Chapter 392 The Most Bizarre Draft Competition

On June 28, 2007, the lights were brightly lit in the theater at Madison Square Garden.

It’s NBA draft night again.

In the small green room of the theater, the expressions on the faces of this year's hot newcomers range from calm, nervous, expectant, or anxious.

The 2007 draft is widely considered to be a great year for the draft.

If you want a chosen son, you will have a chosen son.

It takes extreme genius to have extreme genius.

It can be said that before the draft began, the 2007 draft was considered comparable to the 2003 draft.

With such an outstanding rookie class, the 2007 draft became the focus of American public opinion after the finals.

In the American media, every day is the Seattle training camp, and so and so has been guided by Yes, and so and so has been favored by Yes.

Apart from the quality of the players, this year's draft is absolutely terrifying in terms of exposure.

This time, there are 26 popular rookies sitting in the small green room, the most in history.

It is a direct reflection of this horrific exposure.

Generally speaking, the number of people in the Green Room at the NBA Draft is not fixed.

The general managers of each team in the league vote on who is likely to enter the lottery, and then the league issues an invitation to these players who are considered likely to enter the lottery to sit on the round table representing the small green room.

Theoretically speaking, the number of people in the small green room is at least 14, and the maximum is undetermined.

Normally, the number of people in the small green room rarely exceeds 20 people.

But this year, the number of people in the Little Green Room has far exceeded the 20 people.

Why is this happening?

You can say that except for Oden, many others can't tell the difference between good and bad.

You can also say that most of this year's rookies will not be given the opportunity to be inspected by other NBA teams!

Without actual inspection, how to accurately grade players?

Through their past competitions or information, we can roughly tell whether they are good or bad.

But definitely not precise.

Except for Oden, there are almost five people competing for second place, ten competing for top five, and twenty competing for top ten. So how many are competing for the lottery?

Before this year's draft, there had been rumors that if David Stern hadn't killed a few players, the number of players in the Little Green Room might have been even more explosive.

It's really not that these general managers in the league are unwilling to examine these players more.

There is really no chance.

These outstanding rookies this year have spent most of their time in Seattle.

Because being in Seattle gives me exposure, I can still make national news from time to time.

Many rookies who were originally planning to leave Seattle to try out with other teams were unwilling to leave in the end.

For the NBA draft, exposure has a huge impact.

Last year's Rondo is an example. His status as an Internet celebrity allowed Rondo to soar from a player who was not enough in the second round to the 20th pick in the first round.

After entering the NBA, the rookie won the assists title because of Yes' help in brushing up statistics.

Nowadays, no young player in the United States wants to be Rondo's second.

In a recent ESPN survey, Yes was recognized by fans and experts as the most unlucky rookie in history, with hellish teams, hellish teammates, hellish opponents, and hellish divisions. His career By far the most hellish.

As for Rondo, he was undoubtedly elected as the luckiest player in the history of the NBA.

People who have a chance to be drafted by the Sonics will not leave, and people who have no chance of being drafted by the Sonics are not willing to leave even if they have one or two interactions with Yes that make national news.

The last training camp in Seattle has a tendency to catch up with the training camp in Orlando.

No matter what happens in the future, as far as this year is concerned, the Seattle training camp has surpassed the Orlando training camp.

The draft pick predictions for rookies who have participated in Seattle training camp have been bullish, while those who have not participated have been falling.

There is so much media attention, and Yes is also very approachable and cooperative.

Among the rookies participating in the Seattle training camp, if they don't get a resounding nickname, they can only say that they are in trouble.

Except for Oden, most of the people sitting in the green room this year came from the Seattle training camp.

Sitting with these guys, Oden felt a lot of pressure.

Conley, his good friend next to him, was nicknamed a combination of Isiah Thomas + Stockton in Seattle.

Noah, who is on the other side of the table, was nicknamed Little Duncan or Bankrupt Duncan in the NCAA before, but his current nickname is a combination of Duncan and Garnett.

There is also Corey Brewer over there. In the NCAA, he was just McGrady, the bankrupt version of McGrady. Now he is a combination of McGrady + Carter + Iverson. He is only missing a Kobe to become the guard F4.

The most terrifying one is Nick Young. The previous draft template was just Jr. Smith. After a month in the Seattle training camp, he became a combination of Jordan + Yes.

Looking at the bunch of 'greats' around him, Oden felt that the pressure on himself was really great. His combination of Russell + General + Duncan was almost not enough.

It seems that Durant is still sitting in the corner.

Durant started out as a combination of Tracy McGrady + Garnett. After a duel with Yes, he became a combination of Marion + Nowitzki. After participating in the Seattle training camp, he has now become a combination of Nordigay. A combination of Yi and Novak.

He heard from Conley that everyone was brushing up titles and achievements, but Durant was the one downgrading himself.

He can't bench press as well as Barea, he can't jump as high as Yao Ming, and he can't run as fast as George Muresan.

If it weren't for Durant's crazy performance in the NCAA, he would never have been able to stay in fifth place based on the results of his trial training at the Seattle training camp.

Oden looked away from Durant.

Fortunately, he has reached an understanding with the Grizzlies.

If he is not the chosen one, if he does not get the promise of the No. 1 pick.

Let you sit next to such a group of great gods, and I will ask you whether you are vain or not.

Every year in the NBA draft, the topic that the media and fans pay the most attention to is who is the first to be selected and who is the last to be selected from the Little Green Room.

The first one to be chosen is the glory, and the last one to be chosen is really a laughing stock.

Generally speaking, most of the players in Little Green Room will be selected in the lottery area, and basically very few will fall to the end of the first round.

This year is really different.

There are as many as 26 people in the little green room. Among these people, not to mention the combination of Garnett + Duncan, there are even the combination of Jordan + Yes.

There's a good chance some of these guys will fall to the bottom of the first round, maybe even to the second round.

This year's draft is likely to set a record for being the latest player to be drafted in Little Green Room history.

At the same time, it will also create a record that someone with the draft template of Kobe + McGrady will fall out of the first round.

The people sitting in the little green room now, except for Oden and Durant, are really under great pressure.

If I had known better, I wouldn't have been so aggressive.

The higher you stand, the harder you will fall.

The D price in this year's draft has been raised to the sky by them.

When the D price goes up, no one is innocent.

This year's draft is very brutal, and the rookies are under a lot of pressure. The biggest one among them is of course Sun Yue.

Sun Yue is now sitting in the small green room, her hands are shaking and her calves are shaking.

He really didn't expect that he would be able to sit in the little green room one day!

When you used to watch TV, what kind of people were sitting in the little green room?

Those are all future NBA star players!

It's people like Yes, James, Wade, and Anthony!

But now he is actually sitting here.

And the title he carries on his body is a combination of Magician + Pippen.

The last person to wear the combined body numbers of Magic + Pippen was Penny Hardaway, the Magic’s forever No. 1 NBA passing star, the man who fucked Jordan in the playoffs!

Every time he thinks of this nickname, Sun Yue wants to cry.

It really wasn’t him!

Magic + Pippen?

What the hell is this!

Not to mention that Sun Yue didn't believe it, even Aoshen head coach Cottle, who was sitting with Sun Yue, found it incredible.

When Sun announced his participation in the draft, the American media evaluated Sun as a rare tall guard in recent years with excellent ball-handling skills. At the same time, his body was still thin and his shooting ability needed to be improved.

This is a very general evaluation. Any evaluation that does not involve physical talent but talks about technology is a general evaluation.

This means that everyone is not familiar with you and only came to this conclusion after watching a few of your games.

Because he was not familiar with it, he gave Sun a very general position as the 58th pick in the second round. This position is basically equivalent to a comfort position. As long as it is not too bad, everyone can do it.

As an American who is familiar with the NBA, Cottle was entrusted by Olympus to take Sun to participate in this draft.

At first, he suggested that Sun attend the Orlando rookie training camp to make a name for himself.

Because the American media did not understand Sun, they only ranked Sun 58th in the second round, which made him very dissatisfied.

From his point of view, Sun should have a chance to enter the early second round.

But Sun didn't listen to him and went directly to Seattle.

This made him quite dissatisfied.

But it has only been less than a month, what has it become now?

"The second magician was surprised at the Seattle training camp. He is 2.05 meters tall and has speed comparable to Aaron Brooks!"

"Averaging 13.5 points, 10.5 assists, 6 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals per game, he is a genius who is the strongest point guard in the ABA first team!"

"Excellent organization, incredible defense, Magic + Pippen are here again, his name is Sun!"

"Inseparable! Yes personally coaches Sun and Nick Young every day!"

"The dark horse at No. 2! The SuperSonics will replace Mike Conley with Sun!"

Looking back on the recent public opinion, Sun was able to thrive in the Seattle training camp so well that Coulter didn't know what to say.

Because of his outstanding performance in the Seattle training camp, Sun's draft ranking soared from No. 58 in the second round to No. 20 in the first round in less than a month.

Nick Young, who is the same as Sun, is even more terrifying, both soaring directly to the top ten.

Because of Yes, Durant's draft pick prediction has dropped again and again.

Also because of Yes, Nick Young and Sun, who were relatively not that popular, suddenly became the dark horses that finally soared.

Because of Yes, and because of the Seattle training camp, this year's draft has become the most bizarre draft in recent years.

The whole world underestimated the attention surrounding Yes.

In all his years in the United States, Cottle has never seen an NBA draft like this.

Not to mention Cottle, even David Stern, who walked out amidst the boos of the New York fans, felt incredible about this year's draft.

Look at these alliance futures sitting in the small green room below, and then think about the nicknames they carry.

David Stern feels like he has traveled through time.

The people sitting below are not Oden, Durant and the others.

Sitting below should be Jordan, Russell, Chamberlain, Magic, Larry Bird...them.

This kind of scene that could only appear in his dreams was actually created by the media across the United States in cooperation with Yes.

He doesn’t know now whether the American media is cooperating with Yes’ creation or Yes is cooperating with the American media’s creation.

Anyway, the water is already so muddy now, so what’s the point of worrying about who made it muddy?

David Stern looked away from the pile of "Jordan", "Chamberlain", "Russell", "Magic" and "Big Bird", and opened the first envelope.

"In the 2007 NBA draft, with the first pick in the first round, the Memphis Grizzlies selected the center from Ohio State University, Greg Oden!"

Emperor?

Oden was the No. 1 pick. The rookie in the Little Green Room, the reporters next to him, and the fans in the stadium were not surprised.

The key is David Stern's title. David Stern pronounced Oden's nickname!

The last rookie to receive such treatment dates back to last year's Yes!

Looking at Oden on TV, Ye Si's face was very calm.

This time he did not go to New York. He watched the draft with Roy, Conroy, and Webster at his family's lakeside villa.

Roy has returned to Seattle from Houston.

Except for the calm expression on Ye Si's face, the expressions on Roy and Conroy's faces were tense.

Ye Si knows that the Rockets' goal is a combination of Aaron Brooks, Iverson + Kobe.

The Rockets' first-round pick is the 28th pick in the first round.

Can Iverson + Kobe be selected with the 28th pick?

Do you believe that I can choose?

Roy and the Rockets really didn't expect Aaron Brooks to transform into such a 'great god'.

If Brooks hadn't been training with the Rockets for a period of time, they would really feel that they were blind.

As for Conroy, the Lakers got Kidd, and his starting lineup is gone.

The current goal of the Lakers is the combination of Hardaway + Grant Hill, Gavaris Crittenton.

Is it Hardaway + Grant Hill?

Just hearing this name makes people feel guilty.

Is this who he’ll be competing against next season?

Roy and Conroy were about to cry, and almost at the same time, they looked at Ye Si between them with resentment.

This year's draft was so crazy because of him!

Not only them, but now the general managers of each team have even more headaches. Among these Jordan, Magic, and Chamberlain, who should we choose?

Ye Si ignored the resentful looks of the two people around him. His eyes were always on the TV, David Stern's second envelope.

"In the 2007 NBA draft, with the second pick in the first round, the Seattle SuperSonics selected Kevin Durant, a small forward from the University of Texas!"

There was an uproar!

I left a bunch of Jordan Magic and didn't choose, and chose Rudy Gay + Novak.

In Madison Square Garden, the expression on Durant's face is constantly changing in the corner of the Green Room.

For a time, Durant in the corner became the focus of the world.

Is this the Pippen that Yes chose for himself?