Chapter five hundred and ninety-eight draft night
June 24, 2010
Madison Gardens
Every draft day, commentators are busy. Draft day is the easiest stage to make predictions, and if the prediction is wrong, it will not add too much joke.
You know, no matter how clever the industry insiders are, they will misunderstand it.
Cardinal, Jerry West or Popovich, these recognized mentors also chose the wrong person by lard.
Before the talent show day, Wei Xia watched the movie "Remember Me" produced by Twilight man Robert Pattinson at home with Elaine. He is not only the producer of the movie, but also the starring actor of the movie.
He is a bit like Keanu Reeves when he was young. His whole face is full of confidence as "I'm the world's number one handsome guy", dangerous and charming, but his acting skills are too poor.
The reason why Wei Xia insisted on watching the movie was to see Pattinson show his excellent acting skills in a certain scene that were worthy of his handsome face.
However, Pattinson is very practical - I can make a living by my face, why do I rely on my skills? - He is really handsome and impeccable, but he is another proof that he is handsome but cannot have a woman's heart. As I type on the keyboard, Daniel Wu, who sees this, may not be able to imagine why Twilight Girl will ride on the director again and again with him.
After watching the movie, Wei Xia was very disappointed. Such a movie scored 7.3 points on Douban. Wu Yifan is really a strange and unjust. When people saw PAOKING, they closed their eyes and scored a score. They didn't know what to use.
"As an actor, he is so bad." Wei Xia always speaks directly beside her wife.
Elaine just thought Pattinson was pleasing to the eyes. When she heard Wei Xia stepping on the other party's business ability, she couldn't help but say, "He is still very young."
This scene is like the next day's NBA draft.
Those seedlings seem to have the potential to grow into towering trees, but not many saplings that can grow to the same height as players of Kobe's level, and there may be none of them.
Pattinson in the movie is like Coleman in 1990, Kenny Anderson in 1991, Shark in 1992, Sean Bradley and "Penny" Hardaway in 1993, Garnett in 1995, Iverson and Kobe in 1996, McGrady in 1997, Pierce in 1998, Brand and Ginobili in 1999, and especially this year, the last rookie finally stood at the highest level among the same students, with wonderful irony and wonderful contrast.
This is the draft. All young people who have never played a game are standing in the same dimension and are subject to the inspection of the most rigorous team in the world.
Through investigation, choosing a high position does not mean that everything is good.
Even if you have been following the goal of tracking for several years, you will still miss it. The progress and development of players will not go smoothly with others' wishes.
In Elaine's imagination, Pattinson's appearance gave him extra points, so in her eyes, Pattinson should be Derek Ferworth at the 2010 draft - a high-quality sports fourth position, young, original, full of talent, but it needs to be polished for a long time.
But in Weisha's view, Pattinson is more like Wesley Johnson.
An older player who averages 16 points per game before graduation may never exceed this level in his life.
But at the moment, neither Wei Xia nor Elaine has enough evidence to prove that they are right, and only time can give the answer.
This is the charm of the draft.
The draft was from 7:00 to 12:00 pm, and Wei Xia prepared props, snacks and drinks for grinding time one hour in advance.
Today is a day of overeating.
He prepared enough snacks and water, and called his friend Dick Long.
After Dalong graduated from school, he did not stay in LA to develop. In his words, LA was not suitable for him, so he chose to return to his hometown to find an ordinary job.
Recently, Wei Xia set up a Chinese restaurant and asked Dalong to be the restaurant manager. Although he was not very good at it, he could not refuse the reward for that job.
Usually he would come to Wei Xia’s house to sit in.
"Who is the top scorer?" Dalong asked.
"There should be no suspense..." Wei Xia said.
Stu Scott, Jon Barry, Jeff Van Gundy and Jay Bilas said something interesting in the pre-match show.
Barry didn't know where the news came from, but he actually said that the Warriors might trade the No. 1 pick.
The value of the No. 1 pick in the New Year of the Draft is much greater than the No. 1 pick in the New Year of the Draft.
If you have good operations, you will have the opportunity to bring a superstar to the team.
As a result, the Warriors actually wanted to sign the No. 1 pick to trade the Clippers' No. 2009 pick Blake Griffin, who was only one minute last season and was reimbursed.
What's even more outrageous is that the Clippers refused.
The Clippers' current leader is Elgin Baylor's successor Neil Olshey. He simply rejected the Warriors and said that Griffin is a non-sale product for the Clippers: "No one can compare with Blake in the 2010 draft!"
The Warriors were stunned.
They originally wanted to use this very valuable No. 1 pick to get Griffin and next year's first-round draft pick through the Clippers, but they didn't expect the Clippers to even get Griffin for the No. 1 pick.
A rumor appeared quietly.
The Thunder are interested in exchanging James Harden and this year's first-round draft pick for the Warriors' No. 1 pick.
According to Thunder's attitude, you can also increase the bargaining chips.
But their main bargaining chip in trading is Harden.
As the sixth man in the rookie season, Harden averaged 9.9 points and 3 rebounds per game, which is actually not bad, but this deal is not attractive to the Warriors.
The transaction was not completed in the end.
According to later revelations, the Warriors rejected not only their deal with the Thunder, but also involved the reconstruction plans of many teams.
The Thunder's original plan was to trade Harden, choose Cousins with the No. 1 pick, and end the reconstruction with a healthy defender (Westbrook), wing (Durant), and inside (Cousins) as the core to start the playoffs.
There are people on all three lines. If Cousins can realize his talent, the Thunder's core lineup will be flawless.
As a result, the Warriors refused.
They don't seem to find a stronger buyer. Today, when the inside is in decline, no team can give them tempting chips to force them to give up the No. 1 pick.
So, there is no suspense.
In the first round of 2010, the Warriors could still express their desire for John Wall even if they were seized by five senses.
Stern read Wall's name and the few people on the commentary table started to blow.
"The best player of this class!"
"The one that's the most unmissable of all players coming into the league!"
"The best point guard after Jason Kidd."
"No, he's better than Jason!"
Jay Bilas used "tremendous" five times in two minutes to show Wall's strengths.
Next, the ESPN reporter in front asked Wall what the significance of being the first No. 1 pick in Kentucky to be selected by the NBA.
Wei Xia in front of the TV was sure that it didn't make any sense.
Many people's single time divided by two is longer than Wall and Kentucky's connection.
Before the draft, the 76ers first announced that they were preparing to fire Eddie Jordan.
Long live the Philadelphia Mountain!
Some unscrupulous businessmen sold their memorial shirts that "We survived the Eddie Jordan era".
There are many meanings for Jordan to leave from Philadelphia, and Wei Xia sincerely wishes him good luck.
From the perspective of showing off, he lacks skills.
For a strong team, he is not a reliable coach.
But removing him means that the 76ers will achieve the achievement of changing coaches once a year in the past five years, which is more diligent than changing the prime minister in Japan.
"Although they have Wish, they have two troublesome contracts that need to be handled, including Andre Iguodala and Elton Brand. We all know that Andre and Wish are not suitable, Elton is far inferior to the time. Maintaining the current roster, the only thing we can see is a lost team that is constantly wasting the peak of the top ten players in the league!"
Jeff Van Gundy in the commentary seat is much more humorous than he was when he was coaching.
He took the opportunity to make a harmless joke: "Actually, if they can make the right decision in this draft, they may not have a chance to turn things around, but I want to tell the Sixers a bad news - the last time Philadelphia scored the second pick in the draft, they chose Keith Van Horn."
For many people who don’t know the inside story, the 76ers seem to have only two choices.
The first choice is to win Derek Ferworth, which can bring immediate and effective changes to the poor and weak insiders.
The second choice is Evan Turner, the second genius of 201 cm, comprehensive and capable of playing multiple positions, and the second reliable genius after Wall.
Is it difficult to make this decision?
Wei Xia believes that there is no.
Chapter completed!