On the way back to the MGM Hotel, the two security guards were silent, but their hearts were uneasy. When leaving the Hoover Dam, Leon said "I must take a gamble" and left the two confused. If Leon must want to go back to the MGM hotel casino to gamble, then the heads of these two guys will definitely be screwed off by the general manager as a ball, and the responsibility of the two of them is not only to protect Leon to accompany him to the dam at night, but also to accompany him with good words, so as not to make him unhappy and have to go back to the casino to kill all sides.

In the 2003 playoffs, he led the Boston Celtics all the way to the Finals, bringing the Green Shirts to the floor of the Finals after a 16-year absence. Although they lost to the San Antonio Spurs due to a lack of hard power in the end, and failed to bring another championship trophy to the Celtics, their performances along the way were enough to impress the whole nation with Fox Leon.

And the stage of the finals is much bigger than other basketball games, Leon suddenly from a well-known basketball coach in the basketball circle, to a well-known young coach in the United States, he is at ease against the 76ers, the Pistons, and then in the Eastern Conference finals against the Nets step by step Jedi counterattack, the name of "Scarface" quickly spread in the United States.

Therefore, if Fox Leon insists on participating in the gambling game at the MGM Hotel, even if he is on the casino's blacklist, the casino will not dare to forcibly refuse him to enter the casino in the end, and his celebrity halo will have an unbearable negative impact on the casino, which is why the general manager of the casino sent two of the best bodyguards to serve - if it weren't for Leon's not being a good woman, the general manager of the casino would never mind letting the hotel's best courtesan accompany Leon to the Hoover Bus for an exciting field fight.

"Mr. Leon...... We... Maybe we should give you a little advice... No, it's a little request... It's not right, it's a request, a plea. Hopefully, I hope you don't go back to MGM to gamble...... Gambling, gambling is harmful to physical and mental health......" The big black man sitting in the passenger seat struggled for a while, and finally begged Leon not to go back to the casino to gamble, and because he was nervous, he said a reason that made Leon feel crying and laughing.

Leon smiled and shook his head, he knew that the two guys had misunderstood what he meant, he said that he didn't want to go back to MGM to gamble, in fact, he didn't come to Las Vegas to play at the table, because there is no more attractive place to gamble than the big table of the NBA draft and trade market.

Back after Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the NBA2003 draft draw was held in New York, and as with the only memories of Fox Leon remaining, the Cleveland Cavaliers got their coveted No. 1 pick, while the Grizzlies "regrettably" got the No. 1 pick, which was hand-delivered to the Celtics by Chris Wallace according to last summer's trade.

It's the second No. 1 pick in Boston Celtics history, and their last No. 1 pick was in 1985, on that heartbreaking draft night, when they drafted Len Baias and he died of drugs. If you go back further, the Celtics also tried to get a No-List pick through a trade, and finally got the player who was the No. 1 pick, and that person was Bill Russell.

For the Celtics, a team that has never been touched by a first-round pick in their entire history except for the first NBA pick in 1949, the top pick is the highest pick they can get, and it has left an indelible mark on both the black and white side of the Celtics. Now they have another one of those picks in front of them, and it's a super draft year.

In addition to the talented high school student from Akron, who is destined to go to Livland, the Celtics have Carmelo Anthony, the hottest player in the NCAA in 2003, Dwyane Wade, a lightning guard from Marquette University, and Chris Bosh, an all-around power forward from Georgia Tech, all of whom have the potential to be the core of the team.

Because of this, there is a disagreement within the Celtics over whether to continue to follow through with the trade to get Garnett or to find a quality rookie through the draft. Leon naturally hopes to use this draft pick to match other players on the team and get Garnett through trade, after all, this plan has been laid out for nearly two years, public opinion, signing friends, threatening agents, and even face-to-face persuasion, asking Leon to give up getting this super power forward now, just like letting him give up being the coach of the Celtics.

Now, the whole world knows that the Celtics want to get Garnett, including Garnett himself and the Timberwolves, and whether the deal can be made depends on the Celtics' chips, the Timberwolves' intentions and actions, and Garnett's own thoughts. None of those three points are missing, because the person Leon wants is Kevin Garnett, who will be paid a staggering $28 million next year, the highest salary in a single year since Michael Jordan.

The salary cap for the 2003-2004 season is expected to be about $430 million, an increase of $30 million from 2003, which is an absolute positive for Leon, and the new TV broadcast agreement comes into effect, and the extra 30 million space will greatly increase the possibility of the Celtics taking Garnett's contract.

But there are still different voices within the Celtics, although the operation of getting the roster is led by Leon, specifically to trade to get Garnett, but this year's draft is too tempting, for the Celtics, who have a tradition of relying on the draft, it is really a very Celtic decision to be able to use a roster to sign the talented players that the team needs most and inject vitality into the long-term development of the team.

Naturally, the older generation of Celtic celebrities are making this noise, and they don't care where this draft pick came from, they just want to maintain the glorious tradition of the Green Army, and it is really a good choice to select a low-key, excellent young man who can add talent to the squad that is already capable of reaching the Finals.

This voice is currently so strong that now the whole of Boston is discussing who they should choose, like the Boston Tribune and other media have launched fan voting activities, allowing fans to choose whether they should use this unexpected draft pick to pick a newcomer, you must know that as a team that has just reached the finals, it can get such a high pick in the draft the following year, and the only one comparable to the 1982 Los Angeles Lakers is the champion of that year, He also got that year's No. 1 pick, which was one of the incentives that forced Stern to change the draft and pick trade rules.

And now it's 2003, the rules have been quite perfect, and the Celtics still took advantage of the loophole to get a list pick, how can they not make the Bostonians ecstatic, as if they have returned to the era when the Green Army was playing hooligans in the league.

And how exactly this pick came about has long been forgotten. This left Fox Leon in an awkward passivity, and instead of even attending the rookie's pre-draft training camp or producing a scouting report, he ran to Hoover Dam in Las Vegas to clear his mind and train of thought.

Leon knows that all fans are forgetful, even Celtics fans, the best fanbase in the country, who will remember the most glorious victories and the most painful defeats, the brightest stars and the most exciting games, but they will not remember the sweat behind the victory and the lessons behind the defeat, they will not remember the complex behind-the-scenes transactions and meticulous pre-game preparation, which are not for fans to remember.

So Leon knew that there was no point in arguing and blaming people, and the only thing he could do was to make the two-year-old trade before the draft, remove all obstacles in the way of the trade, and when Garnett came to Boston, everything would be back in his hands.

It's like the majestic Hoover Dam, which has been impounded for many years, making the rushing river as calm as a stream, but the moment the gate is opened to release water, all obstacles will be swept away by the surging water, like the process of history, unstoppable. (To be continued.) )