Leon didn't know that he had become sand in the eyes of others.

In fact, Leon is not the only one, just in May of this year, two former Boston Hall of Famer players, Bob Cousy, became the Celtics' marketing consultant, and Jojo White became the head of special operations.

So, after Pitino's defeat again this season, the Celtic management that he restructured himself is no longer so solid. It's just that Cousy and White both hold the position of the team's marketing operations department and are not directly involved in the operation of the team's basketball affairs, while Leon is different, and the scouts will be an important member of the management.

Of course, compared to these two famous Celtics legends, Leon is really an out-and-out sand, so much so that by now, no more than three people in the Celtics team know that he has become a scout for the team.

Jay Wesland is one of the three, and he's the Celtics' new director of new technology, or CTO, this year, a new position that the Boston Celtics just created this year.

In the past, a basketball team didn't seem to need much of a technical director. But now, with the widespread application of IT technology, many teams have begun to realize that new technologies can play an effective role in team management, and have begun to recruit technical talents.

This high-achieving student who graduated from Colorado State University's computer science department has a passion for basketball, but his basketball resume is completely blank, he has never been a player, he has never been a coach, he has never been a basketball material, he is just a technician.

This rookie training camp he also followed the scout team to Chicago to do some data support work, and today he received a very, very "important" task, which is to meet the team's new scouts flying from Boston at the Chicago airport in the early morning.

As he sat in the waiting room at Chicago Airport and drank his fifth cup of coffee, the Boston-to-Chicago flight had finally arrived safely.

"Finally the fuck arrived, and if it was a little later, let that guy sleep in an airport hotel...... Damn, it's already half past one, and I hope I don't fall asleep on the way back. Wesland looked at his watch and grumbled.

As the CTO of the team, he was also in the name of the director, and was sent to the airport to meet a scout. And Wesland knows where this guy comes from, he is a 28-year-old young man who seems to have just been released from prison, and it seems to have something to do with boxing in the past, nothing to do with basketball, and even more so with the profession of scouting, I don't know what evil the Celtics management has to ask such a guy to be a scout.

Thinking of this, Wesland yawned, got up from the chair in the waiting room and stretched, looking at the crowd slowly pouring out of the passageway, hoping that the scout named Fox Leon would show up sooner.

Wesland didn't have a photo of Leon, he only had Leon's mobile phone number, he took out the phone book from his jacket pocket, went to the public phone booth next to him and made two calls but couldn't get through, it seems that Leon's mobile phone didn't turn on after getting off the plane.

This was a big mess for Wesland, and he didn't have a big sign for pick-up, because it was really ugly. But now that Wesland doesn't know Leon, and Leon doesn't know Wesland, will the two of them be left to recognize each other until all the people in the hall are gone?

Just when Wesland was in a hurry, a young man who had just come out of the passage, wearing a white shirt and khaki trousers, and a sports backpack on his back, walked up to him. Wesland stared at him, and the other party walked straight over, and Wesland felt that this was most likely the Fox Leon he was waiting for, with long black curly hair, black eyes, and a half-blood.

However, from the other party's eyes, Wesland could not see any doubt, so he suspected that the other party was not coming towards him, but there were other people behind him, so he turned back to look in both directions, but there was no one else.

"Don't look at it, hello Wesland, I'm Fox Leon." Leon had walked up to Wesland and said to him with his right hand.

That's when Westland learned that that person was Fox Leon, the team's new scout he was up to.

Wesland hurriedly reached out and shook Leon's hand while asking, "Did Carl give you my picture?" I don't think I've seen you before, have you seen me? ”

Leon shook his head and replied, "No, Carl didn't give me a picture, and I haven't seen you, but I've seen your phone book, the Boston Celtics' phone book." ”

It was then that Wesland found himself holding the telephone book in his left hand, a Celtic phone book with a green cover and the Celtic logo - an Irish leprechaun "Lucky" wearing a clover print gown on crutches.

"Oh my God, I just called your phone from a pay phone, but your phone doesn't seem to be on." Wesland heard Leon's words and put the phone book in his pocket.

Wesland is still more accustomed to using a pay phone when he is away on business, because the team has a pay phone IC card for them, and it is still quite expensive to make calls on a Boston mobile phone in Chicago.

"My phone was out of battery, and it was supposed to be turned off when I got on the plane, so I didn't change the battery." Leon said as he took out his phone from his bag and replaced it with a spare battery, turned on his phone, and a lot of text messages popped up at once.

It was all sent by Khomemenez.

Leon roughly flipped through it, and Khomemenis meant to hope that Leon would remember to reply when he arrived in Chicago, and then said a lot of nonsense that Leon didn't quite understand.

Leon replied briefly, telling Holmenes that he was in Chicago and that he would let her know when he returned to Boston, and then threw the phone back in his backpack.

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On the way back, Leon didn't talk much, and Wesland didn't have a chance to talk to Leon to open up the topic and relieve the sense of distress, but Leon obviously didn't have much interest in chatting.

In this way, Wesland endured sleepiness in the dark and drove the rented car, and Leon sat in the passenger seat thinking about his thoughts.

The wee hours of Chicago are not dark at all, the lights are brilliant, and the third-largest city in the United States exudes its charm with its lights.

"What am I going to do starting tomorrow?" Leon finally took the initiative to ask, there are some things that you can't think of with your head alone.

"I don't know." Wesland replied crisply, just as Leon had answered his question just now.

"Do I need to keep track of those players?" Leon asked again.

"Maybe, but that kind of thing a statistician can do, just a high school student." Wesland replied with a prickly voice, he didn't like Leon very much, this guy made him stay up all night until now, and he still ignored him along the way.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to ignore you, I was just thinking about how I should start my job." Leon said frankly, and expressed a small apology to Wesland.

One of Leon's strengths is that he has a straightforward personality, unlike some Americans, who likes to talk witticisms, he has always been honest and sincere, and sometimes he is honest and unbearable.

Wesland was also a little embarrassed, slowed down his tone and said, "Don't worry, everything is prepared." I'll show you something when I get back to the hotel later. ”

An hour later, the two arrived at the Athletics Association Hotel at 12 Michigan Avenue in Chicago, which was a famous track and field club in Chicago at the end of the 19th century, and was later converted into a grand hotel centered on this club, which has become one of the most famous hotels in Chicago.

Unlike other modern five-star hotels, the Athletics Association Hotel is elegant and retro, with a 19th-century stone building and a large stained glass lobby.

Leon walked in with Wesland, and he could feel the wealth of the NBA team, and if they didn't have the money, the company wouldn't let its employees stay in such a hotel on a business trip.

"Your room is on the fourth floor, right next door to me, and the scouting team's room is on the fifth floor, they should all be asleep now, and we'll see them again tomorrow morning. Okay, let's go check out your room first, I've got some essentials in your room. Wesland said as he walked, leading Leon to his room, 4019 on the fourth floor.

Leon was also a little curious, a hotel like this should have all kinds of daily necessities, what other necessities to prepare, and what Wesland said to show him.

When he arrived at the room and opened the door, Leon found that it was a very well-decorated single room, with a large single bed, and at the head of the bed was placed an old vaulting horse that had been used in the past, which could be used to store clothes, and also lived up to the title of the Athletics Association Hotel.

But Leon soon noticed something different from the other rooms, that is, on the table, there was a paper as thick as a large dictionary, on which were densely written.

"That's what you're going to show me, and my necessities?" Leon asked, pointing to the stack of papers.

Wesland nodded, then said, "There are two documents here, one is for this rookie training camp and the other is about the Celtics. This is carefully prepared by our technical department for the scouting team, I hope you will take the time to take a good look, preferably during the day, and the training camp will start tomorrow...... It's a little past a little now, it's really not early, I'm sleepy too, rest early, tomorrow the coaching staff will give you a good look, come on man. ”

With that, Wesland and Leon said goodnight, and Leon nodded goodbye to Wesland.

However, as soon as Wesland closed the door, he knocked on the door again, and said to Leon, who opened the door: "By the way, I forgot one thing, in the drawer of the desk, there is also a special information about our coaching staff...... If you're not particularly sleepy, you can open them up and take a look. ”

As for the information on the Celtic coaching staff, it is clear that this is not within the scope of the information required by the scouting task force, and it seems that it is prepared for Leon alone.

"Who prepared it for me?" Leon asked.

"Hehehe, I think you'll guess that there's a guy who has a lot of ideas." Wesland smiled mysteriously and closed the door.

There is no need to guess, Leon also knows, it must have been prepared by Auerbach.