"Zhuang, should I congratulate you now?"

On April 16, after Zhuang Fei and the Boston Celtics defeated the Wizards a day ago, the Boston Celtics also officially ended their regular season this season, and when Zhuang Fei returned to the team early in the morning, he received congratulations from the team's deputy general manager Danny Angie, the last time the Boston Celtics won the league's regular season first was 18 years ago, when Danny Angie was in the Celtics team dominated by Larry Bird, although the Boston Celtics had already won the regular season championship four games ago, but after all, the regular season is not over yet. ,!

"Hehe, Danny, thank you" Zhuang Fei looked at the deputy general manager of the team who walked in with a large report, and also smiled slightly, and then said: "You came to block me so early today not just because of this matter, right?" ”

For his assistant, Zhuang Fei also has some understanding, recently the deputy general manager of the Boston Celtics has been sent by Zhuang Fei to inspect this year's rookies, for the Boston Celtics, this year's Boston Celtics have the first round pick of the Bulls, although because this year's Bulls performed very well, it is foreseeable that this year's draft pick will not be too high, and may not even enter the lottery area, but this year's draft is a big year of the draft after all, and there are still some very good players in the middle and low picks, For example, Josh Howard, one of the twin stars of Wake Forest University, although he is not the boss of Wake Forest, compared to Wake Forest boss, Gerald Wallace, he can only be regarded as a star just above the level, plus his own physical talent can only be said to be average among these rookies this year, and according to the current prediction, this player can only be the middle and low end of the first round, but this player can also make Zhuang Fei feel satisfied, and it is not bad to choose such a player in terms of the Bulls' order.

Of course, Zhuang Fei's goal is naturally not only this Wake Forest player For any NBAI team, it is impossible to have only one goal or a plan in the draft, many teams will choose to be safer and then each rank will have a choice, for example, there will be a goal in the lotto area, there will be a goal in the middle section, and the same is true in the low section, so it is not that teams without high picks cannot investigate high picks, after all, the NBA draft is unpredictable, Anything can happen. So recently, after the NCAA finals, it was the time for the major talented players to sign up for the NBA draft, so Danny Anji was sent by Zhuang Fei to inspect the rookies.

"Yes, I just received a news, Wade of Marquette University has officially decided to participate in the NBA draft, and the same is true for Anthony of the University of Maryland, this is the list of players who have signed up for the NBA draft so far, among which the players you asked to focus on taking care of are like Wade and Anthony and Josh Howard, etc., I have all drawn out the key points, and there is a simple scouting report of these people" After finishing speaking, the general manager of the Boston Celtics put a large number of documents on Zhuang Fei's table, And Zhuang Fei was also stunned at this time.

"Danny, you're really fast," Zhuang Fei said with a smile after coming back to his senses, but in the face of Zhuang Fei's appreciation, the deputy general manager of the Boston Celtics smiled a little wryly.

"Zhuang, our Boston Celtics scouting system is the best in the league, it seems that your general manager is not doing very well" Danny Anji glanced at Zhuang Fei deeply and said with some jokes, and at this time Zhuang Fei saw Danny Anji's expression and shook his head a little helplessly, in fact, for some things that the team needs to be done by the general manager or the chairman, Zhuang Fei has not done it, the general manager's things are handed over to Danny Anji, and the chairman's things are handed over to the team's operations director Carl, It can be said that for Zhuang Fei, these two positions are just a name, the complex environment within the Boston Celtics makes him unable to start at all, if he really smooths out the relationship within Boston in these two positions, then the Boston Celtics' results will definitely plummet, because it is impossible to have the energy to manage the team, just like the former Boston Celtics head coach Pitino, who has been doing it himself at the beginning, and was finally betrayed by everyone. Now no one in the Boston Celtics environment can do everything, so Zhuang Fei took another path, first to establish absolute prestige, and finally directly used his own prestige to directly cut the complex environment inside the Boston Celtics. So in this case, Zhuang Fei could only admit it directly if he was teased by Danny Anji like this.

"Looks like Mr. Pitino is going to be angry," Zhuang Fei finally glanced at the first page of a large report handed over by Danny Ange, because the first page was about the University of Maryland's leading star Carmelo Anthony.

"Yes, I learned from the inside line that Pitino has been communicating with Anthony for the past half a month, hoping that it can be postponed for a year, but in the end it was rejected by Anthony," Danny Anji also said with a sigh after hearing Zhuang Fei's emotion. Obviously, he also has some sympathy for Pitino, for Pitino wants to catch up with Zhuang Fei's three consecutive championships, almost the whole United States knows, in this case, if Anthony can be kept, then the University of Maryland will still be the strongest in the NCAA, and it is absolutely possible to win next year's championship, in this case, Pitino naturally does not want Anthony to leave, but for Anthony personally, although he is only a freshman player, but even so, he has a feeling of loneliness in the NCAA, In this case, it is not much of a challenge for him to stay in the NCAA.

Of course, in the hearts of many people, the more important point is that Pitino is not Zhuang Fei, and Anthony is not Carter, Anthony was already the No. 1 high school student in the United States when he entered the NCAA, and he was already a superstar, for him, the relationship of his team Pitino will not be the feelings of a father or a master but the feelings of a collaborator, in his subconscious, Pitino and he are collaborators who work hard for a goal, and when this goal is obtained, there is no longer a need to cooperate. Although Carter was also a star player at that time, Carter's national high school rankings were already outside the top 10, far behind Jamison and Garnett and Marbury, and he was extremely grateful to Zhuang Fei for surpassing those who pressed him a year ago.

"It seems that he is still far from establishing a dynasty and becoming a godfather," Zhuang Fei also smiled when he thought of this. Perhaps in the eyes of many people, this is also the difference between Pitino and Zhuang Fei.

The Boston Celtics ended their regular season on April 15, and for most teams in the league to play their last regular season game on April 16, before the start of the last day of the game, Zhuang Fei and his Boston Celtics did not know which team they would face in the next round, and now the situation between the Pacers and the Bulls and the 76ers in the seventh, eighth, ninth and seventh in the East is very delicate, the current three teams are 37-44, and the Pacers are leading only because of their excellent records, And anything can happen in the last game, especially the 76ers and the Bulls are still a direct dialogue game in the end, which is also quite cruel, the Eastern side is now in a mess for a playoff ticket, the three teams are in a mess, and in the West it is for the fifth place in the West The Lakers and the SuperSonics are now in a mess, and the extremely dramatic is also that the SuperSonics and the Lakers need to directly decide their fifth position in the West, and these two teams are also playing their last game in the last game, Just as the Boston Celtics played the Wizards in their final game, most of the NBA's final games were against divisional opponents. It's the same as the opening game of the NBA.

Of course, for Zhuang Fei, it doesn't matter whether it's the 76ers or the Bulls or the Pacers, for the current Celtics, these three teams don't have much possibility to go to the Black Eight, so Zhuang Fei also watched these games with a kind of onlooker mentality.

And these key games on the last day did play at a very high level, such as the league's scoring champion this season in a direct confrontation with Jay Williams, the first favorite of this year's best rookie, Iverson scored 55 points alone, and Jie Williams also played a small triple-double of 14 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, in this case the 76ers only defeated the Bulls 88-85, and also trampled the Bulls under their feet, and in another game the Pacers defeated the New York Knicks away, In this way, the final Eastern Conference ranking is that the Pacers are seventh, the 76ers are eighth to beat the Celtics, and the Bulls are unfortunately only ninth, and the other Eastern teams are ranked first with the Celtics, 72-10, the second is the Grizzlies' 67-5, the third is the Wizards' 65-17, and the fourth is the Pistons' 40-42, and the fifth is the Heat's 45-37, because the Heat, the Wizards and the Celtics are both in the Atlantic Division. The top four in the NBA rankings need to be selected by the Atlantic Division and the Central Division, so the Heat can only be fifth, of course, in the first round of the Heat and the Pistons, the Heat still have a home-court advantage, because the home-court advantage has nothing to do with the ranking, only with the record, and the sixth in the East is the unlucky Nets, their record is 44-38, this team competed with the Heat for fifth at the last moment, and finally failed, you must know that the fifth and sixth are fundamentally different in this season.

The rankings in the East are all out now, and the same is true in the West, after the Lakers defeated the SuperSonics 109-100 on the road, the ranking of the West has been determined, the first Spurs in the West are 67-5, the Kings in the second in the West are 65-17, the Mavericks in the third in the West are 55-27, and the fourth in the West is 42-40 for the Lakers, and the fifth is the 49-43 for the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves and the Eastern Heat are in the same situation, The top four already have two teams in the same division, the Mavericks and the Spurs, so they can only be fifth, but they also have home-court advantage in the first round with the Lakers, while the SuperSonics are 41-41 in sixth place in the West, and the Trail Blazers are 40-42 and 39-43 in eighth place, respectively.

So far, the NBA's 2002-2003 regular season has also ended, and the Boston Celtics' first opponent in the playoffs is Iverson of the 76ers. (To be continued)

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