Zhiba NBA

Chapter 183 (180 Two) Fresh Blood

The draft that followed was uneventful, and the remaining two of North Carolina's four young players were quickly picked away. MOP (Most Outstanding Player) Sean May joined the Bobcats with the 13th pick in the first round, while Rashad McCants was selected by the Timberwolves at 14th.

The champion North Carolina is so popular, and the runner-up Illinois is naturally not bad.In addition to Deron, they also have two outstanding backcourt players, Luther Hyde and Di Brown. The three are collectively known as the Illinois Three Musketeers.Their record throughout the season is an astonishing 37 wins and 2 losses. Unfortunately, these two losses include the last lost final.Among them, Dee Brown was injured in the training camp before the draft, and finally gave up participating in the draft, determined to return to college for another year.Hyde was selected by the Pistons with the 25th overall pick in the first round (historically, he was selected by the Rockets with the 24th overall pick).The Pistons hope that he can become a solid substitute for Hamilton, and Hyde, who is good at three-pointers, can enhance the Pistons' weak long-range shooting ability.

Roy's teammate Nate Robinson was selected by the Suns with the 21st overall pick. This draft right came from a previous deal with the Bulls, and the Suns' own draft right has been transferred to the Eagles.But the Suns soon announced that they had completed a deal with the Knicks, sending the signing rights of Quentin Richardson and Nate Robinson to the Knicks in exchange for veteran Kurt Thomas and some additions.

At this time, the Eagles are extremely depressed. They hold two first-round picks but they are poor 26th and 30th picks. If they had known that the Suns and Rockets had such late picks, they would not have exchanged their high picks.It's a pity that you can't buy regret medicine now.In the end, they chose the swingman Linas Kleiza and the insider David Lee.

In the second round, the Lakers made a well-regulated choice and added another insider, high school student Andrey Buletcher.Kupchak is deeply skeptical of Master Bass's risky move of picking two high school students in succession.After this year, the league made reforms, and players must be 19 years old to participate in the draft.In this way, the 2005 draft will become the last draft that high school students can participate in.

Then the Rockets used the No. 21 in the second round to select the more mature Polish center Marcin Gortat, and used the No. 25 to select the young high school power forward Amir Johnson.In this way, this year's recruiting is completed.

In the second round, the Rockets mainly supplemented the strength of the inside bench, and the reason is very simple, because their two inside players are about to leave the team.

On the third day after winning the championship, Dazhi and Daba insisted on inviting Yuanfei to have dinner.Yuan Fei guessed the intention of the two of them.

It's still Yao's restaurant, it's still the Chinese quartet, but the atmosphere is completely different from last time.The 2 consecutive days of celebration after winning the championship seemed to exhaust the energy of several people. Even Yao Ming, who is always cheerful, didn't talk much, and the atmosphere seemed a bit dull.

It was Yuanfei who broke the deadlock and said, "As the saying goes, if you have nothing to do, go to the Temple of Three Treasures. The two elder brothers insist on treating me to dinner, so they want to go back to China and develop?"

Da Zhi and Da Ba looked at each other with wry smiles, and Da Ba said, "I really can't hide it from you."

大郅是02年和快船签下了3年的合同，大巴则是03年和火箭签下了2年的合同。到了05年，恰好两人的合同都到期了。

"To be honest, I also regret this." Yao Ming said: "To be able to work hard in the NBA with my two brothers and achieve so many achievements is also a glory for the country. All this is something I would never have dared to imagine a few years ago."

"Are the two elder brothers dissatisfied with the treatment?" Yuan Fei became anxious, and started talking nonsense: "Although I can't give you too much salary in terms of the team, my father has property in mainland China. You can help my father shoot a few commercials as endorsements when you return to China. The money issue is easy to talk about."

"My dear brother, it's not about money. There's always a banquet in the world." Wang Zhizhi sighed: "I'm 28 years old, and I'm at my peak as an athlete. But I know that I'm not strong enough to be an important player in the championship team. Especially Chris is getting better every day. He will be a solid starter in the future, and I can only serve as a substitute for him."

Yuan Fei also let out a long sigh.Big Zhi said it objectively and truthfully. Bosh has indeed grown very rapidly. In his second grade, he can almost face Rasheed Wallace head-on. In the future, apart from superstars like Duncan Garnett Nowitzki, there may not be many power forwards in the entire league who can overwhelm Bosh.This is naturally a good thing for the Rockets, but for Dazhi, his playing time has been increasingly compressed.

"Yuanfei, my brothers definitely don't blame you, and we never want to rely on private relationships to increase our appearance." The simple and honest bus said: "We are not as skilled as others, so we can only blame ourselves. We have won enough honors and learned a lot of technical experience. I feel that the other side of the ocean is not very attractive anymore."

"We want to go back to China and develop. It's not that the Rockets are sorry for us. On the contrary, we are taking advantage of the Rockets. I have been in this league for 5 years and stayed in three teams. I am very lucky to finally meet you and Yao. I tasted the taste of the championship, and I have achieved fame." Da Zhi turned to Yao Ming and said, "Don't learn from the two of us. Our technical characteristics have been finalized, but you still have a lot of room for growth. Whether you can win three consecutive championships for the Chinese is up to you!"

"Both of you have won the CBA championship before coming to the United States, but I, Monk, have never won the CBA." The bus said angrily: "Now that I have won two NBA championships, I want to go back to China to taste the taste of the CBA championship."

"I'm afraid CBA is more difficult than NBA, haha." Yao Ming joked.

(In history, the bus won the NBA championship with the Spurs, but failed to win the CBA championship in his life)

In this way, the season has just ended, and the Rockets have already confirmed that two people have left the team.The contract renewals of Turkoglu and Parker are also in progress, and Barrett, who is dispensable, is also counted.Last season's 13-man roster now only has 8 players left.

But Yuan Fei was not worried at all, he carried out the next work in an orderly manner.After the draft, Brandon Roy and Amir Johnson have been confirmed to join (Marcin Gortat is in further negotiations), plus Spanoulis, who was negotiated last year.The Rockets have not yet made a move in the free agent market, and the basic list of 11 people has been released.

At this time, people in the media kept raising doubts.Yahoo Sports' "After the Championship is Twitch? "The title ridiculed the Rockets.The article believes that the Bobcats abandoned Williams in the first round to select Paul itself is an upset, and the Rockets' first-round pick is even more inexplicable. They kicked the big favorite Marvin Williams to the Warriors, but in exchange for the unknown Brandon Roy.Roy also has positional conflicts with McGrady and Reed, and obviously won't be allocated enough playing time.Looking at the title, Yuan Fei knew that Wojin was behind this article again.

ESPN took a wait-and-see attitude. They reviewed the Rockets' outstanding performance in newcomer training in recent years and believed that the Rockets' repeated success in the draft must have its objective factors.Whether Roy's big bet this time was the choice of a genius or a mentally retarded mistake can only wait for time to test.

(End of this chapter)