I'm good at basketball too

Where is James?

Conspiring with someone about which team to go to in the offseason?
Or did you find a quiet place to silently lick the wound of your broken halberd in the finals?

Or train silently, and the king will return next season?
no one knows.

However, for the time being, the topic of "Where is James going" has been overshadowed by another matter.

Draft!

On June 2010, 6, the Madison Garden Arena, known as the Mecca of basketball, was held.

The players in the lottery this year sat obediently in the first row like elementary school students, waiting for the league to call them.

Li Ran followed Pera, Cole, Calipari and a group of uniforms to the scene.

Along with Li Ran and the Ross brothers' manager - Armstrong.

Armstrong came to discuss Li Ran's contract extension with the Grizzlies management.

but!

It was not Armstrong who came here on his own initiative, but Pera who called him to come here on his own initiative.

A new round of labor-management negotiations in the league is about to begin soon. In order to keep Li Ran, who still has two years left in his contract, Pera put forward a frenzied proposal.

A player like Li Ran who has achieved such achievements in his rookie period, why can't we give him a bigger contract?
Theoretically, after the end of the rookie contract, Li Ran can get at most a big contract with 25% of the salary cap.

With the current salary cap of 5800 million, the annual salary is about 1450 million.

But Pella was not satisfied, and he was going to raise the upper limit to 30% through rule changes.

"Isn't this the Ross Clause? It's a pity that this time and space should be called the Li Ran Clause."

Li Ran looked at the weird scene in front of him, and thought while snickering.

The reason why I say it's weird is because Pella spit all over the place, talking excitedly to Armstrong, asking for Li Ran's salary increase.

Armstrong had never seen such a battle before, and he was a little confused.

The maximum salary is already the only situation he can think of.

Unexpectedly, Pera actually asked for more money on the pole.

In the end, Armstrong also agreed to contact his friends in his circle, as well as members of the players union, and ask them to help promote this matter.

After discussing this matter, Armstrong pulled Li Ran aside.

Li Ran is also a very important factor in why he chose to come to New York with the Grizzlies management today.

As Li Ran's agent for the past two years, Armstrong was in pain and happiness.

Happiness is easy to understand. After all, I hugged the most promising and thickest thigh in the alliance.

Li Ran is backed by the Chinese market, and his commercial value is even comparable to that of James.

The pain is because Li Ran has been in the league for more than two years, and has hardly signed any decent endorsement contracts.

Nike has stated more than once that they want Li Ran to endorse their sneakers, and the most recent time they have even compared Jordan and want to give Li Ran a separate brand.

But every time, Li Ran resolutely refused.

This made Armstrong very strange.

Could it be that Li Ran is a diehard Adidas fan?

After all, only Adidas can compete with Nike now.

But Li Ran's attitude was still ambiguous.

Armstrong simply ignored it.

Anyway, with Li Ran's current performance, the longer the delay, the bigger the endorsement contract will be.

However, just before the draft, Li Ran suddenly notified Armstrong, asking him to clean up all the backlog of endorsement contracts, saying that he would deal with them during this offseason.

For Armstrong, this is not an endorsement contract, this is a pile of dollars.

So he came to New York in a hurry.

"After the drama is over, we will start to deal with these endorsement contracts." Li Ran flipped through them briefly, and then said to Armstrong.

Armstrong nodded.

Of course he knew what the big play was.

One of the big offseason series-Where does James go.

Next, everyone left the box and came to the scene.

The preparations are basically over, and the next step is the 2010 draft!
The gray-haired Stern walked onto the stage.

This year's No. [-] pick goes to the Wizards.

The Wizards didn't hesitate at all, and handed over the envelope.

"In the 2010-2011 NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards selected John Wall from the University of Kentucky with the first pick!"

Under the cheers of the audience, Wall walked onto the stage with a smile on his face.

He is almost the best choice for this year's No. [-] pick.

2009-10赛季，约翰·沃尔场均得到16.6分6.5次助攻4.3个篮板，其中241次的总助攻次数创造了肯塔基大学的队史纪录。

He was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year and was named to the First Team All-American.

Additionally, he is the recipient of the Oscar Robertson, John Wooden and Bob Cousy Awards, Adolph All-American, Rookie of the Year and Rookie of the Year by Yahoo and Contenders.com.

The most commendable thing about Wall is his amazing physical fitness, especially his speed.

In addition to physical fitness, his point guard skills are also extremely solid, and he is a very good modern point guard.

"In the 2010-2011 NBA Draft, the Philadelphia digital team selected Evan Turner from Ohio State University with the second overall pick!"

Soon, the second place also came out.

Evan Turner has historically been the No. [-] pick this year.

He chose to participate in the draft after finishing his junior year. Before that, he also successfully achieved the grand slam of important individual awards in American universities in 2010.

For the No. [-] pick, the Nets selected Derek Favors.

With the fourth pick, the Timberwolves selected Wesley Johnson from Syracuse University.

With the fifth pick, the Kings chose "cousin" DeMarcus Cousins, who is also from the University of Kentucky and is Wall's teammate.

It is worth mentioning that in this season's draft, all five main players of the University of Kentucky chose to participate, and they were all selected in the first round, creating a moderate record.

Then, Udo, Monroe and Aminu were selected in the 6th, 7th and 8th places respectively.

Seeing that it was Grizzly's turn, Li Ran glanced at Cole.

Cole nodded, wrote a name on the paper, put it in an envelope, and sent it out.

"In the 2010-2011 NBA draft, the Memphis Grizzlies selected Paul George from Fresno State University with the ninth overall pick."

Hearing Stern's announcement, even Li Ran couldn't help but clenched his fist.

The pickled pepper was successfully cut off by the grizzly bear!
When the Pacers saw the pickled peppers being cut off, they were in chaos for a while.

But they still launched their alternative plan without hesitation.

Indiana native star player Gordon Hayward from Butler University.

In this way, basically there are no players worthy of Li Ran's attention in this draft.

Just when Li Ran breathed a sigh of relief, his phone rang suddenly.

Li Ran picked it up and saw that it was Taylor Swift.

Doesn't Taylor Swift know that she is in the draft right now?
With doubts, Li Ran connected the phone.

But at Taylor Swift's first sentence, Li Ran was stunned.

"Honey, if you had the 11th pick, who would you pick?"

"Why do you ask such a question?"

However, Taylor Swift's next sentence directly made Li Ran flustered.

"Hurry up, I bought a team, tell me who I should pick."

"What did you say???!!!" (End of this chapter)