Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 371 Magician's Assist
On June 6, the much-anticipated 28 NBA Draft came as scheduled in the theater at Madison Square Garden, the mecca of basketball. The event was broadcast live to 2005 countries and regions around the world through ESPN TV.

After a year of crazy performance, the Milwaukee Bucks finally got the No. [-] pick as they wished. This is the fourth time in their history that they have won this crucial pick.

For the first time, they selected Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., which brought them the first championship trophy in team history.

The second time around, they drafted Kent Benson.

Benson's resume is much worse. The highlight of his career was in his debut. Only 2 minutes into the game, he angered Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had already transferred to the Lakers and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Former Bucks champion.

As a disciple of Bruce Lee, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gave Benson a black eye with a straight punch, but the price he paid was that his hand bone was broken, he was suspended and injured, and he had to rest for 20 games before returning.

For the third time, they drafted Glenn Robinson.

There is no problem with the strength of the big dog, but the attitude and personality are not very good. When he first entered the league, he opened his mouth and asked the team for a 13-year "lifetime" contract worth 1 million. The contract was set at $10 million over 6800 years.

For comparison, the annual salary of the league's No.1 Michael Jordan was $500 million.

In short, the Bucks' success rate for the No. [-] pick is relatively bleak, but this time, they resolutely skipped the three famous point guards in the United States and decided to continue to choose a big player as the cornerstone. Therefore, the Australian center Andrew Bogu of the University of Utah Specially elected champion.

"The success of Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol and Yao Ming has made many teams lose their due judgment and choose these lottery players from abroad to train. IMHO, many international players simply cannot adapt In the NBA environment, their proud football intelligence will eventually be overwhelmed by the ruthless gap in talent." Barkley is still not optimistic about these players with international backgrounds as always.

The Eagles with the second overall pick also skipped over several point guards and chose Marvin Williams. From the perspective of the Eagles management, Marvin Williams, who is eighteen years old and has excellent hardware, has the potential to become The potential of the league's top star, as long as he is cultivated and his weak lower limbs are trained, he will be the face of the team for the next 20 years.

"Why do people with the second pick like to gamble on talent? Let me tell you, talent is the most indispensable thing in this league. Would you rather gamble on some illusory future than choose the present that you can see?" Office Here, Jim looked at Marvin Williams, who took a photo with David Stern on the stage, as if he saw the Lakers 10 years later.

"Look at Kobe, Mr. West just gave up on Vladimir Divac back then. Facts have proved that he succeeded. In case Marvin Williams really becomes the next Dominique Wilkins What about it?" Kupchak took up the topic.

"The image of Marvin Williams's stupidity is difficult to achieve. And you use Kobe as an example, which is wrong. I have to refute you. First of all, Kobe has shown extraordinary in that time period. Talent, fell to the 13th pick because firstly, there were many high-quality rookies that year, and secondly, the status as a high school player was more worrying; secondly, the main purpose of trading Vladi Divac was to give Shaq To free up salary space, even if you don't trade Kobe, you will trade someone else. Didn't you notice that Jerry didn't trade Eddie Jones and Van Exel until two seasons later, when Kobe showed his strength? Did they send them away one after another? This is called double insurance. As for the Eagles’ behavior of ruining the second pick, I can only express my regret.” Jim talked eloquently, leaving Kupchak speechless for a while.

While the two were talking, the Jazz had chosen Deron Williams, a junior point guard from the University of Illinois, as they wished.

The New Orleans Hornets were the happiest.They have the last record in the league, but they only got the No. 4 pick. They once thought that their reconstruction plan would be ruined in this draft, but as the Bucks and Eagles chose to gamble on talent, Hornets supporters Start again with hope.

In the end, they chose point guard Chris Paul from Wake Forest University in the two-choice choice.

"It has to be said that fate is very strange. Although the Hornets failed to get the No. [-] lottery, they still picked the best player in this session." Jim muttered, causing the office to roll their eyes.

With popular rookies such as Raymond Felton, Channing Frye, and Charlie Villanueva successively selected, who will Andrew Bynum, who was fired before the draft, get? It has also become the most discussed topic.

The Warriors with the ninth pick selected Nigerian power forward Ike Diogu, while the Orlando Magic with the tenth pick chose Spanish power forward Fran Vasquez. Dries Biedrins, and the Magic have last year's No. [-] pick Dwight Howard on the team. No one needs Andrew Bynum.

But none of them even wanted to trade with the Lakers, which made Kiki Vandeweghe vigilant. Darko Milicic, who was fired back then, proved to be a scam, and this time Andrew Bynum's The situation is very similar to last time.

The selection time was only 10 minutes. In the end, Vandeweghe shot resolutely, skipped Andrew Bynum, and chose the University of North Carolina power forward, Sean May, the most famous of the four North Carolina juniors.

The Bobcats selected the remaining member of North Carolina's top four, Rashard McCants.

Andrew Bynum fell to the 13th pick, and the draft pick went to the Memphis Grizzlies.

Jerry West made a decisive shot and chose Andrew Bynum.

The well-recognized master of football actually made such a choice, which surprised many people.

"No problem. If Andrew Bynum is properly guided, he will become an All-Star. It depends on whether Jerry can handle him." Jim explained to everyone who looked at each other.Before the draft, Jim devalued Bynum to nothing. The team members believed in Jim, and they all felt that Bynum was destined to be a parallel importer. Who knew that Jim's evaluation was quite high.

The conference continued, with the Boston Celtics drafting swingman Gerald Green with his incredible leap, and the Miami Heat drafting University of New Mexico senior Danny Granger.

This choice surprised many people. The Heat already had two excellent swingmen at the third and fourth positions, Lamar Odom and Antawn Jamison. Jay, is Pat Riley going to form a lineup of five forwards?

(End of this chapter)