Popovich had an ominous feeling that Richard's No. 8 pick would sign Kowhi Leonard, who he fancied......

Although Leonard is not well-known at the moment, Richard has not made amazing moves in the draft before.

Thinking of this, Popovich felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

Richard has a No. 8 pick in his hand, so if the Spurs want to cut off Leonard, they must be the No. 7 pick or higher......

With such a high draft pick, how can it be so easy to get it.

Now, for Popovich, he can only be prepared with two hands, if the matter of choosing Leonard is really impossible, then he can only choose a spare tire.

At present, the Spurs troika is old, and last season, which just ended, no one in the troika averaged more than 20 points per game, especially Duncan, who averaged 17.9 points per game in the 09-10 season to 13.4 points, although fans are reluctant to admit it, but now Duncan is indeed gradually starting to decline.

Of course, even if it goes downhill, Duncan will still be quite effective in the next few years, making his own contribution to the Spurs steadily.

Now Popovich's favorite player is undoubtedly a small forward position player, and the Spurs have no shortage of backcourt, because Duncan can still play for a few years, and there is no hurry to think about the interior at the moment.

What is safe is that Popovich will be keeping an eye out for a wave of outstanding small forwards in this year's draft.

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If he really can't take Leonard, Popovich will definitely have to find a replacement of his choice.

After Richard rejected Popovich, he didn't have any burden in his heart, he naturally knew very well that Popovich's goal was Leonard, but now that he wants Leonard, he can only be wronged and get off the Spurs.

Dead friends don't die poor......

The playoffs are in full swing, and those teams that play the playoffs naturally don't have the energy to pay attention to the trade market, while the Clippers are very lively.

The Trail Blazers have a 25th pick on hand this year, but before Richard could speak, McMillan said that his draft pick was useful and that he had a rookie that he had to take......

McMillan said so, so Richard naturally can't play the idea of the Trail Blazers draft pick anymore.

However, Richard's old club, the Buccaneers, is a bit righteous and willing to give them their own first-round pick this year.

Before Richard left the Pirates, he actually accumulated a large number of draft picks for the Pirates, and the Pirates still had the first record last season, and their own draft picks were the thirtieth pick in the first round, so they naturally didn't care much about such a bad pick.

Of course, Richard must have been embarrassed to take a draft pick for nothing, and finally made a deal with Jordan, Richard took out his sixth pick in the second round plus $1.5 million in cash compensation, and got the 30th pick in the first round plus the 30th pick in the second round plus the 30th pick in the second round from Jordan.

It's not like Jordan lost money in this deal......

A second-round sixth-pick pick, the value is actually not much different from the first-round thirty picks, as for the last pick in the second round, it is basically completely chicken, Richard gave a compensation of $1.5 million, and did not take advantage of the Pirates.

Although he left countless fortunes to the pirate team before, Richard must not be happy to take other people's things for nothing.

Since then, Richard has breathed a sigh of relief, and in this year's draft, the draft picks he prepared must be enough, and if nothing else, the lineup he wants can be put together.

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In the blink of an eye, the time entered mid-to-late May, and the East-West finals were in full swing.

To everyone's surprise, this year's playoffs broke out two jaw-dropping upsets.

The Spurs had the best regular season record, but were defeated in the first round by the Grizzlies, who finished eighth in the West, and the Grizzlies completed the feat of black eight.

Of course, this black eight is actually not very significant, at least it is not as amazing as the black eight of the Warriors, mainly because the Spurs troika injured two ......

Ginobili and Parker are injured, so it's no wonder that the Spurs can advance.

Under normal circumstances, although the Spurs were also blacked out by the Grizzlies this season, they were not so miserable, and there was no tragedy in which the troika injured the two.

If the troika is not injured, or only one is injured, then it is estimated that with the current strength of the Grizzlies, it will not be good not to be swept by the Spurs.

The current Grizzlies are not the lineup of the undead Grizzlies under normal circumstances, first of all, there is no Marc Gasol, and this position is replaced by Bynum......

In Richard's view, this could be fate.

The other set of duels is more like fate......

The Lakers were swept in the Western Conference semifinals against the Dallas Mavericks.

This Western Conference semifinals simply stunned Los Angeles fans, who thought about being swept by the Buccaneers again this year, but never expected to be swept by the Mavericks in the West, if someone had told them that before, they would have to laugh to death.

What are you kidding, with a calf and a bunch of old men, you can sweep the Lakers? This is definitely the biggest joke of the century.

But such an unbelievable thing really happened.

Why is the 2011 playoffs interesting, the interesting thing is that the Spurs and the Lakers, one was blacked out and the other was swept......

You know, these two teams played the top two regular season records in the West.

In the end, the Trail Blazers picked up a big bargain, and the Trail Blazers faced the Grizzlies in the Western Conference semifinals, winning 4:2 and meeting the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals.

I'm afraid that even Paul Allen himself didn't expect to pick up such a big bargain for nothing.

Under normal circumstances, in fact, this big bargain was picked up by the Thunder, who killed the Grizzlies 4:3 in the Western Conference semifinals and met the Mavericks in the Western Conference finals, which was also the first time in Durant's career to reach the Western Conference finals......

It's just that at the moment, the Thunder must be worse because of the lack of Durant, and they were eliminated by the Trail Blazers in the first round.

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In the Western Conference Finals, the Trail Blazers vs. the Mavericks, if Richard feels nothing else, it may be the Mavericks who will emerge as the winner.

Even if the Trail Blazers are stronger than the Mavericks on paper, Richard still thinks so......

As for the Eastern Conference Finals, it is the Pirates against this year's new powerhouse, the Miami Heat.

The Heat defeated the Pistons in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and the two sides fought seven games, which was quite difficult to win.

After all, it's a piston, the shelf created by Richard is still there, and it is actually quite difficult for the Heat to pass the piston level.

But after thinking about the pirate level, it's obviously not so easy.

Jordan Jr., Milicic, Durant, Roy plus Curry, and countless strong players on the bench, Harden, DeRozan, Marc Gasol, etc......

In the end, the Heat's performance was reasonable, and they did not shave their heads for the Pirates, winning two games and being eliminated by the Pirates with a score of 2:4.

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The Buccaneers are riding their heads to the Grand Finals, and if they can continue to defend their title this year, they will create a five-crown dynasty!

The five-crown dynasty makes Jordan tremble with excitement just thinking about it!

In Jordan's view, their biggest opponents for the championship are actually the Pistons, Heat, Spurs and Lakers......

Now that all four teams have been killed, the Trail Blazers? Calf? What kind of opponent is this, Jordan didn't pay attention to it at all.

When the Western Conference finals ended, the Mavericks beat the Trail Blazers with a score of 4:3 to advance, and Jordan was crazy with joy.

Is this pie in the sky?! God wants to fulfill the five-crown dynasty of the Pirates, and let them meet such a weak opponent in the finals.

Richard is very open now, in fact, no matter who wins the championship in this round of finals, Richard can happily accept it.

If the Pirates win the championship, the feat of the five-crown dynasty will definitely leave a strong mark in the history books, and the founder of his dynasty will definitely be admired and admired by future generations of pirate fans.

As for the Mavericks winning the championship, Richard actually wants the old driver to rely on this championship to prove himself again and improve his historical status.

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In the finals G1, the Pirates won easily.

It's easy, it's just that they won easily in terms of scores, and if you really want to say that the Pirates have a big problem in this game.

Durant is injured, Roy is injured......

Even Richard was dumbfounded, those fans might only be lamenting that the Pirates were unlucky to injure two offensive cores in one game, but Richard knew that this was quite strange.

If Durant is injured, it can be explained, after all, Durant is not that kind of iron man type of player, he has suffered season reimbursement in his career, and he has also suffered several playoff injuries, and it is not unacceptable to be suddenly injured in the Finals.

But Roy's injury made Richard unacceptable, what are you kidding, Roy's injury resistance attribute is as high as 95 points, which is completely an iron man-level injury resistance attribute, which can hurt?!

Richard only felt as if there was a god watching this round of the finals, and really wanted the Mavericks to win the championship this year, otherwise, it would be completely impossible to explain Roy's injury.

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Although the Pirates have injured two offensive cores in a row, in fact, Jordan, the Pirates players and management, including the Pirates fans, are quite calm.

Injuries are injuries, the Pirates have such a deep lineup, hurt Durant and Roy, isn't there Harden and DeRozan?

Although these two are definitely not as good as the previous two, they are better than the old men of the calf......

As a result, in their calmness, the finals G2 started, and this time the pirates won again, but they were injured again.

There are still two injuries, Curry and Jordan Jr. are injured.

The whole league is directly crazy, this kind of thing has not happened in the entire history of the NBA several times, and the finals have only been played twice, and as a result, one team has injured four starters?!