Healing Basketball

  Chapter 1003 1003. What about the draft

  After dinner, most of Liu Xiu's family stood in front of the TV together, waiting to watch the talent show starting at 8 o'clock.

   Liu Xiu is very curious about who will be the No. 1 pick.

  The Bulls chose Rose, largely because Rose is a native of Chicago. In high school, he led Simon Vocational College to win the Illinois High School League for two consecutive championships. This is the first time in history for a high school in Chicago.

  After finishing his senior year in high school, Rose ranked sixth among high school students in the United States, won the Illinois Mr. Basketball Award, was selected to the All-American Team, and was selected to the Jordan All-American Team.

  Although Ross did not go to school locally, he reached the finals of the NCAA basketball championship. The Bulls must give priority to him when they get the No. 1 pick.

   But here, the No. 1 lottery is the Sonics... This team will soon be disbanded. The Sonics have vacated everything in Seattle at the end of April and moved their family to Oklahoma City.

  Without the status of the Bulls' "local talent", Rose's voice for the No. 1 pick is not high.

   At present, Billis is the number one favorite, Mayo is the top high school student in the United States that year, and Love is the most talented insider.

   At 8 o'clock in the evening, the draft began.

David Stern walked onto the stage with an envelope and babbled for 3 minutes. Although the boos filled the Madison Square Garden Arena, he still had more to say... Opening the envelope and seeing the name on it, he was also surprised .

   This small detail was caught by the cameraman and gave a close-up.

  Stern is a professional. He immediately came back to his senses and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, in the 2008 NBA Draft, the Seattle SuperSonics selected... Derek Rose from the University of Memphis!"

   It's really a rose + schoolbag! Liu Xiu couldn't hold back a soft cry.

  Qing'er asked: "Brother, do you like this rookie?"

  Liu Xiu responded: "Well, another rose is about to bloom."

  The roses are in full bloom, this is the evaluation given by Sports Illustrated when the Trail Blazers won the championship in the 04-05 season.

   Liu Xiu actually used this to describe this rookie who only counterattacked when he was crazy, which surprised Qing Er and others.

   With 15 wins, the bottom-ranked Heat team won the second place, and unsurprisingly, they chose Beasley, the number one pick.

   On the day of the lottery meeting, the magic operator scolded the public for only getting the second lottery, but now he is smiling like something.

  The Hornets, who got the No. 3 pick, selected Kevin Love, which made Liu Xiu's family full of question marks-didn't they send David West to the Lakers because of the bloated inside line?

   Immediately afterwards, the Grizzlies selected Mayo with the 4th overall pick, and the Clippers selected Westbrook with the 5th overall pick... Here comes the deal!

  The Clippers sent Westbrook's signing rights, Sean Livingston, from the Hornets in exchange for Love's signing rights, and the 33rd overall pick in the next round.

Qinger suddenly realized: "It turns out that the Hornets chose Love to get Livingston back. The Clippers and Brand broke up. Brand was reimbursed for one year. Wan's contract, but Brand wants a maximum salary, and without Brand, the Clippers will pick Love as the first choice in the draft...but the Hornets are too confident, wouldn't it be a disaster if it **** in their hands?"

Liu Xiu responded: "The Hornets have been scolded for being stupid for the past few years, and they don't care if they are scolded for another year. They choose to be a betting dog. If the bet wins, the starting point guard and the backup point guard will be all at once. They should be very confident that this deal can be completed. The Clippers look down on Livingston, thinking that he is too thin, and anyone who starts can crush him.

Also, the Clippers want a star who can sell tickets. Westbrook and Love are both UCLA players, but Love is more popular than Westbrook in Los Angeles. Love has been the most talented insider in the United States since high school One, more believable than Westbrook's brief stint..."

   Seeing Livingston being traded, Liu Xiu thought of this former high school genius. He didn't break his leg like in the original time and space, and he didn't create that terrible video clip.

   But he was not injured, and he didn't grow into a superstar. The legendary "talent" was not as powerful as it was advertised in the forums in the original time and space.

He averaged 7 points and 5 assists per game in his rookie year, 5 points and 4 assists per game in his sophomore year, and in his junior year, that is, the season in which he played for half a season in the original time and space, he averaged 9+5 per game. Only averaged 10+5+5 per game.

  As a point guard with a height of two meters and a weight of only 84 kilograms, he can hardly play in the starting lineup unless he wants to play badly.

High school students, good physical condition, and hard work do not mean that they can really become superstars. Similar to outlaws, Livingston looks very good, but he can see it when he was in the first and second grades. , James and others have a qualitative gap in talent.

   At the 6th pick, Jordan selected DJ-Augustin.

   Liu Xiu looked at Eric Gordon, Gallinari, Lopez... a bunch of talents, but Jordan chose Augustine.

  This vision is hard to match.

   As expected of the **** of basketball!

The Nets selected Brook Lopez with the seventh pick, the Kings selected Eric Gordon with the eighth pick, and the 76ers selected Danilo Gallinari with the ninth pick. The Celtics selected Brandon Rush with the 10th overall pick, the Bucks selected Jason Thompson with the 11th overall pick, the Wizards selected Jerry Bayless with the 12th overall pick, and the Rockets selected Jerry Bayless with the 13th overall pick. Picked 'China Boy' Joe Alexander...

Liu Xiu analyzed the intentions of the opponents. The Nets are rebuilding, giving priority to the inside; It is expected that Iguodala has reached his peak; the Bucks are strengthening the inside; the Wizards' side Arenas does not seem to be recovering very well, choose a point guard to top it; Mosaic sees the Trail Blazers and the Pistons making money Jealous, the prodigal owner of the Eagles, Steven Price, saw that he was going to bankrupt himself, so he had to go home and eat his old age, but after picking Yi Jianlian, he came back to life!

  Although the Eagles are not as profitable as the Trail Blazers and Pistons, there is hope of making money.

  After the lottery area was selected, the camera showed the little green room, and DeAndre Jordan was crying, he hadn't been selected yet!

  Liu Xiu remembered that this product was going to fall to the second round, and he was entangled whether to choose it or not.

   What Jordan can do, Kwame Brown can do better, and what Kwame Brown can do, Jordan can rarely accomplish.

As for the fact that Jordan can be selected for the first team in the future, it was the Clippers who spent years of training and training to do it. Moreover, let’s not say that it was all in 2016. The gold content of the first team, Binoah The gold content of Shuangqi is low.

   In those years, the one-off defense at the center position was like a joke, and it was really just looking at the data.

   As for the selection and trade, this matter is not true at all. During the draft, no one is selected from the predicted lottery zone to the second round, so there is no trade value if the selection is made.

   After being selected, it is impossible to reduce Kwame Brown's playing time to cultivate a substitute. Otherwise, what would they do with the $10 million renewal contract for three years? Just want a player who can contribute immediately.

   As far as I can remember from the first and second grades of Jordan, it is really disgusting to take out garbage time.

  Then Jordan will be elected, and he will not be able to 'train and then sell'.

  If you choose Jordan, the biggest possibility is to ruin this legacy that has enough playing time and can be played out after two or three years of hard training.

  The draft continued, and soon, it came to the end of the first round.

The Raptors selected Ibaka with the 24th overall pick and sent it to the Sonics; the Jazz selected center Costa Koufos with the 25th overall pick; Anderson, then traded him to the Nets.

   Immediately reached the 27th pick!

   Liu Xiu is very curious about who the team will choose.

  He gave a name, Paul Allen gave a name, Payton also gave a recommendation, and the team also has its own candidates.

  And these candidates, except for Ibaka, are still in the 'rookie pool'.

  George Hill, Chalmers, Batum, Luke Bammert, Dragic.

The Raptors snatched Ibaka and gave it to the Sonics. It seemed to be the same in time and space. Liu Xiu had seen the news that "Ibaka returned to the Raptors". A championship, relying on the players at the end of the first round that they didn't want at the time.

The Jazz chose Koufos. Liu Xiu saw the news, saying that the Jazz began to lose patience with Chandler. After playing for a year, there was almost no improvement. What level was it at the beginning of the season? Strong center position.

Three minutes passed quickly, and David Stern returned to the stage, opened the envelope and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the Portland Trail Blazers have selected Nicolas Bartu from France with the 27th overall pick in the first round. M!"

   Big dog!

  Batum is the name given by Paul Allen. He said that he watched a Ligue 1 game when he was on a business trip to France. Batum's performance surprised him.

However, Gou Dahu’s draft vision is actually not bad. In the original time and space, he was the owner of the Trail Blazers for more than ten years. Back time.

  When the extrajudicial lunatics play as substitutes, they occasionally stand up to power forwards and occasionally defend guards. It is not bad to have multiple substitutes on the forward line.

After the end of the season, Hill went to Cleveland to treat his lumbar nerve injury. Thomas Carter, who went to Cleveland to assist in the treatment, gave the Trail Blazers management very exciting news, so choosing a substitute and consolidating the depth of the striker can be regarded as a Good choice.

   The analysis is like this, but Liu Xiu still thinks that this is a big dog who doesn't pay attention to martial arts, relying on himself as the boss to force John Nash to choose this way.

Then the Hornets used the Lakers' first-round pick to select Darrell Arthur with the 28th overall pick; the Celtics used the Bulls' first-round pick to select JR Gisden with the 29th overall pick. ; The Spurs selected George Hill with the 30th overall pick.

George Hill, an older rookie with excellent autonomous offensive ability, John Nash's candidate, the type of point guard they need for the Trail Blazers, Little Flying Squirrel retired, Reed's stability is worrying, choosing George Hill is a good choice .

   Seeing this, Liu Xiu felt a lot more balanced, calling this general manager would know how to kneel and lick the dog.

   In the second round, Liu Xiu started chatting with his family about the selection of each team, and was not very interested in the subsequent draft.

However, at the 33rd pick, seeing that the Clippers selected DeAndre Jordan with the second-round pick given by the Hornets, Liu Xiu wondered if he would regret it in three to five years, but the Hornets estimated It will be a pain in the ass, which is equivalent to using Love + Jordan's core twin towers of one offense and one defense in exchange for Westbrook.

   Then the Grizzlies selected Joey Dorsey with the 34th overall pick. Just when Liu Xiu was about to divert his attention, the camera turned to the secondary stage. There was a trade, and Liu Xiu took a look.

   I didn't expect to see the logo of my own team!

  The Trail Blazers sent Antonio McDyess to get Jamal Crawford and the 48th overall pick in the second round from the Knicks.

   Then, the Trail Blazers, Warriors, and Clippers reached a three-way deal.

  The Clippers sent the 35th pick in the second round, Tim Thomas, in exchange for Baron Davis with a five-year $65 million sign.

  The Warriors sent a pick to send Baron Davis and Michael Pietrus, and got Jamal Crawford, Tim Thomas,

  The Trail Blazers sent Jamal Crawford to Michael Pietrus, the 35th pick in the second round.

   Immediately afterwards, the Trail Blazers selected Slovenian defender Goran Dragic with the 35th overall pick in the second round.

   Liu Xiu looked at this wave of continuous transactions with complicated emotions.

   Good news, the team selected the rookie recommended by him and met his requirements.

  Bad news, old teammate left.

  He knows there will be changes. The team has talked to him many times after being out, saying that everyone except him may be traded.

  He was already mentally prepared for this, but when the change really came, it still felt too sudden.

  However, because of Paul Allen's human touch, the team management did not dare to make major operations for three years.

   Now that it is fully relaxed, the management will not come to a wave of retaliatory consumption...

  …

  The draft was not over yet, Liu Xiu went outside to call McDyess.

   After connecting, McDyess immediately stated that he knew about this transaction in advance.

"Paul is almost better than me. He can do everything I can do. I can't rush with Chris's impact. If I stay with the team next season, I may have to sit on the bench again and go to a team. A team that can guarantee playing time is a good thing for me..."

   Liu Xiu heard the words and said: "They exchanged you with Crawford, who averaged 20 points per game, which really gave you face. Their boss's head may have been caught by the door."

   "Haha, I'm the main force of the dynasty! Of course they have to give me face. This time I will not sit on the bench when I go to New York. I am looking forward to partnering with Shark."

"Uh... your expectations are probably going to be disappointed. I saw the news a few days ago that Curry had already weighed more than 350 pounds before the offseason, and he was still on the rise. He was also diagnosed with a lumbar disc herniation, which is a kind of He may have to be reimbursed next season for a disease that cannot be cured."

  The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and asked, "Is there such a good thing?"

   "..."

  It's Liu Xiu's turn to be speechless this time. Is this the thick-browed and big-eyed McDyess he knew? Who did you learn from!

  (end of this chapter)