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Chapter 725 725. Joining the national team and the draft that no one pays attention to!

"Ah... woo woo woo... Xiao Ai! I'll get up right away!"

Liu Ren simply feels that this cute big loli is getting more and more "excessive". It seems that the last time he felt that the effect was good. After Liu Ren finished the season, the way the big loli woke him up became "murder" love hug...

Although Liu Ren struggled every time, he didn't say no...

This mouth shouts no, but the body is still very honest...

I just wanted to tell Lolita to go out quickly, otherwise Liu Ren would see a disharmonious picture when changing clothes, but Liu Ren suddenly thought of a problem, today... It seems that there is nothing to do!
"Xiao Ai, did any big news happen today?" Liu Ren asked strangely.

"Big news? No, there won't be any big news after Irving made a fuss about leaving the team." Big Lolita raised her eyes, obviously trying hard to remember.

Liu Ren got angry, got up and held up the big lolita and squeezed wildly: "It's okay, you told me to get up so early, is it easy to sleep in during the offseason!"

"There's... something to do! Otherwise, Xiao Ai will keep watching the master sleep and won't wake the master up." Big Lolita couldn't speak clearly after her face was rubbed.

"Is there something wrong? Uh, haha, let me tell you earlier, what's the matter...By the way, what is it like to watch me sleep?" Liu Ren originally felt a little guilty for bullying Big Lolita for no reason, but he felt something was wrong .

"Xiao Ai's matter is not important. Just now, when Nini went out, she asked me to wake up the master early. I received a notice this morning. It seems that Yao Ming from some center is coming to Los Angeles to talk to you about joining the national team for this year's Olympics." Da Luo Li tried hard to remember, but still couldn't remember what kind of center it was.

But language has an advantage, that is, you can guess it without finishing it.

Basketball center!national team!Yao Ming!
Liu Ren instantly put aside what he felt was wrong before!
Serving the country, if given the chance, is not the kind that is doomed to be cheated, I believe every Chinese will choose to do so!
The same goes for Liu Ren!
But he had a confrontation with Cheng Lanxin, the owner of the basketball management center, in 2013. He thought he would not be able to join the national team, and he never paid attention.

Cheng Lanxin has been the director of the basketball management center for half his life. To describe his great work performance in a few words, he can be described as trite, flattering, obedient, despicable, shameless, unprogressive, and ineffective. In addition to banning one from joining the national team and forcing another to join the national team, Chinese basketball has hardly made any significant progress in decades. On the contrary, the world ranking has not even been able to maintain the number one in Asia after Dayao, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle and others retired one after another.

But this year, Liu Ren actually saw a turning point, that is, Cheng Lanxin was thoroughly investigated in the great domestic tiger-fighting operation, and Yao Ming, who has always been the biggest pursuit of changing domestic basketball, came to power, giving Liu Ren the hope of returning to the national team Opportunities, domestic fans are also increasingly calling for the recall of Liu Ren.

However, due to domestic system problems and officials' face problems, Liu Ren doesn't think that the so-called basketball management center executives will let him enter the national team, and even if Yao Ming is the new director of the basketball management center, who knows who will enter the national team? Who can guarantee that he can do things according to his own ideas in the big dye vat of officialdom?

However, this time it was unexpected, Yao Ming personally recruited Liu Ren to join the national team, and he came to Los Angeles!

And it can be seen that after Yao Ming confirmed this matter, he came to Los Angeles in a hurry, and he didn't even give Liu Ren the time to prepare in advance.

Liu Ren excitedly hugged Da Loli and spun around in the air twice, making Da Loli look confused, isn't it just to join the national team?My owner is the strongest basketball player in China, isn't this kind of thing a matter of course?

As a member of a developed country, Lolita must not be able to understand the thoughts of people in a developing country...

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Every time I watch it, Liu Ren feels that Yao Ming is really tall, Porzingis is already tall enough, Yao Ming is taller and bigger than Porzingis, and compared to the horizontal area when he retired, it is almost three times larger Four five six seven eight circles.

Now Yao Ming is smiling like a big fat man who weighs four hundred catties.

Yao Ming had a smile on his face: "Boss, we solemnly invite you to join the national team, although we had some unpleasant things before, but you know, sometimes some of the things that happened are beyond our control. Now everything is getting better in domestic basketball, in order to bring a qualitative change to the men's basketball team and let people know that our country's basketball can have a better future, I hope you can come back and lead us to the Rio Olympics and lead us to win..."

"Okay, I agree." Liu Ren didn't hesitate.

However, Yao Ming didn't seem to hear clearly: "Boss, I know I rejected you before and now I invite you... What? Agreed?"

Too straightforward and decisive!

Didn't it mean that this young man has a bad temper, a bad personality, and is a well-known thorn in everyone's eyes?The regular season was also suspended for over a month...

"There's nothing to hesitate about. When is the training camp? I didn't have a good time this year. You know, we are too strong."

Yao Ming felt a little strange. It had been a long time since he had seen such a player in China who was full of enthusiasm for the game.

There is a talented center named Han Dejun in China. When Yao Ming saw him in the youth team, his performance made Yao Ming feel that his No.1 position in domestic basketball would soon be lost.

Then I just watched Han Dejun become a fat man weighing more than 300 kilograms after entering the CBA.

The current CBA players are also making a lot of money. It can cost several million a year. Under the education of money first in China, with so much money, who is willing to play well? Let’s talk when it’s time to sign the contract—— This is Yao Ming's greatest feeling after returning to China.

Maybe because he stayed in China for a few more years, Yao Ming now thinks that Liu Ren is like a fresh and refined lotus flower.

One wanted to beg, the other wanted to join, and the two hit it off.

"Training, boss, you may not be with domestic players, you may have to train with a few players alone." Yao Ming smiled wryly when he said this, and explained: "The level of domestic players is far worse than yours. Well, except for a very small number of people who can partner with you, others think that if you go to training, they will lose their self-confidence. To our national team, you are like a foreign player in the CBA."

"..." Liu Ren said that now it's his turn to think it's weird to be a 'foreign aid' of the national team?
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Yao Ming is also very busy as the chairman of the Blue Association. After he came to Los Angeles and signed an agreement with Liu Ren to return to the national team, he returned to China to prepare for the summer Olympics.

We all know that everything in the country is troublesome, and you need a lot of stamps to do something...

The so-called agreement is to sign some clauses, and then we have to negotiate with Nike and other sponsors of Liu Ren. For example, the national team has its own sponsors, jerseys, shoes, drinks, and towels. Sponsorship needs to be negotiated, but this kind of situation will generally pass, because the US team is the same, this is an opportunity for the Blue Association to make money, after all, it is responsible for its own profits and losses.

Joining the national team is definitely a great boost in popularity for players in their own country, and player sponsors such as Nike and Adidas will not refuse. It seems that they suffered a little loss at the time, but it was all good afterwards.

What Liu Ren got was a monthly allowance of 7706 yuan when he joined the national team. Why is it 7706 yuan, because this is the average salary of BJ this year...

The matter of Liu Ren's joining the national team was completed in such a smooth manner. It was just an agreement. The official 12-man roster will not be announced until the end of July. The Blue Association has invited 7 to [-] people. The real national team roster is when the elimination is officially confirmed.

On the NBA side, after Durant's trade and Irving ran away, they fell into a temporary calm.

There were so many pre-draft trades this year, and it was already weird enough. There should have been very few pick trades in such a young draft year. This is just a return to normal.

Take a closer look at those deals. In fact, apart from the fact that the Lakers will get the No. [-] pick and No. [-] lottery, other draft deals actually have nothing to do with the draft pick itself. They are all about player transfers. In other words, in order to conclude a deal as soon as possible, a draft pick must be paid.

In the next few days, it was basically a discussion about Durant and Irving. By the way, Irving was dissatisfied with James' return to the Cavaliers. Westbrook refused to comment on Durant's departure and said he did not know this person. Then renew the contract with the Thunder for 8000 million for three years, expressing loyalty.

There are also some miscellaneous lace reports, and then guess where Irving will go, or the Cavaliers will not trade, and finally civil strife or something.

A few days passed, and on June 6, the 26 NBA Draft began at Barclays Center in New York.

This year's draft was changed to the Barclays Center, because the Knicks have made a lot of money in recent years, and this summer they will renovate the basketball mecca, Madison Square Garden.

This year's draft, compared to the transactions that happened in the previous half month, almost no one paid attention to it, especially seeing the two teams with the top three picks, people expressed surprise at this year's draft, and then they just didn't want to pay attention.

In the end, the Lakers selected Ben Simmons with the first pick in the first round without any suspense.

The main reason for choosing Ben Simmons is to make up for the organizational ability of the bench lineup after Antetokounmpo played the starting lineup. Ben Simmons is [-] meters tall and can play from the first position to the fifth position. Basically, he is the poor version Antetokounmpo, of course, whether he can match Antetokounmpo's performance in the past two years will have to be seen.

However, Ben Simmons is a bit better than Antetokounmpo when he first entered the league. He is a little older and more mature. The time has been fixed, and it will not take as long to adapt to Antetokounmpo's sudden growth.

The Celtics also won the remaining superstar embryo Brandon Ingram with the second pick without any suspense.

This is an obvious decision. Is it possible to get the second pick and choose a role player like Buddy Hield and Jamal Murray, and then give Ingram to the Lakers?

If the Bucks hadn't traded the No. [-] pick to the Lakers, the Celtics might have given in and picked an immediate force to strengthen the team.

In fact, the Celtics saw that the Suns almost exchanged LaVine and Monroe with only one No. [-] pick, and also sent away the big contract of Bledsoe, a player who did not know whether it was a time bomb or the dawn of the future. I am very envious in my heart.

But if that team is the Lakers... the Celtics say no, isn't that a Monroe...

Angie says I don't cry...

The two superstar embryos have been selected, and the remaining third pick, people are curious about who the Lakers will choose.

Is it Buddy Hield, an excellent offensive and defensive all-around player?The addition of this player will immediately help the team that selected him. This is a senior graduate with good physical fitness and comprehensive skills, but basically has no potential to tap.

Or choose Bosnia's big center Draco Bender?
Last year, Porzingis was picked up by the Knicks at a low pick and played an amazing rookie season. Last year, if the rookie hadn't been the No. [-] pick, Towns performed so well, Porzingis could have won the best rookie.

After the Italian champion Bargnani lost people's confidence in the European white big man, he was finally raised by Porzingis again.

Speaking of Europe, there is a very strange thing about players who are selected by the NBA with high picks, that is, their statistics in Europe are terrible.

Porzingis fell to the 20th pick. If it wasn't for the logo man who got the news that the Lakers wanted to pick Porzingis and then gave it to Zen Master, he might have been picked up by the Lakers at the end of the first round, and Porzingis The reason why there is no candidate is because he averaged 6 points and 3 rebounds per game in Europe.

Then this year, because the players in the draft are too bad, Draco Bender has also emerged as a favorite in the draft, and his statistics in the Israeli league are "equally matched" with Porzingis, averaging 4 points and 4 rebounds per game...

Speaking of which, Gasol only averaged 11 points and 5 rebounds per game in Barcelona back then, and he almost became the champion. If it wasn’t for Mr. Joe’s forced selection of high school students, Gasol’s stats in Barcelona would be 3 points. 4 rebounds, but because the No. 2006 pick in 2, Lang Bargnani, was so cheating that the NBA team once lost confidence in the European white big man, so it fell to the [-]nd round.

Jamal Murray is also a player that people think the Lakers may pick. He is a very good pitcher, and the Lakers are just accumulating pitchers.

Except for these few... there is really no one.

Then, when people finally had a little bit of suspense about this year's draft, the Lakers didn't choose any of them, but unexpectedly chose a local player from California, the defensive champion of the University of California, Berkeley, referred to as UCB. Len Brown.

This is a small upset. Although Jaylen Brown's draft prediction is also in the lottery zone, he is only in the top ten, because this player is quite average in other aspects except for his excellent defense and counterattack during college, which is the standard. The defensive coolie type, this kind of player is considered to be outside the top ten even in the super young year of the draft. In a normal draft year, it is the middle and late first round.

The Lakers chose Jaylen Brown because of his defense. Although there is still a 12th overall pick in the back, but it will be selected by others by then, because there are only a few people who can be seen by people this year. If it is the draft year, the Lakers can naturally wait, but this year they must spend the third pick on a defensive coolie.

Because the Lakers continue to have such players to share the pressure of outside defense for Liu Ren, Liu Ren is undoubtedly the player with the longest playing time on the Lakers. Antetokounmpo can share the starting lineup, and there must be one in the second team. Someone who can share the defense.

As for Jaylen Brown's poor shooting, it can be practiced!Can't practice it... Besides, the first thing is to find a defensive champion for Liu Ren, and Jaylen Brown has good physical fitness, so he is good for defensive counterattacks.

The top three picks are finished... This year's draft is completely hopeless.

Several popular rookies Buddy Hield was selected by the Kings, Jamal Murray was selected by the Nuggets, Kris Dunn was selected by the Timberwolves, and Draco Bender was selected by the Pelicans.

As expected, the Lakers chose a European pitcher with the 12th overall pick. They chose Pau Gasol's national teammate and pitcher power forward Hernan Gomez from Atletico Madrid in the Spanish League.

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After the draft, the Lakers management returned to Los Angeles.

Then, in Kupchak's office, as in the past two or three years, someone began to post a dozen photos on the top of the wall. These people are the current lineup of the Lakers.

Point guards: Antetokounmpo, Clarkson, Jaylen Brown, shooting guards: Thompson, Nick Young, Kobe, small forwards: Liu Ren, Ben Simmons, Korver, power forwards: Green, Gaso Hall, Gomez, center: Whiteside, Thackeray, Black.

There are also two two-way contract players, Ci Shiping and Henry. Ci Shiping will basically come back after being terminated by the Rockets. Henry is a good choice to prevent injuries, and it is not expensive.

There were sighs again in the office, how come the lineup is complete again this year.

But this year, not one sighed, but two.

Jaylen Brown is a native of California. Naturally, he was signed by the chick who was close to the water. Then the Lakers sent away LaVine and Monroe, which weakened the number of Liu Ren's own players in the Lakers. Then the chick recommended them Jaylen Brown, the Lakers management can't refuse when it just fits the team's choice. Liu Renke jumped out of the contract and hasn't renewed it yet.

"Mitch, have you spent the offseason like this in the past few years?" the magician asked with a worried face.

"That's right, back then I just casually asked who the boss wanted to be his teammate, and then I didn't have to be the general manager every year, but was responsible for poaching people." Kupchak said bitterly.

"It's okay, we still have a two-way contract position, come on, Mitch, you can travel this summer, and I will travel too, and have a long vacation!" The magician said sympathetically.

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(End of this chapter)