Khomemenes stared carefully at Leon after his hair was cut short, and felt that the person standing in front of him seemed to have a different appearance. After becoming the head coach of the Celtics, Auerbach first suggested that Leon cut his hair short and change his temperament to look more like an NBA head coach.

Leon hesitated for a long time, not because he liked long hair, but because he was used to the way he looked. It wasn't until Auerbach said to him, "I don't want a referee to blow you a technical foul next time because you have long hair," that Leon decided to cut his hair off. He picked a barber shop downstairs from his apartment, and the owner was a middle-aged man in his forties with a mustache, and he recognized Leon at a glance and helped him cut his hair for free.

Leon's hairstyle changed from long curls to short hair that was carefully trimmed and styled, looking neat and neat, just like Shange Winton in the movie "Sudden Death".

"It seems...... Look...... From a curly-haired puppy to a fierce hound! Khomeenes touched Leon's face and said with a grin. Leon laughed when he heard this out-of-tune analogy, he pinched Khomeenez's face, touched his head again, and said, "Okay, I've seen you the new look, I'm leaving." ”

As soon as Leon finished cutting his hair, he called Holmenez, and Holmenis insisted that Leon come to the school to show her, so Leon had to drive his four-handed Chevrolet to Boston College, and Holmenez, who was attending a course training at the school, secretly ran out of the classroom to see Leon's new look.

"You look so much better than you did two years ago!" Khomeenez shouted at the departing Leon, "You're going to be the best head coach in the NBA!" ”

Leon waved at Khomemenez, who got into his car and looked at his face through the mirror, which did seem to be much better than it had been two years earlier. The scars near the nose are also much lighter. If Fox Leon's former fox friends meet him again, I'm afraid they won't recognize him. In two years, he cut off all ties with his past and started a new life of his own, looking at himself in the mirror and Khomeinis, who was still standing in the distance looking at him, he knew that he had a new life.

Leon looked at his watch. It's already past one o'clock in the afternoon, and he must hurry, there will be an important press conference at the Celtics' headquarters at half past two, which is a major external publicity after the Celtics were acquired by the new owner, and the major sports media in Boston will participate, calling for the beginning of a new era for the Celtics.

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Unlike the last inauguration ceremony of the head coach in the press room of North Shore Gardens, this press conference was much larger, so the venue was set up in the lobby of North Shore Gardens, and the staff of the stadium temporarily set up a large metal table. Tables, backdrops and stereos are set up. There were not only Boston journalists, but also many die-hard fans of the team. The Celtics were also on the move, with people from basketball management, marketing, press releases, medical staff, and even the accounting department all arriving on the scene.

President Danny Angie, the team's four new owners, Glos Pike & Sons, Steve Pagliuca, Robert Epstein. Jeff Tevez, the press spokesman, and Bob Cousy, the head of the business department, Celtic Meritorious Service. They are all seated at the podium. There are also two empty seats next to Angie, one for Auerbach and one for the team's new head coach, Fox Leon.

"Call Leon, and call Mark, he went to Washington to pick up Arnold, why hasn't he come yet!" Angie said to her son, Austin Angie, who was also on the scene. Austin Angie is just 21 years old. He studied at Brigham Young University and was a point guard like his dad. Now that the school is on summer vacation, he participated in the summer internship program to work as an intern at Celtic. Angie knew that his son had some talent in basketball, but he was not yet at the level where he could enter the NBA, thinking that when he was 21 years old. He was already a nationally known athletic prodigy, and Austin was just a basketball standout at Brigham Young University. So he wanted his son to make some development in team management early on, and the Celtics are a good place to work.

"I called Leon, two hours ago he said he was cutting his hair, and just now he answered the phone and said his car had broken down...... And Mark said that he couldn't find Mr. Auerbach, and that his brother didn't know where the old man had gone...... "Austin didn't look much like his father, but his temperament was absolutely similar, revealing a shrewd and imperceptible fierceness."

Colan Mark is the team's club VIP administrator and is responsible for contacting Auerbach all year round, but Auerbach was absent from several important ceremonies of the team. Because the old man never used his mobile phone, once the phone could not be reached, he either went to his brother and children, or had to search the streets of Washington.

At this time, the team's press secretary, Jeff Tevez, walked up to Angie's side, leaned over and asked, "The time is coming soon, do you want to start directly?" Anji thought about it and knew that time waited for no one, and the four bosses had arrived, and they couldn't be postponed just because the two of them didn't arrive, although both of them were very important people.

So he nodded and instructed Tevez: "Prepare to start, don't wait for ......" Before Angie's words were finished, he found that there was a small commotion in the place where the fans gathered in the hall, and the fans who had gathered together voluntarily separated a path, and a person strode in, it was Fox Leon, who had short haircut.

Angie almost didn't recognize who it was, until he recognized the peculiar walking posture — with a boxer's characteristic jumping rhythm — that he realized it was Fox Leon coming. Leon approached the press booth from the aisle cleared by the fans, and the reporters in the audience picked up their cameras and took a wild shot, as the new head coach of the Celtics, he is now a popular fried chicken in the Boston media.

Leon didn't talk much nonsense, and walked directly to the press table and sat in his seat, Anji glanced at Leon who was calm and relaxed, and said with a slight move: "You are really the finale." ”

Leon glanced at Angie and replied, "The protagonist always appears in the finale. ”

"You are the one at the press conference of the appointment of the coach, and you are not the protagonist today."

"No, I am, because I bring the news that only the protagonist will have." Leon sold a pass to Angie. Carlos Tevez, the team's press spokesman, has already begun a press conference statement to everyone. Angie could only keep her mouth shut, wondering what kind of news Leon would have.

The press conference was carried out concisely and compactly, and the four bosses were not people who liked long speeches, and they were financiers who wanted practical and effective things, so after making simple opening remarks and speeches, they handed the microphone to the reporter. Convey useful information through questions from journalists.

And the reporter's first question made most of the people sitting on the stage dumbfounded, and the reporter from the Boston Tribune asked directly where Arnold Auerbach had gone.

It was a serious problem, as a symbol of the team and an influential honorary president, he did not attend such an important press conference. And he was not only absent from this press conference, but he also did not attend the appointment ceremony of the head coach, which has to make people wonder, how did Auerbach, who was able to turn the clouds in the Celtics more than a year ago, disappear from people's sight so quickly?

This question. Of course, the four bosses can't answer, the pressure is all on Danny Angie, and as the president of the team, this is something Angie needs to consider. But Angie doesn't know what to say, could it be that Auerbach is missing? Just as Angie was thinking about the best answer, Leon on the side spoke, and he said: "Mr. Arnold Auerbach has decided to resign as Celtic's honorary chairman and will not hold any position in the Celtics team from now on. So he won't be attending official Celtic events either. ”

As soon as Leon's words came out, everyone was shocked. There is a lot of discussion in the audience, you must know that Auerbach is the symbol of the Celtics, just as Michael Jordan is to the Chicago Bulls, Malone and Stockton are to the Utah Jazz, the Celtics have too many player superstars, but the source and godfather of these superstars. It's Auerbach.

Now he has quietly resigned from all Celtic positions, which is not the same as when he resigned as president for Pitino a few years ago, when he was abdicating to make way for Xian, and later resigned from all positions because of the angry nature of his bad relationship with Pitino, and finally when he wanted to come back. Or easily kicked Pitino away.

Now, he asked the team's new head coach and Auerbach's recognized successor, Fox Leon, to announce his resignation on his behalf at the press conference, and the significance of this is self-evident, that is, to announce to everyone that from now on, the position I occupy with the Celtics will be inherited by this kid!

After speaking, Leon looked at the suspicious eyes of many reporters on the field, took out a cigar from his pocket, and placed it in the vacant seat next to him. It is a smoked cigar that has been neatly cut by the cigar cutter, leaving about two-thirds of its length.

"This is AyC!" Some spicy journalists have already recognized the brand of this cigar as AyC, a Cuban brand of cigar.

"It's still a vintage 1966 ......" A reporter who is well versed in the history of the Celtics also reported the age of this cigar model, the 1966 vintage model, the body is particularly long, medium thick, thinner than the average large cigar, and the color is lighter. This cigar was a favorite of Auerbach when he was younger, and when he started coaching Celtic in the '60s, he lit it whenever he felt like victory was in his hands.

Leon carefully laid the cigar on the table, he said nothing, and he would not reveal the events of that night to anyone, it was a secret that belonged to him and Auerbach. A third of the cigar that Auerbach had lit, Auerbach gave him to Leon and told him that he was going to resign from all his duties, hoping that he would announce it on his behalf. At the same time, he made a pact with Leon that he could only relight the cigarette when the Celtics won the championship again.

"Alright, it's time to ask the next question." Leon told the reporter below that there is more than this news he wants to shake out today. (To be continued.) )

PS: As soon as I came home from work yesterday, I was a little tired, so I wanted to take a nap on the sofa upside down...... So I'm sorry that there was no update, so please understand.