CHICAGO – The 2013 NBA Draft kicked off Thursday in Chicago with 61 of the most promising rookies coming to the camp for a five-hour morning session and testing, as NBA team general managers, scouts and head coaches gathered in the stadium to observe.

In the afternoon, the team had one-on-one conversations with the rookies.

There are a few rookies who have stayed on the sidelines due to various injury reasons, including Nolens Knoll, Anthony Bennett, Alex Lane, Gorgui Dieng, Jamal Franklin, C.J. Leslie, Ryan Kelly, Seth Curry. There are also a number of international players abroad, among whom are Dario Saric, Sergei Karasev and Giannis Antetokounmpo. As a result, a total of 18 rookies did not attend Thursday's training camp.

Thankfully, there are several potential lottery rookies among the players who attended the camp, including Shabazz Mohammed, Kentavios Cardwell-Pope, Kelly Olynyk, and Rudy Gobert. It may not be possible to tell whether a rookie is good or bad in training camp, but it is a good opportunity for some rookies to show themselves in training camp and try to impress some teams.

Steven Adams from the University of Pittsburgh was the biggest winner on the first day of training camp. Not just because Adams looks more like an NBA center (7 feet tall, 250 pounds, 7.45 feet reach), but he does show some terrific athleticism and is tough enough on the defensive end. However, that's not what really impresses scouts, it's Adams' amazing offense, consistent jumper and soft touch that really screams at the scouts.

"I was really stunned," Thunder general manager Presti said, "where did this guy's skills come from?" It was by no means possible with the technique that the trainer developed in a few weeks, he was better than we thought, which made us change our opinion of him. ”

Countless team general managers have expressed the same sentiment. Even veteran scouts seem surprised by Adams' technique. He's not Marc Gasol yet, but in fact, what he's shown is huge from an offensive skill standpoint. How big is it? Nearly every team general manager I spoke to said Adams would be in the top 10 of the draft. If he wants to earn more trust, he has to keep it up to him in training afterwards.

The NBA also gave the results of Thursday's shooting practice test, and here are the shooting percentage rankings: Top scorers: Mike Muscala (76%), Tony Snell (74%), Reggie Bullock and Grant Gerritt (72%), Aaron Crabbe (70%). Worst scorers: Mike Carbongo (32%), Shabazz Mohammed (36%), Andre Robertson (42%).

On Friday, training camp will continue to be intense, with tests of athleticism and strength, and there will be more team talk on Friday afternoon. ESPNU aired the entire camp from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET and ESPN2 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. On Saturday, the rookies will undergo a league medical exam.

NBA Camp continues to work hard to attract top rookies to the camp. (The NBA rules prohibit NBA teams from setting up private training grounds to scout rookies before training camp starts, but this rule still doesn't work.) The purpose of NBA training camp is to give the general managers and scouts of each team a chance to look at their favorite rookies again, but for the top rookies, their strength is no longer needed to be shown to anyone. The real attraction of training camp is only the rookies who are not well-known, and they need to try to perform themselves in training camp and try to impress some teams. ）

At 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, ESPN's famous beauty reporter Erin Andrews had already brought people to the scene, and yesterday Thursday Tencent had also sent ESPN co-reporter Lu Yinjing Coral to broadcast the training camp live, but to her disappointment, Li Mojie, the most popular and popular champion in 2013, did not come yesterday.

Just when Lu Yinjing was depressed, suddenly a voice shouted from the door: "Mo Jie, magic is here!" ”

Just as Lu Yinjing turned around and looked up, she felt as if something was concentrating on her chest. The person who came was tall, the upper and lower body proportions were coordinated, the well-cut hair inches, thick eyebrows, the high nose bridge, the angular outline, and a pair of bright eyes like black grapes, sometimes shining with pride, making him look like a peacock with high toes, healthy pink thin lips were inadvertently raised, with a bit of pride, all the facial features were combined on his face to form a perfect look, a red and black Adidas dress, wrapped in a strong and masculine body, The aura that slowly walked in was particularly conspicuous in the crowd.

For a while, many scouts and managers had no time to care about the situation on the field, and they were attracted by this young man who would be considered handsome regardless of the ethnicity (in fact, children born of yellow and white people are rarely ugly).

"Damn, this guy should go to Hollywood!" Bennett, who was sitting next to him, said jealously.

"That's it, this bastard is really arrogant, he doesn't seem to take us seriously!" Shabazz next to him gritted his teeth and said.

And the Pope crowd on the field who was originally testing the ball was also very jealous, the test was good, but as soon as this guy came in and stole all the limelight, the scouts turned their heads one after another, and they still couldn't practice.

But Li Mojie still had a faint expression, and threw his coat to Fleicher, this time it was only the two of them who came, and they had been filming Adidas's promotional advertisements yesterday. And Fleischer is already recruiting, ready to form a "Li Team" for Li Mojie.

After following the warm-up exercise with the on-site personnel, Li Mojie began to conduct a physical test of only him, and the Chicago training camp yesterday was the first physical test for rookies, compared to the data given by the college team, the performance of the joint physical test will be more real!

Basically, all the team scouts present are extremely concerned about the physical test data of the ideal players in their hearts, and the teams that pay attention to Li Mojie are all there, and Luke, the scout chief from the Suns, saw that Li Mojie was not coming yesterday, and he quickly called several times to confirm whether Li Mojie would come today. And Cavaliers scout Bol felt that as long as the Suns made a fool not to pick Li Mojie, he would have to pick him out no matter what.

"Old man, my vision will not be wrong, he is definitely qualified for you to choose him with your champion number, I have been following him for more than three months, he is definitely a well-deserved champion this year." Luke Gawel's chubby face looked refreshed and said to Ryan McDonagh, the general manager of the Suns next to him.

Li Mojie's physical test began, and the first one was a static physical fitness test.

With a height of 203.4cm in shoes, Li Mojie did not hide his height, and stood on the scale wearing Adidas sneakers. And the scouts on the side also wrote it down in their notebooks and papers.

Weighing 93 kilograms, his weight is on the underweight for his height, and generally speaking, he needs to gain about 15 kilograms to have an advantage in the NBA confrontation. But at this point, the weight of the young rookies who are growing up is actually unqualified, and Jordan is 1.98CM tall in shoes back then, and he is only 84 kg when he first entered the league at the age of 21.

When Li Mojie opened his hands, he heard a "hissing" sound around him. With an arm span of 218.1cm, it definitely belongs to the gibbon level.

Next, the body fat rate was 5.7%, the height was 2.71 meters in situ, the static body measurement data was all revealed, and all the scouts and managers on the field had green eyes.

Next, the physical test data was even more stunned, jumping 0.89 meters (36 inches) on the spot, the maximum running jump was 1.03 meters (40.5 inches), 10 bench presses of 84 kg, 11.03 seconds of round-trip running in the penalty area, and 3.32 seconds of 3/4 sprints.

Suns general manager Ryan McDonagh began to tremble with excitement: "That's him, that's him!" Everyone next to me heard the old guy talking to each other.

Lee Mojie's position is that of a playmaker small forward, known as the new magician, known for his big vision and passing. Many people thought that he was not known for his physical fitness, but such a player with a high ball quotient also has a top body in the NBA, it is conceivable that Adidas dared to give him a sky-high signing contract, which must have been known a lot in advance, and it will not be given blindly!

Li Mojie's body side data surprised many team management, and many managers who have lotto draft picks in the forefront have begun to use their brains, the draft is a gamble, and Li Mojie's current physical test data is to tell you, choose him, your chances of winning the lottery are very high, the game data may be deceiving, but the body data seen by so many people will not deceive!

All the scouts fed this information back to their teams, and just one such joint training was enough for many of today's team managers to stay up all night seeking a trade.