In addition to being the head coach of the USC basketball team Trojans, Henry Biby has a more widely known identity as the father of Kings point guard Mike Bibie. It's just that the relationship between Mike Bibi and his father is not good, because the elder Henry separated from his wife as early as 1985, Mike Bibi lives with his mother with other brothers, Henry rarely visits them, and the father and son are almost strangers.

When Mike Biby showed his basketball talent in high school and Henry Sr. wanted his son to come to the University of Southern California, where he coached, Mike Bibby refused without hesitation, and instead went to the University of Arizona, which is the same district rival as USC. The poor relationship between father and son can be seen.

Henry didn't care, basketball was now the only thing in his life, and his family and children had given it up. In 1985, he was still an assistant coach at the University of Arizona, but he was severely punished and swept away by the NCAA for illegally luring high school students to make a commitment to join the University of Arizona. This incident was also one of the triggers for the breakdown of Henry's relationship with his wife, and his life path changed forever. He began to work in the CBA, relying on good coaching skills to achieve good results, and finally returned to the NCAA 10 years later, in 1995, when he was hired by the University of Southern California as an assistant coach and later became a head coach.

Henry Bibby has led USC steadily over the last two years, reaching the pinnacle of his coaching career in the 2000-2001 season, leading a mediocre USC to the elite quarterfinals of the NCAA National Championship before losing to Duke University, which has Sean Battier, Carlos Boozer and Jay Williams.

Leon is also quite impressed with this team, which was a real dark horse in last year's NCAA National Tournament, attracting national attention, and it remains to be seen if they would have been able to go one step further if it had not been for the season's champion, Duke University, who had an overly strong roster. It's just that a dark horse team like this can attract the attention of fans, but it can't attract scouts, and scouts don't look at your alma mater's record when picking players. It's just that Leon, as a member of the Development League's scouting team, has placed more eyes on these players who may not play in the NBA in the future, which makes his name not only limited to the Northeast states, but also on the West Coast. So when Bill Sharman asked Leon to come to Southern California as an assistant coach intern for a period of time yesterday, Bibby agreed without even thinking about it.

Bibi happened to need a strong scouting expert to help him, but he didn't expect to be dozed and sent a pillow, and as soon as he met Leon, Bibi bluntly put forward his conditions.

"I want you to do me a favor and get a player for our team."

Leon has always had a straightforward personality and was not surprised by Bibby's request, but he still turned his head to look at Sharman, and Leon also knew that the private transactions, solicitations, promises, and even money exchanges in the NCAA were more secretive and rampant than in the NBA. After all, those players are still children who have just graduated from high school, and their understanding of life is often a mess, and they often make surprising choices for some strange reasons or a little profit, which also forces some universities to go to great lengths when inviting those talented teenagers.

Sharman knew that Leon was asking for his opinion, so he pushed his glasses and said to Bibi: "Henry, I have no objection to you using some small means to recruit players, but I still hope that you can remember some painful lessons from the past and try to do things within the rules." Leon came here to study, which is also an exchange, and both parties will have gains. Of course, if the harvest is big enough to bring a good player to your team, I'm not against that. But I still want to emphasize compliance, and then promise me that Leon can learn something, I believe you. I don't want the red head to call me and spit on me, I'm almost eighty years old. ”

Shaman's words were actually acquiescing, allowing Leon to provide some help and advice to Bibi, hearing Shaman's permission, Leon also nodded and expressed his willingness to help Bibi, but before that, he still had to ask who the player was: "Can I ask which player it is?" If it's Emeka Okafor or Carmelo Anthony, I can't help, and I guess I have to make an appointment to call them. ”

Bibby shook his head and said as he walked into the arena with Leon and Sharman, "No, it's a little guy from Chicago, I like him, but he seems to be hesitant. Okay, let's not talk about it for now, there's always time to solve it, so let's take you on a tour of the stadium and get to know my players. ”

Leon has been to Los Angeles several times, and has passed by the Memorial Coliseum, but he really hasn't gone inside to take a good look. Once home of the Los Angeles Clippers, Memorial Coliseum has NBA-level capacity and facilities, and when there are no games here, USC basketball teams choose to train here because of the better renovations and physiotherapy facilities that allow students to enjoy the treatment of professional players.

On the field, the Trojan players are training, half practicing basic skills, half technical and tactical training. Since it was not yet the preparation period, the training was mainly to maintain the state, and the students seemed to be relaxed, and when Bibby blew the whistle to assemble, everyone was a little procrastinating, and some of them were giggling after standing in a row. Bibby didn't react to this, he didn't stop the students, but gave a brief introduction to Leon and the purpose of Leon's visit. Leon believed that few people listened to Bibby when he spoke, and their interest seemed to be more on Bill Sharman sitting on the sidelines.

"Are you a new cleaner?" A guy named Dimmons Farmar shouted at Leon, causing a burst of laughter from the team. It was a 6-foot-5 guard with a large, flat mouth and a headband on his head, which looked a little flat. This kid seems to be a little unscrupulous.

In the laughter, Leon neither looked embarrassed, nor did he ask Henry Bibby for help with his eyes, maybe Bibby did not mean anything and did not want to give Leon a dismissal, but in the basketball team, a newcomer arrives, and it is impossible for either the player or the coach to casually blend in and win respect. Leon stared at the outspoken Famar and said, "Dimmons Farmal, a graduate of Northwest High School in Flint, Michigan, is a guard, good at breaking, and is a very good scorer. But the shooting was terrible, the free-throw shooting percentage was impressive, the assists and basketball were mediocre except for scoring, the defense was sparse, and there was a lack of talent for teamwork. You may grow into a qualified scorer in college, but in the NBA you will find it difficult to gain a foothold because of other shortcomings. Going to the Development League might be a good place to show what you're capable of scoring. Or you should make up for the shortcomings in other areas so that you can survive in a stronger league. ”

Leon's voice was low but penetrating, not as sharp as that of the negroes, and by the time he finished his words word by word, there was no sound in the group, and everyone stared at him with wide eyes and ears pricked up, and the children knew that they had met experts and stubble. Leon paused and continued: "Hello everyone, I'm Fox Leon, I used to be a scout professional, and I was responsible for the player profile of the upcoming Development League, and I also work for the Boston Celtics, so it's nice to meet you. ”

At this time, Bibi said loudly: "From today, in the next few weeks, Leon will be an assistant coach of the team, I hope everyone will perform well, maybe you will be valued by this scout and become a member of the NBA, and then your dream will come true!" Okay, let's go ahead and train, we're going to increase the intensity a little bit from tomorrow, and you can still play today......"

The players were disbanded and went back to training, and Dammons Famar, who had just been talkative, looked unlucky, he had become the object of ridicule from his teammates, and sentences such as "poor defense" and "touching service percentage" kept appearing in his ears. In fact, Leon did not belittle Famar, he said that those words were just to bring back the attention of the students, players like Famar are also one of the objects of the development league, as long as they see his face, Leon remembers the content of his scouting report and blurts out.

"My students are not all like this, no big or small, come here and be red!" Bibby apologized to Leon as he beckoned to a big man who had just stepped out of the players' tunnel.

Only then did Leon notice that the red-haired big man who came over was none other than the center who participated in this year's NBA draft and was selected by the Nets in the second round, Brian Scala Brian. He is a senior at the University of Southern California, and it seems that he returned to his alma mater for training in the summer, and many NBA players will return to their alma mater to train in the offseason, not to mention Scala Brian, who just graduated.

As soon as Scala Brien saw Leon, he walked up and held his hand tightly and said, "Hello, Mr. Leon! I was just doing physiotherapy in the locker room. It's a pleasure to meet you, yesterday Coach Bibby told me that you were coming, I heard that you are in charge of the development of the league's scouting, please remember to leave me a place. ”