basketball pope

Chapter 891 [Show hype, metamorphic alliance]

After the holiday, Yang Rui made some draft suggestions. The team's second-round picks and the second-round picks that were traded for Crabbe from the Pelicans were traded out, leaving only one first-round pick.

Norman Powell and Malcolm Brogdon both have potential and are worthy of training. If they are drafted again, they can only be marginal people. It is better to renew their contracts and become veterans.

Leaving the 30th place in the first round, Yang Rui wanted to see if he could select forward Kyle Kuzma. This is a promising rookie, and the draft is low. The 27th place in his previous life was selected by the Lakers. Can score 16 points.He has a full range of offensive means, catch-and-shoot jumpers, pull-up jumpers, empty cuts, and low-post footsteps, making it difficult to be restricted on the court.

There were some variables in the 2017 draft. Malik Newman, the best performer who participated in Yang Rui training camp that year, successfully transformed into a point guard, and gave up his hometown to join the University of Kentucky.He entered this draft and was selected 16th by the Timberwolves.

The 76ers won another No. 193 overall pick and selected shooting guard Markelle Fultz.He is 208cm tall and has a wingspan of [-]cm. He is a talented defender with amazing athletic ability, fast speed, strong bounce and comprehensive skills.

The Lakers won the second place again and selected "Ball Brother" Lonzo Ball. In the new season, he will stage how steel is made and challenge the unprecedented total hit rate "100 Club".

The Magic drafted forward Jayson Tatum.The Celtics love this guy, but they haven't traded Pierce, Garnett with the Nets in their life, and they don't have the right to swap the 2017 first-round pick with the Nets.

Last season, the Lakers did not trade Lou Williams for the relatively late first-round pick. Unfortunately, Kuzma was still "cut off" and the Raptors recruited him into the team.

After Clippers manager Nell Olshey texted Yang Rui to discuss, he selected Tony Bradley, a blue-collar center with outstanding physicality and amazing wingspan, and then traded him to the Jazz.

After the draft, on June 6th, the 27 NBA Awards Ceremony was held in Manhattan City Park, New York. This is the first time in NBA history that the major awards of the regular season will be announced through an award ceremony.

Adam Silva thinks that he is very good at show hype, but the fans don't buy it, because the awards came too late, and the championship has been decided for half a month.Coupled with the big news of Yang Rui's retirement, who cares about what happened in the regular season two and a half months ago?

The announcement of the awards so late makes people suspect that there will be some ulterior shady operations inside, which has caused a lot of controversy.

The best defensive team, Kawhi Leonard, Draymond Green, and Rudy Gobert are not controversial.The Rockets' Beverley and the Mavericks' Paul were selected for the defensive first team together, and fans felt that it was too nonsense.

After D'Antoni joined the Rockets, they were a team that won by offense, and Paul of the Mavericks missed [-] games in the regular season.

The Clippers' "Brother Antetokounmpo" Giannis Antetokounmpo and Danny Green were selected for the defensive second team, along with Tony Allen, Anthony Davis, and Andre Robertson.

Judging from the defensive data, James is not wronged this time. After changing teams, his defensive enthusiasm in the regular season has been insufficient.

The best defensive player was won by Draymond Green for the second time in his career. He is the core of the Clippers' defense and is extremely versatile.

The best rookie was won by Joel Embiid of the Lakers. He barely met the selection criteria. The 2016 class was the worst draft in the past 30 years. Except for Embiid this season, there is no rookie field. Both scored in double figures.Embiid is not yet a 16-year-old rookie, and he has taken a two-year break to compete in the NBA.

The best coach award was won by Dwyane Casey of the Raptors, who was upset and won the second record in the Eastern Conference.

The best sixth man was Rockets guard Eric Gordon, who scored more points than LaVine and averaged 3.3 [-]-pointers per game.

The most improved player was Antetokounmpo, who was an All-Star this year.

The MVP of the regular season was finally awarded to Kevin Durant, which was very controversial, because Durant just joined the Wizards. This team was the first in the East last year, and its record has not improved much.Durant picked up a big leak. The league can no longer give the award to Curry, and it is more controversial than Durant to give it to others.

Silva also deliberately came up with some tasteless new awards to the players to show encouragement.

Teammate of the Year Award for Dirk Nowitzki, for being old and getting stronger, locker room leader and more.

Bill Russell received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

A combination of Draymond and Curry won the assist award; Oladipo won the dunk of the year award; Leonard won the block of the year award.

There is also an annual "Seg Strong Award", the winner is the Spurs vice president Monty - Williams.

Silva said that in order to commemorate the famous basketball reporter Craig Seg who passed away just last year, to commemorate his contributions to the basketball career and his heroic fight against the leukemia demon, the NBA decided to open the "Seg Strong Award" for the first time this year. , to honor those pioneers in the Alliance who are full of courage, faith, and compassion.

Monty Williams won the award after his wife was tragically killed in a car accident, after which he quit his job as a Thunder assistant coach, delivered a moving speech and forgave the accident with great compassion By.

After watching the award ceremony, Yang Rui does not plan to return to coach in the future. The NBA has now begun to develop in the direction of "China's cry", and it is only a matter of singing and mentoring to turn around. It's only a matter of time before the NBA becomes as fake as WEE, it's boring.

In July, the NBA free agency opened, and the signings were crazier than last year.

The Raptors' 4-year, 1.06 million contract renewal for Otto Porter is more expensive than Antetokounmpo's contract renewal. He is just a role player.

The Raptors renew their contract with core point guard Kyle Lowry for three years and $[-] million, which is even more terrifying.

Even the injury-prone point guard Jrue Holiday signed a five-year, $5 million extension with the Pelicans.

Ordinary players are so expensive, and the price of top players can be imagined.

The Rockets and James Harden renewed a 4-year contract ahead of schedule. Last summer, the Rockets re-signed a 4-year, $1.18 million contract with Harden. In the next two seasons, Harden's salary is $2830 million and $3042 million for a six-year total contract of $2.26 million.

With the rise of the salary cap, Conley's "first contract" was very common at the time. It is no wonder that Conley, who took the largest contract in history at the time, said there was no pressure, and he got used to it after two years, and it happened only one summer.

Under such conditions, Yang Rui decisively asked the manager Olshey to give up trading Zach LaVine, and use him for another season, and let him go next year for nothing. LaVine's contract for next season is too low, and the level of his performance is worth more than 2000 million. If he stays for another year, he will make money.In exchange for young players who haven't played well, the Clippers are not easy to train.

The Clippers lineup has nothing to adjust. Most of the players have contracts. Only David Lee took the ring and announced his retirement.The Clippers signed power forward Jeff Green for a one-year, $1 million replacement.

Green averaged 9.1 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game with the Magic last season while shooting less than 31% from the field.He scores mainly on jumpers. He is only [-] years old this year, and he has good athleticism and can play a role.

The Clippers have three Greens and will test the performance of the Chinese commentators next season.

If you play small ball tactics, maybe Chinese fans will hear a multi-shadow avatar commentary: "Green grabbed the backcourt rebound and passed it to Green to counterattack. He quickly advanced to the frontcourt and passed to Green who followed up in the middle for a dunk and scored. !"

Next season, the Clippers will still have the strongest lineup in the league.

(End of this chapter)