When the two men got in the car and introduced themselves, Leon learned that one of them was New York Post columnist Pete Wickey, who was coming to Washington International University today to give a show and was going to visit Auerbach at Woodmont Country Club. It happened to be pouring rain, and his car happened to break down, so he had to stop Leon's taxi on the side of the road.

"You go to the Woodmont Club too? Do you have any friends there? It's not easy to get into, and someone has to introduce you. You look young, are you applying for a job? Hahaha. Wickshi, a lean-looking, lean-looking, bearded little old man, spoke in a low and deep voice, and it seemed that he did not know Leon or his relationship with Auerbach.

On the contrary, Leon knew this Vicsi, because he was Auerbach's nemesis.

Leon once heard people around Auerbach mention this Vicsi, a well-known figure in the world of journalism and television sports. As early as the sixties in the East when New York and Boston were competing for hegemony, he confronted Auerbach in the newspapers, and often broke the news of Auerbach's troubles to dismantle the stage. For example, Auerbach liked to light a winning cigar to stimulate his opponents when the game was not over but the big picture was decided, and once in a game against Philadelphia, his team was leading by 30 points, and Auerbach began to smoke on the sidelines again, and Dick Barnett asked the team's head coach Dolf Shayce to lean his bench position against the outermost closest to Auerbach. The closest to Auerbach was Hannham, a small man, and Barnett, a big man of 6-foot-7, who kept glaring at Auerbach before standing up and walking towards Auerbach as soon as the game was over, and Auerbach was so frightened that he ran back to the locker room from the players' tunnel.

There is a basket of anecdotes from the '60s and '70s, but unlike other narratives that glorify and praise Auerbach, there is only sarcasm and ridicule for the famous Bishop Wicksch.

Leon hadn't expected this man to visit Auerbach tonight and be invited to a party at Woodmont Country Club, which is not something anyone can attend. Many of the biggest names in basketball could be invited to such a party once in their lifetime, let alone a well-known Auerbach rival like Wikshi.

Leon didn't care much about Vicxi's jokes, at this time he was still thinking about how to pit the Spurs, he looked at Vicsi, this guy is a veteran figure in the basketball media industry, his words are very weighty, and he has a strong communication power, maybe he can take advantage of it.

So Leon said to Vicey: "I'm not here to apply, I'm just a scout to give Celtic a little bit of player intelligence. Some time ago I found a nice young man in France, and I thought that Monsieur Auerbach would be interested in him, so I came here today to report to him. ”

Speaking of the players Auerbach was interested in, Viche came to the fore, poking his head closer to León and asking, "France?" Has Auerbach already extended its tentacles to Europe? I haven't heard of him being interested in European players. ”

Vicky looked disbelieving, in fact, he just wanted Leon to tell him about the specific situation of this player, although he was a mortal enemy with Auerbach, but Viche also knew that Auerbach was a king in terms of excavators, and he had read countless players in his life, and he basically didn't look at it, but he didn't necessarily get it in the end.

Leon was afraid that Viche was not curious, so he turned around and said mysteriously: "It's a small French point guard named Tony Parker, I don't know if you remember, he played in the 2000 Indiana International Basketball Game and scored 20 points. Then Mr. Auerbach sent me to France to look at this player, and he was really talented, he was amazingly fast, he had a very good sense of the ball, and I guess there was no better point guard in this class than him. ”

Leon is blowing together, praising Parker like a flower, Vicy must have three points of suspicion, but when Leon sees Auerbach later, he will dispel Vicsy's three points of suspicion.

When they arrived at the Woodmont club, Wick was stopped outside the club's porch, and it was his introducer, Rob Eze. Eze is a member of the Woodmont Club, a legal practitioner who was able to end Leon's volunteer work early last year.

"Hello Leon, Mr. Auerbach is already waiting for you inside." Eze said to Leon, and at the same time led him into the box inside, which made Vicy stunned, he originally thought that Auerbach would see him first, but he didn't expect this young scout to take the lead, it seems that this is not a small person, Vicxi can't help but think a little higher in his heart of Leon.

Leon walked into the box playing bridge with Auerbach's brother, John Wood, and Fox reporter and anchor Chris Wallace, whose father was Mike Wallace.

"Hope it didn't bother you." Leon came in and saw Auerbach looking at the cards, so he said.

"You've bothered me! Wait a little longer! Wait a minute, Eze, why did you bring him in so quickly. Auerbach continued to stare at the cards and yelled that he hated being disturbed the most when he played bridge.

Eze suffered a dumb loss, it was Auerbach who brought him in when he saw Leon, but now he blamed him for bringing him in too quickly, and it can only be said that the bishop's temper is too elusive.

Leon straightened his clothes, wiped off some water stains on them, then glanced close to the table, looked at the cards in Auerbach's hand, and said, "Don't play old man, there's no chance, your bidding is still so bad, how can you bid 10 tricks with a hand like yours?" ”

Bridge, a card game that relies heavily on calculations, was a piece of cake for Leon, and after a glance at Auerbach's cards and a glance at the table, he saw the pros and cons of Auerbach's hand, and roughly calculated in his mind the possible hands of several other houses, and decided that Auerbach's bid had made another mistake.

Hearing Leon say this, Auerbach angrily threw the card on the table, and shook off a few cigarette ashes from the cigar in his mouth, in fact, he himself knew that this one would definitely lose, and he couldn't play 10 tricks at all, but it was really shameless to be poked by Leon like this.

"You're a scumbag!" Auerbach angrily poked Leon with his fingers, then sat down on the couch next to him and smoked his cigar in a huff.

Leon didn't care, he sat down next to Auerbach and said to him, "I have a plan to make some money from the Spurs." As soon as he heard Leon's words, Auerbach's anger seemed to disappear immediately, and he asked Leon to continue.

So Leon told Auerbach about yesterday's meeting with Presti and today's meeting with Vic, and pointed out the Spurs' weakness in wanting Tony Parker.

Auerbach took a puff of his cigarette, and although he had been trying to quit cigars for more than a year, he couldn't do it at Club Woodmont, and he would smell the lingering aroma of cigars that he had been swallowing and sucking into everything around him for years, and he couldn't stand smelling them.

"What the hell is that Tony Parker? Are you sure the Spurs want him badly? Auerbach confirmed to Leon that he didn't want to be reversed.

"I'm sure Parker is a big potential lad and if we end up going to pick him, it would be a good choice." Leon is still very confident in his vision, especially after coming into contact with this young man in France, he feels Parker's tenacity and temperament, which is good for him to establish himself in the NBA.

"It looks like Popovich made a mistake as well, he shouldn't have easily revealed his hole cards without knowing our hole cards, which is very, very dangerous." Auerbach seems to be feeling sorry for the Spurs.

Indeed, it is very disadvantageous to easily show your own hole cards without figuring out your opponent's hole cards, but obviously the Spurs are also helpless, their cards are too few, and the maneuver space is almost zero, and all they want is to be unaware. It should not fall into the hands of the Celtics, who have the thickest cards, and it is estimated that Popovich also thinks that it is better to take a bold gamble and grovel to get Parker back first.

Auerbach sat on the couch and smoked for a long time, without saying a word, he was quietly thinking, not only thinking about how to squeeze benefits from the Spurs, but also thinking about how to make Leon better sit in the assistant coach position, which is the main purpose of letting Leon come this time.

"What about Vicky?" Auerbach asked Eze suddenly.

"Oh, he's outside, and he wants to double-check if he can come in." Eze had just gone out to entertain Vixie.

"Did he bring an umbrella, did he drive?" Auerbach asked again.

"I didn't bring an umbrella, I didn't drive, and it looked like it was raining a little." Eze thought that the famous anchor was shivering a little from the rain that came in on the porch, but politely asked if he could get in. It seemed that although the two of them were mortal enemies in the newspaper, when they were really only one door apart, Vicxi also trembled. Like Eze himself when he first met Auerbach, he cowered like an elementary school student who was going to school to meet his teacher for the first time.

Eze looked at Leon, who was sitting next to Auerbach, with his legs crossed and looked indifferent, and thought to himself that he was the only one in this world who dared to be so unscrupulous in front of the old man Auerbach.

"Well......" Auerbach scratched his head, thought for a moment and said, "Then let him wait, I still have something to think about, think about it." ”