After chatting with Michael Leoncar, Jonny then chatted with Rick Pitino about the team's tactics.

Rick Pitino, a former head coach at the University of Kentucky, has always been a fast-paced team that likes to press all over the court defensively. The Boston Celtics chose him to be the team's next head coach because Rick Pitino is good at tuning three-pointers, especially three-pointers in the fast break, which happens to fit Jonny's style of play.

The two discussed, and Jonny didn't forget the new hero Butcher of the Desert he just got, he felt the power of this new hero from his skills, and Jonny had already decided to focus on this hero next season, so next season Jonny's playing style will change, and he will evolve from a pure pitcher to an all-round player who can shoot and pass.

So Jonny also informed Rick Pitino of his idea of wanting to control the ball next season, and Rick Pitino expressed his support, after all, Jonny is now the star of the team, and it is inevitable for a star to ask for the ball.

Jonny and Rick Pitino discussed a few words, and Cardinal Auerbach sat next to him, still silent.

And then Karl seemed to think of something: "Oh, by the way, Jonny, it's time to choose a new jersey number." ”

"Jersey number? Just use the number 24, right? Jonny replied without thinking.

Karl smiled: "Nonono, number 24 is Sam Jones' retired jersey, so no. ”

Jonny nodded, he understood the meaning of retiring the jersey, before in the Magic, Anfernee Hardaway often mentioned that he was going to retire his jersey with Jonny, now that he thinks about it, Jonny still feels a little embarrassed. After the last quarrel. Jonny has never been in contact with Anfernee Hardaway again.

In fact, the relationship between the two is not as good as the outside world thinks, but they communicate more in the team, and there are only two real friends in Magic Jonny, one is Darryl Armstrong, and the other is Amar McCasgill.

"What about number 23?" Jonny didn't have that much of a concept of numbers, remembering Michael Jordan's number. I mentioned the 23rd again.

Karl shook his head again: "No, that's Frank Ramsay's retired jersey." ”

"Number One?" Jonny thought of Anfernee Hardaway's jersey number.

"Walter Brown."

"Number 10?" Then Jonny thought of the jersey number at the heart of the midfield in football.

"Joe-Joe-White."

"Number 33?" This is the jersey number of Scott Pippen that Jonny had in mind.

"Larry Bird."

"Damn! How are they all retired jerseys! ”

"Jonny, you know, we at Celtic have a glorious history, so there's a lot of great stars in the history of the team, and a lot of retired jerseys." Carl said this, a little proud, but then he changed his words: "Of course, you will also be one of them." ”

Jonny nodded helplessly. He thought about it again and thought of Yao Ming's jersey number in the NBA later: "No. 11? ”

"Ok, number 11, this one is still there."

Jonny breathed a sigh of relief, and his jersey number was officially confirmed, number 11.

"Well, on July 1st, we're going to have a press conference here. Then you can come and participate, when the time comes. Your number 11 shirt, we'll have it ready. Carl spoke, and Jonny nodded.

They then left the Celtics training hall through the back door, which was due to a rookie tryout going on. There is a lot of media, and the Celtics are not ready to let the media know about it until the deal is officially announced. And until he left the Celtics training hall, Jonny couldn't say a word to the so-called NBA living legend, Cardinal Auerbach. This made Jonny quite depressed.

After Jonny left the Celtics training gym, he dragged Jimmy Adams to find a house, and the luxury car from Detroit was about to arrive, and Jonny had to find a place to house the car first.

After looking around the suburbs of Boston, I ended up buying a villa in Concord, Boston, for less than a million dollars.

After buying the mansion, Jimmy Adams found someone to decorate it, and then the two went to New York, where they were going to Los Angeles to meet with Sega, but July 1 was coming, and the draft was about to begin, so Jonny finally decided to go to New York to participate in the draft up close, relive the feelings of the year, and also catch up with the press conference on July 1.

The 1997 draft was a small year for the draft in the eyes of Americans, but Tim Duncan, who was unexpectedly left to participate in the NBA draft this year, gave this year's NBA draft some gold.

Tim Duncan, the big man who surpassed Marcus Cambe last year, chose to stay in school for a year, and the Celtics' mess last season was actually for Tim Duncan, but in the end, the Celtics with the worst record only drew the No. 3 pick, and the other draft pick from the Mavericks finally drew the No. 6 pick, and the original two draft picks were used by the Celtics to select Chauncey Billups and Ron Mosell, but under the change of Jonny's arrival, the Celtics decided to choose two players suitable to partner with Jonny.

On the day of the draft, Jonny disguised himself as a regular fan and appeared at the Madison Square Garden Theater to watch the draft. The finals just ended before the draft, and the Bulls unsurprisingly won the Jazz, with a total score of 4:2, and the Bulls played the Jazz more easily, which also made many people feel that the Magic was the second strongest team in the league, but they didn't know that the second strongest team had disintegrated.

In this year's draft, there were future All-Star players such as Tim Duncan, Chauncy Billups, and Tracy McGrady, and the Spurs who won the lottery naturally chose Tim Duncan in the first pick without suspense, and then the Philadelphia 76ers chose Keith Van Horn, which is very similar to Larry Bird's big forward was originally the target of the Celtics, but the 76ers' cutoff allowed the Celtics to choose their second target, Chauncey Billups.

History hasn't changed so far, but then, the Vancouver Grizzlies chose Antonio Daniels, the Denver Nuggets chose Tony Barty, and the Celtics chose Tim Thomas, who shot better from range than Rond Mercer, as they have historically done in history.

The Celtics only have two draft picks, but after picking Tim Thomas, they announced a trade that traded Eric Williams for the Ben Wallace that Jonny had asked for from the Bullets, who had changed their name to the Wizards, as well as two second-round picks from the Wizards this year.

The Celtics ended the draft with these two second-round picks that drafted Eric Washington and Mark Blunt respectively, and Jonny, who watched the whole process, didn't know much about the four players selected by the Celtics, but that didn't stop him from feeling good, because the Celtics did get Ben Wallace in exchange. This made Jonny feel that the Celtics valued him, which is very different from the Magic changing coaches without saying hello. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)

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