Lu Yu was stunned, "I don't understand what you mean, Bill. If you are talking about the posture of my girlfriend and I, I think I may be more accustomed to making decisions on my own."
In fact, Lu Yu most likely guessed what Cartwright meant.
There were several transactions in the player market this summer. Malone and Payton joined the Lakers, Hamilton was traded to the Pistons, and Andre Miller was traded to the Clippers. Apart from these three transactions, the others were small fish and shrimps.
Let’s talk about Andre Miller first. Last season, Andre Miller started all 81 games, averaging 16.5 points, 10.9 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 1.56 steals per game. Ranked in both average assists per game and total assists.
Ranked first in the league, became the league's assist leader, ranked second in the league with 3 triple-doubles, and ranked fifth in the league with 43 double-doubles.
But after last season, the Cavaliers' management told him, "Before James joined, we were a garbage team."
The Cavaliers have set their sights on next year's draft, and they are looking to LeBron James!
2002 was his contract year. The team told him that they were going to screw up and get James.
So his agent advised him, 'You'd better apply for a deal'.
Then he applied for the deal.
The year of his contract.
The Cavaliers really don't want to give him anything, so just apply for a trade.
But after being traded to the Clippers, he performed poorly due to injury. In fact, this was just an excuse. He was the assist leader in a weak team, but there are many players who can't play in a strong team. He just returned to normal.
Just level.
He is very good at organizing, but his offense is mediocre, and the Bulls don't need such a player.
It is enough for the Bulls to have Richardson. Richardson is tall enough, can defend, and can shoot three-pointers. The Bulls do not need him to organize the team because the team has Lu Yu.
In the same way, Payton, who needs a certain amount of ball rights, is not the Bulls' favorite. What's more, Payton is so old, and Krause hates such famous and older players.
Then only Malone and Hamilton are left.
Malone is similar to Payton in that he is older and more famous, but Malone can compete with O'Neal, which is likely to be considered by the Bulls.
But the positions of Lu Yu and Malone do not conflict, so it is obvious that Cartwright did not mean Karl Malone when he said this.
That leaves Hamilton.
"Lu, you really know how to joke. Well, let me tell you the truth. The team is planning to make a trade with the Wizards, and the player traded is Hamilton. Of course, if you don't agree, you can tell me directly and I will tell him.
Rouse.”
Cartwright just wanted to seek Lu Yu's opinion.
If Lu Yu is angry because of this deal and simply doesn't play next season or plays poorly, it will be more than worth the loss for the Bulls.
There are no such examples in NBA history.
In Lu Yu's previous life, Kobe Bryant once forced the team to trade players he was satisfied with, otherwise he would ask the team to trade him away.
"There is no problem with the transaction, but whether he can let me give up my position for him depends on his strength!"
Lu Yu chuckled and said: "I don't get involved in team transactions, but whether I play shooting guard or small forward is not determined by a transaction. If he can satisfy me, I have no problem playing small forward. If his
His strength is not even as good as Ron and Jamal, so he should be my substitute."
Of course Lu Yu knew that Hamilton's strength was no problem, but he had to say this because it involved his status in the team.
If Lu Yu gives up his shooting guard position to a random player, then the team will dare to trade him casually next time.
"So it's too early to talk about position. Let's talk about going to New York for the draft. How many picks do we have this year?"
Cartwright also heard what Lu Yu meant, so he didn't explain much about Hamilton's transaction, as long as Lu Yu agreed.
"Our picks this year are not ideal. It seems that we only have the 28th pick in the first round and the 26th pick in the second round."
good.
At least there was a first-round pick. Lu Yu originally thought there was no first-round pick.
This year is a weak year for the draft, and it is probably quite difficult to select an outstanding player from this group of players through the draft.
Caron Butler should participate in the draft this year. Since Lu Yu played in the NBA, the contact with Butler has become less and less. However, after losing the game in the finals a few days ago, Butler sent a text message.
Come and comfort yourself.
It would be great to draft Butler, but there is a high probability that he will be a lottery pick and the Bulls will have no chance.
Dan Dickau also participated in the draft this year. According to the draft predictions, the Bulls can almost select him with the first round pick. It is not a big problem, but this time he is just a foil, and the real decision-making power is still in the hands of Krause.
, you may not be able to say whether you will choose him or not.
The most important thing is, when he gets to the Bulls, can Dan Dickau get a chance?
Lu Yu asked Cartwright for a list of rookie players. Cartwright was still confused. Lu Yu actually accompanied Krause to attend the draft. It was mainly required by NBA officials. David Stern couldn't wait to show his face every time.
Lu Yu and Kobe appeared every opportunity, and he intended to cultivate Lu Yu and Kobe into the kind of stars who were rivals.
The reason why Cartwright was confused was because he was not a time traveler. As a time traveler, Cartwright could not imagine the pleasure of panning for gold from the sand at this time.
When Lu Yu saw the list of rookie players, the names of two people in it made his eyes light up.
Carlos Boozer!
Luis Scola!
Of course, there are second-round picks like Navarro and Barnes who can be found, but they are not suitable for the Bulls.
But Boozer and Scola are very suitable for the Bulls, who are short of players at the power forward position.
Marcus Fizer is incapable and Oakley is old and frail.
If Boozer hadn't been rebellious in the back of his head, Boozer would actually be the most suitable, especially since Boozer, who played at Duke University for three years, was an old rival with Lu Yu, and Lu Yu knew him well enough.
When Boozer came to the NBA, he was ready to fight immediately, and he didn't have to develop slowly like other rookies.
Scola is also very suitable, but Scola's buyout fee is a big problem, and the sample of Scola playing in Lu Yu's previous life was after he landed in the NBA at the age of 27. At that time, Scola's
Cora has been playing in Europe for many years. I don't know what the strength of the young Scola is now.
On June 25, Lu Yu came to New York.
After arriving in New York, he and Klaus parted ways and checked into another hotel, where Scarlett Johansson had already booked a room.
After some experiments, I found that the hotel beds are of good quality.
Scarlett Johansson is very satisfied.
"Lu, last time I was in Los Angeles, I went to Lu Ji for dinner and there was a riot there. Were you there?"
Scarlett still remembered what happened last time. The Bulls lost the game that day, so she didn't even have a chance to interact with Lu Yu at night.
"Yes, did you go too?" Lu Yu pretended to be stupid.
"Nonsense, I even suspect you are avoiding me on purpose."
"How is that possible? I haven't seen you for a long time, and I won't avoid you anyway."
"snort!"
Scarlett pouted, she didn't believe Lu Yu's lies.
Later, she saw the newspaper and learned that besides Lu Yu, there was another girl who appeared in Lu Ji that day, but she didn't recognize it.
There are rumors outside that that girl is Lu Yu's girlfriend.
It was obvious that Scarlett was jealous.
Lu Yu didn't speak, he just used actions to shut up Scarlett... When the pleasure poured in, Scarlett had no time to think about whether to be jealous or not.
The next day, the draft.
Lu Yu and Yao Ming met at Madison Square Garden.
In Lu Yu's previous life, Yao Ming did not enter the Little Green Room because he was training for the men's basketball team. This was actually a big regret for Yao Ming. This time, Lu Yu did not miss this opportunity. After all, he went into the Little Green Room to express something.
The speech was of great help to Yao Ming's popularity in the United States.
Playing in the United States and relying solely on domestic fans will easily lead to discrimination by American fans.
Only people like Lu Yu, who conquer American fans together, can truly gain a foothold in the NBA. Of course, the prerequisite is that strength speaks for itself.
So Lu Yu directly asked for leave for Yao Ming and Wang Fei.
Wang Fei had nothing to say. After all, the Basketball Association did not have many requirements for Yao Ming. Originally, the Basketball Association wanted to require Yao Ming to come back to participate in all domestic competitions. However, Lu Yu's agent directly told the Basketball Association,
Lu Yu, Wang Zhi and Yao Ming are all players under their agency. They want to play together. I hope the Basketball Association will not use regulations to coerce them.
To be honest, the Basketball Association was very angry. They even wanted to not let him go, but Lu Yu's influence in the country is too great.
The most important thing is that they have no jurisdiction over Lu Yu.
Xin Lancheng simply turned a blind eye and pretended not to know.
In fact, in Lu Yu's previous life, he turned a blind eye many times, but sometimes he had to make demands for the benefit of the Basketball Association.
But if something happens, he will definitely be the one to beat him up.
So Lu Yu can do a lot of extraordinary things now, but the premise is to ensure the performance of the Chinese men's basketball team, at least there will be no problems in the imminent World Championships and Asian Games.
Outside the little green house, Lu Yu also saw Butler, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
The two hugged each other.
"Lu, I said, I will come to NBA, I will beat you in NBA!"
"Come on, I'm optimistic about you!"
Butler always felt awkward hearing this. The kid who "only knew a little" when he was invited to challenge Dan Dickau and Casey Green in a one-on-one has now become an NBA superstar.
And I am just a rookie player waiting to participate in the draft.
Lu Yu's words of encouragement sounded like encouragement to the younger generation, which felt weird no matter what.
Not far away, Lu Yu also saw Shane Battier, who was accompanying two of his former teammates, Jay Williams and Carlos Boozer, to participate in the draft.
Jay Williams looked at Lu Yu with an unfriendly look.
One is because Lu Yu defeated Duke last year, and the other is because this year it is rumored that the Warriors will use the No. 1 pick to select Yao Ming. Without Yao Ming, he would probably be the No. 1 pick!
Lu Yu didn't have much interest in him, but he walked over very friendly and gave Boozer a deep hug.
This made Boozer touch his bald head in confusion... He looked very much like a monk who was confused.
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It shouldn’t be a big problem today. I wrote two chapters during lunch. I’ll see if I can find time to write the next chapter in the evening! Please vote~
