On April 14, the last game of the Clippers' regular season, the opponent was the Philadelphia 76ers.

Over the years, the 76ers have amassed some good players, but they don't have too many top stars.

Wang Zhizhi has completely entered the bench this season, and this season is also his contract year, and I don't know if he will continue to play in the NBA after this season.

In addition to Wang Zhizhi, the 76ers currently have good players such as Zhu Holiday , Thaddeus Young , Reed, Nocioni , Speights , Evan Turner and other good players, but because there is no player who can make a decisive decision at a critical moment, their record is not much better than the Hawks.

In the warm-up stage before the start of the game, Dazhi found Richard.

"Coach, after this season, I want to join the Clippers with a base salary and see if I can mix a championship ring before the end of my career." Dazhi said with a smile.

"Welcome, welcome." Richard, of course, welcomed it.

Dazhi is not young now, and he is already looking towards the age of 34.

At such an age, Dazhi's speed is far less than his peak, and his main offensive means is to rely on his own speed to get rid of the big man in the opposite position, and then get a comfortable shooting space.

Now with the serious decline in speed, it is naturally difficult to find so much comfortable shooting space, and the 76ers are also reduced to a substitute.

But even so, Richard will not refuse Dazhi, no matter how weak Dazhi is now, it must be better than the stinky tomatoes and rotten bird eggs in the Clippers, let Dazhi stay on the bench, play according to the situation, and play to a good effect.

"But you have to be prepared to play a long game, because I don't know when I'm going to win the championship." Richard said with a smile.

Although the Clippers' lineup will basically begin to take shape from next year, the formation of the lineup does not mean that they will definitely win the championship.

If the Clippers enter the playoffs, there is no big problem, but if they want to win the championship, it is estimated that they will definitely not be able to win the championship in the short term.

"It's okay, just for my child to come to Los Angeles to go to school."

"By the way, I heard that Bit and they are both in the same school, so let my kid be with me then." Dazhi asked a little embarrassed.

Dazhi's son is named Wang Xilin, who is exactly one year older than Libit's three boys, and if he really comes to Los Angeles to go to school, it is estimated that he will be in the same grade as Libit......

With a father like Dazhi, this Wang Xilin's height is definitely not shorter, Richard remembers that when this kid was 14 years old, he was more than 1.9 meters tall.

Richard was already a schoolboy who was somewhat sympathetic to Los Angeles......

Dazhi has made a lot of money over the years, and he naturally wants to let his son get a better education, and now he is coming to Los Angeles, in addition to wanting to get a championship ring before the end of his career, it is estimated that he wants his son Wang Xilin to get a better education, which is also an important reason.

"Well, okay, I'll talk to Kobe Bryant in the offseason." Richard nodded in agreement.

……

The Philadelphia 76ers won the game, and the Clippers players were basically playing soy sauce except for a small shark who was crazy about swiping data all over the court.

Richard didn't bother to lecture about the players, and most of them were going to be purged in the next season or two.

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With the regular season coming to an end, the playoff roster is also hot, of course, it has nothing to do with the Clippers, and Richard is currently planning to see if he can find a team to play in the autumn wind and mix up a first-round pick.

This pick was naturally used to select Jimmy Butler......

Although Jimmy Butler is not in Richard's team building plan, such a player and such a low pick, no one will want to miss it.

The cost performance is quite high, only the first round of the thirty picks, but can get this kind of black rough and hard player.

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The Clippers have a 29-53 record this season, sitting third from bottom in the West and sixth from bottom in the league.

The Atlanta Hawks, who had previously made a trade with Richard, were embarrassed in the end by failing to make the Eastern Conference playoffs and only finishing ninth in the East.

This record made Richard extremely satisfied, and he failed to make the playoffs, and he was able to get a 14th pick at the last time, which was completely enough.

On May 15, the NBA's annual lottery began.

Because Richard didn't have too much desire for too high a draft pick, he didn't go to the draw in person this time, but asked Sun Xiaoben to go to New York instead of him.

In the end, Sun Xiaoben's luck can only be regarded as decent, with the league's sixth-to-last record, and as a result, he drew an eighth pick......

Sun Xiaoben was originally complacent to draw back a champion for the Clippers, but now he is only getting an eighth pick, which makes him quite embarrassed.

Richard is quite satisfied, the eighth pick is good, and it must be enough to take Klay Thompson anyway.

As for the Hawks' draft picks, their luck can only be considered decent, and their thirteenth record in the league is exactly the thirteenth pick......

As a result, Richard has two more lottery picks on hand, an eighth pick and a thirteenth pick.

The eighth pick was used to take Klay Thompson, and the thirteenth pick was used to take Leonard, a situation that Richard was quite satisfied with.

……

What Richard didn't expect was that as soon as the lottery on their side ended, a team immediately came to the door and wanted to make a trade with Richard to get the No. 8 draft pick in the Clippers.

This team is the Spurs......

Richard recalled the Spurs' actions in this draft in his previous life, and could roughly guess Popovich's idea of playing.

Normally, the Spurs only have a 29th pick in the first round of this draft, but Popovich has been looking for a trade in the hope of getting a top-10 pick in order to get Leonard.

They initially targeted the Bobcats with a ninth-pick draft pick, but the deal didn't work out.

However, after Leonard was drafted by the Pacers with the 15th pick, Popovich immediately made a big move, trading the team's outstanding backup guard George Hill with the Pacers in exchange for Leonard.

In this deal, the Spurs only sent George Hill, but got Leonard, a No. 42 pick and the signing rights of Robbeck, who entered the draft in '05, from the Pacers.

Now it seems that the Pacers simply have no pants left.

However, no one thought the Pacers were losing at the time, after all, George Hill averaged 12.4 points per game on a team like the Spurs when he was a sophomore.

Now Popovich is coming straight to Richard with George Hill.

George Hill traded for the No. 8 pick in Richard's possession......

It's no wonder that Richard can agree, how could the No. 8 pick he finally get be sent out because of George Hill.

Richard was actually a little curious about how Popovich was sure that Leonard would be able to play, after all, Popovich was not a time-traveler......

At the moment, Leonard is actually not famous at all, and in terms of attention, it is actually not as good as the Morris brothers who are running for the election.

Some experts have compared Leonard to Rodman, because Leonard's offensive skills at the time were quite rough and he didn't even see it.

The only thing that the whole person can get his hands on is probably the long arm outside the hand, which is a good material for growing into an outside defensive leader.

Leonard himself was not born in a prestigious school, he was not famous in college, and the team's positioning was just a defensive leader, so naturally the rank was not much higher.

But even so, Popovich still wants to trade for a top-10 draft pick to get Leonard, and to be honest, Richard really doesn't know where Popovich's confidence comes from......

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"Lee, are you sure you don't think about it?" Popovich asked with a frown on the other end of the phone.

In fact, in Popovich's opinion, the chips he gave were actually taking care of Richard, because he didn't ask for other additional chips at all......

At the moment of the Clippers' roster, having George Hill would be a perfect reinforcement.

Hill is 191 cm tall and can play the position of a two-way guard, both the No. 1 and No. 2 positions, and there is no position conflict with Sun Yue.

After winning Hill, he formed a backcourt combination with Sun Yue, although it is not the top backcourt combination in the league, but it is also powerful.

What Popovich didn't expect was that Richard didn't even hesitate at all and rejected himself directly!

Could it be that this guy has a very sure candidate?

Thinking of this, Popovich was a little flustered......