While Leon was doing science to Auerbach in a hospital in Washington, Danny Angie in Madison Square Square was a mixed bag. The good news is that the deal between the Celtics and the Timberwolves went unexpectedly smoothly, and the two sides quickly reached a consensus, according to Angie's experience, it is estimated that the league office will approve it tomorrow, and Garnett will officially enter Boston, and Boston will also become the strongest contender for the championship next season from the runner-up in the finals that unfortunately lost.

The worry is naturally Kevin Garnett's super big contract of 28 million, even if the salary cap rises next year because of the entry into force of the TV broadcast agreement, 28 million still exceeds 65% of the salary cap, and one person has to occupy so much salary space, which makes Angie's operation stretched. He knows in his heart that after trading Garnett, the Celtics will only have nine players on their books so far next season. To meet the minimum requirement of 12 players, Angie needs to sign three players, and to fill the 15-man squad, Angie needs to get six more players.

But now, the Celtics have zero salary space and salaries that have exceeded the luxury tax line, and they will have to start paying the luxury tax next season anyway. The job of the president of the team is not only to help the team win the championship, if it is also an important task for the boss to make money, if they can't make money and the boss spends more money, Anji will not be stable in the position of president.

Thinking of this, Angie scolded Leon a hundred and eleven times in his heart, but he still had to stay calm, because the draft was not over yet, and the Celtics still had draft picks at the end of the first round and the second round. Now that the Celtics are running out of salary space, the importance of these two draft picks is highlighted, which will provide the Celtics with two cap spots, and Angie must make good use of him.

Now, the draft has reached the middle and back end, although the Celtics were the team in the finals last season, but the draft picks outside the lottery area are based on the regular season record, so the Celtics have the 20th pick in the first round, which is not bad. In terms of demand, the type of player that the Celtics need most at the moment is a small forward, and they were stretched thin in this position before, and now that Eric Williams has been traded, Pierce has completely lost the bench and has become the team's only small forward.

In this draft, the scouting work of the Celtics is fully handled by Angie, and at this time he misses Leon a little, and if he is in charge, he must prepare everything in order, and they will make the most suitable and optimal choice at that time.

At this point, the draft had reached the 19th pick, and the Utah Jazz selected Alexander Pavlovich from Europe at this position, a two-way guard who has both ball control and scoring, a typical European player.

"Hasn't the Jazz learned his previous lesson, and picked another guy from Europe?" Angie muttered when he heard the Jazz's results that the Jazz had selected a European point guard Raul Lopez the year before, and it turned out that European guards really had a hard time surviving in the NBA. Stockton officially retired this year, and it seems that Sloan is very keen to find a replacement for Stockton in Europe.

Now, it's Celtic's turn to make a choice.

At this time, the aftermath of the Celtics and Timberwolves trade has not yet dissipated, and ESPN's hosts are still discussing the deal, and even they have begun to pay close attention to the Celtics' selection with the 20th pick.

After the players who seem to be very talented at first glance have almost been singled out, what remains are the young ones who look flawed at first glance but are very good on closer inspection.

Five minutes, Angie has five minutes to think about her choice.

"Did Fox make any suggestions?" Angie asked his assistant Darryl Morey. Because Leon was not involved in the pre-draft business, all the support matters were handled by Darryl Morey.

"No...... Fox didn't say anything, his mind was on the trade. Morey hesitated. In fact, Leon called Morey before the draft to exchange opinions, but they did not communicate with the Celtics draft, but the Grizzlies draft. Because in an earlier private agreement, Leon promised to help Chris Wallace and provide rookie intelligence resources. So this is one of the reasons why Leon picked the draft and gave it all to Angie.

Since Leon didn't give any opinion, then Angie should consider using Plan B or Plan C. Because Plan A Angie wants to get a point guard to fill the vacancy after Steve Kerr's retirement, but now it seems that the small forward position is their top priority, after all, in the point guard position, there are still high-quality veterans, and the small forward, the most physical position, must be replenished as soon as possible.

Now Angie has three small forward options, one is Dundee Jones from Rutgers University, one is Josh Howard from Wake Forest University, and the other is a kid from France, Boris Dior.

All three players have their own characteristics, with Dundee Jones being physical, but relatively rough and lacking in height; Josh Howard is impressive defensively and has potential offensively, but has no talent in playmaking; As for Boris Dior, Angie doesn't watch him play much, because he has been playing in France and is only known to be a very well-rounded guy.

Giving Angie only five minutes to choose one of the three, at such a time, all the previous investigations and analyses may be useless, and most of these general managers will succumb to their own feelings, the feelings that have been with basketball for decades. This time, Angie also decided to trust his feelings, and he handed the envelope of the selected candidate list to the staff, who went backstage and handed it to Stern.

It was Stern's 20th time on the podium tonight, and his face was visibly tired, and 20th, which meant that the first round was almost over two-thirds of the way through. "The 20th pick in the 2003 draft, the Boston Celtics selected, Boris Dior from France!" Stern still used his standard tone to say the choice of Celtic, they asked for the striker from France, Dio!

Boris Dior...... Originally from France, he can play in multiple positions on the court, and basically got all the basketball honors in France...... However, he should have been one of the few rookies we paid the least attention to before the draft, which I really didn't expect. Darryl Morey looked at Dior's information, quite little, and Dior had never come to Celtic for a tryout, and the two had no connection at all.

Dio, who stood up when he heard his name in his seat, was also at a loss, he had always thought that he would be selected by the Eagles, he was ready to stand up and shake hands on the stage after the end of the 20th place, who knew that Stern had already announced his name.

"In a draft, anything can happen. Take a break and get ready for the second round. Angie looked a little tired, but after taking down Dior, his spirits could finally relax a little. It was a choice made entirely on feeling, just because he had heard that the 21st-place Eagles were interested in Dior, and he wondered if he could trade some chips from the Eagles if he robbed Dior.

However, he did not receive a call from the general manager of the Eagles for more than an hour, and it seemed that the loss of a Dior was not a big deal for the Eagles.

Then, with the 27th pick, the Grizzlies selected Kendrick Perkins, which was the advice given by Fox Leon, and the Grizzlies benefited a lot from that suggestion.

By the second round, everything had become lackluster, with Celtic coming in at 27th, which was a bit of a stretch behind. When I arrived at this position, everything I could pick was picked up, and the rest were some crooked melons and cracked dates.

At this time, Danny Angie chose a small forward among the remaining players in line with the principle of "I want a small forward" - Marquis Daniels. (To be continued.) )