Chapter 659 Trade and 2008 Draft Pick and Jerry West
"I want to see how much you've made me grow in the past two years."
"Now a lot of people are saying that Kevin, Darko, Paul and Rajan and even JJ have grown tremendously with your help, and I want them to see how far I've progressed."
"I can clearly feel that my strength has reached the top, but I don't know what level my strength will reach at the top."
In the courtyard of Yes's villa, looking at the bright moon above his head, David Lee smiled.
"Moreover, I myself want to know how much my original trash fate has been changed by you in the world of basketball."
"Yes, you'll bless me, won't you?"
Ye Si looked at David Lee's forced smile on his face, and finally nodded quietly.
"Yes."
"I knew it was going to be like this, and that Tucker guy threatened me with saying yes and would beat me up for being an ungrateful fellow, and he just wanted to keep me and keep ......"
David Lee, who wanted to say something, didn't continue to say anything in the end, and the smile on his face disappeared.
βYesβ¦β¦β
"Thank you for not keeping me."
"You don't want me to keep it."
"It's not that I don't want to, it's that I'm afraid."
Are you scared......
Looking at the smile on David Lee's face again.
Looking at the complicated back of David Lee as he left, Ye Si closed his eyes.
And David Lee, who walked out of the Ye Si family's villa, looked at the moonlight above his head again, obviously the same moon, but the scenery was completely different......
"I really want to see where the limits of your gift to me are, my God......"
David Lee left Seattle, and the next time he returns, his identity is no longer that of a Seattle SuperSonic.
After saying goodbye to Yes, David Lee requested a trade from the team.
David Lee is now on a four-year, $4.5 million rookie contract with the final year of next season.
Being a rookie at the end of the first round and being able to play where he is in three seasons in the NBA is quite amazing in NBA history.
As a regular last season, David Lee averaged a double-double per game.
During this season's period as the main force, David Lee can still average two double-doubles per game.
Even if he is a substitute, his statistics are still excellent, and on the stage of the playoffs, his comprehensiveness has amazed many people.
His trade value is huge in the current league.
Many teams are also willing to accept an important member of such a championship team, not to mention that this important member is only 25 years old now.
David Lee's will to leave the supersonic is strong.
He didn't hide from Yes why he wanted to leave.
Nor did he hide his reasons from the team's general manager, Presti, and the team's head coach, Nelson Sr.
So after knowing David Lee's plans for his future.
Even without Yes's involvement, Presti and Nelson Sr. are willing to achieve David Lee's goals.
David Lee wants to go to other teams to realize his value, and Nelson Sr. is supportive.
Because David Lee's starting position was given to Millsap.
Originally, David Lee could have realized his personal value with the Seattle SuperSonics.
But in the end, his starting spot was replaced by Millsap.
After being replaced by Millsap, David Lee did not have any complaints, and was still the most gentlemanly, courteous, and smiling short Lee on the team......
For such a player, Nelson Sr. has a hard time bearing to use him as a bargaining chip, even though he is only a role player who is destined to be a bargaining chip.
Presti's willingness to meet David Lee's request is not like Nelson Sr., who has a very deep relationship with David Lee.
But there are many teams that are interested in David Lee, and there are many teams that are willing to give David Lee an important role positioning, so why should he make Yes and Nelson Sr. unhappy?
It's just a favor.
A young insider like David Lee, who has both data achievements and abilities, really doesn't worry about maximizing profits.
After David Lee requested a trade, Presti's direction changed.
Previously, Presti's direction of operation has been to lobby Kwame Brown, whose contract expires this season, to sign and then trade with the team, and use Kwame Brown and the No. 28 pick that SuperSonics already have in exchange for a lottery pick.
The draw for this deal doesn't need to be too lotto, thirteen or fourteen, or even fifteen or sixteen if it's not a lotto.
That's James Harden's draft prospects.
Although James Harden did not participate in the rookie training camp of other teams and was buried in Seattle, James Harden has performed quite well in this year's NCAA.
Bringing Arizona State to the NCAA Tournament, coupled with his excellent numbers in the NCAA and his status as a freshman in college, it can be said that his draft pick can always be supported as long as there are no major injuries.
Even if he is now in Seattle and does not go anywhere else, he has become an unknown person, but no matter how unknown he is, he is not completely unknown.
Although he had a poor tryout at training camp in Seattle, he was always worried about someone robbing him.
In Presti's opinion, the lottery edge pick is enough to draft James Harden, and Kwame Brown and the first-round No. 28 pick are enough to trade a lottery pick.
But it's not that simple.
After Kwame Brown came to the SuperSonics from the Lakers, he performed very well and became the most qualified backup for Millsap, who can defend and offense can also be under Yes's passing.
Even in the regular season, Kwame Brown had a 30+20 performance by Yes.
Many teams are very interested in Kwame Brown, especially those teams on the fringes of the playoffs, whose draft picks are not good enough to be the core of the future, and they need immediate power, for these teams, it is appropriate to trade such a chicken sign for Kwame Brown, which can give the team a huge boost.
After being consecrated by Yes, maybe it's Milicic again!
Milicic is the leader, Kwame Brown is still the champion!
What's more, Kwame Brown is not very old now, only 26 years old.
Even Kwame Brown himself felt that he still had a future and was confident that he would not want to be a substitute for Milicic anymore.
It's just that although the two teams agree to the operation of signing first and then changing, the reason why it is not so easy to operate, and the reason for the players.
Kwame Brown is a complete free agent, and if the Seattle SuperSonics are willing to give him a contract extension and send him to a team where he can be the starting core, he certainly will.
It should be regarded as a reward for Yes and supersonics.
But if I need to pay a high price for Kwame Brown and still guarantee him a start, why should I trade you with the Seattle SuperSonics?
And give away your own picks?
Am I stupid?
Wouldn't it be nice if I used this request directly to attract Kwame Brown to get a visa-free?
These teams who are willing to get Kwame Brown are willing to trade their draft picks in the hope that the SuperSonics can sign Kwame Brown to a low-cost contract without much commitment.
This year's salary cap has risen sharply, if you get a Kwame Brown at a low price, maybe a quasi-All-Star level, and then use a big contract to sign an All-Star, why not take off directly?
It's just clear that Presti and the SuperSonics can't do such a thing.
Kwame Brown's heart is illuminating the moon, how can the bright moon really shine on the ditch?
What's more, Presti is not stupid, he really did such a thing, and Kwame Brown will have no kindness to supersonic in his heart, and he will get nothing in the end.
Again, Kwame Brown is a completely free agent who can take control of his own destiny.
Therefore, you must be extremely careful when dealing with it, and you must continue to play slowly.
The interests of the three parties, both parties benefit, of course, the most affected is a third party like Kwame Brown.
Presti spent a long time on Kwame Brown's sign-and-trade deal, and in the end, nothing came of it.
After David Lee's trade request was filed, Presti's focus changed.
When Presti's focus shifted away from Kwame Brown, it was basically an official announcement that Kwame Brown was free to choose his team.
Without having to repay the cultivation of supersonic and Yes, Kwame Brown is relieved, but at the same time......
"Kwame, are you alright?"
When I left Seattle, the agent was excited.
This year's salary cap has risen sharply, Kwame has played out again, and there is no shackles of Yes and hypersonics, all of this means money!
It's just that......
Kwame didn't seem so happy......
"Kwamei, I know you want to stay in Seattle, and I want you to stay in Seattle too, but ......"
"Kwame, Seattle's starting center will always be Milicic, you're still young, you can still have a higher pursuit."
"I see."
In the end, Kwame Brown reluctantly glanced at Seattle behind him and boarded the plane that flew into the distance.
"Goodbye, Seattle, goodbye, Yes......"
When an inside player like David Lee, who has both strength and potential, entered the trade market, the entire trade market was smashed by the boulder of David Lee and made a huge ripple.
In this year's draft, the biggest protagonist is Derrick Rose, who is second in Yes.
Now the eyes of the world are on the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat, and the whole world is on what the Chicago Bulls can do for this Chicago Yes.
It is rumored that the drama is complete, but the draft has not yet begun, and it has not ended.
Clearly, the Chicago Bulls want the big drama to be done, and they don't want to continue to be stabbed by Pat Riley with a knife.
But obviously, Pat Riley's greed, how could he possibly let go of any bit of value from the Chicago Bulls?
He is still squeezing the value of the Bulls, and as long as he thinks about the draft, Derrick Rose is still waiting for the Chicago Bulls to call, and Chicago has to be squeezed by Pat Riley.
So, now ESPN has investigated which city hates the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors the most, not Seattle, which was robbed by the Celtics and Raptors, but Chicago, which is now being robbed by Pat Riley......
That's how dramatic things are.
The Heat and Bulls are the two teams that are getting the most attention right now, and the Mavericks and the Clippers, who have won the pick, are the teams that have attracted the next attention.
Beasley is now making the final struggle, but Mayo has actually resigned himself to his fate, and has completed the trial with the Mavericks and Clippers, as for the result...... Mayo has started tryouts for the Warriors again.
The Warriors are the fourth overall pick in this year's draft.
At the same time, the Warriors are now the third-tier team in the spotlight.
The fourth-pick Warriors, the sixth-pick New York Knicks, and the seventh-pick Nets are the teams that determine the future of Westbrook and Afflalo, as well as Love and others.
As for the fifth pick, it is the Chicago Bulls, who are now being robbed.
In addition to these teams, the remaining teams are actually not that valuable in the pick.
That's all for this year's best rookies, and the rest of the rookies don't add up to any one of these rookies.
So the rest of the lottery teams, such as the Bucks with the eighth pick, the Bobcats with the ninth pick, the Kings with the tenth pick, the Cavaliers with the eleventh pick, the Timberwolves with the twelfth pick, the Jazz with the thirteenth pick, and the Trail Blazers with the fourteenth pick, are all about the same.
These lotto teams are not the same as the previous teams that have clutched their picks tightly, and the picks of these teams can be traded.
And David Lee is very valuable to some of these teams.
For example, the Bobcats, who are the ninth pick, are very eager for David Lee, and in the past few seasons, with Jordan's draft operation, Bird Adam Morrison's complete water and Gerald Wallace's defection last year, the Bobcats urgently need a No. 4 position, a core No. 4 position with good ability and good potential.
David Lee is one of the almost best options, he is a player from the University of Florida, the head coach of the University of Florida Donovan is known as the Larry Brown of the NCAA, David Lee is not very good defensively, but he has an excellent attitude.
There are also the kings in the tenth line and the knights in the eleventh line who are very interested in David Lee.
In addition to these teams, there is another team that is interested in David Lee, which makes Presti quite excited.
"Warriors head coach Mark Jackson is very interested in David Lee!"
"We might be able to pick the fourth pick this year!"
Because of Mark Jackson's huge interest in David Lee, Presti excitedly convened a meeting of all supersonic giants.
Presti's excitement at the meeting, Yes saw in his eyes.
Yes knew exactly why Presti was so excited.
James Harden is the SuperSonics' No. 1 target this year.
But that's because the superSonics can only get James Harden at best.
Presti's favorite was the disciple of his friend Afraro, the turtle boy, Westbrook......
The fourth pick is the one who can pick Westbrook......
It's just that Presti's excitement was extinguished the day before the draft.
On June 26, 2008, the Warriors announced that they had hired Grizzlies general manager Jerry West as the team's senior advisor.
On the same day, the Warriors withdrew their interest in David Lee.
On the same day, rumors broke that Warriors head coach Mark Jackson had resigned.
With Jerry West joining the Warriors, even if Yes is still trying his best to lose weight, he can feel that the entire league has made huge ripples!