Chapter 111: Before the Draft
With the NCAA league coming to an end, the focus of the discussion has quietly shifted from the NCAA to the NBA draft.
There is a lot of discussion about which team is likely to get what kind of signings, which players will be drafted, how many picks each player will be drafted, and which team will be drafted, these are all topics that fans are talking about.
One of the most discussed is the deal between the SuperSonics and the Pistons.
Ronald Murray and Pedrag Drobiak have both averaged over 10 points per game this season, and both have scored such points in their mid-20s or so.
Drobiak is the starting center of the SuperSonics, and Murray is the sixth man of the SuperSonics, which are two important rotation players in the team, and they are also two strong instant forces, so they were given to the Detroit Pistons, which is not worth it in any way.
What did these two get in exchange?
Joan Barry, a 33-year-old shooting guard who shot 43 percent from three-point range during his time with the Kings, got his last retirement contract, and after two years of scourge to the Pistons, the Pistons finally took the opportunity to kick the SuperSonics.
The Pistons got two instant powers, the roster was strengthened, and the garbage contract was shaken off.
You know, Joan Barry averaged less than six points per game last season.
The only thing worth talking about is that Joan Barry and his brother Brent Barry are reunited in Seattle, and the brothers play on the same team, which is not a common occurrence in the NBA.
But the SuperSonics want two Barry, who are also shooting guards, to have a fart?
There's also Memet Oku, who is averaging more than six points per game, but with Rashid and Big Ben already in the camp, it would be a waste to keep Oku.
For Pistons general manager Dumas, keeping Oku at first was simply because Oku was a big man.
Dumas's selection of players is sometimes obsessed with himself.
Anyway, as long as it's a big man, he'll stay and give it a try, and if he tries again, he'll make a big profit.
So the draft pick he got from the Grizzlies, to be honest, he doesn't know who to pick, and there are too few good big men in this year's rookies.
There's a good guy named Darko Milicic, but compared to the two instant forces sent by the SuperSonics, he doesn't have time to wait for a rookie to grow.
They are not the same as the teams in the lottery area, they are now the giants of the East, and they are aiming for the O'Brien Trophy.
The outside media predicted that only three players could become All-Star players in this year's draft.
And according to the sixth-to-last record in the Grizzlies, the probability of getting the top three picks does not seem to be great.
Sure enough, the probability of the draw a few days later was announced.
The Cavaliers and Nuggets have a 22.5 percent chance of winning the pick, the Raptors 15.7 percent, the Heat 12 percent, the Clippers 8.9 percent, and the Grizzlies 6.4 percent.
The media turned on the group mockery mode of hypersound.
The Grizzlies' 6.4% probability pick is the first-round pick that the SuperSonics now have.
In August 1997, the Pistons traded former All-Star Otis Thorpe to the Grizzlies, earning the Grizzlies a protected 2003 first-round pick. Interestingly, this pick is protected with the No. 1 pick, which means that the Grizzlies can only keep the pick if they draw the No. 1 pick, otherwise it will go to the Pistons.
The broker of the deal was Pistons' general manager at the time, Rick Sander.
This draft pick has now been traded to the SuperSonics, and at this time, the general manager of the SuperSonics is still Rick Sander.
The media in other cities ridiculed Rick Sander for being in Cao Ying's heart and Han, even if he joined the SuperSonics, he was still trying to help the Pistons.
Only the media in Seattle are convinced that everything they have is for the sake of choosing their Lu Fei.
However, more media are not optimistic, and they believe that if the SuperSonics end up falling out of the top five, Lu Fei is likely to be cut off by other teams.
But at this time, Lu Fei was still in China, and no team could contact him.
Only the coach of the Huskies, Lorenzo Romaer, took Lu Fei's place and announced to the media Lu Fei's decision to participate in this year's draft.
did not participate in the trial, there was no economic man, and the popular team began to hesitate to choose Lu Fei.
Especially the Miami Heat.
Originally, Riley was going to choose a scoring guard, he had hesitated between Dwyan-Wade and Lu Fei before, but Wade's crushing of Lu Fei in the semifinals made him gradually prefer to choose Dwyane Wade, but the Husky team led by Lu Fei won the final victory in that game, and he somewhat appreciated Lu Fei's killer temperament.
But Lu Fei didn't come to the trial, which made him a little annoyed, he needed obedient players, which made him more inclined to choose Wade.
Although Lu Fei is the most discussed by American fans, the favorite for the champion is still LeBron James.
Throughout his high school years, James was voted Player of the Season twice, and he led St. Vincenson-Mary High School to three state championships.
This year, James averaged 31.6 points, 9.6 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 3.4 steals per game.
This year, he graduated from high school, and the NBA allows high school students to participate in the draft, so James naturally chose to participate in the draft.
A native of Akron, the hometown team, the Cavaliers, is the only team James wants to play for.
But the Cavaliers and Nuggets have the same probability of getting the No. 1 pick, and James is a little worried that he will go to the Denver Plateau.
Denver or Cleveland?
For James, the problem is stuck in the throat.
Unlike James, Seattle fans still don't know if they can select Lu Fei, what if Lu Fei is cut off by other teams?
But the media in other cities are divided into two factions.
One faction believes that Lu Fei will be selected with the top five picks, because Lu Fei's outstanding performance in the NCAA is good enough to make him a top-five pick in the lottery at this year's draft, but he will not be selected by the SuperSonics, because the SuperSonics will most likely have the same record as the Grizzlies' sixth-to-last record, and they can only get the sixth pick.
The other faction believes that Lu Fei's strength will not be valued by other teams, Lu Fei's weaknesses are too obvious, and his physical strength is obviously a big difference compared to Dwyane Wade or Carmelo Anthony, and supporters of this view believe that Lu Fei will not be the second Iverson.
It was mainly the Washington Paparazzi that put forward this point of view.
James is the top favorite, while Lu Fei is the focus of discussion among fans.
The NBA draft has never been more lively than this year.
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China on the other side of the ocean.
The class bell rang on the campus of Pengcheng Mining University as usual, and a tall boy in a gray sweatshirt and a mask walked to the basketball hall halfway up the mountain.
He pushed open the door to the arena, and the setting sun shone through the glass of the arena, and the sound of a basketball hitting the floor could be heard inside.
A basketball bounced off the hoop and landed in front of him.
"Brother, borrow a hand." Liu Zhuang gasped and ran over and said.
The man in the sweatshirt bent down to pick up the basketball from the ground, slapped it twice, and the familiar touch came from between his fingers, this feeling is like an old friend, even if he hasn't spoken for a long time, the moment of meeting still feels extremely cordial.
Liu Zhuang was stunned when he saw the man in the sweatshirt dribbling.
"Are you...... Lu Fei? ”
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I drove the highway for seven hours this afternoon, and I didn't get home until eight o'clock in the evening, and I didn't want to get up when I got home and lay down, but when I thought of you waiting, I gritted my teeth and drank Red Bull and sat down to write.
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