Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 18
Talents from all over the world are gathered here. It is not an exaggeration to use this sentence to describe the place where Li Weisi is at this time. No, Li Weisi has just met several talented players who have played against him in the NCAA. Of course, they are all defeated .

Johnny Dawkins in front of him is one of them. In the NCAA Finals, Li Weisi invested in the ultra-long lore under the defense of this Duke genius.

"Hey, Li, long time no see!" Dawkins looked a little embarrassed. After all, background boards are something that I personally don't want to do, and it's still a historical background board. Maybe it will be replayed in the future background board.

However, he did not expect the seats to be allocated together. Dawkins suspected that the staff was deliberately messing with him, and wanted the audience to see him look ugly.

In order not to show his embarrassment, Dawkins introduced his teammates to Li Weisi.

"This is Mark Alaric, this is Jay Bilas, both my teammates."

"Hello!" Li Weisi nodded to them as a greeting.

As far as Duke University is concerned, it really deserves to have the foundation to become a prestigious school. According to the information Li Weisi has obtained, the three in front of him will be selected.

Of course, there is a lot of water in it. Unlike the NBA in the 21st century, which only selected 2 rounds, today's draft requires 7 rounds of selection, and more than 100 players are selected in a year. How many people can finally enter the NBA? By skill and luck.

Most of the others were accompanied by their parents and relatives. Li Weisi came alone this time because his father dared not come, his mother didn’t want to come, and his only friend, Frank, was the boss. He couldn’t let him come down to accompany him, right?That's too ostentatious, make it clear, I want your rhythm.

So this also makes Li Weisi a little out of place here.

Soon, as David Stern stepped onto the stage, the audience fell silent, which was impossible, and the audience burst into applause one after another to welcome the future NBA dictator.

This surprised Frank in the box. The style of painting is wrong, shouldn't it be hiss?How could it be applause?
However, Frank soon figured out the reason, which may have something to do with this being New York.

Because last year was the first year that the lottery draft system was implemented, the original system of tossing a coin to determine the No. [-] pick was completely abolished. been questioned.

Before the start of the draft, everyone knew that "Gorilla" Ewing would be the No. [-] pick. The only question was whether he would go to the New York Knicks.

As expected, he went to the Knicks, which made the shady rumors rampant, and they were heard endlessly for a while.

And this statement has a certain shape. It is said that at last year's draft, a staff member named Jack Wagner threw envelopes representing seven teams into the cylinder. When the fourth envelope was dropped, Wagner deliberately shot After hitting the drum, and the fourth letter was crumpled at one corner, it turned out that the letter Stern took out was exactly this crumpled envelope.

In addition, it was revealed that the letter was not only crumpled at one corner, but also frozen in advance, at a much lower temperature than other envelopes, to ensure that Stern's black box operation would not go wrong.

In any case, judging from the reaction of the audience, everyone seems to believe this statement.

Sure enough, conspiracy theories are very popular among Lao Mi.

Just when Frank was thinking about it, Stern had fully demonstrated the pick of this draft. It seems that because of the loud opposition to last year's black box operation, the No. [-] pick fell into the hands of the Los Angeles Clippers.

But the Clippers are just marrying clothes for others. Their draft pick this year has already fallen into the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In terms of taking the No. [-] pick, the Cleveland Cavaliers are really not targeting anyone, everyone here is younger brother.

The Boston Celtics won the second place, and the Golden State Warriors won the No. [-].

It all seemed so smooth, because there was no way the teams with the top two picks would pick Li Weisi, unless they were crazy.

"The Cleveland Cavaliers select Brad Doherty from the University of North Carolina with the No. 1986 pick in the 1 draft."

"Clatter, clatter..." There was applause.

"The Boston Celtics selected Len Bias with the No. 1986 pick in the 2 draft out of the University of Maryland."

"Clatter, clatter..." The applause rang out again.

Time passed quickly, and as Lun Bias came off the stage with applause, the most important moment in Li Weisi's life came.

"Golden State Warriors select West Lee from Stanford with the 1986rd overall pick in the 3 draft."

"Oh……"

There was a lot of exclamation at the scene, and it seemed that the fans were quite surprised by this result.

"Shh..."

Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of boos from the audience, but no applause.

These negative reactions at the scene did not affect Li Weisi at this time. Although he knew this would be the result, his frantically beating heart still revealed that Li Weisi was not at peace, not worried, but excited.

"Congratulations, Li!" Dawkins stood up, shook hands and hugged Li Weisi, and then watched Li Weisi walk onto the stage.

Dawkins' heart was full of pantothenic acid. He had seen the draft ranking predicted by the media, and Li Weisi's pick was behind him, which made him very happy.

It was just a blow from reality, which came so quickly that he had no room to resist. Looking at Li Weisi's back, Dawkins had a vague idea in his mind. Although they entered the NBA together, they were at the same starting point, but he seemed to be The gap with him is getting bigger and bigger.

Li Weisi suppressed the excitement and tension in his heart, and walked onto the stage step by step. At this time, Li Weisi's suit looked very suitable, but it could be matched with Li Weisi's baby face, but no matter how you looked at it, it felt like a child secretly wearing an adult's suit.

With a serious face, he came to David Stern and held David Stern's outstretched hand.

"Congratulations and thanks for joining us!"

Although Stern would say this sentence to every rookie, to Li Weisi, what Stern said to himself was so sincere, and at this moment, the group photo of the two shaking hands was accompanied by boos from the audience The voice will remain in the long river of history forever.

Li Weisi took the lead and was selected by the Warriors with the No. [-] pick. This was just the beginning of the Warriors. Then the Warriors took the limelight in the subsequent draft.

"With the 1986th overall pick in the 17 draft, the Sacramento Kings select Dennis Rodman from Southeast Oklahoma State University."

At this time, a young black man with a height of 2 meters was very excited. His mouth was wide open, his breathing was rapid, he raised his hands, jumped up from the chair, and shouted loudly: "Yes, I have been selected." , I hit..."

After the young man named Dennis Rodman landed on the ground, his face suddenly became extremely ferocious, and he suddenly passed out, and his body fell heavily on the aisle next to the seat.

The sudden change shocked the people around, and everyone exclaimed, "Wow..."

(End of this chapter)