shooting guard era

Chapter 1 1. Draft
June 2004, 6, Madison Square Garden, New York.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our new team, the Charlotte Bobcats, selected Chinese guard Ye Han from the University of Connecticut with the No.40 pick!" Adam Silva called out Ye Han's name in an awkward tone.

Ye Han let out a long breath and was finally selected.

Although it was the second round, it was better than losing the election.

Moreover, the Bobcats, this new team, was more suitable for Ye Han's development than a team with a star guard.

In today's draft, people are all for Howard, Okafor, and Ben Gordon.

As for the Bobcats picking Ye Han at No. 40, it was indeed a big surprise.

The senior averaged 12.6 points and 6 rebounds per game. As a shooting guard, he is really not very good.

And he basically doesn't attack with the ball, he just catches and shoots, and he is still of yellow race, so his excellent defense and rebound protection in the game are ignored.

Ye Han, with a height of 1.9 meters eight and a weight of 85 kilograms, has a thin body and a standard shooting guard figure.

Good at three-point shooting, defense, rebounding on both ends of the offense and defense.

In the summer of 2000, at the age of 16, he came to the United States to study at the University of Connecticut. At the age of 18, he joined the Connecticut school team through the introduction of his cousin, who is now his agent Chris Noah.

So although he is a senior graduate participating in the draft, he is actually only 20 years old.

In the last year of college that just passed, under the leadership of this year's No. [-] pick Okafor, he fulfilled his first dream of coming to the United States and won the NCAA championship.

Now he has fulfilled his second dream, entering the NBA!

"Oh, Ye, we are really destined, and we are on the same team again." Okafor took the initiative to come up and hug Ye.

Although he lost to Howard on the way to the No. [-] pick, Okafor was not discouraged. He vowed to play well and make the Magic regret not choosing him.

Going to a new place, Okafor is just a kid in his early 20s, and he was much happier when he went with a familiar teammate.

"Emeka, I'll take care of you again in the future." Ye Han said with a smile, just like Okafor, it's better to have a familiar teammate than to be in the dark. You must know that it is not so easy for yellow people to integrate into the NBA circle. It took him a lot of time in college to get his teammates to agree with him.

The way to make teammates agree with him is very simple, he became the best shooting guard on the team.

Okafor knew that Ye Han was good enough to gain a foothold in the NBA. The UConn fans were also familiar with Ye Han. The UConn fans who watched the draft in front of the TV cheered loudly when they saw that the team had two players selected this year.

This is limited to UConn guys, everyone else has a question mark in their mind, who is this guy?Chinese defender?

People who watched the NCAA finals may have an impression of Ye Han. He scored 4 points on 7 of 12 shots in the NCAA finals on April 5, but everyone's attention was on Oka with 14 points and 25 rebounds. With Fu, naturally no one noticed his small role who worked hard on the defensive end.

After the draft, the reporters of the major TV stations were all around Howard, Okafor, and Ben Gordon who were the top three picks. Ye Han, like all second-round picks and rookies at the end of the first round, was ignored.

Even Chinese TV stations didn't come to interview Ye Han. Domestic public opinion is controlled by the Basketball Association. Who is to say that the national team has a good record now? Haven't you seen that Wang Zhizhi has been banned? Now Wang Zhizhi is still playing for the Heat. O'Neal was introduced, but because Wang Zhizhi did not obey the arrangement of the Basketball Association, he ended up in the current situation.

As the first Chinese guard selected by the NBA, they were not trained by the Basketball Association, so even though they knew about Ye Han's candidacy, they did not promote it.

The domestic fans only know that a Chinese was selected in the second round.

It is still underdeveloped information and communication, otherwise domestic basketball public opinion will not be overshadowed by the Basketball Association.

Back at the hotel, since Ye Han was not a favorite in the draft, Noah had no way to enter Madison Square Garden as a manager, so she could only watch live TV at home.

Tickets for fans have long been overwhelmed by scalpers. Every year, the draft may be a moment to witness a great start, which is more sought-after than tickets for the finals.

"My dear brother, that's great! Our little Ace is also a millionaire from today!"

Just after entering the door, a beautiful black-haired, blue-eyed, baby-faced girl jumped onto Ye Han's body, wrapping Ye Han's head in a pair of huge arms.

"Idiot Chris, come down quickly, you want to suffocate me!" Ye Han struggled loudly.

Chris Noah, also known as Wang Kexin, is the daughter of Ye Han's mother's distant cousin.

Like Noah, Ye Han is also of mixed Chinese and American race, and his name is Ace Noah.

Their two mothers are distant cousins, standard American beauties, who came to China to study together more than 20 years ago, fell in love with a Chinese man, and finally stayed in China to live.

The cousin Emma-Noah gave birth to Wang Kexin, and Ye Han's mother naturally gave birth to Ye Han.

Although both of them are of mixed race, they still look much different in appearance. Noah looks more like a foreigner, and she can tell that she has Caucasian blood at a glance. Except for the beautiful light blue eyes, Ye Han has inherited everything else. His father, tall and handsome appearance.

Because they are foreigners, Ye Han's mother and Noah's mother live in China, and their relationship is closer. The relationship between the two families is very good. Ye Han and Noah grew up together.

Noah is two years younger than Daye Han, with good grades in school, business sense, knowledgeable and reasonable in front of outsiders, and won the love of parents, aunts, uncles, and the elderly at home.

But just like her extremely beautiful and cute appearance, she is a crater despite the coat in front of her elders and outsiders!

I love cheating my brother the most!

Since childhood, the two families lived in adjacent villas, and the elder sister agreed to take care of the younger brother, but when the adults left, Noah instantly turned into a domineering elder sister, and acted cute from time to time, making Ye Han dumbfounded.

But as long as the adults are around, Noah is that good sister again.

When the two families decided to send them to the University of Connecticut to study together, Ye Han's heart was broken. For four full years, he lived under Noah's violent rule.

However, Ye Han was very grateful to Noah. He was very uncomfortable when he came to the United States, and he had no circle of friends. It was Noah who worked hard to adapt to the surrounding environment and brought Ye Han into the new circle.

Ye Han likes to play basketball and is good at playing basketball. In order to let Ye Han integrate into the school basketball team, Noah specially ran for the basketball team manager and brought Ye Han into the school team...

It was only after entering the NCAA that Ye Han knew what the real basketball world was. The CBA youth teams he had played against in China were like children in front of NCAA players. Even the highest basketball hall in China, the CBA, was not an NCAA team's opponent. .

After some squabbling, the two sat on the bed and began to talk about serious topics.

If you want to ask why they are sitting on the bed, there is no way. Both of them are poor students. The hotel next to Madison Square Garden in New York is too expensive. They live in the cheapest small standard room. There is a simple bathroom, there is only one TV, and there is no place to put a chair.

"Little Ace, now you have been selected. Although it is the second round, you will definitely get a lot of playing time in the Bobcats. Emeka has a very good relationship with you. He must be the core of the team. The status of the team is not bad, and the first step into the NBA is not bad." Noah analyzed.

"The Shanmao chose me because of my commercial value, right? I heard that the cheapskate in Houston made a lot of money from Yao Ming, but they certainly didn't expect that I was selected and didn't even have a reporter to interview." Ye Han usually didn't I don't watch basketball news. As a Chinese, I am very concerned about Chinese players, and I have heard a lot of "strange stories" about Rockets owner Alexander.

"Commercial value still depends on strength. Wang Zhizhi and ** have been in the NBA for so many years, but they haven't brought any economic benefits." Noah said seriously.

"Yes yes yes, I know, I will train hard and won't go out to fool around, it's not like you don't know me." Ye Han said helplessly.

Noah nodded in satisfaction, and suddenly, her expression changed suddenly, and she changed back to a slightly second-hand expression: "Little Ace's salary is about 79, and I can get more than 40, all of which are mine! be mine!"

After Noah finished speaking, she stared fiercely at Ye Han, gritting her teeth as if Ye Han would eat people if he didn't agree.

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(End of this chapter)