197. Draft convention

There are 3 super high school players in this year's draft, Kwame Brown, Eddie Curry, and Tyson Chandler, all of whom are the top picks.

In addition to these three high school students, the best draft market is Pau Gasol, the leading center of the La Liga championship and the MVP of the European Youth Championship.

In the previous prediction, the Hawks would either bet on talent and see if they could produce a super interior like Kevin Garnett.

Otherwise, Paul Gasol, who will turn 21 years old, has a mature style of play, strong strength, and has been participating in various competitions since he was 13 years old, and can play as a main player in the NBA and has All-Star potential.

The Hawks drafted Pau Gasol with the No. 1 pick, and that choice came as no surprise.

But Pau Gasol was traded as soon as he took the Hawks hat from David Stern!

The scene cuts to the next side stage, where the league press secretary announces that the Hawks, Clippers, and Grizzlies have reached a three-way deal.

The Clippers sent Cory Margetty, Chris Meme, Blevin Knight, and a 2002 first-round pick in exchange for Mike Bibby and Isaac Austin from the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies sent Sheriff Raheem, Mike Bibby, and Isaac Austin in exchange for top-pick picks Pau Gasol, Corey Margetty, Blevine Knight, and Jacqui Vaughn.

The Hawks sent Pau Gasol and Jacqui Vaughan in exchange for Sharif Raheem, Chris Meem, and the Clippers' first-round pick next year.

Seeing this transaction, Li Ao jumped up.

This is!

Nash, old Nelson was reluctant to trade, and the tentative offers were ignored and the opportunity to increase the price was not given at all.

Marbury and Kidd, the two targets of reinforcements have swapped owners, and neither of them has a head.

Li Ao originally thought that there were no other more suitable targets for recruitment, not that the league didn't have other good point guards, but that they couldn't be replaced, or that the players sent out had a stronger effect on the team than the people who were replaced.

As a result, he forgot about the son of the old coach over there in the north!

Different from Li Ao's excitement, Vivian said: "We lost too much on this deal!" Walker: What does he think? ”

Li Ao's father echoed: "Margeti replaced Bibby, and also took our center bench, Knight and the first-round pick were also sent out, even if he didn't trade Kidd and Marbury, he shouldn't be in a hurry to go to the hospital, for a bad team's data brush, all our frontcourt substitutes are hollowed out." ”

"Uh......"

Hearing that he used Margeti to exchange a few additional heads for Bibi, he was actually questioned, and he wanted to say a few words on the spot, but the assistant aunt was reluctant to scold, Dad...... May be beaten up.

Hearing Li Ao's voice, his father and mother Vivian all looked at him.

Li Ao blinked his eyes and said, "Dad, your English is getting better and better, and idioms can be translated." ”

Li Weidong: [_?]

Zhou Limei and Vivian couldn't hold back their laughter.

Look at it! Spider-Man is intimidated!

Excessively! Li Ao ignored the two and looked at the TV.

After the deal was announced, the camera showed Pau Gasol, and the Spaniard, who returned to the small green room to sit down, is now cramped and embarrassed, and the hat on his head is not taken off, nor is it not taken off.

Seeing this picture, Li Ao's depression of being ridiculed by the assistant aunt and his mother instantly dissipated.

Suddenly, an old man came up to Gasol and handed him a Grizzlies hat.

Li Ao's eyes widened.

He thought about a Grizzlies trade.

Bibby and Rahim, the former seems to have been making trouble for a long time, just because in Vancouver, the Grizzlies have a bad record, and he is still regarded as a statistical brush for assists, and he is not very concerned.

Raheem, others don't know, but Grizzlies management definitely knows that the talented forward, who is only 24 years old and averages 20+10 per game, has begun to lose his passion for basketball.

Otherwise, the Grizzlies management would not have sent a talented forward who is only 24 years old, strong, diligent and has a good personality to change for a rookie.

Replaced these two with Gasol and Margeti, and the core combination of the front court is directly together!

This operation, if you think about it, is really eye-catching! It's not the level of operation since the Grizzlies were founded!

According to the previous level of Grizzlies management, it should be to exchange Bibi for white chocolate and think about how to sell tickets.

But seeing the person who handed Gasol the hat, Li Ao didn't feel strange at all.

'I'm rubbing! Because of my relationship, the logo man went to the Grizzlies a year early, and the Grizzlies traded the White Devils for a forward talent with 20+ potential per game...... Wait a minute!

What about the Five Kings? So the big king five tigers are gone? Continue to play with white chocolate? But it doesn't have anything to do with me......

Li Ao came back to his senses, and David Stern was back on stage.

He put away the joy of being paired with the old coach's son for the time being, and continued to watch the draft.

The champion sign has just been traded, and the list eye sign has also been traded!

After the Wizards drafted Tyson Chandler with the No. 1 pick, they immediately sent him to the Bulls in exchange for Elton Brand, the '99 No. 1 pick.

When it came to the Tanhua pick, the Spurs selected Eddie Curry, and Li Ao just complained "Should the top three picks be traded", and then the trade came.

The Spurs sent Eddie Curry to the Bulls in exchange for the No. 4 pick and the No. 1 pick in the second round, plus $500,000 in cash.

The Spurs then used the No. 4 pick to select the last of the four top picks, Kwame Brown.

At the 5th pick, the Warriors didn't trade Jason Richardson after selecting them, and the top 5 picks didn't 'wipe it out'.

With the 6th pick, the Grizzlies selected MOP Sean Battier in the New Division Final Four.

With the 7th pick, the trade came again, and the Nets selected Eddie Griffin and sent him to the Rockets in exchange for the No. 13 and No. 18 picks.

After that, trading was finally suspended for a while.

The Nets selected Richard Jefferson with the 13th and 18th picks, respectively.

Li Ao felt that this basketball team was very powerful, a No. 7 pick, and actually removed two main forces, and he remembered that these two seemed to be the starters of the Nets in two consecutive Asian stages.

With the 19th pick, the Cavaliers drafted Brandon Haywood and sent him to the Wizards in exchange for Jumaine Jones and Ricky Davis.

It's a pure role player trade, Haywood, a pure blue-collar interior from North Carolina, and Jeumaine Jones, a '99 first-round pick who averaged 8 points and 6 boards per game last season, is a pure blue-collar, defensive forward.

The deal was placed in this draft conference, and not many people in front of the TV paid attention to it.

But that trade that averaged 4.6 points per game last season attracted Ao's attention......

Finally, their Clippers have chosen.

Originally, the 20th pick was supposed to be the Timberwolves, but the Timberwolves' first-round pick was forfeited and postponed to the Clippers.

Li Ao looked forward to seeing the junior put on their hat...... It turned out to be a deal again!

The Clippers sent the 20th pick in the first round to the Trail Blazers in exchange for the Trail Blazers' 24th pick in the first round and the Trail Blazers' 16th pick in the second round for the Pacers.

The Trail Blazers used the 20th pick to select Zach Randolph, the No. 1 high school student in the nation in 2000.

Fortunately, the next 3 teams did not choose his junior.

With the 24th pick, Gerard Wallace smoothly put on the Clippers' hat.

This junior, Li Ao has a certain understanding in the past year.

In his freshman season, he performed well as a forward bench, averaging 8 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game, plus the title of the No. 4 high school student in the United States, and he was expected to be drafted at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.

Henry Bibby wants Gerald Wallace to stay in college for an extra year and start for a year, so the draft pick will inevitably go up quite a bit.

But seeing the hope of reaching the first round, Gerard Wallace immediately chose to run.

His reason made it impossible for Henri Bibi to continue to open his mouth to keep - he wanted to make money.

Although he is only a freshman, Gerald Wallace has become a father, his girlfriend is his elementary school classmate, childhood sweetheart, and is now working as a porter in a supermarket in Los Angeles, and has just had a second child.

If it weren't for the fear of losing the draft, he wanted to participate in the draft after graduating from high school, and now he has a first-round expectation and decisively participates.

Henry Bibby regretted the loss of a talented striker for the Trojans, the fact that Gerard Wallace could not be selected in a higher pick, and Li Ao's side also regretted as a senior, but from the club's point of view, he was happy with Gerard Wallace's decision.

If Gerard Wallace had stayed in college for another year, they wouldn't have missed it.

The next few picks, the 76ers selected Haitian Durham Porter with the 25th pick, the Kings selected Omar Cook with the 26th pick, the Spurs selected Gilbert Arenas with the 27th pick from the Magic, and the Grizzlies selected Jamal Tinsley with the 28th pick in the first round from the Lakers and sent it to the Pacers.

Li Ao was quite surprised to see that the Spurs actually selected Arenas instead of Parker.

Then came the second round, and the Spurs selected Tony Parker with the second-round pick they received from the Bulls.

This makes Li Ao even more puzzled, choose two point guards?

Do you think that both of them are talented, and you are worried that the selection will be missed, and the two will win together? But why only take one in the original time and space? It shouldn't be hard to get a low-pick pick.

The progress of the second round of the draft is much faster than the first round, there is no rookie stage, and the short film is much shorter than the first round.

Finally, the Clippers just traded for the 16th pick in the second round.

At this point, he didn't remember anyone else.

Soon, the answer was revealed, and Stu Jackson announced that the Clippers had drafted Jeron Collins!

Li Ao, who was paralyzed, immediately sat up straight, Collins! Which Corinthians?

After seeing the name clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief, it's his younger brother, it's okay......

On the other side, at the draft meeting, one of the Stanford twins was snatched, and Wally Walker and Gentry also breathed a sigh of relief.

Sending away Meme, they had to get back a bench with enough height and tonnage and solid defensive fundamentals, so they traded draft picks with the Trail Blazers.

However, the draft pick in the middle of the second round was very passive, and their first choice was Lauren Woods of the University of Arizona, a 216-centimeter big center who graduated from college and was physically and technically mature, but was preemptively selected by the Timberwolves.

After looking around again, they were surprised to find that the Stanford twins actually left one of the unsuccessful candidates, and decisively won it.

Gentry said: "The draft is finally done, thank you Wally. ”

Wally Walker shook his head: "The offseason work is just getting started. ”

Gentry found the colleague boring.

But he is not as scared as before now, the general manager does everything according to the rules, he does not violate the rules of the team, he will not be fired, even if he gives the job opportunity to his cousin when he helps Li Ao find a trainer, as long as his cousin's professional ability is enough, the general manager will not say anything.

Wally Walker continued: "We drafted Wallace, which should reduce Leo's frustration with us sending Corey away. ”

Gentry responded: "I think Leo is a very professional player and if our trade is good for the team, he won't be upset about that. ”

Wally-Walker shook his head: "Maybe that's true, but we can't leave it to chance, we have to do our job well." ”

Gentry pretended to turn around to get the glass and secretly rolled his eyes.

When you sent the glider to Team Rocket, why didn't you think that you couldn't leave it to chance? I was fired later!

He also slandered it, saying that he still didn't dare to say it.

However, the selection of Trojans players to keep them safe, and Gentry felt that would be a good idea.

After the second round was eliminated, he and Wally Walker were discussing a trade, and the team had too many young talents to be fully cultivated.

Sending some of the talents out for the quality of the players is something that must be done at the moment.

Margeti, on the other hand, is the best young player in their squad.

Wally Walker took Blevin Knight everywhere to ask for an offer, and the teams that responded to the offer were the most interested in Margety.

It's not that other teams think that Magetti is better than O'Neal Jr., it's mainly a matter of price, if you want to exchange Odom or O'Neal Jr., you have to at least come up with an All-Star fringe level star.

Margeti is less expensive, more suitable for circulating in the free market, and the talent is attractive enough to get back a good player with the right addition.

But it was nerve-wracking for Wally-Walker, whose Spider-Man and Margeti had a good relationship and a pleasant collaboration on the court, and he was even more worried when he noticed that Li Ao had a similarly played bench teammate when he was in college.

If it's Kidd who comes back in the trade, then it's no problem, in exchange for a superstar teammate, even if it's stud, he believes that Li Ao will have no opinion, but isn't this being played by others.

It just so happened that Gerard Wallace was running!

As head coaches and general managers, Gentry and Wally Walker keep an eye on the performance of their college talents.

The Trojans and Bruins are certainly the teams they know the most about and can see the news at any time.

The two have long taken a fancy to Gerard Wallace's talent, but such a talent, they were not included in the draft plan, they felt that waiting for Gerard Wallace to play for two or three years, the top ten picks were possible, but they didn't expect the No. 4 high school student in the United States to participate directly after playing as a substitute for a year, and they saw that there was a draft prospect on the edge of the first round, and they won it decisively.

Choose a genius + appease Spider-Man, kill two birds with one stone!

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(End of chapter)