NBA Drunken Master: I want to play drunk basketball!

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Chen's elbow injury has removed the bandage, and he can use his left arm normally, but he is still unable to perform vigorous confrontation exercises.

In order to recover completely without any sequelae, the doctor warned him to rest for at least 3 months.

Lakers management doesn't plan to enroll him in any pre-season training camps and games.

Zhou Chen also asked Jenny to push off all invitations to commercial and friendly games in the offseason, and then recently began to participate in the management of the formation of the Lakers roster.

Today he arrived in New York, accompanied by Jenny Buss and Jerry West.

The 1985 NBA Draft was held as scheduled in Madison Square in New York City.

New York unsurprisingly picked Ewing with the first pick, leaving the entire Madison Square Garden in a carnival.

As the biggest favorite among this rookie, Ewing is hailed as the best center since Abdul-Jabbar.

From the moment he announced his participation in the draft, Ewing's position as the top of the list has never fallen aside.

He began basketball at the age of 13 and became the best high school student in the state at the age of 15 with his talent.

Ewing's pace of progress is terrifying.

After arriving in college, Ewing was known as the "center textbook", whether it was jump shots, hooks, or face frame and back skills, it has reached the level of the NBA.

And he's better on the defensive end than Big Dream Olajuwon.

Although he led Georgetown University to the NCAA finals three times in four years of college, he was second place, but it did not affect his reputation among people in the slightest.

Even after suffering the worst knee injury of his career as a sophomore, there was still confidence that he could adapt to the intensity of the NBA.

That night, when Ewing's name was read by Stern, he seemed to be the savior of New York.

The Pacers, who missed the top pick, selected Wayman Tisdell with the second pick.

A player who is 2.06 meters tall and can move between the power forward and center positions.

Wayman Tisdale was also a great boy in college, and as an ace player at the University of Oklahoma, he was the first student in the team's history to be retired.

Zhou Chen can hardly remember this person's later NBA career resume.

His NBA career was indeed mediocre, with no accolades scored.

But Weyman Tisdell's musical attainment was so high that he was later inducted into the Hall of Fame for Modern Jazz.

Then it was the turn of the third-place Los Angeles Clippers to draft the draft.

Zhou Chen is looking forward to who the Clippers will choose.

Some time ago, the owner of the Clippers officially stepped down from the team's part-time general manager and hired Lakers legend Elgin Baylor as the team's general manager.

Baylor and West were also teammates who had played side by side for many years.

Before the draft, Baylor was still discussing scouting reports with West about the players in the draft.

West's magic operation in last year's draft allowed the Lakers to get Zhou Chen, and also made "rookie" general manager Baylor admire him to the ground, hoping to listen to his opinion.

At that time, Zhou Chen happened to be sitting next to the two.

West quipped to Baylor: "You might as well ask Zhou Chen's opinion, this little brother's vision has always been very good, and the two players he recommended to me have very good trial results in our team." Zhou

Chen knew that he was talking about Boll and Weber.

When the Lakers tried out for Ball and Webb that day, Zhou Chen was also present, and the performance of these two was very good, and the scouting report was definitely underestimated by the outside world.

After the tryout, West traded from the Washington Bullets and Dallas Mavericks for a second- and four-round pick. In

order to thank Baylor for allowing his retired No. 22 shirt to wear for himself, Zhou Chen decided to help his little brother in the same city.

"I recommend Carl Malone from Louisiana Tech University."

"You know, I played Carl Malone at last year's Olympics and he was really strong, no less than Ewing."

"And Malone is much better physically than Ewing, Bellego, if you believe me, you must choose Malone with the third pick."

Zhou Chen has done his best, he knows that Karl Malone will be the biggest jewel in this draft, although his career also ended without a crown, but his achievements are definitely much higher than Ewing.

As for whether the Clippers can listen to their own suggestions, Zhou Chen does not know.

After hearing Zhou Chen's words, Jerry West also sighed again and again: "If it weren't for the lack of a top pick, I would definitely have selected Carl Mallon."

"That kid was like a beast."

Elgin Baylor looked at the metrics on the draft report and fell into hesitation and deep thought.

Because in the predictions of scouts, it was widely believed that Karl Malone would be selected in the middle of the first round, and he was not a lottery player.

... ...

Back to the draft site.

David Stern got the Clippers' selection backstage, opened the envelope and read:

"The Los Angeles Clippers chose center Bennot Benjamin from Creighton University with the third overall pick!"

As soon as the words fell, some Clippers media in the audience had already begun to cheer.

Benjamin, a 7-foot-tall center, was hailed as the only center behind Ewing before the draft.

It has been firmly in the top three of the draft list.

At this moment, Zhou Chen, who was sitting under the field, also sighed, it seems that Baylor still did not listen to his opinion in the end.

Zhou Chen can understand, after all, as a new team, choosing a center forward as the cornerstone of the team is too tempting for them.

Just like last year, even though Zhou Chen and Jordan had already killed in the college arena, the Rockets still chose Big Dream.

The draft status of center players in this era is unassailable.

Much later, Zhou Chen learned that Baylor originally planned to choose Malone, but this suggestion was firmly rejected by Clippers owner Sterling.

Zhou Chen couldn't help but sigh about this, sometimes, some teams have never touched the championship in history, which is not unreasonable.

Is it necessary to watch Malone go to the Jazz and then become the Lakers' fierce rival in the West for the next decade or so?

Zhou Chen turned his head to West beside him and said, "Do you want to stud?" Change the top 10 pick and cut Hu Malone? "