There are three super high school students in this year's draft. Kwame Brown, Eddie Curry, and Tyson Chandler are all favorites to be picked first.
In addition to these three high school students, the one with the best draft market is the La Liga champion center and European Youth Championship MVP Pau Gasol.
Previous predictions suggested that the Hawks would bet on talent to see if they could produce the next super big man like Kevin Garnett.
Otherwise, seek stability. Pau Gasol, who is about to turn 21, has a mature style of play, strong strength, and rich experience in participating in various competitions since he was 13 years old. He can serve as the main force when he enters the NBA and has All-Star potential.
The Hawks selected Pau Gasol with the No. 1 pick, which was not a surprising choice.
But Pau Gasol was traded as soon as he took over the Hawks cap from David Stern!
The screen cut to the sub-stage next door, and the league spokesperson announced that the Eagles, Clippers, and Grizzlies had reached a three-way deal.
The Clippers sent Corey Maggette, Chris Mihm, Brevin Knight, and a 2002 first-round draft pick in exchange for Mike Bibby and Isaac Austin from the Grizzlies.
The Grizzlies sent Shareef Raheem, Mike Bibby, and Isaac Austin in exchange for No. 1 pick Pau Gasol, Corey Maggette, Brevin Knight, and Jacqui Waugh. kindness.
The Hawks sent Pau Gasol and Jacqui Vaughn in exchange for Sharif Raheem, Chris Mihm, and the Clippers' first-round pick next year.
Li Ao jumped up when he saw this transaction.
There is a bright future, this is it!
Nash and Nelson were unwilling to trade. They ignored their tentative offers and did not give them a chance to increase the price at all.
Marbury and Kidd, the two signing targets exchanged clubs, and both have failed.
Li Ao originally thought that there was no other more suitable signing target. It was not that the league did not have other good point guards, but that they could not be replaced, or the players sent out were more useful to the team than the players replaced. powerful.
As a result, he forgot about the son of the old coach’s family in the north!
Different from Li Ao's excitement, Vivian said: "We are at a huge loss in this transaction! What does Walker think?"
Li Ao's father echoed: "Maggette replaced Bibby, and also got our center substitute. Knight and the first-round pick were also given away. Even if Kidd and Marbury were not traded, he should not be sick." He rushed to the doctor in a hurry and wiped out all our frontcourt substitutes for the sake of a data brush that ruined the team."
"Well……"
When he heard that Maggette was being used as a replacement for Bibi with a few extras, he was actually questioned. He wanted to quarrel on the spot, but the hospital assistant was reluctant to quarrel. Dad... might get beaten.
Hearing Li Ao's voice, both his parents, Vivian, looked at him.
Li Ao blinked and said, "Dad, your English is getting better and better, and you can translate idioms."
Li Weidong: [_?]
Zhou Limei and Vivian couldn't help laughing.
Look, look, look! Spider-Man is scared!
Too much! Li Ao ignored these two people and looked at the TV.
After the deal was announced, the camera showed Pau Gasol. The Spaniard, who returned to the small green room and sat down, was now very embarrassed and embarrassed, even if he took off the hat on his head.
Seeing this scene, Li Ao's depression at being laughed at by his aunt and mother disappeared instantly.
Suddenly, an old man came to Gasol and handed him a Grizzlies hat.
Li Ao's eyes widened.
He thought about the Grizzlies trade.
Bibby and Raheem, the former seems to have been making noises about leaving for a long time, just because in Vancouver, the Grizzlies have a bad record, and he is also regarded as a data brush for assists, so he does not receive much attention.
Rahim, others don't know, but the Grizzlies management must know that this talented forward who is only 24 years old and averages 20+10 per game has begun to lose his enthusiasm for basketball.
Otherwise, the Grizzlies management would not send out a talented forward who is only 24 years old, strong, diligent, and has good character for a rookie.
Replace these two people with Gasol and Maggette, and the core frontcourt combination is now complete!
This operation, if you think about it carefully, is really eye-catching! This is not the level of operation the Grizzlies have had since the team was founded!
According to the previous level of the Grizzlies management, they should have replaced Bibby with white chocolate and thought about how to sell tickets.
But Li Ao didn't feel surprised at all when he saw the person who handed Gasol his hat.
'I wipe! Because of my relationship, the logo man went to the Grizzlies a year early. The Grizzlies exchanged the White Devil for a forward genius with the potential to average 20+ per game...wait a minute!
What about the Five Kings? So the big five kings and five tigers are gone? Continue to play naughty with white chocolate? But this has nothing to do with me...'
…
Li Ao came to his senses and David Stern had returned to the stage.
He temporarily put aside the joy of being paired with the old coach's son and continued to watch the draft.
The No. 1 pick was just traded, and the No. 2 pick was also traded!
After the Wizards selected Tyson Chandler with the second pick, they immediately sent him to the Bulls in exchange for Elton Brand, the No. 1 pick in 1999.
When the No. 3 pick came, the Spurs selected Eddie Curry. Li Aogang complained, "Maybe the top three picks have been traded," and then the trade came.
The Spurs sent Eddie Curry to the Bulls in exchange for the No. 4 pick and the No. 1 pick in the second round, plus $500,000 in cash.
Then the Spurs used the No. 4 pick to select the last of the four top picks, Kwame Brown.
At the fifth pick, the Warriors did not trade after selecting Jason Richardson, and there was no 'annihilation' of the first five picks.
With the 6th pick, the Grizzlies selected the new Semifinals MOP Sean Battier.
At the 7th pick, the trade came again. The Nets selected Eddie Griffin and sent him to the Rockets in exchange for the 13th and 18th picks.
After this, trading was finally suspended for a while.
The Nets selected Richard Jefferson and Jason Collins with the 13th and 18th picks respectively.
Li Ao felt that this basketball team was very powerful. With the No. 7 pick, two main players were picked out. He remembered that these two people seemed to be the starters of the Nets' second consecutive championship.
With the 19th overall pick, the Cavaliers selected Brandon Haywood and sent him to the Wizards in exchange for Jumaine Jones and Ricky Davis.
This is a deal for pure role players, Haywood, a pure blue-collar insider from North Carolina, and Jumaine Jones, a first-round pick in the 1999 class, who averaged 8 points and 6 rebounds per game last season, a pure blue-collar, defensive forward.
This deal was placed in this draft, and not many viewers in front of the TV cared about it.
But the trade addition that averaged 4.6 points per game last season attracted Li Ao's attention...
Finally, the Clippers drafted someone.
Originally, the 20th pick was supposed to go to the Timberwolves, but the Timberwolves' first-round pick was forfeited and was postponed to the Clippers.
Li Ao was looking forward to seeing the junior student put on their hat...but there was another trade!
The Clippers sent the 20th pick in the first round to the Trail Blazers in exchange for the Trail Blazers' 24th pick in the first round and the Pacers' 16th pick in the second round. Draft picks.
The Trail Blazers used the 20th overall pick to select Zach Randolph, the No. 1 high school student in the United States in 2000.
Fortunately, none of the teams with the next three picks selected his junior.
With the 24th pick, Gerald Wallace successfully put on the Clippers hat.
Li Ao has known this junior student to some extent in the past year.
He performed well as a forward substitute in his freshman season, averaging 8 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. With his title as the No. 4 high school student in the country, he was expected to be drafted at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.
Henry Bibby hopes that Gerald Wallace can stay in college for one more year and start for one more year. In that case, his draft stock will definitely rise a lot.
But seeing the hope of entering the first round, Gerald Wallace immediately chose to participate.
His reason made it impossible for Henry Bibby to continue asking him to stay - he wanted to make money.
Although he is only a freshman, Gerald Wallace is already a father. His girlfriend is his elementary school classmate and childhood sweetheart. He is now working as a porter in a supermarket in Los Angeles and has just given birth to his second child.
If he were not worried about losing the draft, he would have wanted to participate in the draft after graduating from high school. Now that he is expected to be in the first round, he will participate decisively.
Henry Bibby lost a talented forward for the Trojans and regretted that Gerald Wallace could not be selected with a higher pick. As a senior, Li Ao also felt regretful, but from the perspective of the club , he was happy with Gerald Wallace's decision.
If Gerald Wallace had stayed in college for another year, they wouldn't have missed it.
In the next few picks, the 76ers selected Haitian Dalembert with the 25th pick, the Kings selected Omar Cook with the 26th pick, and the Spurs used the 27th pick from the Magic. The Grizzlies used the 28th pick in the first round from the Lakers to select Jamal Tinsley and sent him to the Pacers.
Li Ao was quite surprised to see that the Spurs actually selected Arenas instead of Parker.
Then in the second round, the Spurs selected Tony Parker with the No. 1 pick of the second round obtained from the Bulls.
This puzzled Li Ao even more. Choose two point guards?
Do you feel that both of them are talented and are worried about missing out on the selection, so they both win together? But why did you only take one in the original time and space? It shouldn't be difficult to land a low draft pick.
The progress of the second round of the draft is much faster than that of the first round. There is no rookie stage stage, and the short film is much shorter than that of the first round.
Finally, it’s time to get the 16th overall pick in the second round that the Clippers just traded.
At this point, he couldn't remember who else was there.
Soon, the answer was revealed, Stu Jackson announced that the Clippers selected Jaylon Collins!
Li Ao, who was paralyzed by Ge You, immediately sat up straight, Collins! Which Corinthian?
After seeing the name clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief. It's his younger brother, so it's okay...
…
On the other side, at the draft, Wally Walker and Gentry also breathed a sigh of relief after grabbing one of the Stanford twins.
After sending away Mihm, they had to get back a substitute with sufficient height and tonnage and solid defensive skills, so they had a trade to exchange draft picks with the Trail Blazers.
However, this pick in the middle of the second round was very passive. Their first choice was Lauren Woods from the University of Arizona, a 216 cm center who graduated from college and was physically and technically mature. However, he was picked first by the Timberwolves.
After looking around again, they were surprised to find that the Stanford twins actually left one person unopposed and won decisively.
Gentry said: "The work of the draft stage is finally completed, thank you for your hard work Wally."
Wally Walker shook his head: "The offseason work has just begun now."
Gentry found his colleague boring.
But he is not as scared now. The general manager does everything in accordance with the regulations. If he does not violate the team regulations, he will not be fired. Even if he gave his cousin a job opportunity when he helped Li Ao find a trainer, as long as he If my cousin is professional enough, the general manager won't say anything.
Wally Walker continued: "We selected Wallace, which should be able to reduce Leo's dissatisfaction with us sending away Corey."
Gentry responded: "I think Leo is a very professional player. If our transaction is beneficial to the team, he will not be dissatisfied because of it."
Wally Walker shook his head: "That may be true, but we can't take chances. We have to do our job well."
Gentry pretended to turn around to get the water glass, secretly rolling his eyes.
When you sent the glider to Team Rocket, why didn't you think that you couldn't leave anything to chance? He was fired later!
He just cursed and said he still didn't dare to say it.
But choosing a Trojans player to stay safe, Gentry thought it would be a good idea.
After being eliminated in the second round, he and Wally Walker were discussing a trade. The team had too many young talents and it was impossible to fully cultivate them.
Sending some of the talents out in exchange for strong players is what must be done now.
And Maggette is the young player with the best trading market in their team.
Wally Walker took Brevin Knight and made inquiries everywhere, and the teams that responded to the offers were most interested in Maggette.
It's not that other teams think Maggette is better than Odom or O'Neal, it's mainly a matter of price. If they want to replace Odom or O'Neal, they must at least produce a star on the edge of the All-Star level.
Maggette is not that expensive, he is more suitable for circulation in the free market, and his talent is attractive enough. With the right addition, he can be exchanged for a good player.
But this troubled Wally Walker. Their Spider-Man and Maggette had a good relationship, and the cooperation on the court was also very pleasant. He also noticed that when Li Ao was in college, he had a substitute teammate with a similar playing style. I am even more worried.
If Kidd is traded back, that's no problem. In exchange for a superstar teammate, even if he loses, he believes Li Ao won't have any objections, but isn't this being tricked?
It just so happens that Gerald Wallace is running!
As head coach and general manager, Gentry and Wally Walker keep an eye on the performance of college talent.
The Trojans and Bruins, the teams in the same city, are definitely the teams they know the most about, and they can see the news at any time.
The two have long taken a fancy to Gerald Wallace's talent, but they did not include such a talent in the draft plan. They thought that after Gerald Wallace played for two or three years, he would be among the top ten picks. Perhaps, they didn't expect that the No. 4 high school student in the United States would directly participate in the draft after seeing that he was expected to be on the edge of the first round after playing as a substitute for a year, and they won decisively.
Choose a genius + appease Spider-Man, kill two birds with one stone!
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)
