Chapter Ninety-Six: After the Draft
In addition to the day when the major teams pick up their rookies, the draft night every year is also a day when the teams are busy with trades, and several big trades broke out tonight.
First up is the Knicks, who gained more than just Wu Huang tonight, the team also traded 1.2 million cash from the Cavaliers for Danny, a guard swingman they selected with the 46th pick in the second round. Green, now the Knicks have the right to prioritize and Danny. Green signed on, the swingman who played against Wu Huang in the NCAA Tournament, and is clearly going to be a member of the Knicks this season.
The deal had a lot to do with Emperor Wu, who he had mentioned during a dinner with D'Antoni not long ago. Green's defense and three-point shooting, so the mustache was interested, and besides, the Knicks are indeed lacking a qualified No. 2 bench, a college junior, that is, the extremely powerful Danny. Green fits the Knicks' current roster very well, and at least playing off the bench is no problem.
The Magic, who fell short in the Finals last season, did not sit idly by and watched the Cavaliers reinforce as they used Alstom, Barty and Courtney. Lee, got Vince from the Nets. Carter and Lane. Anderson. In this way, the Magic have four All-Star caliber players, and if the Magic can successfully re-sign Turkoglou, then they can definitely complete the task of suppressing the Cavaliers again.
The Nets saved a lot of money through this transaction, and Anderson's departure also strengthened Yi Jianlian's position in the Nets. Interestingly, after Alston became Yao Ming's teammate, he became another Chinese player's teammate.
In addition, the Grizzlies also completed a trade with the Knicks, with the Grizzlies sending center Milicic in exchange for swingman Quentin from the Knicks. Richardson as well as some cash.
This deal makes people wonder that the Knicks trade this summer is obviously the kind of boring trade that "trades for the sake of trading". Although Richardson didn't help, I don't know what the point was in exchange for an equally unhelpful and somewhat brainless Milicic.
The next day, the New York Times reported in a slightly playful tone after the draft ended: When the Timberwolves picked Rubio with the sixth pick, the embarrassment and forced laughter on the face of the "Golden Boy" did not escape people's eyes. Afterwards. He didn't even attend the Timberwolves' rookie meet-and-greet.
Columnist Da. Sabi pointed out bluntly: The Rubio father and son have made it clear that they don't like Minnesota's cold weather, and that's clearly just an excuse. There are two reasons for this, one is Rubio and the Timberwolves' seventh pick, Jony. Flynn's position coincides; The second is that Rubio is unwilling to buy out his contract with Spanish club Juventute out of his own pocket - since NBA teams can only provide players with a maximum buyout fee of $500,000 in principle, the rest must be paid by the players out of their own pockets. That said, Rubio needs to use most of the money from his first contract to buy out the contract.
Timberwolves general manager David. Kahn said he didn't want to trade Rubio, and Rubio's father threatened: "If the Timberwolves can't trade his son out, then Rubio will stay in Europe for another two seasons." ”
In the face of the threat, the attitude of the Timberwolves is also simple: "No matter how many years we are willing to wait, he is still young anyway." ”
The current situation is very similar to when Yi Jianlian was drafted by the Bucks, in fact. The UAE's agent, Fagan, is also Rubio's agent. According to the Associated Press, some teams have begun to aggressively chase Rubio, and the Houston people also see an opportunity, with Morey always bullish on Rubio and now he can throw off his arms and go for it.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the financial crisis has slowed down the pace of Wall Street, but it has not stopped fans from unleashing their passion. At the 2009 NBA Draft held at Madison Square Garden in New York on the 25th, Hugo, who became the "champion", looked shy. And the smiling faces of the fans turned the scene into a sea of joy.
As soon as the 2009 NBA Draft came to an end, the Wall Street Journal revealed the total salary of some rookies in the 2009-2010 season on three-year rookie contracts. The total salary of the first three years of his life with the Knicks will be about $16 million, and he will also receive about $7.8 million after taxes.
Wu Huang's rookie contract is 4 million more than Yao Ming's first-rookie contract of $12.45 million. NBA experts in the United States said that this is not only because Wu Huang is worth this price, but also because although the United States has suffered a rare financial crisis in a century, the NBA has "risen against the market".
Judging by the payslips provided by the Wall Street Journal. This year's top five rookies all have contracts with more than $10 million.
This really corresponds to a Chinese proverb: a carp jumps over the dragon gate, as long as it crosses the "dragon gate", it is worth a lot of money. However, for rookies, although they have passed the first hurdle, their journey in the NBA is only the first step, and there have been some high-ranking rookies who have since failed to perform. It is called "parallel import". I hope these new multimillionaires live up to their name and don't become new "parallel goods".
Yahoo Sports reported: Griffin got on the "thief ship"?
This is the sixth time in the history of the Clippers that they have received the top three draft picks, but the previous five have not made much of a name for themselves in the NBA.
Griffin averaged 22.7 points, 14.4 rebounds per game last season in the NCAA and tied for second place in NCAA history with 30 double-doubles. But will Griffin be able to get a quick foothold with the Clippers? Griffin, who plays power forward, will face challenges from Randolph and Carman, who may not be able to leave much room for Griffin to develop as highly-paid players for the Clippers.
So although he was selected by the Clippers as a scout, Griffin may have to think about how to break the fate of "whoever the Clippers fancy will be unlucky", and no high-pick draft pick has ever played a name for himself in the Clippers.
USA Today Report: Is Rubio on the list? The answer is no; So did he become a tanhua? The answer is still no, he fell to sixth place!
The 2009 NBA Draft was held yesterday, and the ownership of several popular candidates was quite dramatic, and Wu Huang was picked by the Knicks without any suspense and became the champion. The Clippers also took away Griffin, the most promising Griffin except for Wu Huang, but the Spanish golden boy Ricky, who was also in the spotlight. Rubio, but fell out of the top three, he was picked by the Timberwolves with the sixth pick, and Tanhuaxiu was picked by "African Hill" Hashim. Tabit picks it up.
The Timberwolves turned out to be the big winners, and the senior management of the Timberwolves were definitely smiling, holding the sixth and seventh picks back-to-back signing, and they picked up a big bargain yesterday, not only picking up Rubio with the sixth pick, but also picking up Johnny with the seventh pick. Flynn.
Rubio is the youngest professional player and regular player in the history of the Spanish ACB League. In Spain's 110-106 win over Russia in the 2006 European Under-16 Championship, Rubio scored 51 points, 24 rebounds, 12 assists and seven steals.
In the eyes of major European media, Rubio can definitely become the next international superstar, he is known as the next "magician" or Kidd, coupled with the background and excellent appearance of international players, some estimate that his commercial value will be "infinitely close to Wu Huang".
It's a pity that the NBA team obviously doesn't think so, compared to the "ups and downs" of Rubio's belonging, there is no suspense about the release of the champion, Wu Huang and the Knicks are already "concubines", everything is in plain sight.
Handsome like an idol star, playing chic and casual, and playing without false hair, Wu Huang can be called a Beckham-style beloved player. While Swift silently spread the scandal, he also secretly made eye contact with the new idol star Christine, a character who is destined to become a big star, and those big stars are all this virtue.
In 2009, Wu Huang swept almost all the most important individual awards in American universities, and in the past season in the college league, Wu Huang played a record of 200 three-pointers in a single season, equaled the record of 22 assists and 6 triple-doubles in a single game, and also cut the highest single-game single-game 59-point record and hit 16 three-pointers in a single game in the elite quarterfinals.
Regarding his new club Knicks, Wu Huang also said in an interview: "I really want to join this team as soon as possible and be able to help them, but they already have a lot of good players, and I am really excited to get this opportunity." ”
As for the Grizzlies, who have the No. 3 pick, and the Thunder and Kings, who have the No. 4 or fifth pick, the media has been speculating that at least one of them will take Rubio, but the Grizzlies finally chose the center Thabit, who is known as the "successor of Uncle Mu". And the Thunder picked James away. Harden, the rookie known as the "future Ginobili", and the Kings were the surprise choice of two-way guard Terek. Evans.
Wu Huang didn't pay attention to these at this time, what he has to do now is to buy a house in New York, and then hire a personal coach, taking advantage of July, August, and September to adapt to the NBA training, and the coaching staff of the Knicks has already helped him find it, and the current assistant general manager of the Knicks and shooting coach of the shooting king Allan. Houston will be in charge of training Wu Huang on how to continue to play his shooting ability under the defensive intensity of the NBA.
Of course, Wu Huang not only has to practice shooting, but his passing skills must also be strengthened before he can be competent in D'Antoni's tactical system. And in this regard, D'Antoni also does not plan to let Wu Huang hire any personal trainer, he is the best point guard coach, although he can not teach Wu Huang in person during the vacation, but the Knicks' coaching staff will not all go on vacation, Wu Huang only needs to follow the team's coaching staff for the targeted training he arranged, there is no need to hire any personal trainer at all.
Wu Huang immediately understood that D'Antoni should have arranged for him, the mustache's current fame is not like the Lakers in another time and space, and now D'Antoni is still one of the top coaches in the NBA, especially for cultivating point guards. (To be continued.) )