Chapter 677: The Treasure of the Draft Year
The Warriors certainly weren't crazy, they just made up their minds to rebuild, and in order to mold Monta Ellis into the team's new core, they didn't hesitate to send last season's second-scorer - Jamal Crawford, who averaged 19.7 points per game. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Despite Billy Knight's "flying out of the sky" move, the most eye-catching trade team before and after the draft didn't belong to the Atlanta Hawks.
The New Jersey Nets managed to steal the spotlight by making two big deals that shocked the league, sending away the team's biggest players - Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter.
The Nets traded Jefferson to the Spurs in exchange for Bruce Bowen, Kurt Thomas and Argentine center Oberto.
It was a free send-off, as Bowen announced his retirement shortly thereafter, Thomas was old enough, and Oberto was cut outright.
However, as is customary, the stats of players who go to the Spurs will decline, and the athleticism will also enter a period of decline, so Jefferson's future is also extremely worrying.
Shortly after that, the Nets made another trade, sending Vince Carter and Ryan Anderson to Ralph Alstom, Tony Barty and Courtney Lee from the Orlando Magic.
Some experts have commented that the Nets have only one goal in the new season - to compete for the 2010 No. 1 pick.
The trade market was disrupted, but the draft went ahead as usual.
I don't know why, after the 07 and 08 drafts, the experts swore that the 09 class was definitely a small year for the draft, except for the players in the first few picks, the others are not worth looking forward to at all.
Ruan Erniu scoffed at this statement, at least he himself didn't think that this rookie was really as bad as the experts said.
On June 25, 2009, in the theater of Madison Square Garden, the NBA2009 draft officially began.
This is probably the most unsuspenseful No. 1 pick in the past three years, and the Los Angeles Clippers did not hesitate to use the No. 1 pick to win Blake Griffin from Oklahoma.
Interestingly, the guy with the surname "Griffin", the draft template given by ESPN is Kraft Nguyen.
That's right, as far as rice fans are concerned, the expectation for this champion is to hope that he can become the second Ruan Erniu, so as to compete with the Celestial Dynasty who has only been in the league for 2 years and has grown into the first person in the active service.
The wishes of the fans were not destined to come true so quickly, and it was also this summer that Griffin missed the entire 09-10 season due to a kneecap stress fracture in his left knee.
This can't help but make the Clippers pinch a cold sweat, two seasons later, Portland's champion still hasn't been able to realize his talent, has been in the shadow of injury, Griffin won't be the second Oden, right?
With the second pick, the Grizzlies selected Hashem Thabitt, a young man from Tanzania who is considered the second Mutombo, but it is difficult to tell whether the 15-year-old basketball talent can realize his talent.
With the third pick, the Oklahoma City Thunder selected James Harden from Arizona State University.
Erniu said that he knew this guy, this person is a famous figure in PAC-10 (the alliance of the Pacific Ten Schools, the alliance of UCLA), and he has naturally been discussed among the UCLA party, and the beard of this product is still very short, and it can be vaguely concluded:
He's an awl face!
The Sacramento Kings, who were the fourth overall pick and two internationalist fighters for the Hawks in the past two years, chose Tyrek Evans, who is considered to be LeBron James in the backcourt position.
The fifth pick, the Minnesota Timberwolves chose Ricky Rubio, what is unexpected is that the Spanish golden boy who was called "road sign" (Rubio pinyin reading) by Celestial Dynasty fans in the future, did not finally end his contract with the parent team and officially landed in the NBA.
The sixth-pick, hoarding draft picks, the Timberwolves selected Jonny Flynn.
Immediately after the seventh pick, the Golden State Warriors used the No. 7 pick to select a schoolboy named Stephen Curry.
That's right, he's a schoolboy.
At the moment when he saw Curry wearing the Warriors hat, Ruan Erniu really had the urge to call the police directly, and the NBA began to recruit child labor, this problem is very serious!
Fortunately, the baby-faced resume was quickly released on the screen, and he didn't know if he didn't look at it, and he was startled when he saw it, and Erniu remembered that in the year he played in the NCAA, Curry was already famous in Davidson Wildcats.
The guy who looks like a schoolboy is already a junior in college?
This is simply ruined, he is almost old, and his face is not an era at all!
Erniu is a little envious of Curry's tenderness, but Curry himself is very troubled by the baby-faced appearance.
didn't say it, just because he was obviously an adult, but he had to go to bars and nightclubs with his ID card, it was enough to make people depressed.
With the 8th pick, Jordan Hill was drafted by New York, with the 9th pick DeMar DeRozan was drafted by the Raptors, and with the 10th pick, Brandon Jennings was drafted by the Bucks.
The draft went on all the way, and unsurprisingly, Tyler Hansbrough, who had a big fight in the NCAA, didn't make it to the first tier and wasn't the kind of talent that Hansbrough was by NBA standards.
It wasn't until the 13th pick that Larry Bird, the white general manager, gave Hansbrough a chance, and the Pacers eventually drafted him.
The draft continued, with UCLA alumni like Erniu Chu Holiday and "senior" Darren Collison both being drafted.
Then, the Hawks were nervous, and the Sacramento Kings drafted Omi Cosby with the 23rd pick, which means that the Hawks were left with the last option if they wanted to be the chosen wing defender at the 27th pick.
Fortunately, the subsequent draft finally did not catch the Hawks off guard, and one player after another was selected, with the Chicago Bulls selecting USC's Ty Gibson with the 26th pick, and at the 27th pick, the Hawks finally won their final option - Demar Carroll.
Although Carroll's skills are rough, with his explosive physical fitness, he can bring a little help to the Hawks on the defensive end, and it is not in vain that the Hawks signed him with the first-round pick.
In the second round of the draft, the mentality of the Hawks management was even more relaxed.
They were able to get Patrick Mills with the 19th pick in the second round, fulfilling the goals they set before the draft.
Then, they just have to fill in the remaining players they need in the summer.
Of course, before the regular season, the team will generally swell to around 20-22 players, and in the early stages of the regular season, they will cut the players they don't need, slim down the roster to a final 15-man squad, and then drop three of them or put them on the injury list, leaving only 12 players in the final game list.
Not long ago, reigning champion Nguyen Er Niu was already making a leap forward for the new season.
Successful people are always like this, after achieving phased success, they will continue to move towards new goals and move forward quickly.
Erniu packed his bags and sent Eddie to a scout camp in the United States after she finished her exams, and he himself took a flight to Los Angeles after spending a few days with Dr. Han.
In the City of Angels, he is about to start his further studies and special training program this summer.