With the fermentation of public opinion in the entire NBA, the ladder has been driven directly to Du Kang's feet, Du Kang has to go on if he doesn't want to, and if he doesn't go up, it will definitely damage his reputation.

Therefore, everyone is very excited now, especially within the Lakers, the players, management, coaches, and staff have completely lost the emotion of losing G1 in the Finals, and they are all looking forward to something energetically.

As the acting head coach of the Lakers now, Popovich looked at the Lakers players who were training on the court at this time with a blank face.

His face was expressionless, but there were huge waves in his heart.

Unexpectedly, in the end, he was still unable to prove himself.

I didn't expect that this day would come so early.

Now the public opinion of the whole NBA, for Coach D, the ladder has been erected under his feet.

And for him, Popovich, the same is true.

Public opinion has fermented into what it is now, and if he doesn't know the current affairs anymore, he will be humiliating himself.

So, now he has his own decision, he decided that after his last training session, he will go to Coach D, submit his resignation to Coach D, and leave the Lakers.

handed over the Lakers to Coach D, and he accepted Coach K's invitation to be the head coach of the U.S. team, and after leading the U.S. team to win the 2016 Olympic championship, he retired with honor, and the current NBA has belonged to the era of young people like Coach D and Magical Monty.

He continued to stay here, only to bring humiliation on himself at the end of his career, just like his teacher Larry Brown.

So many people say that his master Larry Brown and his second master Nelson Sr. are very different in terms of pattern.

Not only is the pattern of coaching very bad, but the master is utilitarian, which makes many people despise, and the second master is full of idealism and respect.

In terms of gains and losses, the master can't see through fame and fortune, and always hesitates in the start and stop, and finally keeps failing, which makes people laugh.

And the second master, old Nelson, whether it is just one step away from the peak, the calf he built, or the warrior who led the black eight to become an eternal legend, is so chic, absolutely not greedy for the peak that the calf may come to in the future, and never remembers his status in the Warriors like a priest, although every time the second master leaves is not a rapid retreat to reach the peak, but every time he leaves, the chic back is always admirable, and the kind of broad mind is admirable.

So, when everyone talks about Larry Brown and Nelson Sr., the evaluations and attitudes they give are not completely different, but basically the opposite.

Although he and Larry Brown are closer, as a person who has not seen through fame and fortune at all, he naturally hopes that he can be evaluated like the second master, Old Nelson.

I think so.

But as the heir of Larry Brown, he is known as the head coach carved out of a mold by Larry Brown.

How could Popovich really have the old Nelson's mind of waving his sleeves without taking away a cloud?

If it weren't really bad, even if he was at the bottom every year, he would stay in the position of head coach, if nothing else, just to prove that without Duncan, I Popovich, can lead the team to the championship!

Otherwise, how could Popovich accept Dukang's offer to come to the Lakers?

At the end of the G7 game in the Western Conference Finals, he was defeated by Kerr, he thought about resigning, but in the end he was reluctant, and finally although he resigned, he was retained by Coach D.

And this time, he knew very well that it was impossible for Coach D to keep him.

Even if it is him, in the face of such public opinion, it is impossible not to stand up, let alone Coach D, who is stronger than him.

Although he didn't want this training session to end so early, how could there be a training session in this world that didn't end?

The Lakers players want to end this training session early.

Popovich wanted it to never end.

At this time, the Lakers' hearts and minds can be seen.

So, that's why everyone says that Coach D will definitely come out.

Because, people's minds change, people's hearts are moved, and if Coach D doesn't come out again, not only his reputation may be ruined, but even the morale of the Lakers will be seriously hit.

It's a conspiracy.

Very powerful conspiracy.

Even though Reggie Miller, the magicians, knew that they were defending Coach D and were actually putting Coach D on fire, they still had to defend it.

Even if Coach D knows that this is a trap, even if the Lakers players know that Coach D's return may hurt Coach D, Coach D will still come back, and the Lakers players will still want Coach D to come back.

With Coach D, there is hope.

Hope pierces all impossible despair.

Coach D is the brightest hope in the NBA.

And they made such a big move, not only for the final victory and championship, not only for the sake of whitewashing, who is the god, who is the winner, what they want most is to erase the bright color that has been hanging over them and making them unable to cover the world.

In this world, there should not be an existence like Coach D!

They want to destroy this hope completely, to extinguish this light completely!

The Lakers' practice session was over, and all eyes were on Popovich.

And after Popovich noticed everyone's gaze, he had a lot to say, and he felt that he had a lot of goodbyes to confide in.

In the end, Popovich found that there was nothing he could do.

In the end, Popovich just smiled, then turned around, ready to leave.

It was in a hurry when it came.

It's also in a hurry when I leave.

Looking at such a back, many Lakers players were a little strange for a while.

Of course, they don't like Popovich, most people don't, but Popovich has actually done a great job as their head coach with the Lakers these days.

Although it was Coach D who stepped up to defeat the mighty Warriors and Kerr at the most critical moment, Popovich did make a huge contribution for the Lakers.

If it weren't for Coach D, who was about to welcome them back, they would have been willing to give Popovich a round of applause when he left.

However, at that time, they could not give Popovich a round of applause.

With the world expecting Coach D, do you think Popovich did a good job?

Don't you think Popovich shouldn't leave, so what do you mean?

Are you prepared not to let Coach D return to his loyal Los Angeles Lakers?

So what kind of ingredient are you?

Aren't you going to be on the opposite side of all the Lakers?

If you really want to give Popovich applause at this time, then you will definitely be isolated from the Lakers.

Or even self-isolation from the NBA.

Popovich can't go back to the Spurs now, and if he leaves the Lakers, can he give anyone a job?

What's more, their feelings for Popovich are really not to the point where they can give up their jobs.

What a smart person Popovich is, so, after thinking about this, he suppressed all his reluctance, kept all the touches to himself, and held back all the words.

There's no need to bother with everyone.

And just as Popovich walked to the door with heavy steps......

"Bobo!"

A loud voice came from behind.

For a moment, Popovich even thought he had misheard.

Therefore, I didn't react at the first time, I just stopped and didn't react.

Until, the applause behind him rang out!

Syllable!

Syllable!

Smack!

Bang Bang Bang!

Popovich's heart was trembling, not only his heart was trembling, but his whole person was trembling slightly.

Looking back, the person who stopped him and gave him applause just now was a person he wouldn't even think about.

Kevin, Garnett!

Popovich looked at Garnett incredulously.

In fact, not only Popovich, but even the Lakers players next to him, and the two overseers of the Lakers, Kobe Bryant and Maddy, looked at Popovich in surprise.

Garnett: What does this mean?

I didn't think you had a deep relationship with Popovich before.

Even Pierce wanted to pull Garnett, and Pierce, who reacted, wanted to pull Garnett and not let him applaud.

However, Garnett shook off Pierce's hand and continued to applaud.

And the applause became more firm and louder.

Seeing Garnett like this, Pierce felt like he was about to despair.

KG: Is this crazy?

If the two hadn't worked together in Boston for so many years, Pierce would now feel that Garnett was really an undercover agent sent by the Celtics to the Lakers.

Otherwise, it would not be possible to explain why Popovich was given a round of applause at this time.

Even if Popovich did a really good job with the Lakers and did his best for the Lakers, but at this time, is it time to applaud Popovich and oppose the return of Coach D?

Pierce's head is going to explode right now.

He didn't believe Garnett was an undercover agent.

But you can't feel that Garnett and Popovich have a deep relationship, Garnett is disguised by Tim Duncan, right?

KG has recently liked some of Tim Duncan's behaviors, such as touching the back of someone's head, but he is not blind!

In the face of Pierce's shocked gaze, Kobe, Maddy, and the incredible gaze of all the Lakers players, Garnett not only applauded.

And he clapped as he walked in front of Popovich.

Looking at the old man in front of him with almost the same hair loss, Garnett was really infinitely emotional.

Perhaps no one in this world knows Popovich better than he does.

In his dreams, Popovich was his mentor, rival, enemy, friend for many years......

In his dream, he not only won the championship with Popovich, but also once killed Popovich in the finals after leaving the Spurs.

Even, he was angry with Popovich's narrow-minded predecessor more than once.

Popovich in his dreams, at his most glorious, stabbed him, a traitor, and won the championship with the Spurs.

Popovich in the dream, the most unlucky, was defeated by him in the finals, and in his trash talk, he died of anger on the spot.

So, with a casual movement, a look, Popovich knew what it meant.

And the Popovich just now is definitely the Popovich he has ever seen, who needs help the most, needs applause the most, and needs recognition the most.

He even suspected that if he walked out of the training ground in such obscurity, perhaps he would never see Popovich again.

At the very least, in the basketball circle, in the NBA, Popovich will never be seen again.

He was strong all his life, and in the end he left so embarrassed and humble, the Spurs fans ridiculed, the Lakers fans cheered, and the departure was so heartbreaking.

It's too miserable.

This is worse than when he was swept away by the Celtics.

He didn't want to see anything like that.

He didn't want Popovich to do that.

Although he and Popovich fell in love and killed each other for an unknown number of lifetimes, he confirmed that he still liked this stubborn old man.

"Bobo, no matter what others say, you're one of the best head coaches in the world, not as good as Coach D, not as good as Fantastic Monty, not even as good as Kerr, doesn't mean you're the worst, time will go forward, and when the Finals are over, everyone will come back to their senses again, and they will know once again that you have to be great, and the Spurs fans will know, and the Lakers fans will know, Bobo, look ahead, time will bring you everything, you don't have to do anything, sit there, smile, wait for applause, flowers, they will all come back again."

Garnett hugged Popovich and whispered in Popovich's ear in as calm as he could.

Garnett knew that it was useless for him to say anything, but in fact, it didn't matter what he said at this time.

For Popovich, the most important thing is this shout, this applause, and this hug.

All this let Popovich know that the world has not abandoned him.

Forcing Coach D out, the most ruthless of this hand is to completely destroy Popovich.

So, Du Kang had actually arrived at the door of the training gym early, leaning his back against the door, ready to wait for the end of the training session, when Popovich opened the door.

If there is no applause in the door, then he will go straight to the Lakers head coach and give Popovich the last respect and recognition.

Even if he knew that the abyss awaited him in front of him, he couldn't push Popovich to step on this pile of thunder for him.

But......

The door creaked open.

There was applause behind him.

Literally, behind Popovich, there was applause.

Popovich, who was hugged by Garnett, came from behind him.

Looking at the man standing there smiling behind him, Garnett was shocked.

Kobe, Maddy, Pierce, Antetokounmpo, Ibanks, McCarvey, Yao Ming, Yese, Seth Curry......

All the Lakers players, all were shocked.

Coach D!

He's applauding Popovich!

Popovich had a hunch from the look on the face of the Lakers player in front of him.

Turning back with a trembling back, Popovich was stupid.

"Bobo, I don't want you to be forced to leave the Lakers head coach position, if there's one last person in the world who wants you to stay in this position, then that person is me."

Popovich was blind.

"Bobo, I hope you leave here with glory and the respect of the world, at the very least, I want you to leave here with a smile and willingness."

"And now, you don't have glory, you don't have respect, and you don't have any smile on your face."

"So, you can't go."

Du Kang finished smiling, and there was a click behind him, and the bright light flashed wildly!

Only then did Popovich realize that forever, behind Du Kang, a bunch of reporters actually rushed in!!

Yes, the Lakers' security guards were allowed to pass in at the moment Coach D pushed the door in according to Coach D's instructions.

While Popovich was still down, Ducon turned around and looked at the group of reporters behind him.

"That's the press conference I gave you."

"Equally."

"That's also Coach D's answer, Bobo, who is still the head coach of the Lakers!"

The world that was originally boiling is even more boiling.

And in another upscale hotel in Los Angeles.

James was a little blind.

The man in front of James gritted his teeth, and the expression on his face was cloudy.

This was all resolved by Coach D!

You'll be back, though, and you will definitely be back!

Popovich can carry the dirt for you, but he can't carry everything for you!

"Do I need to keep crying in the next game?"

James asked weakly.

And what awaits James is ......

"Cry!"

A word that shattered James's inner fluke, ruthless!

He doesn't hate crying......

However, he hopes to cry like Jordan did when he won the championship......

(End of chapter)