After a noisy joint tryout, almost all American fans turned their attention to the 2008 NBA Draft lottery held in Secaucus Town, New Jersey on May 20, local time, which is related to which three teams can get the top three picks and pick their favorite rookies in this draft year. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info As players participating in the draft, Ye Feng and others are also very concerned about this ceremony, after all, it is likely to be closely related to their future. For this reason, after Ye Feng and Westbrook and Loew ventilated, they decided to watch the lottery ceremony together at Westbrook's house, and by the way, they also pulled Bamot, who had just returned from Cameroon. However, the Westbrook family was not chosen because he was the captain of the team, but because his family had gone on vacation to Hawaii, and he was the only one in Los Angeles preparing for various tryouts.

At the draw ceremony, representatives of 14 teams gathered together, and everyone greeted their acquaintances. This ritual is simply a fight for luck, and there is no need for everyone to fight to the death, anyway, the final interpretation is up to the alliance. In this way, it is necessary to have a good relationship with each other, unless it is those real mortal enemies who will pretend not to see each other. There was no shortage of lucky winners at the lottery ceremony, and in 1990, the SuperSonics were just one step away from making the playoffs, knocking everyone's jaws off, and they got Gary Payton. The 1993 Magic team was even more outrageous, with the best record of any team that didn't make the playoffs, but they won the No. 1 pick in one fell swoop, and they eventually used this No. 1 pick to draft Webb and get Tanhua "Penny" Hardaway through a trade to assist the young O'Neal.

However, everyone says hello and greets, but their team's draft strategy will not be revealed. Although some people will be very scheming to probe the tone, but the person who is asked always talks about him left and right, and the reason is also very good: the draft order has not been decided yet, and the devil knows if our goal can be won by then, wouldn't it be ridiculous and generous to expose it now? So everyone seems to be very affectionate on the surface, but in fact they are secretly wary of other people, which is also the proper meaning of the NBA, a business league. Perhaps only the Celtics and Lakers, which have a long history and are super-cohesive, can get a little bit of news from their own employees who have separated from each other.

Based on the 14 teams' regular season records in the 2007-08 season, the team with the worse record is more likely to be the top pick. The highest probability in this lottery ceremony is naturally the Miami Heat, who are at the bottom of the league, and their probability of getting the first pick is 25%, and from them on, the probability of other teams getting the first pick decreases in turn: SuperSonics 19.9%, Timberwolves 13.8%, Grizzlies 13.7%, Knicks 7.6%, Clippers 7.5%, Bucks 4.3%, Hornets 2.8%, Bulls 1.7%, Nets 1.1%, Pacers 0.8%, Kings 0.7%, Trail Blazers 0.6%, Warriors 0.5%. From this probability, it is obvious that the worse the record, the more advantageous, although it is not absolutely able to beat other teams to get the top pick, but the probability of a quarter is already very high.

In addition to players like Ye Feng, Westbrook and Loew, the 14 teams that participated in the draw also organized their fans to watch the draw on television. As can be seen from ESPN's broadcast signals, the crowd of fans gathered in each team, holding items with their respective team logos, wearing the uniform of the fan organization, and shouting loudly in front of the camera, as if they wanted to transfer all their good fortune to the team's lottery representatives. Before the draw, the overwhelming publicity of major media outlets made fans have higher expectations for this year's rookies, not to mention that many of them are fans of NCAA teams themselves, and their knowledge of NCAA rookie players may not be under the team's management.

After the team representatives were seated, the profiles of the top players who participated in this year's draft began to be shown on the big screen, and the UCLA troika was prominently listed, and the likes of Rose and Beasley were also on the list of prowess and NCAA talents. For these things, the representatives on the field yawned for a long time, after all, the scouts of each team had collected quite a lot of information, and naturally there was little interest in the simplified version. However, Ye Feng and they are very interested in the comparison of players, the NBA deliberately compared the technical characteristics of these players with their predecessors, and after a little pondering, some of them are really interesting, and some of them are pure nonsense.

Rose's comparison player is Deron Williams, a tanhua show who entered the NBA in 2005, Ye Feng really can't see where the two of them are similar, one is a breakthrough-based offensive point guard, and the other pays more attention to the team's organizational tandem, not to mention that the size of the two people is completely different! Beasley's comparison player is the champion in 1990, the powerful power forward Derrick Coleman, who averaged 20+10 per game at his peak, and is also a famous interior line in the 90s, which is also appropriate as a comparison for Beasley. After these two people, there were just a few other player highlights with high predictions, including Ye Feng and a few of them.

But Westbrook was not happy, he snorted and said, "Why don't you have a few of us to compare players, and you can put Rose and Beasley alone?" Anyway, they're all our losers! Ye Feng smiled and soothed: "Let them be in the limelight, and the team will only see the real chapter when the team submits the envelope during the draft meeting." What if they were above us? We can beat them in the NCAA just as we can beat them in the NBA! ”

Soon the draw ceremony officially began, and the representatives of the 14 teams took their positions in front of the stage. There are no rules about who each team will be represented in the draw, it can be a team member, a player of the team, or even a team owner or fan representative, as long as the team agrees with you to draw on their behalf. Among these representatives are many former NBA celebrities, such as the Warriors, represented by former NBA star Mitch Richmond, nicknamed "The Rock", who is also the Warriors' head of player personnel; The Pacers came with their president of team affairs and former Celtics superstar "Big Bird" Bird. In addition, people such as coach Mike Dunleavy (Los Angeles Clippers), "Run-and-Gun Master" D'Antoni (New York Knicks), singer Jay-Z (New Jersey Nets), and starting small forward Rudy Gay (Memphis Grizzlies) also appeared on the scene as representatives of their respective teams' draws.

Of course, the most striking of them all was the tall, lanky young man sitting in the supersonic position, dressed in a gray suit and white shirt without a tie, which was very different from his usual image on the field, but his slightly shy smile showed that he was still a child. That's right, it's Kevin Durant, the talented forward selected by the SuperSonics with the second pick in the first round last year, who will represent the SuperSonics in the 2008 draft draft, and SuperSonics management hopes that this talented young man can bring another future superstar to the team and bring back a good partner for himself.

And sitting next to him is the representative of the Heat team, who was at the bottom of the league in the 2007-08 season due to various factors, and is also the number one star of their team, Wade. Unlike Durant, who is still young, Wade, who is the No. 5 pick in 2003, has really had the atmosphere of the league's top stars after five seasons of polishing, not to mention the 2006 Finals, he fought back in the unfavorable situation of the team falling behind 0-2, and finally led the Heat to win the championship in four consecutive games, even if he stood next to O'Neal, who was not yet old, he could not cover his god-level data of 34.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.7 steals per game. This time, he appeared at the lottery for the Heat, and also expressed his own determination to regain the honor, after all, this season's poor record of 15-67 is really shameful.

This time, NBA Vice President Adam Shaw presided over the lottery, and his shiny bald head made Ye Feng laugh out loud in front of the TV. The results of the draw were announced directly by Xiao Hua, and they were announced from the 14th pick. Every time he picked up an envelope in front of him and pulled out a piece of paper with the team's logo on it, the rest of the audience couldn't help but tremble. The 14th pick Golden State Warriors, the 13th pick Portland Trail Blazers, the 12th pick Sacramento Kings, the 11th pick Indiana Pacers, and the 10th pick New Jersey Nets, these are all ranked according to the team's record from high to low, and everyone didn't say anything, after all, the teams with the lowest probability are really difficult to have a chance to draw the top three picks. But something went wrong in the 9th pick, and it was supposed to be the Bulls' turn in order, but the name that Xiao Hua reported was Charlotte Bobcats.

For a moment, everyone's eyes were on the Bulls' lottery representative, the team's vice president of marketing, Steve Schward, the middle-aged man who had always been calm, couldn't calm down anymore, his mouth was wide open, as if he could stuff a light bulb, and the representatives of several other teams looked at him with a little green eyes. Xiao Hua didn't pay attention to it, and continued to report the team's name step by step, the 8th pick Milwaukee Bucks, the 7th pick Los Angeles Clippers, the 6th pick New York Knicks, the 5th pick Memphis Grizzlies, and the 4th pick Seattle SuperSonics, which is another big upset, after all, the SuperSonics are the team with the second worst record, but they only got a No. 4 pick.

With three teams remaining, fans of the Heat, Timberwolves and Bulls began cheering and celebrating in front of the television, which meant they could get at least one pick. After a round of nonsense, Xiao Hua invited the representatives of the three teams to stand by his side, and then opened the remaining three envelopes. These three envelopes are read in the order and not in reverse order. In the end, in this year's draft, the Bulls won the top pick with an ultra-low probability of 1.7%, while the Heat and Timberwolves won the roster and the prospect pick respectively, so the next thing is the time for the team to try out and play with each other.