God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 172 Game
Any kind of sports competition, even if there is more emphasis on unity, friendship and mutual assistance, is essentially the jungle of the jungle. Although the comparison of strength and weakness is not absolute, as long as there is an opportunity, it will definitely trample the opponent to death. Of course, the NBA is no exception. There are undercurrents surging in the entire league all the time, and silent wars happen everywhere, such as the scene of the draft conference.

The general manager of every team will always release countless smoke bombs before the draft, and hide his thoughts well, especially for those general managers whose draft picks are not enough to guarantee the selection of the target, really Fake news comes out of their offices every day.For example, if you want to choose a player who is predicted to be at the end of the lottery, but you only have an ordinary first-round pick, then the team will release negative news to affect the player's draft prospects to ensure that they can get it.

Speaking of the best draft operation in NBA history, "Cardinal" Auerbach brought Parish and McHale to the team at the same time in 1980.The Celtics, who had drafted Bird the previous year, had the No. 13 and No. 12 picks, but Auerbach was by no means content with that.The Celtics like McHale, and the Knicks, who have the 13th pick, are also determined to win McHale.If McHale is selected with the No. [-] pick, it will waste the No. [-] pick.

So before the start of the draft, the Celtics made a shocking deal with the Warriors.The Celtics used the No. 13 and No. [-] picks to trade from the Warriors for the No. [-] pick and Auerbach's long-cherished center "Chief" Parish, and then selected McHale with the No. [-] pick.The combination of Bird, McHale and Parish was rampant in the NBA for a while, and the Celtics became a strong team that could rival the "ShowTime" Lakers. During this period, they won three NBA championships.

King also attaches great importance to this draft. In any case, he also traded the No. 15 pick in the first round for the team, and is going to choose his fancy power forward Moiso.However, in the draft predictions of the authoritative website, Moiso was ranked within the lottery area, which made King lament, and it is obvious that his workload will increase further.

For such a situation, Jin is already familiar with it. His method is very simple, that is, to hype up and predict several players at the same position behind Moiso, hoping that the team that intends to choose him in advance will look away, so that Moiso Aesop's stock will inevitably decline.Of course, this can only be regarded as a low-level trick for other teams that want to draft him and have a higher draft pick, unless the rumors flying all over the sky have caused the player's draft to drop by more than one notch.

The general manager of each team will select the preferred target, but at the same time they will continue to do plan B or even CDEFG plan. After all, you can never guarantee that your target will not be intercepted by others.This time, the 76ers' primary target at the 15th pick is Jin's favorite Moiso, and the secondary target is Mason proposed by Chang Wei through Brown.As for the 40th overall pick in the second round, few teams will concentrate on shopping at this level, so Jin only draws Reed in.

Although Reed's performance was relatively mediocre when he came to Philadelphia for trial training, no one had particularly high hopes for the No. 40 pick. Brown felt that it would be no problem to use the No. 40 pick to select a player like Reed, and Kim would not have any extra problems. Well, anyway, now he puts all his heart and soul on the No. 15 pick, just waiting for the draft to start.

This year's draft was held at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which is also the home of the Timberwolves.Chang Wei did not follow Jin, Brown and other coaching staff and management to Minneapolis, but chose to watch the live broadcast in the room.No way, facing the worst draft in the history of the NBA, he really couldn't arouse the interest of the onlookers. It would be about the same in 2002 or 2003.

Without any suspense, the Nets selected the violent power forward Kenyon Martin from the University of Cincinnati with the No. 2000 pick. Although this guy followed Carter and Kidd to the finals in the future, Chang Wei still thought he was a brainless and muscular man.However, there were indeed no outstanding rookies this year. Even after the authoritative media rearranged the [-] rookies, Martin remained firmly in the top three. For the Nets who lack insiders, Martin should be their best. choose.

Then the Grizzlies chose Swift from Louisiana State University. This is a jumper who had partnered with Yao Ming in his previous life.The Clippers followed closely with small forward Darius Miles, and the Bulls selected Fizer with the fourth overall pick. This decision made Chang Wei shake his head in front of the TV. It seems that when Jordan left And took away the IQ of the Bulls management, this player is useless.

The draft is still going on, Mike Miller was selected by the Magic with the fifth overall pick, Chris Mihm was selected by the Bulls with the seventh overall pick, and the Cavaliers selected Crawford, the former superstar, with the eighth overall pick. The sixth man, Chang Wei's familiar big center Pulzbila, joined the Rockets with the ninth overall pick.King's luck is very bad. Although he has been building momentum for other rookies and wants to win Moiso, the Celtics are the first to pick this power forward at No. 11. In desperation, he can only be in The 15th pick chose Mason of Plan B, which was exactly what Chang Wei wanted. Mason is better than Moiseo anyway, right?
The 30 rookies in the first round were quickly selected. Except for a small accident by the 76ers, the selection of other teams was no different from the draft in Chang Wei's memory.However, Chang Wei knows that what can really affect the general trend of the league is yet to come. If the 76ers choose Reed, then the Bucks that will become a powerful team in the East will no longer exist.

In the second round of the show, Stern did not have the treatment of opening the envelope and reading the name himself, and the league executives who appeared on the stage were replaced by Stern's heir Xiao Hua in the future.But Chang Wei didn't care about this. He just wanted to know if he could successfully abduct Reed to Philadelphia with the No. 40 pick.When Xiao Hua opened the envelope and said slowly, "In the 2000 draft, the 40th pick in the second round, the Philadelphia 76ers selected Michael Reed from Ohio State University", he waved his fist fiercely, Shouted: "Yes!"

Although Jinhui was a little disappointed, Chang Wei didn't want to pay attention to the mood of the general manager. Anyway, the draft conference had achieved his goal and helped the team select two rookies, Mason and Reid.After casually adding some role players, the refreshed 76ers can set sail again.

(End of this chapter)