NBA: Garnett at his peak at the start

[Main Quest: Win the Rookie of the Month and Reward Random MAX Attributes]

【Completed ......】

[Random MAX attribute is being drawn]

[If the drawing is successful, you will get the attribute value MAX of the vacant mid-pitch position.] 】

After Qi Ming listened, he was slightly stunned, and shot 100 ...... in the vacant seat This is a far cry from what he imagined, because he has already shot 90 in the open position.

Adding 10 is accurate, but it's not very useful, as he usually doesn't get a shot in the open spot.

So this time, the main quest was completed in vain......

Qi Ming took a deep breath and continued to start shooting training, and after practicing for a while, he found that his mid-range shooting was indeed accurate......

I feel much better in training than before, so I hope it can be used on the field.

Kobe Bryant and others are also training on the sidelines, because they have a very special opponent to play in the evening!

They will face the Charlotte Bobcats, later known as the Charlotte Hornets, at the Staples Center.

In 1999, George Sheehan, then the owner of the Hornets, was embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal and confessed to his extramarital private life during the live broadcast of the trial, which caused a huge reaction in the whole country, and the Charlotte team began to defect.

Subsequently, Sheehan advocated for the construction of a new arena despite the objections of taxpayers, which caused a break between Hornets fans and management at the time, and directly led to the Hornets leaving New Orleans after the 2001-02 season, and for a time, Charlotte became a basketball city.

Soon, shortly after the old Hornets moved out, the NBA promised Charlotte City the opportunity to form a new team. At the end of '02, Black Entertainment TV founder Bob John Nexus became the first black team owner in league history, beating out other bidders, and in 2003 Charlotte's new team, the Bobcats, surfaced.

At the next year's draft, the Bobcats conducted a team expansion draft and got the pick.

Before the start of the new season, a squad was formed with Gerard Wallace and Emeka Okafor as the core.

In the years that followed, the underdog label never left Charlotte, and the team's record was in the lower reaches of the East for many years, except for Okafor, who won the best rookie of the year, and Felton, who was decent, and other rookies such as Shaun May and Adam Morrison became the laughing stock in the difficult years.

This season is no different.

Later, Jordan came in 2006......

In mid-2006, Jordan, who had been away from the court for three years, bought part of the Bobcats and became the team's second largest shareholder.

In the past four years, Wallace has proven his all-round and leadership qualities, and he has become the undisputed "Elvis" after Jordan took over the contract extension with the Bobcats for six years.

In the 2007 offseason, the Bobcats made a trade to get dunk king Richardson, but the playoffs still seemed like a distant topic.

......

These are all things that came later, the current Charlotte Bobcats are still just a new team, and the New Orleans Hornets still have their own team history of more than 20 years!

It wasn't until May 21, 2014 that the Charlotte Hornets officially inherited the New Orleans Pelicans' pre-2014 team history.

The New Orleans Pelicans, on the other hand, have severed their ties to the Hornets and Charlotte, the equivalent of the Western Conference newcomers formed in the 2014 season.

The current Charlotte has only been established for two years and has only played one season in the NBA.

The Bobcats and Hornets had the same record in the 2004-2005 season, with 18 wins and 64 losses.

However, the Bobcat management had an average draft vision and chose an Okafor, who was not even a qualified second-in-command.

If it hadn't been for the expanded draft that year, the Bobcats would have been finished.

It's not hard to see what the draft means by expanding the draft......

That is, each of the league's 29 teams chooses 8 players from their own team as protective players and does not enter the expanded draft.

The other players entered the expanded draft, and the Bobcats selected 14 players from among them as players on the team, and the other players remained on the original team.

And it also won the No. 4 pick in the first and second rounds of the '04 draft.

The Bobcats then traded the Clippers with the fourth and 33rd picks in the first round, and they earned the second pick and Drobniak.

In the end, they selected Okafor with the second pick, and the Bobcats started their NBA journey with Okafor as the core of the team at that time.

Then, it is consistent with the existing team to rebuild, and slowly wait for the team to become stronger.

Gerard Wallace seems to have gotten it from the Kings through an expanded draft.

The current Bobcat is actually not strong...... Okafor is a bit stronger, and other players, including Gerrard Wallace, have not yet grown up.

The season in which Gerard Wallace really grew was this season, this season...... He has made a qualitative change in both his hit rate and his stats.

That's why the Bobcats were willing to give Gerrard a big contract and treat him as the core of the team!

Now, the core of the Bobcats is still Okafor!

As far as Okafor's current performance is concerned, if Qi Ming does not open his eyes, he will also regard him as the core of the team, because Okafor scored 15+10 data last season and was elected the best rookie!

The clock was fast approaching evening, and because the Lakers had a dazzling 13-2 record, the Staples Center was still 100% full.

Right now, the happiest are the Lakers fans, because the Lakers' games are good-looking...... Win again!

Qi Ming walked into the stadium and was greeted by huge cheers, which used to be only available to Kobe Bryant, but now, he also has it!

Suddenly, Qi Ming saw a familiar figure from the sidelines......