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Chapter 1496 Dividends for Rookie GM

Since returning to Celtic, Louis has become a master of alms.

There is no way, given his reputation in professional basketball, GMs who are not familiar with him are easily afraid to make a deal with him. Louis, who is in charge of the rebuilding team, needs a lot of draft picks.

Fortunately, after working hard in the NBA for many years, Louis is considered to have many talents all over the world. As long as it is not excessive, whatever he wants can be solved with a phone call.

This time, the Celtics, who originally had no one in the first round, were transferred from the Lakers to the 29th pick in the first round and the 29th pick in the second round by Louis.

In addition to the Celtics' own 22nd pick in the second round, although they are all inconspicuous last picks, there is still a certain amount of room for maneuver.

Before the draft started, the league announced the trade between the Lakers and Celtics.

The Celtics sent Shandon Anderson to the Lakers in exchange for the 29th pick in the first round and the 29th pick in the second round.

After Louis took over the Celtics, their contact with the Lakers, their mortal enemy, became more frequent, and the two sides completely lost the feeling of being enemies.

Before the draft started, a small thing happened that not many fans paid attention to.

Waiting is excruciating.

It was indeed coming to Boston to play that allowed him to achieve the life and status he has today.

One day later, the 2002 draft officially began.

The other party's reply surprised him.

Wang Mukong accepted the invitation from college basketball and decided to work as an assistant coach at Michigan State University. He plans to pursue coaching in the future.

Wu Xia is not reserved in front of him, and he does not have the airs of his old father. They can communicate equally on everything.

It's like they were an average draft pick.

Now no one really dares to make such a deal with him.

The Hornets took the No. 6 pick with an astonishing rate of parallel imports and welcomed another parallel import, Dajuan Wagner PG, who shocked the United States with 100 points in a single game in high school.

Louis hummed: "If you didn't take every pick seriously, you wouldn't have been able to come to Boston back then."

Seeing this result, Louis smiled with satisfaction: "We have the Magic's first-round pick next year, right?"

Stern repeated his old tune in front of the stage and gave this year's No. 1 pick winner - the Orlando Magic, who desperately needed a superstar to change the team's decline - five minutes to select the No. 1 pick.

Like Yu Tiancan, Hu Weidong, and Liu Yuqing, he belongs to the golden generation of the first phase of the Road Academy in the United States. He is the oldest one, already 24 years old when he entered the league. Over the years, with his extraordinary luck, he has become a champion of the team.

The most inconspicuous role in the team, he won 8 championships with the team.

There was thunderous applause, as if this was a well-received choice.

So he shut up.

If it is the kind of father and son who have no common language, they may even feel awkward and weird when they are alone, and cannot talk to each other, then it is really a nightmare.

At this time, Danny Ainge, who had already received advice from Louis, took action.

If this year's No. 1 pick is put on the shelves and the asking price is for All-Stars, the other party will have to consider it very carefully.

Until then, they either remain silent or complain along with Louis.

The Nuggets, holding the fifth pick, selected Nene Hilario.

Due to the lack of Yao Yueba, coupled with the fact that highly talented players such as Eddie Curry, Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, etc. who should have become popular candidates in this draft have brought their talents to the NBA early, making

This year's draft looks lackluster.

Judging from his trading style, Louis believes that this GM will soon have a reputation similar to his own.

Charles Barkley yelled in front of everyone: "Jay has a chance to become an MVP-level player!"

Bird has Sampson and Thomas by his side, Ewing has Wilson by his side, and O'Neal has Webber by his side. Isn't it too much to pair Ku with a flying Nowitzki?

Next year's top five picks could be worth three times what they were this year.

Especially after missing Yao Yue and a half, the starlight became even dimmer.

He seems to be able to run and jump better than Nowitzki, and he is a standard seven-foot jumper, which sounds very tempting. The problem is that he can shoot but cannot shoot accurately, and he has the body but is afraid of confrontation.

When Dunleavy was asked if he would like to play for his father, he replied calmly: "I wouldn't mind."

Then there is the evergreen tree in the poison template world. The New Jersey Nets, who are also regulars in the draft, selected another Bird II-Mike Dunleavy.

Dumas nodded: "Yes."

Losing two stars in a row made them the most pitiful team right now.

"They drafted a guy who had a good chance of giving us a top-five pick," Louis quipped.

Louis complained about the choices of each team, but he didn't know what good people could be selected in his position. When there are not many good people in the draft pool, lottery pick selection becomes a self-destructive game.

Louis blurted out in front of the TV.

The favorite for the No. 1 pick is Duke's Jay Williams.

The Charlotte Hornets drafted Drew Gooden with the fourth pick, and the only impression he made on Louis was that he wore unbuttoned clothes.

Combined with Dunleavy's demeanor, Louis doesn't believe that he is really willing to play for his biological father. To be honest, how many people are willing to do this? Think about when his teammates complained in the locker room that his father gave him too little playing time.

When his competitors at the same position in the team laughed at him for relying on his father to play basketball, think about the time when his opponents laughed at him as a "baby boy". Does anyone really want to play for his father?

Just like fans in 2023 will have a hard time remembering who Derrick Williams is, fans in 2030 may not know who Dragan Bender is.

Wang Mukong's retirement means that the three outsiders of the national team have become history.

However, once he becomes Wu Xia's coach, no matter whether he and Wu Xia want it or not, there will be disgusting speculation and public opinion surrounding him.

As the NBA's most avid lottery fans, the Clippers feel as comfortable coming home to the draft.

Although Louis helped him pick the draft targets, the trade was entirely his own decision.

Louis is optimistic about Wang Mukong's coaching career. Role players like him who are sophisticated, smooth, and able to get along with everyone can often achieve greater success in coaching.

In other words, he played in the NBA for 11 years and played for the championship team for 8 of them.

So, they set their sights on the person who they should never look at twice.

About Yao Yueban existed in his previous life, and the 2002 draft gave people a feeling of neither being high nor low.

All we can say is that if you select a player like this, you will earn money - he will give the team that selects him another chance to get into the top four picks.

Despite not being the star of the draft, Louie gathered the front office staff in the draft war room.

After a mediocre rookie season, he ruined his career in a car accident.

Some parallel imports will be like this when they play for a weak team and are so watery that there is no ripple.

Six people have been selected in the top ten picks, and five are known to be parallel imports.

Ainge sent the already useless Shawn Kemp to the SuperSonics, took Juwan Howard's long-term garbage contract, and exchanged it for this year's No. 7 pick and the 2004 first-round pick.

Laimbeer didn't know that he would become the most hated player of the 1980s whether he was in Boston or not.

They got the second pick again this year.

"Who is this?"

If you want to say what kind of profit this is, I can only say that you don’t understand the joy of drawing cards.

Lakers guard Wang Mukong announced his retirement, ending his 11-year career.

It's not an exaggeration to say that it was like cramps and bone peeling.

Otherwise, it would not have been until the fifth pick before a team selected a player worthy of the pick.

They hope to reverse the momentum with this year's No. 1 pick.

Louis thinks it may depend on the father-son relationship.

This draft is amazing.

No wonder Louis didn't recognize him.

Curry, who was selected last year, did not realize his talent immediately. The Clippers felt that maybe it was because Curry did not have reliable helpers around him.

Next year's top five picks are definitely worth trading for a mid-level All-Star. If it's the No. 1 pick, the value is extraordinary.

Seeing Anji's handiwork, Louis could only say that he was envious of the rookie GM bonus.

Of course Louis remembered this parallel import who made Buckley kiss the donkey's butt in his previous life, and also knew how he got drunk.

"Do we need to make a big fanfare for the No. 29 pick?" Laimbeer had planned to go fishing with his friends.

Skitishvili's model is Dirk Nowitzki, who was selected to the second team this year.

"In the 2002 NBA Draft, the Orlando Magic selected Jay Williams from Duke University with the first pick in the first round!"

"In the 2002 NBA draft, the Los Angeles Clippers selected Nikoloz Tskitishvili (PF/C) with the second overall pick in the first round."

Louis feels that the relationship between him and Wu Xia is relatively casual.

As one of the poison templates of the new century, Nowitzki is about to score his first kill.

When Louis saw his draft template, everything became clear.

Subsequently, he used the seventh pick to select Amare Stoudemire, the No. 1 high school student in the United States in the class of 2002.

To Americans, this is just a lucky guy retiring, but to Chinese fans it is no small matter.

This happened suddenly. Louis called Wang Mukong and wanted to know what his plans were in the future.

Louis believes that it was no accident that the Magic won this year's No. 1 pick.

This can definitely be regarded as a small draft year.

This reminded Louis of himself.

In fact, they are not much better than the 2000 draft class.

The most interesting thing is that the head coach of the Nets is Dunleavy Sr., Dunleavy's father.

Everyone in the Celtics draft war room will have to wait at least another hour for a formal discussion.

Thanks to the Magic's "wonderful selection", they are expected to bring the top five picks to the Celtics next year. By then, if Wu Xia decides to participate in the draft, Louis will have the opportunity to realize father-son basketball with the Celtics.

Everyone who trades with Lui will ask themselves over and over again: "Do you really think you are smarter than the people who suffered big losses at the hands of Legend Lu?"

Then, they will actively exit the transaction.

It’s so difficult, Louis couldn’t understand, how could a loyal man like him be so frightened by everyone?

PS: Take a half-day off today

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