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In the NBA, the days leading up to the draft every year are an absolutely painful day for the uniform team of many NBA teams, during this period of time, basically every NBA staff member is in a variety of tricks and intrigues, whether it is a variety of draft news, as long as it can involve the rookies that their teams like, they will be subconsciously scared out of a cold sweat.

Especially before the 2001 draft, there was one person who was constantly scaring them.

Zhuang Fei and his two assistants decided on June 22 and the team's offseason strategy after devoting himself to scouting rookies, now Zhuang Fei can no longer invite rookies to Boston for trial, now the training camp has long been closed, but even so, Zhuang Fei is still with the help of the dynasty system through the Boston Celtics scouts from this year's major training camps recorded video to see if there are players who can make their eyes shine.

In fact, for Zhuang Fei, he is no stranger to some familiar player names, such as Parker, a French sports car who is only 19 years old this year, in Zhuang Fei's previous life, the name of Europe's first finals MVP was very famous, so Zhuang Fei naturally could not miss such a player, and in Zhuang Fei's influence, the leader of the Spurs team in the later stage of his previous life, is a player who can break through and pass the ball and score three points. So this is a player who can meet Zhuang Fei's requirements, so Zhuang Fei inspected this French player almost immediately.

Parker, like many young players who entered the NBA, rose to fame at a young age. But the teenage phenom didn't compete in last year's Olympics, which is why Zhuang Fei didn't know much about him. Now Zhuang Fei's impression of this guy can only be said to be obtained from his performance in the Spurs in his previous life, but when Zhuang Fei watched Parker's game and training videos with great expectations. The original expectations and expectations in my heart turned into a cold and biting chill.

Zhuang Fei's performance most of the time is extremely disappointing for this guard, this guard is now too poor in physical confrontation, fast speed, flexible footsteps, but there is no mid-to-long-distance shooting ability, and what is even more hilarious is that as an organizational guard, he does not have a good passing vision and rhythm control ability. What makes Zhuang Fei most ashamed is that this kid now has high requirements for the ball, and how can Zhuang Fei rest assured that some of the ball is transferred from Maddie's hands to his hands with his ability in the Celtics.

This player has too many shortcomings, this is a piece of jade that has not been carved, but the tool for carving this piece of jade is not in Zhuang Fei's hands. Zhuang Fei sighed when he thought that this defender was only nineteen years old, but even so, Zhuang Fei often praised the French young defender in the media recently, which also chilled the hearts of some San Antonio.

Of course, Parker's current style does not match Zhuang Fei's impression in his previous life, for Zhuang Fei, Parker is just the beginning, and when Zhuang Fei continues to inspect the players, he is even more surprised.

The current Batman Battier is not a pure defensive player, the NCAA's MOP best player is still a star player with excellent offensive ability, and the current Zach Randolph is not a low-post killer with excellent offensive skills under the basket and accurate mid-range shooting, and the current interior line is quite rough except for the big man.

This isn't a big year for the NBA draft. This is also inevitable, but this year there are a lot of star players or role players, so Zhuang Fei has a lot of choices this year, but when Zhuang Fei inspected it, he found that many of them were too different from his impression, and even thought that Battier was completely different in style, which also made Zhuang Fei extremely helpless. …,

The Boston Celtics have a plan for the core lineup, so he needs more role players now, and the first condition for role players is that they must come to the team to adapt to the team's system and have the ability that the team needs, and as a role player, it is difficult for the team to slowly develop them. This is a very unrealistic thing, so when Zhuang Fei inspected these players, he found that there were not many players who met his requirements.

Zhuang Fei was sighing when he was inspecting the rookie, and when Zhuang Fei finished inspecting a rookie and put forward his opinion on the rookie in the media, the other teams in the league were also sighing.

Now the whole NBA is full of mixed emotions and impatience, especially in this year's free market.

It's not a draft year, but it's a free agent year, and there are a lot of current or past superstars among the players whose contracts are expiring this year.

For example, Olajuwon of the Rockets, Ewing the supersonic gorilla, Admiral of the Spurs, and three of the four centers who have dominated the league for decades have all become free agents, while Stockton of the Utah Jazz and Tim Hardaway of the Heat have all become free agents, and most of these veterans have had a big contract with an annual salary of tens of millions, and it is obvious that for these people, the next contract will definitely not be big. What's more, next season will be the first season of the league's luxury tax, and for now, most of the league's 29 teams are paying more than the salary cap, and many teams are even paying more than the $56 million that will be the bottom line for next season's luxury tax. This is also extremely disadvantageous for these veterans.

Even for some stingy owners, in order to be able to save some salary space, it is very likely that these Hall of Famer players who have contributed greatly to the team will be abandoned.

For example, Jazz owner Larry Miller has publicly stated: I will not pay luxury tax, no matter what it will bring us.

It is clear that the 'ruthless' owner has made plans to abandon Stockton, which is also a warning to the point guard, either take a pay cut and renew the contract, or leave, of course, there are definitely not a few such owners in the NBA.

Of course, in terms of the ability of these players, even if they are old, they are attractive enough, such as the recent Rockets are ready to abandon Olajuwon and the Grizzlies are chasing Olajuwon.

The luxury tax has dealt a career-destroying blow to these aging superstars, and it has also had a lot of implications for free agents who are in their singles years, such as Webber of the Kings, Mutombo of the 76ers, Finley of the Mavericks, Mourning of the Heat, Eddie Jones of the Hornets and even Dale Davis of the Pacers.

It's not that the team doesn't care about them, but because the team needs to consider what kind of contract to renew them and let the team sign other competitive players without triggering the luxury tax, it can be said that now the general managers of the whole league are racking their brains to think about these things, after all, this is the first new policy implemented in the league, everyone is feeling the stones to cross the river, and it is difficult for everyone to clear what they do is right, so everyone is also dragging it, wanting to see what kind of contracts other people offer, and then refer to it themselves, But that's the case, the originally hot free market has become extremely cold and weird at this time.

Compared to the cold and weird in the free market, the impact of the luxury tax on the trade market is indeed much hotter, and some teams that exceed the luxury tax trigger line, or even exceed it, are busy trading their team's 'useless' big-contract players, especially the one with the Timberwolves, and now this deal has been attracting the attention of the whole NBA. …,

Because at this time, this deal is no longer just a competition for an All-Star interior player, and now this deal is surrounded by at least dozens of teams, and if this deal happens, it is likely to affect the entire league.

The Boston Celtics have joined the battle for O'Neal Jr. on Zhuang Fei's first day in office, and Zhuang Fei's price code has made the teams around Xiao Ao crazy, when Boston came up with an amazing price code, the team around Xiao Ao had to come up with a player who could match this price code. It's like a domino effect, when everyone has taken out their biggest chips, these people finally look around and see that they have some other good options besides Xiao Ao.

For example, when the Clippers were chasing Xiaoao, they fell in love with Brand taken out by the Bulls, and when the Pistons were chasing Xiaoao, they also fell in love with Raheem taken out by the Grizzlies, which is such a mess that almost plunged the entire NBA into a storm.

Because of the luxury tax, because of the small Olympics, more than half of the league's All-Star players have found themselves in the midst of various trade and departure messages.

There is no guarantee that they will end up staying with their original team, and arguably the first year of the new century, 2001, was the most chaotic year in the NBA's history of free agency, trade, and even draft.

There are constant disturbances outside, and Zhuang Fei is drinking coffee in the chairman's office in Boston, and now he has handed over all the things about Xiao Ao to Danny Anji, he just needs to wait for the NBA draft to start in two days, in Zhuang Fei's view, the competition for Xiao Ao is no longer as obsessed with other teams as the Celtics, because Xiao Ao's 'throwing bricks and attracting jade' has led to a large number of other big fish.

Just when Zhuang Fei was thinking about how to welcome Xiao Ao's arrival in his office, he was stunned by a message brought by Danny Anji.

"What, if you want Xiao Ao, you have to give up Yao Ming?!" (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )