the great gatsby

Chapter 242 Draft!

Gates was pleasantly surprised, but his face was quite calm. He said, "I'm just a player. I don't know how to run a business. Of course, it's up to you to decide the business. I can agree to this condition."

Kalanick said joyfully: "Then the deal will be made. Let's conclude the contract as soon as possible. Uber is about to launch. Funding and advertising must be prepared first."

Gatsby smiled and said: "No problem, this is my agent, Miss Li Wanyu, you just let the people in the contract department negotiate with Miss Li Wanyu's team, as soon as possible, I won't have time to shoot commercials in a while gone."

Kalanick and Kemp also said happily: "Naturally, the sooner the better, with Mr. Gatsby joining us, our confidence will be even more sufficient."

Because both parties were looking forward to this cooperation, the contract was signed very quickly. Gatsby quickly got involved in the filming of Uber's promotional ads. During this period, the Celtics and Lakers also had a yellow-green battle. The two teams fought for seven games. In the tiebreaker, the Los Angeles Lakers narrowly won the O'Brien Cup by 4 points. The 2009-10 season came to an end.

The season ended and the draft began. The Knicks had no first-round picks, only two second-round picks, but Gatsby still went to Madison Square Garden to participate in the 2010 draft with great interest. He failed to participate in the draft last year. Being invited to the Little Green House, I could only watch the live broadcast at Fatty's home. This time he was participating in the conference as a star of the league. The feeling is completely different.

Gatsby sat below and waited for the draft to start. During the period, rookies kept coming to greet Gatsby. The small green room is a special term in the American sports draft. The players in the Green Room are generally selected through the vote of the general manager of the NBA team, and finally decided by the vice president of the league, Adam Silver, based on the selection intentions of the teams holding the high-ranking picks before the draft held by the league.

Since the top 14 picks in the annual draft are called the lottery area, at least 14 players will be invited, depending on the intentions of each draft team that year. Players who enter the small green room can be accompanied by relatives and friends at the draft site .In the draft, the selected players will be given a peaked cap to pick their team by on-site officials, and then they will take the stage to shake hands with NBA Commissioner Stern.

Nineteen people were invited to the small green room this year, among which John Wall, Evan Turner, Derek Favors and other hot players naturally came to the scene. Gatsby also saw Cousins, Paul George, Hayward and others, these rookies saw Gatsby so excitedly came to shake his hand, there is no way, the rise like Gatsby is the dream of these rookies, they dream of being able to enter the The league kills all directions, leading the bottom team to the Eastern Conference Finals in the first season, this is simply too cool!
Jeremy Lin was not invited to the Little Green House, so he stayed at a friend's house. It was too polite to say that it was a sojourn, and he just borrowed a sofa to sleep. On the day of the draft, he nervously turned on the TV, checked the time, and left to start. There are still two hours left, he is absent-mindedly watching the boring TV series on the TV, feeling like the days are like years, after a lengthy commercial, the draft event finally begins!

The draft site was set up in the center of Madison Square Garden. He saw Gatsby on TV. Jeremy Lin especially envied Gatsby. He is also of Chinese descent. With some confidence, Gatsby could rise, and so could he.

Stern came to the stage with a smile like the previous two decades, and the audience booed Stern wildly, and Stern was not angry. This has probably become a must-have program for every draft conference.

Stern announced the start of the draft, and then began to announce the players selected by each team. The top three were basically the same as expected, and there was no difference with what Gatsby knew. John Wall was elected No. [-] and Evan Turner was awarded No. , Derek Favors was finally selected by the Nets and became the No. [-] pick.

With the 4th overall pick, the Timberwolves selected Syracuse University small forward Wesley Johnson as they wished.

Then the 5th Kings did not make too different decisions. They picked Wall's teammate, the most controversial rookie this year, DeMarcus Cousins. He is considered to be second only to Wall in talent level. But there are flaws in character.

With the 6th overall pick, the Warriors selected Ipa Udo, an insider from Baylor University. He has Nigerian descent and is a super hot pot player, nicknamed "Nightmare".

The Pistons selected Greg Monroe from Georgetown University, who is known as the best passing big man this year.

The Clippers took Wake Forest's Al-Farouq Aminu with the 8th pick, and the Jazz with the 9th pick chose a white forward. Den Hayward, he is the first white player selected in this conference, and also the first NBA first-round pick in Butler's 155-year school history.

The Pacers also selected small forward Paul George from a small school with the 10th overall pick.

Afterwards, all the 30 picks in the first round were selected. Jeremy Lin felt a little sour, but it was okay. He was not ranked in the first round at all in the pre-match prediction. His draft prediction was in the second round. At the end of the round, this may also be because of Gatsby. ESPN, which released the forecast, associated him with Gatsby when it introduced him, so he was reluctantly included in the end of the second round.

The Knicks' No. 38 and No. 39 picks were both high in the second round. Gatsby cheered up and listened to Stern's announcement: "The Knicks selected Lance Stephenson with the No. 38 pick and the No. 39 pick. Picking Jamie Lin! Congratulations!"

"Yeah!!!!!!" Jeremy Lin jumped up from the sofa, dancing, jumping up and down in the living room, waking up all the friends who stayed up late to catch up on sleep.

Gatsby at the scene was also quite satisfied. Both Jeremy Lin and Stephenson were able to make up for the Knicks' deficiencies in the guard line. Stephenson's weight and strength are very good among shooting guards, except for some weird moves sometimes, but that It doesn't matter, the growth of rookies has something to do with the early training.

Jeremy Lin is 191cm and 90kg. He is a heavy point guard in terms of height and weight. As long as he is trained well and given more opportunities to perform, he can grow into an excellent point guard. Jeremy Lin's offensive ability is still very strong, and his organizational skills are not bad. Being able to become Lin Crazy is not a fluke, but has a good strength. It is definitely not possible to make him the boss, but as a substitute, he is definitely top-notch.

(End of this chapter)