Basketball starts with breathing

Chapter 111 Before the Draft
With the end of the NCAA league, the focus of fans' discussion began to quietly shift from the NCAA to the NBA draft.

Major media and websites are predicting which team will get what kind of lottery, which players will be selected, where each player will be selected, and which teams will be selected by these teams. It's a topic that fans talk about.

Among them, Lu Yu is the most discussed.

But what is strange is that although the outside world has turned upside down around Lu Yu, few NBA teams have expressed their attitude towards Lu Yu.

Except Michael Jordan said to the media: "I won't choose Lu Yu, although he is very good, but I think the Wizards need a big player more."

Don Nelson of the Mavericks has bubbling at the corners of his mouth these days.

He has reached an agreement with the Celtics that as long as the Celtics are willing to select Lu Yu in the draft, they will use Greg Buckner, Tim Hardaway and a second-round pick as chips .

Buckner performed well last season, averaging 6.7 points per game, but he has only one year left on his contract with the Mavericks, and the Mavericks are unlikely to sign him after one year.

So just let it go at this time.

As for Tim Hardaway, Lian Po is old enough to say whether he can eat or not.

I have to say that Don Nelson has a good abacus.

But he is not sure what kind of pick the Celtics will get. If the Celtics can get the top five draft picks, this is not enough chips, and some more will be added.

But with years of experience, Don Nelson predicts that the Celtics have a greater chance of getting the ninth No.10 pick.

This has to do with the rules of the lottery draw.

The lottery lottery system uses 14 numbered table tennis balls, marked with numbers 1-14, and randomly selects 4 from them to form a group of arrays that have nothing to do with the order. In the end, only 1000 groups are valid, and they are randomly assigned to those who failed. 14 teams made the playoffs.

The team with the worst score gets 250 sets, the second worst team gets 199 sets, and so on, and the non-playoff team with the best score gets 5 sets.

The Celtics had the tenth-worst record last season.

Therefore, there is a high probability that they will get the No. 10 pick in the ninth place, unless they are lucky. Of course, this probability is extremely small.

And Chicago at this time.

Bulls assistant coach Bill Cartwright is persuading his head coach Tim Floyd.

That's right, this assistant coach was the guest invited by TV to explain the NCAA finals. He could see that the commentator at the time, Doug Collins, also liked Lu Yu, but he knew better that Doug Collins couldn't convince Michael. Jordan.

After all, Bill Cartwright and Jordan were teammates for many years.

He knew the stubborn Michael better.

"Tim, you must believe me, Lu Yu will definitely be the player we need."

"But, he's an Asian player..."

"Have you ever seen such a tough Asian? Tim, I won't lie to you, you should really go and see how Lu Yu plays, he looks like Michael."

"He was injured and couldn't even participate in the trial."

Tim Floyd shook his head helplessly, and then said, "If you want to persuade Jerry, it's best not to mention Lu Yu's words like Michael."

Jerry was referring to Bulls general manager Jerry Krause.

He didn't have a good relationship with Michael Jordan.

Despite their seemingly strained relationship, Jerry Krause was more than happy to praise Michael Jordan and graciously acknowledged that Michael Jordan played a very important role in team building.

In all his years as general manager, Michael Jordan never asked him to sign, trade, or pick a player in the draft, mostly because Jordan knew how great he was and thought he could do things no one else could.

The arrogance of Jordan is a plus.

As we'll see later, Michael Jordan didn't interfere with the team's management.

Although Michael Jordan is considered by many to disrespect Jerry Krause, Jerry Krause often feels despised, these are normal, because when a player has absolute strength, he has the capital to despise any people.

Of course that's also because Jerry Krause believes it was he and Phil Jackson who helped build the team that gave Jordan Michael the tools to win championships in the 20s, and his own greatness shouldn't be overlooked.

This created a conflict between the two.

Knowing that Floyd was kindly reminding himself, Bill Cartwright sighed and continued: "Thanks for your advice, I'll talk to Jerry, but I'd rather you stay with me, If we miss Lu Yu, I think we will regret it."

Cartwright wanted to drag Floyd on.

Mainly because Floyd was a good friend of Krause's for many years, and the two talked almost everything.

Floyd nodded helplessly: "Okay, I will accompany you, but I want to remind you that Krause seems to have reached an agreement with the Clippers because he has a crush on a big high school player."

Big high school player?
Cartwright was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly thought that Michael Jordan also liked a big high school player.

They don't like the same person, do they?
At the same time, the Washington Wizards office.

Doug Collins just arrived at the Wizards to report that they have signed a contract and that Collins will be the head coach of the Wizards next season.

The transformation from a commentator to the general manager of an NBA team is definitely an incredible story.

Not really, Doug Collins was already famous before he became a commentator.

It's not the first time he and Michael Jordan have worked together.

Only this time he is the head coach, and Jordan is the team's small owner and general manager.

In 1986 he became the head coach of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.He led the Bulls to the playoffs and led the team to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 15 years, but did not reach the finals that year.After the season, Phil Jackson took over from Collins.

In 1995, Collins became the head coach of the Detroit Pistons and boosted the team's winning streak by 18 games in his first season.

In his second season, Collins led the Pistons to the Eastern Conference Finals, and in 1997, Collins became the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team in the NBA All-Star Game.

On February 1998, 2, Collins left the Pistons and was replaced by Alvin Gentry.

Collins, on the other hand, became a game commentator for several television stations, including NBC and TNT.

After five years as a TV commentator, Collins became the head coach of the Washington Wizards this year.

It sounds like a character in a novel. After the ace agent has lived in the city for a few years, he stopped pretending, and the showdown was over. I was the boss from the dragon group. This kind of bloody plot is not an exaggeration to describe Collins. .

What he doesn't know is that this time Michael Jordan is no longer the Michael Jordan of 15 years ago.

After he recommended Lu Yu to the team's general manager, Michael Jordan, Jordan looked at him deeply, then shook his head: "No, the team needs a big player."

Collins froze for a moment.

The team has two excellent insiders, Juwan Howard and Jahidi White. Why do they still need a big man? Hamilton is at the small forward position, and the only thing missing is the shooting guard. Lu Yu should be the best choice?

The Wizards won't be short of shooting guards again, will they?
But Jordan won't tell Collins the answer until the final decision is made.

……

Spokane.

On the court not far from Lu Ji Chinese Restaurant, a tall boy in a gray sweater was burying his head in training.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the plastic floor through the shade of the trees, and there was the sound of a basketball hitting the ground.

"Excuse me, I asked how to get to Luji Chinese Restaurant?"

A broken English voice interrupted Lu Yu's training.

Lu Yu looked back and saw a tall, pimple-faced young man standing not far away.

Lu Yu smiled. He was very familiar with this person, so familiar that even after a lifetime of reincarnation, he still felt very kind to see him again.

"Are you Wang Zhizhi?" Lu Yu asked directly in Chinese.

Only then did Wang Zhizhi carefully look at the young man in front of him, and was stunned.

"You are... Lu Yu?"

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