On June 20, the Magic team returned to Orlando to hold a championship parade, and thousands of people filled the streets of Orlando to celebrate the team's second championship.

Standing on the parade bus, Wang Chao, Howard and other team players kept waving to the fans on the sidelines, causing bursts of cheers like waves.

Among them, the most popular is undoubtedly Wang Chao's name.

There are two people on the Magic team who have subtle expressions, one is Howard, who considers himself the core and boss of the team, and the other is Smith, the team's general manager.

The former once again felt that Wang Chao's popularity in the city of Orlando has completely surpassed him, whether it is in the tactical position of the team or in the minds of the fans, he has been completely overtaken by Wang Chao, and now Wang Chao is the hero of the city of Orlando.

As for the latter, after learning about Wang Chao's growing popularity, he felt a strong sense of threat.

The existence of a player like Wang Chao is sometimes not a good thing for the team's management.

Especially last year, Wang Chao actually threatened to submit a trade application and forcibly swayed the team's management's plan to recruit him.

At that time, Smith was pressured by the team owner and had no choice but to compromise, after all, Wang Chao and the Magic team were in their honeymoon period and had just won the championship for the team.

Originally, Smith's plan was to prove that he did not have a professional draft vision in the subsequent games through Wang Chao's recruitment proposal, so as to regain the rights that belonged to him.

But the fact is that under Wang Chao's operation, the Magic team not only won the second record in the history of 70-12 in the regular season, but also successfully defended the title and won the second championship. Carter's undercover performance with the Cavaliers also proved that management's original plan was wrong.

This is very dangerous for him, the general manager of the team, and now the outside world is full of people who ridicule the incompetence of the management of the Magic team, they generally believe that the Magic team is really lucky, and signed Wang Chao to get the current results, if it is not for Wang Chao, relying on that group of waste management, the Magic team will never get rid of the fate of the bad team.

The team's results are important, but if it weren't for the various operations of the general manager, what is the point of winning the championship? Doesn't this mean that it doesn't matter who the position of general manager is?

At this moment, Smith's heart is already thinking about how to kick Wang Chao out of the team.

He doesn't want to have a boss in the team like Jordan, Kobe, and James, who can command the management at will, even if this emperor can win the championship for the team!

And he was quick to act.

On June 24, the NBA2010 draft kicked off at Madison Square Garden in New York.

This draft conference is quite different from Wang Chao's impression.

Although the No. 1 pick is still with the Washington Wizards, and they also used this No. 1 pick to select John. Wall.

Among the rookies of the 2010 class, Wall is an absolute star-level player, his physical fitness is at the top level even in the NBA, extreme speed, strong body and skilled guard skills, which make him highly expected by the league.

Although the draft picks from the second to the fifth pick have changed, they are still the teams at the bottom of the league, and the players they selected are not much different from the original history, such as the signing of Evan. Turner should have been drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers, but here he was drafted by the Timberwolves, who received the No. 1 pick.

The Timberwolves were originally in the fourth pick to draft small forward Wesley. Johnson was instead drafted by the 76ers with the third pick.

These players are just mediocre role players in the future, and their entire careers are unknown, but they are highly regarded as rising stars in the draft, and they are all extremely physical players, at least they can polish good skills to become star players.

It's a pity that they all end up polishing their skills.

It is worth mentioning that DeMarcus, who was originally selected by the Kings with the fifth pick. Cousins, at this time, was snatched away by the new fifth-pick pick Golden State Warriors.

Wang Chao, who saw this result, was a little dumbfounded, is this TM hanging?

Cousins will indeed join the Warriors in the future, but at that time, he tore his Achilles tendon and was no longer an All-Star level center.

But before the injury, Cousins was still very strong, and at his peak he averaged 27+11+5 assists per game in the regular season.

Unexpectedly, the butterfly wings slapped violently, and he actually fanned him to the Warriors.

Just imagine the configuration of Curry + Thompson + Green + Cousins in a few years...... Durant cried greedily!

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Like Cousins, Paul. George & Gordon. Hayward's draft pick has also changed slightly, but they are still drafted by the Pacers and Jazz.

It's no surprise that NBA teams are drafted with the potential and development prospects of their players, and with the exception of star players like Wall, who are far more talented than others, the selection of other players is more about the needs of the team's existing roster. 、

Both the Pacers and the Jazz want a small forward who can play well offensively and defensively, and with the exception of these two teams, several teams with nearby draft picks are more inclined to select big men on the inside, so even if they are a few players further down in the draft, both teams still have the players they want.

The Warriors are a special case, they themselves lack interior players, and in the original history, after the Kings selected Cousins with the No. 5 pick, the Warriors selected Apes with the No. 6 pick. Yudu is also an interior player, a brutalist interior player with the best speed and bounce among interior players, who is good at rim protection and blocking, and can also fit the Warriors' run-and-gun tactics.

Wang Chao's impression of the player is that the Warriors seem to be using him as a scrap to trade Bogut, along with Monta. Ellis was traded to the Bucks.

The Warriors were able to use the opportunity to select Cousins, which was a bloody gain.

The king, who failed to get Cousins, relented to Greg instead. Monroe.

Detroit Pistons: "??? ”

Since the draft situation after that is not important, it is okay not to mention it.

What makes Wang Chao more concerned is that the Magic team's draft meeting this time is not like the previous two years, and they can only watch others play.

Even though the draft pick was the 30th pick in the first round because of 70 wins in the regular season and the playoff championship this season, there was a sense of involvement.

Then, the Magic used the No. 30 pick in the first round to select a small forward named Lazar. Hayward, though and Gordon. Hayward's name is Hayward, but they couldn't be more different.

The Hayward is a standard odd boy who only played two seasons in the NBA, averaging 2.9 points, 1.3 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game, before being cut two seasons later and has been without a ball since.

This player, who is unknown in the NBA and has no reputation at all, once publicly claimed that he could see ghosts, was a psychic ability, and could see dead souls since he was a child......

Wang Chao wasn't sure if this was nonsense for the sake of eyeballs, if he really thought so in his heart, then this was an existence that was even more strange than Diping said Owen.

The Magic select Lazar. Hayward is not a big deal, this pick is originally a lottery, and it is a lottery with a very low probability, and the chance of being able to get a good player on this basis is almost zero.

But in fact, Wang Chao can still be selected, after all, as a traverser, he knows the high-quality players hidden in the second round of the draft every year.

For example, in the 2010 draft, the second round had Hassan. Whiteside, Lance. Stephenson, and there's an undrafted rookie named Jeremy Lin.

But during the draft, the management of the Magic team did not communicate with Wang Chao at all.

Although the team management does not need to communicate with the players when selecting the rookie, Wang Chao's situation is special, all the recruitment work of the Magic team last season was carried out under his advice, and the players he suggested to recruit have performed well in the season, it stands to reason that if the Magic team wants to strengthen and become stronger in the summer, they should ask and refer to Wang Chao's opinion, but the result is that Wang Chao did not receive any information at all.

Obviously, the management of the Magic team no longer wants Wang Chao to point fingers at the team's recruitment, don't look at the recruitment of the Magic team under the guidance of Wang Chao last summer, the recruitment of the Magic team was very successful, 70 wins in the regular season plus the championship scenery, but none of the fans said that the team management is good, and the credit is basically attributed to Wang Chao, although it is true, the credit is originally Wang Chao alone, but many times the world does not work like this, in most cases, In the adult world, capable people are not objects to be worshipped, but objects to be suspected and feared.

The Magic team's management is silently taking back the rights that belong to them.

Wang Chao is noncommittal about this, on the one hand, there is really no good seedling worth mentioning in 2010, Huaishen's early performance in his career was not very good, and his strength improved by leaps and bounds after he came back from the CBA gilding, Wang Chao can wait until 14 years after Whiteside returned to the NBA to pick up ready-made.

As for Lance. Stephenson, just a good player in the second round, this is a role player who focuses on defense, standard 3D player positioning, and has not played any eye-catching performances throughout his career, Stephenson's most well-known incident is to defend James in the future when he was with the Pacers, and during the free throws, he didn't know what kind of brain circuit he blew into Zhan Huang's ear, and the angry James rolled his eyes.

The Magic's perimeter defense has a combination of Afflalo and Ariza, who far surpasses Stephenson in both defense and three-point shooting, and it doesn't make a difference with or without him.

There is also Jeremy Lin, even if Jeremy Lin here is like in the original history, setting off the Lin madness incident that shocked the world in 12 years, his strength is not enough to become a high-end combat force with the puzzle pieces to win the championship.

Therefore, Wang Chao chose to turn a blind eye to the small actions made by the management of the Magic team, and the general manager of the team wanted to reclaim the rights and suppress Wang Chao's influence on the team, which was not a big deal at all in his opinion.

In the final analysis, Wang Chao didn't plan to stay on the Magic team from the beginning, he chose the Magic team at the beginning, and it was Howard's super dominance under the basket defense in the peak years.

As a top superstar, Howard can be considered the only player who doesn't occupy the ball, does the work of a blue-collar player, and can make the team better and stronger.

In the three seasons he came to the Magic, Wang Chao did get everything he wanted in his plan, scoring champion, regular season MVP, and finals FMVP.

For the current Wang Chao, he only needs to continue to lead the Magic team to win the championship next year, achieve a three-consecutive championship dynasty, and complete the upgrade task of the system, and then he can leave this team.

In the past three years, the relationship between Wang Chao and Howard has deteriorated a little from the very beginning of being like brothers.

Wang Chao can see that his growing influence on the Magic team has made Howard feel that his status is threatened, which can't be blamed on Howard, after all, people have never felt that they are the second leader of the team, but with the team winning one victory after another, now more and more people think that Howard is Wang Chao's "Pippen".

Although Wang Chao knows that Howard does not have the ability to become a top interior superstar, this is his judgment based on the foresight of the traverser, in this period, whether it is Howard himself, the Magic team or even fans all over the world, they all believe that Howard will become synonymous with the new super center in the league after O'Neal, and the trade value of the single exchange for James also appeared at this time.

How could such a superstar be willing to act as Pippen?

Wang Chao has already made a decision, and after winning the championship next year, he will jump out of his contract and choose a suitable team to start over, which will be a good thing for both him and Howard.

Although in the past few years on the Magic team, Wang Chao has a bit of a feeling of accumulating honor in Howard's peak, but this is definitely a mutual benefit rather than a one-sided squeeze.

Assuming that Wang Chao can lead the team to win three consecutive championships next year, then even if Howard doesn't even catch an FMVP, his historical status will rise, after all, the center with a three-time championship dynasty has only O'Neal and Russell in ancient times in the history of the league.

Howard, who has three crowns and three DPOYs, will not have the embarrassing situation of not being selected when the league selected the top 75 superstars in history in the future.

(End of chapter)