Chapter 567 [North Carolina Four Youth, Midfield Jesus]
Guo Xu took a vacation after filming the cameo scene, he didn't have to go to the crew all day to accompany him, he just needed to drive Megan back to the hotel at night.
If he always goes to the UCLA campus, it will affect the progress of the shooting, attracting many people to run to watch and ask for group photos and autographs. Beautiful fans will distract Megan, who is acting, and she can't help but want to stare at it.
Guo Xu is not there, not many people go to the school to watch the crew filming, Los Angeles has never lacked big-name movie stars, and top stars like Guo Xu, who are three consecutive MVPs, are more attractive.
Guo Xu met with a few friends who lived in Los Angeles and had dinner and chatted. However, he didn't look for a big name in the entertainment industry to make a cameo in a movie, he always found someone to make a cameo and would owe favors, and he made a cameo for a few minutes in this small-budget movie to attract attention, and then he had to rely on the quality of the movie to win.
On June 28, the 2005 NBA Draft was held at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Guo Xu and Devin George were invited by Medvidenko to his home for dinner, and the three watched the draft together at 7 o'clock. Of the teammates who built the Lakers dynasty together, only three remained in Los Angeles.
They played together in the summer league in 2000 and had a good relationship, and Guo Xu has kept in touch since he left.
When David Stern spoke, Medvedenko complained: "Jason, if you stayed with the Lakers as the boss, we wouldn't be where we are now. ”
George agreed. "You don't have to take any honor, let's have dinner with Kobe, he won't come."
Medvidenko asked, "Jason, do you think the Lakers will pick Bogut?" ”
"Of course, unless Kupchak is crazy to choose him." Guo Xu said with a smile.
Medvedenko sighed: "Then I'll leave this year." ”
He's in a contract year, and last season he got a lot of playing time due to the team's lack of a center, playing in 62 games, averaging 9.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1 assist per game.
However, his defense is too poor, he lacks mobility as a power forward, and he lacks height and bounce as a center, so he can't defend and dismantle the penalty area. If he wants a big contract, it's definitely no fun, and the Lakers management is only willing to give him a 2-year 6 million contract extension.
Although he has not received a high evaluation, Medvedenko has a good shot, rich playoff experience, two championship rings, and there must be a team willing to sign him, and the contract will be bigger than the Lakers.
George doesn't have any pressure and no desire to win, he just messes around, and he signed a long-term contract with the Lakers anyway.
The draft has officially begun, and Guo Xu suspects that the draft order will change greatly, and the positions of each team will be different.
The Lakers selected Australian center Andrew Bogut with the No. 1 pick, and there were no surprises.
In the 2004-05 season, Bogut averaged 20.4 points, 12.2 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.8 blocks per game in the NCAA, shooting 62.0% from the field and scoring 26 double-doubles. He was voted No. 1 in the Associated Press All-America vote, named Associated Press and ESPN's Player of the Year, and Naismith College Player of the Year, where he won the John Wooden Award.
As soon as Medvedenko saw the Lakers select the No. 1 center, he knew that he was out of play, he didn't really want to leave Los Angeles, and it would be troublesome to move to a new city and start over.
Guo Xu thinks the Lakers will be very interesting next season, and Bogut is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He's super self-confident and has a big mouth, and if he were to be a blue-collar like Kwame Brown, God knows what he'd say.
The Lakers also have a butterfly effect, and with Bogut, they don't need to use Caron Butler as a bargaining chip to trade Brown over, and they will not be bad at all positions next season.
So the question is, Kobe Bryant, who has good teammates, must share the ball, and can't let the team's No. 2 scorer Butler and the top center be spectators, can he still score 81 points in a single game and average 35.4 points per game?
The Raptors are in a good situation, but because there is Alston, the "street ball king" in the team, the management does not consider the selection of point guard training, and selects forward Marvin Williams.
Guo Xu believes that the Raptors will regret it very much in the future, in his previous life, Marvin was the worst among the high-ranking rookies in this class, known as a parallel trade list, and has always been a role player.
He is currently the leader of the "North Carolina Four" to win the NCAA championship, and is widely regarded as the most promising rookie. Experts believe that they can be compared with the "Michigan Fantastic Four" led by Guo Xu back then.
It's a pity that Marvin has not fulfilled his potential in his previous life, his physical fitness is indeed very good, and in 2018, he became a veteran who has played for thirteen seasons, and he is one of the few players still playing in the 05 class.
The Jazz drafted heavy point guard Deron Williams, and Chubby can play his pick-and-roll tactics best.
The Hornets drafted point guard Chris Paul in the fourth place, the best rookie of the previous class, although his best result was a Western Conference final, or as a second-in-command, but perennially known as the league's No. 1 point guard.
By 2018, Paul, who was in declining form at the age of 33, renewed his contract with the Rockets, with an average annual salary of 40 million, which is higher than LeBron James. This can be seen from Paul's salary...... The Rockets management is a bunch of psychos.
The absence of David West on the Hornets at the moment is definitely bad news for Paul.
The Bobcats selected point guard Raymond Felton, one of the four few, 185cm tall and weighing 93 kilograms, which is overweight at first glance. However, Filton is a point guard known for his speed, with sharp breakthroughs and ball lightning.
The Bobcats were unlucky, and they weren't thorough enough, and they could have chosen Paul one step further.
This time, people can't blame Jordan for his vision, he said in an interview in his previous life: "Seeing that the Eagles chose Marvin, I said I won't choose, Delong, Paul, Felton will have whichever is left." ”
If the Bobcats win the lottery, fans can blame Jordan, because this guy will definitely choose Marvin instead of Bogut.
The Bobcats also traded for a No. 13 pick, selecting North Carolina interior Sean May, an injury-prone glass man who was still drafted and looked as if they were going to take care of Charlotte's local players.
There were not many changes ahead, with the Knicks selecting interior Channing Frye, the Trail Blazers selecting the no-eyebrow interior Villanueva, and the Warriors selecting 203CM interior Ek Diogu.
The most surprising choice for Guo Xu appeared in the 10th place, and the Magic team actually selected high school student Andrew Bynum.
In his previous life, the famous "midfielder Jesus" and "Washing and Blowing Scissors Little Shark" Bynum actually got together with "Happy Beast" Dwight Howard into the same team!
Even if Guo Xu is a reborn, he doesn't know what kind of sparks these two people will create in the future.
On the bright side, they're going to form a super interior and the defensive intensity is terrifying.
At worst, they'll team up to save the stumblers, Howard will be given a crooked style and a charming haircut, and their group of illegitimate children will be large enough to form a basketball team.
And the most terrifying development is that Howard may fall in love with Bynum, because in his previous life he was revealed to be "bisexual".
Of course, since both of them play center and are not suitable to play together, Howard may also cause Bynum to not get the Magic's focus on training, which is a big leak to pick up.
The Suns may be able to trade Bynum to the team with very little chips, and "Little Shark" is a very powerful center as long as he is not brainless, and he is excellent on both offensive and defensive ends. In his previous life, he even became an All-Star starter, averaging 18.7 points, 11.8 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game at his peak.
Bynum's efficiency before the serious injury was not low, his disadvantage was that he was too brittle, and his attendance was very low after 2007, and he was injured every year.
In the future, Guo Xu will consider whether to save this buddy.