Chapter 1,117 The Heaven and Hell of the Draft!

There is no doubt that in the 2010 draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers became the protagonist of this conference.

No matter how it develops next, it is estimated that it will be difficult to have big news tonight that can overwhelm Cleveland's operation tonight.

Traded the recognized super-giant embryo Bradley and All-Star Richard Jefferson in exchange for super-giant Carmelo Anthony.

Deron Williams, recognized as one of the league's most capable point guards, was traded for John Wall and DeRozan.

These two transactions were not only large, but also extremely controversial.

Bradley and Richard Jefferson are exchanged for Anthony. If Bradley really becomes 80-90% Yes in the future, then this will be a huge loss.

Bradley's future is too exciting to imagine.

Deron's replacement with the Raptors' two stars is also highly controversial.

You know, Deron and Chris Paul are recognized as the two most powerful point guards in the NBA!

It's not comparable to the data-based point guard like Rondo, the so-called regular season finals MVP scoring champion.

Is the point guard who averaged 22 points, 10 assists and 5 rebounds per game last season a joke?

Not only are the statistics great, but every time he meets Chris Paul, the little prince point guard with a quadruple double who competes with him for the top spot in terms of physical strength, he always plays with ease!

If Deron's character hadn't been criticized all the time, put aside the issue of character and put him and Chris Paul in a basketball forum to choose who is the strongest point guard. Now Deron can beat Chris Paul. Fight!

The trade value of such a point guard is indeed not as good as that of Chris Paul due to character issues, but it is not much worse. After all, Deron still has four years of contract, and these four years are Deron's high-quality contract period!

Although everyone knows that James and Deron are at odds, Deron used him as one of the bargaining chips in exchange for James when he was in the Heat.

James is about to return to the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers will clean up Deron before James comes back. This is something that everyone can expect.

But I didn't expect the knight to clean up like this.

John Wall's talent is indeed great. Although he fell to the tenth pick, it is obvious that he is not a rookie at the level of the tenth pick. His talent is still recognized as the second in this class.

But even so, John Wall is developing smoothly, can he achieve the achievements and strength of Deron Williams in the future?

Can John Wall hit 21+10+5 at his peak?

Point guards who can't shoot are not popular right now.

Before Rondo didn't persecute the point guard who couldn't shoot, John Wall's talent was indeed worth replacing Deron, but now...

John Wall is Rondo's junior at the University of Kentucky. He is also nicknamed "Powerful Rondo" and is a physically gifted version of Rondo.

Now the entire league is wary of Rondo's name when they see it, especially when traditional point guards bear Rondo's name.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, it is okay for Deron Williams to trade for John Wall and DeRozan alone. Now the Cavaliers actually added a pick No. 18 (the fisherman in the previous chapter wrote No. 16 No., clerical error, has been corrected).

The Cavaliers were in the limelight for a time with the controversial transactions between these two parties.

This also made James the most popular at the draft.

Both transactions were done secretly by him.

Among them, Anthony was personally arranged and guided by him.

If Presti knew that he lost this trade war to an NBA player, he would definitely be even more sad.

As general manager in the past two years, James is really afraid of Durant!

It's not because he is not as good as Durant, but because his strong defense is of no use to Durant. He is no different in front of Durant than an ordinary role player in front of Durant. Make him afraid.

He now understands that when he and Durant face off, it’s a 50-50 split!

He can't suppress Durant at all!

Therefore, if the Seattle SuperSonics are used as the imaginary enemy, he can only challenge Durant, the second son of the SuperSonics.

I can’t even challenge Yes!

This is something he absolutely doesn't want to see. He doesn't want to have any more entanglements with Durant. His goal is Yes!

Since his goal is Yes, Durant needs a player to deal with it.

Looking through the entire league, there is only one person who can suppress Durant at the small forward position, and that is Carmelo Anthony, who is now recognized as the most powerful small forward in the NBA!

As long as Anthony is on the same team as him, he doesn't have to worry about Durant. He can just hand over Durant to Anthony, and he can concentrate on dealing with Yes and those powerful defenders like Kobe and Yes!

Facing Durant, he is indeed powerless, but facing defenders like Kobe and others, James has always been confident!

Therefore, in order to get Anthony, he must win.

What a high stakes for Bradley and Richard Jefferson, he even prepared a higher stakes!

It's just that who would have thought that the general manager of the SuperSonics was so SB that he didn't let them use a higher bargaining chip.

James wanted to laugh when he thought that Yes lost Anthony and had to choose Leonard because of the Thunder's SB general manager.

I have to say, Yes is really surrounded by pitfalls.

Those players who were once pitfalls were brought up by Yes's strong team leadership and development capabilities.

But the team's general manager has an IQ problem, and no matter how strong Yes is, he can't lead him.

As for the team's other transaction, Deron replaced John Wall and DeRozan, this was not arranged by him personally, this was the idea provided by him.

This time when he returned to the Cavaliers, he was not prepared to continue the Heat's mentality of stacking superstars.

This is a hugely unsuccessful strategy!

The failure in the Heat in the past two years has made him clearly realize the power of miracles!

The power of miracles!

He needs a group of players who will really fight for him, players like Daniel Gibson!

Otherwise, in the current league, it is basically impossible to succeed simply by stacking superstars.

No matter how strong the stack of superstars is, can it be as strong as the Heat in the previous two seasons?

Therefore, this time when he returns to the Cavaliers, except for the two super giants Anthony and Yao Ming, James is not planning to recruit so-called superstars, but hopes that the Cavaliers can use the chips on hand to select young players with potential.

Choose who has the most potential!

So even if Deron Williams is not replaced by John Wall and DeRozan, he may be replaced by other rookies in the Little Green Room, such as Paul George and so on.

Of course, it was an unexpected surprise to get John Wall. I really didn't expect that he would fall to this point.

Now the Cavaliers have got Anthony, a super giant at the same level as him, and potential newcomers like John Wall and DeRozan, plus the potential newcomers Kevin Love and JaVale McGee that the Cavaliers already had. It can be said that the current knights have great potential in the future!

When Yes started with the SuperSonics, there were no superstar teammates, and the newcomers were all at the level of Rondo, Durant, Milicic and Millsap.

And he has super giants around him, and the newcomers are all recognized lottery-level potential rookies such as McGee, Love, DeRozan and John Wall. Since he wants to repeat the path of Yes in the Cavaliers, he has no reason to stay in the Cavaliers. It’s worse than Yes!

After two years of failure with the Heat, James has learned to be calm and patient.

He has no plans to make it happen overnight.

He plans to spend two, three or even more years polishing his young team!

"If I don't go to the SuperSonics to worship Yes and kiss Yes's feet, I will turn Cleveland into Seattle!"

Facing the eyes of so many people at the scene, James was very confident!

The scene became noisy again because of the trade between the Cavaliers and Raptors. After David Stern once again suppressed the noise, the entire venue returned to normal.

The Jazz have just used their 11th pick to select Hayward, and the lottery team now only has the Phoenix Suns with the 12th pick, the Trail Blazers with the 13th pick, and the 14th pick. Right to the Houston Rockets.

There are three picks left in the lottery, and sitting in the little green room are 'Skywalker' Luke Babbitt, 'Black Space Easy' Ed Davis, 'White Wall' Cole Aldridge, and 'Left Hand' Arrow's Javier Henry, 'Steel's' Patrick Patterson, 'Camby' Hassan Whiteside, and 'Tracy II' Paul George.

Seven people compete for three lottery spots.

This competition is indeed difficult, so the seven teenagers sitting in the small green room are quite nervous now.

John Wall fell to that level just now, what will happen to these people?

Especially Whiteside and Paul George.

Compared with the other five Green Room rookies, the two of them actually have considerable flaws.

For example, Paul George's background is very bad. In the United States and in the NCAA, schools in the east attract more attention than schools in the west, and famous schools are more attractive than small schools.

Yes's University of Washington is a Western University, a wealthy team, and it has at least one of the two.

For example, Jordan's University of North Carolina, Eastern University, and wealthy teams have all occupied them, so the attention is amazing.

California State University, Fresno, where Paul George is located, is a standard Western school, not a wealthy team, and quite small.

In two years of college, I didn't even play in the NCAA Division I championship.

Before May, no one had heard of this guy in draft rankings or on draft websites.

But after May, Paul George was suddenly linked to McGrady and Granger, and his draft pick predictions skyrocketed.

Why did Paul George suddenly explode in May?

Because after May, the NBA regular season ended and various training camps opened. Paul George went to almost all training camps and participated in almost all physical tests. Players from small teams were so miserable. Those players who paid great attention simply They don’t participate in the training camp and don’t participate in physical tests. Players from small teams like them need attention, so they need to participate in the training camp like crazy for physical tests, and run and jump like crazy.

He and Aminu are arguably the most intriguing sports experts at training camps across the country in May.

Of course, Aminu is from a famous school in North Carolina, and Paul George is just a small player on a small team.

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However, with Aminu and him supporting each other, his popularity also increased.

In the end, he was little-known and got this draft template: Danny Granger (best), Trevor Ariza (worst) who has not developed well.

The best one can become an elite player, the worst one is not Ariza, but an underdeveloped Ariza, which is the beggar version of Ariza, so most people think he should be able to become a player like Ariza in the future.

Ariza is already very good, an elite role player, only a little bit behind the offensive ability of a star player.

So his draft stock also skyrocketed.

This is an unexpected surprise.

As one of the "dark winds" in this year's draft training camp, Aminu has been selected by the Bucks, but he continues to stay in the Little Green Room.

As a player from a small team, Paul George still has a little inferiority complex. What if no team takes a fancy to him?

What if the May boom was a false boom?

Paul George is worried now.

And Whiteside also has the same worries as Paul George. For the NCAA big guys sitting next to him, players from small teams like them really can't have that much confidence.

Just as Paul George and Whiteside were thinking about their uncertain futures, the quiet atmosphere that had been suppressed by David Stern suddenly burst into laughter.

When Paul George heard this laughter, he saw the expression on the face of his idol Kobe Bryant became very ugly.

"The Lakers traded Ariza from the Phoenix Suns for this year's No. 12 pick from the Suns, and traded Batum from the Trail Blazers for this year's No. 13 pick in the first round. Hahahaha, I bet that the Lakers' two This draft pick is prepared for the Anthony trade!"

"Hahahaha, this year's No. 12 and No. 13 picks? Based on this year's draft situation, five No. 12 picks are no match for one No. 6 pick, and five No. 6 picks are no match. A top pick!"

"If John Wall dropped to 12, the Lakers' exchange for this pick would be quite worthwhile, but John Wall was snatched away by the Raptors with the tenth pick, and the Lakers exchanged Ariza and Batum for these two The draft pick would be embarrassing.”

"Even if the remaining rookies reach their peak performance in the future, it is impossible for them to have the ability that Ariza and Batum had with the Lakers last season, right?"

"You can't blame the Lakers. When the Lakers traded with the Suns and Trail Blazers, they didn't expect the Cavaliers to suddenly come in. The trade was also done. Ariza and Batum were also sent out. The Suns and Trail Blazers will not return the goods."

"For Anthony, the Lakers dismantled their strongest forward lineup in the league, but in the end they got nothing in exchange. It's so interesting!"

The look on Kobe's face was very ugly. The bargaining chips the Lakers prepared for Anthony were Randolph + Artest + these two draft picks, which were quite competitive. However, the sudden entry of the Cavaliers made the Lakers' transaction straightforward. Wasted.

It would not work if Randolph + Artest + these two draft picks were traded for Chris Paul.

The Thunder don't need Randolph at all when they have Griffin. If it were to trade Paul, the Lakers would never trade Ariza and Batum for draft picks, but would trade for Randolph.

It's too late now. Anthony can't be traded, Chris Paul can't be traded, and the team's two most powerful strikers, Batum and Ariza, have also been sent away. The Lakers are really losing money now!

Seeing the look on Kobe's face now, Ye Si suddenly felt that in Anthony's deal, it seemed that the worst ones were not the Sonics and Presti, but the Lakers were much worse.

You know, for the Lakers team, Ariza and Batum are players who provide them with forward vitality, which is quite important!

Nash, Kobe, Artest, Randolph, Stoudemire, they can't run that well anymore.

He knows the value of Ariza and Batum.

He coveted Ariza at the beginning, knowing that the true value of these two players was definitely not something that could be exchanged for the 123rd pick.

Fortunately, Kobe's face was so ugly at the scene, and everyone's laughter was not too wanton. Soon the scene became quiet again, but the look on Kobe's face was still so ugly.

"In the first round of the 2010 NBA draft, with the twelfth overall pick, the Los Angeles Lakers selected Paul George, a small forward from Fresno State University!"

Hearing David Stern's announcement, Kobe's face was still dark, and his deskmate Paul George jumped up excitedly after being stunned for a moment!

"I was drafted by the Lakers?! I was fucking drafted by the Lakers?!"

Paul George does have reason to be excited.

As a Californian, as someone who wore No. 24 in college and went to the Lakers, that's not perfect. What is perfect? !

Even the excited Paul George immediately hugged his idol Kobe Bryant, who was sitting in his seat with a dark face.

Kobe, who was originally in a very unhappy mood, saw his fan like this, and after being stunned for a moment, a smile appeared on his face.

Alas, forget it, Yes can use the fourth pick to choose one of his disciples without changing his face.

I used lottery number 12 to choose one of my die-hard fans, which seems to be no worse than Yes.

Yes has recovered even without getting Anthony, and my losses are much less than Yes.

Sometimes people do need comparison when they are sad.

Kobe is indeed much happier with this comparison.

Just seeing Paul George with the same figure as Ariza, Kobe still wanted to cry.

Damn it, just replace Ariza with a system Ariza...

At this time, Kobe, who was smiling on his face and in MMP in his heart, never expected that Larry Bird's face outside the TV would be even more ugly than him.

"Larry, we're being robbed."

Looking at the excited and incoherent Paul George on TV, Larry Bird sighed heavily.

Anthony's deal created so many surprises...

After trading Ariza and Batum, the Lakers couldn't replace Paul with these two draft picks. They could only be used to strengthen their missing forward thickness. They selected Ariza and Paul George Jr. on the 12th, and the Lakers picked Ariza and Paul George on the 13th. The defender Javier Henry of the University of Kansas was selected, or another 1.98 meter defender called Xavier Henry.

Lakers, No. 13, 1.98 meters, guard...

The combination of these tags is more interesting.

After being selected by the Lakers, Henry was obviously not as happy as Paul George.

In fact, he is not that happy. He is a genius. He has been a genius since he was a child. Rather than going to a big city to be a role player now, he is more willing to go to a small team and strive to be the core.

If he could compete in a big city, he would be willing to do so.

But to the Lakers competing for the starting shooting guard...

He felt like he was overthinking things.

Now that he is with the Lakers, he can only serve as Kobe's substitute.

Compete for nothing.

So when he went to the Lakers, Paul George felt completely different from him.

Glancing contemptuously at Paul George, who was still chattering excitedly next to Kobe, Henry looked disdainful.

Those who come from small teams really don't understand the ambitions that come from wealthy teams like them.

But it's normal. For players like Paul George, being a role player is already their limit. How can being a role player be anything other than a role player?

After the Lakers completed their selection of two draft picks, the Houston Rockets selected Patrick Patterson with the 14th overall pick.

The Celtics, with the fifteenth pick, selected the black space trader Ed Davis.

I have to say that these players in the Little Green Room this year are quite talented, and they are the kind of talent that is visible to the naked eye. It is very difficult to fall all the way.

Sixteen Green Room rookies were drafted by other teams one after another.

"In the first round of the 2010 NBA Draft, with the 22nd overall pick, the Oklahoma City Thunder selected forward Craig Brackins from Iowa State University!"

Because of Paul, many people are paying attention to the Thunder's draft, and so is Yeos.

The Thunder did not draft a point guard this time, but chose a forward. Therefore, Paul is not traded, or is Paul also getting a star point guard?

Ye Si was curious.

"In the first round of the 2010 NBA Draft, with the 23rd overall pick, the Golden State Warriors selected the point guard from the University of Kentucky, Eric Bledsoe!"

Now the NBA draft has entered the second half of the first round, and most of the players in the Little Green Room have already been selected.

Only Hassan Whiteside remains.

Therefore, every time David Stern calls his name, the expression on the young center's face is particularly wonderful.

Even like Jordan, he has become a highlight in the second half of the draft.

"In the 2010 NBA draft, in the first round, with the 26th overall pick, the Dallas Mavericks selected guard Isiah Thomas from the University of Washington!"

Isiah Thomas was selected, and Bradley, Ye's tablemate, jumped for joy.

"Captain, all three of us have made it to the first round!"

He is the No. 1 pick, Leonard is fourth, and Thomas Jr. is 26th.

This was indeed a good result. Ye Si thought about the stubborn and hard-working little man and felt very happy for him.

It’s really not easy to finally make it to the first round.

However, Whiteside is still sitting in the little green room.

"In the first round of the 2010 NBA Draft, with the 28th overall pick, the Miami Heat selected center Dexter Pittman from the University of Texas!"

The Heat want a center, but not him!

Am I going to fall to the second round like DeAndre Jordan?

Whiteside has already felt the same hell as DeAndre Jordan.

"In the first round of the 2010 NBA Draft, with the 29th overall pick, the Memphis Grizzlies selected Venezuelan guard Grevez Vasquez!"

Another first-rounder is gone, and Whiteside already feels like he has one foot in hell...

"In the first round of the 2010 NBA draft, with the 30th overall pick, the Seattle SuperSonics selected center Hassan Whiteside from Marshall University!"

With a bang, flowers suddenly scattered in the originally dark hell, and birds were singing and flowers were fragrant, just like heaven...

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