Adrian Wojnarowski, of Polish descent, graduated from the University of Bristol in Connecticut in 1987 with a degree in sports media, after which he went on to study at St. Bonavendo University and wrote sports press releases for a number of tabloids.

At the age of 25, he was hired as a copywriter for the Fresno Bee in California, specializing in the Fresno area basketball section, and in 1997 he began writing for the New Jersey magazine Record, this time for the entire New York area.

He works very hard, and in just a few years, he has become the gold medal writer of "Record" magazine, but in the end, he is just a writer, just standing on the periphery of the basketball circle and describing the court with flowers or sharp and profound language, but there is no way to really go into it, this is not what he wants, he wants to be a real professional, a real basketball expert.

Therefore, the scouting team formed by the NBA Development League was a small opportunity for him, and when he got the news, he decisively used the relationship of the owner of "Record" magazine to practice Adam Silva and enter this scouting team. It was an important step for him to finally be able to influence and intervene in the birth of a minor league as a basketball insider.

Wojnarowski first met Leon in the Starbucks café downstairs from the Olympic Tower in New York, and that day they were going to have a meeting at headquarters as part of a scouting team.

By that time, Leon had been in New York for many days, Michael Carr had returned to Boston early, and he went to Charlotte to work on his own financed boss, leaving Leon with all the problems of forming a development league.

Sitting in the café, Vojnarowski quickly noticed Leon, because the others were either chatting and reading, or concentrating on coffee, and only a man with long hair and a slight scar on his face, chewing gum, occupied a table alone, spread out a large white paper on the table, and scribbled on the white paper.

In the beginning, Vojnarowski was a painter, and there were countless street painters in New York, who painted everywhere in the hope that they would have a discerning eye to find the value of these paintings and become famous. But he soon discovered that the guy was indeed drawing, but it was not an art painting, but several strange patterns.

Each of these patterns takes the form of a rectangle, which is then regularly divided into several pieces, one of which is a long half-arc. As a basketball writer, Vojnarowski soon discovered that the rectangles were actually basketball half-court diagrams, and that the long semi-circular arc was the three-point line.

Vojnarowski also found that in the absence of a ruler, Leon drew ten of these diagrams in an orderly manner on a large piece of paper, each of which was about the same size, and then the name was written next to each one, and the partitions inside were marked with percentages, and he had different diagonal lines to distinguish them.

Vojnarowski finally couldn't hold back his curiosity and sat down opposite Leon with coffee and began to talk, and then he knew that Leon was originally engaged in scouting work with the Celtics, and the picture he was drawing was called "shooting hot zone map" by Leon, he divided the basketball half into 14 areas, and then counted the shooting percentage of Celtics players in each area to evaluate which area a player had the highest shooting percentage, the most shots or the lowest shooting percentage, and the fewest shots. This is of great significance to evaluate a player's shooting ability, and it also helps a lot in the tactical arrangement of the team's tactics.

Making such a diagram requires a lot of statistics, as well as video editing, and it is very hard work, and Wojnarowski could not think of how Leon could draw such a diagram in a café, he did not see what material Leon had in his hand, and such a diagram did not need to be drawn by hand.

Leon said that he was just bored in the café and just used to kill time with drawings, and as for the data and images, all of them were in Leon's head.

From that moment on, Wojnarowski knew that Leon had an unusual brain, and the two became good friends because of basketball, and even left each other's phones. And then after knowing that the other party is a member of the scouting team, the two quickly become good friends who talk about everything.

Wojnarowski is a little like Leon, he didn't love basketball since he was a child, but he became a news person in basketball because of chance, but he didn't expect to get into this pit and never climb out again; Leon's basketball experience is more legendary, but his basketball work has also been for a shorter time, especially in terms of understanding the basketball world, Wojnarowski can be Leon's teacher.

Although Leon is extremely smart, a lot of information can be remembered at a glance, many things can be understood as soon as he learns, his mentor Auerbach is a legend in the basketball world, it can be said that Leon is a person from a famous and decent family, and at the same time, as a generation of grandmasters, he has learned formal textbooks from a high position, and he has seen the high and high of big people, and even characters like Pitino were not humiliated by Leon and finally lost his job.

But Leon's real foundational contact with the nation of basketball, what keeps the pyramid spire piercing the clouds, is a solid foundation of close contact with the earth, and for American basketball, it is their well-established elementary, middle, college and various amateur basketball leagues. This has given American basketball a rich and complete hematopoietic mechanism, a group of powerful superstars have grown old, and the next batch of superstars have grown up quickly.

Unlike Leon, who was suddenly taken over by Auerbach, Vojnarowski was born in sports media, starting from a sports newspaper in a county in California, and eventually went to New York, the core area of sports and media, where he worked in this circle for ten years, and he was exposed to basketball at the highest level in the world, as well as regional self-entertaining middle school leagues, and college leagues full of attractive opportunities.

It can be regarded as a miracle that the two of them came together and became friends, Vojnarowski admired Leon's superhuman intuition and talent, he thought he had seen many smart people, but it was the first time he had met a guy like Leon who was like "Rain Man", and he was not as autistic as Rain Man; Leon liked Wojnarowski's enthusiasm for work and cheerful personality, and the two always talked more about Wojnarowski together, he loved to joke, and at the same time knew a lot of anecdotes about basketball circles, and he also knew a lot of grassroots basketball workers.

So they started working together, they started running around for the development league formation, they would call a lot of college coaches and go to games, and slowly some agents or coaches started calling them and asking them to watch the players practice, and their fame began to spread in the basketball community.

Especially Leon, this guy is a data maniac, his ability to play with data is getting higher and higher, his scouting report will always have a lot of tables, but his data tools are always not limited to one or a few, but according to the actual situation to choose and match, which makes his data analysis very convincing.

While some seasoned veteran scouts or coaches shrugged off this numbers game, it has to be admitted that Leon's data reports began to attract attention in young scouting circles, and soon became a trend in the writers' circles because of Wojnarowski's influence, and some writers of basketball articles began to try to add advanced data enhancement to their articles.

Of course, this is just the beginning, and Leon's focus will still be on evaluating new players for Celtic. After returning to Boston from his trip to Las Vegas, Leon finally found two weeks to do a comprehensive review of the Celtics' entire 1999-2000 season, working with Wesland to produce an 110,000-word report.

In the first few games of the new season, the Celtics, who won the opening game and the second game, quickly fell into a losing streak, and the new coach urgently needed an effective plan to change the current decline of the team, so Leon's report became the best diagnosis. The detailed report showcased the Celtics' shortcomings and strengths in the '99-00 season and the gap between them and the league's top teams in a comprehensive picture of the '99-00 season, and O'Brien said after reading the report that "this will be the Celtics' bible this season."

In order to make changes as soon as possible and bring the Celtics out of the shadow of Pitino, O'Brien has long been recruiting, and for the assistant coach position he brought in 70-year-old defensive expert Dick Hart, the famous defensive coach who was once an assistant to O'Brien's father-in-law, Jack Ramsay, and then a good helper of Chuck Daly from 1983 to 1986. Before being invited to the Celtics by O'Brien, he coached the defense with Larry Bird's Indiana Pacers and helped them advance to the Finals.

Combined with Leon's data report, the lessons of the previous games, O'Brien began to rehabilitate the Celtics in all aspects, especially their defense, the full-court pressing that Pitino advocated in college simply did not work in the NBA, Hart began to redesign the team's defensive system, and from Game 7 against the Washington Wizards, the Celtics' defense has improved significantly, and they beat the Wizards in the game and suppressed the opponent's score below 90 points.

Everything started to go straight until November 19, when the team's general manager, Chris Wallace, decided to hire a team's deputy general manager to deal with the increasing data processing work, he was not an expert in this area, he needed a numbers-sensitive, highly educated guy to help him, so that he would not be marginalized in the Celtics management, which is increasingly data-oriented, after all, now that Danny Ainge is the president of the team, the entire Celtics have formed a separation of powers like Angie Wallace O'Brien, A special mechanism for collective resolution.

Wallace needed to strengthen his voice in the triangular powers, so he set his eye on an MIT graduate named Darrell Morey. (End of the first volume of scouting career)