Sun Hao did not hold a personal training camp like last year.

Because there will be a World Championship in August, he will return to China to participate in joint training with the men's basketball team at the end of June.

In this year of history, the famous Wang Zhizhi's failure to return occurred.

Because Wang Zhizhi has not finalized the new contract, he hopes to return home after the summer league.

However, in July and August, the summer league was not enough time to get along with the national team, and the two sides finally had a falling out.

However, because he successfully entered the rotation last season and performed well, Wang Zhizhi is likely to renew his contract with the Mavericks, and this historical event did not happen again.

He will return to China with Sun Hao to report.

It is worth mentioning that Yi Jianlian will also go back with them.

In the past year of senior year, Yi Jianlian averaged 19.5 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game in NSAA, performing well.

He has received many invitations from NCAA teams, and similarly, he was recruited by the national team and put on the training list.

Yi Jianlian, who was in the same period in history, entered the youth team because of his age change, but now he has just skipped this stage.

Before returning home, the four of them trained together in Dallas.

The 2002 draft is coming soon.

In April this year, before the registration for the NBA draft ended, Yi Jianlian and Sun Hao discussed whether they would run for the election this year.

The final result is just like now, and Yi Jianlian did not run for the election.

On the one hand, Yi Jianlian needs to go to American universities to improve his strength;

On the other hand, and on the more important side, Yi Jianlian did not receive enough attention from the NBA team.

Most of the rookies in NBA history who run as high school students actually received the NBA team's draft promise.

Take Garnett as an example. His original plan was to run for the election after finishing college, but after playing in high school, he had already received the Timberwolves' draft promise.

Similar situations can be seen in people such as Kobe, James, Howard, etc.

So for Yi Jianlian, playing NCAA is obviously a better choice.

Just as they were training, the 2002 NBA Draft was held as scheduled in Madison Square Garden, New York.

This talent show was originally well-known to the Chinese people because of Yao Ming.

Now Yao Ming has run for the election in advance, the overall quality of this draft is average, and the attention can be predictably low.

However, because of Yi Jianlian, he watched the live broadcast of the talent show with Yi Jianlian.

At the end of April, the draft lottery ended, and Houston, like in history, was very, very lucky to win the No. 1 pick.

Yao Ming is gone, and it is also a question worth paying attention to who they will choose.

In addition to Yao Ming, there are also some high-quality rookies who look good in this class.

Well, there are also the most popular big rookies in this era.

Drew Guden and Yao Ming are not here, he becomes the top pick.

He has a good physical talent. He averaged 19.8 points, 11.4 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 1.8 steals per game in his junior season, and led the team to the NCAA semi-finals, which was a bit like a little Duncan.

Stoudemire, Jr., did not play NCAA, and decided to run after graduating from high school. He has outstanding physical conditions, but like Eddie Griffin, who had previously selected the Houston team, he also looks "smartless".

Nene, although Nene did not go to high school in the United States or played NCAA, he showed his beastly physical fitness in the previous draft picks' joint trial, which was also the great love of all teams in this era.

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Before the draft began, Sun Hao and Yi Jianlian were also analyzing the possible choices of Houston team.

Yi Jianlian is more optimistic about Stoudemier. He is both a high school student and has fought with him. He knows Stoudemier's talent and strength.

Sun Hao prefers Jay Williams, a point guard.

Jay Williams is the second-tier pick in history, and he was also selected for the Dream Team 5 in history.

If it weren't for the loss of athleticism due to the later car accident, he would have had the chance to become an All-Star defender.

And more importantly, Houston already has two big men, Eddie Griffin and Kwame Brown.

Although this pair of mindless and unhappy combinations did not perform particularly well, they had just finished a season after all.

For Houston, it is not very likely to choose the inside again.

However, after the Houston team really made a choice, the two of them found out... neither of them guessed correctly!

Houston team chose Nick Loz Skitishvili with the No. 1 pick!

Well, okay, Sun Hao admits that he has never heard of this name.

After learning about it, he realized that this was Nowitzki, Georgia.

He is 2.13 meters tall, has excellent shooting talent, and has excellent football dealers that European players have.

This really looks like a pretty good choice.

It can also be seen that Houston management still wants to train big men.

If the double towers don’t work, then it’s inside and outside.

Kwame Brownanikloz Skitishvili, Houston double towers to O'Neil Ganowitzki.

This looks pretty good, too.

However, this inside player who has never heard of Sun Hao's name is probably going to be in a state of chaos again.

The few rookies who followed were generally similar to those in history.

Nene went to the Nuggets, Smith went to the Suns, Caron Butler went to the Heat, Prince went to the Pistons...

The Timberwolves have been revoked for their draft picks, and Garnett can only wait for his new helper in the free market.

Then, the Mavericks' choice in the first round surprised Sun Hao again.

They picked Juan Carlos Navarro at the 27th pick.

They chose Navarro, the "bomb" that Sun Hao had played in La Liga!

Whether this choice has anything to do with Sun Hao is unknown.

However, Navarro is the second round pick in history, and he only made it to the NBA after a long time.

The Mavericks' choice was really surprising.

And the key is that the team chose a defender!

The Mavericks' current configuration is not short of defenders.

On the contrary, Sabonis has not yet confirmed his return in the inside line, and the contracts of Kukochi, Wang Zhizhi and Battel have all expired.

Why should I choose an insider?

This operation made Sun Hao a little confused, but he really couldn't get into the management's affairs now.

After the draft was over, after Sun Hao and Scarlett bid farewell, they returned to the national team to report.

Yao Ming joined the national team earlier, and with the four of them, a total of five people.

Although the four inside players and four NBA players have different strengths, this is enough to make fans look forward to the Chinese team in the World Championships.

Moreover, because of the previous experience of winning the Asian Championships together, many players from that team are also on the training list, and the team's tacit understanding is not a problem at all.

Originally, if Sun Hao wants to make a breakthrough, he has to go through the long offseason and get the next season.

But the atmosphere of the national team made him look forward to the World Championships.

And he knew that the US team this year was the weakest team in history, and the men's basketball team might really make a difference.

Just when Sun Hao was training in the national team, it was July and the door to the free market for the new year of NBA opened.

Don't compare the free market at this time with the free market in the future.

Due to the background of the times, most players signed contracts in this era were very long, the kind that had a guaranteed six or seven years.

This also destined that the free market in this era will not be as popular as in the future.

Supersonics' Lewis, Trail Blazers' Bunch Wells, and Mavericks' Lafrenz... These are basically the most popular big fish.

For the Mavericks, Old Nelson is beginning to face challenges.

As he himself said, he is indeed not very good at being a general manager.

After giving Finley a big contract, Nowitzki's big contract in the new season will also begin.

There is also Van Exel's tens of millions of contracts and the potential pressure to renew Nash and Sun Hao in two years, which makes it difficult for them to renew La Frenz.

Is Lafrenz important?

This is for sure.

Although he was at an absolute disadvantage in the playoffs against Duncan and O'Neal, there was no insider who was not inferior in the face of these two bugs in this era.

His space ability and defensive ability against other players are still indispensable to the Mavericks.

But the problem now is that because too many big contracts have accumulated, the Mavericks will not make any achievements in the free market.
To be continued...