Chapter 22: The Golden Generation
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"The Detroit Pistons chose -- Darko from Serbia. Milicic. Hearing the voice on the TV, Sun Yi almost jumped up, with an incredible expression on his face.
"Make no mistake, where did this kid jump from?" Sun Yi pointed to the handsome white guy on the TV, and expressed his dissatisfaction to Anna next to him with an exaggerated expression.
Sun Yi has always thought in his heart that LeBron. James and Cameron. Anthony will be the top pick in this draft. A high school student who has been hailed as the strongest high school student in American basketball history -- there is no one. One is a superplayer who leads a weak team as a freshman to the NCAA finals and win the only championship trophy in the team's history.
Daktronics. Milicic was born in war-torn Serbia. This talented player, who has just turned 17 years old, is not well known to the world. But every NBA professional scout's evaluation of him will be written in a thick book. His template is thought to be Garnett or Nowitzki, and the Mavericks' Nelson father and son once secretly went to Greece to watch the kid play, and were suspended for two games by the league.
In the scouts' notebooks, he is described almost perfectly: 2.16 meters tall, weighing 111 kilograms, can shoot with both left and right hands, is extremely explosive inside, is good at controlling the ball and can almost play a playmaking guard, and his three-point shot on the outside is extremely accurate......
During the Detroit Pistons' 45-minute trial, it took only 30 minutes for the Eastern European guy to conquer general manager Joe. Dumas. The former league's leading quarterback, watching him play, while recording on his laptop, muttered, "I'm X, I'm X......" The final comment was: "This little guy is a genius, only 17 years old, 17 years old, damn it." ”
Even the team's head coach at the time, Carlisle, and the main scoring guard Hamilton, were conquered by the performance of this Eastern European talent. 'He's definitely a fit for us, but unfortunately he won't be able to play tonight.'
There is no doubt about the professionalism of those NBA scouts, and it is definitely because of their strength that they can be rated so highly. Of course, it's not enough to have quality, luck is also important for a player. If, meet a stupid X coach who won't use you...... For example, Larry, who suffers from "rookie aversion". Brown, that's a let's not talk about for a while.
The Denver Nuggets were lucky to get their coveted Cameron. Anthony, on stage with David. After Stern's handshake, Anthony didn't feel depressed because he fell to the top of the list, and he went out of his way to thank the Denver Nuggets for choosing him, even though it was a small team in a small place.
Sun Yi doesn't like Chris who was picked by the Toronto Raptors. Bosh, the big forward of Qiao Zhizhi Institute of Technology, who has a soft style of play, can't get into Sun Yi's eyes at all. He prefers Dwyan, who was drafted by the Miami Heat's fifth pick. Wade, who grew up in Chicago, naturally has a sense of affinity, coupled with the just-concluded NCAA March Madness, which led the little-known Marquette University to the Final Four, and even got an amazing triple-double in the quarterfinals, with 29 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists. If it weren't for the meniscus removed due to injury, his draft pick would have been in the top three at least.
After Yao Ming was selected as the top pick last year, the Dallas Mavericks selected center Xue Yuyang from China with the 28th pick in the second round. Later, he was traded to the Denver Nuggets, but for some reason the Chinese Basketball Association did not let him go, and in the end, the player was very unfortunate to have a relationship with the NBA.
Fresh off the 2003 NBA Draft, David Brown. Stern, dragging his tired body through the media interview, in the assistant Adam . Accompanied by Xiao Hua, he slowly walked to the rest room.
The Jewish-American, who is about to turn 61, became president of the coalition in 1984. In the face of the NBA, which is on the verge of collapse, a series of effective and far-reaching initiatives have been carried out. Establish a salary cap and fight drugs. And created a group of star players with super popularity, Magic Johnson, Big Bird Larry. Bird, the basketball god Michael. Jordan. Successfully increased the influence of the entire alliance, which made a big difference in the alliance's receipts.
He has also been aggressive in overseas markets, with Yao Ming in '02 and Milicic this year successfully focusing on the East and Europe, the bottom-ranked business alliance in the United States.
"Adam, Michael has retired, it's time to think about his successor." Stern took the coffee Xiao Hua handed him and took a sip.
Adam. After Xiao Hua heard the other party's words, he was silent for a while. Cautiously asked, "Shaquille. O'neill? ”
David. Stern shook his silver-haired head dryly, "No, he's too tall to make people feel like an audience." ”
"Tracy. Mcgrady? Allan. Iverson? Bryant. Bryant? ”
When hearing Kobe. Bryant when David. Stern nodded slightly.
"Understood." Xiao Hua cupped his eyes on the bridge of his nose and whispered.
In a private training gym, a black-haired, yellow-skinned teenager dribbles the ball with both hands and frantically performs a switchback sprint. The wrists, chest, knees, ankles and other parts are covered with equipment similar to electrocardiogram sensors.
"Hurry up, hurry up again......" Quinn. Snyder's voice reverberated back and forth in the empty training hall. For a while, he looked at the stopwatch in his hand, and for a while, he looked at the device in front of him constantly receiving data signals from the boy.
Finally, after Sun Yi completed today's high-intensity physical training, he lay on the ground and didn't even want to move a finger.
Boom! A plastic water bottle flew from the sky and almost hit the teenager on the ground.
"Whoever told you to lie down, get up for me. Ten free throws, one less plus a set of switchbacks. Snyder looked at the data on the screen, but he didn't forget to let the teenager on the ground do the last workout.
Sun Yi, who looked aggrieved, gritted his teeth and steadily threw 10 balls into the hoop.
"Coach, I don't want to practice anymore, I don't want to practice anymore." Sun Yi, who came to Snyder, cried as he spoke. What made this strong, optimistic Oriental teenager cry like this?
After the discussion between Snyder and Sun Wenyuan, it was decided to conduct a two-month devil physical training for Sun Yi during this holiday. Sun Wenyuan specially rented this private training gym for $100 for two hours, and Snyder also deliberately took two hours a day to bring his own customized equipment to Sun Yi for special training.
It may be that the boring training that lasted for two months and didn't stop made the teenager completely explode today. Snyder, who had been prepared for a long time, let out a sigh of relief, he didn't expect this kid's endurance to be so strong, and he didn't explode until now.
He even worries that children who have not been vented will be affected by this negative emotion in the future. It's okay, it's okay.
"If you don't want to practice, you can. You can pick up the phone right now and call the person who rented this gym for you. Snyder picked up the phone at hand and handed it to Sun Yi, saying the lines that he had memorized for a long time.
Wow! Sun Yi, who was silent for a moment, sat on the ground like a child and cried bitterly. I almost didn't shout, I want my mother.
Finally, the boy's cry grew quieter, and there was a burst of sobbing sounds.
"It's just a small ordeal on the basketball road," Snyder said softly as he approached Sun Yi.
"If you continue on this path, there will be more difficulties and stronger opponents. Are you ready? ”
In the middle of the sound, the young man on the ground turned his head, and the tears that had not dried in the corners of his eyes made the expression of shame look so sincere and lovely. "Coach, I'm sorry, I see."
Snyder, who looked relieved, pulled up Sun Yi. "Boy, go take a shower."
Looking at the test report in his hand, Snyder happily cracked the corners of his mouth. Boy, you're so lucky to have met me. You don't even know how strong your body is.
A depressed Derek. Rose walked out of the gym and had just entered Simeon High School when he got Bob. Coach Hambrick's appreciation came into the varsity team, what made him look so frustrated?
Same as Chris. Like Coach Bob, Bob is a very principled, old-school coach. He doesn't allow freshmen to be the main force in the school team, no matter how strong that kid is, or how talented he is.
For Derek. With a basketball genius like Rose, who has both strength and potential, he will wait for the right moment to make him a blockbuster.
When Derek's second brother Reggie learned of the news, he immediately rushed to Coach Bob's office in a rage. Why, even if my brother is a freshman in high school, he is the best basketball talent in the whole school. No, it should be the whole of Chicago. Uh, except for that Oriental teenager from the Red Eagles. It's been a long time since that much-talked-about game. But Reggie has clearly not forgotten the dark-haired, yellow-skinned boy who made his genius brother suffer.
Twenty minutes later, Reggie walked out of Coach Bob's office dejectedly. It is said that at that time, Reggie was unable to convince the other party, and even tried to threaten Coach Bob with his youth and strength, but he didn't expect the other party to accept this set at all. Poor Reggie was instead beaten up by the old and strong Bob.
Of course, this is all rumor after the fact, whether it is true or not, the author has no way to tell. It's just that every time there is a game at Simeon Middle School, there is always a teenager wearing the No. 1 jersey sitting quietly on the sidelines.
A summer vacation body soared 12 centimeters Kevin. Durant was sweating in the arena practicing catch-and-shoot shots, and it was Coach Brown, one of his mentors, who passed the ball to him.
Under the hoop was a large basket, from which Brown expertly pulled a basketball. The tall and skinny boy who throws it outside the three-point line irregularly, and the teenager who receives the ball immediately jumps, hey! A basketball flying in the air has just plunged headlong into the net. The ball in Coach Brown's hand flew towards the tall and skinny boy again, and the ball in the Nets fell into the huge basket on the ground, waiting for the next departure......