When pride still matters

Chapter 39 If I tell you everything clearly, it will be difficult for you to grow
Because Boston obtained an additional lottery pick through the trade, this gives them two lottery picks this year, the tenth and No. 11 picks in the first round.

As a result, many potential lottery picks go to work out with them.

Yu Fei was not surprised that Eddie Griffin would try out for the Celtics, but Roy's appearance surprised him.

Since he couldn't get into a first-level college, Roy decided to skip the college stage. If he couldn't be spotted by an NBA team, there were only two ways to go in the future. One was to give up basketball, find a job casually, and enter the society. .The other is to find a community college to cope with it first, and then find ways to improve my academic performance, and have the opportunity to play in the first-level league in the future.

According to Yu Fei's understanding of Roy, he should have chosen the second route.

As for why he is still trying to pry open the door to the NBA and even get a trial training opportunity from the Celtics, Yu Fei doesn't understand.

So he called Roy.

"Fu Lai, is it really you? How have you been lately?!"

He sounded very excited, and Yu Fei had indeed not contacted him for a while.

Yu Fei introduced his current situation, and then turned the topic to Roy, "I heard that you are going to Boston for a trial training tomorrow?"

"Yeah, how do you know?"

"Because I'm going too."

"Awesome! This is unbelievable!!!"

The situation on Roy's side sounds as crazy as when Zhuang Qiang heard that Wang Duoyu inherited one billion.

Because if Yu Fei is here, he can express himself with peace of mind.

After all, he and Yu Fei are not players in the same position, and the draft prospects are completely different. One is a definite lottery edge or even lottery prospect, and the other is that as long as a team is willing to select him, thank God.

"I know you are excited, but please don't get excited yet." Yu Fei asked, "What's your situation now?"

Roy seemed determined to go the distance in professional basketball.

After he failed to recruit a professional basketball agent before, he expanded his scope and finally found an overseas agent. This agent had connections with the Celtics, so he arranged this trial training for Roy.

This made Yu Fei a little surprised, and at the same time worried about Roy's future.

He may have unintentionally changed the course of Roy's life.

Will Roy still be the same Roy who didn't go to college?

Yu Fei didn't know, so he asked again: "Are you really not considering going to college?"

Roy said firmly: "I don't want to waste my youth in a rubbish school."

At this point, Yu Fei can only wait and see what happens.

That night, Yu Fei got from his agent the list of people who would go to Boston for a trial tomorrow.

You don’t know if you don’t look at them, but you can see that there are quite a lot of acquaintances there.

In addition to the known Roy and Griffin, there are also Joe Johnson, Gerald Wallace, Kedrick Brown (Kedrick Brown SG/SF), Rodney White (Rodney White SF).

Among these people, Yu Fei only knew Joe Johnson in his previous life, and the rest he knew after time travel.

Except for Gerald Wallace, everyone else, like Yu Fei, is a potential lottery pick in this draft.

In other words, none of them have top-five prospects, but they will be seriously considered by teams with picks 6-13.

Of all the people who participated in the trial, the one with the biggest card was Eddie Griffin, who was recognized as a "sleeper."

The talent is extraordinary, but it may not be realized.

Therefore, people who like him, such as the Rockets, think he is the number one pick, and people who don't like him may think he is not worthy of the lottery.

After one night, Yu Fei headed to Boston, accompanied by Anthony Lawson and Quint DeMeo.

After arriving in Boston, Lawson expressed his stereotypical opinion of the city: "I don't like it here. It's too white, too conservative, too traditional, too boring."

"The last one is the key point, right?" Yu Fei said with a smile, "It's hard for a guy like you who studied in Kent to say such a thing."

Is there any city more boring than Kent?
Yu Fei didn't even know what kind of entertainment a teenager from an ordinary family could have in Kent City.

Yu Fei and his party went to the hotel first, rested for a while, had something to eat and then headed to the Celtics training base.

In addition to Celtics coach Jim O'Brien, Yu Fei also met Celtics top player Paul Pierce.

Yu Fei was not very impressed with Pierce as a player, but after retirement, Pierce fit everyone's stereotype of celebrities.

Arrogant, arrogant, and often makes violent comments. "That's right. If I were as old as you, I wouldn't go to a bullshit university. Youth is the true meaning!"

Pierce is very supportive of high school rookies like Yu Fei.

"Thank you."

Yu Fei replied politely and went to the dressing room to change clothes.

In the locker room, Yu Fei met Gerald Wallace.

At this time last year, this man was considering whether to skip college and directly enter the draft, because he was one of the top three high school students in the United States in the class of 2000, and even beat KG II Darius Miles to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Association. High school student.

However, although he was not good at studying, Wallace wanted to make progress. He wanted to go to college, so he went to the University of Alabama.This time, his shortcomings will be exposed in higher-level competitions.His shooting is poor and his basic skills are weak. Although he can run and jump, and "runs like a doomsday in every round," his rough skill reserves have also caused his draft stock to decline.

At present, although Wallace is recognized as a potential lottery pick like Yu Fei, in the past and in the future, many potential lottery picks with huge shortcomings like him fell all the way to the end of the first round or even the second round.

"AYO, are you...the yellow version of Eddie Griffin?"

As soon as Gerald Wallace opened his mouth, Yu Fei was like Wang Duoyu who had seen the sleeping dragon and phoenix chicks, and the words "great cleverness" came into his mind.

"I don't like people saying that, but as long as you are happy." Yu Fei responded.

"No offense." Wallace knew him very well, "Gerald Wallace, I'm from Sylacauga, you can call me Big G."

"Yu Fei, from Kent." Yu Fei added, "You can call me Da Fei."

The two casually exchanged a few words and then returned to the arena together.

Yu Fei is not going to take a physical test today because he has already passed the physical test with two teams and there is no hiding it. As long as the Celtics want to find it, they can find it.

Gerald Wallace is very interested in physical testing because that is his advantage.

About 20 minutes later, other players arrived at the scene.

When Roy saw Yu Fei, he couldn't help but greet each other.

Yu Fei saw his heartless look and was very worried about his draft prospects. At the same time, he also noticed that there were a total of 12 players who came to participate in the trial today.

When Eddie Griffin appeared, Yu Fei looked at him.

Neither of them spoke.

A natural feeling of disgust and opposition appears in their hearts. No one wants to be a certain version of so-and-so.

After the physical test, Jim O'Brien said: "You are free to choose your teammates. After 10 minutes, we will divide into black and white teams for a 28-minute match."

Yu Fei naturally joined Roy, and then Gerald Wallace joined them.

In this way, the prototype of a team was formed, and Yu Fei naturally became the leader of this team.

On the other side, Eddie Griffin chose to join forces with lottery favorite Kedric Brown.

This gave Yu Fei the opportunity to lobby Joe Johnson.

"Qiao, you don't want to go to their team as a substitute, right?" Yu Feixiao asked.

There is a position conflict between Joe Johnson and Kedric Brown. Of course, this kind of temporary team competition can be more flexible and does not have to pay too much attention to position, but Johnson does not want to be someone else's foil.

Therefore, he joined Yu Fei's team.

After that, Yu Fei let a short center named Jack Dawson join the team, and the team was officially formed.

The final team formation result is that Eddie Griffin's team has 7 players, and Yu Fei has 5 players, which means that the five of them need to play the entire game.

"When does the game start? I can't wait!" Roy asked excitedly.

"Ten minutes left."

After a while, Yu Fei and the others went to the Celtics equipment manager to claim their jerseys.

When Yu Fei asked for the No. 44 white jersey, the equipment manager gave him a meaningful look: "Young man, you are very suitable for our team."

"What do you mean?"

Yu Fei wondered.

"Hmph, if I tell you everything clearly it will be difficult for you to grow up, okay, just take your jersey and get out of the way."

(End of this chapter)