In addition to them, Zhang Weiping was also inside.

It's just that compared with those big media, he has only one position, and the position in that corner is a little shabby.

This is also something that cannot be helped, the Chinese market is huge, but the NBA has not opened much, and the degree of attention received by media people is naturally limited.

So you can imagine why Zhang Weiping deliberately went to the Staples Center in the first place.

As the first media person to set foot in the NBA by domestic media, he is the person who most hopes that Sun Hao will be selected besides Sun Hao.

Thinking about the reaction of Wang Zhizhi to being selected by domestic fans, you know how big the impact Sun Hao will have if he enters the first round and lands in the NBA.

Nowhere is the star effect more evident than in sports.

Sun Hao: Their location is not far from the media area.

After everyone else sat down, he and Su Qun went to the media area to chat with Zhang Weiping.

Zhang Weiping's face was full of smiles, and he couldn't hide his joy.

He has been a correspondent in the United States for several years, but every year he squats in a corner and is lonely.

In the past draft, he basically looked at the flowers in the fog and the moon in the water, which had little to do with him.

finally waited until Wang Zhizhi was elected last year, but he couldn't come in China.

This is the first time in so many years that he can chat with Chinese participating in the draft.

That joy really can't be hidden.

"Xiao Sun, you were selected to take a photo with Stern, I have a small national flag here, the kind that can be pasted, you stick it inside the suit, show it when you take a group photo, this is also our China's No.1."

Sun Hao smiled and took it and glued it to the inside of the suit.

"Don't be nervous, I've already talked to Kupchak, people are really happy with you, you just wait to be on stage."

Zhang Weiping whispered over and said, and after speaking, he couldn't help laughing and patting Sun Hao's shoulder.

"Later, when you come down from the stage, there will be an ESPN reporter to interview you, and there will be other media after the end, and finally there will be an exclusive interview with our CCTV, you can think about what to say in advance."

Sun Hao nodded, Zhang Weiping was really more dedicated than himself.

While chatting, Sun Hao noticed that Youdao was looking at him, and turned his head to see that it was a "magician".

Johnson is the No. 1 point guard in NBA history, even though he only played 13 seasons.

If it weren't for AIDS, his career might have lasted 15 seasons or even approached 20.

After all, the point guard has had the longest career of any position.

But there are no ifs.

After retiring from the game in 1991 due to AIDS and returning for a season in 1995, Johnson gave up professional basketball altogether.

After retiring, he used his excellent dual business to create a personal business empire, and the assets of "Magic Johnson Entertainment" reached 2 billion.

He himself became a special guest of the NBA, and went to the commentary booth from time to time to experience it.

When Sun Hao looked over, the magician showed him a sweet smile.

Sun Hao also responded with a smile.

Fortunately, it's a magician, not a magician's son.

Johnson is a Lakers celebrity, the kind of person who has the label of "Laker" in his bones.

His smile only represents one thing, he has already regarded Sun Hao as a "Laker".

It seems that everything has already been decided by Sun Hao.

In fact, this kind of thing is normal in the NBA draft of this era.

Because of the lack of information, many teams may not know who they want to pick and other teams may not know at all.

So that kind of beard cutting thing usually happens to popular rookies.

Sun Hao can't get along with the hit.

After chatting with Zhang Weiping, Sun Hao and Su Qun went back to their positions and waited.

It was only at this time that Sun Hao found out that Fu Paul was back.

This guy hasn't been seen in a whole day.

"Where did you go?"

Sun Hao couldn't help but ask.

"Go and meet with the general managers of each team, I just finished talking to Zanik."

After Fu Paul finished speaking, he picked up the mineral water and poured it into his mouth, it seemed that he was too busy to drink water.

"What are you talking about?"

"I said you were a Christian."

“……”

Sun Hao was a little big.

Utah is home to Mormons, and most people in the United States know about that.

Mormonism is a branch of Christianity, and Paul is close to it, and thick-skinned to a certain extent.

However, this is completely understandable, if he can impress the Jazz team, Sun Hao can soar to the 23rd pick.

The higher the pick, the more important the team will be.

This is also the reason why Sun Hao said that he should give priority to the order when he asked him about Fu Paul.

"Are you a Christian?"

Su Qun suddenly leaned over and asked.

He's just a curious and problematic baby.

This is also a common problem among literati, because the mind is full of articles, and sometimes there is no attention to it, and Yazi who doesn't seem to be very smart.

Sun Hao and Fu Paul glanced at each other, and then they couldn't help laughing.

You, go write your article.

After a while, the draft teams of each team began to enter the court.

There are a lot of offices on the second floor of Madison Square Garden, which are assigned to teams during the draft.

At the time of the draft, each team will print the final draft results on a slip of paper, and then put the note in an envelope and send it to the league draft office.

In the end, it was Stern who took the envelope to the front desk to announce the final result.

That's why fans see Stern open the envelope every time he picks up.

Even in the future, when information is developed, this tradition continues.

Sun Hao and they were chatting, when suddenly a tall figure appeared behind them.

Sun Hao turned around and found that it was Old Nelson.

The old Nelson is also a retired professional player, nearly two meters tall, developed after retirement, and has a huge size, giving people a great sense of coercion.

Coupled with his usual roaring style when coaching, it makes people not angry and arrogant.

However, when he saw Sun Hao, he was full of smiles and took the initiative to reach out.

This old man seems to be very interested in him.

He chatted with Sun Hao for a few words, all of which were inconsequential words, and when Harris was shouting over there, he also smiled and shook hands with Sun Hao and was ready to leave.

"I'll be waiting for you in Dallas."

Before leaving, the elder Nelson shook off this sentence.

Domineering president.

It felt like he was going to Dallas.

Sun Hao was confused after hearing this.

The Mavericks' second-round pick this year is 31 picks, which is very high, but the Lakers are 29 picks.

Didn't the Mavericks get a message that the Lakers wanted to draft him?

This is unlikely.

Or did the Mavericks get a message that the Lakers didn't pick him?

Or, will it be difficult for the Mavericks to draft him with the 12th pick?

Sun Hao shook his head in thought.

The more you think about it, the more unreliable it becomes.

Sure enough, I don't know what will happen until the draft.

Time passed little by little, and on the media area, Barkley and they had already started to warm up.

Who will be the champion?

Tekoglu, who was supposed to fight for three, fell all the way down after the trial, where will it fall?

Predicting lotto show Jamal Crawford will go head-to-head with "Street Ball" Alston at Rock Park today, and the two will be evenly matched.

The tacos made by Buckley's wife today were super delicious.

……

From basketball to basketball, from basketball to something that has nothing to do with basketball.

In the commentary, Barkley really retracted and released freely, and grasped the audience's minds accurately.

Because of the proximity, Sun Hao could probably hear what they were saying clearly.

"Kenny, did you bring enough $1,000 for today?"

As they chatted, Barkley suddenly asked.

Kenny Smith didn't react at first, and only after he did he realize that he was talking about the previous bet.

"You've figured out how to spend it?"

Smith replied with a smile that Barkley felt like he had won.

"Christina is about to turn 10 and I'm ready to buy her something, and she loves the Broadway hat."

Barkley really thought about it, even where to buy it.

It made Ernie Johnson and the magician laugh.

"I could give Christina a hat as a birthday present, but you're going to lose tonight, Magic, tell him who the Lakers are going to pick tonight."

Smith can't wait to see Barkley go haywire.

The magician laughed and didn't speak, and now that the draft hasn't started yet, he won't say anything.

It's really fun to fight between the two.

Sun Hao listened to it very happily in the back, don't say it, this scene is really similar to domestic cross talk.

Looking at the cross talk, time flies quickly.

More than two hours later, Stern walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage with a smile.

Sun Hao also turned his gaze to the stage.

Stern is now fifty and eighteen, and his hair is mostly gray.

Just as Van Gogh didn't realize the greatness of his paintings until after his death, it wasn't until after Stern's retirement that fans realized the magnitude of his contribution to the NBA.

It was this old man who brought the NBA to the world step by step and achieved the prosperity of basketball.

Clever and far-sighted.

Of course, the fans are not aware of this yet.

When he came out, there was a lot of boos.

The NBA ushered in the fourth shutdown in its history last year, and Stern took a tough stance in the negotiations, which caused many fans to be dissatisfied.

Coupled with some things like referee scripts, all the dissatisfaction was vented at the draft.

In particular, the scene is mostly New York fans, and most of them are not big to watch.

Stern was very calm, bowing his head and not speaking, and waited until the boos had stopped before he smiled and spoke.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to the ...... of the draft."

With Stern's familiar words, the curtain of the 2000 NBA Draft officially opened.

"The first pick in the first round in 2000 belonged to the New Jersey Nets, and they had five minutes to think about it."

After saying that the top pick was attributed, Stern went back to the background.

He was to go in and out of that door twenty-nine times that night.

After Stern left, the scene was unusually noisy.

Who the Nets will pick as the top pick is something that fans and media have been discussing since before the season even ended, and this discussion has been going on until now.

is still far from the priority he may have reached, and Sun Hao's mentality is relatively relaxed.

He also recalled many familiar episodes in his mind.

The New Jersey Nets were founded in 1967 and were one of the first 11 teams in the ABA league.

Basketball in the '60s wasn't that popular, and the team's experience in that era was as difficult and turbulent as most other teams.

Even the team could be described as displaced, with their first season going back and forth between six different cities.

But there's something very special about this team, it's a New Jersey team with the New York label.

As the name suggests, the team, which was labeled New Jersey because it was founded in New Jersey, actually spent most of its time in New York.

From Cormac Arena on Long Island, New York, to Island Gardens in West Hampstead, and even Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

All they have been doing is getting close to New York, the most beautiful goddess in North America, and entering her.

So for New York fans, although the Nets are called the New Jersey Nets, they all know that this is a New York team.

This is another reason why the scene is so noisy.

The Nets are their second home team.

The good thing about being a time-traveler is that Sun Hao is like God now, and he knows that Martin will be elected champion.

So when Su Qun and Lasso were arguing about who was the champion, he could be like a happy melon-eating crowd.

Five minutes later, Stern reappeared on stage.

"In 2000, the first pick in the first round, the New Jersey Nets were selected...... Kenyon Martin, 2.06m power forward, from the University of Cincinnati. ”

When Stern announced the result, the crowd erupted in cheers from the New York fans.

The argument between Su Qun and Lasso beside Sun Hao finally stopped.

Martin, like Duncan, completed four years of college before entering the NBA, with excellent college stats and outstanding physical gifts.

However, the style of play of the two is actually completely different, and the Nets chose him when the latter was injured, which was actually a little helpless.

They are lucky, with only a 4.4% chance of getting the top pick;

But unfortunately, they caught up with a draft that was nearly out of gear;

The rookies in the previous class were Brand, Francis, and Odom, and the next class has Tyson Chandler, Pau Gasol, and Joe Johnson.

But this time, they have no choice but Martin.

The so-called champion is the kind that can be used to build a team.

Swift can indeed run and jump, like a stag as Barkley said, but even jumping out of outer space doesn't change the fact that his technique is rough.

Not to mention Darius Myers and Marcus Fetzel, who are far from Martin.

However, Sun Hao, as a traverser, didn't think so.

Whether a rookie can become a talent or not has a lot to do with the environment.

If Kwame Brown hadn't gone to Jordan's Wizards, and if Milicic hadn't gone to Larry Brown's Pistons, they'd certainly have achieved better than they've ever accomplished.

In the same way, if you put Ross and Wade in this era, because of the handcheck rule, they will definitely not perform as well as history.

After all, there are few historical supergiants like O'Neal and Abdul-Jabbar who are strong enough to change the rules, and most players can only adapt to the rules and the environment.

The draft is still going on, and the team's selection is not much different from what Sun Hao knows.

The Vancouver Grizzlies, who were the second pick, chose Swift, the spring man on the inside;

the Los Angeles Clippers' 2.10-meter big man Darius Myers with the third pick;

The fourth-best Chicago Bulls chose Marcus Fetzer, a stocky interior lineman with a height of 2.03m and a weight of 117kg;

The Orlando Magic, who were fifth picked, chose 2.03m small forward Mike Miller;

The selection of each team is the same as Sun Hao knows.

Four of the top five picks are interior players!

Because Jordan retired for the second time, super interior players like O'Neal and Duncan began to dominate the league.

Just as the team chose the swingman to defend Jordan in the first place, the team now aims for the big man to die.

Not to choose the next Duncan O'Neal, but also to choose one who can compete with them on the court.

Even at this moment, Sun Hao suddenly felt that the height in China was one-size-fits-all, and it was largely affected by the NBA.

It's just that, like most things, it's just a matter of learning, and it's a one-size-fits-all cut that goes wrong in order to save trouble.

He hadn't thought much about it when he first crossed over, but now he suddenly realized that instead of bothering to reform it, it was better to solve the problem at the source.

If the person who rules this era is not O'Neill or Duncan, but becomes him.

Then the NBA will naturally turn to his two-way guard era from the swingman era of Jordan to the interior era of O'Neal Duncan.

Naturally, the domestic atmosphere will also change.

This can be called: the guiding force of the first person in the alliance.

This is really, if you don't experience it on the spot, even if he is a traverser, he can't think of this layer.

And when he was in Europe, he had a big goal of making basketball the number one sport in the world.

Before that, he became the first person in the NBA, and that's another big goal for him to accomplish.

As he was thinking, his thoughts were drawn back to the sound of Barkley and their voices.

Before you know it, the draft has reached the eleventh pick.

After Stern announced that the Celtics would use this pick to select Jerome Moiso, another 2.08m inside big man, Barkley and their words began again.

"I just saw Nelson Sr. say hello to the Suns, do you think it's possible for the Mavericks to pick him with that pick?"

Kenny Smith threw out a topic.

"You're crazy, Kenny, you're crazy!"

Barkley spoke loudly.

"Who would use a lottery show to choose a 1.83m point guard, and he's not Isaiah Thomas or Allen Iverson."

"Okay, I'm just saying, but the Lakers will pick the Suns and I'll still win."

Sun Hao didn't understand what the sun meant at first.

After they had spoken a few words, he noticed that it was a name, and he realized that the sun was referring to him.

Barkley and the others, the temporary nickname given to him on the show that day, really used it like that.

After a while, Stern came out again.

He announced the Mavericks' selection for the twelfth pick.

Etan Thomas, 2.08m, 117kg inside line.

As in history.

No matter how much old Nelson likes Sun Hao, it is impossible to use the lotto show to choose him.

"Kenny, it's not like I want to hit you, but as a big guy, I have to tell you some brutal facts."

Barkley gained the upper hand and began to take advantage of the victory.

"Do you know who the head coach of the Lakers is? Phil jackson! Do you know what kind of point guard Phil likes? Tall point guard! ”

Barkley unsheathed his blade and took Smith's head.

This time it really made Smith speechless.

Phil Jackson likes to play triangle offense, and he is a big fan of triangle offense.

In this offensive system, the interior and guard are the dominant players, and what everyone else has to do is cut in and defend.

That's why he loves tall defenders.

Because the tall guard has a large defensive area, combined with the partner's scoring guard and small forward, the opponent's offense can be completely blocked from the free throw line.

This is also the reason why Smith is speechless, although he is not as famous as Barkley, he has played against the Bulls during his time with the Houston team.

Buckley was not wrong.

Sun Hao rubbed his hands unconsciously at this time, he felt that the draft promise was not so stable.

And slowly, as the draft continues to go backwards, he is also a little uncontrollably nervous.

The draft is going fast, and it's coming to the Jazz right away.

Sun Hao's nervousness at this time reached a peak.

Of the teams he tried out, the Jazz were the top pickers.

"In 2000, with the 23rd pick in the first round, the Utah Jazz selected Dee ...... Sean Stevenson, a 1.96m shooting guard, from Fresno Washington Union High School. ”

The Jazz chose Stevenson.

It makes sense, as the Jazz are known for their iron will, preferring a strong defensive perimeter.

As for whether it is suitable for pick-and-roll tactics, as Zanick has said in previous interviews, their coaching staff will solve this problem.

In the media area, Barkley continued to yell at Smith.

As the first-round draft draws nearer, the chances of him winning the bet are getting greater.

"Sun, don't worry, the European defenders didn't even have the possibility of reaching the first round before."

Lasso opened his mouth to comfort Sun Hao, and when chatting during the day, he also knew about Sun Hao's trial training.

"I know."

Sun Hao's mood didn't fluctuate much.

In fact, this result is expected.

Several other teams have given him draft promises openly or privately.

The Jazz didn't, it was normal to not choose him, and it was a surprise to choose him.

The Jazz didn't choose, and his nervousness slowly relaxed.

In that case, he'll honestly wait for the Lakers.

If the Lakers don't pick him in the end, as Barkley said, then he's going to the Mavericks.

There's nothing wrong with playing with Nowitzki under Nelson Sr.

And there is an advantage to the second round, there is no Arenas clause at this time, and he can seize the opportunity to get more money.

After all, the rules are not perfect at this time, and it is easy to earn more money in the early part of the second round than at the end of the first round.

Even he can take the opportunity to turn the Arenas clause into a Sun Hao clause, and he will not lose anything.

"What about Rich Paul?"

Su Qun said at this time.

Sun Hao also noticed that his agent didn't know when there was no one again.

Originally, after he relaxed, he wanted to complain that the other party's use of Christians almost didn't work.

"24th pick in the first round in 2000."

Stern walked out of the backstage for the 24th time.

"Chicago Bulls Selection...... Sun Hao, a 1.83m point guard, is from China. ”

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