Chapter Seventy-Four: Difficulty in Choice
Hanging up the phone, Bai Xiaonian sighed rather depressedly, but he didn't expect that Irving had reached an agreement with the Cleveland Cavaliers in private, and the management of the Cavaliers had assured Irving that he would be signed with this year's top pick.
Turning his head to look out the window at the night sky of the City of Angels, where will the future of thousands of stars twinkle?
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"What's wrong with you lately? Feel like you're silent a lot, and you're still worried about the draft? ”
Emma sat on the sofa and boredly curled her hair into a ball and loosened it, looked at Bai Xiaonian, who had been in a daze beside her, and pouted.
Hearing Emma's voice, Bai Xiaonian came back to his senses, and said with a smile:
"I'm not worried, I'm just a little entangled in where I'm going..."
In fact, as Bai Xiaonian said, he is not worried about whether he can be selected by the team in the draft. Because in the past few days after the draft draw, there was no shortage of teams throwing olive branches to him, and the team's training camp alone had the Jazz, Cavaliers, and Bucks sent him invitations, and the management of several teams in the lottery area also expressed to him the idea of meeting and negotiating.
In addition, this morning, Jeff Ball, the Pistons' basketball affairs manager, also called his agent, Jeff, saying that he hoped to have a private one-on-one tryout with Bai Xiaonian. You must know that this is already a star-level treatment, ordinary rookies will only have some simple group tryouts, and those who can get individual tryouts are generally players who are highly valued by the team.
The general trend of his draft this year is still relatively clear, and according to the conclusions he and Jeff have discussed and analyzed together, the current Pistons, Jazz and Bucks are genuinely eager to get him, and other teams that have contacted him are just his rubbing heat.
In addition, although Boss Joe's Charlotte Hornets also need a point guard, they have long been fighting with Kemba Walker of the University of Connecticut, and they are just one contract away, so Bai Xiaonian will not run to be a clown who is watched!
To be honest, he wasn't very happy with the three teams he was most sincere with. First of all, Detroit, the declining automobile city, obviously can't satisfy Bai Xiaonian's rich entertainment spirit, and the Milwaukee Bucks, who have been tepid and unidealized in the league, also don't match his ambitious career plan, plus the Utah Jazz, who are no longer in the limelight, this is really a painful and difficult decision!
In the next two or three days, in addition to frequent phone calls with Jeff, Bai Xiaonian also had very close communication with Irving and Klay, and even our little white children's shoes found their former opponent, and now James Harden, the super sixth man of the NBA Oklahoma City Thunder, listened to him.
Of course, Bai Xiaonian's efforts for his draft were all in vain, but more people gave him more information, which made him fall into a more tangled situation.
Damn! How is it that everyone says differently...
"Boy, I don't think you should be fooling around here, wait for you to communicate face-to-face with the big guys of those teams before making a decision! Some things are not as complicated as you think.
In the end, Little White Shoes decided to sign up for the biggest training camp of the year, which is now known as the NBA Joint Trial Training Camp. It's a training camp for 30 teams across the league that is designed for rookies who compete in the NBA Draft each year, so they don't have to go back and forth to the past.
And because most of the rookies of the same year will participate in this joint tryout, the uniform teams of all NBA teams will be present, and he thinks there is no platform to show himself better than this.
Soon the officials of the joint tryout camp confirmed to the media that Kyrie Irving, Bai Xiaonian, Kemba Walker, Jimmer Fredette, Klay Thompson, Brandon Knight and other high-quality guards will participate in the joint trial held this year.
This made the outside media ridicule that this year's joint trial camp was directly renamed "Defender Trial Camp". In addition to the intrigue of each team, the confrontation between rookies is also a highlight.
During this period of time, Bai Xiaonian has been following his guiding ideology of making a fortune in a muffled voice, and he is very low-key, holding the Nike endorsement salary that has been received in his hand, and he is happy and free. But there are always some people in this world who want to be in the limelight and will show their value by belittling their competitors, and unfortunately our little white children's shoes have become the one who lies on the gun.
Georgia Tech guard Iman Shambaugh, who was eliminated from the NCAA earlier this year, told reporters:
"I'm a very well-rounded guard, and unlike some of the showy guys, I've always been a low-key and pragmatic guy, and I think I'm ready to go to the NBA on both the defensive end and the offensive end. If the management of those teams doesn't use the high-ranking lottery to get me, then they are fools! ”
"Who exactly are some of the guys you talking about?"
The reporter said for fear that things would not be big enough.
"Hehe, for example, that elf at UCLA? I'm sorry I didn't mean to target anyone, I've seen his game footage, and he's a decent point guard, but it's really bad compared to me. ”
Looking at the excited look in the reporter's eyes, Shambaugh, who had never been so concerned, was also excited, and the words in his mouth came out directly before he could pass through his mind.
Originally, he regretted it a little after saying this, worried that he would be criticized, but he was relieved when he saw the satisfied smile on the reporter's face.
"I mean, if I played against Wood, I'd blow him up! At this year's joint training camp, I will prove to you what a wrong decision it was to not put my name in the press release! ”
It's great to be in the spotlight and feel so happy! This makes Shambaugh feel like he is a world star himself!
What the hell are ucla's elves? Disappointing physicality and serious injuries, I'm going to prove to you who the real big three point guards are this year!
While Bai Xiaonian was ridiculed by other competitors, Owen ushered in his own spring.
"I've never denied that this year has been a year of talented guards, and I think you all know that the Cavaliers are missing a good playmaking core right now, and I think Kyrie Irving is the guy we want!"
Cavaliers general manager David Griffin was very happy to reveal to reporters. As the owners of the champion signing, they have the capital to reveal their hearts to the outside world, and they don't need to fight between the teams behind them for the rookies!
Of course, there will never be a shortage of guys who like Bai Xiaonian in this world.
The Cavaliers were followed by the Detroit Pistons, who missed the playoffs for the first time after '01 last year and had their worst record in 16 years with a 22-55 record. Although they signed Tracy McGrady in August of the same year, Maddy, who was no longer in his prime, and Ben Wallace, who was aging and declining, could not save the team from falling into the abyss, and they missed the playoffs for the second year in a row.
Their general manager, Jeff Ball, has been blunt about his ambitions for the new season in front of reporters:
"We need an engine on the court that can lead us like the Pistons. We are most optimistic about Wood, in whom we can see the shadow of Chauncey..."
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