Min Congda originally thought about picking a No. 4 or No. 5 pick or something and letting Olshey and others do it themselves.
Judging from the Clippers' historical draft quality, it will be completely wasted and a good pick will continue to be wasted.
Think about it, it’s the No. 1 pick again! The probability of choosing parallel imports will be greatly reduced.
"Forget it, the Clippers were not very good at selecting the top pick in the past. You have to believe in their quality."
Min Congda comforted himself silently, saying that he would not interfere in this draft.
Curry’s lesson is too profound.
This is the third time the Clippers have won the No. 1 pick after 1988 and 2009.
In 1988, the Clippers selected Danny Manning, which was a pretty good choice.
Because there really weren’t any high-quality newcomers in 1988.
The Clippers acquired Curry in 2009. This choice was widely questioned, but three years later, Curry has proven to people that this was an excellent choice.
Now there is another opportunity for the No. 1 pick in front of him, and Min Congda dare not touch it no matter what.
Olshey will be solely responsible for this draft.
At the same time, as soon as the results of this draft came out, the public opinion circle was in an uproar.
The last time a similar situation occurred was in 2003. The Pistons, who reached the Eastern Conference Finals in the playoffs, had the 03 first-round pick acquired from the Jazz in 1997.
Then this first-round pick became the model pick in 2003. Unfortunately, the Pistons chose Milicic and wasted this good pick.
Of course, although Milicic fell short, his failure was not just a matter of his own talent. The training of the Pistons and the murder of Larry Brown were also important reasons.
Even if the Pistons had chosen Anthony or Bosh, their growth would have been ruined by the Pistons.
But no matter what, the Pistons, who had the No. 2 pick in 2003, lost an opportunity to build a dynasty.
They won the championship in 2004, and in the following years they reached the finals once and the conference finals for six consecutive years.
If they had a scoring master like Anthony in their team, they wouldn't be disliked by Stern and could win more championships.
Earlier, the 1986 championship Celtics had won the second pick in the 1986 draft. This was also an opportunity to continue the legend of the Celtics dynasty.
Unfortunately, Len Bias, the second overall pick, died of drugs and did not play a game, which became a turning point in the Celtics' decline.
In comparison, the Lakers had much better luck. As the championship in 1982, they got the No. 1 pick that year, and ended up signing James Worthy. After that, the Lakers won three more championships.
Because it was too unfair for the Lakers to take the No. 1 pick as champions, the league enacted the Stepien Clause, prohibiting the trade of draft picks for two consecutive years.
Later, the rules continued to be improved, and Stern focused on preventing strong teams from getting high-ranking picks, setting various restrictions on lottery and transactions, and finally the league office took control.
Like the Clippers, it is obviously not in line with league policy for a team in the Western Conference Finals to win the top pick, so it has suffered various criticisms from the outside world.
ESPN expert Bob Marks said, "The Clippers' lineup has shown great potential. They have the No. 1 pick and No. 3 pick in 2009. They have already reached the Western Conference Finals, and as a result, they got a No. 1 pick in a trade? This is 80 Is it the era? The league dominated the trade between the Hornets and Clippers, but they didn’t add pick protection to the draft picks. This is simply unbelievable!”
The big-mouthed Klee even said bluntly: "The league just wants to walk the Clippers and make the Clippers become the next hot team. I bet that this No. 1 pick was given to the Clippers by the league!"
However, there are also people who stand on the side of the Clippers. Former Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor said: "The Clippers have suffered too much in history. Now that things are changing, can't everyone bear it? This is An unfair mentality.”
In terms of disastrous comparisons, no one dares to compete with Beller. After all, they have made it to the finals eight times without winning a single championship.
Although Baylor has stepped down as general manager of the Clippers, he still maintains contact with the Clippers management.
After hearing about Mr. Baylor's tragic finals history, Min Congda strongly invited him to become a member of the Clippers advisory group.
I hope to use Baylor's bad luck to offset Jerry West's sharp vision and destroy the Clippers' feng shui.
The Clippers are a small team, with West and Bellega-Dunleavy on the advisory board, and they are about to become the retirement re-employment team of a state-owned enterprise.
Min Congda now focuses on a business that can be earned and spent. Any money earned from failed investments must be spent in a way.
This time with the No. 1 pick, no matter who is selected, the team's exposure, attention, and market value will increase again.
The first thing Min Congda has to think about next season is how to spend the extra money to keep the Clippers' cash flow in a tight state.
There is also the matter of the construction of the new arena. Min Congda must complete the fund-raising work as soon as possible and the project will be operational as soon as the season ends.
Therefore, getting the No. 1 pick is just a small sadness for him, and he will soon get into more intense work.
The day after the draft lottery ceremony, the Western Conference Finals began.
The Clippers challenge the Lakers away from home, and the title of King of Los Angeles will be answered after this series.
At 6 p.m., Min Congda appeared on time in the seat behind the Clippers bench at Staples Center.
Ada brought corn cakes, grilled pork rolls and fried rice balls made by her mother from home, as well as an extra-large cup of pineapple Coke. This was Min Congda's dinner.
"Thank you Ada, the snacks made by your mother are really good... Have you sorted out the information sheet sent by Wells Fargo? There is also the team's charter, which will be reviewed and approved at next week's meeting."
"It's being sorted out. The charter is already being processed. The manuscript will be given to you tomorrow."
"Thank you for your hard work, Ada. Let's enjoy the game tonight."
Min Congda took a bite of the roasted pork roll, and the meat juice burst into his mouth. It tasted great.
Since the assassination of Marcella, the relationship between Min Congda and the Andolini family has become very close.
Whenever he had time, he would go to Ada's house to have a meal. Her mother was really good at cooking.
Min Congda has been busy with team charter, capital plan and other related matters all day today. Olshey went to New York. The team needs to change the owner and raise funds, so there is a lot of work to be done.
Min Congda, who had always left things alone in the past, still took matters into his own hands when it came to financial problems to ensure that all the work was in place and the mines that should be laid should be laid well and firmly so that they can explode later.
Rosser pointed out that some of the fund use plans formulated by Min Congda are too radical and may cause problems in terms of interest rates and risks.
Min Congda believes that the Clippers are in a period of rapid development. How can they expand their market value and interests without being radical?
After some weighing, new boss Shelley Sterling still agreed with Min Congda's idea and believed that it should be more radical.
It can be seen that Shelly Sterling, who has just taken the position of boss, is very ambitious and wants to make a career to compare with her useless ex-husband.
Rosser only made suggestions based on his duties as a professional manager. He knew that he could not stop Min Congda.
He would have stopped it long ago, and now he has been defeated by Min Congda.
For Min Chongda, after a busy day, he can have a delicious bite in the evening and then go to the Staples Center to watch a wonderful game. This day is quite pleasant.
He took another bite of Italian fried rice balls, which tasted quite good. Otherwise, Italians are European and Chinese. They eat almost the same things as Chinese people, including rice and noodles, and a lot of ingredients. Big sesame seed cakes and a cultural tradition that attaches great importance to family. This cultural barrier is really thin and can be broken down as soon as it is broken.
It’s no wonder that Min Congda went to Ada’s house to have dinner, and the more he stayed there, the more intimate and homely he felt.
This is much warmer than cooking and eating alone at home all day long.
Ada watched Min Congda eating deliciously, her eyes sparkling.
It can be said that there is no other NBA executive like him who eats on the sidelines of the game with his mouth full of oil.
The television cameras also went to the sidelines to broadcast Min Chongda eating fried rice balls and roasted pork rolls live across the United States.
This roughly ten-second shot led to a 30% increase in the consumption of fried rice balls and grilled pork rolls across the United States in the next three days.
The TV station commentators joked that Min Congda could do endorsement ads for food companies, and the results would be absolutely stunning.
He became famous in the United States because of his popcorn business, and a popcorn company actually came to ask him to be an endorsement.
Min Congda wanted to take it, but unfortunately this job was not allowed by the income system, so Min Congda had to refuse on the grounds of protecting the team's image.
Ada didn't care about this. On the contrary, he felt that Min Congda was extremely kind, which was completely different from those team executives who liked to put on airs.
Because of this, the atmosphere of the entire Clippers team is very warm and good, and the players have good relationships in private.
It is much better than the tense and depressing atmosphere when Sterling was the boss.
After the national anthem, the game will begin soon.
The first game of the Western Conference Finals series between the Lakers and Clippers will be the tone-setting battle.
The Lakers' path to promotion in the first two rounds was not particularly smooth, but it was not too difficult either.
We advanced 4:2 in both rounds. We lost some games but won everything we should.
The combination of Kobe and Paul was extremely powerful in the regular season. In the four games between the Clippers and the Lakers, the Lakers had the advantage with 3 wins and 1 loss.
Phil Jackson combined Paul and Kobe very well, and Paul was an extremely smart player who integrated well into the triangle offensive system.
Originally, in Jackson's triangle offensive system, point guards were mostly role players.
Fisher, Harper, Cole, etc. are all functional players.
However, this does not mean that in the triangle offense, the point guard can only be a functional role player.
In fact, Phil Jackson's triangle offense is originally an open system.
What role each player plays depends on their abilities.
Of course, before Gary Payton joined the Lakers, he was never able to integrate into the triangle offense and played poorly.
But Paul is different. Paul obviously has a higher basketball IQ tactically, and his combination with Kobe was quite successful.
Phil Jackson's basic idea of building an offense is to allocate part of Gasol's role to Paul.
The difference is that Gasol is an inside player, while Paul is an outside player and a point guard.
Therefore, Jackson assigned another part of Gasol's role to Andrew Bynum.
Then, Jackson assigned some of Kobe's role and functions to Paul, allowing Kobe to attack more without the ball and become a more pure scorer and defensive leader.
This season, Kobe averaged 28.8 points per game, successfully surpassing Kevin Durant and winning the third scoring title in his career!
This is definitely an exciting achievement for Kobe.
His previous two scoring titles were won helplessly by relying on a large number of shots.
There is no way, the team's lineup is too bad, there is no stable second scoring point, we can only rely on him.
Now that the team has enough helpers, Kobe can concentrate on scoring. This scoring champion is even more precious to him.
Phil Jackson is like playing with building blocks, deploying different functional modules of the team on different players to achieve the balance he wants.
Jackson's coaching model has to be said to be quite brilliant. He knows how to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, how to stimulate the players' strengths, and ultimately combine everyone into a strong team, allowing superstars to lead role players to the championship podium.
Relying on this coaching model, Phil Jackson has won 11 championship rings. From 1990 to today for more than 20 years, he is the most successful coach.
His model has been imitated by many strong teams, and his coaching ideas have also left a deep mark on the league.
For example, the two coaches of the Clippers opposite tonight, Tyronn Lue and Steve Kerr, were his former disciples.
Both of them were greatly influenced by Jackson in terms of team building and coaching concepts.
But it has to be said that the Clippers' team-building ideas are completely different from the Lakers. They are a more new-style team.
The Clippers have a profound imprint of Min Congda: stable structure, local newcomers and few veterans, unity and friendship, novel tactics, and all obedient.
Some commentators even pointed out that the Clippers are not like an American team, but more like a European team, or even a Chinese team.
"I heard that in China's basketball teams, players are trained by local departments and play locally. There are very few transfers. Most of them stay locally and play for their entire lives. This is similar to the NBA's local draft strategy in the 1950s. Now The Clippers are about to become like this, can you believe it? In the 2011-2012 season, the Los Angeles Clippers did not make any trades, not a single trade, which may have set an NBA historical record."
The on-site commentator was right, the Clippers did not make a single transaction this season.
The only thing they did was sign a few players on 10-day short contracts and come over for trial training.
The main purpose is to give the scouting team something to do, otherwise everyone would be unhappy just taking money.
Such a stable team seems out of place in the NBA, which has an open market.
You know, not only the management of NBA teams, but also fans and owners, many people have "trading addiction."
That is, no matter what the team's current situation is, they are still thinking about making a trade, hoping to make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, or for the future.
Although it often turns out that most transactions are useless and even prove to be failures in the long run.
But teams are still keen on trading, and they will trade if they have something to do, even if they want to exchange some draft picks or cash for fun.
Of course, many of them are also for tax avoidance.
Min Congda said no, so he did nothing.
As for the Lakers, when the trade deadline was approaching, they also acquired Gerald Wallace to make up for their "last shortcoming". Fans believed that this was a deal that would help the Lakers win the championship.
Judging from the performance in the first two rounds, Gerald Wallace did play a big role. After all, Artest and Grant Hill are relatively old.
Wallace's comprehensiveness makes up for the Lakers' shortcomings at the forward position after Lamar Odom left.
Therefore, in the playoffs, he successfully entered the Lakers' starting lineup, with Bynum, Wallace, Martin, Kobe and Paul.
The Clippers still have the starting five, Gasol, Randolph, George, Harden and Curry.
Gasol and Bynum jumped the ball in the center circle, and the game between the two sides began.
(End of chapter)
