Chapter 890 The Prelude to the 2009 NBA Draft

Returning to Seattle from Los Angeles with a big score of 2-0, this big score will make even the most rational and humble Seattleite feel crazy.

The big score now is 2-0.

And it was 2-0 on the road!

If you still need to remain modest and cautious, that would be really hypocritical!

In the Seattle SuperSonics training ground, the Seattle SuperSonics training ground has been very, very lively these two days.

Mainly because the NBA draft lottery was completed on May 19, 2009.

In the 2009 NBA lottery, the Golden State Warriors, who had the worst record in the league, got the No. 1 pick as they wished. This team, which could not win no matter how hard they tried, eventually became the biggest winner in the draft lottery.

The New York Knicks, with the second-to-last record, became the biggest losers.

Last year at the draft lottery, David Stern announced that the first four picks in the draft had become competitive picks.

In this year's draft lottery, David Stern once again announced that the top five picks in the draft lottery have become competitive picks.

In other words, in the NBA draft lottery, the guaranteed pick drops directly from the fourth to the sixth pick, which is the guaranteed pick.

This is David Stern fighting bad shit.

Two years ago, if you performed poorly, as long as you performed poorly to the bottom, you would be guaranteed at least the fourth pick. However, this year, if you performed poorly, you could only get a guaranteed sixth pick.

In the NBA draft, whether it is a big draft year or a small draft year, there is a gap in grade between the fourth pick and the sixth pick!

The cost of being trashed is high, but the benefits of being trashed are constantly being reduced by David Stern.

According to David Stern's reform of the draft lottery in the past two years.

This is almost a clear statement to the world that he, David Stern, is going to work on the unwritten rules of the draft. During his tenure, you guys who are crazy about ruining the team will not have any hope of good results.

Many experts even predict that David Stern will even lower the competitive pick in the draft lottery again in next year's draft lottery after the competitive pick in the draft lottery was lowered to the fifth overall pick.

If the guaranteed picks really drop to starting with the seventh pick, then the NBA's bad performance really doesn't have much value.

I have worked so hard to disgust the fans of my team for a season, risking a significant drop in reputation and support just for the seventh pick. This is of course not worth it!

In theory, the last one still has the highest probability of being picked No. 1, but the president is David Stern. Is he a person who can be bound by probability?

His reputation in the NBA can support his blatant unspoken rules in the draft lottery. Even if you know that he is following the unspoken rules, you can only live with it!

Uncomfortable!

The bad teams in the past two years have really suffered.

Especially this year's New York Knicks.

After a bad season and a disgusting season, he got the sixth pick.

So New York Knicks head coach and general manager Isiah Thomas was really livid at the draft lottery.

The reason why Isiah Thomas didn't get angry on the spot or in the draft lottery is because the player they wanted, Stephen Curry, was enough to be selected with the sixth pick.

Curry's current draft pick prediction this year is around sixth place.

Because the New York Knicks are the biggest and most famous, they are considered the biggest losers in the draft lottery.

In fact, teams like the Bucks and Kings that are not so brutal but are equally bad are also miserable.

The luckiest team in this year's draft is the Oklahoma City Thunder, the No. 10 team in the Western Conference.

After the Warriors got the No. 1 pick, the Thunder took the No. 2 pick.

After the lottery results came out, many people said that Chris Paul's quadruple-doubles at the end of the season moved God.

However, it was probably not God who was moved, but David Stern.

David Stern feels that Chris Paul, a strong player who is willing to stick to a small team in a small city, should not have such a tragic fate.

He can't stop James and others from destroying the NBA, but he can protect Chris Paul and others from being hurt as little as possible. ,

In addition to the No. 1 pick being taken away by the Warriors and the No. 2 pick by the Thunder, the third pick is the Charlotte Hornets. Jordan has a chance to select his next pick. The fourth pick is the Pacers. The fifth pick is the Utah Jazz, the sixth pick is the New York Knicks, the seventh pick is the Kings, the eighth pick is the Bucks, the ninth pick is the Raptors, and the tenth pick is the Nets, but the Nets Because of the three-way trade between the Warriors, Nets and Mavericks last season, this pick belongs to the Warriors.

The 11th pick is the Hawks, the 12th pick is the Clippers, the 13th pick is the Trail Blazers, and the 14th pick is the Rockets.

The Seattle SuperSonics ranked tenth in the league in the regular season last season, so they received the 21st overall pick in the first round this year.

Because the draft lottery is over, the NBA has officially entered the time point of the draft.

In recent years, how is it possible that NBA drafts have missed Yees and the SuperSonics?

The whole world knows that Ye's vision is very poor, but the whole world also knows that Ye's likes to randomly give away titles such as Jordan No. 2, Magician No. 2, and a combination of Jordan and Kobe for free.

The 2007 NBA draft was simply a miracle in the history of the NBA draft. There were nearly 30 people sitting in the little green room alone. There was no way, they were all a group of Jordan, Magic, Chamberlain and Garnet. Duncan Nowitzki combination, Jordan Yes combination, Jordan Kobe combination, Bird Pippen combination and so on.

It would be a crime not to let these people sit in the little green room!

Yes has a lot of traffic. When he says that someone reminds him of Jordan, even if this person is thousands of miles away from Jordan, then his model is Jordan, and he is also a veritable second Jordan.

It can be said that during the draft every year, NBA general managers and scouts really hate Ye Si.

Those general managers and scouts who are strong, determined, and capable don't care, they are just a joke, but those general managers or scouts who are not so capable, not so determined, are really miserable.

Especially if Yes has poor vision, it doesn't matter. As long as he doesn't like many players like Jordan, there is actually little or no harm.

There are not many players that Jordan values. Most of these players are not talented, so just don't choose the players that Jordan values.

But yes is not good. He can look at fifty or sixty rookies in a class. Among these people, there are many losers and many successful ones, and there are even more who are not that strong but not bad.

This interference is huge!

Do you want to listen or not?

Listen, if you choose a loser, aren't you going to cry to death?

If you don’t listen and miss out on players like Nick Young, wouldn’t that make you cry to death even more?

Of course, to many general managers and scouts in the NBA, Yees is simply a devil.

But to many young rookies entering the draft, Yes is an angel.

Building nicknames and prestige around Ye Si has become something that NBA rookies must do now.

As long as a rookie with connections can enter the Sonics training facility, it would be a crime not to give Ye Si a nice nickname.

As long as you have the ability to enter the Sonics training facility, yes, you have nothing to fear.

"Quincy, are you too shameless? A combination of Jordan and Pippen? Open your eyes and look at yourself. Except for your height, you are the same as Jordan, and except for your smile, you look a little like Pippen. How do you measure yourself? Is it a combination of Jordan and Pippen?!"

Dream Chasing Green was shocked.

And Quincy Pondexter himself was a little unhappy.

He never dreamed before that he could get such a nickname next to yes.

As Roy No. 2, he was selected by Master Lorenzo Romar to the University of Washington. In fact, he only wanted the nickname Roy No. 2.

He felt that this was already a very, very high achievement.

After all, his best previous model has always been Desmond Mason.

After being evaluated here by yes, he was actually evaluated by yes as a combination of Jordan and Pippen.

Desmond Mason, a former outstanding role player for the SuperSonics, Jordan, the current number one player in NBA history, and Pippen, one of the strongest defensive players in the NBA. How powerful would a combination of these two be?

This span is a bit big.

It's really a bit embarrassing.

"Chasing Dreams, forget about others, what right do you have to despise Quincy?"

"Quincy didn't ask for it himself. Even if he is as tall as Jordan and has a smile like Pippen, at least he is similar. Tell me, what's the deal with your combination of Jordan and Russell?"

What's going on?

Of course I fought for it myself!

"Yes, what do you think of my number? Joe or Jordan?"

"Jordan."

"Yes, do you think my dribbling posture is not Russell's?"

"Russell."

"Did you all hear that, yes, I am a combination of Jordan and Russell!"

"..."

Thinking back to what happened just now, Dream Chaser Green blushed slightly invisible, but of course it was only slightly.

"Dream Chase, if you hadn't suddenly raised prices, would Yes have given the combination of Jordan and Pippen to Quincy?"

"Yes, I think you are a combination of Jordan and Russell. If you don't give Quincy a combination of Jordan and Pippen, it will not be able to balance the price."

Damn Clay!

Believe it or not, I will beat you up!

Just looking at the group of people next to Clay, Chasing Dreams instantly gave up.

Hmm, he was in Curry, Klay and the others made a wave of small schemes after their evaluation, and some of them were indeed not so authentic.

Although nicknames here in Ye Si can be given away for free.

But most young people are still not that shameless.

In 2007, it was not these players who took the initiative to give out Ye's nicknames so horribly. These players are not so shameless. In recent years, only Dream Green has taken the initiative to claim that he is a combination of Jordan and Russell. .

Like Curry, he is embarrassed to say that he is second in yes.

"Master, just say that I look like Nash. Yes, it's the second most embarrassing thing, haha."

Curry is quite humble. The whole world knows that Nash has always said that he is a beggar's bankrupt version of yes. What Curry means is equivalent to saying that he is a beggar's gambling version of yes.

As for Clay, his outside template is Marco Belinari, the current Warriors substitute player, and the Leafs only used Ray Allen as the second player.

There is also Spencer Hawes, the new proud center of white people. Yao Ming is second to Ye Si, which is actually not too much. The template outside is Gasol, which is actually not too low.

The reason why Ye Si raised the price a little higher is mainly to compete with Griffin for the No. 1 pick.

As for other than these University of Washington players.

Like the other Chinese players in the training hall.

For example, Chen Jianghua, who is currently the favorite in the draft, drafted a combination of Allen Iverson and Ray Allen for the Leafs. His draft template outside is Iverson, but his three-pointers have improved a lot this year, so He wanted to change his image of only having speed, so he was a little embarrassed and chose Ray Allen for Ye Si.

Of course, the combination of Allen Iverson and Allen Iverson only has one more Ray Allen, but the gap in strength is indeed completely different.

Another example is Zhou Peng. Zhou Peng's previous template was Durant, but Zhou Peng felt that Durant's template seemed a bit unsatisfactory, so he went to Ye Si to get Rudy Gay second.

The same goes for Ding Jinhui. Ding Jinhui's draft template is also Durant. He also feels that Durant seems to have no cards, so he chose a combination of his idols Ginobili and Iguodala in Ye.

Originally, it was normal and purposeful for these people to use nicknames, and most of them were a little exaggerated, but the price hikes were still within the atmosphere.

Until Dream Chaser Green breaks this balance...

"Yes, what do you think about pursuing dreams?"

After the SuperSonics led the Lakers 2-0, Nelson was always in a relaxed mood.

I specifically asked about the topic of young people like Ye Si.

After Nelson asked, SuperSonics general manager Presti on the side was also curious.

The Sonics' first-round pick this year is No. 21, and they have a chance to get Dream Green.

Ye Si's evaluation and judgment of Dream Green are very important.

"The traitor in troubled times is the capable minister in governing the world."

A traitor in troubled times, a capable minister in governing the world?

Chinese?

Nelson's Chinese level is average and he doesn't understand much.

As an old person, I no longer have the energy to learn.

It can be said that Nelson has one of the worst Chinese skills in the Sonics.

Presti on the other side is different.

Not only did he know what Ye Si's words meant, but he also knew where they came from.

For people like him who work hard to learn Chinese and Chinese culture, this sentence is too famous.

A traitor in troubled times, a capable minister in governing times...

When the team is doing well, he is the backbone of the team.

When the team declines, is it the source of chaos?

Hearing Ye Si's comments about chasing dreams, Presti's eyes flickered.

Not a peaceful person...

On May 22, 2009, the third game of the conference finals between the Heat and the Cavaliers began.

The Heat, who had massacred the Cavaliers twice on the road before, returned to their home court and actually lost...

Not only did he lose, but James, who had performed like a god in the previous two games, actually went undercover again...