I'm not really a role player

Chapter 95 Kobe's lore (4.1th update in [-]K)
"In the 2007 NBA Draft, the first round, the fifth overall pick, the Seattle SuperSonics selected - Jeff Green from Georgetown University!"

Not far away, Jeff Green jumped up and hugged his parents beside him.

David Falk also hugged Jeff Green with a smile on his face, and said a few words of congratulations.

"I didn't expect Jeff Green to become teammates with Durant, but aren't they all swinging between positions three and four? What are the Supersonics thinking..."

Lu Ning sighed, he followed Li Ke, and he was familiar with Xiao Du. During the trial training these days, he had a lot of exchanges with Jeff Green.

Li Ke rolled his eyes and thought to himself, what's the matter, there are only fifty or sixty rookies who can enter the NBA every year, and if they are scattered to each team, it is inevitable that such a coincidence will happen.

As for positional conflicts, one person fights three, one person fights four.

Jeff Green took the main stage and shook hands with David Stern.

David Falk also came back at this time, with a serious expression on his face, he brought a piece of news related to Li Ke.

"I just got the news from the Lakers that they completed a three-way deal with the Bulls and the Timberwolves, and they got the No. 7 pick from the Timberwolves to select you."

Li Ke frowned: "Kobe is going to the Bulls, and I am going to the Lakers?"

"This should be."

"Besides me, who else did the Lakers get?"

"Lol Deng and Ben Wallace..."

David Stern reappeared on the stage and announced the sixth pick in the first round. The Bucks chose Yi Jianlian.

Ah Lian stood up, and unlike those black and white people who were flamboyant, he just shook hands with his manager Dan Fagan, acting very shy.

Li Ke also got up, stepped across his area, and stretched out his right hand.

"Congratulations, Ah Lian."

"Thank you!"

Although he thanked him, Li Ke could feel that Ah Lian seemed to be in a bad mood.

That's right, Ah Lian doesn't want to go to the Bucks, which is the same as the history of the previous life.

Seeing Ah Lian standing with Stern for a photo with a straight face, Li Ke began to breathe nervously, and the next step is the seventh pick in the first round...

Going to the Lakers?
It is not impossible.

Let him guard the face of the Zijin giants in the post-Kobe era!

(Chapter Comment: You can protect the face of Jiba!)
"In the 2007 NBA Draft, the first round, the seventh overall pick, the Minnesota Timberwolves selected—"

call!
"Corey Brewer from the University of Florida!"

Li Ke held back his breath, turned his head immediately, looked at David Falk, and threw one:?

David Falk baffled, too: ? ? ?
My source is wrong?Impossible, that guy is considered half of the top of the Lakers, how could he be wrong?
They didn't know that in the private room of the high stands, in the area where the Lakers were, Mitch Kupchak patted the table:
"Kobe Bryant, that bastard, he said he was going to go, and now he's back on it, FKFKFK! All my plans were broken by him!"

Then he turned his head and looked at his assistant: "Ronnie, who agreed to give him the right to veto this transaction?"

"Jerry..."

"FK Jerry!"

Assistant: Are you sure?

In the ESPN live broadcast room, Mei Yangyang showed a happy smile and opened her mouth to laugh: "Skipp, what about the three-way deal? Will the No. 7 pick of the Timberwolves be used to select Sheldon?"

The beauty who was ridiculed was stunned, hesitating and speechless.

"It's impossible, Ronny Lester told me himself..."

In the area where the Bulls are located, John Paxson was very anxious, almost having a heart attack.

"Jim, ask that idiot of the Lakers, Luol Deng, Ben Wallace, Andre Nocioniga, the No. 9 pick, can continue this deal..."

After a while, Jim Paxson hung up the phone and gave a reply: "If we can use the No. 9 pick to get Sheldon Lee, this deal can continue."

"Tell them, No Problem!"

John Paxson picked up the draft slip, scribbled down the word "Sheldon", and was just about to continue when the middle of the stage——

David Stern announced the Bobcats' selection with the eighth pick in the first round: "In the 2007 NBA Draft, the first round, the eighth pick, the Charlotte Bobcats selected... Li Ke from the University of Texas at Austin!"

"Li Ke was selected. It was the Bobcats. The Bobcats were the eighth pick in the first round. That was Michael Jordan's team!"

"Hey, this is going to be Jordan's successor!"

Yang Wu, Director Zhang was very excited. Ah Lian and Li Ke were both picked out in the lottery area. What a bumper harvest!

In the area where the bull was, John Paxson stopped writing. After reacting for a long time, he angrily crumpled up the note in his hand and threw it out.

In the area where the Lakers are located, Mitch Kupchak swears again: FK!

In the small green room, Li Ke had a faint smile on his face. At this moment, he was not so excited.

Standing up, he first hugged the parents beside him, then shook hands with David Falk and Lu Ning, put on an orange Bobcat baseball cap, and with not particularly long legs, Li Ke stepped onto the main stage.

David Stern is a small man, but he is the ruler of the NBA, a league of long men. It is he who single-handedly pushed the NBA to the world.

At this moment, Li Ke was standing in front of this little ruler, stretched out his right hand, and held Stern's right hand, as if trying to press the button that opened the dream, hard, hard...

"Congratulations, Sheldon, I hope that in the future, I will have the opportunity to hold your hand and congratulate you like today, hiss..."

"Thank you, Mr. Stern."

Li Ke immediately let go of his hand, and David Stern shook his hand calmly, with a smile still on his face.

The Chinese market with 13 billion people finally ushered in a historic breakthrough in 07. Yi Jianlian, Sheldon Lee, and the Chinese Sun who may be selected in the second round, plus Yao, can line up a few more Chinese derbies in the new season.

In the area where the Bobcats are located, Jordan has already learned from Rich Joe, the general manager of the Bobcats, that the Lakers almost completed a deal, got the No. 7 pick from the Timberwolves, and snatched Li Ke before them.

But at the last moment, Kobe Bryant used his transaction veto power to veto the transaction.

call!
Surprise...

Thanks to Kobe, he is the guy most like me in the post-Jordan era. He always staged all kinds of amazing lore, and this lore is especially critical.

Coming off the stage, Li Ke was surrounded by three or two reporters.

TNT's Craig Sager, ESPN's Doris Burke, and Su Qun who temporarily worked part-time for the Central Five.

Li Ke waved his hands towards TNT and ESPN, pointing at Su Qun: "Ms. Su, let's go to your place first..."

At the Madison Square Garden Theater, Yang Wu also got a small media room, where the cameras had already been set up. Su Qun asked Li Ke to sit down and connect to the signal. The interview after the draft began——

"Is there anything you want to say to the fans in China?"

"Uh..." He suddenly regretted accepting Yang Wu's interview first. That's the first question, isn't it too formulaic?

After thinking about it, he is different from the United Arab Emirates. He has never played in China, and there may not be so many domestic fans. Then: "The draft is the beginning of the NBA. I will learn from Brother Yao and strive to become the next star player in the NBA. I hope domestic fans and friends can support me..."

"NBA career is about to start, do you have any goals?"

"Win!"

"..."

Coming out of Yangwu's media room, Li Ke was dragged away by Falk's assistant, Curtis Polk, and went to ESPN's media room...

The draft is like this, especially a popular rookie like him who is very hot and topical. After the draft and the team are determined, they are always snapped up by major broadcasters immediately.

Busy and busy, I am afraid that I will not be able to relax completely until the end of the draft.

At the scene of the draft conference, the draft process is still going on.

After Li Ke, the Bulls, holding the No. 9 pick, hesitated, and finally won Joakim Noah, who was predicted to be 6th to 8th, but now fell.

Then, the tenth pick of the king took Spencer Hawes, which was an upset. Hawes of the University of Washington, the crazy third, did not perform well. The predicted pick was in the middle of the first round, and now he has just entered the end of the lottery.

The king's idea is very simple. They focus on Princeton's offense, and Hawes' draft template is Brad Miller, the core of Princeton's offense.

With the 11th pick in the first round, the Eagles took Asilao, with the 12th pick in the first round, the 76ers took Thaddeus Young, and with the 13th pick in the first round, the New Orleans Hornets took Julian Wright, their prepared replacement for Li Ke.

The Clippers took El Thorton, the Pistons chose Rodney Stuckey, Nick Young went to the Wizards just like in history, and the Nets chose Sean Williams...

Only at this time did people realize that a certain popular rookie had fallen down unknowingly, and the fall was miserable.

The second high school student in the United States in 2006 and the core of the University of North Carolina, Brandon Wright frowned at this time.

He didn't want to say that he actually got the Warriors' draft promise. Of course, the Warriors' pick was the 18th pick in the first round, so he couldn't be selected originally.

But Warriors general manager Chris Mullin told him that they had negotiated a deal with the Bobcats and would get the Bobcats' No. 8 pick...

As a result, the Bobcats chose Sheldon Lee with the No. 8 pick, and he remained uninterested until the 18th pick in the first round.

His agent had told him that it was Michael Jordan who, on his own initiative, chose Sheldon Lee with the No. 8 pick.

"FK Bobcats, FK Michael Jordan, FK Sheldon!"

The No.18 pick in the first round, David Stern finally called Brandon Wright's name.

But at this time, Wright in the little green house was ashamed and continued to stay.

……

In the broadcast of the draft, the camera will not always be aimed at the scene, and will occasionally switch to the media room.

In the media room of TNT, Li Ke is being interviewed:

"What do you think of Charlotte? I know it's a city with a strong basketball atmosphere, and I'm going to play my basketball well there."

"The second sneaker contract in rookie history? Uh, I have to correct one point. I never thought of comparing it with KD. At this moment, he is better than me. There is no doubt about it."

"Bobcat, Michael Jordan? Yes, he hand-picked me, I am very grateful to him!"

Li Ke gritted his teeth and said the words of thanks.

And far away in Los Angeles, Kobe laughed, and Jordan's handpicking was not a good start.

However, he thought of the one-on-one scene a few days ago, and his eyes immediately became deep.

Perhaps, this time, Michael Jordan did not choose the wrong person...

……

In New York, the interview was finally over. Li Ke left the theater under the escort of Lu Ning and sat in David Falk's Da Lao.

The parents had already gone back to the hotel, and now, only Lu Ning and his cousin were left in the car.

He stretched his waist, and his whole body relaxed.

Then he took out his cell phone that had been vibrating non-stop since he was selected by Bobcats.

There are already a dozen unread text messages.

"Kevin Durant: I already know that you were selected by the Bobcats, congratulations, but from now on, we are rivals!"

Xiao Du's text message was sent shortly after Li Ke was selected. This guy, when he was interviewed, did not forget the TV news and mobile phone.

"Russell Westbrook: Come on, Sheldon, you're going to be the King of Charlotte!"

King Charlotte?Charlotte's Wangzhongwang ham sausage is almost the same...

Serena's text message reminded Li Ke of the Bobcats' current lineup, point guard Raymond Felton, small forward Gerald Wallace, center Emeka Okafor, and high-post rookies Sean May and Adam Morrison who have been discarded in the past two years.

Coupled with the short white scorer Matt Carroll and the center Nazr Mohammad who has been wandering for many years and has become older and more demonic, this Bobcats team has enough role players. What is missing is an All-Star who can stand up and score and end the game at critical moments.

Michael Jordan obviously pinned his hopes on Li Ke, but is Li Ke really qualified for this role?
Even Li Ke himself doubted himself a little.

"Why do you think so much? If you dream of winning, the S7 champion is SKT."

Fantasy can't win, but hard training can.

Li Ke has already made a plan. After the draft, he will return to Austin. First, he will brush up the copy of Jiba, and then return to Los Angeles to practice with Serena and his teammates.

PJ Tucker, Daniel Gibson, DJ Augustin, Rick Barnes... the teammates and coaches of the University of Deutschland also sent text messages to congratulate.

The last text message was from Kobe:

"Kobe Bryant: Come to Los Angeles after the draft, I'll be here waiting for you!"

Looking forward to a lucky, and a shock, looking forward to a wonderful encounter...

No, he delivered it to the door himself.

In this case, the trip to Los Angeles will have to be rescheduled.

Li Ke was planning and plotting, but he didn't expect that something suddenly appeared and broke everything.

"Xiao Ke, I just received a call from China..." My cousin raised the phone in his hand,

"The Basketball Association requires you to report back to China before July 7th, participate in the men's basketball training camp, and prepare for next year's Olympics."

Li Ke frowned, but still nodded, and replied briefly: "Okay!"

It was very helpless that the plan was broken just like that, but Li Ke didn't have any intention of resisting, and he couldn't resist this thing for the time being.

"July 7th, let's go back to Austin first, and return in two days..."

"You can't go back to Austin. You have to go to Charlotte first to complete the contract."

"Depend on!"

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(End of this chapter)