The night before the draft began, Richard met with Purdue, who was running this year.

This year's Purdue trio is remarkable: Anthony Davis, Lillard and Fournier.

Fournier's strength is slightly worse, he belongs to the level of a C-level star, and he basically has All-Star data, but he can't enter the level of an All-Star.

However, Thick Eyebrows and Coach Li can both become first-line stars in the league in the future.

At this year's draft, thick eyebrows have already been booked for the top pick, and there are no competitors at all.

And Lillard is also a big favorite for the top five picks......

Fournier is a little bit off the mark, but he certainly won't fall to the bottom of the first round.

Richard had wanted to trade with the Pelicans to get their 17th pick, and then choose Fournier, but now it seems that it must be out of the way.

"Coach, it's a pity, the three of us will definitely not be able to play for you this time." Lillard said with a sigh.

"What's the pity, the ball is not the same to play, after you all enter the league, you can all become star-level figures, especially you Davis, this time you will definitely be selected by the top pick, I hope you must think twice when you do anything in the future."

"Don't think about going to the group all day long, the real champion with gold content is actually a single core to lead the team to win the championship." Richard said to the three.

It won't be long before the giant huddle will become a popular thing in the league.

It is more reasonable to say that the three giants of Green Kai have opened the prelude to the formation of huddles, and the three giants of the Heat have really made huddles a fashion.

In the future, the salary space of each team will rise sharply, which will provide convenient conditions for the group......

In the days to come, the team did not have a big three, and they were embarrassed to open their mouths to compete for the championship.

"Got it, coach, if possible, we will try our best to lead the team to compete for the championship alone, of course, if there is really no way, then I'm afraid we can only hold together......," Davis said with a smile on his face.

Davis doesn't look at his eyebrows like Da Xian'er, but in fact, his face looks really tender, and he pretends to be mature and speaks to Richard at this moment, which is quite funny.

Richard nodded, and then brought the three of them the West Lafayette gold medal.

Speaking of which, Richard really can't count how many West Lafayette players play in the league right now......

In the evening of the next day, this time Richard took Kerr to the draft meeting.

"What's in your bottle?" Richard asked Cole beside him curiously.

Cole held a bottle of Gatorade in his hand and poured two sips into his mouth from time to time.

If it was Gatorade, Richard wouldn't have asked such a question, the liquid in the bottle was quite strange in color, and Richard didn't remember Gatorade ever producing a drink of this color.

"Ahem......" Cole touched his mouth in embarrassment when Richard asked this.

"Beer? No, no foam, whiskey?!" Richard asked, frowning.

Cole nodded awkwardly.

"Man, that's not what a coach should do, and it's a bit of a stretch to be drunk on this occasion." Richard was dissatisfied.

Cole is a complete drunkard, and although Popovich is also a good drinker, Popovich has never done anything out of the ordinary, putting red wine in a Gatorade bottle and taking a sip from time to time?

"Don't worry, boss, I know how to be measured, and I definitely won't drink in front of the players." Cole picked up the charter ticket.

Richard smiled bitterly and shook his head, I believe you are a ghost, it's strange if you don't drink this goods, even when the game is playing, he can sit on the sidelines and take two sips......

However, even if he was a little dissatisfied with Cole, Richard would definitely not be able to get rid of Cole directly.

In fact, at present, Richard is in a shortage of personnel.

Mark Jackson went to coach the Warriors last season, and Richard did not add new assistant coaches this season just ended, and McHale was also poached by the Rockets two days ago......

This is not the most deadly, Thibodeau also accepted the Bulls' offer a few days ago to take on the position of head coach of the Bulls.

As a result, Richard now has only Cole as an assistant under his hands, and if Cole is removed, Richard will be alone.

The assistant coaches have left Richard to go to various teams as head coaches, and Richard is naturally quite reluctant, these assistant coaches are all talents and can share a lot of work for themselves.

But Richard is happy to see this kind of scene full of peach and plums, and his assistant coach is spreading in the league......

There are a number of head coaches in the league who can relate to Richard.

For example, Pistons head coach Raheem, 76ers head coach Frank, Bulls head coach Thibodeau, Warriors head coach Mark Jackson, Rockets head coach McHale, Mavericks head coach Carlisle, Green Kai head coach Stevens......

The head coaches of all seven teams have reached the top as Richard's assistant coach, which also makes Richard proud.

……

"It's an honor to host another draft again."

Stern appeared, and babbled again as usual, and the same speech that had not changed for 10,000 years.

It's a good job to be Stern's assistant......

"This time I would like to take this opportunity to announce something."

"After this draft, I will step down as NBA commissioner, and after deliberation by the board of directors, I will be replaced by league vice president Adam Shaw.

As soon as these words came out, the audience was directly silent, and everyone looked at Stern with dull eyes.

This old guy is leaving? Why did I suddenly feel a burst of reluctance in my heart.

Since 1984, Stern has coached the league for 26 years!

In 26 years, most of the people at the scene were still young people at that time, especially Richard, who was only a teenager 26 years ago.

In the past 26 years, although Stern has done a lot of complaining things, his merits outweigh his faults, and they are all high-level members of the league who can sit on the scene today, and they actually know very well that if there is no Stern, how can they have such a good life now.

When Richard heard the news, he sighed, this old guy just left, and he was really a little reluctant.

It's been 14 years since he entered the league, and in those 14 years, he and Stern have fallen in love and killed each other......

Well, it seems that there are fewer elements of love, more of killing each other.

Now that Stern was leaving, Richard suddenly felt lonely.

Does this alliance have its own opponents?

For a long time, in Richard's eyes, there was only one person in this league who could truly call himself an opponent.

Only Stern has this qualification to be his opponent.

Now that Stern is gone, Richard naturally has a feeling of being overwhelmed by the cold.

……

Ignoring the shocked expressions of everyone in the room, Stern announced the official start of the draft.

After a while, Stern reappeared and announced the top pick.

"I am announcing that the New Orleans Pelicans selected Anthony Davis from Purdue University with the first pick in the first round."

Thick eyebrows unsurprisingly became the champion of the 2012 draft.

If you want to talk about parallel imports, even if you rank it a hundred times, there will definitely be no name with thick eyebrows among them.

In fact, there is a standard dividing line between being a parallel importer or not.

That dividing line is Kenyon Martin......

Kenyon Martin was the top pick in 2000, and looking at the number, it's pretty standard.

Those who are weaker than Martin are parallel imports, and those who are stronger than Martin cannot be regarded as parallel imports......

This is the standard used by fans and experts to determine whether the champion is a parallel import.

I'm afraid that when Martin entered the league, he wouldn't have imagined that he would one day become a champion appraiser.

Thick eyebrows don't know how many grades stronger than Kenyon Martin, so they definitely can't be considered parallel goods.

Needless to say, this year's list is a parallel import.

Michael Kidd Gilchrist, a player with a rather long name, is commonly called by domestic fans......

It's not good to sell anything, you have to sell this.

In the end, this parallel goods list was selected by the Grizzlies, and the Grizzlies are definitely wealthy local tyrants in the draft, and it is completely commonplace for them to choose a parallel import, sign a tumor, and send a star player.

The next third pick for the Wizards drafted Bradley Beal, a pretty good point guard.

However, Beal can actually play a two-way guard, and in Richard's opinion, it would be a better choice to let Beal play a two-way guard.

Because his height of 196 is really not an advantage in the No. 2 position, and in the No. 1 position, he must have an advantage in the face of point guard players with a general height of 191.

How to use Bill for specific wizards, Richard will definitely not mix, this is not his own business.

Dionwittes, who came with the fourth pick, was selected by the Cavaliers, who have also been a super local tyrant in the draft over the years, and the draft picks are quite precious, and their selection vision is not much better than that of the Grizzlies.

The next king with the fifth pick in his hand chose Damian Lillard from Purdue University.

Under normal circumstances, Lillard was selected by the Trail Blazers with the sixth pick, but now that the Trail Blazers are rising, it is natural that there is no such high pick to select Lillard.

……

Two of the three young Pudu have been selected by the top five picks this year, and the next thing is to see Fournier.

It wasn't until the 20th pick in the first round that Fournier was hit by the Magic, which made Fournier a little uncomfortable, after all, his teammates were all in the top five, and he fell to the 20th pick, how could this psychological gap be acceptable.

Under normal circumstances, the Magic actually made a few operations this summer quite classic, don't look at them sending out the interior core Howard, but their gains are quite good.

The first was to get Vucevic in a four-way deal.

The second was the signing of Fournier with the 20th pick in the first round of the draft.

The second was a trade with the Bucks for Tobias Harris.

All three were star-caliber players, and the result was a summer of Magic outs.

Of course, the Magic didn't make good use of these three people, and they didn't rely on these three people to play decent results.

……

Soon it was time for Richard to pick up the 26th pick.

After thinking about it for a while, Richard decided to take Egg Chase Green first, in terms of fame, Egg Chase Green is bigger than Middleton, after all, he is the seventh man in NBA history to score a triple-double in the crazy three, Richard feels that if he is not selected with the 26th pick, it is estimated that there will be some changes.

"I am announcing that the Los Angeles Clippers selected Draymond Green from Michigan State University with the 26th pick in the first round."

Egg Chaser Green, who was sitting at the scene, was stunned, in fact, he began to be in a daze after Stern announced the lottery draft candidates.

Waiting left and right, I finally heard Stern call his name, but fortunately he was still in the first round and did not fall to the second round.

However, the team that chose him made Egg Chaser Green never expect that after he fell out of the lottery zone, he was likely to be selected by the Spurs who fancied the defense, but he never expected that it was Richard who chose him.

There is a reason why Eggchase Green was so surprised that Richard chose himself.

He comes from Michigan State University, which is a life-and-death enemy with Purdue, and the two teams will pinch each other as soon as they meet, even if they don't play, if the other team loses, they will attract ridicule from the other team.

However, in the past decade or so, because Purdue University is too strong, Michigan State University has been suppressed very badly......

Richard, as a totemic figure at Purdue University, actually chose a player from Michigan State University, not only did he not expect to chase the egg, but also the three Purdue teenagers who participated in the election were also completely unexpected.

Chasing Green has had a lot of verbal fights with Purdue University this NCAA season, and his triple-double was scored by Purdue, and of course their Michigan State University lost badly in that game.