NBA: The man who passed the ball to Yao Ming

Later, David Stern announced loudly: "The rookie selected by the Houston Rockets with the No. 11 pick is Zhang Jinshui, a point guard from Huaguo."

Unlike the cheers and applause that erupted immediately after the draft result was announced, this time, when Zhang Jinshui's name was read out by David Stern, the entire audience at Madison Gardens fell into a burst of confusion. In the sound of discussion one after another.

It wasn't until about half a minute later that the discussion began to subside slowly, and there were sparse applause.

Zhang Jinshui was excited and slowly stood up from his seat.

He never imagined that Dawson had traded the No. 11 pick of the Magic without saying a word, and used this pick to select him in advance.

In fact, for Zhang Jinshui, it doesn't make much difference whether he is selected 11th or 24th.

The reason why he was so excited was because he finally got his wish to put on the Rockets jersey and could play in the NBA with Yao Ming.

An NBA staff member walked up to Zhang Jinshui with a Rockets hat. Zhang Jinshui took the hat from him and put it on his head.

Zi Chunlin also clapped and stood up at this time, Zhang Jinshui hugged her delicate body in his arms, it was hard to describe the excitement in his heart: "Sister Chunlin, I finally entered the NBA and became a player of the Rockets, thank you You brought me to America and stayed with me all the time."

"Congratulations." Zi Chunlin embraced Zhang Jinshui with his backhand, smiling like a flower, and said: "This is a new starting point, I hope you will get better and better in the future."

"It's not that I'm getting better, but that we're getting better." Zhang Jinshui patted Zi Chunlin on the back, turned and walked onto the main stage.

David Stern greeted him enthusiastically, shook hands with Zhang Jinshui, and said with a smile, "Zhang Jinshui, congratulations on joining our NBA family."

"Thank you, Mr. David Stern." Zhang Jinshui smiled.

Afterwards, David Stern took Zhang Jinshui and stood in the center of the main stage together, facing all the cameras on the reporter desk.

Under the flashing lights, Zhang Jinshui looked at the area of ​​the small green room below, and at the dark figures of the audience in the vast auditorium, feeling a sense of pride in his chest.

This feeling of standing in the center of the stage and being watched by everyone is simply wonderful. Although most of these gazes are doubts now, he is confident that it will not take long to turn these gazes into appreciation and admiration .

Moments later, he said goodbye to David Stern and walked off the main stage.

Morey and Van Gundy could finally come to Zhang Jinshui's table blatantly now. They stood with Zi Chunlin and greeted Zhang Jinshui's return with a smile.

"Zhang Jinshui, welcome to the Rockets." Van Gundy and Zhang Jinshui shook hands.

"Zhang Jinshui, isn't it a surprise that we selected him at No.11?" Dawson asked with a smile.

"Why didn't you greet us in advance? Why did you suddenly have a No. 11 lottery in your hand?" Zhang Jinshui asked.

"It was all too rushed.

Yesterday, after we arrived in New York, we suddenly got some news from the Celtics. They found out about your performance in our trial training from nowhere, and they are going to attack you at the No. 18 pick.

I was taken aback and immediately started contacting all the teams with pre-No. 18 picks to see who would trade their picks. "

Dawson explained with lingering fear: "In the end, the Magic agreed to exchange Bob Sura for their No. 11 pick. This deal was completed an hour ago, so we didn't have time to notify you at all."

"In other words, you traded Bob Sura, the team's main guard last year, for a No. 11 pick, and finally used that pick to choose me?" Zhang Jinshui reconfirmed.

"Yes." Van Gundy nodded and said, "You don't have to feel pressured. Bob Sura has had a lot of injuries since last year, even to the point where he can only play with a block shot, and he is not compatible with Yao Ming. Frankly speaking, even if Without you, he is no longer in our future plans."

Zhang Jinshui naturally doesn't feel pressured, and he thinks the Rockets have done a very good deal.

In his memory, Bob Sura retired from the Rockets due to injury before the start of this season, and now Morey traded him for himself, making a lot of money.

After chatting with Zhang Jinshui for a few more minutes, Morey and Van Gundy walked back to the team representative area. They still have to prepare for the No. 20 fourth pick.

Sitting back in his seat, Zhang Jinshui turned his head and looked around, and found that the audience's attention had returned to the main stage.

The next step is to wait for the end of the draft. As a person who knows the direction of the whole plot, Zhang Jinshui starts to feel bored again.

"Jin Shui, you have to believe in yourself, you are absolutely worthy of the No. 11 pick." Zi Chunlin said suddenly.

"I know." Zhang Jinshui was taken aback, looking at Zi Chunlin, not understanding why the other party would suddenly say this to him.

He was surprised to find that Zi Chunlin's pretty face was full of worry, and he couldn't help asking strangely: "Sister Chunlin, why do you look worried?"

"Usually after the draft, the officials will immediately arrange a press conference and arrange seven or eight of the most focused rookies to be interviewed by reporters one by one. I think you must be on the list of this year's focused rookies.

And this press conference, you can only attend alone, neither I nor Van Gundy Dawson of the Rockets can accompany you. "

Zhang Jinshui immediately understood what Zi Chunlin meant, and asked, "Are you worried that the reporter's questions at the press conference will be very sharp, making it difficult for me to resist?"

"Yeah, I think their questions will be 100 times more acute than when we were on the red carpet.

After all, their impression of you is still in the joint trial training. At that time, it was difficult for you to gain a foothold in the NBA.

But now, you were selected directly in the lottery, and the Rockets are equivalent to sacrificing a main point guard for you.

Therefore, it is conceivable that the reporters must have a lot of doubts, and even a lot of dark speculation. "

"Don't worry, I'm not that glass-hearted. Most importantly, as you said, I know my strength is worthy of this lottery." Zhang Jinshui smiled, his eyes full of confidence and determination.

About 40 minutes later, all sixty draft picks were completed.

Immediately afterwards, as Zi Chunlin expected, the official staff came to find Zhang Jinshui and asked him to prepare to attend the next press conference organized by the official.