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With the success of European players such as the Spurs Ginobili and Tony Parker, the Grizzlies' Paul Gasol, and the Mavericks' Nowitzki in the NBA, the league's scouts, coaches, and managers are increasingly looking to Europe as a virgin land with untapped resources. Although as early as the eighties and nineties, European players began to enter the NBA, and achieved good results here, such as Kukoc, Petrovic, Schramf, Sabonis, all showed outstanding basketball talent in the NBA and became members of championship teams.

But apart from these amazing top players, some other good European players have not been able to get many opportunities in the NBA, especially the white guards in Europe, and no one has been able to really prove themselves in the NBA. It wasn't until the Spurs discovered Manu Ginobili that the Argentine monster showed amazing shine in the NBA. However, Ginobili is Argentine, and his style of play shows more of the enthusiasm of American players. And those European-style guards, it's hard to find their place in the NBA.

In contrast, tall interior players are much more popular, especially those who are excellent defensively and have a good hand to pass the ball, and have become favored by NBA scouts and team managers. Like Bhagjani, who was named the NBA No. 1 overall pick in 2006, he is also the first European player in NBA history to become the No. 1 overall pick, and unlike Andrew Bogut the year before, he did not play in the NCAA and did not grow up in the American basketball environment.

It's just that judging from the situation in the first season, Baggyani's performance on the field is still a certain distance from people's expectations of the champion, especially many people position him as the next Dirk Nowitzki, but on the whole, there is still a long, long distance between him and Nowitzki. Therefore, there are still a lot of doubts about the selection of European players, many teams like to use the second round to select European players, first, the second round of the show is worthless, and secondly, many European players cannot play immediately after being elected, they generally have contracts.

So, when the 2007 draft came to an end, Fox Leon counted what the Phoenix Suns had earned at this year's conference, with a Turiaf, a Marc Gasol, a Dudley, and a Brent Barry -- which the Suns traded for Split from the Spurs, along with a trade exception from the Lakers to the Spurs.

At the same time, on the day of the end of the draft, news came from Phoenix that Jasco Vishuus, who had previously terminated his contract with the Warriors, decided to stay in the NBA, and he signed a two-year contract with the Suns, and the contract amount is still being negotiated. In this way, the Suns brought in five players in a draft, and the arrangement and combination are exactly a standard five-man lineup. The big money of the paper media has long been hungry and thirsty, and they have said that Leon is going to have a major surgery for the Suns, and the draft trade, selection and signing just form a new lineup.

However, in this operation, the most controversial thing is to take two European players at once, one except for a famous brother, everything else is still unknown; One has already proven unsuitable in the NBA. What's more, in order to complete these selections, the Suns lost their Brazilian Lightning, last season's Sixth Man of the Year, which was undoubtedly unacceptable to Phoenix fans.

So, the day after the show was over, Leon and D'Antoni returned to Phoenix together, and at Phoenix International Airport, some of the fans waiting for them held up signs in the airport lobby: "Massachusetts Green ** Ghost, please go back to the East Coast." "We want Brazilian Lightning!" "Boston's icebergs will melt in the Nevada desert."

Leon looked at these slogans and was not angry, but said that these slogans were very well written, quite poetic, figurative, and rich in imagery. Although Fox-Leon was a huge success with the Boston Celtics, his arrival with the Suns was met with criticism and opposition from many Phoenix fans. Because in the eyes of Suns fans, the Boston Celtics under Leon are a defensive team that is even more terrible than the San Antonio Spurs, and they don't want the Suns, who are whirlwinding in the West, to become a dull team under Fox-Leon.

To their relief, D'Antoni announced the other day that he would stay at Phoenix to assist Fox-León in the position of assistant coach. This reassured many people, after all, D'Antoni definitely didn't stay for defense. However, in the draft, the Suns sent Barbosa away, which made many fans dissatisfied, especially when Barbosa was sent away, all they got was Turiaf and a senior small forward from Boston University, and many fans thought that there must be something wrong with it. And the finger is pointed at Fox-Leon, not Steve Cole.

With a little hype in the local media in Phoenix, there was this little demonstration at the airport, which was a disgrace from the Phoenix fans to Fox-Leon. Leon and D'Antoni didn't have to wait at the airport and immediately drove to the team's headquarters, where they had to report to the owner and general manager on the results of the draft and their thoughts on building the team this season. Now is no longer the time to draw a big pie and brag about it, after completing a wave of operations, it is necessary to have a practical operation concept and team building policy.

Entering the conference room of the team's headquarters, where owner Savo, general manager Steve Cole, team president Jerry Colangelo, chief operating officer Rick Wiltz and other team executives were inside, obviously everyone was waiting for Leon and his team to come back and die, because this draft meeting was basically run by Leon and the coaching team, and the Suns' own scouting team basically did not play a role. Leon could see that the team's chief scout, Noelle Gillespie, who was sitting in a corner, had a calm face, and the scouting report he handed in this draft had basically no effect at all.

Leon didn't care about that, because he knew that Gillespie would get used to it one day, just like Leon Popper, the Celtics' director of players and chief scout, who was eventually transferred to Communications as an assistant director.

Look at the boss Savo again, there is no expression, the enthusiasm and politeness when he first became a coach is gone, a capitalist is a capitalist, he can't wait to kneel down and lick your feet when recruiting you, once you start working for him, if you can't immediately make money for him and bring benefits, he will turn his face and deny people.

Finally, Leon glanced at Steve Cole, who still had a honeyed smile on his face, revealing two charming dimples lined with his lovely blond hair, and sure enough, he was a guy who loved flowers and flowers. Anyway, if something goes wrong this time, Leon will be the one who will take the blame in the end. It seems that the idea of earning a share of the head coach and losing the blame to the general manager is wrong. After all, it was the boss who recruited Cole, and it was Cole who recruited Leon, and Cole could be wrong, but the boss couldn't be wrong.

It took Leon about five seconds to sweep through the three of them, instantly deducing the thoughts revealed by their expressions in his mind, and then used those five seconds to find a place to sit down. He didn't have any papers in his hand, whether paper or electronic, which were unnecessary to him, and if he had, he would now be able to recite a Gettysburg address to the people in the room.

Seeing that no one spoke, Leon cleared his throat, didn't talk nonsense, and started talking directly: "The draft and trade have settled for the time being, and the results must have been known to everyone." Before the start of the new season, before the game actually starts, I'm not going to spend too much time talking about my team building ideas, because when I say it, some of you will have a lot of questions, and I'm going to have to explain a lot of them, and then I'm going to have a lot of questions. In fact, there is only one best way to answer these questions, time and competition. There are only two explanations I'm going to make now, one about Marc Gasol, and I would say he's not coming to the NBA this year because he still has a contract in place. But my observation of him began when I was at the Boston Celtics, when he was still at the College of Lausanne, a slow, stupid fat man, far inferior to his brother. After that, he didn't stay in the United States, but went to Spain, and I chose him because he attracted me to two things, first of all, he never called himself Gasol, because Gasol represented his brother, and he always had Mark on the back of his jersey; Secondly, this year my scouts have watched his balls and sent me photos and videos, and he's no longer a slow and stupid fat guy. “

Leon spoke extremely quickly, but with clarity and conciseness, and his magnetic voice and determined eyes were convincing and convincing. After saying this, Gillespie seems to have something to say, but he has always had the Suns' draft in recent years, and then think about the Celtics' draft, he has nothing to say.

León continued: "On Barbossa, he's a very good player, he won the Sixth Man of the Year last year, and it seems like a mistake to trade him away. But I would say Barbosa is a good scorer and attacker and if he was some substitute on the bench I would keep him, but he's the sixth man in the team. In my opinion, there can only be one sixth man for the Phoenix Suns, and that is the Steve Nash alternative, and apparently Barbossa is not. Steve is 33 years old, and it's not fair to put everything on his shoulders. Of course, there will be people who doubt Jascovitius's ability, that's normal, but you can't doubt my ability. I'm done talking. ”

After saying that, Leon closed his mouth, and the boss Savo listened to it, applauded, and then said, "Everything will be left to you." ”