not be afraid of player turnover and transactions. On the contrary, he should encourage and promote transactions and make the market fully active, so that he can grab more benefits. So, if Miller Le is involved in these activities, then he is innocent, if not ... I need some evidence."

Leon's current thoughts on Miller are only guesses. After all, he is not the FBI. Although there are many ways to point to Garnett's cunning agent, there is still no definite evidence, so Leon and Woj can't use it. The resources in hand launched a counterattack. Leon also doesn't want to waste too much energy on this kind of thing and affect his coaching work in the team, otherwise he will lose the watermelon by picking up sesame seeds.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the private room, and a waiter opened the door and poked his head, and then said cautiously: "There is a gentleman who wants to see you, Mr. Fox-Leon." It seems that the waiter in the bar also recognized Fox - Leon, who is now a household name in Boston.

Leon nodded, wondering who would come here, and Woj was a little nervous, afraid that it was a reporter who knew him. When the man entered the door, Woj realized that he didn't recognize him, but Leon recognized the man. He was the legal advisor of the Woodmont Club, and Rob Ez, who had helped him at the Marsfield Social Work Center .

"What news does Arnold have?" This was Leon's first reaction when he saw Ezz, and Ezz pulled off his coat and said with a smile: "You are still so rude, you don't know how to ask first, at least ask Ask Mr. Auerbach if he is well. But you are right, it was Mr. Auerbach who asked me to come, and he said that you are in some trouble and need a little help."

"I just want to know some news, to see if Andy Miller is behind the scenes, and then I will find a way to deal with him." Although Leon has been around for many years, he is a person who can face difficulties after time travel, How can a person who calmly thinks of a way out be a guy who is slaughtered.

"Calm down, Fox," Auerbach said. He believes you can solve these problems by means, but he doesn't want you to get involved in disputes that have nothing to do with basketball. Your task is to train the Celtics well, by the way People plan the future and recruit good players. Those things off the court will be handled by their old Celtics. They have the ability and energy to deal with those bad guys, because the Celtics are also considered The ancestors of the scum—this is what Auerbach himself said, but I didn't slander the Celts." Eze said with a smile, and then asked the waiter outside for a glass of wine and drank it.

"This gentleman is right, Fox, you should focus more on basketball, the head coach is not a job that allows people to be distracted." Woj also persuaded from the side, and he also felt that Leon should calm down Some.

Leon rubbed his nose with his index finger. Ezzy thought he was hesitating and wanted to persuade him again, but Leon took out a card from his pocket, which he used to write tactical notes. He asked the waiter for another pen, then wrote a series of numbers on the paper, and then wrote his name after the numbers, and handed it to Ez and said, "I have a plan in my mind. Since you don't Let me do it myself, and I’ll leave it to you. Here are a few phone numbers for friends I met from working on the scouting team, call them, tell them the plan, and get it done.”

After speaking, Leon drank the wine in front of him in one gulp, and began to describe his plan to Eze.