lakers championship

Chapter 114 The Situation Is Strange

Tianyang and Jim, after chatting about the 'black box operation', talked about many details of the team's future construction.

In the end, Jim hinted that Farage's smooth development in Hollywood was the result of the deal between him and Nicholson. If Tianyang didn't play for the Lakers in the end, the benefits Farage received would no longer exist.

The best way to subdue a person is coercion. Jim seems to be intimidating, but he is just stating the facts. Who would continue to invest in something that has no benefit?
In short, the Lakers are very sincere.

Tianyang's attitude is also very clear. He likes to play in places with sunshine, sand, and waves, but he will not violate his own principles. Jim wants to hype his injury, and he is not worthy of reconciliation or clarification.

Because, the outside world has different opinions on his injury. Some people think that his level will be greatly reduced, some people think that he can restore the NCAA level, and some people think that he may not even be able to play in the NBA.

It was useless for him to clarify.

……

When Tianyang and Cui Ren returned to the hotel, it was already 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and Plum complained that the Lakers had arranged the meeting time indiscriminately.

Tianyang explained: "They are trying to deceive people. Today everyone's eyes are on Kobe's retirement. It is reasonable for me to go to Staples to watch the game. But if I choose another time to appear at Staples , tabloid reporters report on the whole network every minute, and it will definitely arouse a lot of speculation at that time, which may disrupt their plans."

After finishing speaking, Tianyang told the two of them that the Lakers had already made a draft commitment.

The two immediately cheered. Plum said that despite his father's strong opposition, it was a completely correct choice to follow Tianyang; Cui Ren also excitedly said that he had made the right bet and could take a solid step in the direction of the agent.

The three ordered pizza to celebrate, and Tianyang only ate a little bit, even if he was injured, he couldn't break his eating habits.

Because of the draft promise, Tianyang can control his expenses in the next few months without having to fly all over the United States. He used the 30 US dollars he got from filming wheelchair advertisements to repay the money he borrowed from Coach Johnny and Tasker, where are his parents? The 1 US dollars that I scraped together were also returned.

When you enter the NBA and get your salary, you will be able to pay back the money owed for the surgery.

Tianyang, who had nothing to do for the time being, invited Jiang Rulan to have a meal and thanked her for introducing the surgery team.

Later, he met and chatted with Farage, and found that Farage had already left the state of "mabao" and began to become independent, and she also had her own unique views on many things.

Farage didn't hide at all that she liked Tianyang. Although Tianyang still didn't like her, he also felt that besides her pretty skin, she also had an interesting soul.

The two chatted very happily, and agreed to talk again when they had time.

After dealing with these two matters, Tianyang returned to Palo Alto and trained at Stanford University every day.

Because of the injury, except for the daily shooting training, Tianyang spent all the other time watching various classic tactical analysis provided by Xiao Heipi.

Pete Carell's Princeton, Old Winter's triangle offense, D'Antoni's running and bombing, John Wooden's UCLA air cut, Calipari's DDM dribble breakthrough, Sloan's pick-and-roll offense, learn everything you can learn up.

He leaves early and returns late every day, and because of the end of the Sequoia season, the only people who have seen him are Coach Johnny, Blunt, and Brad, but there are more and more news about him from the outside world.

"The Chinese player Tianyang did not participate in the Chicago joint trial training. He never showed up after he was injured. He was secretive for fear of exposing his recovery from the injury. Could it be the next one?"

"Tianyang dated two beauties one after another in West Hollywood. One of them is the recently popular model Farage. He was injured and did not insist on training. He indulged in sensuality. Even if the injury recovers, it will be difficult to achieve success."

"Please stop imitating wheelchair shooting, SkyOcean earned $30 for it, don't let your well-intentioned actions be taken advantage of!"

"A certain Twitter account claimed that his son will work with NBA player Tianyang, but this tweet was deleted in seconds, and his Twitter account was also canceled. It is difficult to distinguish the truth from the fake."

Pram showed Tianyang the news once, but Tianyang completely ignored it, and still devoted all his energy to practicing shooting and learning classic tactics.

……

Time flies, and on May 5, the 18 lottery conference was held in New York.

The 76ers sent coach Blount, the Lakers sent general manager Kupchak, and the Celtics sent Thomas Jr.

The strange thing is that Mutombo, an NBA star who once played for the 76ers, even tweeted, congratulating the 76ers in advance for winning the No. [-] pick.Although, he quickly deleted the tweet and apologized for it.But Mutombo's move still caused an uproar.

What surprised the media even more was that the 76ers finally won the No. [-] lottery, and many media immediately questioned the fairness of the draft lottery.

But these doubts did not spark much discussion. After all, the 76ers have counted down for several years, and finally won the No. [-] lottery this year, which is completely normal.

There were no upsets in other picks. The Lakers got second, the Celtics got third, the Suns got fourth, the Timberwolves got fifth, the Pelicans got sixth, and the Nuggets got seventh.

ESPN released the draft simulation as soon as the lottery ended. The top three were Simmons, Ingram, and Jamal Murray.Tianyang was also on the list, ranking 26th in the first round, and was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers.

In addition to ESPN, the well-known commentator Bills also published a mock draft. The top three are Ingram, Simmons, and Jaylen Brown. Such predictions are very different from ESPN.But what is even more different is that Bill predicts that Tianyang will be selected by the Nuggets with the seventh overall pick, and may even be selected by the Pelicans with the sixth overall pick.

When Bill said this, people started to discuss Tianyang again.

But no one knew about Tianyang. People had never heard of Tianyang participating in any team's trial training, not even an interview.

The reason Bill gave was just that the Nuggets and Pelicans wanted to gamble.

……

Time passed day by day, and the time for the draft was getting closer and closer. Everyone was discussing who would become the No. 2016 pick in the NBA in 76, but the Philadelphia [-]ers, who held the No. [-] pick, were not very happy.

June 6, the night before the 23 draft.

76ers owner Joshua called all management and coach Blount together for a meeting.

After the meeting started, Joshua spoke first: "The PR department remembers to continue to clarify that I did not trade with the league to get the No. [-] pick, and Simmons is still unwilling to accept our separate trial training?".

Sam Hinkie replied: "He wants to play for the Lakers wholeheartedly. We have come to a conclusion from his daily Twitter and past deeds analysis. He likes Hollywood, likes to be famous, and likes supermodels."

Joshua was angry: "It's hard to become a big player. I didn't shoot well at first, and I didn't bother to train. How about we choose Ingram? That guy Bill Simmons is also optimistic about him."

Blunt interjected: "I think it's okay. Compared with Ingram, Ben Simmons has always been 55, and Ingram's leadership is stronger. At least he led the team to the NCAA Final Four. Ben Simmons Sri Lanka didn't even score in the round of 68, and even created a shameful losing record."

Joshua nodded after listening.But Sam Hinkie seemed to be different, and said: "Ingram's physical fitness is still a bit weaker, Ben Simon can play point guard and small forward, don't you like it?"

Blunt wanted to explain again, Joshua raised his hand to signal a timeout, "If Tianyang is not injured, we don't have to worry about it at all. Speaking of which, I really almost went to the alliance..."

In the middle of speaking, Joshua quickly changed his words when he saw that everyone's eyes were wrong: "What's the news about the Lakers and Celtics?"

Sam Hinkie replied: "There are reports that the Lakers are looking for another top 10 pick and want to select University of Utah center Jacobs to complete the rebuild in one fell swoop; the Celtics are looking for a potential player for Thomas Jr. Substitute, maybe trade their No. [-] pick."

After hearing this, Joshua put his head on his hands and thought for a few seconds before saying: "I always feel that the draft situation of each team this year is very strange, but I can't say what's wrong. Let's make a decision when we arrive at the scene tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)