NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 189 Cutting Hu Leonard Butler
With David Stern on stage, the draft officially opened.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, holding the No. [-] pick, selected Kyrie Irving with the No. [-] pick.

Irving's strength is indeed worthy of the title of No. 11 pick, especially under the premise of not knowing the potential contained in Leonard, Irving is the most shining one among the rookies in [-].

It's just that Wang Chao, who knows how immortal Owen will be in the future, will never consider this strange person whose thinking is different from ordinary people.

After all, Wang Chao can't be as calm as Durant is in the face of Irving's various ways of being a monster.

The Minnesota Timberwolves, holding the second overall pick, missed many correct options and selected Derek Williams as before.

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"Golden State Warriors' ninth overall pick selected guard Klay Thompson from Washington State University."

When David Stern said these words with a smile on his face to the camera, Wang Chao breathed a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, even though the draft pick was high, the Warriors still firmly chose Klay Thompson. Obviously, at this time, the Warriors have already set the tone for future development, trading Monta Ellis, strengthening Curry, and drafting The selection of Klay Thompson, who mainly plays off the ball and long-range shots, is paving the way for the team's future development.

While thinking this way in his heart, Stern continued in the stands.

Soon, it was the Houston Rockets who held the No. 14 pick.

In the Spurs box, when Stern said that the Rockets selected Kawhi Leonard with the No.14 overall pick, everyone froze for a moment.

"Houston is interested in Kawhi? Why haven't I heard of it before, and the Rockets didn't invite him to participate in the pre-draft trial?"

The general manager of the Spurs looked puzzled and couldn't help standing up from the sofa.

The Rockets completely disrupted his plan.

Originally, they had already greeted the Pacers in advance and asked the Pacers to help them select Leonard with the No. 15 pick, and then they would trade with the Pacers to get this forward with good potential.

But now...

After thinking for a while, he said to the assistant on the side, "Call the Rockets management and ask if they have any ideas about trading Leonard, saying that we are willing to exchange the next two first rounds, or that the team's value other than GDP The rest of the players are the Rockets' pick."

However, after the assistant made the phone call, he showed embarrassment, shook his head and said, "No, the Rockets said that Leonard is a player they are optimistic about. He will be trained as the core of the future team and will not trade."
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Without Leonard, Wang Chao has no way of knowing whether the Spurs can reach two finals and win a championship two years later, and he doesn't care.

And it's not over yet.

With the No.20 third pick in the first round, the Rockets selected small forward Jimmy Butler.

This draft has made many people a little confused.

The Rockets have already selected Leonard with a higher overall pick, why should they choose another Butler with the same position and even a similar style of play?
Unlike Leonard whose draft template is Gerald Wallace, Jimmy Butler was not favored by the outside world during the draft. His best draft template is just an NBA draft pick Maurice Evans , That is to say, in the eyes of scouts, if Butler develops well, he should be able to average about seven or eight points per game in the league and become a defensive role player.

At this time, no one could have imagined that the future Butler would be known as the hardest JB in the world and become one of the best players in the league.

In Wang Chao's view, the positions of Leonard and Butler do not conflict. Butler served as the team's shooting guard for a long time in the Bulls early in his career. He is a swingman. Butler was selected Wang Chao's plan is to let Butler play the team's shooting guard, Leonard play the small forward, and Wang Chao himself plays the power forward position or directly plays the point guard.

The draft entered the second round, and Wang Chao made another move, using the Rockets' second-round pick to sign forward Chandler Parsons.

Rockets management.

At this moment, everyone thought Wang Chao was crazy.

What is this doing?A forward picks three forwards in the draft, what?Are you bored by yourself and ready to play mahjong together?

The key is that the Rockets currently have an all-star small forward Sharad Lewis, and there is one more player in mahjong.

But why does Wang Chao care about you so much?
The second round of the draft was originally a lottery. Chandler Parsons, as one of the only two high-quality players in the second round of the 11th round, of course, won it without hesitation. The problem is that he didn’t get much playing time and was eventually crippled by practice, so it’s not bad to look good on the bench. As a second-round pick, the Rockets only need less than $100 million to sign Parsons, so what else do you need? bike?

Wang Chao's operation is more than that.

After selecting Chandler Parsons and squandering all his draft picks, Wang Chao asked the Rockets management to use some leftover players of the Rockets in exchange for a draft pick near the end. Isaiah Thomas, who was selected by the buzzer with the No. 30 pick in the second round.

As a result, the strongest 175 on the surface was also included in the lineup by the Rockets.

Isaiah Thomas's career is quite legendary and regrettable. When he was in the Celtics, Thomas Jr. was almost on the altar and became a legend in the NBA.

But just a little bit.

After two brief seasons of glory for the Celtics, Thomas Jr. was traded to the Cavaliers and was troubled by injuries at the same time.

As a player with a height of only 1 meters, Thomas Jr. has achieved the extreme that this height can do, and he is definitely a player with outstanding strength.

However, limited by his height, Thomas Jr. is destined to not be particularly efficient on the offensive end. His career shooting percentage of 43.6% is the best proof, and his height of 1 meters makes him a black hole on the defensive end. The general existence can only exert its greatest power in the case of a team defense system like the Celtics, and someone wipes his ass for him.

Taking it all into consideration, Thomas Jr. is not the best candidate for a point guard, and there are indeed a lot of flaws and weaknesses.

But the problem is that he is cheap!

As the bottom rookie in the second round, the starting salary of Thomas Jr.’s rookie contract is only 60 US dollars, and the total value of the three-year rookie contract is 240 million US dollars. , otherwise it will be lower.

The average annual salary of 80 yuan is no different from what was picked up for nothing in terms of an NBA team's annual salary of several million or tens of millions. Why not?

Still the same sentence, even if they sit on the bench and eat ashes, they will not lose money with such a low salary. If they can perform as brightly as they did in history, it will be a blood profit!
Leonard, Butler, Parsons, Thomas Jr.

Wang Chao, who selected four players, was very satisfied. This feeling of being open to select potential players in the draft is really cool.

The only fly in the ointment is that it failed to get the top 3D player Klay Thompson.

Wang Chao is 100% sure that if he partners with Thompson, the effect will definitely be stronger than Curry Thompson's Splash Brothers.

But it doesn't matter if it doesn't, with Leonard + Butler's top striker configuration, and some trades and changes to the Rockets' current lineup, it is fully capable of creating a Rockets dynasty.

"Then, the next thing is up to everyone. The labor negotiations are estimated to take quite a long time. During this period, we cannot communicate in private, otherwise it will be regarded as a violation by the league, so wait until the lockout is over before proceeding to the next step." Let's work."

At the end of the draft, after Wang Chao and the Rockets said these words, they simply patted their buttocks and left, leaving behind the Rockets management who looked at each other face to face.
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The lively draft conference is over, but the discussion about the draft conference is constantly fermenting.

The fans of the Houston Rockets may be the most dissatisfied team fans with this draft.

This shit, what kind of plane is the Rockets management drafting?
Three small forwards were selected with three draft picks, and then a guard with a height of only 1 meters was selected through a trade. Does this mean that the team's point guard is not tall enough?
The Rockets' main point guard this season is still Aaron Brooks. Because of the butterfly effect, he was not traded to the Suns to swap with Dragic.

Brooks is 1 meters tall. He is relatively short among point guards. The defensive end is a loophole level, and no one can defend him.

Because of this, the Rockets have always wanted to trade him away this season, but they have no good options so they can only be forced to stay in the lineup.

Well now, Brooks plus Isaiah Thomas, the average height of the Rockets point guard position is only 1 meters.

Whether it is the fans of the Rockets or the various sports media, they have been fooled by the Rockets' showmanship in the draft, and they don't understand what this is going to do.

Did the Rockets go straight to the road of letting themselves go after firing the general manager of the team?It might as well let Mo Gou continue to serve as the general manager of the team, at least he won't mess around like this during the draft.

However, a few days after the draft contest ended, the focus of the fans of the entire league and even the world immediately shifted from the draft conference to the league labor negotiations.

On June 2011, 6, after two and a half hours of negotiations, the NBA labor and management officially confirmed that they could not reach an agreement, and the NBA officially announced that it will officially enter the lockout period on July 30.

During the NBA lockout, all normal work in the league was stopped. The team is prohibited from having private contact with players during the lockout period, and players are not allowed to use the team's training hall and other facilities.

After the initial negotiation, both the labor and management did not have much hope for the final negotiation result. Some pessimists even believed that the NBA might be completely disbanded because of this, and the third largest league in the entire league would become history.
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The lockout of the NBA has made many basketball leagues just around the corner.

European leagues, CBA, etc. have made moves one after another, trying to lure a group of superstars from the NBA to play in their own leagues.

Including Deron. Williams, Lamar Odom, Tony. Parker and other players have gone overseas to join the European League team.

The CBA also made a timely move and successively won many NBA players, including Kenyon Martin, the No. 01 pick in [-], and Aaron Brooks, the main point guard of the Rockets.

It's just that these players are not famous enough to satisfy the CBA and Huaguo fans.

As the lockout time goes on, it is more likely that more and more top superstars will join the CBA.

Among them, the most popular one is undoubtedly Wang Chao.

Wang Chao, who has just won three consecutive championships and two consecutive regular season MVPs, has been hailed as the No.1 in the new league and the strongest player in the active world.

Thousands of Huaguo fans hope to see this Huaguo's national idol play up close.

Almost all the CBA teams couldn't bear it anymore and sent invitations to Wang Chao with very attractive conditions.

However, facing the CBA teams swarming like sharks smelling blood, Wang Chao declined them one by one through his agent Bill Duffy.

"My employer has no intention of playing in other leagues for the time being. He wants to take advantage of this suspension for intensive training to further improve his strength."

Wang Chao is not interested in the CBA, and as a traveler, he is very clear that the NBA will not disappear completely because of the lockout. The lockout will end and restart at the end of November. Strictly speaking, it is only two months later than the normal season. time only.

It just so happened that he could use the extra few months to get familiar with and adapt to some of the new functions of the upgraded system, and further strengthen and train his own abilities.

That's right, after Wang Chao won three consecutive championships and achieved three consecutive FMVPs, the task of upgrading the system was officially completed.

It's just that at the moment the task was completed, the entire system entered the state of reading the update. When Wang Chao entered the consciousness space as before, all he saw was a progress bar of a percentage that was slowly increasing, and nothing else. All abilities including his data panel and talent tree are gone.

Judging from the growth rate of the progress bar, the system can be upgraded and reopened by the end of July.

Coincidentally, Wang Chao can also use this month's time to give himself a good vacation and relax.

Ever since, when the players in the entire league were anxiously looking for a next home because of the suspension of the league and their uncertain future, Wang Chao leisurely started the vacation mode.

Soon, paparazzi photographed Wang Chao appearing on the beach in Hawaii, and he was traveling with Victoria's Secret supermodel Miranda Kerr.

Every photo of Miranda Kerr in a bikini taken by the paparazzi is like an art photo. Her perfect body and delicate face make people want to stop.

Wearing beach shorts, Wang Chao also showed off her perfect abs. With a sunny and handsome appearance, Miranda Kerr and Miranda Kerr are like a golden couple, a match made in heaven.

Many people who eat melons who saw the photos of the two felt sour.

This TM is too much a winner in life, right?

However, only a week later, Wang Chao appeared in New York again, attending another top supermodel Candice Swanepoel's Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York.

At this time, some people have begun to think about it a little bit.

Wang Chao hugging left and right, he is completely a Neptune!

The ambiguous relationship between Wang Chao and the two top supermodels has been mentioned many times by many gossip entertainment media before, and the relationship between the three has always been a topic of discussion. No one knows that Wang Chao will end up with the two beauties which one of them together.

But looking at it now, it seems that Wang Chao has no idea of ​​choosing one of the two at all, children only make choices, and I want them all!
Although the United States is also monogamous, there are not a few billionaires who publicly declare that they have several girlfriends.

Not to mention the country of America, even in the country of China, there are many examples of rich and wealthy people hiding in golden houses, and their original partners know the existence of each other.

Besides, Wang Chao has never officially established a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship with any of the two, so apart from envy, jealousy and hatred, no one can say why.

(End of this chapter)