The NBA started with helping Iverson win the championship

Chapter 352 Choose Zhou Qi Next
At this time, the players in the small green room cast envious glances at Booker.

To be selected by a team in a metropolis like New York, as long as you perform well, you will definitely have a lot of money.

And now they have also got the news that Li Xun is about to join the Knicks, which means that Booker will become Li Xun's teammate next.

Being favored by Li Xun and playing in New York, Booker's career starting point is simply the envy of everyone.

Downs gave Booker a hug, with some emotion in his heart.

When he was selected as the No. [-] pick just now, he was quite happy in his heart, but now seeing that Booker has gone to the Knicks, he feels a little uncomfortable.

If he was allowed to choose, he would rather not have the champion, and would rather play with Li Xun.

The salary of the key No. [-] pick is not much higher than that of the No. [-] pick, which means that there is an extra title of No. [-] pick.

But this false name is actually a kind of pressure. Once the game is not satisfactory, the tide of criticism will easily destroy the confidence of these young people.

Generally speaking, the most ideal pick is between No. 4 and No. 8. The rookie contract of this pick is not less, and the pick is not low, and the team will reuse it for training.

The outside world will not be as picky about their performance as the top three picks.

"Devin, congratulations, your starting point is much higher than others."

"I look forward to seeing you win the championship this season."

Downs hugged Booker and said.

Booker was a little dazed, and he hasn't reacted yet.

According to his previous draft prediction, his pick was only around 15th. He never imagined that he would be selected by the fourth pick.

The key is Li Xun's choice of himself.

For a while, he began to wonder if there was some kind of special potential in his body, otherwise why would Li Xun take a fancy to him?

Porzingis in the small green house looked a little ugly.

Because the Knicks lost their qualification for the playoffs early, they immediately began to try out rookies as soon as the season ended.

Team president Phil Jackson had already told him in a cryptic way at the time that the team would select him with the fourth pick.

When he came to the scene today and learned that Li Xun would also join the Knicks, he was even more pleasantly surprised.

He has even begun to fantasize about the scene where he and Li Xun build a dynasty together.

If there is no accident, after his rookie season, he will be selected as an All-Star in the second season, and then he will go smoothly and become a super giant in the league.

It's a pity that now that the Knicks have selected Booker away, all his plans have been shattered.

Porzingis stared at Booker, wondering how he was worse than Booker.

Even in terms of ball handling ability, Porzingis asked himself that he would definitely not be worse than Booker.

A choice made by Li Xun directly made several parties happy and some unhappy.

At this time, Zen Master Jackson, who was sitting beside Li Xun, had a calm expression on his face, but felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

To say that the most influential person in today's alliance circles, Zen Master can at least rank in the top five.

Under normal circumstances, that would be 11 championship rings. Even if Li Xun appeared, Zen Master still has 10 championship rings in his hands, ranking first among all coaches.

Even Auerbach doesn't have as many rings as Zen Master.

Some fans think that Zen Master's ring has no gold content, and they all got it with their thighs.

Two dynasties for the Bulls, six rings.

The OK Dynasty of the Lakers, three rings.

Then in the Kobe era of the Lakers, there were two more rings.

But if you think about it carefully, you can see what kind of team has thighs, and it can be regarded as a skill if you can hug your thighs.

There are many coaches in the league who want to hug their thighs. In the end, only Zen Master is qualified to hug this thigh.

Taking a step back, the gold content of Cardinal Auerbach's nine rings may not be as high as that of a Zen master.

During Lukai's crazy consecutive championship period, the league was in a wild state, and the championship competition was not fierce at all.

As for the five rings of Pat Riley, who ranked third, the gold content is not as good as that of Zen Master.

Perhaps if Zen Master coached Riley's lineup, the number of championships would be more than five.

Last night, after he learned from Hornacek that Li Xun was about to join the Knicks, he didn't fall asleep all night.

There is excitement and worry in my heart.

Excited that his number of champions can rise again.

And this time is different, I led the team to win the championship as the general manager.

At his current age, he is ready to retire behind the scenes. If he can win a few championships with the Knicks, then the job of general manager of the Knicks will always be his own.

Unless one day I really can't do it anymore.

But apart from being excited, the Zen master was also very worried about his situation.

As we all know, Li Xun needs to have an absolute right to speak regardless of joining any team.

Whether it's the team's trade or the draft, Li Xun has the final say.

This made the Zen master's situation a bit embarrassing, and a big boss like him has become a puppet.

The most frightening thing was that Zen Master asked himself that if he and Li Xun couldn't get along, he would be the one who packed up and left, not Li Xun.

After a team has Li Xun, many positions are actually dispensable.

The only thing the team needs is a box office to sell tickets.

Just now Li Xun unceremoniously let Booker be selected directly, without even asking the Zen master for his opinion.

In fact, this can be regarded as Li Xun's attitude.

Come to the Knicks by yourself, okay.

But you have to listen to yourself.

Anyway, now Li Xun has not officially joined the Knicks, he can pat his ass and leave at any time.

Old Hornacek certainly understood this, so he fully supported Li Xun, and he also didn't pay attention to Zen master's expression.

In this regard, the old Hornacek is actually quite shrewd.

Zen master was in charge of the Knicks last season, and he brought his love, the old fish Fisher, as the head coach of the Knicks.

As a result, Fisher led the team to the last in the league.

And this season of coaching, quite a few scandals broke out, such as greening his former teammates.

For example, when the players were training, he took a plane to date his lover.

Anyway, this guy doesn't do any of the things that people really do.

This season, because of the special status of the old Hornacek, the old fish was fired.

Even without what happened to Li Xun, Lao Yu would not have been able to work for long. He was fired before half of the season.

Now old Hornacek can see very clearly that he is not a direct descendant of the Zen master, but wants to wear a pair of pants with Li Xun.

And Li Xun's right to speak is indeed large enough.

The Knicks can live without a Zen master, but they absolutely cannot live without Li Xun.

Next, the Magic, holding the No. [-] pick, directly gave up the forward swingman Hezonia who originally wanted to choose, and selected Porzingis.

This choice of Magic is actually very incomprehensible.

The Croatian Hezonja played in the Spanish League last season, averaging only 4.4 points and 1.9 rebounds per game.

No one can understand what kind of medicine the Magic took wrongly, and why they used the precious fifth pick to select such a player.

Because he is white, his physical fitness is not so good.

There is nothing technically good about it.

It may be that the Magic felt very good with Turkoglu before, so now they have chosen a European small forward to try their luck.

Obviously this time the luck is not good, Hezonia said logically, he is really no better than Sun Yue.

Now that they are enlightened, they did not choose Hezonia again, but took Boshen down. Undoubtedly, this choice is much more cost-effective.

Immediately afterwards, the Kings, holding the No. [-] pick, saw that another insider from the University of Kentucky had no choice, so they simply selected him.

Willie Cauley-Stein.

Towns' inside partner at the University of Kentucky.

The Kings already have Cousins. In fact, it doesn't make much sense to choose Stein. They might as well choose an outside line to try their luck.

It may be that the old thinking has not changed, thinking that big men are more valuable.

Even if you don't need it yourself, as long as you can cultivate it, it will be a good deal to sell it in the future.

Then the seventh pick is that the Nuggets chose Mudiay, an old acquaintance of domestic fans.

Originally, Mudiay was the number one pick, but without a father, Mudiay couldn't bear to see his mother live too hard, so he simply gave up the opportunity to enter a top prestigious school, and came to CBA to earn some money to subsidize his family.

It is worth mentioning that Mudiay's father did not run away, but died because of the war.

There are not many NBA scouts paying attention to the CBA, and Mudiay played well in the Guangdong team, so he was reduced to the seventh overall pick.

But this pick is actually not bad. If it is really the No. [-] pick, Mudiay might be included in the list of parallel importers.

One rookie after another was drafted.

The old god Li Xun was sitting under the stage, watching Stern on the court hard at work announcing the rookie candidates.

He was wondering why the old guy Stern hasn't retired yet?
Didn't he agree that after he came to New York, the old guy retired?
At the same time, Li Xun is also hesitating in his heart. The Knicks still have the 31st pick in the second round.

How to choose this pick.

Originally, Li Xun was very interested in Kevin Looney, but Looney should be selected at the bottom of the first round.

The Knicks seem to be unable to select Looney with the 31st pick.

And this year's second-round rookies, Li Xun really doesn't think much of them.

The more famous one is Josh Richardson.

But his strength is reasonable to say that he is actually not as good as Clarkson. In later generations, he has to get a draft pick to trade Curry's younger brother Seth Curry.

Li Xun would rather not choose a player of this level than to waste time on him.

In addition, there is Sadie Osman of the Cavaliers, and his strength is not bad.

Harrell, who played for the Clippers in later generations, must be worth more than the previous two, but this guy has little training value.

And finally there is Norman Powell, aka Bow Jordan.

In the season that followed the Raptors to win the championship, he was still competing with Jeremy Lin for the team's control.

Of course, it is not appropriate to say that competition is not appropriate, Powell still wants to crush Jeremy Lin.

It may be precisely because of this that some fans were dissatisfied, all kinds of teasing and mocking Powell, and the title of Jordan.

As a result, they really played better and better, and later even played as a quasi-All-Star.

But this guy is too slow, Li Xun can't wait that long.

Bao Qiaodan won't be able to rise until three or four years later, and Li Xun doesn't know which team he will go to by then.

After thinking about it, Li Xun had a headache, he couldn't waste this draft pick, could he?

"Li, why don't the second-round picks directly select Zhou Qi?"

"Anyway, it's just a second round, and it's worthless."

"And I think that Zhou Qi's physical fitness is really good, and he is a little thinner, but in our NBA, are you afraid of him being thin?"

"No matter how thin a player is, he can be fed fat."

"The key point is that I also watched the previous games of this little guy. He really has great potential."

Old Hornacek seemed to have done his homework, he actually knew Zhou Qi.

Zhou Qi didn't listen to Li Xun's persuasion, but instead participated in the draft a year earlier.

The corner of Zen Master Jackson's mouth twitched, obviously the old Hornacek really regarded himself as the president of the team as air.

After Li Xun came, old Hornacek didn't even say a word to Zen master.

What does it mean that the second round of signings is worthless?That's the lottery at number one in the second round, so it's worthless.

And can skinny people become fat in the NBA?When Manute Boll died, his arms were no thicker than hemp sticks.

Master Zen frowned, just about to say something, to give up such a playful draft.

As a result, Li Xun spoke first.

"Okay, then choose Zhou Qi next."

"It just so happens that we also lack insiders."

Li Xun agreed.

Now that Zhou Qi has signed up for the draft, let him be selected.

Li Xun was also not sure that Zhou Qi would be able to play under his own hands, but it was better to stare at himself than to be stared at by others.

Moreover, Zhou Qi was hacked so badly before, and later when he played in the world preliminaries, he used his own efforts to win back the favor of many fans.

The Zen master was very uncomfortable. He held back what he was about to say just now.

Look at what Li Xun said is human words?Lack of insider?Then why did you choose Booker instead of Porzingis?
Anyway, now the Zen master is full of anger.

The point is that he has no place to vent.

Having worked with super giants such as Jordan, O'Neal and Kobe, Zen master knows what it means to endure humiliation.

At least both Jordan and Kobe had conflicts with Zen Master, which everyone knows.

The external image has always been tough, but who knows that the Zen master can really bear it.

If he couldn't bear it, at least half of his eleven championship rings would be lost.

Especially now facing Li Xun.

Li Xun gave people the impression that he was arrogant and domineering, and the Zen master was really afraid that he would babble a few words, and then offend Li Xun, who would make Li Xun pat his ass and leave.

After dawdling for more than an hour, it finally arrived at the Knicks' second pick.

"I announce that the New York Knicks selected center Zhou Qi from China with the No.30 pick in the second round."

Stern was obviously a little surprised.

He didn't expect that the Knicks already had so many Chinese players, and Li Xun actually chose another one.

But this is not a bad thing, anyway, as long as the Knicks can win the championship.

Knicks fans are sometimes very mean, such as directly booing the old gorilla Ewing.

However, Ewing is indeed not clean, and has done a lot of outrageous things, such as doing things with underage girls.

Sometimes it is extremely tolerant, no matter what player, as long as it can help them win the Knicks.

(End of this chapter)