You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 592 Draft Night

2010/6/24

madison garden

Every draft day, commentators from all walks of life are busy.Draft day is the easiest stage to make predictions, and if the predictions are wrong, it will not add too much jokes.

You must know that no matter how tricky the industry insiders are, there will be a day when they are mistaken.

The cardinal, Jerry West or Popovich, these recognized Bole, are sometimes deceived by lard and choose the wrong person.

Before the draft day, Wei Xia and Elaine watched the movie "Remember Me" (Remember Me) produced by Twilight Man Robert Pattinson at home. He was not only the producer of the film, but also the leading actor of the film.

He is a bit like Keanu Reeves when he was young, his whole face glows with the confidence of "I am the most handsome in the world", dangerous and charming, but his acting skills are too bad.

The reason why Wei Xia insisted on watching the movie was that he wanted to see Pattinson show excellent acting skills worthy of his handsome face in a certain scene.

However, Pattinson is very practical - I can rely on my face to make a living, why should I rely on my ability? ——He is really handsome and impeccable, but it is another proof that he is handsome but cannot have a woman's heart.I, who was typing on the keyboard, and everyone who saw this, Wu Yanzu, probably couldn't imagine why Twilight Girl would ride on the director's body again and again with such a handsome boyfriend.

After watching the movie, Wei Xia was very disappointed. Such a movie scored 7.3 points on Douban. Wyf is really wronged through the ages. People who closed their eyes and scored one point after seeing PAOKING don’t know what to pay back.

"As an actor, he is too bad." By his wife's side, Wei Xia has always spoken directly.

Elaine just thought Pattinson was attractive, and when she heard that Wei Xia stepped on the other party's business ability, she couldn't help saying, "He's still very young."

This scene was like the NBA draft the next day.

Those saplings seem to have the potential to grow into towering trees, but there are not many saplings that can grow in the end, and there may not be any saplings that can grow to the height of a player of Kobe's level.

Pattinson in the movie, like Coleman in 1990, Kenny Anderson in 1991, Sharks in 1992, Sean Bradley and "Penny" Hardaway in 1993, Garnett in 1995, Iverson and Kobe in 1996, McGrady in 1997, Pierce in 1998, Brand and Ginobili in 1999, especially this year, The penultimate rookie finally stood at the highest height among the students of the same class, a wonderful irony and a wonderful contrast.

This is the draft. Young people who have never played a game are all under the same dimension to be inspected by the most rigorous team in the world.

Through investigation, being elected to a high position does not mean that everything will be fine.

Even in the face of a goal that has been tracked for several years, there will still be times when you can't see it. The progress and development of the players do not go according to the wishes of others.

In Elaine's imagination, Pattinson's appearance gave him extra points, so in her eyes, Pattinson should be Derek Favors in the 2010 draft -- a high-quality athletic fourth position, young, primitive, full of talent, but needs long-term polishing.

But in Wei Xia's view, Pattinson is more like Wesley Johnson.

An older player averaged 16 points per game before graduation, and he may not exceed this level in his entire life.

However, at the moment, neither Wei Xia nor Elaine has enough evidence to prove that they are right, and only time will give the answer.

This is the charm of the draft.

The draft is from 7:12 p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m. Wei Xia prepared props, snacks, and drinks for polishing the time an hour in advance.

Today is a day for overeating.

He prepared enough snacks, water, and called his friend Dick Long.

After Dalong graduated from school, he did not stay in LA to develop. In his words, LA was not suitable for him. He chose to return to his hometown to find an ordinary job.

Recently, Wei Xia bought a Chinese restaurant and asked Dalong to be the manager of the restaurant. Although he was not very good at it, the reward for that job was something he couldn't refuse.

Usually he would come to Wei Xia's house to sit and sit when he was free.

"Who is the champion?" Dalong asked.

"There should be no suspense." Wei Xia said.

Stu Scott, Jon Barry, Jeff Van Gundy and Jay Bilas had some interesting things to say in the pregame show.

Barry didn't know where the news came from. He actually said that the Warriors might trade the No. [-] pick.

The value of the No. [-] pick in the draft year is much greater than the No. [-] pick in the draft year.

If the operation is good, there is a chance to bring a superstar to the team.

As a result, the Warriors actually wanted to use the No. 1 pick to trade the Clippers' 09-level No. [-] pick Blake Griffin who was reimbursed for the season after only playing [-] minute last season.

What's even more outrageous is that the Clippers refused.

The current head of the Clippers is Elgin Baylor's successor, Neil Olshey (Neil Olshey), he simply rejected the Warriors, and said that Griffin is not for sale for the Clippers: "No one in the 2010 draft can be compared with Blake!"

The warrior was dumbfounded now.

They originally wanted to use this extremely valuable No. [-] pick to get Griffin and next year's first-round pick from the Clippers. Unexpectedly, the Clippers didn't even have the idea of ​​​​changing Griffin for the No. [-] pick.

A rumor quietly emerged.

The Thunder intends to exchange James Harden plus this year's first-round pick for the No. [-] pick in the hands of the Warriors.

According to Thunder's attitude, the chips can still be increased.

But their main bargaining chip in the deal is Harden.

In his rookie season, Harden averaged 9.9 points and 3 rebounds per game as a sixth man, which is actually not bad, but this deal is not very attractive to the Warriors.

The deal was never finalized.

According to later revelations, the Warriors rejected not only their deal with the Thunder, but also involved many team reconstruction plans.

The Thunder's original plan was to trade Harden, pick Cousins ​​with the No. [-] pick, and end the reconstruction with the trend, and start hitting the playoffs with a relatively healthy guard (Westbrook), wing (Durant), and inside (Cousins) as the core.

There are people on all three lines. If Cousins ​​can fulfill his talents, the Thunder's core lineup will be impeccable.

As a result, the Warriors refused.

They don't seem to be able to find a more powerful buyer. Today, when the insiders are dying, no team can offer attractive chips to force them to give up the No. [-] pick.

So, no suspense.

With the No. 2010 pick in the first round in [-], the Warriors can say letter by letter that they want John Wall even if they are captured by the five senses.

Stern read Wall's name, and the commentators started blowing.

"Best player of the tournament!"

"The most unmissable player of all the players who will enter the league!"

"Best pure point guard since Jason Kidd."

"No, he's better than Jason!"

Jay Bilas used "tremendous" five times in 2 minutes to show Wall's dominance.

Next, an ESPN reporter up front asked Wall what it means to be Kentucky's first No. [-] pick in the NBA.

Wei Xia in front of the TV was sure it didn't make any sense.

Many have been single longer divided by two than Wall and Kentucky have been linked.

Before the draft, the 76ers first announced that they were planning to fire Eddie Jordan.

Long live the Philadelphia Hills!

Some unscrupulous businessmen are printing "We survived the days of Eddie Jordan" commemorative shirts and selling them.

Jordan's departure from Philadelphia means a lot, and Vershaw sincerely wishes him the best of luck.

From a poor standpoint, he lacks skill.

He's not a solid coach for a strong team.

But removing him means that the 76ers are about to achieve the achievement of changing their coach once a year in the past five years, which is more diligent than Japan changing its prime minister.

"Although they have Wish, they still have two troublesome contracts of Andre Iguodala and Elton Brand to deal with. We all know that Andre and Wish are not suitable, and Elton is far from what it used to be. Keep the current lineup, the only thing we can see is a team that is lost and constantly wastes the prime of the top ten players in the league!"

Jeff Van Gundy in the commentary has a lot more humor than he did when he was coaching.

He took the opportunity to make a harmless joke: "Actually, if they can make the right decision in this draft, they may not have a chance to turn around, but I want to tell the 76ers fans a bad news-the last time Philadelphia drew the second overall pick in the draft, they chose Keith Van Horn."

To many uninitiated, the Sixers seemed to have only two options.

The first option, take Derrick Favors, he can bring immediate changes to the weak inside.

The second choice, Evan Turner, the second position of 201 cm, comprehensive and capable of playing multiple positions, is the second most reliable talent after Wall.

Was it difficult to make this decision?

Wei Xia thinks not.

As Stern stepped in front of the camera again, opened the envelope, and read out the 76ers' pick in his distinctive voice: "In the 2010 NBA Draft, the Philadelphia 76ers selected with the second pick in the first round—Evan Turner, from Ohio State University!"

　This chapter did not write about the 76ers' draft. I didn't even think of it myself. I regret it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)