Chapter 401: First Arrival in the United States
The NBA Draft is a balanced policy adopted by the NBA league to promote the team's progress together, ensuring the competitiveness and sustainability of the league. The NBA Draft has a strong talent reserve.
The newcomers to the "draft" are generally students from universities in the United States, and they are usually the best players in the NCAA in the National College Basketball League.
Before 2006, under the influence of utilitarian thinking, many high school players participated in the "draft", and even more did not graduate from college and entered the NBA.
Since 2006, the requirements for participation in the draft have been raised to at least 19 years old, and at least one year of high school graduation is required.
The prerequisite for international players to participate in the draft is that they have played in a professional league in their home country, and if an international player is studying in high school or college in the United States, the entry conditions of local players are referred to.
For young players who participate in the draft, the NBA ranks them based on their performance in college (or high school), which of course does not determine the team's selection in the draft, and is only for reference.
By drawing lots, the team will not lose deliberately, because the bottom of the regular season does not necessarily mean the top pick.
Once the first three picks are confirmed, the teams with the highest ranked spots can choose their favorite players from among the rookies to fill the positions that need to be strengthened the most.
After the top 14 rookies are selected in the first round of nonplayoff teams, the next 16 picks are reserved for playoff teams, and the order of the 16 teams is determined by the order of the regular season record, which means that the team with the better regular season record is the lower the draft position.
The order of the second-round draft is exactly in reverse order of last season's record, and NBA teams can use draft picks as leverage in season-season player trades.
Therefore, in the actual draft process, the ranking of the results may not be the same as the ranking of the draft.
The Nets were unfortunate to have the lowest record in the league in last year's game, but when the rookie game was drawn, the first-round draft picks gave Nets fans some comfort in their unwillingness.
The headquarters of the NBA is located in New York, the capital of the world.
Here, there are not only the world-famous Statue of Liberty and Broadway, but also Chinatown is also the largest Chinese gathering place in the United States.
From the moment the plane landed, Xiao Ran immediately sensed the power of the language master.
Not long ago, he could write the emperor as yellow UP, but now listening to the English in his ears, he feels like his native language, and any words are so easy to understand in his ears.
Even if Xiao Ran didn't have any achievements in the sports world, with his English ability, being a translator was more than enough.
Walking out of the New York airport, a voice full of joy immediately sounded not far away, this voice was crisp and pleasant, and very familiar, looking in the direction from which the voice came, Feng Ping's smile bloomed like a flower, standing there and waving at him.
"Xiao Ran!
Looking at Feng Ping, Xiao Ran unconsciously thought of the cold policewoman, that is, her mother Pingyan.
If she knew that after she came to the United States, the person who picked up the airport was Fengping, I don't know if she would take out a gun and kill herself......
This thought flashed in Xiao Ran's mind, and he dragged his suitcase over and asked curiously, "How did you know I was here?"
Feng Ping disappeared in an instant, her mouth pursed, and she snorted dissatisfiedly: "Hmph! Really, you didn't say hello to me in advance when you came to the United States, or Mo Yuning told me, I just knew!"
"Forehead ......"
Wait a minute!
Something is wrong.
Mo Yuning and Feng Ping don't like each other, there is no doubt about it, in China, because of Xiao Ran, when the two meet, if they don't pinch two sentences, it will be purely the sun coming out of the west.
It stands to reason that when he came to the United States, Mo Yuning was most worried about Fengping, after all, the two of them were already unclear in China, and now in the United States, they are even more unfamiliar with life, and there are few familiar people at all.
But Xiao Ran only thought of one aspect.
His English, Mo Yuning knows, taobaos can speak the goods, come to the United States, if there is no familiar person, wouldn't it be blind?
And Mo Yuning didn't know that Xiao Ran had won the reward of the language master, so she had to find Feng Ping and ask her to help, although she was very reluctant in her heart.
Seeing that Feng Ping's small face was full of unhappiness, Xiao Ran laughed.
But in good times, there will always be one or two people who jump out to make you unhappy.
As soon as Feng Ping finished speaking, a blonde foreigner standing next to him suddenly spoke: "Feng Ping, who is this old man?"
This foreigner is about twenty years old, only two or three centimeters lower than Xiao Ran, according to the aesthetics of Caucasians, he is also a handsome guy, but his height is high, and I am the appearance of an uncle, which makes people not feel good at all.
Feng Ping glanced at him and said, "What, didn't you say you're a basketball fan, and you don't know him yet?"
The foreigner sneered and said: "Although I am a basketball fan, but the basketball I pay attention to is only the NBA, I won't go to watch other events, is this person very famous in your Chinese CBA? But speaking of which, the level of your Chinese CBA is really bad enough, there is no strong player, any NBA player can be the main force, crush your local players, this person is estimated to be good in your Huaxia strength, but in the United States, I am afraid that there are not many people who know him." ”
Hearing this, Xiao Ran couldn't help laughing.
This product has a strong sense of superiority, Huaxia's strength is not good, but Yao Ming has also been born anyway.
As an NBA legend superstar, a Chinese superstar who has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, he alone is enough to make China proud.
What's more, there is a Xiao Ran now.
This person is Stephen, a classmate that Fengping met after coming to New York University, she first came to New York, and as soon as she arrived at the school, she attracted the attention of many men with her pure appearance.
And Stephen is one of the most fanatical in pursuit.
When he heard that Fengping likes sports and has been obsessed with basketball recently, Stephen was very excited.
As a native of the United States, the attention of basketball is second only to football, and he usually pays attention to basketball, and he immediately became a basketball enthusiast.
Today, after learning that Fengping was coming to the airport, Stephen followed him all the way.
Although Feng Ping didn't like it in her heart, as a classmate, she was not easy to touch directly.
But now when she heard Stephen say such things, she immediately became less concerned, looked at him with a dark face and said, "Stephen, Xiao Ran is my good friend, I allow you to belittle him like this! And in basketball, he is far better than anyone you know!"