The Chicago Union Center is conducting an annual joint tryout.

The talents who are about to participate in the NBA Draft, more than 120 American high school students, college students, and overseas players who have received joint tryout invitations, are trying their best to show their talents.

The joint tryout, said to be a joint, is actually the largest trial for all the rookies who have received the invitation to the joint tryout and accepted the invitation, and it is the Bulls who decide what to try out and decide the order of the tryout.

During the trial process, the scouts and coaches of each team are carefully observing what they want to choose, or whether they are alternatives, or rookies who do not seem to be able to be selected but have a chance of being selected later.

On the Hawks' side, the coaching staff, the boss, and Liu Mang, who came to play with him, were all red-faced, and Liu Mang also took a stack of scouting reports to find the rookies he was interested in and watch their tryouts.

It's just that what Liu Mang is looking at is not the same group of people as the draft candidates he wants to submit to Coach Kruger.

Liu Mang is also a person, of course, he also wants to see the trial training of those talented stars who can see the talent with the naked eye!

In the morning, there was a joint trial, and in the afternoon, it was a competition for the 13 members of the Little Green House to show their ability.

The joint trial is divided into three areas, respectively in the competition venue of the United Center, most of the seats are removed, and it is divided into several areas, there are various equipment or running tracks, where the physical fitness is displayed, and there are two training grounds, which are the display of skills and shooting, more than 100 invited rookies, according to the order of the draw, a group of groups to show their ability, respectively in the three areas at the same time, and then change the venue to carry out.

It's a hassle, so a team needs a lot of people to see the performance of a few of their favorite players directly.

Liu Mang took a turn and saw James and Anthony who were warming up together before the trial!

"Wow, Ace, I didn't expect you to come! Long time no see! James saw Liu Mang come up and gave a warm hug, "Ace, this is Melo, Mero, this is Ace, my brother." ”

Before James entered the NBA, he had already begun to show his social skills as a courtesan.

"Oh, LeBron, long time no see." Liu Mang also hugged warmly, although he is a future opponent, but he is also under the same endorsement brand, and it is not that he can't be friends, although the relationship with the little blacksmith is bad, but the relationship is not very good.

However, he was not so familiar with Anthony, Liu Mang just shook his hand: "Hello, I'm Ace." ”

"Hello, I'm Carmelo Anthony." Anthony was not as active as James, and smiled shyly.

"Ace, are you here to help your team choose people? I've heard that you have a very good eye for the draft, and I'm curious to see how Wade is going to be with the Cavaliers, and by the way, which rookie are you interested in this year? The two of us plus Wade, you definitely can't choose, why don't you take us to see it? James said this without any fuss.

The latter thing James said is also something that other teams want to know, who does Liu Mang want to see in the trial? There are even teams that are ready, and the rookies who focus on Liu Mang are directly grabbed in the middle and late stages of the first round.

Liu Mang looked at James, who had a very mature personality from the beginning, this may also be an innate talent!

"Dwyane is a great player, you can get to know him as well, he is from the same company as me, but I'm mainly here today to see some of your top picks tryouts, and I'm not interested in the rest." Liu Mang said with a smile.

Liu Mang already has a recommended candidate, try out this thing, if some buried geniuses can really show their ability by tryout, they will not be buried in the second round or even lost, the draft is nothing more than the selection of combat power, gambling talent, players who can never be optimistic about counterattack every year, just a few, Liu Mang handed over the list of players who know that they can rise, and will not be affected by too many other influences, and are easy to rise.

Tryout, of course, depends on James! Look at this tryout, which may be unique in NBA history, for a man with super physical fitness.

"Really? Oh, Ace, we're brothers, just tell me who you want to choose! ”

"You haven't been to the knight yet! You want to help the Cavaliers get information from me? It's a shame that the Cavaliers' second round this year is already ours, and our cool little guy Ira Newbell will be your teammate next season. ”

"How could it be, what if Dwynne was chosen by the knights?"

"You're so dishonest......"

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Liu Mang and James chatted for a while, joking for a while, and then James and Anthony were called away by the staff to go to the lottery and take pictures.

The trial is still very troublesome and stressful for the rookies, and there are only more than 100 rookies participating in the trial, and then in addition to the reporters and the NBA's official camera crew, the coaches and management of other teams alone have more than 200 people, and the pressure can be imagined in front of these people who decide their future destiny.

Liu Mang wandered around for a while, some trials have begun, Liu Mang met his agent Schwartz with Wade and a few unknown rookies halfway, although Schwartz has the income of a first-line agent, but it is all supported by Liu Mang alone, and when he grabbed the rookies in the lottery area with those big-name agents, none of them were grabbed, only Wade signed with Liu Mang's advice.

Liu Mang and Wade had already met and met each other yesterday, and as a senior, the only advice to Wade was to relax, and he couldn't help anything else.

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After about half an hour, at half past nine in the morning, all preparations continued, and the three regions began their respective trials.

Liu Mang came to the physical fitness display area of the main stadium, here is what he wants to see the most, to see a group of "beast" level physical fitness men show their talent.

James is undoubtedly the one that has attracted the most attention, point guard-level speed, forward-level strength, power forward, and such a body, there should not be flexibility, it is completely a specimen of a perfect basketball genius, Liu Mang heard the exclamation of Paul Silas, an acquaintance who wore the Cavaliers logo and a former Hawks legend who had just become the head coach of the Cavaliers.

Wade's trial has also attracted a lot of attention, seeing Wade's explosive power and short-distance explosive speed, some teams that have not been able to invite Wade's trial in advance have secretly sighed that there is really no vain under the fame.

There are also tryouts for Bosh, Antony, Milicic and others, all of which have been highly praised.

After watching these big hits, Liu Mang walked around, and saw a guy who made him feel no slower than Iverson, and conducted a sprint test, one hundred and nine .36 yards is considered a long test, that is, a 100-meter run.

Leonard Barbosa ran a speed of 10.58 seconds, this speed talent is simply amazing, not a professional sprinter, but actually ran a speed that only domestic first-class track and field athletes have.

Liu Mang felt a pity for Barbossa, and looked at the scouting report in his hand: average skills, poor defense, playing purely by speed and confrontation under the basket, and having a certain shooting ability.

This evaluation is almost exactly the same as the Barbossa that Liu Mang knows.

Liu Mang regretted why Barbosa, who had such a good speed talent, didn't practice track and field, and then left.

The assistant coaches of other teams who followed Liu Mang around, seeing that Liu Mang stayed for so long for the first time except for popular players, they all wrote Barbosa's name in a small book.

And when Liu Mang saw some of his favorite players, he just glanced at them and left, mainly because the performance of the brother in the trial was really poor......

After more than two hours of large-scale trial training in the morning, and in the afternoon, I watched the 13-person lottery group competition in the small green house, and the day's joint trial was over.

After returning to the hotel, it was another meeting.

After Liu Mang experienced the work of the team's summer decision-making team this time, he finally felt the hard work of a team management, and he really held meetings all day long.

Liu Mang handed over the rookie list he wanted the team to pick to Coach Kruger.

If it is said that the team trades whom, the management will be resistant to the players, but about Liu Mang's draft vision, the Eagles management can only say - serve!

Price and the coaching staff huddled together, eager to see who Liu Mang fancied.

Then the more I look at it, the more worrying I become......

A big handsome guy, but his physical fitness is also very poor, in addition to shooting, other skills are too inferior!

One has good skills and good physical fitness, but he also looks good...... It's too much!

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Time flies, and in a flash, it's Game 6 of the Nets and Spurs' battle.

After the Spurs held two home games in a row, they lost two consecutive away games, and then people really felt that this year's Nets were indeed much stronger than last year, and they actually won two games.

In the battle of Tianwang Mountain, when the Spurs only had two double-doubles, relying on Duncan's double-20 performance, which has become a habit in this year's playoffs, the Spurs won and defeated the Nets 89-82.

This game is already the largest point difference in the first five games, and the first four games have not even exceeded 4 points, especially in the second game, the Spurs defeated the Nets 77-76, but the Spurs have Duncan hit a critical shot, and the Nets have no one who has a final decision, so they can only say that their fate is not good.

Today at the home court of the Nets, Duncan did not give Kidd another chance, and played the most invincible game in this year's Finals, scoring 22 points, 23 boards, 10 assists and 8 blocks, and two blocks to get a quadruple-double, leading the Spurs to beat the Nets 85-75 and win the championship 4-2.

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After watching the last game of the finals at the hotel in Chicago, Liu Mang sighed that Duncan is still at his peak after receiving meniscus suture surgery, and if he hadn't had that big injury, how strong would he be at the peak of his twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old age?

The systematic evaluation of Duncan as a "natural king" is really not given in vain.

Looking at Kidd, who was angry at home on the TV screen, because the Nets lost the game by almost three or four points in the previous games, Kidd was certainly not angry.

Liu Mang saw that Kidd was so unhappy and unhappy, he scolded and deserved it, and then turned off the TV, and carried Dinah, who insisted on watching the game with him, but fell asleep watching such a boring game, to the door of Levia's room, knocked on the door and handed it to Levia, and returned to the room to wait for the good news of the team.

Immediately after the joint tryout, the team's management and coaching staff will meet in Atlanta for a trial and subsequent trade negotiations.

The most important chips have been obtained, and the rest of the specific operation is not to negotiate with Anji, gambling on psychology, but relying on the relationship with the owners of each team, which needs to be done by Price.

Liu Mang's family continued to stay in Chicago for a few more days, and finally came out for a trip, of course, they had to go shopping, and when it came to the summer, they would be busy, training, endorsement and publicity, and returning to China to save their relatives......

On July 1, the endorsement fee for the first season will be fully paid, and Liu Mang will also change from a middle-to-lower poor peasant in the NBA to a local tyrant.

Although the NBA's endorsements do not stipulate when to give money, they are basically conventional, and they are given at the end of each season, because there are some reward clauses or something, such as Rahim, who was selected as an All-Star in the first season with Liu Mang, and got some additional sneaker endorsement fees that season.

Generally speaking, for NBA stars, there is no money in the rookie period, and the bank will give almost interest-free loans, which is a kind of investment, and when the NBA stars are developed, they will deposit the money in their bank branches, and the people in their branches will get the performance, and the bank can use this money to lend to others to earn more money.

But Liu Mang is not used to this kind of lifestyle of overdrawing the future in advance, so he has been poor, waiting for the NBA star to endorse the day when the last season is completely over on July 1, and when he has money, he will go home again.

His parents are also middle-class in China, otherwise they would not have the money to pay Liu Mang high tuition fees for the first two years of college, so when Liu Mang didn't get a lot of money, his family didn't reach out to him to ask for money, and Liu Mang didn't do much.

But now that I'm going to be rich, and if I'm really rich, of course I have to return home.

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After the joint trial, after the joint trial, people suddenly found that the team that originally sold some stars suddenly seemed to disappear from the news, some young fans felt bored, the finals were boring, and there was no news in the trading market, so they could only brush up on the things of the shows.

But veteran fans know that this eerie silence makes them feel an undercurrent of flavor.

Often, the roaring and lively transactions are all in vain in the end, but it is this weird and quiet atmosphere that often has big things happening!

Liu Mang was also a little nervous at this time.

Sometimes it's not like if you give you chips and people will agree to accept the deal, but that's not a good thing.

Ange has a habit of collecting draft picks, and there must be no problem with trading to Antoine Walker, but if Antoine Walker can't make a move in the end, then the deal will also be in vain, and the Eagles' efforts in the past half a month have been in vain.

Finally, at half past eleven o'clock in the evening, half an hour before the trade window between the finals and the draft was about to begin, Liu Mang received a call from Coach Kruger, and Liu Mang finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the excited voice on the other end of the phone......

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At midnight on June 25, 2003.

The NBA's official website added a new news window for the draft trade period, and just a few minutes after the template came out at midnight, the trade news broke out.

Several deals were closed in a matter of minutes.

First up was the Hawks sending Ira Newbell to the Cavaliers for the second-round pick of the year.

The Spurs used the 29th pick in the first round and the 20th pick in the second round they had previously traded to get the Timberwolves' 24th pick in the first round.

The Hawks used the 2003 first-round pick 14th pick to get the 2003 first-round pick 20th pick that the Celtics traded with the Hornets in the early years, the 2004 Celtics' second-round pick, and the 2004 Magic's second-round pick.

There's also a Kings and Mavericks trade......

It started out as a couple of small trades that people didn't think were significant, and while it was a surprise for the Hawks to split the first round into one first round and two second rounds, it wasn't a big deal, and it was probably just that the players the Hawks wanted to pick didn't have that high a prediction pick.

Finally, at midnight, the avid basketball fans who were refreshing the website saw a shocking big deal, a six-team deal involving nearly ten players and several draft picks!

The Celtics sent Antoine Walker to get the Hawks' 2004 first-round pick, the Hawks' 2006 first-round pick to protect the top-five picks, Danny Ferry from the Hawks, Trill Brandon from the Timberwolves with only one year left on his partially guaranteed contract of only $2.6 million, and the Timberwolves to provide $3 million in cash compensation.

The Timberwolves sent Trill Brandon, Mark Jackson, 3 million cash, a 29th pick in the first round in 2003 and a 20th pick in the second round in 2003 to get Ratlier Sprewell from the Knicks.

The Trail Blazers sent Rashid Wallace and got Antoine Walker.

The Knicks sent Sprewell to Keon Van Horn from the 76ers and the 2003 second-round pick from the Timberwolves.

The 76ers sent Keon Van Horn to the Timberwolves' center Mark Jackson, a 29th pick in the first round in 2003 and Chris Crawford from the Hawks.

The Hawks sent the lower overall pick of the 2004 Hawks and Spurs, the 2006 top-five protected picks, Danny Feery, Chris Crawford, and Rasheed Wallace from the Trail Blazers!

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Big deal for six teams!

With a sudden outburst of coldness, the Spurs' title night limelight was completely stolen!

Originally, the major TV stations were still broadcasting the night party of the fans in San Antonio, and the news was broadcast urgently.

This news caused a sensation in the entire basketball circle.

Not to mention who was traded, the six-team big deal alone is extremely rare in the history of the NBA, and the next morning, it has become the focus of the news of major sports TV stations, and the Internet, newspapers and media have also reported it, and fans and expert media have also expressed their opinions.

On the 76ers' side, because Iverson has to undergo surgery to treat the injury in the summer, he may not be able to play in the first two months of the season, this injury has dragged on for half a season, and now Iverson, who has calmed down a lot, decided to undergo surgery, and the 76ers are a foregone conclusion, so they traded away Van Horn to save money and free up salary space, maybe they can take over some expiring big contracts like Mark Jackson, and get a little draft pick compensation or something.

The operation of the 76ers received good reviews.

The Trail Blazers sent away Rashid Wallace in exchange for Antoine Walker, and the reviews were not good, but they were also praised, because although Antoine Walker played a little bit of a cancer, he had a good personality and was very lively, unlike Rasheed Wallace who ate technical fouls all the time.

The Knicks' operation is always so obsessed, sending away Sprewell in exchange for Van Horn, getting a bad review, the madman is much better than Van Horn, and the compensation is only a second-round pick.

The Celtics' trade was also well received, Antoine Walker bluntly said that he was leaving, and it would be good to get back two first-rounders, Trill Brandon's contract with equal salary space was partially guaranteed, and Trill Brandon last played in March 2002, and has been reimbursed since then, and it is estimated that he will be cut, but the Celtics received cash compensation from the Timberwolves.

In particular, the Celtics were well received by the Celtics in a trade with the Hawks that raised the 14th pick in this year's draft season and had a better chance of selecting a high school center they had tried out several times.

The highest rated is the Timberwolves!

They almost empty the White Wolves, sent away two big contracts of Trill Brandon and Mark Jackson, not to mention, and also got the madman who was in good form last season, which is almost the most perfect signing for the Timberwolves since the Joe Smith incident, and all they paid was a first-round 24th pick and 3 million cash!

Five of the six teams traded were mostly well received, and the Knicks, who were sprayed again, were at best seen as a little worse.

And on the Hawks' side, people feel that the boss of the Eagles has once again had his head in the sea!

The 76ers are in order to play the draft picks, the Knicks are naturally mentally retarded, not the worst, only worse, the Trail Blazers have replaced the thorns with an all-round player, the Celtics rebuild is also forced to helpless, and the Timberwolves are perfect reinforcements to strengthen the ability of scoring guards and forwards.

And what the hell are the Eagles trying to do? Not to mention the two first-rounders, he also took over a thorn.

After the events of the season just ended, the media and fans are not optimistic about the Eagles' deal, and Price is also under pressure from the head office, Price can only hope that this recruitment is successful, and then look forward to Liu Mang next time as promised, and will not propose this unreliable transaction in the future, he doesn't know how long he can last in this position by renewing Liu Mang's contract to make money for the team.

When everyone said that the Hawks were stunned by the Eastern Conference Finals again, made a deal with a problem in their heads, and most people were not optimistic about the Hawks' deal, there was a tough and unusual scolding came out.

Popovich was furious, and during the interview, he scolded the Trail Blazers for being fooled by the Hawks and Celtics.

Others can't see Rashid Wallace's plasticity, how can Popovich not see it? It's just that the Spurs don't have any chips and no space, otherwise Popovich would have wanted Rashid Wallace for a long time, but he didn't say the merits of Rashid Wallace, his belief is that if he can't get it, others better not get it.

Just like the Lakers robbed Gasol in the future, Gasol was known as a soft egg during the Grizzlies, Popovich never praised Gasol, but Gasol was robbed by the Lakers, and Popovich immediately came out to scold his mother.

But Popovich is not liked by the media at this stage, nor is he liked by the fans, and they all feel that this drunkard is drunk again, probably stimulated by the Timberwolves' reinforcement.

The Timberwolves can rank among the top five in the West with one Garnett, a Sprewell, and an additional 2.6 million salary space, originally if the Timberwolves cut Trill Brandon, they will also occupy 2.6 million salary space, even if Mark Jackson is traded, but in exchange for Sprewell, at most there is only 5 million salary space left, but now the Timberwolves have freed up nearly 8 million salary space, and they can get another strong player to strengthen, and another strong team in the West is about to be born.

So no one paid attention to Popovich's words at all, and the media's brain supplement was also very powerful, which found a suitable "reason" for Popovich's remarks.

As a result, the news and fan comments that criticized the Hawks management for being in the water again were overwhelming.

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"Ace, your boss is crazy!" Levia couldn't help but squirt as she watched the report on the TV news.

"Levia, don't worry, it's part of the plan, Rashid will be completely different when he comes to our team." Liu Mang reassured.

Levia was still very upset, and after a while, after Alexia and Dinah came out, even Lori, who was eight or nine years old and more sensible, began to scold the Eagles management.

Liu Mang's explanation is useless,

Even die-hard fans are like this, Liu Mang can imagine how bad the outside world's evaluation of the Eagles is.

The main reason is that the impact of the big dog last year was too bad.

But this is a good thing for the Eagles and Liu Mang.

The Eagles can be in a relatively underestimated position, which is really a good thing for Liu Mang.

Originally, the Hawks split the 14th pick in the first round into a first-round pick and two second-rounders that no one sprayed, and now this one has also begun to be sprayed.

The Hawks sent the 14th pick in the 2003 first round in exchange for one first-round pick and two second-round picks from the Celtics, purely in a trade to compensate the Celtics for helping him eat Danny Ferrina's remaining two years of contract of more than $3 million per year.

Seeing that the three girls were very dissatisfied and unhappy, Liu Mang had no choice but to straighten out Rashid Wallace when the time came.

When Liu Mang was chattering about the future of the three girls, he received a text message, and when he was happy to get Rashid Wallace as a helper, but the three girls were really noisy and couldn't fit in a play, he saw this text message, and a warm current welled up in his heart.

It's a text message from Coach Kruger.

"Ace, about meddling in the team's trade, you must pay attention in the future, a star like Rashid Wallace who wants a partner very much, you can bring it up yourself, you have a stronger voice than me, but then you still want ordinary players, don't talk to the boss yourself, you just tell me, I'll discuss with the boss, I can decide ordinary players. This time about Rashid's deal, I will tell the media that it was my idea, and the boss is also under a lot of pressure, I will carry this matter, and you are not allowed to express any opinion on this deal! ”

Liu Mang saw the text message sent by Coach Kruger and saw the last exclamation point, what else could he say? After hesitating for a long time, I could only reply with a thank you.

After four years of master-apprentice love, a good man doesn't flick, but Liu Mang has an urge to cry.

Master, Master, Liu Mang feels that the relationship in the past four years, Coach Kruger is no longer just the former.

It may be that Coach Kruger himself has no children, and he has always had extra care for Liu Mang, a disciple who is not favored when he enters the university, and slowly, this has become a habit of life.

Whether it is harsh or angry, Coach Kruger rarely has a good expression towards Liu Mang, but he is the most tolerant person in the coaching staff.

At this moment, Liu Mang felt a little homesick, what would his parents be like in this life?

Because of the family, before Liu Mang came to the United States, there was only undeveloped cable communication, and the original Liu Mang was not good at words, and rarely called his parents during college, after Liu Mang entered the NBA, he never contacted his family, and now seeing that the planned time to go home is getting closer and closer, Liu Mang feels the warmth of home again, and he is a little uneasy about going home to meet his parents......