The Celtics didn't hesitate to pick up Joe Johnson with the 11th overall pick and didn't go through as much controversy as they did last year's takedown of Michael Reed, which was their intended goal. The Celtics put in a lot of effort to grab him in the eleventh place, and with Orlando taking Diop, the guard from Little Rock, Arkansas, naturally fell into the pocket of the Celtics and became a big bargaining chip for the Celtics.

At this point, everything seemed to be much calmer, and the fans and media would no longer pay as much attention to the champions and shows, and there would be no more long-distance online interviews, no more close-up interviews, only some simple interviews.

But for the teams, it is the most important moment of the undercurrent turbulence, the frequent trade of the top 10 picks has undoubtedly stimulated the flow of the entire player market, there are constant trade rumors, and the rookies who have come to the stage have both excitement and confusion on their faces, and they don't know when the hat on their heads has changed color.

"I wonder if the Boston media will scold us again?" Another guard was chosen, didn't you know that basketball is a sport that requires height? Is it harder to find a center than to let the Celtics win! ’。 Phew, sometimes I really want those reporters to sit in my place and work for a day, and then come back to me. Morey held his cheeks and said to Leon that after a year of work, Morey's deepest experience was the all-pervasive media. While it was a unanimous choice from the coaching staff and scouts to take Joe Johnson, it doesn't mean fans and media will understand, especially since they have already selected Michael Reid last year.

Leon frowned and didn't speak, while Chris Wallace explained: "We should be glad to get Johnson in the eleventh place, there has been news before that the Magic wanted to keep Johnson in the tenth place, don't you know that the reason the Trail Blazers didn't pick Jordan back then was because they had Drexler?" For newcomers, we should value talent, I am optimistic about his talent, and his presence will form a healthy competition with Reed. We're a bit of a poor talent at shooting guard, although that's the tradition of our Kai, there's no shooting guard genius, and we seem to have all the points distributed to the front. Moreover, the deal after that is the key, and it must be admitted that only one of these two guys will remain. But now, they must be held completely. ”

Wallace's mind is still very clear, even if he already knows that Wallace is likely to leave the Celtics in a year or two, and may even switch to the old rival's team, Leon still did not hide from Wallace, and the entire draft planning process has no reservations about Wallace, including those small tricks that are not very open.

This made Wallace admire Leon's measurements, and felt that his confession was worth it, and now the relationship between the two has taken a step further, and they will undoubtedly be very good friends in the future NBA management network.

Morey is younger, a lot of things only see the surface, those dense data, sometimes he still complains about this and that like an ordinary young man, or says witty things to amuse everyone. However, his ability to learn is not trivial, and he will not follow Wallace in many things, he has his own ideas, after all, he is the person who has opened his own company and been the boss, not a fart who doesn't know anything.

It's just a little far from Leon, who is still frowning at this time, and has three sets of trade plans related to Joe Johnson or Michael Reed in his mind, each of which meets the salary parity standard, because he can keep in mind the work of all the players in the league. After a while, Leon shook his head, these plans were directly rejected by him, and it seemed that they still had to implement Plan A, because there was no better and more convenient Plan B, and at the same time, the situation was not so bad that Plan C was needed.

By the 15th pick, the trio stopped talking, and Wallace had already gone down to hand over the Celtics' selection to David Stern, and five minutes later, Stern announced the results on stage - the Celtics took Haiti's center Desamuel Lemport with the 15th pick.

There's no doubt that the Celtics played a trick up their sleeve, and Diop, who was drafted with the 10th pick, was one of six high school players to enter this year's draft, and a number of scouts gave him a good rating that he was talented. Originally, the Cleveland Cavaliers had a chance to take Diop in eighth place, but in the end they abandoned the Senegalese center in favor of Rodney White.

When it was the Orlando Magic's turn, they hesitated between Diop and Joe Johnson, but with the goal of prioritizing the interior and helping David Stern suppress the Celtics, a work that has never stopped since 1991, the Magic eventually took Diop, and in fact had no interest in the high school rookie Celtics, except at the level of Kobe and Garnett.

Of course, the Celtics did not completely give up on the search for interior players, Dareham Porter was their choice, it was not Leon who made this decision, but Wallace, in recent years Wallace's favor for foreign players has reached an incredible level, the 7-foot Haitian center has rough skills, late contact with basketball, his energy is reflected on the defensive end, and is considered to be the next Mutombo, but who knows, Anyway, every black overseas center would be considered the next Olajuwon or Mutombo.

It's just that this time Wallace is not unfounded, Leon, Morey and Wesland have detailed statistics on the defensive statistics of sophomore centers in the country, and then Leon uses a very complex formula to calculate a stat he sets himself - defensive efficiency value, and it comes to the conclusion that Durham Porter's contribution on the defensive end is among the best in the NCAA, and can even be the first in the case of adjusting some weights.

This is the internal guarantee that Chris Wallace dares to make a choice, although the data does not speak for itself, but after all, there is no need to always look at the sky to eat.

After winning Bowler Dalem, the first round is already more than halfway through, and the beginning of the draft is the climax, and then it will get weaker and weaker, but Leon's heart is getting more and more excited, the choice of the first two is just a flat and stable layout, and there will be no backhand for a while, and the real bayonet will appear at the end of the first round!

With the 21st pick, the Celtics showed their faces again, and as Leon said, they took Gilbert Arenas with the last pick in their first round, and the stubborn Arenas didn't show up at all, and he was watching the draft live in a small hotel in Los Angeles at the moment. When David Stern read Arenas' name out of his mouth on the twenty-first pick, Arenas jerked off the TV, and a complex feeling of humiliation, unwillingness, and a hint of joy melted in his chest, and finally turned into a line of tears that slipped from his eyes.

Arenas expected himself to be in the top 10, at least in the top 15, and he even thought he would be selected as the top show, but he didn't show up, and then a large number of reporters surrounded him around the hotel to interview him, streaming close-ups of him on satellite television. But now, being said by the Celtics' assistant coach, he has become a cold name in Stern's mouth, and after reading it, there is nothing.

"Another defender ......" Morey muttered again, apparently a little apprehensive about the Boston media's complaints and attacks. It's just that now it looks like the Celtics have picked three guards a bit too much in two years.

The Celtics' first-round show looks like it's over, and although they don't have the top picks, they are really eye-catching with three picks, and from the perspective of the draft, they will be the big winners.

But it's not over yet, when the first round is at the bottom of the list, there are still two teams left, the Grizzlies and the Spurs, and the 29th Timberwolves have been disqualified from the draft because of the Smith incident. At this moment, Popovich and Presti's hearts were broken, because just two minutes before the Grizzlies opened the election, Popovich received a call from Grizzlies manager Dick Forsyth, saying that they would take Tony Parker at No. 27 and wanted to trade the Spurs.

Just two minutes earlier, Popovich had secretly prayed that the Grizzlies wouldn't take Parker, and Forsyth was merciful after all, informing Popovich in advance and requesting a trade "amicably" instead of letting Stern report his name at the last minute to destroy Popovich's hopes. This is certainly Leon's request, saying that he wants to inform the Spurs of the trade in advance, not to let "the sudden blow get them carried away, and choose a path to go to the black and give up what they want, so that we don't get what we want." ”

Of course, Popovich only knew who was behind the three-way trade plan when he saw the Grizzlies pulling the Celtics' three-way trade plan, and all the feedback, fawning and intelligence they had made to the Green Army had been fed to the dogs! “Fuck－Green……”