He heard before that Dean Walken and Karl resigned together, but he didn't expect to be re-employed with the Nets so soon!

Although, this first transaction seems a bit of a waste.

But if Dean Walken goes, doesn't it mean that Billy King can't go to the Nets?

This butterfly has huge wings!

The face of the Celtics was so swollen that they were slapped! Without the Nets' draft rights, it will not be easy to rise after the Big Three get old!

"With the 22nd pick in the first round, the New Jersey Nets selected Jimmy Butler, a 2.01 meter shooting guard from the University of Texas at Austin."

The Nets used this pick to draft Butler!

Including Favors, two players from the University of Texas have been selected!

This is... I didn’t have much decision-making power in Denver at first, but I started to fall in love with the University of Texas Department in another place?

The case was solved.

When Lin Ying was traded, Walken Dean must have been opposed to it.

Well...

The Hawks selected Damai James with the 24th pick and then sent it to the Nets...

This time it is really confirmed.

Lin Ying was made to laugh and cry.

But don't tell me, I want them all. In the end, Butler can really perform, and Walken Dean's performance is full.

Fortunately, the 31st pick has been sent to the Hawks by the Nets in the recent trade, otherwise Pittman would really be dead.

Pittman ended up going to the Heat with the 32nd overall pick, just like in history.

Seeing this, Lin Ying and Durant went down to congratulate Butler and the others.

Butler was in a much better mood at this time than before.

The Nets are a rebuilding team, and he will get a lot of opportunities there, which is rare for a first-round pick.

As for how many young people the Nets have and how competitive they are?

What he fears least is competition.

Anthony: Why am I still on the Nuggets?

…

The draft is over, and free agency is just one week away.

However, Lin Ying is not the general manager, so Cole will take care of the lineup matters.

He is about to start arranging things for summer training.

The people he plans to find for this training include him, Kobe Bryant, Durant, Tony Allen, and Holiday.

A very important reason why the battle was so big was that he arranged the trial training in... China!

Don't ask about eating habits, Kobe said he would arrange it, and it's not like there is no Western food in China.

And the place he chose was Sanya. The last time the national team trained there, the results were very good.

What he didn't expect was that Kobe, Durant and the others had no objections to the arrangement of the trial location.

Kobe often travels to China, and the enthusiasm of domestic fans also makes him like China very much.

As for Durant, he was already confused, so of course he wouldn't have any objections.

It was Allen and Holiday who gave up in the end because they were worried that they would become acclimated, so they finally chose to stay in Phoenix for training.

However, they only have about a month to train this time, because Lin Ying has to report to the national team in August, and the same goes for Durant.

This time when we go to China, in addition to Kobe and Durant, Grover, Su Feng, and barber Tony will also be with us.

Moreover, Yang Shuyu will also be there.

She has been included in the national team training squad.

This year's World Championships not only include men's basketball, but also women's basketball, but one is in Türkiye and the other is in the Czech Republic.

So in the end, although there were a few fewer people than expected, it was still a huge group.

On the plane, Durant was pestering Kobe to teach him techniques.

This should be what Durant calls the method to get Kobe, stalk him!

Yang Shuyu and Lin Ying chatted about their experiences at the University of Denver.

Su Feng huddled in that corner looking pitiful, as if he was deeply afraid that Yang Shuyu would use acupuncture to treat him as a guinea pig.

Only Teacher Tony looked out the window. He had not returned to China much since he followed Lin Ying from Sanya.

Now, it can be regarded as a glorious return to his hometown.

After getting off the plane, Yang Shuyu parted ways with them. He wanted to transfer to Ningbo, where the women's basketball team was in Beilun.

The rest of the group went to the hotel where they were staying.

Durant is still pestering Kobe...

Originally, Lin Ying was going to talk to Kobe about his footsteps first, but now he had no choice but to chat with Grover.

And speaking of it, he did have something to talk to Grover about.

I knocked on the door of my trainer's room and ordered a seafood barbecue with Chinese characteristics.

Chatting while waiting for food.

The thing Lin Ying wants to talk about is related to Kobe Bryant in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals.

Kobe's performance in that game was too incomprehensible. He scored 48 points in the game, 2 points shy of tying the 50-point record set against the Suns that year.

Especially the 30 points scored in the second half.

The key is that the shooting percentage is ridiculously high. You must know that Kobe was defended by Allen alone and other Suns players for the whole game.

And the negative angle at the end is a sure kill, it's simply ruthless.

Lin Ying felt that his defense had no effect at all.

If it hadn't been for everything that happened between him and Kobe, plus his last flash of inspiration, the Suns G6 would have basically given up.

"White hot space, he entered the white hot space."

Grover told him something.

That was a concept he created himself.

"Only a very small number of extremely talented athletes possess this 'skill'. It is a state, a very scary state.

Once you enter here, you will find that everything around you is just you.

Basketball, hoop, your heart has never been so peaceful.

Emotions such as fear, desire, and urgency are far away from you.

In this state, you will feel that the speed of other athletes on the field has slowed down, and you only need to gently accelerate and exert force to catch your opponent off guard."

After Grover finished speaking, he also sighed with emotion.

"It's a wonderful, fantastic state. So far, I've only seen it in Michael and Kobe."

After listening to Grover's description, Lin Ying thought of another word he knew: Zone.

This is a state mentioned in the anime called "Kuroko's Basketball", and it is also mentioned in the NBA in reality.

Lin Ying also knew this, but what he didn't expect was that it was actually invented by Grover!

“Do I have a chance to get that ‘skill’?”

Lin Ying couldn't help but ask.

yy It's not a crime. It would be a wonderful thing if you could experience the feeling of playing ball in the anime.

"Everyone has a chance, but few can persist until the end."

Grover gave Lin Ying a blow at first, but his words immediately boosted his fighting spirit.
Chapter completed!