At the end of the championship parade, Tang Tian invited the team members to party in the bar all night, and the expenses were all paid by him personally.

After the, the team was disbanded in place, and the players ushered in their new offseason, while Tang Tian and his management prepared for the upcoming draft meeting.

Last year was a big year for the draft, and this year is a relatively small year, except for Simmons and Ingram, who basically lock in the top two, the other rookies are relatively less well-known.

However, for domestic fans, after just witnessing the "home team" Nets win the championship, they will usher in another draft with Chinese players participating.

Zhou Qi, the team's inner core who has just led the Liaoning team to complete two consecutive championships, will participate in the 16-year draft, and has completed the trials of each team one after another, which has been very highly praised.

Now Zhou Qi has been assigned by Tang Tian, has continuous special training in the United States, plus the CBA's championship bonus, the prospects are much better than the predictions in his previous life, and in the prediction rankings of the major lists, they are all in the lotto.

Although it is a small year in the draft, such a prediction is quite successful for him.

In addition to Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin also automatically participated in the election because of his age, although he did not appear in the prediction rankings of major lists, but the Chinese element of this draft can be said to be quite strong.

The Nets have a total of three draft picks in this draft, one is the Wizards' first-round pick and the 18th pick that they traded for Bojan last year, and the second-round pick they got from trading with the Suns, the 34th pick, and their own second-round pick 55.

In the draft, the 18th pick is a useful pick for the Nets.

However, in fact, this signing will not be a good person this year.

Jones has tried out for Tang Tian's potential rookies and teams, and their potential and ability are very limited.

In Tang Tian's eyes, there is only one person worth cultivating outside the first-round lotto, that is, Dejounte Murray, who was selected by the Spurs in his previous life, but his draft prediction is the end of the first round, and it is indeed a waste to draft him with the No. 18 pick.

Trading down draft picks is the best option.

Jones also began to negotiate with the team at the end of the first round, but there was no viable plan before the draft.

Tang Tian is not in a hurry, the draft conference is also called the trade conference, most of the transactions will be finalized before and after the conference, and now everyone is just trying.

Time flies, two days pass in a blink of an eye, and Tang Tianye, Jones and the draft team went to the draft meeting.

The NBA's draft has moved from Madison Square Garden since the Barclays Center opened, and this year was no exception.

The Nets had just won the championship, and the excitement of basketball in New York hadn't subsided, and the draft was filled with a sizable number of local fans.

When Tang Tian went to the scene, he bumped into Stevens, who was in a very low mood, and there were rumors that Durant would not necessarily renew his contract with the Thunder, and it seems that the news is not groundless.

After comforting Stevens a few words, Tang Tian then entered the draft hut with the team.

"The 76ers agreed, and they were willing to trade us with the 26th pick plus the 31st pick in the second round." No sooner had he sat down in the draft cabin than Jones received a call from the 76ers.

At the end of the first round, the first pick in the second round, although the pick of the draft junior year is not very valuable, but this chip is sincere enough.

"Let them change to next year's second round." Tang Tian thought for a while and said.

This year's second round is enough, and it's useless to trade more, it's better to change to next year, he knows that next year is a big year for the draft.

Jones nodded, and then continued to communicate with 76ers management.

Tang Tian then looked at the scene of the draft meeting.

Unlike in his previous life, Zhou Qi was also invited to the small green house this year, and he was sitting there nervously with his parents at this moment.

The men's basketball team is training in Europe, and he also came on leave.

Wang Zhizhi was banned in China because of the incident of studying in the United States, and now the younger generation can have such a good environment, which can be regarded as a breakthrough.

The draft began soon.

Xiao Hua came out of the backstage and announced the ownership of the first priority.

The 76ers had the lowest record in the league last season and got the No. 1 pick as they wished, and according to previous predictions, they are likely to choose Simmons.

"In 2016, the first pick in the first round of the NBA, the Philadelphia 76ers selected Ben Simmons, a 2.08-meter small forward from Australia."

When Xiao Hua announced the results, Simmons got up excitedly, took the 76ers hat that had been prepared from the staff, and walked briskly to the court.

In fact, the top pick has been decided long before the draft, and the team and rookies will have promised before.

Simmons, Tang Tian knows this guy's talent, and he is a good cornerstone for building a team.

And Australians, speaking of Asian and Australian basketball, are about to merge, and Australia's basketball talent is really not comparable to China.

The second pick belongs to the Lakers.

The Lakers played Kobe Bryant's retirement season last season, and the final curtain call scored 60 points to become a classic, but the Lakers only won 20 games last season, the second-to-last in the league, and successfully won the list.

Their choice was the same as in their previous life, with 2.06m and Brandon Ingram, a small forward from Duke University.

The third pick went to the Celtics.

The Celtics have accumulated a lot of draft picks in the past two years, but unlike in their previous life, their No. 3 pick was not from the Nets, but by themselves.

In addition to Simmons and Ingram, there is a short man who pulls out the general, and Angie's vision is not bad, and he chose Jaylen Brown, a 2.01-meter swingman from the University of California, Berkeley, as in his previous life.

The choice after that was similar to Tang Tian's impression in his previous life.

As Xiao Hua came out of the backstage again and again, the draft in the lotto area was soon over.

However, Zhou Qi was still not chosen.

In the past, his predictions on major websites were all on the edge of the lotto, and it seems that the age that broke out before had a lot of influence on him.

Tang Tian was also very curious at this time, theorizing that the probability of Zhou Qi falling into the second round like in his previous life was not large.

If he does fall to that spot, he wouldn't mind taking him out of the top of the second round, or the end of the first round.

The strengthened Zhou Qi is not a problem at all to play a substitute No. 5 position in the small-ball era, and it is better to be young.

Xiao Hua came out of the backstage again at this time, the draft pick is from the Celtics, and they do have a lot of signings.

"In 2016, the 16th pick in the first round of the NBA, the Boston Celtics selected Zhou Qi, a 2.16-meter center, from China."

Before the draft, there were rumors that the Celtics Zhou Qi had a draft promise, and now he has fulfilled it directly.