NBA: Since James left the Cavaliers

Two days later, the NBA successfully ushered in the 2011 draft!

This is the most important thing in the league after a season is over, and every team will select their favorite players in the draft.

If the normal historical trajectory is followed, the Cavaliers will have the No. [-] pick this year and select future All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving.

But now, this matter is destined not to happen, because they made the playoffs in the season that just ended, and also became the final championship winners, so the lottery pick for this season, Doomed to miss them.

Not only did they not get a lottery pick, they were assigned a very late first-round pick.

According to the NBA's lottery rules, the team that ranks first in the regular season gets the lottery corresponding to the 30th pick.

The 16 teams that entered the playoffs were all analogized in this way, and the Cavaliers achieved the second record in the league under the leadership of Long Rui, so they only got the 29th pick.

Of course, these draft picks are not completely fixed. After all, these picks can be traded in the NBA. If you want to gain something in the draft, then you can get the pick you want by trading. .

At the draft conference, Cavaliers general manager David Griffin dragged his chin casually. He didn't expect much from this draft conference.

What good player can be selected with the 29th pick?As long as he maintains the current lineup of the Cavaliers, they are one of the most powerful teams in the league.

What's more, the Cavaliers' core team is still so young and has unlimited potential, so he doesn't care much about this draft.

Of course, this is just David Griffin's own idea, and Long Rui doesn't think so.

As a time traveler, he is well aware that there are many players with great potential hidden in this draft, and their draft picks are not very high.

For example, Klay Thompson, who will become a top 3D player in the future, is one of the members of the Splash Brothers!

If Long Rui remembered correctly, he was the No.11 pick in the first round.

Another example is Kawhi Leonard. No one may have imagined that he will become a top superstar in the league in the future. However, such a player is only the 15th pick in the first round.

In addition, there is another very inspirational player, he is Isaiah Thomas with the No.60 pick!
In the future, he will be called 'the strongest 175 on the surface'. Because of his short height, no one is optimistic about his prospects, but in his peak period, he has a terrifying scoring ability.

These players are obviously super potential stocks in this draft. Of course, except for Long Rui, no one else will know.

Just yesterday, Long Rui sent a message to David Griffin, that is, let him use the No. 29 pick in his hand to select Jimmy Butler.

When Griffin saw Long Rui's request, he couldn't help feeling a little strange. He had read Jimmy Butler's draft report and thought he was a very ordinary player with nothing special about him.

Butler is 6 feet 7 inches tall, a standard small forward body, and weighs 222 pounds. The draft template is Lazar Hayward.

His advantage is that he is very comprehensive, but his disadvantage is that every item is very mediocre, he doesn't have any ability to show off, his ability to shoot outside is not good, his ability to attack independently is not strong, and his offensive methods are very single.

At the draft site, Cavaliers general manager David Griffin looked at Jimmy Butler's draft report again. He really didn't understand why Long Rui chose him.

You must know that the weakness of the Cavaliers has always been the inside line, which was exposed very early in the game. Once they face an opponent with a strong inside line, they will suffer a lot.

The seven games of the finals are still vivid in my mind, and they almost lost to the inside twin towers of the Mavericks.

So Griffin originally planned to use this pick to see if he could miss a good inside player.

But now that Long Rui opened his mouth, he had no choice but to give up this idea. After all, Long Rui is now the absolute favorite of the Cavaliers, and played a vital role in the team's reinforcement last season.

Although Long Rui is in China, he is always concerned about the situation of the draft. According to his memory before crossing, Jimmy Bartley will be selected by the Bulls with the 30th overall pick in the first round.

And now they are holding the 29th position, and they can just complete the interception before the Bulls, but they don't know whether they will develop according to the historical track. This is what Long Rui is worried about.

The original No. [-] pick was in the hands of the Cavaliers, but now it is in the hands of the Golden State Warriors.

In the past season, the Warriors can be said to have been cheated a lot. Perhaps it was God's will in the dark. They lost Curry and now they got the No. [-] pick that originally belonged to the Cavaliers.

After NBA Commissioner David Stern gave a simple opening speech, the current draft kicked off.

Kyrie Irving is the most popular candidate for the No. [-] pick in this draft. In the end, the Warriors thought twice and selected Irving with the first pick in their hands!
Long Rui also learned the news immediately. It seemed like Irving and Curry had been swapped. No matter how you look at it, the Cavaliers would make more money!
The subsequent selection opportunities have not changed in any way. It is worth mentioning that after the Warriors selected Irving, they obtained the No. 11 pick through a series of transactions, and used it to select Klay Thompson!
Going around, Thompson was still selected by the Warriors, but his combination with Curry is called the "Splash Brothers", so what about his combination with Irving?

At this point in the draft, except for the Cavaliers' draft pick change, other teams have hardly received much impact.

Then Leonard was also selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 15th overall pick, which also did not change.

After hearing the news, Long Rui's heart gradually relaxed. Now it seems that they still have a good chance to win Jimmy Butler.

As each team continued to complete the selection, Jimmy Butler sitting in the background was also a little anxious.

After all, he himself knows very well that his draft prospects are not good, but he still looks forward to being selected in the first round.

Soon, it reached the 28th pick, which is now also occupied by the Bulls, and it is the pick that the team management obtained through a trade.

They are the team with the most contact with Butler among the thirty teams, and they are also the most likely to select Butler.

For this reason, Butler, who is in the background, is also looking forward to it!