Lu Fei followed Romael to the office, walked into the office, and found that the windows of the entire room were all tightly closed, and the dim light of the roof illuminated the whole room.

There were two people sitting in the room, both of whom Lu Fei knew, one was Ray Allen, and the other was a black man who looked like a fat head and was Mike Milan, the current head coach of the SuperSonics.

"Come on, come on, sit here." Ray Allen beckoned to Lu Fei, pointed to the sofa next to him and said, "Let me introduce you, this is the head coach of our SuperSonics team next to me, Mike Milan, Mike, this is the Lu Fei I often mention to you." ”

McMillan stood up and shook hands with Lu Fei, "I'm sorry to meet you in this environment, I hope you understand." ”

Lu Fei nodded.

The NBA rules that teams are not allowed to contact prospective draft players in advance, otherwise they will be subject to severe penalties.

He remembers the Nuggets' head coach, George Carr, simply attending a basketball camp at Marker University to give training sessions to young players.

The reason George Carr was patronizing was that the camp was run by Carl's good friend Rick Marsevins, and Carl's son also attended. There, Karl was impressed with Deron Williams, a playmaker who was both score-scoring and possession-handed, and the two naturally struck up a conversation.

It's hard to believe that Carl was doing this in a way that would take advantage of Williams or Mark, the Nuggets were the 20th pick in that draft, and Williams was considered a top-five rookie.

But herein lies the problem: according to the rules, the head coach or club officials are not allowed to contact players who are not qualified for the draft.

George Carr was fined $200,000 for this.

This is only something that Lu Fei remembers, and it happened in 2005, and George Carr is not the first coach to be punished for this.

In 2002, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach John Lucas was sentenced to $150,000 and a two-game ban for allowing high school student James to participate in one of the team's practice games.

And McMillan's meeting with Lu Fei this time was clearly for the draft, so they had to be careful, if they were found out by the NBA, it would be a very heavy punishment.

"Mike, I brought it to you, you can talk about the rest." Romaar sat down with a smile, and Lu Fei sat down next to him.

McMillan smiled: "Lu, you must understand why we are here, straight to the point, we want to know if you will participate in this year's draft?" ”

This is important for McMillan, and if Lu Fei chooses to participate in the draft, he will need to discuss with general manager Wally Walker in advance to make an early arrangement.

Lu Fei hesitated for a moment, and his eyes looked at Lorenzo Romar beside him.

Romaar sighed and said: "I understand what you mean, after the team does not have you, the strength will definitely drop a lot next year, but I asked Brandon and Nate, they decided to stay, you are different from them, your strength in the NCAA has no room for improvement, and our training system is not enough for you to have greater growth, although I also want you to stay, but I personally think that the NBA is your stage." ”

Lu Fei nodded, he admitted that Romaar was right, in fact, he already had a faint plan to go to the NBA in his heart, in addition to what Romal said, there was another reason, he wanted to make a name for himself in the NBA as soon as possible, as long as he could catch the last train of the Athens Olympics.

If he spends another year in college, his popularity is definitely not enough for the Chinese men's basketball team to recruit him into the team.

Only by going to the NBA is everything possible.

"I decided to go to the draft this year." Lu Fei said solemnly: "But Mr. Milan, I have a question for you?" ”

"You say."

McMillan let out a long sigh of relief.

"You came to me this time, you must want me to join the supersonic team, but if I participate in the draft, with the supersonic record, it is estimated that it will be difficult to draw a top-ranked sign, I don't know what you plan to do?" Lu Fei asked.

Even if Lu Fei agrees to McMillan now, if there is no feasible plan for the supersonics, it will still be a bamboo basket in the end, after all, the draft is not picking cabbage, there is still room for bargaining, and it is selected by other teams, if the other party is not willing to trade, it will be in vain.

Besides, this year is a big year for the draft, with so many outstanding players, no team will easily give up the draft picks in their hands, and there are too many teams that are bad this year, and they all want to get a good player as the cornerstone of the team.

The draft picks won't come out until May, and thinking about how to lay it out now isn't entirely secure for McMillan.

Sure enough, McMillan sighed and said, "I can't give you an answer to this for sure, but we've been talking to a few teams that could get a high pick, and a few teams are willing to talk to us." ”

"What are the teams?" Lu Fei asked.

"The Clippers, the Knicks, and the Pistons." Mike Milan replied: "Although the Clippers have a bad record this year, the team has Andre Miller, Ramar Odom, Corry Magetti, El Blanton, these strong players, they are only because of injuries that cause problems with their records, so they are not eager to add players"

"It's the same situation with the Knicks, and Alan Houston is only suffering from injuries, not to mention that they have Sprewell."

"The Pistons can get the high pick, all because they got the first-round pick from the Grizzlies from the Thorpe trade six years ago, and the Grizzlies' poor record this year gave the Pistons a chance to get the high pick, but you have to know that the Pistons have a very complete roster, they don't need reinforcements, and even when we communicate with them, they don't know who to pick."

McMillan told the truth about the situation, and he knew it was the basis for gaining trust.

Lu Fei's fingers tapped on the table and asked, "If you talk to the Pistons, what is the probability of success?" ”

McMillan thought for a moment and replied, "Ninety percent, we negotiated with the Pistons once, and we need to pay the price of Desmond Mason, Pedrag Drobiak and a first-round pick. ”

Lu Fei frowned, this is the lion's big mouth, Desmond Mason averaged 14.1 points per game this season as a substitute, and Pedrager Drobiak is the starting center that the supersonic iron can't play, starting 69 games this season, plus the supersonics' first-round picks, even if the supersonics' record is not enough to get the draft picks in the top ten lottery areas, the worst is around thirteen or fourteen, and the Pistons' request is tantamount to robbery.

And that's on the premise that they don't know how many draft picks they can get, and if they know they're getting the No. 1 pick, I'm afraid they won't want to trade.

"Would you like to?" Lu Fei asked.

McMillan shook his head: "Frankly, we don't want to, because we can't guarantee the level of the picks they get, but at the moment, they are the team that is most interested in making a deal, and it is precisely because of this that they dare to offer such conditions, because according to the Grizzlies' record, the Pistons can at least get the top five picks." ”

"Top five?" Lu Fei pondered for a while and said: "Enough, I can assure you that I will refuse the tryouts of other teams in the top five picks, and I will express my attitude to the media that I am only willing to join the SuperSonics." ”

"Really?" McMillan was overjoyed.

He originally came here just to communicate with Lu Fei, and he knew that there might not be any results, because even if they got the top five picks, Lu Fei had other options, after all, what their team could give, other teams could give, and they could give more.

He even knew that some teams were willing to use Lu Fei as the cornerstone of the team to cultivate.

And supersound can't, supersonic and Ray Allen.

Lu Fei nodded solemnly, "Yes, this is my promise." ”

McMillan smiled, and he looked at Ray Allen next to him, as the future boss of the team, Ray Allen had to say something.

"I'm looking forward to working with you." Ray Allen smiled and said, "It's just, I'm curious, why don't you ask about your role in the team, you know that my position overlaps with yours, I don't think you want to come and play as a substitute for me?" ”

"Of course I won't give you a substitute." Lu Fei smiled: "The position I want to play is the starting playmaking guard, as for Gary Payton...... When you come to me, he must be leaving, right? ”

McMillan and Ray Allen were stunned, they found that Lu Fei, who had performed well on the court, was too smart.