The Godfather of Basketball

After the championship parade was over, Tang Tian invited the team members to have a carnival in the bar all night, and the expenses were all paid for by himself.

After the carnival, the team also disbanded on the spot, and the players ushered in their new offseason, while Tang Tian and his management were preparing for the upcoming draft.

Last year was a big year in the draft, and this year is a relatively small year. Except for Simmons and Ingram, who are basically locked in the top two, the popularity of other rookies is relatively much smaller.

However, for domestic fans, after just witnessing the "home team" Nets win the championship, they will usher in another draft with Chinese players participating.

Zhou Qi, the inside core of the team who has just led the Liaoning team to complete two consecutive championships, will participate in the 2016 draft, and has completed the trial training of each team before, and has received very high evaluation.

The current Zhou Qi has been taught by Tang Tian, ​​has continued special training in the United States, and with the CBA championship bonus, his prospects are much better than predicted in his previous life. In the prediction rankings of the major rankings, he is all in the lottery.

Although it is a young draft year, such a prediction has been quite successful for him.

In addition to Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin also automatically participated in the election because of his age. Although he did not appear in the forecast rankings of the major rankings, the Chinese elements of this draft can be said to be quite strong.

The Nets have a total of three draft picks in this draft. One is the Wizards’ first-round pick acquired by trading Bojan last year, with the 18th pick, and the second-round pick acquired with the Suns, with the 34th pick. , and his 55th pick in the second round.

In the young year of the draft, the 18th pick is the most useful pick for the Nets.

But in fact, this pick can't choose any good people this year.

The potential rookies that Jones gave Tang Tian and those who had been tried out by the team had very limited potential and ability.

In Tang Tian's eyes, there is only one person worth cultivating outside the first round of the lottery, and that is Dejounte Murray, who was selected by the Spurs in his previous life. However, his draft prediction is at the end of the first round, and it is indeed a waste to select him with the 18th pick .

Trading the pick down is the best option.

Jones also began negotiating with teams at the end of the first round, but no viable plans were reached before the draft.

Tang Tian is not in a hurry. The draft conference is also called the trade conference. Most of the deals will be finalized around the conference. Now everyone is just trying to figure it out.

Time flies, and two days passed in a blink of an eye. Tang Tian also went to the draft conference with Jones and the draft team.

Since the opening of Barclays Center, the NBA draft has moved here from Madison Square Garden, and this year is no exception.

The Nets just won the championship, and the enthusiastic atmosphere of New York basketball has not subsided. There are quite a lot of local fans at the draft conference.

When Tang Tian went to the scene, he ran into Stevens. The latter was very depressed. There were rumors that Durant might not renew his contract with the Thunder. It seems that the news is not groundless.

After comforting Stevens, Tang Tian and his team entered the draft room.

"The 76ers agreed. They are willing to trade with us with the 26th pick plus the 31st pick in the second round." As soon as he sat down in the draft cabin, Jones received a call from the 76ers.

At the end of the first round, the first pick in the second round is added. Although the pick in the draft year is not worth much, this bargaining chip is enough to be sincere.

"Let them change to the second round next year." Tang Tian thought for a while and said.

This year's second round is enough, and it's useless to trade more. It's better to change to next year's. Does he know that next year is the year of the draft.

Jones nodded, and then continued to communicate with the 76ers management.

Tang Tian then turned his attention to the scene of the talent show.

Unlike the previous life, Zhou Qi was also invited to the Little Green Room this year, and he was sitting there nervously with his parents.

The men's basketball team is training in Europe, and he is also here on leave.

Wang Zhizhi was banned in China because of the incident of studying in the United States. Now that the younger generation can have such a good environment, this can be regarded as a breakthrough.

The draft will start soon.

Xiao Hua came out of the backstage and announced the ownership of the first pick.

The 76ers ranked last in the league last season and got the No. 1 pick as they wished. According to previous predictions, they will most likely choose Simmons.

"The first pick in the first round of the NBA in 2016, the Philadelphia 76ers chose Ben Simmons, a small forward with a height of 2.08 meters, from Australia."

When Xiao Hua announced the result, Simmons got up excitedly, took the 76ers cap that had been prepared from the side of the staff, and stepped on the field briskly.

The No. 1 pick has actually been decided long before the draft, and the team and rookies will make promises before.

Simmons, Tang Tian knows this guy's talent is a good cornerstone for team building.

And the Australians, speaking of the Asian and Australian basketball are about to merge, the Australian basketball talents are really not comparable to China.

The second pick belongs to the Lakers.

The Lakers held Kobe Bryant's retirement season last season, and scored 60 points in the final curtain call to become a classic. However, the Lakers only won 20 wins last season, the second-to-last in the league, and successfully won the second pick.

Their choice was the same as in the previous life, picking off 2.06 meters, small forward Brandon Ingram from Duke University.

The third pick belongs to the Celtics.

The Celtics have accumulated a lot of draft picks in the past two years, but unlike their previous lives, their No. 3 pick is not the Nets', but their own. The top two in the middle are really a bit back.

Apart from Simmons and Ingram, there are only short guys who are generals. Angie has a good vision. Like his previous life, he chose the 2.01 meter swingman Jaylen Brown from the University of California, Berkeley.

The subsequent choices were similar to Tang Tian's impression in his previous life.

With Xiao Hua coming out of the backstage again and again, the draft in the lottery area will soon be over.

However, Zhou Qi was still not selected.

Previously, his predictions on major websites were all on the edge of the lottery. It seems that the ages that broke out not long ago had a great influence on him.

Tang Tian was also very curious at this time. Theoretically, the probability of Zhou Qi falling into the second round like in his previous life is not high.

If he did fall there, he wouldn't mind taking him with a late second-round pick, or a late first-round pick.

Zhou Qi, who has strengthened, is not a problem at all as a substitute for the fifth position in the small ball era, and the advantage lies in his youth.

Xiao Hua walked out of the backstage again at this time. The pick belongs to the Celtics, and they really have a lot of picks.

"The 16th pick in the first round of the NBA in 2016, the Boston Celtics chose Zhou Qi, a 2.16-meter center, from China."

Before the draft, there were rumors that Zhou Qi of the Celtics had a draft promise, and now he has directly fulfilled it.