Chapter 229: The course of history

On the way back to the MGM Hotel in the car, the two security personnel were silent, but they were anxious. , The latest chapter visit: ШШШ..СоМ. The phrase Leon said when leaving the Hoover Dam, "I must take a gamble," made the two of them confused. If Leon must want to go back to the MGM Hotel casino to gamble, then the heads of these two guys will definitely be screwed off by the general manager to kick the ball. The responsibility of both of them is to protect Leon and accompany him to the dam at night. At the same time, you should also accompany you with kind words, and don't make him unhappy and have to go back to the casino and kill the whole party.
Today is different from the past. Fox Leon is no longer an ordinary gambler, but a well-known NBA coach in the United States. In the 2003 playoffs, he led the Boston Celtics all the way through. , Reached the finals, allowing the green shirts, who had been away from the finals for 16 years, to touch the floor of the finals again. Although they finally lost to the San Antonio Spurs because of insufficient hard power, they failed to bring another championship trophy to the Celtics, but their performance along the way is enough to make the United States look at Fox Leon with admiration.
Moreover, the stage of the finals is much larger than other basketball games. Leon suddenly changed from a well-known basketball coach to the ∈, m. well-known young coach in the United States. He played against the 76ers and the Pistons. The strategizing was easy, and then in the Eastern Conference finals, facing the Nets step by step to counterattack, the name of "Scarface" quickly spread in the United States.
Therefore, if Fox Leon is determined to participate in the gambling game at the MGM Grand, even if he is on the blacklist of the casino, the casino will not dare to forcibly refuse him to enter the casino in the end. His celebrity aura will bring the casino intolerable This is also the reason why the general manager of the casino has sent two best bodyguards to wait on them. If it weren’t for Leon’s not very good
female
sex, the general manager of the casino would never mind letting the hotel do the best. 'Ji'hua' accompanied Leon to the Hoover bus for an'exciting' field battle.
"Mr. Leon...we...maybe we should give you some advice...no, it's a request...it's not right, it's a request, please. I hope, I hope you don't go back to the MGM Hotel to gamble...Gambling, gambling is harmful to your physical and mental health ......" After struggling for a while, the man sitting in the co-pilot finally asked Leon not to go back to the casino to gamble. He was nervous and said a reason that made Leon feel dumbfounded.
Leon smiled and shook his head. He knew that the two guys had misunderstood what he meant. He said that he didn't want to go back to the MGM Hotel to take a gamble. In fact, he came to Las Vegas. I'm not ready to go to the gambling table, because there is no gambling game more attractive than the NBA draft and the big gambling table of the'transaction' market.
As early as the end of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the NBA's 2003 draft "drawing" ceremony was held in New York. Everything was the same as the last memory in Fox-Leon’s mind. The Cleveland Cavaliers won them. The coveted No. 1 pick, and the Grizzlies
unfortunately
got the second pick. According to the deal last summer, the second pick was handed to the Celtics by Chris Wallace.
This is the second second pick in the history of the Boston Celtics. Their last second pick was in 1985. On that heartbreaking draft night, they selected Len Baias and he died. For drugs. If you go back further, the Celtics also tried to get a second pick through ‘trading’, and finally got the second pick, and that person was Bill Russell.
For the Celtics in the entire history of the team, except for the No. 1 pick in the first year of the NBA in 1949, the team that has never been involved in the No. 1 pick, the second pick is the highest pick they can get, and is in the Celtics Both black and white have left an indelible mark. Now they have another pick like this in front of them, and this is a super draft year.
In addition to the talented high school student from Akron destined to go to Livland, the Celtics' remaining options are the 2003 NCAA hottest player Carmelo Anthony, Lightning guard Dwyane from Marquette University. -Wade, and Georgia Tech's all-around power forward Chris Bo'sh, no matter which one has the potential to become the core of the team.
Because of this, there is a disagreement within the Celtics on whether to continue to implement the ‘trading’ to get Garnett or find a good rookie through the draft. Leon naturally hopes to match other players in the team through this pick and get Garnett through trading. After all, this plan has been laid out for nearly two years. Public opinion has created momentum, signing friends, threatening agents, and even face to face. To persuade Leon to give up getting this super power forward now is like asking him to give up being a Celtics coach.
Now, the whole world knows that the Celtics want Garnett, including Garnett himself and Timberwolves. Whether the transaction can be achieved depends on the Celtics’ bargaining chips, Timberwolves’ intentions and actions, and Garnett himself. Thoughts out. None of these three points will work, because Leon wants to get Kevin Garnett. His salary next year will reach a shocking 28 million, the highest salary in a single year since Michael Jordan.
The salary cap for the 2003-2004 season is expected to be about 430 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 30 million U.S. dollars over 2003. This is an absolute good for Leon. The new TV broadcast agreement comes into effect, and the extra three Tens of millions of space will allow the Celtics to eat Garnett's contract, the possibility of'sex' greatly increased.
However, there are still different voices within the Celtics. Although the'fuck' of the No. 2 pick is dominated by Leon, and the bargaining chip is won by the'door' to get Garnett, but This year’s draft is really tempting. For the Celtics who have a tradition of relying on drafts to build a team, they can use a second pick to get the talented players the team needs most, and inject vitality into the long-term development of the team. , Is really a very Celtic decision.
The voice of this kind is naturally the old school represented by the Celtics’ celebrities. They don’t care how the pick came from. They just want to maintain the glorious tradition of the green'color' legion. A low-key, excellent young man, adding talent to the lineup that has already been able to reach the finals, is really a better choice.
This kind of voice is so powerful at present that the whole "Boston" is now discussing who they should choose. Media like the "Boston Tribune" have launched a ball "fan" voting campaign, let the ball. Fans choose whether they should use this unexpected pick to pick newcomers. You must know that as a team that has just reached the finals, it can get such a high pick in the second year of the draft, which is comparable. Only the Los Angeles Lakers in 1982. They were the championships that year and won the No. 1 overall pick that year. This is also one of the incentives that forced Stern to change the draft and draft pick trading rules. .
But now in 2003, the rules have been quite perfect, the Celtics still took advantage of the loopholes to get a second pick, how can we not let the'Boston people' ecstatic, as if they have returned to the green army. In the era of hooliganism in the league ~EbookFREE.me~, how this pick came from has long been forgotten. This put Fox Leon into an awkward passivity. He didn't even participate in the pre-draft training camp for this rookie, nor did he issue a scout report. Instead, he ran to the Hoover Dam in Las Vegas. Clear your mind and thoughts.
Leon knows that all football fans are forgetful, even the best football fans in the United States, Celtics football fans, they will remember the most brilliant victories and the most painful defeats. , Remember the most dazzling star and the most exciting game, but they will not remember the sweat behind the victory and the lessons behind the failure, they will not remember the complicated behind-the-scenes trading and meticulous pre-match preparations. None of the football fans should be remembered.
So Leon knows that there is no point in arguing and accusing people. The only thing he can do is to make the deal that has been prepared for two years before the draft, and wipe out everything on the road to the deal. Obstacles, when Garnett is done and Garnett comes to Boston, everything will return to his grasp.
It's like the majestic and tall Hoover Dam, which has been storing water for many years, making the rushing river calm as a stream, but when the gate opens and releases the water, all obstacles will be washed away by the surging water, like the course of history, unstoppable . ;