NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 295 296. Draft Picks (6000 words ask for a monthly ticket!)
April 5

"It's really hard to find you once. First of all, I would like to thank you for your contribution to the Bobcats this season. Without you, the Bobcats would not have come to this point."

"The current season can be regarded as a perfect end, so before you take a good vacation, shouldn't we talk about something serious?"

At this moment, in General Manager Smith's office, Liu Rui and Liu Rui were sitting on the sofa, and Smith still skillfully made a cup of tea for Liu Rui.

If I remember correctly, this should be the second time I personally poured tea for Liu Rui.

"Hey, yes, the season is over, and the nerves that have been tense for a season can finally relieve me."

"To be honest, I didn't even think I could lead the Bobcats to where I am today."

"I admit that there is also a part of luck in this, but anyway, this is indeed a perfect ending."

After taking the tea that Smith made for himself, Liu Rui blew on the still hot steam, and took a sip gently.

Hmm... this tea... is so hot!

"Haha, indeed, in the first season when the Bobcats were established, not to mention you, even the boss Robert himself never imagined that the current situation would be possible."

"So why I called you here, you should be very clear about what you're thinking recently, whether you decide to stay with the Bobcats during the offseason."

"If you want me to say, it's better for you to stay in the Bobcats. The players here are all brought out by you, and the potential of the Bobcats is so good now, there is really no reason to leave."

"If it's a question of salary, then I can only say that there is no problem."

"After all, before this, the boss personally called me. He made it clear that if the problem can be solved with money, then it is not a problem."

Seeing Liu Rui playing Tai Chi with him, Smith also had some headaches, so he didn't beat around the bush at this time, and directly expressed his thoughts.

"These words are really domineering, and it really is the master who is not short of money."

"However, you should also know what I really need. Of course I also want to stay in the Bobcats, but I have a request."

"If my requirements can be met, I am willing to stay here. After all, as you said, the players here are all brought out by me, and I also believe that the Bobcats will get better and better in the future."

After laying the groundwork for so much, of course Liu Rui also did it for this sentence.

After all, in Liu Rui's view, the Bobcats have a lot of room to operate. The current Bobcats players have not only cleared their expired contracts well.

Among the remaining people, either rookie contracts or veteran contracts.

Even Mo Williams and Zaza Pachulia, who are second-round rests, have only the final year of their rookie contracts left.

But Liu Rui has confidence, even if the two leave in the contract year next year.

He's still able to pick the perfect cornerstone to fill.

And because the current salary cap space of the Bobcats is very wide, it will be very comfortable to operate.

Even though the current salary cap is still three-quarters of that of other teams, it is as wide as the ocean for a team without a max contract.

This also means that during the offseason, the Bobcats can not only get a maximum salary contract, but also leave room for the team to repair.

This is obviously great news for Liu Rui, who is determined to build a team.

"Just tell me what you ask for. The boss Robert has said before that as long as the request is not too excessive, he will keep you at all costs."

"The two of us have been together for a year, and we usually have a good relationship in private, so I have revealed all my cards to you, and I hope you will stop beating me around."

"Hey, you don't know how I came here for a while. Listening to the boss's urging every day, my head is about to explode. Now, for me, the renewal of players is really not as important as the renewal of you."

Indeed, as Smith said, regarding the renewal of Liu Rui's contract, the boss Robert could not wait to call Smith more than a dozen times a day.

Smith, who was urging him, had a headache. When the phone rang, his whole body would be subconsciously frightened.

In addition to Liu Rui's outstanding record in leading the team, it is also because of Liu Rui's existence that the current Bobcats' entire market value has doubled.

For Robert, the first thing he thought about building the Bobcats was not how much money he could make for himself with it.

After all, money has become a series of numbers in his eyes. What he needs is for the Bobcats to get more promotion, so as to enter the field of vision of more people, and enjoy the feeling of being highly anticipated.

As for all of the present, in just one year, Liu Rui has achieved Robert's goal beyond expectations.

Even judging from the current situation, the entire Bobcats team has great potential and will probably get better and better in the future. That's why boss Robert is so eager to renew Liu Rui's contract.

"Haha, I like to deal with happy people. I hope that the team can give me more rights in the next operation."

"I believe you should have seen it from my perspective last season. Of course, I will discuss this with you."

"However, at present I have a goal, at least for the signing and drafting during this offseason, I need full agency."

"Except for the players I need by name, the rest is up to you. It depends on what you mean."

Liu Rui also stated his purpose. After all, his greatest honor is to be able to turn waste into gold.

Of course, it is better to say it is God's perspective than turning waste into gold.

Of course, there is no need to say much about the draft in this league. Liu Rui even remembers the upcoming signings and transactions, as well as some inside stories clearly.

These are all shortcuts that can make a team stronger quickly.

Therefore, Liu Rui needs more management rights to ensure that the Bobcats will be fully competitive in the future.

"Of course there is no problem. I thought it was a big deal, and I really want to thank you for this matter. Because of your existence, I am likely to win the award for the best general manager this year."

"The most important thing is that all of this is your idea, so if you really want to award this award to me, I still feel a little embarrassing, haha."

Hearing Liu Rui's request, Smith also let out a long breath.

After all, since last season, under the behest of boss Robert, Smith has been delegating power to Liu Rui for the team's trading operations.

And Liu Rui's vision has also been proved to the entire management.

Originally, during this offseason, even if Liu Rui didn't want to help, Smith planned to seek Liu Rui's opinion.

After all, Smith is absolutely convinced of Liu Rui in matters such as vision.

At this time, Liu Rui said that he already had a goal and wanted to participate in the operation of the offseason. Of course, Smith had no reason to refuse.

After all, the current relationship between the two is mutual achievement. The Bobcats are a newly established team, which is different from those giants that have taken root in the league for decades.

In this new kind of team, one wrong move could be fatal, so even Smith himself is cautious.

"By the way, how do we decide on the contract?"

"It's up to you, what do you think should be decided."

Facing Smith's question, Liu Rui also threw the question back to Smith with a smile.

Liu Rui is also clear now that in this league, the current coaches with the highest salaries barely reach the salary of 500 million US dollars.

And these are just a few of them.

Most head coaches are still receiving salaries between 400 and [-] million.

Although Liu Rui led the team well this season, his personal experience is really insufficient. If he really wants to offer a contract that is too big, it will inevitably be discussed by others.

What's more, Liu Rui enjoys the fun that basketball brings to him. If he really wants to make money, he can just lie at home and buy two houses and wait for the value to rise. How can he use such a big heart.

At this time, throwing the question back to Smith also wanted to see what level of ladder he was in the league in his mind.

"This..., the current coaches with the highest salaries in the league only reach 500 million US dollars. I believe that the boss Robert will definitely not have any objections to this price."

"But if you are really offered such a big contract, I'm afraid your character design will face collapse, and you will inevitably be given the impression of being smug."

"So, let's set an annual salary of 350 million. If you are not satisfied, you can report the amount yourself. Anyway, I don't need to pay for the money, haha."

Smith frowned and thought for a while, but still gave his true thoughts.

"Haha, that's right, let's just set 600 million for two years. After all, I don't want to be complained about in the new season. I still want to save some face for the old coaches in the league."

Liu Rui was obviously quite satisfied with Smith's answer.

In Liu Rui's opinion, 600 million for two years is quite reasonable. This price is basically the salary of most playoff-level coaches.

"This..., you are such a freak. This is the first time I have seen someone who thinks someone else's salary is too high, but cut it off yourself. You really impress me, haha."

"There is no problem with the money, but why only sign a two-year contract?!"

"Let's just put some pressure on myself. After all, the starting point is too high. I'm afraid it will hurt a lot when I fall down in the future."

"Okay, let's play according to this contract. After signing the contract, I will start my vacation."

"Before the draft, don't nag me too much."

For the finalization of this matter, it obviously made Liu Rui feel very good.

After working hard for a season, Liu Rui's mood is even better when he thinks that there will be a long vacation in the future.

"By the way, there is one more thing. The members of our coaching staff have been in short supply. You know this."

"So I recruited an assistant coach a while ago, and I may come to the team to report for duty after a while. You can pay the salary according to your needs, and you don't need to consider my factors."

"After all, what kind of salary they can get depends on their own personal ability."

Looking at Smith who was finalizing the contract, Liu Rui also suddenly remembered that Stevens will be his assistant coach next season.

Although he had already greeted Smith before, it was too long, and Liu Rui was afraid that Smith would forget about it.

"No problem, I just remembered after you said that. I wanted to ask you, should we be looking for some assistant coaches during the offseason."

"After all, the Bobcats team has just been established this year, and some configurations are not in place, so you can always talk to me about anything."

Seeing Liu Rui solve this kind of thing by himself, Smith was also at ease.

After all, although the head coach and players can enjoy their few vacations during the offseason.

But for the team's general manager, that's a bit of a struggle.

Not only to sign and renew the employees in the team, but also to watch the analysis of various reports brought back by scouts, and to observe the free agents that expired during the offseason.

Also accepted to watch the transaction reports of other teams, which made Smith, who was the general manager of the NBA in his first year, very busy.

Fortunately, Liu Rui's existence also relieved him of a lot of pressure.

In any case, the team can produce results, which is the common goal of the two.

...............

April 5

The finals of the East and West were also officially played. Liu Rui, who had a rare rest, took the little guy Limia on this day, and then made an appointment with Ivanka to watch the Eastern Conference finals between the Heat and the Pistons.

After all, these two teams are the biggest enemies of the Bobcats in the Eastern Conference for the past two years.

As for the team's affairs, I don't have much to do at the moment. It can be said that I am currently on vacation.

It is worth mentioning that under Liu Rui's intention, the Bobcats will sign a two-year contract with Wang Zhizhi, and the second year will be the team's option.

However, Liu Rui did not participate in the specific amount.

After all, in this league, how much money you can get depends on the players' own abilities.

And what Liu Rui can do is to try to give roughly a chance to express himself.

What's more, Wang Zhizhi can indeed play a role in Liu Rui's tactical system.

Although it can be said that it is embarrassing and useful, it can still become a surprise soldier on the bench when necessary.

But at this time, Liu Rui finally ushered in the rest time he dreamed of.

Of course, if there is any big event, I am afraid it will be the lottery held by the league in two days, but the so-called lottery has nothing to do with the Bobcats.

Because the lottery is a preparation for the remaining 14 teams in the league that failed to enter the playoffs.

Because the teams that fail to enter the playoffs every year can use the lottery to determine the draft pick.

And the result of this lottery will only select the top three picks, that is, the No. [-] pick, No. [-] pick and third pick.

Of course, the worse the team's record, the greater the chance of winning the No. [-] lottery.

The remaining 4 to 14 places are directly ranked according to the record of each team. The worse the record, the higher the draft pick.

Before the draw, the official will put 1 balls numbered 14-14 in a container.

And draw 4 balls from it to form a combination, so there are 1001 combinations.

去掉11、12、13、14这一组合方式，则一共有整1000种组合方式。

Subsequently, the 14 teams that failed to enter the playoffs were divided into a certain number of combinations according to their records in the regular season.

The team with the lowest record in the regular season will get 250 combinations, which means that it has a 25% chance of winning the No. [-] pick.

Therefore, this is why for rebuilding teams, they all want to lose more goals by playing poorly.

Although even if the record is last, it doesn't mean that it will definitely win the first lottery, but in terms of probability, this is the only way for a bad team to turn around.

After the lottery starts, which team is the first to draw the combination of four numbers on the four balls, that team will win the lottery.

If 11, 12, 13, 14 are drawn, they will be put back and drawn again.

The combination drawn in the second round belongs to the second lottery.

If the result of the second draw belongs to the team that has already won the No. [-] lottery, the ball is returned to the container and the lottery is redrawn.

And so on, until it is decided who will be the No. [-] pick, No. [-], and Tanhua.

It is worth mentioning that after the top three picks are decided, the remaining 11 teams will be ranked in reverse order of regular season record.

There are two rounds of the draft, and the teams are drafted in the same order in the two rounds.

So for the teams that failed to enter the playoffs, the lottery is obviously the moment they are most looking forward to.

Because this also means that they can have a high probability of selecting young people with potential in the draft.

Whether it is used as the core training of the team or as a bargaining chip in the transaction, it can be said that it is an operation that can make a profit without losing money.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the team has a good draft vision. If a big parallel importer is selected, it can only be considered unlucky.

And because of the arrival of Liu Rui, the Bobcats have entered the playoffs this season, so the draw is completely meaningless for the Bobcats.

Because except for the top three picks that need to be drawn to determine the team pick.

The current draft picks of the playoff teams have long been settled with the end of the regular season.

Although the Bobcats have reached the sixth position in the Eastern Conference this season, the Bobcats, as the sixth in the Eastern Conference, are not as good as the eighth Grizzlies in the Western Conference.

Among all the teams entering the playoffs, only the Philadelphia 76ers in the East and the New Jersey Nets have a worse record than the Bobcats.

This also means that regardless of the final ranking of the top 14 lottery picks this season, the pick the Nets get is the 15th pick in the first round.

The 76ers, who have a better record than the Nets, are the 16th pick in the first round.

However, it is worth mentioning that the 76ers traded this draft pick to the Toronto Raptors this season.

So the 16th pick in the first round naturally became the Raptors' draft pick.

Among all the teams entering the playoffs, except for the Nets and the 76ers, the Bobcats have the worst record.

So the Bobcats will get the 17th pick in the first round of this year.

The same is true for the picks in the second round, but the difference is that all the picks in the second round are arranged according to their records.

In the previous life, the Bobcats traded draft picks with other teams, but because of Liu Rui's arrival, none of these deals happened in this life.

So the Bobcats currently have three draft picks this year.

They are the 17th pick in the first round, the 29th pick in the first round from the Heat, and the 47th overall pick in the second round.

Because the Heat's record this season ranks second in the league, even though he has the same record as the Spurs, the Heat have the upper hand in the match between the two teams.

So the Heat's pick is naturally the 29th pick in the first round.

However, the current draft pick has changed hands to the Bobcats after the previous incident at the American Airlines Arena.

And when the team needs reinforcement every season, draft picks are usually each other's favorite bargaining chip.

So this also leads to the fact that in the annual draft conference, due to the draft picks traded in the middle of the season and the offseason, these may lead to the possibility that a team will have multiple picks in a year for the draft.

And some teams may not have a draft pick and can only watch other teams draft.

This is why some teams have a good record, but still have high draft picks.

Some teams obviously have a poor record, but there is no reason why they don't have a draft pick.

Because of all of this, it is ultimately management's bargaining chip in the transaction.

Among them, it is also because the Raptors and the Nets involved Carter's trade this year, so this also led to the Raptors having two draft picks in the first round of this year.

The Pacers and Mavericks traded their first-round picks in this year's reinforcement.

Therefore, these two teams can only look at the ocean and sigh for this year's first-round pick.

After hearing the news, Liu Rui also let out a long breath.

Because the 17th pick in the first round, no more, no less is just right.

For Liu Rui, thanks to the Bobcats not winning a few more games in the regular season, otherwise Liu Rui would really faint in the toilet.

For this year's draft, Liu Rui has already made up his mind about the people he is optimistic about.

It's just that the only bad thing is that the 47th overall pick in the second round is too low.

This made it difficult for Liu Rui to choose a few people in his round again.

So Liu Rui is currently thinking about the possibility of trading this draft pick up.

However, the annual draft will not be held until the end of June.

So Liu Rui temporarily put this matter behind him. After all, it is his rest time. If he thinks about the team's affairs during the rest time, wouldn't it be a big loss? !

What's more, the reason why Liu Rui took power from Smith this season is because his biggest hole card is in the free market.

It's just that it's still early, the time hasn't come yet...

So today Liu Rui took the little girl Limia and made an appointment with Ivanka by the way. The three of them have already gone to Miami to watch the Eastern Conference Finals.

It was also because during the playoffs, Liu Rui was very busy, so he didn't go home for a long time, which also made the little girl Limiya miss her very much.

So when she heard that Liu Rui was going to take her to the game, and there was Ivanka's sister, the little girl jumped three feet high at home, hugged Liu Rui's face and kissed endlessly.

Finally, he said something very poignant:
"Hey... Uncle Liu Rui, the beard pricked his mouth..."!
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