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Chapter 335 The draft is over
Next, the Lakers, holding the seventh overall pick, selected Julius Randle of the University of Kentucky.

There is actually nothing wrong with this choice, at least Randall is worthy of the seventh pick.

However, as a short power forward, Randall is sometimes too independent and too greedy for the ball. Although his statistics are good, his contribution to the team is not as great as expected.

The main reason is that his mid-range shooting ability is unstable, and his three-point ability is not good. If he is only 203 tall, he can only bully those weak insiders when playing singles at the basket.

When he encountered a hard stubble, Randall couldn't stand it at all.

In addition, Randall's rookie season was also extremely miserable. In the first game he played, he suffered a fracture and was carried off the field on a stretcher.

However, his bad luck didn't last long. Later, he picked up a four-year $4 million maximum salary contract with the Knicks and went directly to the pinnacle of his life.

After Randle was selected, the next eighth and ninth picks were nobodies.

Finally, I have waited for the tenth pick, which is also the draft pick that the 76ers traded to the Mavericks.

Li Xun pondered for a moment, and decided to use this lottery pick to choose LaVine.

Under normal circumstances, the 76ers used this No. 10 pick to select Payton Jr., and this Payton Jr. is not Payton II, the son of Glove Payton.

But this Elfrid Payton is also a point guard, and his ability is actually not bad.

But obviously it still can't be compared with LaVine.

LaVine belongs to the kind of relatively slow player. At the beginning of his career, he can only be said to be quite satisfactory, and the impression he gives is only his strong physical fitness.

Some are similar to those jumping men who appeared before.

However, after playing for the Timberwolves for a few seasons, he has become more mature, from a jumper to a first-rate striker who can play alone.

After the three-year rookie season, Timberwolves head coach Thibodeau at the time felt that LaVine's defense was not good enough, so he used LaVine to make a deal with the Bulls, and exchanged Djiba from the Bulls.

However, the Timberwolves didn't use Jiba for too long. It may be that Jiba likes to be the boss in the locker room, which made Mr. Tang very dissatisfied.

It may also be that Jiba looked down on Mr. Tang and Brother Gouqi, because they came to the first round of the playoffs, so Jiba rejected the maximum salary offered by the Timberwolves.

So after playing for a season and a half, Jiba was traded to the 76ers.

Looking at it this way, Li Xun's trading of Jiba to the 76ers was not a random transaction. It would have taken a few years for Jiba to be sold to the 76ers.

It's a pity that after going to the 76ers, Giba had another conflict with the emperor Embiid. As a result, he only played for the 76ers for less than a season.

Then I went to the Heat. The embarrassing thing is that in the Heat, I had an infighting with captain Haslem.

Haslem may have said serious words to Jiba during the timeout, but Jiba angrily denounced Haslem as a cheerleader. Without Wade, Haslem is nothing.

And Haslem is not a vegetarian, and he directly called out the pornographic news about Jiba and the 50-year-old female reporter.

Looking at it this way, Giba is indeed like a time bomb, and he is an unstable factor in the team.

Even under normal circumstances when he was in the Bulls, it was rumored that he had conflicts with Rose.

There is even news that he scolded the Bulls teammates in the training game, which Jiba himself admitted.

Looking at it this way, it doesn't seem completely unreasonable to say that Jiba is Jordan's illegitimate son. Both guys like to scold their teammates.

Now that Li Xun is suppressing him, Jiba has been very honest during his two years with the Mavericks.

The reason why Jiba has conflicts with others in several teams, in fact, in the final analysis is that he thinks he is the boss of the team, but these teams do not recognize him as the boss.

And in the Mavericks, no matter how you count it, Jiba is definitely not in the position of the boss, so he doesn't have so many messy thoughts.

"I announce that the Philadelphia 76ers selected Zach LaVine from UCLA with the tenth overall pick in the first round."

Stern announced from the stage.

If it wasn't for what Stern said, Li Xun didn't know that LaVine was a UCLA player before.

In other words, LaVine is the primary school brother of Westbrook and Love.

Regarding Li Xun's choice, Little Nelson was very confident.

Jiba was sold, and the Mavericks are lacking in strikers. Now that Li Xun has selected a small forward produced by UCLA, Nelson Jr. feels that he can't be wrong.

If other candidates are selected, they may have to doubt whether LaVine can play it.

If it were Li Xun's choice, then he would definitely be able to type it out.

The players in the small green room, LaVine and Embiid embraced each other.

The two are not strangers either. They also played against each other in the NCAA, and now they are about to become teammates.

But they still don't know that they are going to Dallas, they just think that they were selected by the 76ers.

Li Xun is still waiting patiently.

He waited until the [-]th pick, and finally got the Thunder draft pick in the hands of the Mavericks.

The Thunder's draft pick has already been traded, so to be precise, it is already the Mavericks' draft pick.

Li Xun was a little hesitant, he was not sure who to choose for this draft pick.

The options are TJ-Warren and Nukic.

Under normal circumstances, Warren is selected with the 14th overall pick, and Nukic is selected with the 16th overall pick.

Because the Mavericks still have an 18th pick in their hands, Li Xun doesn't have to think about the follow-up Jokic and others for the time being.

The most cost-effective use of this 14th pick is to choose one of Warren or Nukic.

Warren is a forward with good offensive ability, but because of his lack of range, his style is a bit nonsensical, not like a small forward or a power forward.

In addition, the defensive ability is also very average.

But in terms of overall strength, Warren is at the level of a quasi-All-Star, and he is only one step away from an All-Star.

Under normal circumstances, Nukic and Jokic were selected by the Nuggets in this draft.

In the beginning, Jokic was a substitute for Nukic, but after playing, Teacher Yue proved that he is more suitable to be the team's starting center than Nukic.

So it didn't take long for Nukic to trade to the Blazers.

Although the strength is not as good as Jokic, Nukic's ability is also good, with a stable average of about 15 points and 10 rebounds per game, which is rare in this league where big men are rare.

In fact, he can be regarded as the kind of player who is only one step away from the All-Star.

It is worth mentioning that when Nukic was in the Trail Blazers, he played 20+20+10+5+5 data, which is the first time such data has appeared in NBA history.

Of course, Li Xun doesn't know how to choose between two quasi-All-Star players.

After thinking for a while, Li Xun decided to take Nukic down, because Embiid's situation is uncertain, and he may miss two seasons as usual.

If this is the case, the Mavericks will only have Gobert, Nowitzki and Jokic inside.

It's not bad to take Nukic as a rotation.

In addition, because LaVine has already been obtained, and Dinwiddie and others can be obtained later, the Mavericks are not very short of outside lines.

"I announce that the Dallas Mavericks selected Jusuf Nukic from Bosnia and Herzegovina with the No. 14 pick in the first round."

After Li Xun made up his mind, he soon heard Stern announce the 14th pick on stage.

Seeing that Nukic was selected by the Mavericks, some players were envious.

It is well known that the Mavericks lack insiders.

That is to say, Li Xun was able to top the inside line, so he covered up the Mavericks' lack of inside line.

Now that the Mavericks have used their prized lottery pick to select the center from Bosnia and Herzegovina, there's clearly something about this guy.

Few people in the league know that the Mavericks have made a deal with the 76ers, so they think that the 14th pick is the highest pick in the hands of the Mavericks.

If they knew that the Mavericks had three lottery picks, they would be scared to death.

With the next 18th pick, Li Xun chose Joe Harris among Bogdan Bogdanovic and Joe Harris.

If you really want to talk about overall strength, Bogdan must be stronger.

But Bogdan is now playing in the European League, and it is difficult to join the team directly. Under normal circumstances, he waited until 2017 to actually enter the league.

By 2017, the day lily was cold, and Li Xun didn't want to wait so long.

In addition, Bogdan is also very fragile, and serious injuries occur from time to time, which is a bit unacceptable.

As for Joe Harris, he is a shooting guard like Bogdan, both are 198 cm tall, and they are both white.

Harris has a top-level three-point ability. He plays for the Nets under normal circumstances. It took only a few years to become the player with the most three-pointers in the history of the Nets.

Moreover, when the Nets have Durant, Irving and others, he can still win a 4-year contract of 7500 million US dollars in the hands of the Nets, which shows the value of this player.

Because the Mavericks have Clay, there is no shortage of starting shooting guards. When the time comes, let Harris play the backup shooting guard and use his three-point shooting skills to help the team grab points from the bench. The effect will definitely not be bad.

It is worth mentioning that Harris has won the All-Star Three-Point Contest and has an astonishing performance of averaging 47.4% of three-pointers per game in the season, which is definitely a three-pointer.

After selecting four draft picks, the Mavericks still have the 28th pick, 30th pick and a 44th pick left in their hands.

The 28th pick will not make Li Xun hesitate, and Dinwiddie is directly selected.

Speaking of which, Dinwiddie is also a quasi-All-Star player, but in Li Xun's opinion, his ability is closer to an All-Star than Warren.

There is also a gap in strength among all-stars, and there is actually a gap between these quasi-all-stars.

According to Li Xun's plan, Dinwiddie will substitute for LaVine in the new season.

Before Li Xun selected Dinwiddie, the Mavericks had cut Capela from the Rockets with the 24th pick in the first round.

For Capela and Nukic, Li Xun didn't feel that the two were stronger or weaker, because of the team's relationship, Capela's average data per game was better than Nukic.

But in the confrontation between the two at their peak, Capela really couldn't take advantage of it at all.

It can even be said that Capela was completely blown away by Nukic.

The two have played against each other eight times and played about the same amount of time. Nukic's other statistics are similar to Capela's, but he scored 5.5 points more than Capela.

So Li Xun must still choose Nukic first and give Capela to the 76ers.

In addition, the 76th pick in the hands of the 24ers can only get Capela, and they can't get Nukic, who is normally selected with the 16th pick.

Waiting until the last pick in the first round, this is the draft pick that the Mavericks bring with them this year.

It is also one of the last two draft picks in the hands of the Mavericks this year.

Li Xun chose Jokic without hesitation.

Speaking of it, Jokic is actually Li Xun's biggest gain in this draft.

With Jokic joining, as long as he is given a year or two to grow, Li Xun can play more and more easily on the court.

In addition, Jokic can play the position of power forward perfectly, and the position does not overlap with Gobert. These two are insiders with completely different styles of play.

The only troublesome thing is that Jokic is still playing in Serbia's domestic club, and he will have to negotiate with his home team to buy out the contract.

But it's not too much trouble.

Because Jokic is not a high-profile player like Yao Ming, even in a very low-level domestic league, he has only averaged about 24 points and 10 rebounds in 6 minutes per game this season.

In addition, there are rumors that Zhou Qi beat Jokic in the 2013 World Youth Championship.

This statement is actually wrong, because these two people have never played against each other in this World Youth Championship.

It's just that Zhou Qi averaged 11 points, 9 rebounds and 5.4 blocks per game, and was selected as the best team in the World Youth Championship. From a data point of view, it is indeed much better than Jokic's average of 7 points and 5 rebounds per game.

In fact, if Zhou Qi participates in the draft this year, his pick will at least be higher, so that he won't be selected with the 43rd pick in the second round, which is lower than Jokic's pick.

After all, his data close to double-double plus 5.4 blocks is indeed bluffing.

But Zhou Qi is not old enough. He is one year younger than Jokic, so he has to participate in the draft in 2015 at the earliest.

Li Xun also mentioned Zhou Qi in a chat with Ah Lian and others recently. There is no way, there are not many talented players in the men's basketball team, and Zhou Qi is already considered a good talent.

Zhou Qi will also participate in the next World Championships, and then Li Xun can take a closer look at Zhou Qi's potential.

Jokic doesn't need to worry about Li Xun. At that time, the Mavericks will give more money, and the league can help pay a buyout fee. Jokic will definitely be able to join the team before the start of the game.

After selecting Jokic, Li Xun asked the Philadelphia 76ers to select the son of the big dog, Robinson III.

This is part of the previous deal with the 76ers.

With the 76ers finished selecting Capela and the puppy, Li Xun has fulfilled his promise.

When it came to the last draft pick in the hands of the Mavericks, Li Xun asked Nelson Jr. to take out Jordan Clarkson.

For the Mavericks in the new season, there is no doubt that Antetokounmpo will stay at the No. [-] position, and Clarkson can be used as a backup point guard at that time.

Although Clarkson is too selfish to play point guard, in Li Xun's team, he probably dare not be selfish.

Once he got caught in Li Xun's bad luck, the Filipino probably would have finished his entire career, and he would definitely be pushed on the bench by Li Xun and never be able to turn over.

(End of this chapter)