The Whip of the God of Basketball

After spending the whole morning, Leon finally cleaned the large glass windows with a height of 3.5 meters on both sides of the arena, allowing the summer sun to shine unscrupulously on the floor of the arena. In Auerbach's words , Saved a lot of electricity bills.

At this time, the inside of the arena was also refurbished, the floor was wiped clean, and a reception desk and signage were placed at the entrance to welcome children and parents who entered the camp. This training camp has been open for more than 40 years. It has declined along with Auerbach, but it remains an important activity in Marshfield.

In the arena, the chairs that Leon had lined up yesterday were neat, and a long table was placed on the podium in the middle of the trapezoidal grandstand, covered with light green velvet cloth, and the microphones were placed. At the opening ceremony tomorrow, Kai Rick Pitino, the Celtics' head coach, general manager, executive president and club president, will be here to speak at the opening of yet another training camp.

As the number one person of the current Celtics except the owner, Pitino, who has all the titles of the Celtics, the NBA's most veteran team, and Red Cardinal Reid Orr who once sat in this position The relationship between Bach was not good. The two represented two basketball management concepts. Auerbach, who was seized by Pitino, could only stand aside. In the end, the conflict between the two could not be resolved. The stubborn old man chose to resign and leave him to fight. A lifetime of Green Legion.

After clearing away Auerbach, the stubborn rock that represented the old Celtics, Pitino can finally flex his muscles, hoping to reproduce his glory in the NCAA in the NBA, but everything fell apart from the No. 1 pick in 1997 At the beginning, it did not follow the trajectory that Pitino and the Bostonians expected.

For three consecutive seasons, under the leadership of Pitino, the Celtics' record has not improved. They can't even make the playoffs. This year is the closest they are to the playoffs. The season is 35 wins and 47 losses. Tenth in the East, 7 wins behind the eighth Bucks in the East.

Not a shred of hope in sight.

The patience of the Bostonians has been exhausted in three years. Now Pitino still wears multiple hats and is the most powerful person in the Celtics besides the boss. The days of man are not far away.

Therefore, this time he participated in the opening ceremony of the Auerbach Children's Training Camp and delivered a speech, which naturally made people very surprised. Some media in Boston also speculated that Pitino hoped that Auerbach would become the last straw to save his life. Help him continue his career as a coach and manager with the Celtics.

Pitino wasn't short of a job, but he couldn't accept his lifelong failure in Boston and needed one last chance.

"There are rumors now that Gaston wants to sell the team...Although it is just a rumor, it seems that the situation of the team is really not good. Maybe this is a good opportunity for you to return to the Celtics. Pitino will come tomorrow Maybe I just hope you can go back." In the stands of the arena, Danny Ainge sat next to Auerbach and chatted about the Celtics' current and upcoming changes.

Ainge has just stepped down from the coaching position of the Suns. He has a quarrel with Jason Kidd, the core figure in the team. There is often only one result of the quarrel between the coach and the core players, that is, the coach leaves.

After hearing what Angie said, Auerbach didn't speak. He silently lit a cigar. The current situation of the team reminded him of 1983, when the Celtics were swept by the Bucks in the playoffs. Coach Bill Fitch had conflicts with the team's stars, and big boss Harry Manglian decided to sell the ball.

Finally, in that summer, the coach Bill Fitch, who led the team to the 1981 championship, chose to leave and went to Houston. Three years later, he and his young Houstonians became the last piece on the road to the Celtics dominance. Blocking the way; the boss Mangelic, who built the Celtics' strongest frontcourt, sold the team to Donald Gaston, Paul Depp and Alan Cohen, the first time the three owners took over The trade allowed the Celtics to get their dream super backcourt, Dennis Johnson.

In the following four years, the Celtics entered the finals four times and won two championships. It can be said that this change, the double departure of the coach and owner, has achieved new glory for the Celtics and Auerbach.

Now, the same situation is in front of the Celtics, and this time it is the three of Gaston who want to leave. After experiencing great success in the 1980s, Donald Gaston passed away. His son Paul Gaston inherited the team shares. This gamble is only one step away from losing everything, and they finally want to leave.

Auerbach took another puff of his cigarette, and Angie sat quietly beside the old man without speaking. When Auerbach smoked vigorously, it was either the victory cigar when he was about to win, or he fell into deep thinking.

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On the other hand, Leon, who finished his cleaning work, can finally take a break for lunch. His lunch is a McDonald's Big Mac, a large bag of French fries and a large glass of Coke. It is a typical American fast food, but it is also very suitable for the end Fill your stomach as soon as possible after physical work.

Relying on his vivid memory, super-fast mental arithmetic ability and super observation ability in his previous life, Leon has always done mental work. He not only completes actuarial work for the investment bank he works for, but also often accepts private work for insurance companies. , the accounting firm gets extra money for doing things, and he is famous in the industry for his extremely fast speed and extremely high efficiency.

After traveling to the United States in 2000, he became a manual worker. Daily work in the prison was indispensable. After leaving the prison, he was treated as a coolie for two consecutive days, but Leon enjoyed this kind of manual labor very much.

Compared with mental work, physical work is hard and simple, and there is almost no mental pressure. Whenever you finish a period of work and sit down to drink water and eat something, your body and mind will be greatly relaxed.

Leon sat on the ground on the shaded side, ate a hamburger and drank a Coke. For the first time, he felt that life in this time and space was really good. If he could never remember the things in his previous life, it would be a good choice to live a simple life like this.

A hamburger was eaten quickly, and Leon was a little unsatisfied, a Big Mac was not enough for his current body's appetite.

At this time, a volunteer walked up to Leon and handed him another hamburger.

Leon took the hamburger and said thank you, but the volunteer didn't walk away, but sat next to Leon. Only then did Leon notice that it was a young girl with red hair.

"Hi, Khomeinis, Amanda-Khomeinis." The girl noticed Leon's gaze, stretched out her hand very actively and introduced herself.

The first thing Leon noticed besides her red hair was the bright smile on her face, showing white teeth, a typical American smile, bright and open, like the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

"Fox-Leon." Leon responded briefly, opened the paper bag and continued to eat the burger. After taking a bite, he remembered and said, "Thank you for the burger."

Khomeinis saw him faltering with a hamburger in his mouth, and couldn't help laughing out loud. Compared with the standard smile just now, this laugh was obviously from the heart and more natural.

Leon chewed and swallowed the hamburger in his mouth, turned his head and began to look at the girl seriously.

The girl is tall, close to 6 feet, with thin red hair hanging down to her shoulders, slightly curled inward, with a full forehead, big eyes with light blue eyeballs, and a small and straight nose bridge. The mouth is much larger, which makes her smile extra wide. There are light freckles on the nose and roots, which make her face more lively. Her neck was long and slender, her collarbone was not covered by a wide T-shirt, her lower body was a pair of denim shorts, and her white thighs looked particularly dazzling when they were put together.

Of course, Leon saw more than that. It only took three seconds for him to calculate the measurements of this girl, which is quite a good figure.

Leon's staring eyes made the girl a little embarrassed, her face flushed slightly, but she was not angry, because as early as in the morning when Leon arrived at the arena and began to wipe the glass, Khomeinis thought that he must Find a chance to have lunch with him, even a hamburger.

I have to admit that Fox-Leon has a good skin. More importantly, with his current consciousness, he has a more ruthless temperament. , which makes a passionate girl like Khomeinis curious.

Soon, Khomeinis couldn't bear Leon's gaze. She turned her head, put her hands on her knees, and said, "Are you from Puerto Rico?"

Many people who have just met Leon will think that he is Puerto Rican. After all, his black hair, eyes, and wheat-colored skin make him look like a guy from Central America who speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Leon took a sip of Coke and replied: "Not all, my mother is from Puerto Rico, and you must be from the North Side of Boston, studying at Boston University."

"How do you know?" Khomeinis asked with wide-eyed eyes. She is indeed from a rich area in the North Side of Boston. She is studying anthropology at the famous Boston University. She is just a sophomore, and she is the most free and carefree time.

Leon smiled and replied: "First, your accent, and second, your shoes."

Bostonians have a heavy English accent, and Khomeinis is no exception. Leon can recognize it immediately, and can tell from some of the tones that she is from the more affluent North Side rather than the South Side.

At the same time, Khomeinis was wearing a pair of white sneakers with the letters "BU" stitched on them, which is the abbreviation of Boston University.