Chapter 90: Refusal of joint trials

Although some mainstream media in the United States have released their predictions for the draft pick, they have only reached the peak after the NCAA finals, and almost every few days a completely different prediction list is released. Not only are fans interested in these predictions www.biquge.info but the team's management is also trying to find some clues to see if they can use their draft picks to select their favorite players.

But no matter how it changes, the troika that helped UCLA win the championship, Westbrook, Ye Feng and Loew are firmly in the top ten, and forward Bamot is also favored to be selected in the first round. However, a functional player like him, who has obvious strengths and weaknesses, is considered by experts to be selected only in the second half of the first round, which means that the lottery area is not to be considered. But anyway, the treatment of the first round of the show is much better than that of the second round of the show, and Bamot himself is not dissatisfied, constantly swiping the web page with his mobile phone every day, looking at it with a smile. In contrast, several of his apprentices are very calm, when Ye Feng introduced Bill Duffy to Westbrook and Loew, after some in-depth communication and confirmation with his family, Duffy's two more potential rookies.

Duffy is quite optimistic about these three superstars, and he does not hesitate to throw all the other work at hand to the company's employees, and he personally relies on his connections to find out the tone of the 14 teams in the lotto area. He was relieved that the vast majority of the teams in the lottery area had expressed a strong interest in the three young men, but as a veteran of the agent industry, Duffy knew that this was just a verbal statement by the management, and it was not worth a dime, and it was not even ruled out that it was a smoke bomb released by the team to select other players, and it is not yet known exactly where they will be selected. When he informed Ye Feng and the three of them about the feedback he had gotten, he poured a scoop of cold water on them, which was why they seemed more calm than Bamot now.

Soon the NBA announced the list of players who participated in the joint trial this year, and Ye Feng found a lot of interesting people in this list, many of whom were players who had played against each other in official games. Ross of the University of Memphis, Mayo of the University of Southern California, Beasley of Kansas, Lopez of Stanford, Bayless of the University of Arizona, Chalmers and Rush of the University of Kansas, and Courtney Lee of West Kentucky are all on the list, as well as some long-known talents such as Hibbert of Georgetown University and Jason Thompson of Ryder University.

UCLA's victory this year has drawn a lot of hatred for them, and with the exception of a handful of schools like the University of Memphis and the University of Iowa, no team has beaten them in an official game. On the contrary, many talented players led teams have been crushed by them, and it is impossible to say that there is no grudge against the UCLA trio, and if everyone enters the NBA, it does not mean that they will be able to get back on the court immediately, so the tryout becomes a good opportunity. In fact, even if Ye Feng and the others did not appear in the stadium of the joint trial, the other players who participated in the draft would not have spare energy in training, in case the management who originally liked them thought that they were at that level, it would be a real loss. For the joint trial, Ye Feng and Loew have no idea, one of them has a modest personality, the other is lazy, only Westbrook, a guy who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, jumps up and down all day long, just waiting to show his face on the joint trial.

The joint trial was held in Chicago. This trial program led by the NBA official includes static tests (height with shoes, height without shoes, arm span, standing height, body fat content, hand length, hand width, etc.), dynamic tests (vertical jump in place, run-up jump, 185-pound bench press, 3/4 sprint, baseline switchback run, etc.), shooting test (three-point shooting, including high school, NCAA and NBA distance, mid-range shooting at various positions, catch-and-shoot jumpers, timed moving shots, etc.), and various confrontational/non-confrontational tests. Before the start of the audition, the NBA official sends out an invitation letter, and the rookie himself or his agent team decides whether to accept the invitation. You can think of joint tryouts as a big job fair, where young players who want to get a job in the NBA have to follow the business principle of "mule or horse, pull out for a walk."

But there are only two types of players who typically go to joint tryouts, either unsure if they'll be drafted or who want to prove themselves in hopes of getting a better pick in the draft. And those young people who are famous are like excellent graduates of prestigious universities, there are already several workplaces waiting for contracts, and the draft will be signed on the night of the draft, so naturally there is no need to go to the job fair like the vegetable market. Therefore, Westbrook's idea of going to the joint trial site to make a big splash was not supported by Duffy, in his opinion, these three people will definitely be able to enter the lottery, and the probability of the top ten or even the top five is quite high forever, so there is naturally no need to participate in the NBA joint trial. However, as a good agent for the sake of the players, he did not stop Westbrook from going to Chicago, and if he wanted to go to the joint trial, Duffy himself might accompany him.

Of course, Westbrook didn't want to fly to Chicago alone, so he simply picked up his mobile phone and summoned Ye Feng and Loew to come out for dinner together. He didn't call Bamot, not because he felt that the other party was at a low level in the draft, but because Bamot had something at home, he got on the plane to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, not long after the trial invitation list was exposed, otherwise with his prediction of not being able to get up or down, the joint trial would be more suitable for him.

Looking at Ye Feng and Loew, who were sitting opposite, Westbrook rolled his eyes and said with a hippie smile: "Dude, I heard that the people participating in the joint trial are all talented players, don't you want to play against them?" Maybe after knocking them down, they will be even higher! Ye Feng said angrily: "Russell, you don't have to incite the two of us here, and your reason is not valid at all, right?" He shook his phone and continued: "The latest news, a number of players, including Rose, Beasley, and Mayo, have announced that they will not participate in joint trials, are you sure you are going to Chicago to play them?" ”

Westbrook's face fell: "What are you doing?" Why is it that none of them are interested in such a fun thing? If you want me to say we should go to Chicago together and blind those managers and coaches! Loew laughed: "Aren't the three of us in the limelight this season enough?" Besides, Mr. Duffy also thinks that we don't need to go, just wait quietly for the draft. I think since he has been an agent for so many years, he must have a lot of knowledge, and besides, with his style of doing things, he will definitely not cheat us, at least if he cheats us, his commission will be much less. ”

Seeing that even Loew didn't support him, Westbrook quickly found a reason: "Okay, okay, if you don't go, you won't go, even the losers like Rose can't look down on the joint tryout, and of course it's not good for us as the victors to surrender our identity!" Ye Feng looked at the self-comforting Westbrook speechlessly, and 10,000 grass and mud horses galloped past in his heart, how could there be such a brazen person in this world? Your thoughts are inconsistent in less than a minute, is your family knowing? But this guy gave up the idea of participating in the joint trial, otherwise others would not be alive? Ye Feng has always believed that he eats meat and leaves a mouthful of soup for others, and before Duffy told him who usually participates in joint tryouts, and he himself feels that it is not good to cut off the hope of others entering the NBA.

Soon the local media in Los Angeles released the news that the four players who participated in this year's draft of UCLA, Russell Westbrook, Ye Feng, Kevin Loew and Luke Richard Bamot will not participate in the joint tryout. Such a news did not cause much sensation, and even the vast majority of people took it for granted, and other fringe players who were ready to accept the invitation to participate in the joint trial couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, although Rose and others had announced that they had given up before, but as this year's NCAA champions, UCLA, their four candidates did not announce the move, it would still make people a little uneasy.

Rao is so, the general managers of the fourteen teams in the lotto area have a large stack of information about these talented players on the table, and even the general managers of the other sixteen teams have done a good job of collecting relevant information, because it turns out that there are always some days to fall out of the lotto area for various reasons, and this is a good opportunity for them to pick up the leaks. There are many low-pick superstars in NBA history, Ginobili is currently playing for the Spurs, he was selected by Buford and Popovich with the 57th pick in the second round, and Bucks sharpshooter Michael Reed is also a low-pick superstar, he was a rookie with the 43rd pick in the second round in 2000. There are even more superstars in the first round outside of the lotto zone, so no team with a good signing has a chance to pick up a future superstar, but the odds are a little smaller.

In addition to the collection of personal information of rookie players, general managers and scouts will also inquire about the opponent's decision-making openly and secretly, or understand the wishes of the players themselves, just like Francis back then, who would rather die than join the Vancouver Grizzlies who selected him, and finally the team had no choice but to send him to the Rockets through a three-way deal involving 11 people, which is a very typical case of violating the team's wishes and finally succeeding.

So according to Duffy's meaning, the three of them will be arranged for separate tryouts with other teams, which will be much better than joint trials.