Chapter 164: A Doomed Fate
When he went to Beijing to apply for a passport and wait for the interview, Chen Zhi had nothing to do with his mobile phone to surf the Internet, only to find out that the Cavaliers actually won the championship!
This time it was beyond Chen Zhi's expectations!
He remembered that the last time he watched the live game, the Warriors had a big 3-1 lead, and they only needed to win one more game to win the championship. X
When I saw the comments of netizens, I found out that Dream Chaser Green was actually banned in the fifth game, and then Bogut and Iguodala were injured, and finally the splash was all inaccurate...
And Cavaliers star Irving faced the three-pointer that Curry scored at the last moment to take the lead, and finally asked for the last bullet of the Warriors' life! This is the way of giving back to the other!
In the invincible season of 73 wins, the Warriors finally became the runner-up, and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the first championship in team history!
This is simply a movie script, a plot that reverses all the way!
This result really met Chen Zhi's expectations, as for the shady scenes and conspiracy theories that broke out on the Internet, Chen Zhi can just take a look.
No one can tell if it's true or not, probably the NBA League wants to play a few more games in the Finals, but they will only intervene in one game at most, such as G5, which banned Green. In fact, the game is still fair, even in the last game, the Warriors have a chance to win the game, if the fairness of the game cannot be guaranteed, the NBA league will not be able to go today.
As a melon-eating crowd, Chen Zhi can only sigh that the NBA is really exciting!
With the Cavaliers finally winning the championship, the NBA has finished all the games of the 2015-2016 season, just waiting for the draft at the end of June.
As soon as we enter July, it is already the 2016-2017 season.
Even before that, clubs were already busy preparing for the new season.
Teams like the Sacramento Kings and Milwaukee Bucks that didn't make the playoffs have been focused on how the team is running in the offseason as early as the end of the regular season in April. The same goes for teams like the Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons that were eliminated early in the playoffs.
Unlike last year's dull offseason, this year is destined to be the craziest offseason in NBA history, because the NBA league and ESPN and TNT have reached a nine-year, $24 billion broadcast contract with the two major broadcasters, which will officially take effect this offseason.
Since the NBA salary cap is closely related to the league's income, this huge broadcast contract that brings huge benefits to the league comes into effect, and the NBA salary cap naturally rises sharply. Player salary income will also increase as a result, because the salary level of players is linked to the salary cap, for example, the average salary contract signed by a player can reach 25% of the salary cap.
Therefore, many superstars have signed contracts for this year, in order to get a surge of large contracts this offseason, such as James and the Cavaliers signed a 1+1 contract.
Just look at the names of the players who entered the contract year this summer to know how hot this offseason will be, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dwayne Wade, Dwight Howard, DeMard Rozan...
All of them are big-name players, and there are countless other players.
However, the NBA's collective bargaining agreement stipulates that teams and players will not be able to start talking about new contracts until July 1, and that if an agreement is reached, they must notify the league office immediately or face severe penalties.
Although this does not completely prevent the team from influencing the players in advance, everyone still has to follow the rules on the surface.
Therefore, the draft meeting naturally became the most important thing in the remaining period.
The annual draft is indeed of great significance to the NBA, which is the process of the NBA absorbing fresh blood.
At the same time, for the 14 teams that failed to make the playoffs, the NBA draft is especially important.
Prior to the draft, there is a lottery draw in May each year, where the 14 underdogs that failed to make the playoffs are selected based on their records.
The reason why it is called lotto lottery is because similar to the lottery operation, these fourteen teams have the opportunity to draw the champion, but the probability is different, the worse the team has the greater chance of winning the champion, the probability of the penultimate team winning the lottery is 25%, the probability of winning the penultimate lottery is 19.9%, and the fourteenth team only has a 0.5% probability of getting the champion, so there will be 76ers, Timberwolves, the purpose is to get a better signing.
Fourteen lotto picks, arguably the essence of the draft, are, after all, the top picks, and theoretically the best fourteen players can be selected.
This year's champions, lists, and picks are held by the Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers, and Celtics, respectively.
CBA big demon Zhou Qi's draft market can be said to have ups and downs, and he has had many trial opportunities, and the Grizzlies and Celtics have responded particularly well, but in the end, due to the suspicion of false age, the market has fallen a lot. After all, Chinese players have always had problems in this regard, and the unknown Chinese player Chen Zhi announced that he would participate in the draft, and the data was considered by most NBA scouts to be cheating, and he did not even have a chance to enter the hands of coaches and management.
Zhou Qi's draft market has ups and downs, but Chen has no ups and downs here, because he doesn't seem to have any market at all.
The most obvious manifestation is that Zhou Qi's father was invited to the studio to watch the live broadcast of the draft, and Zhou Qi, who was far away in Houston for training and replying, also connected through the Internet, and Zhou Jian, as Chen Zhi's agent, did not receive an invitation at all. In this regard, Chen Zhi and Zhou Jian were not surprised.
Although the market has been so bad, Zhou Jian still seems to have a bit of luck, and he has to go to Chen Jiatuan and Chen Zhi to watch the live broadcast of the draft together.
Although Chen Zhi knew that he would definitely not be selected, he was also very interested in the NBA draft, after all, he had not seen the NBA draft before, and the old man and lady naturally watched from the sidelines, although they didn't understand what they were doing.
The 2016 draft was held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and attracted a large crowd of spectators, as well as the members of the Green House who were most likely to be selected for the lottery show and their family and friends.
The so-called members of the Little Green House are all the general managers of the NBA who vote for the players they think are most likely to be the lottery pick, and invite them to the draft site, enter the Little Green House and wait for the draft results, this number is generally less than 20 people, and they will be able to bring their relatives and friends to sit at the draft site.
NBA league president Adam Shaw once walked backstage to get an envelope with the player's name written on it, and one rookie after another brought a cap with the name of the team that selected them to the stage and hugged Shaw.
Ben Simmons is expected to be the 16th No. 16 No. 1 pick, Brandon Ingram is the Lakers and Jaylen Brown is unexpectedly a member of the Green Shirts.
After getting acquainted with the draft, Chen Zhi was no longer interested, and Zhou Qi, another Chinese player who participated in the draft in advance, also turned from expectation to loss while waiting, and the Cartics, who had multiple first-round picks, did not choose him. It wasn't until the 13th pick in the second round that Zhou Qi was selected by the Houston Rockets with a total of 43 picks.
Surprisingly, the Memphis Grizzlies selected 22-year-old Zhelin Wang with the 57th pick.
It can be said that two Chinese players were selected in the draft, which can be said to be a surprise.
However, the probability of Wang Zhelin landing in the NBA is very small, and the Memphis Grizzlies are almost destined to release him overseas.
From beginning to end, Chen Zhi's name was not mentioned, the miracle that Zhou Jian was hoping for did not appear, and Chen Zhi was ultimately defeated.