Soon after the finals, the training ground at Phillips Arena became more crowded, and Liu Mang's quiet time was over.

The owner and Coach Kruger are back from vacation and are about to start their pre-draft tryouts, and the Hawks have the third record in the league with a 27th overall pick.

Saying it's a 27th pick, it can actually be considered a 26th pick, because the Timberwolves were stripped of their 24th pick.

The resources for this year's draft are good, and there are more rookies who are considered Pot 1 than the previous two years combined.

The first rookie, this is the division of the rookie grade that was only brought up last year.

Due to the success of Garnett and Kobe, a large number of freshmen and high school students have participated in the draft since 97, and the draft has changed from a mature way to select Duncan and O'Neal to be a superstar, and now it is extremely difficult for a rookie to be selected as an All-Star, let alone the best team and the like, such as Tyson Chandler and Eddie Curry, who are considered to be lucky to be an All-Star in their careers.

Now the rookies are divided into 4 brackets, and the first bracket, which is the T1 rookie, is predicted to be an All-Star at least once in his career.

It seems that there are as many as 24 All-Stars every year, but this is not an easy thing, in addition to Kobe, Yao Ming, O'Neal, Duncan, Iverson, Garnett, Carter, Maddy, these all-Star starters who can't be thundered in the next few years, Nowitzki, Nash, Ben Wallace, Xiaosi, Marion, these will not be able to thunder in the next few years, either All-Star starters or substitutes occupy positions, and now there is a Liu Mang who is either a starter or a substitute, There are also James Wade, who has dominated the All-Star starters since the second grade, and Arenas, who is about to explode, and others, at a glance, there are no two positions left for newcomers, and it is actually very difficult to have new All-Star players appear.

The one who is predicted to be the top pick every year is also regarded as the first rookie, which is the so-called T1 rookie.

There are a full eight T1 rookies this year, and there were only two last year, one Pau Gasol and one Kwame Brown, and Kwame Brown is gone.

In 2000, Yongyang only had 2 T1 rookies, Kenyon Martin and Swift, and the others were gone.

And this year's T1 rookie has a full five, Jay Williams, who is known as Duncan's kind of team changer, Dajuan Wagner, who scored 100 points in high school, Drew Gooden, the NCAA scoring champion and rebounding king, Nene Hilario, a Brazilian genius who has been selling drugs since childhood, and Caron Butler, who has a talent for drug trafficking since childhood but makes people worry about whether he will do bad things again.

If Yao Ming is added, there will be 6 T1 rookies this year.

T2 has the potential to start in the NBA, and there are a lot of them this year, led by Chris Wilcox, who just won the NCAA championship for the University of Maryland, and Amare Stoudemire, who has a 105-centimeter vertical jump after changing schools in 4 years of high school.

T3 and T4 are rated as rookies with rotation potential and without NBA ability, respectively.

The Eagles' pick, too, is looking for a target in T3.

The four major leagues of the United States are very comprehensive and sound training systems and scouting systems when dividing rookie ratings, which are usually quite accurate, although there are occasional cases of Arenas being rated as T3 rookies who are distracted, most of the time they are still very accurate.

Since the beginning of June, after knowing the draft picks, the teams in the lottery have begun draft tryouts, and on June 15, after the NBA's official open competition of 20 rookies invited to the Little Green Room, the draft auditions of other teams without high draft picks have also begun.

Of course, apart from the Timberwolves, they didn't have a draft pick and their only second-round pick was traded to the Spurs.

The Hawks have a first-round pick of 27 picks and a second-round pick of 19th in exchange with the 76ers, and the Hawks have invited more than two dozen players to tryouts.

Although it is only a first-round pick and a second-round pick, it is also two picks, in fact, even a second-round pick can attract countless college students and overseas players to tryout, for most basketball players who were born in the slums, as long as they enter the NBA, their fate changes.

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On June 17th, Liu Mang was training at the training ground, recently because of the draft trial, the stadium was a little noisy, and there were people coming and going, Liu Mang planned to wait for the first day of the large-scale draft trial to find another place to train, and there must be many small trials next, and it is impossible to decide who to give millions of dollars to in one day.

The offseason is really the best time to improve your ability, and the gap between players who are persistent and willing to work hard and players who are talented but start slacking off after taking a lot of money is opened up in the summer.

After more than ten days of hard work, Liu Mang's three-point ability value has improved by two points, and he has a three-point ability value of 81, and is now at the age of the best improvement, Liu Mang feels that he is expected to improve by two or three points after the offseason.

Three points to be practiced accurately, it is not difficult for yellow people, but to be more accurate in the case of accuracy, it is more difficult, Liu Mang just started training less than three days, and broke through the three-point ability value of 80, and later even if he found the training feeling, it took half a month to break through to 81.

Liu Mang practiced three points and practiced, and there were more and more people in the stadium, and a large number of staff, scouts, and some young people who were obviously a little cowering came.

In fact, Liu Mang may be younger than most of these people, but Liu Mang feels that he is already a second-year player, and rookies are all young people!

Liu Mang ignored them and practiced his own, at most two of these people will stay, and most of them may not be able to enter the NBA in the end.

It's not that Liu Mang looks down on people, but there is no need to waste that time, there is no difference between being friendly to them and being cold, if you can become teammates, you can become teammates.

The main reason is that Liu Mang didn't see that there were "acquaintances" among these people, that is, he didn't see that he could stay in the NBA to the point where he could have an impression.

Liu Mang was wondering if he should talk to the coach about the teammates he wanted, but he was just a rookie and didn't know if he had the right to speak.

Liu Mang practiced, and the rookies who were taken by the staff to change into the Eagles' training uniforms came to the training ground, and Mike Woodson warmed them up, and they didn't know what to do, and then they gathered around Liu Mang's training half court to watch Liu Mang practice three points.

Slowly, looking at Liu Mang's dozen three-point hits from time to time, there were bursts of exclamations around.

"What?" Liu Mang missed the last three-point shot in 300 seconds, and glanced at the people around him dissatisfied, the 100-point superstar value is gone!

"Huh?" Liu Mang closed his eyes and rubbed his eyes with his arm, did he see it wrong!

A big man who stood out from the crowd even among the many big players of more than two meters around appeared in sight, even if he stood behind the crowd, Liu Mang couldn't notice his existence, just like a firefly in the night......

"Hey, Da Yao?" Liu Mang cried out in surprise.

"Hello, Ace, I'm sorry to let me take a moment, thank you." Yao Ming politely squeezed out of the crowd.

Looking at the skinny female Zhao Sun and Moon, Liu Mang was a little excited!

Da Yao!

I've only seen it once on TV before, and it's the first time I've seen Yao Ming alive!

So thin, so long! So slim! It's kind of interesting to wear the Eagles' training uniforms.

Hell yes!

Yao Ming did not accept the invitation in the previous confrontation in the small green house area, of course, thanks to the Blue Association, Yao Ming was only allowed to come to the United States for a week, and almost all the teams in the lottery area wanted to invite Yao Ming to tryout, but Yao Ming saw that there were too many teams invited, so he said to David Stern, why don't you go together? Then David Stern organized a tryout at the Knicks' Garden Square, and it was said that there would be a big public tryout on June 20.

That is, Yao Ming did not accept any team tryout, which has been criticized in the United States, and many celebrities say that Chinese are so arrogant?

first a notorious rookie, and then a quasi-champion who has not yet entered the NBA, all so "arrogant".

But how did you come to our team?

Liu Mang stepped forward and shook Yao Ming's hand.

Sure enough, the Chinese still don't come to hug and hug that, it's too basic, how good is the handshake, the two big men will not get pregnant.

"Da Yao, why did you come here? I remember that Director Zhang gave you my phone, you should call me earlier, I will pick you up. Liu Mang asked in surprise.

"I called, but you didn't answer," Yao Ming took out the Nokia phone in his hand like a pocket toy and shook it, making a joke, "You refuse to answer my phone, I can only come here to find you by myself." ”

Liu Mang thought about it for a while, as if it was, oh, his mobile phone was in the locker......

Liu Mang immediately changed the topic: "Da Yao, you come for a trial?" Just kidding, you're a champion. ”

"Ace, you say this, and when the media hears it, the two of us are arrogant, do you think I should be with you, or do you think I'm not the champion?" Yao Ming said with a smile.

"Haha, you're the best rookie in the new class!"

"Accept your auspicious words, in fact, I think so too."

Liu Mang looked at Yao Ming, who was obviously more active and willing to speak than Wang Zhizhi, and probably understood why Yao Ming's evaluation was so much higher than Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian even if his rookie season performance was average.

Yi Jianlian's rookie season data also has 8 points and 5 boards, as well as long-range projection ability and physical fitness comparable to that of a first-class black man, but he can't survive in the NBA, not only the data, Yao Ming's obviously more even more spooping character, the chance of survival in the NBA is much higher than Wang Zhizhi.

Yao Ming's speaking style is noticeably more humorous, more willing to speak, and humble at the same time not reluctant to express his self-confidence.

But...... Liu Mang still feels weird, we only have a twenty-seventh pick, invite Yao Ming to come for trial?

"Da Yao, why did you come to our trial, we can't have a chance to get you unless we give me and a few starters to that Grande." Liu Mang asked curiously.

"I heard that you were injured, and the media in the United States said that I was playing a big name and not coming to the trial, so I could only accept an invitation from one team, and I came to see you by the way." Yao Ming teased.

"Yes, I'm injured, it's serious, I lost the East Final, and my heart hurts." Liu Mang shrugged and pouted.

The national situation, some things can't be said explicitly, but everyone understands that at this time, the coaching staff and the boss came with some reporters and cameras from the United States and some reporters and cameras from China, and the chat between the two was almost like that.

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Yao Ming's first public trial is still very serious and important, although it is unlikely to affect the first pick, but at least let others see his ability.

Yao Ming also has no privilege, and when he comes to the trial, he has to warm up, test his physical fitness, shoot the basketball, and show his technical movements like everyone else...... Wait, like everyone else.

Liu Mang wandered around among the tryout rookies who kept coming, wanting to see if anyone had an impression of him.

I searched for this, not to mention, there really is!

Tyshawn Prince, Carlos Boozer!

Prince's monkey-like body and face were instantly recognized, and Boozer really didn't recognize it at the first time!

There are also some impressive players, Dan Gazuric, David Anderson, Matt Barnes, the first is Yi Jianlian's teammate, the second is Yao Ming's teammate, and the third is Fisher's brother-in-law.

These are basically rookies who are likely to be drafted at the end of the first round and the second round, and the Hawks' tryouts invite them to come, and the Hawks' two draft picks are in this range.

"The Little Prince, Boozer, Barnes!" Liu Mang, all three of them really want to be selected by the team!

However, the Eagles don't have many draft picks, so how can they talk to the coach and the boss? How do you get them to believe?

This is a first-round pick that can be sold for 2 million for cash and a second-round pick that starts at 600,000 in cash.

And the first round pick was selected for a four-year contract, and the second round pick also had at least a 1+1.

Liu Mang is not a domineering Aotian Emperor, it is impossible for him to believe whatever the boss says.

Just when Liu Mang was dangling and pondering, Coach Kruger found Liu Mang at this time: "Ace, you are dangling here, do you see any rookies who think they are good?" ”

After watching Yao Ming's trial just now, Coach Kruger looked at how other people's trials were and how he felt bad.

If the Hawks had brought in the likes of Jay Williams, Drew Gooden or Stoudemire, they wouldn't have felt that way, and those rookie seasons were no worse than Yao Ming.

However, most of the invited are T3 rookies who are predicted to be selected and a small number of T2 rookies, so the gap is naturally large.

"Yes!" Liu Mang couldn't think of a way to say this, so he answered immediately.

"Yes? Ace, your vision is so high, can you actually have a rookie that you think is good? "Coach Kruger is interested.

The kind of character that Liu Mang shows, his vision is so high, who are his friends from other NBA teams? Maddy, Carter, Kobe, Jordan, Twins......

Coach Kruger was very interested, but he still asked: "You are not talking about the big man of your country!" We can't choose that, do you want to trade? ”

"......" Liu Mang was speechless, sure enough, the big man is popular! This is the first time you have met, and you are going to sell your disciple?

Said to be in the same boat and sail together!

It is also true that Liu Mang just saw Yao Ming's performance during the trial, such a height actually has no worse movement ability than a tonnage center of about two meters and one meter, excellent shooting touch, and even dribbling, which will make the management of any team red-eyed.

"No kidding, Ace, which rookies do you have a crush on, I'll take them to the second round of testing." Coach Kruger said seriously.

It's not casual, it's a tryout today, and most of the performance is like that, very average.

If you can really perform impressively in the tryout, will you still be selected in the last round of the first round? This rookie in the pick is a man with a certain amount of immediate combat power or simple physical fitness.

"Well, it seems to be called Prince, I think he has excellent mobility and reach, he has good movement prediction during confrontation practice, he has good defensive awareness, and adding a little muscle is very suitable for Sharif as a substitute." Liu Mang pointed to the little prince who was sitting lonely on the sidelines and said.

"Prince?" Coach Krueger flipped through the scouting report that invited him to tryout.

A senior from the University of Kentucky, who is 22 years old, is assessed as T3, has no potential, is thin, can't fight well, has excellent mobility and three-point ability......

In fact, if it weren't for his excellent mobility and three-point ability, Prince wouldn't have been able to enter the NBA, and the Pistons didn't expect him to play when he was drafted by the Pistons.

Senior data, 13 points and 6 boards, was eliminated in the first round of Crazy March......

Coach Kruger looked at the stats, the performance, and the report of the first tryout, which was mediocre......

Forget it, Coach Krueger found a trainer and asked the trainer to take Prince to another tryout, and told the trainer to take Prince to another training ground, which is the training ground that usually warms up for the visiting team before the game.

The tryouts at that training ground were private, and the second runout for the players who focused on it.

Each team has a second tryout, and they cut it off so that the other teams don't find out who they want to pick.

I will also find something I don't want to choose to confuse the sight.

Prince was stunned when he saw that the trainer came to him again for a tryout, isn't this a second-round trial opportunity only for the legendary rookie who has been fancied? He saw Liu Mang pointing at him just now, and thought that he didn't know when he offended this legendary domineering and arrogant senior, and felt hopeless about his future.

Unexpectedly, this senior let himself go to the second round of trial!

Prince feels like pie is falling from the sky!

Prince is the kind of person who is not good at words, especially with a calm personality, calm to the point of being a little indifferent, and he can sit and watch his teammates fight.

His Chinese nickname is Little Prince, not only because his surname means prince, but also because even when he plays, he is like a quiet prince, but he has nothing to say about his professionalism, and he is not afraid to fight against James and Pierce, he plays conscientiously, and has a good relationship with his teammates, the kind of gentleman's friendship.

And he knows how to be grateful, sometimes he can't eat in college, his girlfriend works to give him living expenses, and he is really not a good-looking black girl, but after making a lot of money, Prince did not abandon her, but the two quietly got married, and later had two children, becoming a happy family.

And Prince was one of the Pistons' five Tigers, and he only left Motor City, where he held out for 13 years, in the summer of 2015, when the Pistons persevered until the Pistons gave up and did not renew his contract.

Prince has been to many teams for tryouts before, but no matter which team's tryouts did not reach the second round, in fact, the Pistons selected him later, and they didn't pay much attention to it, just because the star player of the University of Michigan, Karim Rush, was selected in advance, and Prince, who was selected, can be seen from the fact that Prince has played less than 40 times in his rookie year and played less than 10 minutes, and the Pistons have no idea of wanting to develop him, He was able to play purely on his own and won over Larry Brown in sophomore form.

Although Larry Brown ruined Milicic, it also has a lot to do with Milicic's own lack of effort, and Prince's talent is certainly not as strong as Milicic's talent that can be seen with the naked eye, but Prince's attitude of doing his best is very appreciated by coaches like Larry Brown.

knows how to be grateful and loyal, so Prince is very grateful to Liu Mang's seemingly casual finger.

Liu Mang didn't know that he was so pointed, which moved Prince so much......