The playoffs are in full swing in both the East and the West, and no team has been able to sweep their opponents to advance this year, and the Warriors are already the fastest team to advance, so they will have plenty of rest time to wait for their opponents, the Spurs, to advance, and wait for the second round to start, which is expected to be May 5th, so they have plenty of rest.

After five games against the Jazz, the Warriors players were physically and mentally exhausted, even though they advanced first and won Game 5 by a big margin. The most important thing in the playoffs is to rest and maintain enough physical strength, as for tactics, drills and the like are all nonsense, so Nelson Sr. gave them two days off, and No. 3 started training.

Others can rest, but Chamberlain cannot, he has other things to do.

On May 1, International Labor Day, Chamberlain received the Best Rookie trophy, this time at a press conference, and NBA Vice President Stu Jackson personally presented him with the trophy. In the morning, there was a press conference, and in the afternoon Chamberlain had something else to do, which was to participate in the Portsmouth Invitational, which will start soon.

As the name suggests, the Portsmouth Invitational is a basketball game held in the city of Portsmouth, this four-day tournament is mainly for NCAA seniors, and each year the organizer invites 64 seniors to team up to show their abilities in exchange for the favor of NBA managers and team correspondents.

A few days ago, the NBA officially announced that the draft training camp held in Chicago from May 20 to May 23 this year will continue to adopt a "joint" approach, canceling the previous 5-on-5 game for rookies, and replacing it with some non-confrontational training, interviews, height and weight measurements, medical and athletic tests. From this point of view, the Portsmouth Invitational is a confrontational form of competition that is of great relevance to the seniors, as it is the last official competition they can participate in.

With March Madness over and the NCAA coming to an end, there aren't many opportunities for rookies to improve their draft pick before the draft begins, and for those seniors who are a little older, the Portsmouth Invitational is a lifeline.

Participating in this tournament is not harmful for the players, so generally speaking, in addition to the seniors, there are also some freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who did not perform well in the NCAA March Madness but want to participate in the NBA draft, but they are not guaranteed to play here, but some of the seniors invited by Portsmouth may not come in the end, and they will have a chance to fill the vacancy.

In recent years, the Portsmouth Invitational has become more and more popular, and a large number of players who have not performed well in the NCAA but played well in the game have received draft bonus points, such as the Kings' Landry, the Pistons' Mark Hill, the Rockets' Hayes and the Mavericks' backup point guard Barria are all treasures that NBA teams have scooped up from the Portsmouth Invitational.

Don't think it's just for a few of the last players, as former All-Stars such as Pippen, Stockton and Ben Wallace have all competed in the event.

The Portsmouth Invitational is in the city of Portsmouth, which is not a big city in the UK, but a small town in Virginia.

Virginia is located on the eastern Atlantic coast of the United States and is one of the original 13 states of the United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay to the east, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky to the west, West Virginia and Maryland to the north, and the capital Washington across the Potomac River.

Geographically speaking, Virginia is almost the easternmost state in the United States, and the gap between California, which is located in the western part of the United States, can be said to be the easternmost and westernmost part of the United States, so this invitational trip was not an easy errand for Chamberlain.

But he still has to go because the team is going to build around him and his opinion needs to be taken into account when selecting players. This season, the Warriors have won the fifth record in the West, and it can be predicted that they will not have a good pick in the draft, and the small green house is impossible, so the Warriors have to choose generals in the Portsmouth Invitational, and the old Nelson and Chamberlain have to do to pick out those pearls.

While waiting for the flight at the airport, the elder Nelson bought a few newspapers to read, and Chamberlain admired the tall and beautiful flight attendants with relish, as the fit with this body became higher and higher, Chamberlain felt as if he was going through a stage from adolescence to maturity, and now he was more and more interested in beautiful women.

Sometimes thinking of this, Chamberlain is a little scared, his personality changes more and more, his physical fitness also changes more and more, except that his appearance has not changed, the rest of the changes are too much, whenever he is alone, he will think about who he is? Is your current self still your old self?

Although Virginia has a developed economy and a good tourism industry, there are not many beautiful women on the air line flying from San Francisco, many of them are aunts in their thirties and forties, and Chamberlain was not interested after reading it for a while, and it happened that old Nelson gave him a newspaper at this time.

Chamberlain took a look at it, it was the California Sports News Broadcast, and in an inconspicuous corner, the newspaper reported the news that a sophomore two-way guard at Davidson College was going to participate in the NBA draft, and that person's name was Stephen Curry.

Although Curry is okay on the court now, his reputation is not great in the star-studded NCAA, and he is not even the number one star in the Davidson College basketball team, which is not well known, and the current team's top star is third-year scoring guard Richards.

Curry's current reputation in the sports circle is more dependent on his father Curry Sr. and his handsome appearance, after all, his background is too poor, Davidson College has never entered the NCAA 16 finals, who will pay attention to this kind of school game?

Moreover, the comments that Curry gave him from the Duke Blue Devils when he was in college also made his professional basketball path very difficult: poor physical fitness, although fast and explosive, but thin body, prone to injury, not suitable for high-intensity games.

Seeing this news, Chamberlain smiled, in fact, he had long known that Curry was going to participate in the draft this year, although according to the latter's original intention, he wanted to play for another year, because this year his partner, the captain of the team, Richards, is also going to participate in the NBA draft, and the latter is already a senior, regardless of whether he will be selected by the NBA team, he can become the core of the team, which will be of great help to his experience and results, and it should be better to participate in the draft next year.

But Nelson Sr. and Winnie were adamant not to allow that to happen, and they finally persuaded Curry to participate in the draft by various means, including mobilizing Curry, and promised to pick him in the draft and give him the highest salary allowed by the salary rules.

Curry's reputation is indeed not great right now, he has yet to score 32 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists in one go against the NCAA powerhouse Duke Blues, and he has not averaged 21 per game. He has not yet led Davidson to the quarterfinals of March Madness, he has not scored 42 points against next year's prospective Blake Griffin's Oklahoma, and of course, he has not used 32 points to beat the University of Wisconsin's defensive expert Fravos and lead Davidson College to a 72-56 victory.

Curry isn't one of only four players in college basketball history to score 30 points in the first four games of the NCAA playout game; has not broken the NCAA single-season three-point shooting record, nor has he blocked and killed gods and demons on the NCAA guard line!

After reading the newspaper, Nelson Sr. began to study the list of players who participated in the Portsmouth Invitational this time, and there were several people with strong names in it, Jason Thompson, the beast power forward of Reid University, Roy Hibbert, a super center of Georgetown University, Connette Lee, a defensive strongman of Western Kentucky, and a star forward D of Indiana University. J. White, in addition to the University of New Mexico's scoring champion J. R. Giddens.

Chamberlain didn't understand why these people were going to play Portsmouth, they would definitely be drafted by the NBA team, because the sports media was now overwhelmingly promoting these people, they were all stars in the NCAA, and some of them were even more famous than his teammate West.

Because of the heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, Chamberlain began to carefully study the player reports provided by the Warriors' scouts to select the new personnel that their team needs.

Although Portsmouth belongs to Virginia, it is located at the junction of the state and New Hampshire and Maine, New Hampshire has no excise tax, and the prices of many products are very low.

The city of Portsmouth is very small, and the red brick houses and red brick roads have become the main theme of this small town, and there are many English buildings in it, such as Gothic-style cathedrals or monasteries, etc., which are beautiful, and Chamberlain watched them with relish when driving from Washington along the way.

Portsmouth is a seaside city with a deep blue Atlantic Ocean flowing outside of a quiet town, and because of its proximity to Maine, the lobster here is cheap and fresh, and even better, there are no extra taxes, and it is delicious and cheap, making it the first choice for every tourist.

This small city not only has a pleasant climate and beautiful living environment, but also has a base of the United States Navy and the United States Air Force, there is a Pease airport on the edge of the town, the airport is parked with military aircraft, of course, there are many local rich people who spend their own money to buy private jets, but unfortunately there is no civilian airport, so Chamberlain and old Nelson need to transfer.

When he got out of the car, Chamberlain received a phone call, it turned out to be a call from Curry Jr., he and Nelson Sr. got out of the car and saw a handsome big boy waving his arms at them, Curry ran over and shouted: "Don't wait for the car, come to me, we are here by car." ”

Behind Curry was a sturdy young man who Chamberlain had seen on the plane, and this was Curry's schoolmate Richards.