On June 27th, Eastern Time, the 2008 NBA Draft was about to begin in the Madison Square Garden Theater, home of the New Yorkers.
The draft can also be regarded as a show, and the protagonists are the rookies.
"Michael Beasley has had a phenomenal college career. He will be a well-deserved best of the class. It would be a crime if the Chicago Bulls did not choose him!"
"Look at Kevin Durant's first season in the NBA. If I told you that Michael Beasley suppressed KD in high school and college very early, you would definitely support me and agree with Michael Beasley.
Lee Club is the most popular candidate for the No. 1 pick!"
"Look at Derrick Rose, he is a son of the Windy City! There is no reason for the Chicago Bulls not to choose a local. I even suspect that the reason why the Chicagoans were able to get the No. 1 pick was because of the emergence of Derrick Rose.
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"..."
The camera panned over the rookies in suits and leather suits in the theater, with a slight smile on their expressions, but also a bit serious. Then it suddenly turned and focused on Lin Yu, who had just walked in from the entrance of the theater.
Cheers suddenly sounded, mixed with some "Lin" shouts and screams.
Lin Yu looked confused, but he still waved to both sides of the entrance. Behind him were Donnie Walsh, Steve Mills and Alan Houston.
Alan Houston is a little embarrassed. He was once the favorite of the fans, but now that he has returned to the team and appears as a management team, the fans seem to have forgotten him and there is no voice to support him at all.
This may be the gap between Lin Yu and CIC King. The gap is so big that anyone can hear it with just a casual listen.
"It deserves to be our home court, but it's a pity that we couldn't get the home field advantage."
Donny Walsh made a joke, and the other three laughed, knowing what "home field advantage" meant.
Indeed, the Knicks don't even have a first-round pick in hand. Not to mention the home court advantage, they are even at a disadvantage now.
But Lin Yu is confident that he can reverse the disadvantage. As long as they use two second-round picks to win one of the best centers in 2008 and two rookies who are one of the best championship puzzle pieces, they will win the draft battle.
victory.
The cheers in the Madison Square Garden Theater continued for a while. When the draft was about to begin, league commissioner David Stern walked to the stage, and the cheers immediately turned into endless boos.
"I finally understand why the Knicks are so bad, but they still don't get preferential treatment from the league."
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the No. 1 pick in 2003 was given to the Cavaliers because LeBron James was from Akron, and this year's No. 1 pick was also because the Bulls had been bad for a few years and happened to meet the trend of Derrick Rose.
The son of the city was given to the bull.
As the home team of the largest city in the United States and sitting in the big market of New York, the Knicks have never received any preferential treatment from the league.
From the post-Patrick Ewing era to now, we have been at the bottom of the league, and even though we have draft picks, we have not been able to get even a No. 1 pick.
The Bulls didn't even have a chance to mess up, but with an odds of 1.7%, they unexpectedly won the No. 1 pick.
The boos that filled the theater seemed to have explained the reason.
David Stern has to face this kind of treatment every time he shows up in Madison. No matter how much he wants to develop the New York market, he will give up the idea because of the stubbornness of the New York fans.
Shaking his head secretly, Lin Yu could only sigh, the fans in New York were already hopeless.
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David Stern tapped the microphone in front of him, made a sound, and began to announce that the Bulls were going to make their choice with the first pick in the first round.
Soon, the choice of the Bulls was announced.
When David Stern returned to the center of the stage, he held a small note in his hand.
Ten seconds before the announcement, Zach Lowe made a predictive announcement in the ESPN studio: "The Chicago Bulls' choice is Derrick Rose."
As soon as he finished speaking, David Stern in the center of the stage had just finished reading the Bulls' team name. After reading the selection, he gradually spit out Derrick Rose's name.
"The prediction is successful. Let's go earlier this time. The Miami Heat's choice will be Michael Beasley."
Zach Lowe smiled proudly, and Mark Stein on the side didn't recognize it: "Hey, Zach, don't be so happy, you just predicted two choices, and all fools know that the second choice is Michael Bee
So cool."
Indeed, after the Bulls selected Rose, the Heat's choice would only be Beasley.
Zach Lowe smiled mysteriously, and his big weapon was still behind him.
Rose, wearing a Bulls hat, walked onto the stage, shook hands with Stern and hugged him, then faced the camera and smiled.
Lin Yu sat in a private room at the Madison Square Garden Theater and said to himself: "The roses are about to bloom..."
Immediately afterwards, the Heat's choice was indeed Michael Beasley. As Mark Stein said, any fool can guess this choice.
This time, he even announced before Lowe: "The Timberwolves will choose O.J. Mayo!"
Zach Lowe responded: "This is also a choice that even a fool can guess."
"Hey!" Mark Stein almost spat out a curse word.
But he endured it and decided to fight Zach Lowe in the next round.
With the third pick in the first round, the Timberwolves indeed selected O.J. Mayo. Mark Stein is preparing to predict the fourth pick. He thinks it may be Brook Lopez, the best big man in this draft.
In the draft predictions of major media, Brook Lopez is also mostly ranked in the top four.
But before he could speak, Zach Lowe dropped a piece of breaking news in advance!
"After selecting O.J. Mayo, the Timberwolves will send him to Memphis in exchange for the Grizzlies' No. 5 pick, Mike Miller and other players..."
trade?!
Mark Stein wanted to know where Zach Lowe's news came from.
But before he could ask, Lowe immediately announced: "The next fourth pick, the Thunder, which has moved to Oklahoma City and completed its name change, will select Russell Westbrook from UCLA.
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"impossible!"
Mark Stein immediately told Lowe that this was impossible!
"Russell Westbrook's predicted pick is between 8 and 12, and there is no way he will be in the top five!"
However, David Stern quickly returned to the center of the stage and announced that the Thunder used their fifth pick in the first round to select Russell Westbrook!
Mark Stein discovered that he lost!
He lost completely. With the fifth pick in the first round, the Grizzlies selected Kevin Love.
Then, as Zach Lowe said, the Grizzlies and Timberwolves completed the deal, Mayo was exchanged for Love, and the Grizzlies also acquired Mike Miller, Cardinal and Jason Collins, and acquired Jarry
Odd, useless assets like Antoine Walker.
Everything Lowe said is correct!
In the private room of the Madison Square Garden Theater, as the initiator of all this, Lin Yu told Zach Lowe very early on that he could not guarantee the accuracy of the draft starting with the sixth overall pick.
Because the sixth pick in the first round originally belonged to the Knicks, but the Knicks left the lottery after acquiring Lin Yu. Although the Bulls got the Knicks' pick, they only got a mid-first-round pick.
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The current sixth pick in the first round belongs to the Sacramento Kings, who failed last season.
Who the King will choose is not something Lin Yu can guess. After all, the Knicks' choice in the previous life: Danilo Gallinari was also an unexpected choice.
