With the start of the semi-finals of the East and West, this year's various honors are also hot.

To Richard's considerable embarrassment, their Pistons were almost shaved this year, that is, Gerald Wallace, who joined the team this year, was selected to the rookie first team, which made Richard feel a little relieved.

If it weren't for Gerrard, the rookie first team, the Pistons would have been shaved this year.

Oku and Arenas didn't have many opportunities to perform this season, and their statistics were not conspicuous, and they didn't even make it to the rookie second team in the end.

The title of best coach was won by Magic's Doug Rivers, who finished in the top four in the East this year, and the record is quite impressive.

The best defensive player was won by Big Ben, and with Mourning's injury erupting, there is no one in the league who can match Big Ben on the defensive end.

Big Ben has also created a miracle, winning three Defensive Player of the Year in the six years he has been in the league, which is a lot of frequency.

Richard was also quite relieved that Big Ben finally got the honor of Lianzhuang DPOY.

The regular season MVP award was won by Duncan, which is definitely well deserved.

It is said that Duncan will always be the No. 21 rookie, but even a rookie must have a peak, and this season is almost the peak of Duncan's entire career.

Averaged 25.5 points, 12.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.5 blocks per game, 51% total shooting, 80% free throw shooting, the scoring data is the highest peak of Duncan's career, and as for other statistics, it is almost the highest value of Duncan's career so far.

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As for the other honors such as the Best Sixth Man, the Most Improved Player, the All-Defensive Team, and so on, Richard didn't bother to pay attention to it at all.

Anyway, there are no players from their Pistons, and they are heartwarming if they pay attention.

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On May 15, Richard showed up in New York with Yao Ming and the team's assistant coach, Bob Myers.

Tonight is the lottery ceremony, and Richard has been waiting for a few days tonight.

The teams also learned the news early in the morning that Richard will represent the Pistons in the lottery this year.

This made the teams a little panicked, especially the Warriors and the Cavaliers.

In the future, these two teams once met in the finals for four consecutive years, but now these two teams are the bottom brothers in the league.

One is the bottom of the league and the other is the bottom of the league.

Richard's participation in the lottery on behalf of the Pistons made these two teams extremely panicked.

Before that, Richard had been in the league for five years, but he had never represented the Trail Blazers in the lottery......

Of course, the biggest reason for this is that the Trail Blazers don't have a chance to draw a lottery at all, and they make the playoffs every year.

But Richard is a man who can do miracles, which is quite certain for both warriors and knights.

What if Richard gets this lottery......

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Before leaving, Pistons owner Davidson didn't know where to get a can of holy water, so he had to ask Richard to take it to New York.

It is said that it will be good luck......

Richard's enthusiasm was difficult, and he could only take it on the road.

These old feudal superstitions really left Richard speechless......

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A total of thirteen teams participated in this year's lottery, and after everyone sat down in the venue, they waited for Stern to announce the start of the lottery.

After Stern entered, after seeing Richard, there was an indescribable feeling of joy in the whole heart.

Richard only led the team to play the lottery results this year, and Stern, who has been watching Richard's displeasure, must be particularly comfortable in his heart.

Although Stern was very unhappy with Richard, he had to accept Richard's ability.

In the five years that he has coached the Trail Blazers, the league has not taken any care of the Trail Blazers.

Not to mention helping the Trail Blazers in the draft, even the home whistle is almost non-existent.

In this case, Richard was able to lead the Pioneers to establish a dynasty, which even Stern admired.

Speaking of which, Richard's failure to make the playoffs this year still came as a surprise to Stern.

Originally, he thought that with Richard's competitive temperament, he would definitely make the playoffs, and the Pistons did have the strength to make the playoffs in the middle of the season.

But in the second half of the season, they were unexpectedly messed up......

Although Richard and the Pistons did not explicitly say that they wanted to rot, this was already a lice on the bald head, and it was a clear thing.

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"I declare that the draw for the 2002-2003 season has officially begun!"

Stern took the microphone and solemnly announced the official start of this year's lottery.

Stern's words made Richard feel like a dream.

In the blink of an eye, it turned out to be the 2002-2003 season......

After two seasons in the NCAA, he has now coached six seasons in the NBA!

Eight years have passed!

Thinking about the day he crossed over, Richard felt like the next day.

Time flies, and the next season is Richard's ninth year in the past, and his seventh season in charge of the NBA!

"Hey, in the blink of an eye, I'm almost four......" Richard couldn't help but sigh when he thought about his current age of 36.

It's really a blink of an eye, and I'm now a Ben Si person.

When people reach middle age, everything is off......

He immediately thought of this extremely depressing word, he is really gradually entering middle age now.

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With Stern's order, the draw officially began.

In fact, Richard didn't know much about the process of the lottery conference, after all, he had never participated in the lottery meeting before, but he seemed to have written about the plot of the lottery conference in his memory, so he generally knew what the lottery process was.

Each team first gets a number of numbers, randomly arranged from 1-14, for a total of 1001 combinations, and excluding the group of 11-12-13-14, that is a total of 1000 groups.

The team with the worst record was assigned 250 of the 1,000 random number combinations, and the second team with the worst record was 199......

Anyway, the more you get to the end, the fewer random number combinations are assigned.

When it was the pistons' turn, they could only get 28 sets of numbers in their hands.

Of course, the Pistons have a lot of numbers, and the team with the best record in the lottery can only be assigned six number combinations.

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Next, Xiao Hua, vice president of the alliance, appeared with an accountant who supervised the lottery.

The staff brought in a lottery machine......

If you don't have any concept of the lottery machine, you can refer to the lottery lottery ceremony that is often shown on domestic TV.

This NBA lottery is actually almost similar to this lottery lottery ceremony......

14 table tennis balls with numbers were put into the lottery machine, and the lottery for the champion lottery officially began!

Richard was a little excited, and when the table tennis balls in the lottery machine began to fly wildly, he turned on the lucky dice prop!

Lucky Dice: Boost the host's luck to 100 points within three minutes!

"Is the host sure to use the lucky dice?!"

Richard didn't say a word and directly confirmed, he has been getting this prop for so many years, and he has never been willing to use it, isn't it today? !

The Lucky Dice item has just run out......

Soon, the first number came out, number 7!

Immediately after that, the second number came out, number 2!

7-2-9-11, this is the number of the champion show in this draw!

If each team has this set of numbers in the random number combination assigned to them, then they are the team that got the top pick!

During the three minutes that the prop effect lasted, Richard naturally couldn't be idle.

Yao Ming's player attributes, Richard has already checked before.

To be honest, in Richard's opinion, Yao Ming's attributes are really not particularly outstanding......

The strongest attribute should be the limit attribute on the offensive end, and the limit attribute of offensive ability under the basket is 92 points.

Compared with those ordinary players, this is naturally quite tough, but looking at the entire history of the NBA, this offensive attribute under the basket is not top-notch.

But it's normal to think about it, although Yao Ming's scoring data reached 25 points at his peak, but because he only played 48 games that season, his average points per game did not enter the scoring list.

If I could make it to the scoring list, I would probably be ranked seventh that season.

But even so, Yao Ming was the highest-scoring center player that season.

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The offensive ability under the basket of 92 points is considered the level of a first-line All-Star, but there is still a gap between it and the historical-level basket master.

However, Yao Mingsheng is all-round, with 92 offensive points under the basket, 85 free throw ability, and 89 mid-range shooting ability.

Don't look at the 89's mid-range shooting ability, it doesn't seem to be very strong, but it is quite a top existence in the center group.

And this free throw ability is definitely the top level among the center.

On the whole, these three ratings add up, and there are probably only a handful of centers in the entire NBA history who can surpass Yao Ming.

From this, we can also see Yao Ming's strength on the offensive end......

As for the defensive end, in fact, Yao Ming's defense is still quite powerful, with a single defense ability of up to 90 points, which is also a first-class all-star level.

As for the ability to assist in defense, Yao Ming is not strong in this regard, mainly because his movement speed and bounce are not very good, resulting in no advantage in assisting defense, only 79 points of assistance ability.

On the whole, although the co-defense ability is not very good, the main job of the inside big center is actually to guard the inside line, and the work of co-defense is more handled by the big forward, so the co-defense ability is not very good, and it will not affect Yao Ming's defensive performance on the field.

The offensive end is a first-class all-star level, and the defensive end is almost a first-class all-star level, such offensive and defensive strength is worthy of the nickname of the first person in Chinese basketball.

It is also worthy of being inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame.

Some people may think that Yao Ming has no honors at hand, and his career life is short, so he is not eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

But in fact, the person who said this may not know much about the Hall of Fame.

It's not that you have to be at the same level as the 50th National Congress of History to be inducted into the Hall of Fame......

Among the Hall of Fame players, there are many who are not as good as Yao Ming!

Find out any one, such as Guy Rodgers, who entered the Hall of Fame in 14, averaged 11.7 points, 7.8 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game in his career, never won a championship, and has three All-Star honors plus two assist kings in hand, who can say that he is more qualified to enter the Hall of Fame than Yao Ming?

For example, Zelmo Betty, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 16 years with Yao Ming, and O'Neal and Iverson were also inducted into the Hall of Fame in the same year.

Betty has played eight years in her career, averaging 16+10 data per game, two All-Star bench lineups, and the only one who is better than Yao Ming is one more championship.

O'Neill and Iverson did have more career achievements than Yao Ming.

But can it be said that Betty is better than Yao Ming? That's really not ......

Taking 10,000 steps back, Lao Sa also entered the Hall of Fame in 11 years, and everyone knows what kind of data he has in the NBA, and he is far worse than Yao Ming by more than one grade.

Some people may say that Lao Sa's achievements in the world basketball arena are higher than Yao Ming, but this is an NBA Hall of Fame member, and if you want to talk about qualifications, Yao Ming is more qualified than Lao Sa to enter the NBA Hall of Fame.

So no matter how you look at it, Yao Ming's entry into the Hall of Fame is completely faulty.

Even if the Chinese market is not activated, Yao Ming is logically eligible to enter the Hall of Fame, after all, it is not uncommon for players with worse stats than him to enter the Hall of Fame.

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But as mentioned earlier, entering the Hall of Fame does not mean that he has the top level in history in the same position, although Yao Ming's offensive and defensive strength is not bad, but for some reason, it is still difficult for him to rank among the top centers in history.

The main thing is his awkward physical fitness and ability to resist injuries.

With only 62 injury resistance, it is far below the average player in the league.

The physical stat is 74 points, which is only ordinary to the level of no more ordinary......

At present, if Richard can solve these two problems, then Yao Ming will definitely not be able to achieve much worse even if he doesn't use those super props.

Not to mention the super centers such as Chamberlain, Russell, Abdul-Jabbar, Sharks and Big Dream, at least there is still a chance to attack the position of Gorilla Ewing.

If he can win the championship, then maybe Yao Ming's historical status can go up and rank among the sharks and big dreams.

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Richard didn't dare to delay, and now there are three interior players left in his hands for the All-Star Light, and Richard simply used it all for Yao Ming.

Xiao O, Rashid and Rahim, Brand's All-Star Light has been used by Clark.

"Congratulations to the host, the target player Yao Ming inherited 90% of Jermaine O'Neal's bounce attributes, 90% rebounding attributes, and 90% of the defense attributes, with a duration of three years!"

"Congratulations to the host, the target player Yao Ming inherited 90% of Rashid Wallace's mid-range attributes, 90% bounce attributes, and 90% steal attributes, with a duration of three years!"

"Congratulations to the host, the target player Yao Ming inherited 90% of Abdul Rahim's three-point attributes, 90% speed attributes, and 90% breakthrough attributes, for a period of three years!"

After three consecutive All-Star Lights were smashed down, some of Yao Ming's attributes have been significantly improved.