You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 924
Chapter 926 I'm Not Here
The draft is coming soon, and the Pistons' draft list has also been set.

It's just that, within their sight, the player who wants to choose the center needs to initiate a transaction.

On the eve of the draft, Yao Huang, a giant from China and a popular rookie with the top three picks, was interviewed on the other side of the ocean, claiming that he is willing to play for any team.

At this time, Yao Huang's career in China reached its peak. Wang Zhizhi traveled across the ocean. He was invincible in China and successfully helped Shanghai win the championship. Going to university for a career” is a harsh word.

The club had no choice but to agree with him on many regulations, and Yao Huang broke through the obstacles.

In this draft, there is no real No. [-] pick for the NBA.

With no real reassuring options, it seems that anyone can get water, and anyone can play it.

Therefore, before the start of the draft, the Knicks, who had tried out all the popular rookies outside Yao Huang, expressed their desire to trade the No. [-] pick.

Pence will be back in good health next season. For a person of his level, after the age of 30 is the beginning of a period of decline. If the maintenance is good, there will be no serious decline before the age of 35.

The Knicks have only a few years to win the championship. If they really win the No. [-] pick, it may take a few years to polish their rookies.

The champion can afford to wait, but the penny can't.

Therefore, the Knicks have released a signal that they are willing to trade the No. [-] pick.

The first to come to ask the price was the Lakers.

The offer they made was humiliating: Al Harrington + first-round picks this year and next.

It is reported that Knicks general manager Scott Layden hung up the phone very rudely after hearing the offer, claiming it was a non-serious offer.

Hearing the news, the Pistons are not willing to be lonely.

The ghostly trade plan came to Dumars' mind. After all, he has never made a decent trade since he became the general manager. The team's construction was all carried out under the instruction of Mo Mengchen, and he also wanted to make a great achievement.

Last year, the team was the defending champion but had the third overall pick. If they still have the No. [-] pick after defending the title this year, will it make other teams feel that it is getting dark?
Thinking of this, Dumars also called the Knicks general manager's office.

Later, Mo Mengchen learned that the offer Dumars gave was: Brad Miller, Watson, Bobby Simmons and next year's first round.

Miller has a very strong immediate combat power, and the contract is long and small. Both Watson and Simmons are rookies who have been baptized by the championship. In addition, the first round of next year is still unprotected. How generous is it?
However, the Knicks don't think so.

But Layden didn't hang up Dumars' call directly, he returned the price.

"If you're willing to pay Eddie Curry, Manu Ginobili, Brad Miller and first rounders this year and next year, we can make a deal."

It is rumored that Dumars smashed the phone on the spot and yelled at the assistant beside him: "This old guy is humiliating me!"

"This is a trading plan that does not respect people!"

Later, when Mo Mengchen learned about this incident, he gloated and called Dumas for condolences.

He taunted Dumas severely.

The trading attitudes of the teams and the Pistons can be seen from the deal with the Spurs last year.

Unless the other party takes the initiative to come to the door, if the Pistons come to the door, they will definitely get a reply from the Lions.

The Pistons have won four consecutive championships. They are famous for their draft vision. They are willing to initiate a trade to select a certain rookie. The rookie must have real talents. They have no time to strengthen themselves. How can they help you strengthen them? ,

Popping the piston is everyone's responsibility.

Even the Spurs in the West were so embarrassing at the beginning, not to mention the Knicks who were in the same division, fought many times in the playoffs, and were beaten home by the Pistons every time?

The Pistons' proposal went bankrupt, and Dumars could only talk to the Blazers according to the original plan.

The following day, the Knicks continued to tout the No. [-] pick, and they got another offer.

This is a very attractive offer.

From the old enemy Bulls, although the two sides have deep grievances, but now that the Bulls are declining, the past hatred cannot be continued here, not to mention the proposal they gave this time is very good.

The Bulls presented Elton Brand, the No. 99 pick in [-], and wanted to exchange this scratched lottery ticket with the Knicks for a brand new lottery ticket.

The No. 20 pick is replaced by the No. 10 pick, but one is an All-Star insider who has already played at the All-Star level and averaged [-]+[-] per game for three consecutive seasons, and the other is a No. [-] pick who needs to be unsealed. No one knows how far it will eventually develop.

This deal just fit the Knicks' wishes.

They want immediate combat power, Brand is immediate combat power, they don't need to develop, this is an All-Star player.

The Bulls made a very attractive offer, but after that, the Rockets in the West also got involved.

They took out Alan Houston and Bobby Jackson, two old Pistons, to ask the Knicks.

If this transaction is completed, many things will return to the original point.

Yao Huang is very likely to join the Rockets as he did in his previous life, and Houston also joined the predestined Knicks.

But unfortunately, the Bulls' Brand is more attractive to the Knicks.

With the Knicks nodding, the deal was done.

The Knicks sent the No. 99 pick in exchange for Elton Brand, the No. [-] pick in [-], from the Bulls. The Knicks thus entered a new era, and the Bulls also got the No. [-] lottery as they wished.

In this draft, the Bulls have five draft picks, one of which is the No. [-] pick, and the other is the third pick that they got badly.

In the same draft, there were both the No. [-] pick and the No. [-] pick, which only appeared once in history.

It was the draft in 1975. The Eagles had the No. [-] pick and No. [-] pick, among which Skywalker David Thompson was selected with the No. [-] pick, and the worthless parallel importer was selected with the No. [-] pick.

At this time, Jerry Krause must really want to take these two draft picks back to 19 years ago.

If you go back to 19 years ago, these two draft picks can help him select Olajuwon and Jordan.

It's a pity, with our eyes open, we know that there is neither an epoch-making insider genius like Dameng in this draft, nor an immortal king like Flying Man who rules an era.

Even so, the Bulls with two early lottery picks are still eye-catching, and people all over the world want to know what they will make in the draft.

2002/6/26

draft day

The draft is held at Madison Square Garden in New York.

That morning, Mo Mengchen turned on the TV, wanting to know the whereabouts of the lottery show as soon as possible.

Among the lottery picks in this draft, only Yao Huang, Stoudemire, and Caron Butler are worthy of attention. The others are either parallel imports, or have become the main force or rotation, so don't care.

The commentator tried his best to talk east and west, and Stern finally walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.

The Bulls' No. [-] pick, the answer will soon be revealed.

Yao Huang.

When the name fell from Stern's mouth, history was forever changed.

From then on, Yao Huang said goodbye to Francis, Tomjanovich, Rockets, and the rocket red familiar to Chinese fans, but he can still wear a red jersey, just the glorious bull red.

If he can't go to the Rockets, Yao Huang may not make the same mistakes again; if he can't go to the Knicks, Van Gundy will have no chance to make Yao Huang gain weight, and the world may never see the mighty little giant of the East with a historical level of low lethality after gaining weight. But his career could have been extended by many years.

Or, because he entered an unfamiliar link, he didn't get the correct guidance, because he couldn't get used to the local conditions and customs of Chicago, which made the operation of scoring in the NBA debut in the previous life become the norm, and thus became the number one parallel importer in history. .

This is the NBA, anything is possible.

The Grizzlies, holding the second pick, selected Drew Gooden with a higher pick than in their previous lives.
Seeing their choices, Mo Mengchen breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, as long as the Bulls choose Yao Huang, he can rest assured.

Because until Stoudemire, none of the lottery picks can bring qualitative changes to the team, and selecting others will not affect the Grizzlies' continued salty fish next season.

No matter how salty they are or how eye-catching their record is, the Pistons will be happy.

Not gloating, but for the upcoming high draft pick.

In the summer of 1997, the Pistons and the Grizzlies reached an agreement to send Thorpe back for a future first-round pick.The Pistons in the previous life relied on this pick to win Milicic.

Selecting Gooden will bring the Pistons one step closer to the high-ranking pick in the Golden Draft.

Then there is the Bulls' third pick. Through this choice, it can be seen that Krause's team building strategy is still biased towards the old concept.

With the third overall pick, the Bulls selected Duke University's trump card, Jay Williams, a talented guard with all the honors in college.

This person will be brought up constantly because of his second place in the parallel import rankings, and some people will feel sorry for his car accident, but Mo Mengchen's impression of him is that he wanted to dunk Yao Huang against the Chinese team in the World Championships-we completely One can imagine the scene of a native-born man in the United States meeting after seeing a foreign hillbilly robbing him of his No. The real Shanghai hot pot.

Now that he has fallen to the third overall pick, will he still go against Yao Huang?What is the future of the Bulls under the leadership of these two?
No one knows, but at least, it seems that the thinking is correct, and there are new stars both inside and outside.

Then, the fourth pick of the Celtics gave Mo Mengchen a surprise.

They skipped the Georgian genius Nikloz Sgotishvili and Nene, who were considered to have all the potential of a great striker, and directly jumped a few levels, hitting the 2002 NBA Draft with the fourth overall pick. Most Promising Player - Bully Stoudemire.

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