From sparring to superstar

Chapter 199 197. The Draft
There are 3 super high school students in this year's draft, Kwame Brown, Eddie Curry, and Tyson Chandler, all of whom are favorites for the No. [-] pick.

In addition to these three high school students, the best pick in the draft is the center forward of the La Liga champion and European Youth Championship MVP Paul Gasol.

According to previous predictions, the Eagles should gamble on talent to see if they can produce the next super insider like Kevin Garnett.

Or just seek stability. Pau Gasol, who will be 21 years old, has a mature playing style and strong strength. He has participated in various competitions since he was 13 years old.

The Hawks selected Pau Gasol with the No. [-] pick, which is no surprise.

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

The screen cut to the side stage next door, and the league spokesperson announced that the Eagles, Clippers, and Grizzlies had reached a three-way deal.

The Clippers traded Corey Maggette, Chris Mihm, Brian Knight, and a 2002 first-round pick to the Grizzlies for Mike Bibby and Isaac Austin.

Grizzlies trade Shareef Raheem, Mike Bibby, Isaac Austin to No. [-] pick Pau Gasol, Corey Maggette, Blevin Knight, Jacqui Waugh kindness.

The Eagles sent Paul Gasol and Jacqui Vaughn in exchange for Shareef Rahim, Chris Mim, and the Clippers' first-round pick for next year.

Seeing this transaction, Li Ao jumped up.

The willows are dark and the flowers are bright, this is it!
Nash and Nelson Sr. were unwilling to trade, and tentative offers were ignored, and no chance of raising the price was given at all.

Marbury and Kidd, the two signing targets exchanged clubs, and they didn't make a deal.

Li Ao originally thought that there were no other more suitable signing targets. It was not that the league did not have other good point guards, but that they could not be replaced, or that the players sent out were more useful to the team than those returned. powerful.

In the end, he forgot about the son of the old coach's family in the north!

Different from Li Ao's excitement, Vivienne said: "This deal is too bad for us! What does Walker think?"

Li Ao's father echoed: "Maggette replaced Bibby, and also took our center substitute, Knight and the first round pick were also sent out, even if Kidd and Marbury were not traded, he shouldn't be sick." Rushed to the doctor, for the sake of a bad team's stat brush, we emptied our frontcourt substitutes."

"Uh……"

Hearing that Maggette was being questioned for replacing Bibby with a few hair extensions, he wanted to say something on the spot, but the auntie who was helping the hospital couldn't bear it, and my father... might get beaten up.

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

Li Ao blinked and said, "Dad, your English is getting better and better, and you can translate idioms."

Li Weidong: [_?]
Zhou Limei and Vivian couldn't hold back their laughter.

Look, look, look!Spider-Man is scared!

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

After announcing the deal, the camera showed Pau Gasol. The Spaniard who returned to the small green room and sat down is now very cramped and embarrassed.

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

Suddenly, an old man came to Gasol and handed over the Grizzlies hat.

Li Ao's eyes widened.

He thought about the Grizzlies deal.

Bibby and Raheem, the former seems to have been arguing to leave a long time ago, but because the Grizzlies have a poor record in Vancouver, he is still regarded as a statistic brush for assists, and the attention is not high.

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

Otherwise, the Grizzlies management will not send a talented striker who is only 24 years old, strong, hardworking, and good character to exchange for a rookie.

Replace these two with Gasol and Maggette, and the frontcourt core combination is directly aligned!
This operation, when you think about it, is really eye-catching!It's not the operating level of the Grizzlies team since its establishment!

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

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

'I wipe!Because of my relationship, the guy with the logo went to the Grizzlies a year earlier, and the Grizzlies traded the White Devils in exchange for a striker genius with the potential to average 20+ per game... Wait!
What about the King Five?So the big king and five tigers are gone?Continue to play coquettishly with White Chocolate?But it has nothing to do with me...'

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Li Ao came back to his senses, David Stern has returned to the stage.

He temporarily put away the joy of partnering with the old coach's son and continued to watch the draft.

The No. [-] pick has just been traded, and the No. [-] pick has also been traded!

After the Wizards selected Tyson Chandler with the second pick, they immediately sent him to the Bulls in exchange for Elton Brand, the No. 99 pick in [-].

When it came to the No. [-] pick, the Spurs selected Eddie Curry. Li Ao just complained, "Maybe all the top three picks will be traded", and then the trade came.

The Spurs sent Eddie Curry to the Bulls in exchange for the No. 4 pick, the No. 1 pick in the second round, and $50 in cash.

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

At No. 5, the Warriors drafted Jason Richardson without making a trade, and there was no 'total annihilation' for the top 5 picks.

With the 6th overall pick, the Grizzlies selected Shane Battier, MOP of the New Division Final Four.

At the 7th pick, the trade came again. The Nets selected Eddie Griffin and sent him to the Rockets in exchange for the 13th and 18th picks.

After this, trading was finally suspended for a while.

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

Li Ao feels that the basketball team is very strong this year. A No. 7 pick has actually pulled out two main players. He remembers that these two seem to be the starters of the Nets' two consecutive sub-stages.

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

This is a deal for pure role players, Haywood, a pure blue-collar insider from North Carolina, Jumaine Jones, the 99 first-round pick, averaged 8 points and 6 rebounds per game last season, a pure blue-collar, defensive striker.

This deal was placed in this draft, and not many viewers in front of the TV cared about it.

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

Finally, their Clippers drafted.

Originally the 20th pick should have been the Timberwolves, but the Timberwolves' first-round pick was confiscated and postponed to the Clippers.

Li Ao was looking forward to seeing that junior put on their hat...then they traded again!
The Clippers sent the No. 20 pick in the first round to the Trail Blazers in exchange for the Trail Blazers' No. 24 pick in the first round and the Pacers' No. 16 pick in the second round in the hands of the Trail Blazers. picks.

The Trail Blazers selected Zach Randolph, the No. 20 high school student in the United States in 2000, with the [-]th overall pick.

Fortunately, none of the next three picks selected his junior.

At the 24th pick, Gerald Wallace successfully put on the Clippers hat.

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

In his freshman season, he performed well as a striker substitute, averaging 8 points, 5.9 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. In addition to the title of No. 4 high school student in the United States, he has the draft expectations of the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round.

Henry Bibby hopes that Gerald Wallace can stay in college for one more year and start for one year, so that the draft pick will inevitably rise a lot.

But seeing the hope of entering the first round, Gerald Wallace immediately chose to run.

His reason made Henry Bibby unable to continue to talk about staying - he wanted to make money.

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

If he hadn't been worried about losing the draft, he would have wanted to participate in the draft after graduating from high school. Now that he has the first-round expectation, he decided to participate in the draft.

Henry Bibby regretted that the Trojans lost a talented striker and that Gerald Wallace could not be selected in a higher draft. Li Ao also regretted as a senior, but from the perspective of the club , he is very happy with Gerald - Wallace's decision.

If Gerald Wallace stays in college for another year, they won't be able to pick up a pass.

后面的几个顺位，76人队在第25顺位选中了海地人戴勒姆波特、国王队在第26顺位选中了奥马尔-库克、马刺队用从魔术队得到的第27顺位选秀权选中了吉尔伯特-阿里纳斯，灰熊队用从湖人队那里得到的首轮28顺位选中了贾马尔-汀斯利并将其送到了步行者队。

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

Then in the second round, the Spurs selected Tony Parker with the No. 1 pick in the second round they got from the Bulls.

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

Is it because I think both of them are talented, and I am worried that the selection will be missed, and I will win both?But why only take one in the original time and space?It shouldn't be difficult to get a low pick.

The progress of the second round of the draft is much faster than that of the first round. There is no stage for rookies, and the short film is much shorter than the first round.

Finally, it was the 16th overall pick in the second round that the Clippers had just traded.

At this point, he doesn't remember anyone else at all.

Soon, the answer was revealed, and Stu Jackson announced that the Clippers selected Jaron Collins!
Ge You's paralyzed Li Ao immediately sat up straight, Collins!Which Collins?
After seeing the name clearly, he let out a long sigh of relief, it's my younger brother, it's okay...

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

After sending Mihm away, they have to get back a substitute with sufficient height and tonnage and solid defensive basic skills, so there is a deal to exchange draft picks with the Trail Blazers.

However, the pick in the middle of the second round was very passive. Their first choice was Lauren Woods of the University of Arizona, a 216 cm big center who graduated from college with mature body and skills, but was picked by the Timberwolves first.

After looking around again, they were surprised to find that the Stanford twins actually left one unselected and took it decisively.

Gentry said: "The work of the draft stage is finally completed, thank you Wally."

Wally Walker shook his head: "The work of the offseason is just beginning now."

Gentry found the colleague extremely boring.

But he is not as scared as before now. The general manager does everything according to the regulations. He will not be fired if he does not violate the team regulations. Cousin is professional enough, the general manager will not say anything.

Wally Walker continued: "We selected Wallace, which should be able to reduce Leo's dissatisfaction with us sending Corey away."

Gentry responded: "I think Leo is a very professional player. If our deal is beneficial to the team, he will not be dissatisfied with it."

Wally Walker shook his head: "It may be true, but we can't take chances. We have to do our job well."

Gentry pretended to turn around to get a water glass, and secretly rolled his eyes.

When sending the glider to the Rockets, why didn't you think that you can't be lucky?Then he was fired!

He also slandered, saying that he still didn't dare to speak out.

However, choosing the players of the Trojans to keep them safe, Gentry thinks it is not bad to do so.

After being eliminated in the second round, he and Wally Walker were discussing the transaction. The team has too many young talents, and comprehensive training is definitely not possible.

Sending out some talents to replace powerful players is something that must be done now.

And Maggette is the young player with the best trading market in their team.

Wally Walker took Blevin Knight around to inquire about the offer, and the teams that responded to the offer were most interested in Maggette.

It's not that other teams think Maggette is better than Odom and Jermaine O'Neal.

Maggette is not that expensive, and is more suitable for circulation in the free market, and his talent is attractive enough. With the right additions, he can be exchanged for a player with good strength.

But this made Wally Walker a headache. Their Spider-Man and Maggette have a good relationship, and the cooperation on the court is also very pleasant. He also noticed that when Li Ao was in college, he had a substitute teammate with a similar style of play. I'm even more worried.

If it was Kidd who came back from the trade, that would be no problem. In exchange for a superstar teammate, even if Stud is gone, he believes that Li Ao will have no objection, but isn't this being played by others?

Well, Gerald Wallace is running!

As head coaches and general managers, Gentry and Wally Walker kept an eye on the college talent.

The Trojans and Bruins in the same city must be the teams they know the most, and they can see news at any time.

The two have long taken a fancy to the talent of Gerald Wallace, but they have not included such a talent in the draft plan. They think that after Gerald Wallace plays for two or three years, there will be a top ten pick Perhaps, I didn't expect that the No. 4 high school student in the United States, after playing as a substitute for a year, directly participated in the draft when he saw that there was a marginal first-round draft prospect, and they won it decisively.

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