Chapter 1130: Top Picks, Leaderboard Picks, Spurs, SuperSonics, and Rookies of the Class of 2013!
On June 22, 2013, the smoke of the NBA Finals cleared, but the heat caused by the championship did not subside in the slightest.
Seattle, the eternal center of the NBA's hustle and bustle, is now in a daaf to what is happening in the NBA.
Once upon a time, the end of the annual finals was the liveliest and craziest time in Seattle.
Now, with the exception of a few people, it doesn't seem like an NBA and basketball mecca.
"The NBA has had nothing to do with us for three years."
In the training gym of the Seattle SuperSonics, Tucker, Ingles, Danny Green, Nick Collison and others looked at these rookies who came to the Seattle SuperSonics tryout this year, and everyone's faces were a little nostalgic.
"I don't know if Yes has stepped out of the shadow at the beginning."
"I think I'm coming out, right? After all, Roy has won the championship in the Mavericks, and now he is doing well in the Mavericks, and Rajan ...... After Rondo's villain betrayed Yes, he also got the punishment he deserved, in the past three years with the Spurs, he was ridiculed wherever he went, and even because he played Popovich, he didn't even have a place in the team last season, he now has a two-year contract with the Spurs, and the Spurs wanted to trade him last season, and they were willing to post a first-round pick, but there was still no one to take over, and now there have been rumors that the Spurs want to buy out the contract of Rondo's traitor. ”
"I've also heard that based on his performance over the years, if he is bought out of contract by the Spurs, he can retire directly, and no one is willing to take him in at all, that strength, that temper, do you want an ancestor to go back and direct traffic at the top of the arc?"
"So Rondo and Spurs deserve it!"
"If it weren't for betraying Yes at the beginning, Rondo's current status is estimated to be firmly in the top fifteen, and his greed is not enough to swallow elephants, do you really think that he is a big guy without Yes? I think Danny is so much smarter at that! ”
Danny Green was a little embarrassed by Tucker's indignation and obsession with Rondo.
Because of the performance in the 2010 finals, Danny Green was also poached, but he withstood the temptation, although the money was given more elsewhere and the status was also high, but it was still supersonic speed that made him steady.
He knows very well that his performance in the finals is entirely because of Yes's assists, and sure enough, whether it is in the regular season or the playoffs over the years, his 'Zhang Tielin' is still the same 'Zhang Tielin', although the data is much better than the rookie season, but compared with the finals that year, it is also a cliff-like decline.
Those teams poached him because of his performance in the 2010 Finals, and if he went to these teams and couldn't show the strength of the 2010 Finals, even if he still had these stats from the Seattle SuperSonics, he wouldn't be much better off than Rondo.
Therefore, compared to Rondo going to the Spurs as the boss, he still chose to stay in the SuperSonics and continue to be his Zhang Tielin waiting for Yes's return, waiting for the second spring of his career.
Of course, he didn't think about leaving at the beginning, after all, the treatment of other teams was indeed good, but Rondo's experience made those players in the SuperSonics team who were not confident in their talent and strength discourage.
Of course, it's a different story for players like Gasol Jr. and Serge Ibaka, who are so talented that Yes has been fully developed long ago.
So, Danny Green felt that Tucker was right, and Rondo just didn't know enough about himself.
He's on the same level as us role players, but he's overestimating himself and thinking he's a genius like Durant, Serge Ibaka, and Gasol Jr.
"I can only say that Yes still spoiled him too much in the past, spoiled him."
Ingalls sighed.
Yes people are indeed too good and too good.
He came to the team in 2008 because he saved Yes once, and until now, he has been paid for five years for nothing.
And the team has never treated him badly, and the team has even renewed his contract according to the highest standards of role players.
Last season, he had 7 points, 3 assists and 3 rebounds on the team, but this season the team gave him a five-year, $50 million contract extension.
Although his three-point shooting percentage reached a season-high 44% last season, in this era when three-pointers are becoming more and more important, he can get a good contract with this three-point shot after leaving the SuperSonics, but it will definitely not reach the level of 50 million in five years.
When he was expelled from Australia, he didn't think that he would one day get an annual salary of 10 million in the NBA.
So, he has always been very, very grateful.
I have always felt that Yes is so good, and those who betray Yes will definitely not end well.
Just like Rondo.
"Although that guy is punished by God for betraying Yes, but all that money is real, hateful!"
"Hehe, don't think so, the money given to that guy is all used by God to punish the Spurs, the Spurs take so much money every year to raise a waste, in order to raise this waste, Duncan has to cut his salary for fear that the team will violate the luxury tax, that's it, the Spurs have also paid the luxury tax for two years, and the poor owner of the Spurs is sad to death, hehe, there are still two years."
"I heard that Popovich took the initiative to take a pay cut because he wanted to use his salary to make up for the loss of the team and the owner?"
"That's right, if Popovich hadn't taken the initiative to take a pay cut, and he and Buford Bowen would have gotten out of the deal with Rondo."
"Hehe, Popovich resigned from the position of CEO, the position of CEO was given to Buford, and the CEO's salary was given to Buford, even if he still has a conscience, he knows that he cheated Buford."
"I think Bowen also has a good conscience, it was he who recommended the man to Popovich, so on the night of the 'Good Friday of the King's Castle', Popovich and the man nailed to the pillar of shame, Bowen left the court in a trance and was hit by a car, he was lame in one leg, and the other leg was also lame, which could have been cured, but because of the guilt of Popovich who had gone through the vicissitudes of the night, he was actually the same as before, unwilling to operate, and now both legs are lame together, and the wheelchair has been sitting for three years."
"In the past three years that Bowen has been in a wheelchair, Timberwolves fans, Raptors fans, and our superSonics fans, many NBA team fans have been very happy for three years."
"Bowen also deserves it, he ruined so many people's careers, and now he is in a wheelchair, which can be regarded as cheap!"
Although the slogan of 'Soldiers in the Holy City, smashing fairy tales' after the Cavaliers won the championship not long ago really made them very unhappy, every time they talk about what happened to the Spurs in the past three years, these superSonics players can always turn their unhappiness into happiness.
In the past three years, supersonic players have watched the Spurs lively, and supersonic fans have watched Spurs jokes, which has become the spice for them to wait for Yes.
"It's a bit of a shame that the Spurs have drawn a good draft pick this year."
"After all, we have been unlucky for two years, and this year cannot be unlucky again, and it is really better than luck, isn't our luck better? When he traded CJ Watson to the Magic and got that first-round pick, he has now become a role model pick! ”
"It's really good luck, but it's a pity that this year is a small year in the draft, and there are no players who are too strong, so it would be nice if Tony Roteng participated in the draft a year later."
"Hehe, Tony Rotten participated in the draft last year and was the eye of the list, that's because the champion is a thick eyebrow, if it is this year, the list eye can't choose Tony Roteng."
"That's true, but when you think about it, this year's top picks, Oladipo, are Tony Allen and Danny, and I feel a little speechless."
Hearing this, Danny Green himself wanted to laugh.
This year's top pick, Oladipo's draft template, the worst is Tony Allen, and the best is Danny Green.
He never imagined that one day he would be the favorite to be the top pick in the NBA Draft.
And in addition to Oladipo, several other hot rookies.
Otto Porter is Prince, Treeback is teammate Tylawson, and the difference in quality of this year's draft is staggering.
And this is also an important reason why the draft is approaching, with Noll having injury problems, the Antetokounmpo brothers' draft picks are soaring wildly, obviously the current boss of the University of Washington is a little magician, but EJ Magic is not as good as the Antetokounmpo brothers in addition to the ball quotient.
Several of the contributors to this year's championship at the University of Washington, on the contrary, the Antetokounmpo brothers are higher in the draft than the little magic, and of course everyone is also a lotto.
It is precisely because there are no rookies with absolute advantages in this year's draft that everyone's competition is very fierce, and no one dares to guarantee that they can be lotto, or that they are the champions.
Everyone's strength is too close.
For NBA teams, this rookie class is poor, the worst in history.
But for these rookie players, it is the hardest, because everyone is too close, and the competition is far more difficult than in previous drafts, and they accidentally fall from the top of the lottery to the back, or even fall out of the lotto.
As a player with a draft template of Tony Allen and Danny Green, is it surprising to fall out of the lotto?
Not even Oladipo himself would be surprised.
At the Seattle SuperSonics training gym, Oladipo gritted his teeth.
But his eyes kept on the EJ Johnson, the little magician, who looked elegant and easy-going even on the court, even if he was sweating!
This is his biggest opponent!
Even if his prediction is high now, the name of the little magician is too loud!
Three consecutive NCAA championships, NCAAmop, no matter how fortunate the game is, no matter how strong the opponent is, every time he confronts his opponent on the court, he has that kind of 'elegant and easy-going' and 'happy' smile on his face, and every one of his opponents will be upset by his smile.
He is an outlier on the basketball court, and even many NCAA players privately say that they don't even dare to look at him, just being stared at by his eyes, they are chilled.
He is a combination of a smiling assassin and a magician, he is the most terrifying 'smiling gentleman' in the NCAA, the 'smiling gentleman' who is looked at by his eyes and touched by his hands, the smiling magician, e.J. Johnson!
Even if it's him!
When his gaze was discovered by the little magician, and when the little magician looked over, he didn't dare to look at this guy.
He clearly knew how his soul trembled when he was watched by this guy and touched by this guy's hands.
In this year's NCAA round of 16, Indiana University was beaten by the University of Washington because he was caught by this little magician.
If it weren't for the little magician's relatively ordinary talent, the champion would definitely be his, of course, the talent mentioned here is ordinary just compared to his father, and his two-meter height is not short at all in the point guard position.
And he played the same way as his father.
Other small point guards like to open up space and break through, and his style of play is that he likes to play against defenders on the offensive end, tangling with the opponent with his body, and then passing the ball like his father, hooking his hand, and even he prefers hand-to-hand combat with offensive players more than his father.
Look at the meat on him, where is this an NCAA player!
At 1.93 meters, 97 kilograms, he is already extremely strong among NCAA guards, but in this year's NCAA round of 16, he was suppressed by him in the confrontation!
In the training tube of the Seattle SuperSonics, Oladipo did not dare to make eye contact with the little magician, and was not used to that extremely aggressive gaze and extremely evil smile.
In the face of Oladipo's retreat, EJ Johnson just smiled.
Soul mates are really not so easy to find.
"But there's no better place to find your soul mate than the basketball court!"
This is the biggest platform for same-sex dating and same-sex hand-to-hand fighting!
Ah Kelly, you can't run away!
At this time, the little magician didn't notice at all that CJ McCollum, who was leaning against him behind him, was already trembling a little.
The smile on the corner of the mouth seen from the side really made the souls of these little cucumber eggs tremble!
It's so lethal!
Because the Seattle SuperSonics have two first-round picks in their hands this year, one of which is still a high-ranking pick, although Yes is no longer with the Seattle SuperSonics, but the Seattle SuperSonics' training camp still attracts a lot of excellent players.
Sanassis Antetokounmpo and Giannis Antetokounmpo, the two lottery favourites, are almost all here, including Oladipo, Little Magic, Trey Burke, Pope and many others.
Compared with the Spurs, who won the No. 1 pick, the Seattle SuperSonics is more attractive.
The current Spurs are no different from a quagmire.
Because of Rondo's affairs, the Spurs are messing up right now.
General manager Buford resigned, Popovich resigned as CEO, but the team's prestige still plummeted, the team's head coach and general manager successors Bowen and Bryan Knight one has been in a wheelchair, and the other has not accumulated enough prestige to succeed the failure, and the Spurs' newly hired general manager was invited by the Spurs owner to reform the Spurs' ills, the Rondo incident made the Spurs owner tremble, such players can be sent such contracts by Buford Popovich and Wright Bowen and others, this group of people is too high in the Spurs, The rights are too great.
It can be said that the current Spurs have fallen into the quagmire of power struggles and chaos.
It's just that Popovich and Buford have contributed too much and have too high status, even if Popovich seems to others to have Alzheimer's, but for Spurs fans and the Spurs, it is not realistic to clean up Popovich in the same way that the United States cleaned up Popovich and Rondo.
I don't know how long the new general manager of the Spurs and Popovich will fight, and no one wants to be a victim of the power struggle.
Therefore, it is better to be supersound, and no matter how there is no Yes in supersound, it is also a strong team in the league, and the league is notoriously willing to give young people a chance.
This year's rookies are training the pitch and showcasing.
They took this trial very seriously.
And the supersonic side also attaches great importance to it, so many supersonic players come to observe, in addition to the team's general manager Presti and the team's four core players, the two bigwigs of old Nelson and Rick Sander are also here.
Even the former superSonics' quad-core players, Durant, James Harden, Milicic and Millsap have arrived.
But was soon called away by the general manager of Supersonic.
"Kawai, do you know what Sam called KD and what they used to do? Was it to convince Tylawson to stay? ”
There isn't much of an attraction for these rookies this year, so the SuperSonics looked at it for a while and then shifted the focus.
looked at Leonard, who had not spoken and was silent all the time.
Leonard is a very special presence in supersound.
Among those rookies in 2010, Avery Bradley, Cousins, John Wall and others have already played, and even Paul George and Gordon Hayward behind Leonard have already played.
Even Bledsoe has won the Sixth Man of the Year with the Warriors.
But Leonard ......
He's still tepid as a substitute for the Seattle SuperSonics.
It can't be said that he didn't perform well.
There are some statistics, the shooting percentage is not ugly, the defense is also very good, there are basically no shortcomings, and it is completely qualified to play Durant as a substitute.
However, if he is just an ordinary lottery rookie, he is fully qualified for such a performance.
But he's the number four show!
He can pick up a lot of good players in this pick!
John Wall, Bledsoe and even Paul George, Gordon Hayward and many more, and even Isaiah Thomas Jr. and Stephenson were better than him.
However, even if Leonard behaves like he's sorry for his position, he won't have any dissatisfaction with the team.
Because he is Yes's most distressed apprentice.
Everyone knows his honesty and psychological fragility, so every time Yes returns to Seattle, he pays the most attention to him.
No one dared to let him be wronged in the Seattle SuperSonics.
So even if there is any dissatisfaction, you have to hold back.
And they really didn't have any resentment about Leonard.
Because they can always get a first-hand yes message from Leonard.
It's not just Yes, you can also get first-hand information about the team, Leonard is too special on the team, he is a role player, but he has the treatment of a star player.
He's closer to the heart of the team than all of them.
"Sam asked them to come over to inform them that the master was coming back and to get them ready."
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