"Isiah, you know, I have chosen a good young man. He is like a replica of you. I need you to take him with you. Is this okay for you?"
General manager McCloskey came to the locker room of the training facility and called Isiah Thomas out.
Hearing this, the smile on the Smiling Assassin's face disappeared, and a cold feeling suddenly arose in his heart.
This time he was swept by Jordan in the Eastern Conference Finals, which made him lose face. Now he is asked to lead a new person, and a new person who is very similar to him. Does this mean that he is no longer good and needs to find a replacement?
It’s not that he doesn’t accept newcomers. A team without newcomers has no future. He knows this very well, but he is still only 30 years old and his career is far from over. Why should the management find a replacement so early? ?
Nameless anger arose in his heart, and for no reason, he began to hate the rookie he had not yet met.
"I hope he won't disappoint you, sir."
Anger rose and fell in his heart, and after a somewhat stiff response, he turned around and walked into the locker room, then closed the door with a bang.
McCloskey had a bad feeling in his heart. He knew Thomas very well. He was a guy who was incompatible with the whole world. He seemed to be born against the whole world and potentially hated everything. Looking at Thomas's attitude now, he was very worried. Whether Zhou Quan can get Thomas' approval.
"What's wrong, Isiah, who messed with you?"
Seeing Thomas's face looking very bad, Ranbir asked casually.
"Do you know the Chinese guy we selected this time?"
Thomas had his usual smile on his face, but there was a cold light in his eyes, and he said coldly: "Mr. Jack McCloskey has found a replacement for me. Bill, we are getting old. Maybe one day you and I will be replaced." trade."
"Replace you with a rookie? Haha, is management going to replace you with a piece of shit?"
Laimbeer has a very good relationship with Thomas. He even said in public that he was willing to sacrifice everything to help Thomas win the championship. So after listening to Thomas' words, his impression of Zhou Quan immediately dropped to freezing point. He unscrupulously used obscene words to ridicule him. The person looks fierce.
With his words, the entire locker room became quiet, and the atmosphere dropped sharply. No one, including Rodman, dared to speak anymore, and they were all in silence for the rookie who was about to appear.
"We're going to fix him!"
A nightmare-inducing smile appeared on Ranbir's face.
He has a really good relationship with Isiah Thomas. In the 1988 Finals, when they lost to the Lakers, he and Thomas stole several bottles of celebratory champagne from the Lakers locker room, drank heavily and took a shower in the bathroom. Frustrated, the man sat naked on the floor and cried out in pain.
In his eyes, Thomas is a fearless warrior and the soul of the team. He agrees with what Chuck Daly said. Daly once said that if Thomas was 5 inches taller, he would be the greatest star in the league. .
And now there is actually a so-called rookie who wants to replace Isiah Thomas. In his view, this is courting death and is unacceptable.
A few minutes later, Zhou Quan came to the locker room.
"Good morning! I am Zhou Quan, from China. You can call me Zhou." There was a gentle smile on his face, and his tone was also gentle.
"Hello, Zhou, I'm Joe Dumas, welcome to join the Pistons." Joe Dumas stood up, smiled and extended his hand to Zhou Quan.
"Hello, Qiao." Zhou Quan shook hands and smiled.
"Zhou, this is Bill, Bill Laimbeer, he is the leader of our locker room. Bill, this is Zhou." Joe Dumars, a good old man who has been through the mud but not stained, introduced at this time.
"Hello, Bill." Zhou Quan said with a smile.
"You little bastard, I heard that you are going to replace Thomas, don't you know that you are a piece of shit?" Ranbir cursed in very unpleasant words.
Zhou Quan was not surprised at all. The villain in front of him was such an unscrupulous person. He was not only a villain on the court, but also a bully off the court. As a second-generation rich man, he acted without scruples. If he hurt someone, he would at most pay for it. .
But just like that, Laimbeer's attitude did not break through his bottom line. In his two years of NCAA career, especially in the ice hockey team, people like Laimbeer are actually very ordinary, and there are too many people who are ten times more violent.
"Bata!"
A pair of smelly sneakers was thrown at his feet, and Laimbeer said coldly: "Stop smiling, kid, wipe them clean with your towel, now."
"And mine."
Isiah Thomas also threw in a pair of stinky shoes.
"mine."
Spider John Salley also threw in a pair.
"Plus mine."
The same goes for Rodman.
Zhou Quan looked at the four people. Several members of the Bad Boys Legion have left in recent years. Now these four guys are considered all the members of the Bad Boys Legion, including Joe Dumas, and some other newcomers and latecomers. Not really a bad boy.
"Zhou, it's just a friendly joke. We have all experienced it. It can help you integrate into the team faster." Joe Dumas smiled and patted Zhou Quan on the shoulder.
"I know."
He smiled and nodded, took out his towel from his backpack, and began the first step of joining the Pistons. The newcomers had unspoken rules and polished the shoes of the veterans.
But he didn't know that Ranbir disliked him, even hated him, because of the Smiling Assassin, and with Ranbir's unscrupulousness and villainous nature, his humiliation would not end there.
Sure enough, just when he was about to polish his shoes, Ranbir smiled strangely and said, "Boy, are you Japanese?"
Zhou Quan stopped what he was doing, raised his head and said to Ranbir: "Bill, I am Chinese, as I just said."
"No no no..."
Ranbir shook his head repeatedly and said with a smile: "I have a better impression of the Japanese because they are as obedient as pugs, so I hope you are Japanese."
Zhou Quan threw down the sneakers in his hand, put the unstained towel back into his bag, stood up and said indifferently: "But I am Chinese."
"Damn it, I said you are Japanese, you are Japanese. Don't say you are Chinese here in the future, otherwise I will beat you to death." Ranbir said angrily.
"..."
Everyone in the locker room was shocked.
They all have a deep understanding of what kind of villain Laimbeer is. He is a ferocious character who is feared by everyone in the league. Cruelty, badness, and evil are his three magic weapons to run rampant in the league. Even his teammates beat and scold him unscrupulously. But now, they are still shocked by Ranbir's unreasonableness.
Including Zhou Quan, he believes that Laimbeer has been spoiled by the entire NBA and has an inflated mentality, thinking that everyone is afraid of him, so he is unscrupulous.
However, last year, three players died on and off the field in the NFL, 11 were seriously injured or disabled, and there were countless minor injuries. If a person like Laimbeer were in the NFL, he would either keep his head down or not survive for three seasons.
Even in the NHL, people like Laimbeer will definitely become a key target of PK. They will either be defeated or crippled, or they will bow their heads.
