Chapter 392: The Most Treacherous Draft
On June 28, 2007, the theater in Madison Square Garden was brightly lit.
It's another year of NBA draft night.
In the small green room of the theater, the expressions on the faces of this year's hot rookies are either calm, nervous, expectant, or anxious, and so on.
The 2007 draft is widely regarded as the year of the draft.
Let the chosen son have the chosen son.
To be a top genius, there is a top genius.
It can be said that before the start of the draft, the 2007 draft was considered comparable to the 2003 draft.
With such an outstanding rookie, the 2007 draft became the focus of American public opinion after the finals.
In the American media, every day is a training camp in Seattle, and everyone has been guided by Yes, and everyone has been favored by Yes.
In addition to the quality of the players, in terms of exposure, this year's draft is absolutely terrifying.
This time, there are as many as 26 hot rookies sitting in the small green house, which is the most in history.
It is a direct manifestation of this horror exposure.
Generally speaking, the number of people in the NBA Draft is not fixed.
The general managers of each team in the league vote on who is likely to enter the lotto, and then the league sends out invitations to invite these players who are considered likely to enter the lottery to sit at the round table representing the little green house.
Theoretically, the number of people in the small green house is at least 14 people, and the maximum is undecided.
Normally, the number of people in the Little Green House rarely exceeds 20 people.
But this year, the number of people in the Little Green House has far exceeded the size of 20 people.
Why is this happening?
You could say that apart from Oden, there are many others who can't tell the difference between the good and the bad.
You can also say that most of this year's rookies don't give other NBA teams a chance to scout!
Without actual inspection, how to accurately classify the players?
Through their previous games or data, they can roughly distinguish the good from the bad, but it is absolutely inaccurate.
In addition to Oden, there are almost five in the race for second, ten in the top five, and twenty in the top ten, so how many are there in the lotto?
Ahead of this year's draft, there have been rumors that if David Stern hadn't killed a few, the number of people in the Little Green Room might have exploded.
It's really not that these general managers in the league don't want to look at these players more.
I really don't have a chance.
This year, these outstanding rookies have spent most of their time in Seattle.
Because he has exposure in Seattle, he can also be on the national news from time to time.
Many rookies who were going to leave Seattle for tryouts with other teams ended up reluctant to go.
For the NBA draft, exposure has a huge impact.
Last year's Rondo was an example, and his status as an internet celebrity made Rondo soar from a player who choked up in the second round to the 20th pick in the first round.
After entering the NBA, because Yes helped with the data, the rookie won the assist king.
Now the young players of the United States who do not want to be the second of Rondo.
In a recent ESPN survey, Yes was recognized by fans and pundits as the hapluckiest rookie of all time, with a hellish team, hellish teammates, hellish opponents, and hellish divisions, and his career is by far the most hellish.
And Rondo, who was undisputedly elected as the luckiest player in NBA history.
Those who have a chance to be selected by the supersonic will not go, and those who do not have the opportunity to be selected by the supersonic will not want to go, even if they make the national news for the sake of one or two interactions with Yes.
Finally, the Seattle training camp has a tendency to catch up with the Orlando training camp.
No matter what happens in the future, this year, the Seattle camp has surpassed the Orlando camp.
The rookies who participated in Seattle training camp, the prediction of the draft pick has been bullish, and the predictions of the draft pick have been down.
The media attention is so great, and Yes is also approachable and cooperative.
Among the rookies participating in training camp in Seattle, if they don't have a loud nickname on their bodies, they can only say that they will not come.
Most of the people sitting in the Little Green Room this year, except for Oden, are from Seattle training camp.
Sitting with these guys, Auden felt a lot of pressure.
Conley, a good friend next to him, swiped the nickname of the Isaiah Thomas + Stockton combination in Seattle.
The other table of Noah, who was previously nicknamed Duncan Jr. or the bankrupt version of Duncan in the NCAA, is now nicknamed a combination of Duncan and Garnett.
and the Corey Brewer over there, who was only Wheat Dee in the NCAA, and the bankrupt version of Maddie is now a combination of Maddie + Carter + Iverson, just one Kobe Bryant is missing to make up the guard F4.
If you really want to say that the most terrifying is Nick Young, the previous draft template was just J.R. Smith, which spent a month in Seattle training camp and became a combination of Jordan + Yes.
Looking at the bunch of 'great gods' around him, Auden felt that the pressure was really great, and his combination of Russell + Admiral + Duncan was almost a little inadequate.
It looks like Durant is still sitting in the corner.
Durant started as a combination of Maddie + Garnett, became a combination of Marion + Nowitzki after a heads-up with Yes, and has now become a combination of Nordy Gay and Novak after participating in training camp in Seattle.
He heard Conley say that everyone is brushing up on titles, and when they are brushing up on achievements, Durant is there to demote himself.
The bench press is not as good as Barria, the jump is not as high as Yao Ming, and the run is slower than George Muressan.
If it weren't for Durant's crazy performance in the NCAA, he would never have been able to stay in fifth place with the results of his Seattle training camp tryout.
Oden withdrew his gaze from Durant.
Thankfully, he's on a consensus with the Grizzlies.
If he is not the chosen one, if he does not get the promise of the champion.
Let you sit next to such a group of great gods, and ask you if you are vain.
Every year in the NBA draft, the most concerned topic for the media and fans is always who is the first to be drafted and who is the last to be drafted in the little green house.
The first one to be chosen is glory, and the last one to be chosen is really a laughing stock.
Generally speaking, most of the players in the Little Green House will be selected in the lottery, and basically few will fall to the end of the first round.
This year is really different.
The number of people in the small green house is as high as 26, among these people, not to mention the combination of Garnett + Duncan, even the combination of Jordan + Yes.
It is likely that some of these people will fall to the end of the first round, and possibly even to the second round.
This year's draft is likely to set a record for the latest draft in the history of a small green house.
At the same time, it will also create a draft template for Kobe Bryant + Maddy, who will actually fall out of the first-round record.
The people sitting in the small green room now are really under pressure, except for Oden and Durant.
I wouldn't have been so fierce if I knew it.
The higher you stand, the worse you fall.
The D price of this year's draft has been raised by them.
When the D price goes to heaven, no brush is innocent.
This year's draft is very ferocious, and the pressure on the rookies is very high, and the biggest of them is of course Sun Yue.
Sun Yue is now sitting in the small green room, his hands are shaking, and his legs and stomach are trembling.
He really didn't expect that he would be able to sit in the little green house one day!
When I used to watch TV, what kind of people sat in the little green room?
Those are future NBA star players!
It's people like Yes, James, Wade, Anthony!
But he's sitting here now.
And the title he carries on his body is still a combination of magician + Pippen.
The last person with the nickname of Magic + Pippen on his back was Magic's eternal No. 1 NBA passing star Penny Hardaway, the one who did Jordan in the playoffs!
Every time I think of this nickname, Sun Yue herself wants to cry.
He really didn't brush it!
Magician + Pippen?
What the hell is this!
Not to mention that Sun Yue didn't believe it, even Aoshen head coach Courtle, who was sitting with Sun Yue, felt incredible.
When Sun was first announced to participate in the draft, the American media commented that Sun was a rare tall guard in recent years, with excellent ball handling skills, and at the same time, his body was still thin and his shooting ability needed to be improved.
This is a very general evaluation, and any evaluation that does not involve physical talent and is talking about technique is a general evaluation.
This means that people are not familiar with you, but they have come to a conclusion from watching a few of your games.
Because I am not familiar with it, I gave Sun a very general position of the 58th pick in the second round, which is basically equivalent to a consolation position, as long as it is not too bad, everyone can do it.
As an American who knows the NBA well, Courtll was asked by O'God to take Sun to this draft.
At first, he suggested that Sun go to the Orlando rookie camp and make a name for himself.
Because the American media did not know about Sun, they only ranked Sun 58th in the second round, which made him very dissatisfied.
In his opinion, Sun should have a chance to make it to the first part of the second round.
But Sun didn't listen to him and went straight to Seattle.
This made him quite dissatisfied.
But it's only been less than a month, and now what has become of it?
"Seattle training camp surprised the Magic second, 2.05 meters tall has the speed of Aaron Brooks!"
"With an average of 13.5 points, 10.5 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals per game, he is the strongest point guard on the first team of the ABA!"
"Excellent organization, defensive, Magic + Pippen again, his name is Sun!"
"Inseparable! Yes personally coaches Sun and Nick Young every day! ”
"Big dark horse! The supersonic will replace McConley with Sun! ”
Thinking back to the recent public opinion, Sun's ability to mix so well in Seattle training camp made Courtl not know what to say.
Because of his outstanding performance in Seattle training camp, Sun's draft ranking soared from 58th in the second round to 20th in the first round in less than a month.
Nick Young, who is the same as Sun, is even more terrifying, and has soared directly to the top ten.
Because of Yes, Durant's draft pick prediction has dropped again and again.
Also because of Yes, Nick Young and Sun, who are relatively not so hot, have become the last big dark horses to soar in one fell swoop.
Because of Yes, because of the Seattle training camp, this year's draft has become the most treacherous draft in recent years.
The world is underestimating the attention around Yes.
In all his years in the United States, Courtll has never seen an NBA draft look like this.
Not to mention Courtl, even David Stern, who came out to the boos of the New York fans, was incredulous about this year's draft.
Look at the future of these alliances sitting in the small green room below, and then think about the nicknames they are carrying.
David Stern wondered if he had crossed over.
It's not Oden, Durant sitting below.
Sitting below should be Jordan, Russell, Chamberlain, Magic, Larry Bird...... They.
This kind of scene that only appears in his dreams was actually created by the media in the United States with Yes.
He now doesn't know if the U.S. media is cooperating with Yes or Yes is cooperating with the U.S. media.
Anyway, now that the water is so muddy, what's the point of worrying about who made it muddy?
David Stern withdrew his gaze from the pile of 'Jordan', 'Chamberlain', 'Russell', 'Magic', 'Big Bird', and opened the first envelope.
"In the 2007 NBA Draft, the first pick in the first round, the Memphis Grizzlies selected the center from Ohio State University, the Great, Greg Oden!"
Great?
Oden was the top pick, the rookie of the Little Green House and the reporters next to him, and the fans in the stadium were not surprised.
The key is David Stern's title, David Stern's nickname is pronounced!
The last rookie with such treatment was back to last year's Yes!
Looking at Auden on TV, Yes's face was calm.
This time he didn't go to New York, and this time he was watching with Roy, Conroy, and Webster at his villa in the middle of the lake.
Roy has returned to Seattle from Houston.
In addition to the calm expression on Ye Si's face, the expression on Roy and Conroy's face was nervous.
YES knew that the Rockets' target was a combination of Aaron Brooks, Iverson + Kobe.
The Rockets' first-round pick was the 28th pick in the first round.
Can the 28th pick pick a combination of Iverson + Kobe?
Do you believe that you can choose it?
Roy and the Rockets really didn't expect Aaron Brooks to become such a 'god'.
If it weren't for Brooks' tryout with the Rockets, they really felt like they were blind.
As for Conroy, the Lakers got Kidd, and his starter was gone.
Now the Lakers' target is Hardaway + Grant Hill combination Gavalis Crittenton.
Is it Hardaway + Grant Hill?
Listening to the name makes people feel empty.
That's who he's going to compete for next season?
Roy and Conroy were crying without tears, and almost at the same time, they looked at Ye Si in the middle of them with resentment.
This year's draft is so 'crazy' because of him!
Not only them, but now the general managers of each team have more headaches, this bunch of Jordan, Magic, Chamberlain, who should we choose?
Ye Si ignored the resentful gazes of the two people around him, his eyes were always on the TV, David Stern's second envelope.
"In the 2007 NBA Draft, the second pick in the first round, the Seattle SuperSonics selected a small forward from the University of Texas, Kevin Durant!"
There was an uproar!
There were a bunch of Jordan Magic who didn't choose, and chose a Rudy Guy + Novak.
In Madison Square Garden, the expression on Durant's face in the corner of the small green room kept changing.
For a while, Durant in the corner became the focus of the world.
Is this the Pippen that Yes chose for himself?