New York in July is bustling with tourists.

Li Chenglong is staying at home with his family, and when he goes to Boston, I don't know how long it will take to come back.

On the day of this year's draft, the Boston Celtics completed a trade with the Seattle SuperSonics, and the Celtics sent Szzebiak, Delonte West, and Jeff Green, who was just selected with the No. 5 pick in the draft, to get Seattle SuperSonics star Ray Allen and this year's SuperSonics No. 35 rookie Glen Davis.

In fact, when the Celtics drafted Jeff Green, many people were suspicious that they were chosen for someone else.

In the general prediction before the draft, Jeff Green's draft pick is 8 to 10 picks, and the recognized 5th pick should be Yi Jianlian from China, and it is reported that the Celtics are also interested in this big man from China, but the Celtics unexpectedly selected Jeff Green with the 5th pick in the draft.

Although there are cases every year when a slightly higher pick is used to select the right player for himself, there is no intersection between Jeff Green and the Celtics, so the Celtics' unexpected choice is most likely to be selected by others for the purpose of trading.

Sure enough, after the draft, the Celtics packaged Jeff Green and other players back to Ray Allen and Glenn Davis, and the Celtics and the SuperSonics must have negotiated the deal before the draft began, the SuperSonics began to rebuild, and the Celtics got stars to strengthen the team.

The Celtics acquired Ray Allen, which is just one of the important trades that happened this year, but it is not enough to cause a sensation, Ray Allen plus a Celtics' original star Pierce, this only gives the Celtics the ability to enter the playoffs, and it is not enough to compete for the championship.

At present, the most concerned is the next home of the Timberwolves wolf king Garnett, Garnett has already indicated that he will definitely leave Minnesota, and powerful teams want to get this wolf king, a player who has been selected to the best team for 8 consecutive years, won the rebounding king for 4 consecutive years, was selected to the best defensive team 8 times, entered the All-Star Game 10 times, and won the regular season MVP, everyone wants. At present, it seems that the Lakers and Suns in the West are closest to Garnett, and the two teams have made various overtures to attract Garnett, but Garnett has not yet made a statement.

No one expected that the Lakers and Suns attracted the attention of reporters, but the Bostonians were plotting in secret.

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In the first week of July, Lee traveled to Boston to join the team and travel to Las Vegas for the Summer League.

Summer League is for rookies or players who need to prove themselves, and the most populated here are players who have just been drafted or undrafted, as well as veterans who are nearing retirement and those on the fringes of the team, and there are very few stars in their playing years.

All Lee needs is to show his quality in the summer league and get a contract with the Celtics. Although Li Chenglong was selected by the Celtics, he has not signed yet, if his performance is too poor for the Celtics to feel that they do not have enough strength, then the Celtics can choose not to sign, and Li Chenglong will have to find another way.

This year's Las Vegas Summer League has a total of 22 teams participating, 21 NBA teams and 1 national team, the Chinese national basketball team.

The summer league often invites some national teams to participate, and this year the Chinese national team was invited, and the Celtics also happened to have a match with the Chinese national team.

At the Las Vegas hotel, Mr. Lee met his teammates. Celtics star Paul Pierce and newcomer Ray Allen were both unexpectedly absent and likely to be enjoying their vacations.

The Celtics have all represented the Celtics in the Summer League, including Glenn Davis, Kenrick Perkins, Tony Allen, Theo Ratliffe, Sebastian Telfil, Eddie House, Gerald Green, Alan Ray, Leon Powell, Rajon Rondo and Lee Chenglong.

In this lineup, Lee Chenglong and Glenn Davis are rookies this year, Rajon Rondo and Leon Powell are rookies last year, Gerald Green is the rookie the year before, Tony Allen and Kenrick Perkins are the team's substitutes last season, Theo Ratliffe is a veteran, Alan Ray is found in the free market, and the most powerful team is Rajon Rondo, although this year is only his second season, he gradually became the team's main point guard in the last two months of last season.

The Celtics' first game was the Portland Trail Blazers, the team of this year's No. 1 pick Oden.

If the team's lineup changes are not significant, the summer league is usually led by an assistant coach. This year's Celtics are led by head coach Doug Rivers himself, and as the head coach of the team, he basically knows that the team will make a big trade, and he needs to check it himself.

There is not much difference between summer league and NBA games, the biggest difference is that players will only be sent off after 10 fouls, which is to make it easier for rookies to show themselves better.

In the first game against the Trail Blazers, Doug Rivers seemed to want to let this year's new champions know the extent of the NBA.

Oden was disgraced when facing the Celtics' bench interior Leon Powell, he kept getting fouls on Powell, Rivers seemed to be happy to let a fringe player like Powell bully the champion, Powell became the Celtics' longest-playing player, Oden was sent off for the 10th foul before the game was over, and only got 6 points and 4 rebounds in 20 minutes, and Powell cut 19 points and 7 rebounds on Oden's head.

An NBA fringe player like Powell taught him a good lesson, and Oden's only good performance was to seize the opportunity to fan Powell in the second half with two volleyball-style hats.

The Celtics defeated the Trail Blazers 74-66, as the first game of the new champion, there were naturally a lot of media who came to report it, but unfortunately Li Chenglong did not get much playing time, only 12 minutes of playing time, and scored 7 points on 3-of-6 shooting, which looked like he hit well, but there were 3 turnovers.

Although Li Chenglong knew that his body was too thin, he was rarely bullied with his body in the NCAA before, and today he finally experienced the feeling of being bullied with his body in the face of some NBA middle and lower level players.

Next, the Celtics lost to the Spurs and won against the Bucks, and Lee only got about 10 minutes of playing time per game, averaging 7.3 points per game.

Tom Hammer called and asked if Li Chenglong had a conflict with his teammates or coaches, and that a rookie like him should have gotten more playing time in this kind of training and inspection game.

Li Chenglong just reassured Hammer, he knew that he was likely to be involved in a trade if he played a lot of time now, and he believed that he could play there, but it was better not to go to the ice and snow of Minnesota.

At the moment, Celtics have Gerard Green, Telfair and veteran Ratliff getting a lot of playing time per game, but they seem to have a more uncertain future.

The Celtics still have one last game left, the game with the Chinese national team, maybe the league thought that the Celtics would select Yi Jianlian, so they arranged such a game, but they didn't expect Yi Jianlian to be selected by the Bucks in the end, and they are currently holding each other hard.

(To be continued)