After Duncan was selected, highlights of Duncan's college days were played on the big screen.

Let's face it, Duncan's playing style was quite explosive in college.

Flying in the air, making huge dunks, it's all there.

Unlike in the NBA in the future, the highlights will be endless loops of these shots: hitting the board, touching the head, hitting the board, touching the head, laughing, big windmill...

The draft continues, with the second pick, the Philadelphia 76ers selected Keith Van Horn, who is known as the second Larry Bird.

As a man ranked second only to Duncan in the draft, Van Horn's popularity in the beautiful country is obvious.

In order to mislead the Spurs into selecting Van Horn, Auerbach even boasted about him.

But the old thief Vicky smiled slightly: "You are such a bad old man, I believe you!"

Just because old thief Vicky doesn't believe it doesn't mean that others don't believe it.

There is no way, a name like the second Bird is too loud.

Not to mention 1997, even in 2006, the name "the second Larry Bird" was still quite bluffing.

Didn’t you see that the old gangster left Roy, Gay and others in 2006, but chose Adam Morrison, the so-called successor to Bird, with the third overall pick?

Just playing.

In fact, Van Horn should have been a member of the 1996 golden generation.

But because he wanted to take care of his child who had just learned to walk, he temporarily decided to postpone his participation in the draft until 1997.

Take a look, what does it mean to be a good man?

This guy really has nothing to do with the world and only cares about his family wholeheartedly.

This seems to be destined that his career will not achieve much.

Of course it doesn't mean that men from the Gu family can't play basketball, but this guy has no ambition at all.

With the third pick, Green Kai could only tearfully take Chauncey Billups.

At this time, Flounder on the stage could not have imagined that he, who was ranked third overall, would be sold off by Green Kai after only half a season, and would start his wandering career from then on.

There is no way, and it’s no wonder that Green Kai does not pay attention to Billups. The main reason is that Green Kai’s goal has always been Duncan. For Duncan, Green Kai played a crazy 15 wins and 67 losses last season.

However, it is absolutely impossible for Stern to let Green Kai get Duncan.

In this war with Auerbach, Stern will never allow himself to fail.

So Billups was just a spare tire from the beginning.

How did you say that?

Some people are born in Rome. Others are born as cows and horses.

Thinking of Billups's twists and turns in his career, Li Ang couldn't help but glance at the big book next to him.

Things are really unpredictable.

The undrafted draft pick in 1996 and the draft pick in 1997, who can believe that they ended up getting together.

In this way, it was all the way to the seventh pick. The Toronto Raptors, which had only been established for two years, won the High School Student of the Year Tracy McGrady.

Although the draft pick has changed, the person selected by the Raptors has not.

When he heard Stern pronounce McGrady's name, Ben almost laughed out loud.

"Why did you choose a girl's name?"

According to the bet, Li Ang won 50 dollars from Daben.

Looking at the knife in his hand, Li Ang couldn't laugh.

no......

How did it become the seventh pick?

Could it be that his arrival affected the results of the draft lottery?

Also, with a probabilistic thing like the draft lottery, no one can guarantee that the result will be exactly the same even if it happens again.

Based on the Raptors' record last season, whether they were ranked seventh or ninth, they were actually within a reasonable range.

Thinking about it now, the situation written in the novel, where the draft picks every year are almost the same as the original history, is extremely unreasonable.

This is a bit fucked up, and it means that every draft in the future may have more or less deviations.

Although this deviation may not be too large, sometimes this subtle deviation is enough to bring about huge changes in history.

Think about it, what would have happened if the Knicks had picked Curry with the seventh pick in the 2009 draft?

If the Heat win the No. 1 pick in the 2008 draft, where will Rose go? The Wade Rose combination is enough to attract another superstar to join.

If the Sonics had won the No. 1 pick in the 2007 draft, would they still have selected the King of Temperament?

Li Ang swallowed, thinking about it with horror.

The basketball world I am about to face may be completely different from the one I was originally familiar with!

"Work hard. One day, I hope I can see you shaking hands with Stern on TV, Lee."

After watching the draft, Ben turned off the TV and encouraged his less serious junior brother.

Li Ang also wanted to be selected, but at the moment...

He hasn't even found a place to play next season.

After training the next morning, during the lunch break, Oakley called Leon into the locker room alone.

Li Ang thought Oakley had become interested and wanted to practice alone with him.

When he entered, he found Oakley holding a cigar and looking like a boss.

"Li, did you watch yesterday's draft?"

"Well, I've seen it."

"Envy?"

"What's the use of envy, now I..."

"Well, I was just about to ask you, have you received an invitation from the NCAA Division I team?"

"Not yet." Li Ang shrugged. He also knew that his hope of playing in the first-level league was very slim.

Although he has made great progress now, no one knows it. College scouts will only evaluate Li Ang based on his performance in high school.

"It doesn't matter, to tell you the truth, Ben and I never played in a first-level league game back then.

So it's not the end of the world if you can't go to the first-level league for the time being, but I don't recommend you to play in the second-level league either.

I'm tired of eating. I remember when I was playing in the second tier league, I could have been drafted with the ninth overall pick.

But Ben worked so hard in the second-tier league, but in the end he was defeated.

After losing the draft, I went to play abroad and was deceived by those sons of bitches. I didn't get a penny of salary. It took a lot of effort to return to the NBA.

And because you were undrafted, your salary last season was only $250,000.

In this era, the second-tier league is no longer a good choice.

Listen, Li Ang, I think you have great potential, you have a fierce spirit, and you are a basketball player.

Therefore, I don’t want you to take a detour like Ben did.

If you really want to play in the NBA, then I recommend you start in a junior college and go to the NJCAA."

After being in contact with Oakley for so many days, this is the first time that Li Ang has seen this lsp look so serious, and it doesn't look like he is joking.

"njcaa?" As a senior fan in his previous life, Li Ang also had a certain understanding of njcaa.

NJCAA is a sports league composed of major junior colleges across the United States. According to a way that is easy for Chinese people to understand, it can be regarded as a junior college league below the NCAA.

"Don't rush to refute me. I know that with your grades, it's no problem to go to college.

But if you want to play ball, there's no benefit in going to the second tier.

Students in the NCAA Division II league all have one thing in common, that is, they are not good at playing football.

But NJCAA is different. There are many talented players with extremely high basketball skills who cannot go to college just because of poor grades.

Players who play in the second-tier league may never be promoted to a first-tier league team.

But for players who play in NJCAA, as long as they pass their studies, they will immediately be invited by the first-level league teams. Scouts from the first-level league are all eyeing NJCAA.

Your grades will definitely be fine, so what you have to do is very simple - be dominant in NJCAA and use this as a springboard to enter the first-level league!

In this day and age, only if you play in the first-level league will NBA teams pay attention to you and you may be selected. It is really difficult to be selected when you play in the second-level league.

I know this is a risk. In fact, if I want to, I can immediately enroll you into Virginia Union University, Ben and I's alma mater, and let you play in the NCAA Division II league.

But again, the second level alliance is no longer an option.

From a basketball perspective, NJCAA is your best path at the moment!"

Li Ang looked at Oakley, and to be honest, he was a little surprised.
To be continued...