Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 98
On June 6 local time, the 27 NBA Draft was held in the theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. ESPN will broadcast live to 2008 countries and regions around the world.As a member of the Little Green House who was invited to the scene with his family and friends, Ye Feng wore a low-key black suit and sat with his parents.On his left and right sides are Westbrook and Love, and their families also came to the draft to cheer them on.

Love is worthy of being the handsome guy in the UCLA team who can be compared to Ye Feng in appearance. He is wearing a dark blue suit, sitting there quietly, whispering something to his family from time to time.But this kind of occasion is hard for Westbrook. As a fashionista, this kind of orthodox to rigid suit is the clothes he has been trying to avoid wearing on his body, but there is no way, this is the requirement of the NBA, and everyone who goes to the scene to participate in the draft All players must wear formal attire.Westbrook couldn't help complaining to Ye Feng: "Ye, why don't you say the league doesn't let us wear our favorite clothes? All formal clothes, my God!"

Ye Feng smiled and said: "Calm down Russell, don't you think wearing formal clothes will make this occasion look very formal? Besides, you are now a player sitting in the small green room, you must keep your most handsome smile, ESPN's global live broadcast, you don't want your grinning face to be seen by fans all over the world, do you?" Westbrook snorted, but returned to the state of sitting upright, with a smile on his face that could be photographed directly Advertised.

Looking around, Ye Feng saw many familiar faces, including Rush and Arthur from the University of Kansas, Beasley from Kansas State, DeAndre Jordan from Texas A&M, the Lopez brothers from Stanford University, Bayless at Arizona, Mayo at USC and Rose at Memphis.Several other people have never played against each other, but Ye Feng has seen photos of these people in Coach Holland's place, including Indiana University's Eric Gordon and Louisiana State University's Anthony Randolph.However, there are still two people who feel very strange to him, and there are many reporters around one of them.

Ye Ning also noticed this handsome Caucasian guy from the side, he glanced at him slightly, and snorted: "Tsk, what good players can Italy have?" Ye Feng heard it clearly, and quickly asked: "Dad, what do you mean? He is Italian? How do you know?" Ye Ning said lightly: "Look at the logos on the microphones of the reporters around him. Although I am not very proficient in Italian, at least I can tell them They are all from Italian media. This draft is interesting.” Italy?A name suddenly flashed in Ye Feng's mind, and it was Duffy who told him a few days ago.

According to Duffy, there is an international player in this year's draft who has the potential to become a lottery pick, and it must be this person.Ye Feng once briefly read his information. Danilo Gallinari, 2 meters tall and 08 kg in weight, is mainly a power forward. He has been playing for a B102 league team in Italy since he was 16 years old. The youngest MVP in the history of Serie B, won the three-point shooter challenge in the Italian All-Star Game in 1.Thinking of this, Ye Feng nodded slightly: This handsome guy really doesn't rely on his appearance for a living, he has two brushes, no wonder he was invited by the NBA to sit in the small green room!He told his father about this guy in a low voice, Ye Ning also nodded and said: "It seems that Italy has indeed produced good seedlings these years, much better than when I played." Ye Feng sweated profusely: Dad still likes to talk about his deeds back then!
Suddenly a gust of fragrant wind blew past his nose, a pair of slender and fair legs appeared in Ye Feng's line of sight, Ye Feng looked up along the astonishing curve, and a pretty face that was both happy and angry was smiling at him.Ye Feng quickly stood up and stretched out his hand: "Abby, why are you here? Did the NBA invite your dad to attend?" Abby also stretched out her hand and shook Ye Feng lightly, brushed her hair, and said with a smile : "No, my dad isn't here, and I..." She pointed to her chest, and Ye Feng realized that she had a work card on it, on which the ESPN logo was clearly visible.

Abby picked up her work ID as if showing off, shook it and said, "Look carefully, ESPN intern reporter, otherwise I wouldn't be here, and I wouldn't have met you, an idiot." After finishing speaking, she said: Busy saying hello to Ye Ning, Guo Yu and his wife, Ye Feng could only laugh and cry by himself, what's the matter with this shit?Is it overwhelming?He looked around dejectedly, Westbrook and Love gave him a thumbs up at the same time, with ambiguous expressions on their faces that even a fool could understand.Ye Feng angrily gave each of them a middle finger, and decided to ignore these two bastards.

After chatting for a few words, Abby politely bid farewell to Ye Ning and his wife, and the boss was already staring at the camera.Before leaving, she playfully said to Ye Feng: "Congratulations in advance for becoming an NBA player, and if I want to interview you in the future, you are not allowed to shut me out!" Ye Feng quickly raised his hand and swore: "No problem, just I’m afraid I’m not worthy of being interviewed by your ESPN, hahaha!” Abby shook her head, hesitated to speak, waved her little fist like a demonstration, made a face and ran away.Ye Feng shook his head and smiled, then turned his gaze back to the rostrum.

As soon as the time came, the draft began. The host was the current NBA president Stern. He smiled and seemed to be happy for so many young talents joining the NBA.He picked up the first envelope, opened it, and with a "sure enough" look on his face, exclaimed, "Chicago Bulls, with the first overall pick -- super point guard from the University of Memphis, Derek Rose!" Suddenly, the audience burst into thunderous applause, and Rose hugged his family and friends one by one, put on a baseball cap with the Bulls logo and strode onto the stage.Ye Feng vaguely heard Westbrook snorting from the side.

After taking a photo with No. [-] pick Rose, Stern smiled and picked up another envelope, opened it and glanced at it, saying: "Miami Heat, with the second pick - the talented forward Michael from Kansas State University Beasley!" Ye Feng smiled secretly, he was another acquaintance, and of course he was also defeated by UCLA.However, Ye Feng's mentality is very good. In many drafts, the strength of the players is not used as a reference, but what the team's needs are. However, it is obviously very good for Beasley to go to the Heat. Germany and O'Neal hit the championship together.

While Ye Feng was thinking wildly, Stern had already begun to open the Timberwolves envelope, and then he read out: "The Minnesota Timberwolves, with the third overall pick - shooting guard from Southern California State University, OJ Mayo! "Before Stern finished speaking, Ye Feng was so surprised that he almost jumped up from his chair. Why?Don't the Timberwolves plan to choose Love?He turned his head to look, but Love still looked calm, and signaled him not to get excited with his eyes.Do you think the Timberwolves are going to make a deal?Ye Feng secretly speculated, but he was still a little anxious.

"Seattle SuperSonics, with the fourth pick - Russell Westbrook from UCLA!"

"The Memphis Grizzlies, with the fifth pick - double-double machine Kevin Love from UCLA!"

"The New York Knicks, with the sixth overall pick - Ye Feng, an Asian swingman from UCLA!"

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Coincidentally, the UCLA troika was selected from the fourth to the sixth picks respectively, but Westbrook and Ye Feng already knew the team's operation, but it's just Love... don't the Timberwolves plan to take him?After Ye Feng and Westbrook came down from the stage, they anxiously approached Love, intending to ask what happened, but before they could open their mouths, Love took out his mobile phone and called out a text message in front of them. Shaking. "Don't worry, we have already discussed with the Grizzlies, this is part of the deal, get ready to be a part of Minnesota!" This is the text message McHale sent to Love, and the two were relieved.

As Stern opened the envelopes one by one and read out the team's picks, more and more small green room rookies turned their eyes strangely, flicking across the face of a big man intentionally or unintentionally.Anthony Randolph was selected by the Warriors with the 14th pick. He was already the last lottery pick. At that time, Jordan didn't think there was any problem. Selected.But soon Lopez was picked by the Suns with the 15th overall pick, and Arthur went to the New Orleans Hornets with the 27th overall pick. That is to say, as a small green house player, he actually fell to the second round!In the end, he was picked by the Clippers with the 35th overall pick, but Jordan's entire face was stiff when he walked on stage, which is a great shame.It is worth noting that Mbah a Moute, the fourth UCLA player to participate in the draft, was selected by the Bucks with the 37th overall pick.

When Stern read out "The Boston Celtics selected Semi Eldon from Turkey with the 60th overall pick", the entire 2008 NBA Draft came to an end.Of course, there will always be a lot of trades at this time, but the UCLA trio only cares about the movements of the Timberwolves and Trail Blazers.Sure enough, the two teams did not break their promises. The Timberwolves traded Mayo + Marco Jaric + Antoine Walker + Greg Buckner from the Grizzlies to get Love + Mike Miller + Brian Carter. Dinar + Jason Collins, the Blazers exchanged Ye Feng from the Knicks with Webster Galla Frentz and the handsome Italian Gallinari selected at the 13th pick according to the agreement.

At this point, the UCLA trio is really settled.

　In fact, the result of the draft is that the Knicks selected Gallinari with the sixth overall pick, and the Blazers selected Brandon Rush with the 13th overall pick. However, according to the needs of the plot, I used the simplest method to let the Blazers Choose Gallinari at No. 13, then give Ye Feng the Knicks' No. [-] pick. As for Rush, I'll let him replace the worst lottery pick. Joe Alexander of Chinese descent.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)