Louis looked at the twelve teams with lotto signs, thought about the chips in his hands, and thought about how to trade.

After a season, the Lakers' untradeable roster increased from two (Wilson, Ellis) to four.

In addition to these two, Garnett and Liu Yuqing have to be added.

The tragedy has a special identity, the Lakers can't trade, and other teams are not interested.

Except for these five people, other players in the Lakers are bargaining chips.

From this point of view, Louis has many cards in his hand.

There are three main high-quality assets: Finley, Laitena, and Ostertag.

There are many talents in the 1996th class, and Louis's goal is not just Kobe.

The most important thing now is to make draft picks, and secondly, to keep confidentiality well.

After West was scolded by him, Louis's authority reached a peak in the forum office building.

All staff treated his orders like eunuchs who received the imperial edict.

Louis tried his best to set up such a game for West, not just to establish his authority, but to take the initiative of "Kobe".

This initiative has nothing to do with the draft.

The history that Louis knows has proved that Kobe is a difficult player to control. Once he goes crazy, he will become a poison in the locker room and become a destructionist of chemical reactions.

If Louis really can't conquer him, he can only trade.

By that time, West had to accept it because Louis also said that he didn't like Kobe, you had to choose.

Of course, the probability of such a thing happening is very small.

Louis mainly wanted to seize the handle of West, just like arranging Bird to Garnett as a development coach.

Garnett had a problem, and Louis could squirt with Bird.

Similarly, if Kobe makes Louis angry in the future, who will suffer? Of course it is West.

However, this is just a conceivable.

Before choosing Kobe, many things were uncertain.

Before the draft, the Lakers' management scored in three parts.

Trial, transaction, renewal.

Trying newcomers - Although Louis knows who to choose, he has to do his job on the surface and can also have some effect of confusing others.

In terms of trading, the Lakers have draft picks from Portland this year, but because the opponent's regular season record is too good, the signing position is very low.

1996 was called the Golden Draft Year, but the players who are truly worthy of the selection are concentrated in the early and middle sections of the first round.

If you want to choose several powerful players, including Kobe, the Lakers need to initiate a trade. Since it requires multi-line operations, Louis simply handed over the job of obtaining Kobe's draft pick to West.

Interestingly, West didn't know that the draft pick he was fighting for was going to be used to pick Kobe.

Louis's requirement is that except for the untradable people, everyone else can trade as long as they can use it, and if necessary, they can also join the draft pick to promote the completion of the transaction.

West frowned and said: "This year's draft pick is of extraordinary value. If we want to get a lottery, we may have to send Michael Finley."

"Michael is a good player, but it doesn't meet my needs." Louis said quietly, "Let him go to a team that can prove his own value."

Finally, the contract renewal was renewed.

In fact, the only player that the Lakers need to renew their contract is David Robinson.

Robinson was reimbursed for injury last season and failed to play for Louis. Some people believe that if he can play, the Lakers have a chance to defeat the Trail Blazers.

But this is just an unconvincing optimistic view.

According to Louis's opinion, even with Robinson, the Lakers would not have any chance.

Because Robinson is a famous dream maid, he will be beaten ugly every time he meets.

Moreover, Louis didn't like Robinson either, so he knew that the other party's contract had reached its last year, but he still refused to renew his contract in advance, and insisted on letting the other party test his value in the free market.

The above are basically the recent work priorities of the Lakers management.

Speaking of trial training, the Lakers, who have the 27th pick in the first round, actually sent trial invitations to No. 1 favorites Allen Iverson and Marcus Camby.

The response methods of these two people also have their own secrets.

Camby tactfully declined the Lakers' invitation.

Iverson's team turned it off on the grounds of physical discomfort.

In fact, only Ray Allen and Kerry Kittles SG came to Los Angeles to try out.

However, Allen only participated in single training, while Kittles only participated in physical tests.

This is not difficult to understand. The Lakers' draft pick is far behind, and it is difficult to choose them without a trade. They could have refused. Since they are here, they are just giving the Lakers face, but in order not to increase their risk of injury, they must control the intensity of the trial.

"Coach, choose me, you won't regret it."

That's what Kittles said to Louis.

Louis smiled and said nothing.

West secretly observed that if he was asked to choose one of these two people, he would definitely choose Ray Allen.

Judging from the college game, Kittles is a comprehensive No. 2 position, but Allen has the potential to become a core cornerstone like Jordan.

However, he was not interested in choosing these two people.

Kobe is what he cares most about.

Tomorrow, 10 new stars including Kobe will arrive in Los Angeles to try out for the Lakers, which is the highlight.

West prayed in his heart that he hoped Kobe could show what would satisfy Louis.

The next day

Although Louis left at 6 a.m., he was still blocked for an hour and a half.

I heard that this is already very lucky.

In Los Angeles, it is rush hour from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. late.

In other words, as long as you choose to go out at this point in time, you will encounter traffic jams.

Louis felt increasingly necessary to buy a private plane. If this continues, he will become a road rage patient.

At this time, several new stars have arrived at the forum to prepare for trial training.

There are Rers PF from the University of Alabama, Walter McCarty PF from the University of Kentucky, John Wallace from Syracuse and... Kobe Bryant, the No. 1996 high school student.

"How do we try?"

Louis heard that Kobe was the first person to come to the forum.

This can prove how much he wants to play for the Lakers, even if the ranking is low, it doesn't matter.

Therefore, he would take the initiative to ask about the trial process.

"Don't worry, you warm up first, and someone will tell you the whole process of the trial later." Zhao Yuanzheng is the only assistant teacher who still maintains high-intensity work around the clock.

While he had to arrange a trial, invited a trial, took notes for the players who came to the trial, and also wanted to win over the relationship with Buss and other colleagues in the office. Louis felt that if he continued like this, he would die suddenly.

But doing this is also a struggle for his own future, and Louis will not advise him to rest.

He looked at Kobe who had become anxious with a special interest.

In Louis's previous life, a character like Kobe was a legendary master. It was not difficult to meet him, but the difficult thing was to get close to him.

Now, Louis has come into contact with too many great masters, so even the young black mamba that left a deep impression on the post-80s generation in China will not make him excited.

At this time, Kobe actually shaved all his hair.

He should still have hair.

So, Louis asked, "You are less than 18 years old, why are you losing all your hair?"

Kobe replied: "Philadelphia wants me to play for LS Al, and his family wants me to play for Duke, but I know I don't belong to college, and I want to cut off my ambitions and prove my ambitions to them in this way."

OK, enough for second place.

Thinking about it on the other hand, what a proud person he is. He is the number one high school student in the United States. He actually thinks that the college basketball pool is too small to accommodate him?

"Sir, when will the trial start?" Kobe seemed unable to wait.

Louis looked at him playfully: "If you really can't stand the loneliness, you can dig a few balls to warm up the field."

"May I?"

"Of course, do you dunk under your crotch?" Louis smiled, "It's the kind of action of putting the ball under your crotch in the air to complete the switch dunk."

"Simple!"

The proud boy, holding the ball in front of Louis, completed a very exciting dunk in front of other fresh graduates on the court.

Not only is he pretentious, he also likes to show off.

Louis started to get big.

What does this look like?

This is like a more rebellious, more arrogant, and Louis has no life-saving grace to him.

When Kobe completed his third dunk, Wilson, who was supposed to be on vacation, walked into the arena in his training suit: "Good, let's have another one!"

Benj's voice attracted everyone's attention.

When Kobe saw the "Conqueror", he first widened his eyes and confirmed carefully, and then tried to grab the ball with one hand, but found that his hands were too small to do whatever he wanted. So he adjusted the angle slightly and pointed the ball at Wilson: "Benjamin, I want to fight you one-on-one!"

"Child, what are you going crazy?"

Kobe's father, Joe Bryant, was shocked by his son's bold move.

Then, Wilson walked up to Kobe, the born winner who had won seven championships said calmly: "Okay."
Chapter completed!