After the championship parade, Lian Dao fulfilled the promise he had made to the players, which was Lian Dao's promise to the Knicks: As long as he wins the championship, he will charter a luxury yacht for everyone to enjoy.
In this regard, Lian Dao did not break his promise. Lian Dao actually chartered a super luxurious yacht, which had all kinds of entertainment facilities, food and bars. Everyone let themselves go on the yacht and forgot about it. The yacht carnival party lasted for three days.
It took three days and three nights to come to an end.
At this time, Lian Dao also officially returned to his vacation life. He is now in the recuperation stage, and training has basically stopped, completely allowing himself to live a leisurely and slow-paced life.
After his parents returned to China, the big villa once again became the world of two people for him and his little senior sister.
During this period of time, Lian Dao and the young senior sister were completely depraved. The hibiscus warmed the tent and the nephrite warmed the fragrance.
The young senior sister has given up all her recent work and is discussing the next travel plan with Lian Dao.
The two of them lived in their own two-person world, but the situation outside was turbulent.
The draft is approaching, and trade rumors have been flying everywhere recently.
Most people know that the 16th Thursday of each season is the trade deadline, but few know when trades can actually take place in the NBA.
In fact, there is no clear time for the trading start day, because it depends on the end of the finals.
From the 16th Thursday of each season to the end of the finals, no trading is allowed during this period, but trading is allowed at other times.
However, most teams will not choose to make transactions during the end of the finals.
All teams now have very limited chips. Whether it is reinforcement or reconstruction, this period of time is not suitable for transactions.
The draft and the free market begin, which are two periods of high-volume trade signings. However, this summer is somewhat unlikely because there has been no progress in labor negotiations so far, and the free market will be delayed indefinitely.
At present, the only node that can facilitate a large number of transactions is the recent draft.
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Before we knew it, the 2019 draft was held in Newark, New Jersey, at the Prudential Center, the home of the Nets.
This year is considered by the media and experts to be a weak year for the draft, but Lian Dao knows that this is definitely an underrated draft.
This year’s draft has seen many future All-Stars: the historical No. 1 pick Kyrie Irving, Kemba Walker, Klay Thompson, Nikola Vucevic, Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler
,Isaiah Thomas…
Speaking of Kawhi Leonard, due to Lian Dao's success, Leonard's draft prospects are very promising, and he was ranked in the top five at the highest point.
However, following his abnormal performance in several NCAA games, media comments suddenly took a turn for the worse, and some media continued to exaggerate Kawhi Leonard's shortcomings.
There is no shooting, the hand feels hard, and it is difficult to practice shooting; although it is a rough jade, it is difficult to polish it; the upper limit is even directly set at Danny Granger.
And his flawed dynamic talent has been constantly amplified by the media. His maximum jump is 81 centimeters and his unassisted run jump is 65 centimeters. His jumping is not considered top-notch.
The 3/4 sprint speed is an excellent 3.15 seconds for a defender, but Leonard's lateral movement speed is relatively slow, which makes it easy to cover in defense. The first step breakthrough speed in offense is not good enough, and he lacks a transitional attack.
the absolute speed.
These weaknesses are constantly mentioned by the media, causing some teams to have lower and lower expectations for Leonard.
Most teams' positioning of Leonard is limited to a role player, a defensive engineer wing with good physical fitness, rather than a first-class star or the core of the team.
With this positioning, it will be difficult for Leonard to enter the lottery.
Lian Dao laughed when he saw the news, in classic Popovich style. If there were no Spurs behind these rumors, Lian Dao would never believe it.
However, what the media said is indeed true, and Leonard does have this problem now.
But college athletes can't change their rough characteristics. If they compare the third-position players to Lian Dao and James, it will be difficult for them to choose the player they like.
After all, players like Lian Dao and James are really rare to come across in ten or even decades.
Downey still asked Lian Dao for his opinion before the draft, and Lian Dao didn't give him much advice. He just gave him the names of two players, one was Clay Thompson and the other was Jimmy Butler.
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Klay Thompson's draft pick is still quite high. His draft pick has always been in the lottery. On the contrary, Jimmy Butler's draft pick has been very low. His selection ranking has been at the end of the first round and the second round.
Wandering back and forth between the top few.
Lian Dao did not recommend Leonard to Downey.
If we look at the development of later generations, Leonard will definitely be more comprehensive and a super giant, but Leonard is a boring gourd, and it will be more difficult for him to integrate into the team.
Moreover, Leonard needs a lot of time to develop, but the Knicks' personnel ratio, whether at the second or third position, has become complete, and there is no way to give Leonard the large amount of playing time he needs to grow.
To be honest, the Knicks do not have the basic conditions for developing players like the Spurs.
In fact, even Jimmy Butler needs a lot of time to cultivate.
The reason why Jimmy Butler's pick prediction is so low is that he is not a finished product in college, so he also needs a lot of time to train, and one of the foundations of training is a lot of playing time.
The birth of a super player must involve a lot of playing time. Whether it is James, Kobe, Jordan or Durant, they all continue to improve through game after game.
Even Duncan and Lian Dao, who were at their peak when they debuted, continued to improve their skills through a lot of playing time.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, Lian Dao did not strongly interfere with Downey's choice, he only provided two draft suggestions.
The Knicks are now a championship team, and they are also a championship team with a very young average age. Their only task now is to ensure the integrity of the lineup. As for the draft, everything is secondary.
However, with the retirement of Rasheed Wallace, the Knicks also need to strengthen their inside line and must find a player who can replace Rasheed Wallace.
Downey was also very worried about this. Lian Dao proposed two candidates for Downey, one was Yao Ming and the other was Hassan Whiteside.
Yao Ming's name is Downey, who is very familiar with him. He is a super center in the Western Conference. This year also happens to be Yao Ming's contract year. Even if he signs Yao Ming with a maximum salary, there is actually no problem with the current salary space of the Knicks.
But what Downey doesn't understand is who is Hassan Whiteside?
Lian Dao frowned, forgetting that although Hassan signed with the Kings, he did not play in many games throughout the season. It was understandable that Downey was not familiar with him.
Lian Dao then explained it to Downey, but this made Downey even more confused.
One is a top center in the league, and the other is a player who has trouble hitting the ball. No matter how you look at it, you feel that there is a huge gap between the players suggested by Lian Dao.
But Lian Dao didn't explain too much about this. Could it be said that he had opened his eyes, or that he was reborn and knew that Hassan would be able to fight out in the future?
There is no doubt that the Knicks' upward trade was not successful. Many teams holding lottery picks looked like lions when they saw the Knicks trading up draft picks. They either wanted Gallinari or Dan Dan.
Nick Green.
In response to this, Downey responded directly: You guys probably want to eat shit.
If he dares to trade like this, he will definitely be scolded by Knicks fans.
But Lian Dao knew that even with this deal, the Knicks would definitely make money in the future.
Because Clay Thompson has much more room for growth in the future than both of them do now.
But Downey didn't open his eyes, nor did he block everything. He believed in Lian Dao's courage, so in the end Clay Thompson went to the Golden State Warriors.
Although Lian Dao's rebirth created some butterfly effects and caused some changes in draft picks, several key draft picks did not change.
For example, the Cavaliers, who got the No. 1 pick, still chose the European wonder: Kyrie Irving.
Another example is Kemba Walker, who was spotted by the Chicago Braised Eggs and brought him to the Charlotte Bobcats.