MTL - The Rest, Only Noise-Chapter 17 humble american

NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien sternly rejected Levine's application. The Celtics have a glorious history and a deep fan base, and the league cannot let the most legendary team in history leave Boston.

However, Levine was determined to leave Boston.

The annual meeting is full of people who want to change their difficult situation.

Brofa Braves owner John Y. Brown (John Y. Brown) is interested in Boston.

His Braves have had a tough season in Brofa and he's determined to move the team away.

Brown was a freewheeling gambler who would do anything to make a profit.

He realized that Brofa didn't have a fan base and that keeping the team here would sooner or later go bankrupt, but they had five years left on their contract with the Brofa Auditorium, and there was an add-on to the contract if the average attendance during the season didn't exceed 4,500. The person and the venue owner can unilaterally terminate the contract without paying liquidated damages.

Although the Browns are in Brofa, his heart has become the shape of other cities. He may not be able to turn the Braves into a championship team, but it is too easy to rot. He performed a series of outrageous operations to rot the team, successfully reduced the average attendance to less than 4,500 people, and then went to someone to cancel the contract, and the result was successful.

The arrow was already on the line, but Levine gave him a better option.

He proposed a stock exchange with Levine for the first and only team transaction in NBA history - he sent the Brofa Braves and acquired the Celtics. In this way, they all get rid of what they want to get rid of, and they all have bright futures.

O'Brien's purpose is to keep the Celtics in Boston, and he doesn't care who owns the Celtics. It's not in the interests of the other bosses, so no one is going to stand up and stop it from happening.

The vote went well and the two owners switched teams.

Separately, O'Brien agreed with Levine's idea of ​​relocating the Braves to California, following the professional advice of the league's legal counsel, David Stern.

By the end of June, the two sides had only one issue left.

Neither Brown nor Levine wants to take advantage of each other. They both want to pick good seed from a rotten and out of shape team into a new team.

In this matter, Brown has no choice. He handed over the right to select players to Boston. Levine could have further hampered Boston's rebuild, but he didn't, leaving the choice of Braves players to Auerbach, the only tenderness he had for this team.

At the same time, he will take four Celtics players, two of them are Kevin Kunnet and Kermit Washington (Kermit Washington PF/C) who have become free agents, and the other two candidates, he is targeting Players selected by the Celtics in this year's draft. At first, he wanted to take the signing rights of Freeman Williams and Larry Bird. If he does, the '80s as many people know it will be completely changed.

Then his attorney, Frank Rothman, who didn't know anything about basketball, gave his "professional" opinion. He believes that they should take away those players who can fight, because they have no way of knowing what kind of seed Bird, who is hailed as a once-in-a-century by scouts, can play. And he has to play another year in school, what if he gets hurt? What if he suddenly becomes a waste? He can't run fast or jump high, he can throw some **** balls...let Boston wait for their "savior" to come.

Levine even thought he was professional, nodded in agreement, and took Williams and Maurice Cheeks away.

The first time Levine took over the Braves, he moved them to San Diego and renamed the team the Clippers.

Under the coercion of this force majeure, the management of the Green Army headed by Auerbach chose "Bad News" Marvin Barnes, Billy Knight (SG, SG), "Bad News" from a mess of Braves. Elf" Archibald and two future second-round picks.

Bostonians who follow basketball thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, but there's a lot to come that will leave them breathless.

The restoration of a dynasty has never been so simple.

Before Levine left, the secretary called Louie one last time.

To this day, Louie already knows what Levine is thinking.

Maybe Levine really appreciates him, and if he goes, he'll be reused and become the first basketball guy in history to take a front office seat at 18. But in that case, he couldn't hide what happened to Li Xuanbing. Also, he heard that Levine had renamed the Braves the Clippers. He thinks about Donald Sterling, the next owner of the Clippers...and it makes him shudder.

A fleeting moment of beauty is surrounded by an uncertain and terrifying future.

He turned down the last chance, after all, he is only 18 years old, there will be more chances in the future, and this is by no means the best chance.

In July, the Celtics welcomed a brand new team.

Louie has some regrets. Maurice Cheeks, his one-handed pick, was abducted by Levine before he played a game for the Celtics.

Now he believes that Levine really appreciates himself, otherwise he would not choose Cheeks, who made Louie stand out at the briefing, as the formation team of the new team.

Louie has taken over a new roster from K.C. Jones.

It contains most of the junior players, who will be promoted to seniors in September.

They also briefly note their college stats, and some players marked with an asterisk are Boston's homegrown stars. From the point of view of attracting fans, these people are the focus of observation.

Louis is too lazy to care about this. The local plot is the most important thing. Unlike the CBA, each team has its own youth training team. In terms of selection, they can move closer to the local area. The draft system of selecting elites from the whole country makes it better to choose local talents and ignore them. of out-of-town talent has become a form of extreme unprofessionalism.

Louis was dazzled by the hundreds of names.

He looked at the time, it was almost noon.

His stomach growled softly, reminding him that it was time to eat.

Louis had to take the file with him, eager to find a person from the hundreds of lists that sounded familiar to him, as he did with Cheeks.

As a traveler, it is difficult for him to maximize the advantages of Open Eyes in the contemporary era, because he really does not understand the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

Therefore, if he encounters a name that sounds familiar to him, no matter what, that person is definitely not easy.

If he could meet a name he knew, it would be even more incredible, it must be an extraordinary person.

Louis walked out of the Greek Academy, he was applying for a driver's license, and he would buy a car as soon as the license came out. Be careful until then.

Every day, he sees blacks and whites protesting in droves.

They're protesting Boston's school bus system.

In the early 1970s, in order to address the legacy of racial segregation, Boston’s education system mandated a decree that blacks and whites must be mixed on school buses, preferably in a ratio of 5 to 5.

This annoyed two groups of people at the same time.

Then, this bizarre decree that forced black children to mix with white children spread to schools. During the apartheid era, blacks and whites were divided into different classes even if they attended the same school. Black class, white class. Now that this decree is issued, schools have begun to force children of the two ethnic groups to study together in a ratio of 50 to 50 points.

This completely angered the white people who were prejudiced against black people. The protests started. The sensitive black people had an unsatisfactory life. Seeing that the white people have opinions, they also have opinions. After all, there are many unspoken rules behind the forcible classification of children. Bad kids get together, good kids go to another class, and if things go on like this, the better the better and the worse the bad.

The school bus chaos started in Boston and spread across the United States.

Louie avoids this trouble every day, he never wants to get this **** for no reason, and then be beaten by extreme racists with a flag pole, and after being photographed by a reporter, he is too embarrassed to say that it is the filth of old glory - because of the stars and stripes Originally sacred, but now a tool used to transmit violence?

Americans are really humble, they really don't seem to know that in the eyes of foreigners, the Stars and Stripes is a symbol of violence.

If any small and medium-sized country discovers that an American is holding this flag to spread the word, the regime will be destroyed at light, and the country will be destroyed at worst.

Louie walks into a Chinese restaurant and orders fried noodles, dumplings, General Tso's chicken—all Chinese, but none of them taste Chinese, but it's cheap.

While waiting for the waiter to serve the food, he continued to check the names on the list.

He reads quickly...

His eyes, and his slid hand, finally settled on a name that caught his ear—Larry Bird, an active junior at Indiana State University.

"Ganlin two!" Louis Xue Wu Sansheng scolded, "Is this list so sloppy? Bird has it?!"

"Guest, do you need any help?"

The waiter is Filipino and his attitude is very friendly.

"Hurrying up is the biggest help," Louie said.

"Please wait!"

Louie continued to look down. He poured himself a half glass of water with the other hand. He was about to drink it when he suddenly called out an asterisked name—Bill Laimbeer, an active junior at the University of Notre Dame, a Boston native. people.

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