Chapter 1117: Heaven and Hell for the Draft Conference!
There is no doubt that in the 2010 draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers were the protagonists of this conference.
No matter what happens next, it is estimated that it is difficult for there to be big news tonight that can overpower Cleveland's operation tonight.
Bradriga All-Star Richard Jefferson was traded for supergiant Carmelo Anthony.
Deron Williams, who is considered one of the league's most capable point guards, was traded for John Wall and DeRozan.
These two deals are not only large, but also highly controversial.
Bradley and Richard Jefferson for Anthony, in case Bradley does become a yes in the future, then this is a huge loss.
Bradley's future is too reverie.
And DeLong for the Raptors double star, this is also very controversial.
You know, Delon is as famous as Chris Paul and is recognized as the two strongest point guards in the NBA now!
It's not like Rondo's so-called regular season finals MVP scoring champion and that kind of statistic point guard can compare.
Is the point guard, who averaged 22 points, 10 assists and 5 rebounds per game last season, a joke?
Not only is the data amazing, but every time I meet Chris Paul, the four-pair little prince point guard who competes with him for the first place in hard power, it is all hanging!
If it weren't for Delon's character being criticized all the time, putting aside the problem of character, putting him and Chris Paul in a basketball forum to choose, who is the strongest point guard, and now DeLong can hang Chris Paul to play!
Such a point guard, because of character problems, the trade value is indeed not as good as Chris Paul, but it is not much worse, after all, Delon still has four years of contract, and these four years are Delon high-quality contract period!
Although everyone knows that James and Delon are at odds, Delon used him as one of the chips in exchange for James in the Heat.
James is about to return to the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers will purge Deron before James returns, which is something everyone can expect.
But I didn't expect the knight to be cleaned like this.
John Wall's talent is indeed very powerful, although he fell to the tenth pick, but it is clear that he is not a rookie at the tenth pick, and his talent is still recognized as the second in this class.
But even so, John Wall is developing well, can he reach the achievements and strength of Deron Williams in the future?
Can John Wall play 21+10+5 at his peak?
Point guards who don't shoot the basket aren't popular right now.
Before Rondo didn't persecute the point guard who didn't shoot, John Wall's talent did have the value of trading Delon alone, but now......
John Wall is Rondo's apprentice at the University of Kentucky, also known as 'Rondo', a physically gifted version of Rondo.
Now the entire league is panicking when they see the name Rondo, especially the traditional point guard who hangs Rondo's name.
Therefore, in the eyes of many people, it is okay for Deron Williams to exchange John Wall and DeRozan alone, and now the Cavaliers have actually added a draft pick of the eighteenth (the fisherman wrote the sixteenth in the previous chapter, a clerical error, has been corrected).
The Cavaliers were in the limelight for a while with the controversial trade on both sides.
This also made James in the limelight at the draft conference.
Both of these transactions were the work of his covert operation.
Among them, Anthony was personally arranged and guided by him.
If Presti knew that he was losing to an NBA player in this trade battle, he would definitely be even more sad.
The general manager of the past two years, James is really afraid of Durant!
It's not that he's afraid because his strength is not as good as Durant's, but because his strong defense is useless to Durant, and he is no different from an ordinary role player in front of Durant.
He understands now, he and Durant are facing each other, and it is five or five!
He can't suppress Durant at all!
Therefore, if the Seattle SuperSonics is an imaginary enemy, he can only challenge Durant, the second supersonic leader, and he can't even challenge Yes!
This is something he absolutely doesn't want to see, he doesn't want to be entangled with Durant, his goal is Yes!
Since his goal is Yes, Durant needs to have a player to deal with.
Looking through the entire league, there is only one person who can suppress Durant at the position of small forward, and that is now recognized as the strongest small forward in the NBA, Carmelo Anthony!
As long as Anthony is on the same team as him, he doesn't have to care about Durant, just hand over Durant to Anthony, and he can concentrate on dealing with Yes, and dealing with those powerful guards like Kobe Bryant and Yes!
In the face of Durant, he is indeed powerless, but in the face of Kobe Bryant and other guards, James has always been confident!
So, in order to get Anthony, he was bound to get it.
What Bradley plus Richard Jefferson had high stacks, he even prepared higher stacks!
It's just that who would have thought that the general manager of the supersonic was so SB, and he didn't let them use higher chips.
Thinking that because of the Thunder's SB general manager, Yes lost Anthony and had to choose Leonard, James wanted to laugh.
I have to say, Yes is really full of pits.
Those players who used to be pits were brought up by Yes's strong ability to lead the team and develop it.
But the IQ of the team's general manager, no matter how strong Yes is, can't bring it.
As for the team's other trade, DeLong for John Wall and DeRozan, this is not his own arrangement, this is the idea he provided.
This time he went back to the Cavaliers, and he wasn't prepared to continue the Heat's way of thinking and pile up superstars.
This is a hugely failed strategy!
The failure in the Heat in the past two years has made him clearly realize the power of miracles!
The power of miracles!
He needs a group of players who are really desperate to break his leg for him, players like Daniel Gibson!
Otherwise, in the current alliance, it is basically impossible to succeed by simply piling up superstars.
No matter how strong the superstars are, can they be as strong as the Heat in the first two seasons?
Therefore, this time back to the Cavaliers, in addition to the two supergiants Anthony and Yao Ming, James is not ready to recruit the so-called superstars, but hopes that the Cavaliers can use those chips in their hands to select young players with potential.
Who has the most potential to choose whom!
So even if Deron Williams is not replaced by John Wall and DeRozan, he may be other rookies in the Little Green House, such as Paul George and so on.
Of course, it was a real surprise to get John Wall, and I really didn't expect him to fall to such a point.
Now the Cavaliers have got the supergiant Anthony of the same level as him, and they have got potential newcomers like John Wall and DeRozan, plus the potential newcomers Kevin Love and Javier McGee that the Cavaliers already have, it can be said that the current Cavaliers have a promising future!
Yes started with the SuperSonics without supergiant teammates, and the newcomers were all at the level of Rondo, Durant, Milicic and Millsap.
And he has supergiants around him, and the rookies are all recognized lotto-level potential rookies like McGee, Love, DeRozan and John Wall, since he wants to repeat the path of Yes in the Cavaliers, there is no reason why he can do worse than Yes in the Cavaliers!
After two years of losing with the Heat, James has learned to be calm and patient.
He didn't plan to do it all at once.
He is ready to spend two years, three years or even more polishing his young team!
"I'm not going to Supersonic to worship Yes and kiss Yes's feet, I'm going to turn Cleveland into Seattle!"
Facing the eyes of so many people on the scene, James was very confident!
The scene became noisy again because of the trade between the Cavaliers and the Raptors, and after David Stern once again suppressed the noise on the scene, the whole venue returned to normal.
The Jazz had already drafted Hayward with their 11th pick, and the Lotto team now only has the Phoenix Suns with the 12th pick, the Trail Blazers with the 13th pick, and the Houston Rockets with the 14th pick.
There are still three draws left in the lotto, and the little green room still sits 'Skywalker' Luke Babbitt, 'Black Space Easy' Ed Davis, 'The Great White Wall' Cole Aldridge, 'Left Hand Arrow' Javier Henry, 'Steel Trench' Patrick Patterson, 'Little Camby' Hassan Whiteside, and 'Maddie II' Paul George.
Seven people compete for three spots.
This competition is indeed difficult, so the seven teenagers sitting in the little green house are quite nervous now.
John Wall has fallen to that level just now, what will happen to them?
Especially Whiteside and Paul George.
Compared to the other five little green house rookies, the two of them are actually quite flawed.
For example, Paul George, he came from a very bad background, in the United States, in the NCAA, the schools in the East are more popular than the schools in the West, and the elite schools are more attractive than the small schools.
Yes's University of Washington, the University of the West, is a giant team, and the two have at least one of the two.
For example, Jordan's University of North Carolina, Eastern University, and the big teams, all of them, so the attention is amazing.
And Paul George's California State University, Fresno, is a standard western school, not a big team, and quite small.
In two years of college, he didn't even play a tournament in the NCAA Division I League.
Before May, neither the draft rankings nor the draft website had anyone heard of him.
But after May, Paul George was suddenly linked to Maddie and Granger, and the draft pick prediction skyrocketed.
Why did Paul George suddenly explode in May?
Because after May, the NBA regular season is over, and the training camps are opened, Paul George has run almost all the training camps, and participated in almost all the physical tests, and the players from small teams are so miserable, those players who pay big attention do not participate in the training camp at all, and they need attention from small teams, so they need crazy physical tests to participate in training camps, and they run and jump hard.
He and Aminu are arguably the most engaging athletic experts at the nation's training camps in May.
Of course, Aminu is a prestigious school in North Carolina, and he, Paul George, is just a small player on a small team.
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However, with Aminu and his mutual lift, his popularity has also risen.
In the end, he got the draft template like this: Danny Granger (best), underdeveloped Trevor Ariza (worst)
The best can be an elite player, the worst is not Ariza, it is the underdeveloped Ariza, that is, Ariza's beggar version, so most people feel that he should be able to become a player like Ariza in the future.
Ariza, that's pretty good, an elite-level role player, just a little bit away from a star player.
So his draft pick also flew up.
It was a bonus.
As one of the 'Black Wind Twins' in this year's draft training camp, Aminu has been drafted by the Bucks, and he continues to stay in the Little Green House.
As a player from a small team, Paul George still has a little inferiority, what if no team takes a fancy to him?
What if the May boom is a false boom?
Paul George is worried right now.
And Whiteside also has the same worries as Paul George, and for those NCAA bigwigs sitting next to him, they really can't have so much confidence in players from small teams.
Just as Paul George and Whiteside were thinking about their uncertain future, the quiet atmosphere that had been suppressed by David Stern suddenly burst into laughter.
When Paul George heard the laughter, he saw that the face of his idol at the table, Kobe Bryant, became very ugly.
"The Lakers traded Ariza for the Suns' No. 12 pick this year from the Phoenix Suns, and Batum traded for the No. 13 pick in the first round of the year from the Trail Blazers, hahahaha, I bet the Lakers' two picks were prepared for the Anthony trade!"
"Hahahaha, this year's No. 12 and No. 13 picks? In terms of this year's draft, five No. 12 picks are no match for one sixth-pick pick, and five sixth-pick picks are no match for one champion! ”
"If John Wall falls to twelve, the Lakers' draft picks are worth it, but John Wall was snatched away by the Raptors with the tenth pick, and the Lakers will be embarrassed to exchange Ariza and Batum for these two draft picks."
"The rest of these rookies, even if they reach their peak performance in the future, can't have the ability of Ariza and Batum in the Lakers last season, right?"
"You can't blame the Lakers, the Lakers didn't expect the Cavaliers to suddenly come in when they traded with the Suns Trail Blazers, the trade was also traded, Ariza and Batum were also sent out, and the Suns and Trail Blazers would not return."
"For Anthony, the Lakers dismantled their strongest forward lineup in the league, but in the end they didn't get anything, it's so interesting!"
The look on Kobe's face was very ugly, the chips prepared by the Lakers for Anthony were Randolph + Artest + these two draft picks, which were quite competitive, but the Cavaliers' sudden entry made the Lakers' deal directly nullified.
And Randolph + Artest + these two draft picks can't trade Chris Paul.
The Thunder have Griffin who doesn't need Randolph at all, and if it's to trade Paul, the Lakers will definitely not trade Ariza and Batum for draft picks, but will trade Randolph for them.
It's too late, Anthony can't be traded, Chris Paul can't be traded, and the team's forward duo Batum and Ariza have also been sent away, and the Lakers are really losing money now!
Seeing the look on Kobe's face now, Ye Si suddenly felt that in the Anthony deal, it seems that the worst thing is really not the SuperSonics and Presti, but the Lakers are much worse.
You know, for the Lakers team, Ariza and Batum are the players who provide them with forward vitality, which is quite important!
Nash, Kobe, Artest, Randolph, Smalls, they don't run that much.
The value of Ariza and Batum is clear to him.
At the beginning, he coveted Ariza quite a lot, and knew that the true value of these two players was definitely not something that could be exchanged for a 12th or 13th pick.
Fortunately, Kobe's face was so ugly at the scene, and everyone's laughter was not too wanton, and soon the scene was quiet again, but the look on Kobe's face was still so ugly.
"In the 2010 NBA Draft, the first round, the twelfth pick, the Los Angeles Lakers selected a small forward from Fresno State University, Paul George!"
Hearing David Stern's announcement, Kobe's face was still very dark, and Paul George, who was at the same table as him, jumped up excitedly after being stunned for a moment!
"I was drafted by the Lakers?! I TM was picked by the Lakers?! ”
Paul George does have a reason to be so excited.
As a Californian, as a college guy who wears the number 24 jersey, go to the Lakers, that's not perfect, what is perfection?!
Even the excited Paul George directly hugged Kobe, the idol who was sitting in the seat with a black face, for a while.
Kobe, who was in a very unhappy mood, saw himself like a fan, and after being stunned for a while, a smile appeared on his face.
Alas, forget it, Yes can use the number four to choose a disciple of his own without changing his face.
I used the 12th pick to pick one of my die-hard fans, and it doesn't seem to be a loss compared to Yes.
Yes didn't get Anthony recovered, and I lost a lot less than Yes.
Sometimes people are sad and need to be compared.
Kobe Bryant's comparison is indeed much happier.
It's just that seeing Paul George's figure like Ariza, Kobe still wants to cry.
Nima's, a good Ariza for a system Ariza ......
And at this time, Kobe, who was smiling on his face and MMP in his heart, never expected that Larry Bird's face outside the TV at this time was even more ugly than him.
"Larry, we've been robbed."
Looking at the excited and incoherent Paul George on TV, Larry Bird sighed heavily.
How many surprises did Anthony's deal create......
Ariza and Batum were traded away, and the Lakers' two draft picks could not be exchanged for Paul, but could only be used to strengthen the thickness of their missing forward, No. 12 selected Ariza Paul George Jr., and No. 13 Lakers selected Javier Henry, a guard from the University of Kansas, or a 1.98-meter guard player called Xavier Henry, another way of reading it.
Lakers, No. 13, 1.98m, guard ......
These tags are more interesting when combined.
After being drafted by the Lakers, Henry was clearly not as happy as Paul George.
In fact, he is really not so happy, he is a genius, a genius since childhood, he is more willing to go to a small team to fight for being a core than now going to a big city as a role player.
If he could compete in a big city, he would be willing to do so.
But to the Lakers compete for starting point guard......
He felt like he was thinking a little too much.
He is now going to the Lakers and can only be Kobe's backup.
Compete for yarn.
So the same going to the Lakers, Paul George and his mood are completely different.
glanced at Paul George, who was still chattering beside Kobe Bryant with disdain, with a disdainful look.
The birdies from the small teams really don't understand the ambitions of these giant teams.
But it's normal, for a player like Paul George, being a role player is already their limit, and how can a role player not be a role player?
After the Lakers completed their two picks, the Houston Rockets drafted Patrick Patterson with the 14th pick.
The Fifteenth Celtics, on the other hand, picked out Black Space Yi and Ed Davis.
I have to say that these players in the little green house this year are quite talented, and they are the kind of talent that is visible to the naked eye, and it is very difficult to fall all the way.
Sixteen rookies from the Little Green House were drafted by other teams one after another.
"In the 2010 NBA Draft, the first round, the 22nd pick, the Oklahoma City Thunder selected forward Craig Blaggins from Iowa State University!"
Because of Paul, a lot of people are paying attention to the Thunder's draft, and so is Yes.
The Thunder didn't choose a point guard this time, they chose a forward, so Paul didn't trade, or did Paul get a star point guard in exchange?
Yass was curious.
"In the 2010 NBA Draft, the first round, the 23rd pick, the Golden State Warriors selected a point guard from the University of Kentucky, Eric Bledsoe!"
Now that the NBA draft has entered the second half of the first round, most of the players in the Little Green House have been drafted.
Only Hassan Whiteside remains.
So, now every time David Stern is called, the expression on the young center's face is extraordinarily exciting.
Even he, like Jordan Jr., has become the highlight of the second half of the draft.
"In the 2010 NBA draft, the first round, the 26th pick, the Dallas Mavericks selected a guard from the University of Washington, Isaiah Thomas!"
Isaiah Thomas was chosen, and Bradley, who was at the same table as Yese, jumped for joy.
"Captain, all three of us are in the first round!"
He was the first, Leonard fourth, and Thomas Jr. twenty-sixth.
This is indeed a good result, Ye Si thinks about the stubborn and hard-working little man, and he is very happy for him.
It's really not easy to finally get to the first round.
However, Whiteside is still sitting in the little green house.
"In the 2010 NBA Draft, the first round, the 28th pick, the Miami Heat selected a center from the University of Texas, Dexter Pittman!"
The Heat want a center, but not him!
Am I going to fall to the second round like Jordan Jr.?
Whiteside has felt the same hellish breath as Jordan Jr. at the beginning.
"In the 2010 NBA Draft, the first round, the 29th pick, the Memphis Grizzlies chose a Venezuelan guard, Grevis Vasquez!"
With another first-round gone and Whiteside already feeling like he's stepping into ......hell with one foot in his hands
"In the 2010 NBA Draft, the first round, the 30th pick, the Seattle SuperSonics selected a center from Marshall University, Hassan Whiteside!"
With a bang, flowers suddenly scattered in the originally dark hell, and the birds sang and the flowers were fragrant, like heaven......