MTL - The Rest, Only Noise-v2 Chapter 1464 meet west

On July 2, 2000, when all the teams were going full throttle in the offseason, the Los Angeles Lakers announced: "After friendly negotiations, LegendLu has decided not to renew his contract...

In this news, only the first two sentences are important, the rest are meaningless politeness.

Everyone knows that this moment will come, but when it does come, many people will still be puzzled and surprised.

Soon, speculation about Louie's whereabouts became a major topic.

Louie's six-year tenure with the Lakers has proven that iron law get the messiah and you get the dynasty.

Just as the second season of "Where is Louis going?"

The agent announced: "Due to the long-term high-intensity work, Louis has been physically and mentally exhausted, so he decided to take a long vacation for himself. According to the entertainment industry, this is an indefinite rest. However, there are still teams sending offers. For example, the infatuated New York Knicks.

They knew that Louie was tired, so they didn't plan to make him the president, but only a special consultant to the team.

The Dolan family generously offered $50 million over five years.

Louie didn't need to go to New York to work, or even show up for the Knicks, all he had to do was give a suggestion when front office called.

In other words, Louis could make 50 million while lying down. It's the easiest job in the world.

But Louie refused. He had just finished his job with the Lakers and he didn't want to get involved in a complicated team again, even if it was just as a consultant.

Now, the only thing Louis has to focus on is the national team's game tasks.

When the Sydney Olympics is over, then he can really have a vacation. Before returning to China, Louis also asked someone to meet at the restaurant under his name.

It was not only Louie who decided to leave the Lakers, but also Jerry West, the LOGO man who had played for the team for 40 years.

What's interesting is that West's resignation was not his own decision, but the person who pushed it to happen was his wife Karen.

Karen wrote a letter to Jerry Buss without telling her husband, which read as follows:

"Dear Jerry

No matter how inappropriate the letter may seem, I'm not one to keep silent

people. I think you need to understand what's going on at the Wests, whether it matters to you or not. I just spent three of the most harrowing days of my life with Jerry in Phoenix.

As I'm pretty sure you know, my husband is a tormented man. The biggest source of pain for him over the past few years has been the Lakers. I'm sure you know that too. But he seems to have gotten over the pain after the two of you worked it out last summer. Before he agreed to an extension, I hope he chose to stay with the Lakers because the work here makes him happy, he replied that he has rekindled his enthusiasm and he knows that staying is the right decision. I'm happy as long as Jerry is happy.

However, everything sucks. He's a guy who, if he decides to kill himself, he'll do it. The truth is, many of the big decisions he couldn't accept had already

Big decisions have been made, and the team that was once the most revered is now, as he puts it, destroyed in a matter of days. That puts him in an almost Rodman-like self-destructive cycle.

When I left Phoenix yesterday morning, I knew my life would never be the same. On Wednesday, Jerry told me that the only things in the world he cared about were our kids, me and the Lakers. On Thursday night, after free agency began, he told me that when Duncan leaves Los Angeles, he's leaving the Lakers, and he's leaving us. He keeps saying he lives and dies for the Lakers, the Lakers are his life, but I don't care if I hear anything about the Lakers anymore.

I've been hearing Jerry say for the past two years that he's going to quit, he can't take it anymore, I've heard him say it countless times, but in our 22 years of marriage, he's never said he's leaving this family. there has never been. I love my husband very much and I love my family very much if he leaves

Open, we will encounter a catastrophe. He's now on a self-destructive war path, and I don't know where that path will lead. I have to make him stop.

Sincerely Karen

Louie never knew how painful it was for West to work with him.

West's objections were always ineffective when Louie made decisions that could affect the Lakers' reputation.

But when Louie's decision brought the Lakers a championship, West fell into a painful self-struggle.

West is different from Baylor, he is a perfectionist with moral cleanliness, what he wants is a spotless crown.

And Louie doesn't care what's on the crown, it's still a crown even if there's a **** stuck on it.

Duncan's departure was the final straw for West. For West, Duncan is a player who can reshape the culture of the Lakers team.

He is a great figure like Bill Russell, such a player is once in a few decades, and the Lakers can't do anything about his departure, which makes him doubt whether he still has the ability to be a management person in his career. The basketball world keeps going.

He wanted to stay and see where this team would go in the post-Louis era, but his emotions broke down because no matter what

Because no matter what you do, this team will only go down the track set by Louie. In the end, they will rush down the cliff like the Knicks and Celtics.

Either he opts out or he crashes with the Lakers. Just when he decided to die together, his wife rescued him. West decided to hand over

Te decided to hand in his resignation, ending his 40-year career with the Lakers.

parting

Before leaving, Louis asked him to come out to meet him, and he agreed in a strange way.

"Jerry, I thought you'd be glad I left." Louie joked, "Didn't expect you to make the same decision as I did, have you really made up your mind?"

Said flatly: "leave a team I worked so hard for" West said flatly: "leave a team

It is certainly not easy for a team that has been around for forty years, but when I made a decision, I didn't feel sad at all, on the contrary, I was relieved. "He used relief to describe resignation?"

Louie smiled helplessly, "Is it really painful to work with me? Jerry. You have to admit that the decisions you opposed me made finally paid off.

How did he never feel the other's pain in Baylor?

West did not answer Louie directly, he said: "Since I entered the NBA, people have been wondering why I never look as happy as I should, not as content as I should — even a lot of people. Praying in various avenues that I would “find joy,” find some form of peace.” Louie wondered what it was like to work with him

Was it a pain to work with, and West was saying he couldn't find joy?

Louis believes that the six life-and-death games lost to the Celtics in the 1960s have become a demon in West's heart, but he always believes that losing alone will not make people so depressed.

"Jerry

Louis asked, "When you were playing, UU reading www.uukanshu.com such as Pinwu asked,

If the Lakers win, do you think the credit is all yours? "of course not."

"So," Louis said flatly, "when you lose, you shouldn't take all the responsibility."

West didn't know why Louie was suddenly talking about it, as he usually doesn't take any joy in winning, either as a player or as an administrator. Because he knows he's just working hard and doesn't realize what it's doing to his body and mind in the end, because when he's into it, he's so **** determined.

Now, West thinks of what propped him up on this path—just a young him trying to bring joy to his mother, and a little something to make her proud—oh, her little son Jerry is also great, maybe not as good as David, but he's good at hitting

Ball - yes, that's what he was going for, he had to give Cecil Way

Ms. Sturt has a strong reason to live, allowing her to endure her alcoholic husband and endless domestic violence.

Watching Louie, West had mixed feelings, just like the recruiting negotiations he had with Louie in New York six years ago. Although his purpose was to recruit Louis, most of the conversation was about himself.

Why is this happening? Maybe it's because Louie seems like the perfect listener.

"The thing that surprises me the most about you," West asked quietly, "is why you always look so happy?