A few days of draft preparation time passed quickly, and on June 27th, the day of the draft conference came.

The draft can be considered the start of the new season, followed by free agency, summer league and so on, and then into the long grassland.

Every year's draft conference, no matter how small the draft year, is very concerned, who knows if there will be any rookies who were not optimistic at the time to counterattack in the future?

When a rookie counterattacks, prepared fans can open their mouths and say, "I was optimistic about him back then, and he was selected in the XX draft at that time, and I felt that the XX team had picked up a treasure in this draft......".

After providing the draft reference candidates to the management, Liu Mang rested at home for three days, talked with Alexia, held back a playoff game, tossed with Levia for two days, and played video games with Lori, went out shopping and so on.

This period of time the league has been a little too calm, not as much turbulence as it was before the offseason started in the past few years, there are some trades, but they are all small role player trades, draft pick trades are mostly at the end of the first round and the second round, there are no changes to the core players of each team this year, and there are no trades for high-pick draft picks.

More rumors are about some veteran free agents jumping out of their contracts and preparing to choose a family to hug their thighs, and these veterans who are ready to hug their thighs did not make a decision immediately, and were ready to wait until those favorite teams stabilized the core structure before making a decision.

The calm pre-draft trading day was spent in this way, and today Liu Mang stayed in front of the TV with Xiao Lori early, waiting for the draft meeting.

"Uncle, when are you going to pick up grandma and grandpa to play!" Dinah asked, tugging at Liu Mang's clothes.

Growing up as a single parent, my grandparents haven't seen each other, and my grandfather's family affection is very indifferent, and little Lori is quite obsessed with the rare love of her grandparents.

"Dinah, you just want your uncle to leave early? It's heartless, isn't it? I'll wait until I'm done with the draft. Liu Mang began to be jealous, grabbing little Lori's face and pinching it wildly.

"Uh-huh......" Little Lori struggled to get rid of the ravage, rubbed her face and said, "Why don't you go to China with Dinah!" ”

"I can't take you with me! You are not yet 14 years old, you cannot travel abroad alone, and I am not your guardian. Liu Mang is also very regretful.

The Filipino maid is invited, and there are two of them, one takes care of Alexia, and the other is responsible for helping Levia take care of the family, these things are Alexia's business, and she is also enjoying it, but now her belly is getting bigger and bigger, and she is no longer competent.

Although she hired a Filipino maid, Levia still had to stay in Atlanta to take care of Alexia, and when she was pregnant, she really needed another gossip person to gossip together, otherwise she couldn't say a lot of things, and she would be depressed after giving birth.

Hearing this, Alexia was not depressed yet, and little Lori was a little depressed: "Dinah still wants to travel alone with her uncle, really...... Why didn't mom give birth to Dinah four years earlier! ”

"Poof......" Liu Mang was drinking a drink, the season was finally over, you could drink some drinks to indulge, and when she heard Xiao Lori's words, she squirted out a mouthful of water.

The benefits of having a maid are now reflected, and the Filipino maid immediately came up to wipe the drink that Liu Mang squirted out, and handed Liu Mang a tissue to wipe his mouth.

"Dinah, your mother will be sad if you say that!" After Liu Mang wiped his mouth, he patted Little Lori's head.

"Dinah just wants to go on a trip with her uncle!" Dinah said with a smile, she is not ignorant, she is 10 years old, children at this age are no less than adults, of course, experience, emotional intelligence and other things must be much worse.

Dinah also knew that she was born four years earlier...... Levia was born at the age of 19, four years earlier, a little too much...... Looking around, my mother was not there, and I was relieved.

"Uncle, who are we going to choose this year? Will there be a deal? Dinah thought it would be better to change the subject, so as not to be heard by her mother.

"I don't know, I just provided a few candidates, I also want to see how it will be chosen, look forward to it." Liu Mang turned on the TV and waited to watch the draft for a while.

"Okay......" Xiao Lori also came to Liu Mang's side and watched TV together......

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The 2005 Draft, after two hours of predictions, live interviews before the draft, highlights of popular rookies and post-draft interviews, and some public training camp footage, officially began at 8 p.m. on June 27, 2005!

Seeing that it was about to start, Liu Mang shouted to the two mysterious hand-wrecked weaver girls who were learning to knit sweaters in the big living room: "Levia, Aida, the draft has begun!" ”

"Eh, Aida, slow down!"

"Oh......"

Levia and Alexia went to the small living room where Liu Mang and Dinah were watching TV.

Regarding Alexia's less and less "cautious" personality after pregnancy, the other two girls and Liu Mang were very helpless, but they slowly got used to it.

It's normal for pregnant women to have a little change in temperament.

Sit down together, and during ESPN's live broadcast, David Stern happened to appear on the TV screen to start the draft.

After David Stern's opening three-minute opening remarks, he opened the first envelope he received and began to announce: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the 2005 NBA Draft, the Milwaukee Bucks selected the ...... with the first pick Australian player from the University of Utah – Andrew Bogut! ”

By the time David Stern opened the envelope, Bogut had already confidently gotten up and hugged his parents, agents, friends, college coaches, and others.

The Bucks, who got the top pick, chose Andrew Bogut without any suspense, and Bogut became the second foreign top pick.

"Uncle, sure enough, this guy became the first pick, he is amazing, we watched the University of Utah game that afternoon, Uncle you are not there, he played North Carolina and scored 22 points and 30 boards!" Little Lori looks like she knows it in her chest, and the girl's version of the Emperor of the Ball has appeared.

At this time, Bogut was too much attention, and there were almost no basketball fans in the United States who didn't know Bogut.

With Duncan's such a successful example, Bogut is no less favored than Duncan back then.

Bogut University has been stronger than Duncan University in a few years, with the All-American Team receiving the first vote, the Wooden Award winner, ESPN Player of the Year, Naismith Player of the Year, the Associated Press Player of the Year, and the Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year......

This year, the NCAA could not find any player who could compare with Bogut to win college honors, except for not winning the NCAA championship, Bogut almost won all the honors, in addition, he ranked second in the NCAA in rebounds per game, and the number of rebounds per game was a new high of 30 in the NCAA after the 21st century...... Played 26 games and scored a double-double, ranking first in the NCAA......

Levia and Alexia, the two masters of the ball, also agreed with Lori's words.

"Uh...... I think he's a parallel import. Liu Mang weakly said a different opinion.

"Huh? Why? He's a lot like Duncan! has a mid-range shot, a strong body, and a good defense......" Xiao Lori counted the advantages of Bogut, and then glared at Liu Mang and said: "Uncle, you can't discriminate against him because he is white!" ”

"......" Liu Mang was speechless, but he could understand it.

Just like the appearance of a Yao Ming in the yellow race, the appearance of a white champion show is also quite rare, and the last white champion is still Bill Wharton, if there is no Bogut, the number of white champions is the same as the number of yellow champions......

It's just that...... Liu Mang didn't expect that white people also felt that they were being discriminated against...... It's not surprising to think that Larry Bird was only selected with the sixth pick back then, and that Larry Bird was the only supergod in NCAA history who led the team to win the NCAA championship with 33 consecutive wins.

Just when Liu Mang and Xiao Lori almost quarreled about whether Bogut would become a parallel import, the interview after Bogut was selected came.

When Bogut was asked by an Australian reporter about Australia's basketball legend Luke Longley, Bogut replied: "It's humiliating to compare Longley to me, you should compare Tim Duncan to me." ”

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Liu Mang and Xiao Lori were speechless, even if Liu Mang knew that Bogut was a big mouth and was very arrogant, and when he heard this with his own ears, he felt that it was too arrogant!

Bogut is not Liu Mang, Liu Mang said to Duncan that Duncan is old and the future is his, but he did not say that he can be compared with Duncan, Bogut is still a rookie...... It's not even a rookie, so it's like that......

"Well, he's bold, and he deserves to be the first rookie that we whites rarely see!" Little Lori forcibly praised a wave.

"......" Liu Mang looked at the little Lori who wanted to save face, I really don't know who I learned from!

Just when Bogut's words stunned fans, players, expert media and others at the scene and in front of the television, the hesitation time given to the second-pick Bobcats was about to end, and David Stern walked out with the second envelope.

ESPN's commentator Durin reacted from being shocked by Bogut's words, and quickly analyzed: "What the Bobcats are lacking now is a point guard, Williams of the University of Illinois and Paul of Wake Forest are the most suitable for the Bobcats, I don't know how the Jordan boss will choose......"

At this time, David Stern opened the second envelope and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, in the 2005 draft, the Charlotte Bobcats selected ...... with the second overall pick Raymond Filton from the University of North Carolina ......"

As soon as this choice came out, the scene was directly exclaimed!

Everyone else is fine, and Coach Sloan, who is in the Jazz draft office, is stimulated to stand up!

This...... This...... Neither Delon nor Paul was chosen? Who should he choose?