Chapter 423 2005 NBA Free Agency Market(1/2)
Oh yes, in history, Wang Zhelin was chosen while lying down!
The common point between the two may be that they feel that they will not be selected.
So instead of waiting for disappointment, it is better to sleep with your head covering.
But it seems that the more they don’t care, the more lucky the goddess favors them.
"Wait a minute, I'll read the news."
"No need to look at it, 60th."
Sun Hao directly reported the results to Zhu Fangyu.
The other end of the phone was obviously silent for a while.
"It's also a dream come true."
After a while, a bitter laugh came.
"It's not just about realizing your dreams, you know that the Lakers don't have a draft pick this year. Apart from you, there is only one second-round pick from the trade, and it's not much higher than you, with a 43 pick."
"And you know Ginobili? He is half-dozen with you, with a 58 pick in the second round, but he is now the core of the Spurs' outside line."
The purpose of Sun Hao's call was to increase Zhu Fangyu's confidence.
However, Zhu Fangyu's reaction on the other end of the phone was not very strong.
This is normal, just like when you have the last place in the key high school, the teacher tells you that you can be admitted to a key university, or even Tsinghua and Peking University in the future...
It sounds a bit like drawing a cake.
"Play the Asian Championships first, and then come to the Lakers to try out after the game."
Sun Hao also knew that one or two sentences would not be of much use.
And although the Lakers management trusts him very much now, it is impossible to say that he will sign whoever he wants. Everyone in the championship team is effective.
After hanging up the phone, Sun Hao was in a pretty good mood.
When he was in the Mavericks before, Bale was his younger brother and bodyguard.
After he arrived at the Lakers, this character was gone.
If Zhu Fangyu could really stay, it would be just right to make up for it.
Don't underestimate this kind of role. Jordan has Oakley, Curry has Green, and these "stadium bodyguards" can help superstars avoid a lot of trouble.
The draft has ended, and Sun Hao went to say hello to Williams.
Paul was there when he passed by, and he seemed to be having a good chat with Williams.
The NBA looks big, but the circle is actually very small.
To put it in numbers, 30 teams have 450 players, less than 300 players who can play in the NBA for a long time.
Or the things in front of you can be explained in another sentence: the future chairman of the Players' Union has begun to show his communication skills.
If you think about it carefully, the same is true. Which player in these first-tier leagues does not have an NBA senior, but Paul just scrambled into James' circle.
This is ability.
Of course, this is definitely a good thing for Yi Jianlian.
If you can't become teammates with Sun Hao, Paul should be the most suitable for him.
After the draft was over, Yi Jianlian had to return to China to continue preparing for the Asian Championships the next day.
When he woke up in the morning, Sun Hao took Yi Jianlian to the airport.
The plane was a bit late, and they were chatting in front of them and they could talk about the same thing. Sun Hao took out his phone and read the news.
But it was this moment that made him feel like he was fed Xiang.
In the headlines of ESPN, Bogut was clearly the first prize: I should be the top scorer.
This guy not only wrote his dissatisfaction on his face, but also said it out.
If it were someone else, Sun Hao would think that this person was ambitious.
But it was this Bogut.
"This guy treats himself as Yaoyao."
Sun Hao started to complain.
Yi Jianlian came over and took a look and was a little confused.
At this time, the Asian Championships had not become the World Cup, Australia did not join the Asia-Pacific region, and the two teams did not face each other in the international arena, and Bogut was not famous yet, so there were not many grudges.
So it is difficult for him to understand Sun Hao's attitude towards Bogut.
"This guy hates China very much. I will see him once and once next season."
Sun Hao seemed to realize this and explained casually.
"knew."
Yi Jianlian didn't ask Sun Hao if he knew Bogut before. Sun Hao said that, that's it, that's it.
And Sun Hao said so, he would do that too.
He will be a third-grade student next year, so it is still easy to bully rookies.
Sun Hao smiled and patted Yi Jianlian on the shoulder.
Bogut, who is determined to prove that he should be the No. 1 pick, will definitely have a very "unforgettable" rookie season.
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The draft officially ended, and the topic of draft is still continuing in the forum, but more people's eyes began to turn to the free agent market that is about to arrive.
Although there are no top superstars like Sun Hao and Kobe in this year's free agent market, the level of liveliness is not inferior to last year.
The first ones, O'Neal, Michael Reed, and Ray Allen, are all the core of their respective teams.
The second place, Joe Johnson, Kwame Brown, Laga Bell, Chandler, Antoine Walker, Eddie Curry, Gerald Wallace, Mobley, etc., are all players who have strength and market conditions, and even many of them are indispensable to the parent team.
In addition, among the third-tier players, Mutombo, Horry, and Gary Payton, these are all worth the basic salary, but each team will compete for the players they want.
This is also a very critical period for the Lakers, and it is likely to even determine whether they can defend their title successfully in the end.
The Lakers won the championship last season, and O'Neal will definitely stay.
But his final contract will have a certain impact on the Lakers' strengthening.
As mentioned before, the Lakers will renew O'Neal's contract on the hat.
The so-called hat renewal means that when a team has bird rights for a certain player, the contract renewal can be renewed without considering the salary cap.
In other words, the expiration of O'Neal's contract is equivalent to freeing more than 10 million space for the Lakers at once.
Why not more than 20 million?
Because the Lakers exceeded the luxury tax last season.
So even with this space, the Lakers may not be able to use it up.
The simple reason is that the Lakers have to pay twice the price for every penny of these spaces.
If you really sign a player with a maximum salary of 14 million, the Lakers will have to pay 28 million.
The Los Angeles giants and the Bass family are willing to pay luxury taxes for the championship.
But everything has its limits.
Therefore, we must strengthen and save money as much as possible for the Bass family. Kupchek should be the most troublesome person during this period.
Sun Hao, while paying attention to the free market trends, he started his own personal training camp.
He just got the [Bryant's turn and tilt back shot bag], so he had to find someone to practice.
This is also a disadvantage of the 2.0 version of the system. In the system, he can only train one-on-one now, and he can't do half or the whole game.
However, there are many fewer acquaintances in the training camp this year. First, James also made a name, and Anthony, as a 2003 generation, also ran over; second, the men's basketball team is preparing for the Asian Championships, and Yi Jianlian and Zhu Fangyu and others can't come.
Yao Ming, Curry, Sun Yue, Laga Bell, there were only four people left in the last training camp.
Of course, there are also many newcomers joining the camp, Ariza, Louis Williams, Chris Anderson, David Lee, as well as some college students and local high school students at UCLA.
When asked why David Lee came back, Yi Jianlian recommended him to come.
After his personality changed, Yi Jianlian also began to understand the worldly ways.
There is another person who cannot be said to have joined the training camp, but he appeared in the training camp and also brought an extremely relaxed atmosphere to the training camp.
Doncic.
Little Doncic is already 6 years old.
Europeans grow fast, and Doncic comes from a basketball family. According to his father Shasa, he started touching the ball at 7 months, and at the age of 1, he used mini basketball and baskets as his main toys.
So 6-year-old Doncic already has the technology, although it is awkward but quite comprehensive.
And his innate basketball IQ.
To be continued...