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On the morning of the 3rd, ABA held its first draft at the Xinyi Hall. There were more than 300 people who signed up to participate in the draft. However, these people were mainly from Southeast Asia and East Asia. The total number of people from Europe, America, Australia and other places was only a dozen.
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This is enough to show that the ABA's current influence is limited to East Asia and Southeast Asia, and it has not yet attracted much attention to players from other regions.
However, this is relatively normal. Even the teams do not have high hopes for this draft. The three players in the third round of this draft are just scraps. They mainly rely on the players the team currently has.
Although they did not pay too much attention to the players in this draft, the management of major clubs still came to the scene.
Because the ABA mostly adopts the NBA model, the main way for each team to recruit new players in the future is through the draft. The first draft is also to accumulate experience for these management teams.
Li Jianhui, who is the honorary chairman of the ABA, also attended the draft. Jiashi Sports Channel also broadcast the entire draft live. Also broadcast live were China Television, TV Tokyo, South Korea's KBS, Singapore TV, etc., and the participating media were
There are nearly a hundred of them.
Although it was his first time to face so many reporters, Chen Zhiyong did not feel nervous about it.
As the chairman of the league, he gave a congratulatory speech before the official start of the draft, welcoming the arriving guests and expressing his gratitude to everyone who paid attention to the ABA.
At the same time, I also wish all players participating in the draft that their dreams will come true, and that all major clubs will be able to select their favorite players.
Because there is no performance as a reference for the first draft, the thirty teams have equal chances of winning the lottery.
As a result, the number one pick was actually Seoul Samsung, and even the second pick was won by Busan Daewoo and Osaka Sumitomo.
When he received the news, Li Jianhui felt very speechless. These companies were already strong, but he didn't expect to be so lucky.
On the contrary, there are teams such as Baodao and Southeast Asia. Because the funds behind them are not very strong, and the local basketball atmosphere cannot be compared with South Korea and Japan, the quality of the teams they have formed is quite different from the teams in Japan and South Korea.
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I originally hoped that the draft could make up for it a little bit, but luck was not on these teams' side.
Although the ABA has not started yet, it can be said bluntly that a situation in which the north is strong and the south is weak has been formed.
Except for a few teams, the quality of players and team capital of the clubs in the North District are much higher than those of the clubs in the South District.
Fortunately, it is divided into North and South divisions, otherwise most teams in the playoffs would probably be teams from the North division.
Because it was the first draft of the ABA, the No. 1 pick was given too much meaning. The Samsung team did not hesitate to choose a Korean scoring player.
Subsequently, the Busan team and the Osaka team also chose players from their own countries. I have to say that both South Korea and Japan are really determined to increase their national influence.
When people discuss the No. 1 pick in the ABA draft in the future, they will first think of this Korean player. Regardless of whether he can perform well in the future, he will be recorded in the history of the ABA.
The Xiangjiang Xinjian team was neither lucky nor bad. The lottery was at No. 14. Rick Jon, a former Clippers assistant coach and current head coach of the Xinjian team, chose a Baodao native who is 191cm tall and is a shooting guard.
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Although his physical talent is not very good, and he is already 22 years old because he graduated from college, he has been baptized in the NCAA league, and his good mid-to-long-range shooting is a good immediate ability for the Xinjian team.
Compared with the Xinjian team, the Kowloon team is much more interesting. With the 18th pick, they selected a mainland player.
This person has no experience in any major competitions. Not only is he not a mainland national team player, he is not even a provincial team player. He is completely a basketball enthusiast. The only advantage is that his father is a physical education teacher and is also a basketball enthusiast.
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Su Haiming, 19 years old, native of Huacheng, Guangdong Province, 187cm tall, point guard, has extremely high passing vision, which is one of his few advantages.
As for the shortcomings, there are too many. Physical strength, basic dribbling skills, shooting, etc. are relatively weak or even extremely unqualified.
It is precisely because of this that even though he has the passing vision most needed by point guards, he is not valued by most teams, especially in the first round of the draft.
As time passed, all thirty teams in the first round completed their selections. As for the second and third rounds, they were hosted by the ABA Vice President, and Chen Zhiyong came to the auditorium to take a seat.
And unlike the first round, in the second and third rounds, each team only needs to report their selected players to the league according to the order, and then the league vice president will announce it. The selected players do not need to go on stage.
From this we can also see the difference between first-round picks and second- and third-round picks, and the subsequent salary and benefits are also very different. First-round picks all sign contracts for four years, while second- and third-round picks sign for three years.
The wages for first-round picks are also much higher than those for the next two rounds.
"Jianhui, I heard that the coach and trainer of your Xinjian team are both former Clippers personnel. You can't just take care of the Xinjian team and ignore the Haojiang team.
Our Haojiang team’s home game is in Lisboa, and the market is already very small. If the team’s strength is too low, there may not even be any spectators.”
"Uncle Ye, if the Haojiang team is short of talent, you can also ask the management to go to the United States to dig for talent. Because there is a mature league system there, there are still more talents."
Ye Han has lived a very comfortable life in the past two years since leaving Lisboa Tourism and Entertainment Company. Now he is not only the general manager of Haojiang Tourism and Entertainment Company, but also the chairman of the board of directors of Haojiang Holding Group, which owns Haojiang Tourism and Entertainment Company.
Haojiang Securities Investment Company, Haojiang Technology Company, Haojiang Film Company, and Haojiang Basketball Club Company.
With the engine of Haojiang Tourism and Entertainment Company, several other major companies under Haojiang Holdings have developed extremely rapidly.
He just talked about the Haojiang Basketball Club. Although the Lisboa market is a bit small, he is not afraid of losses. That amount of money is not big for Haojiang Holdings.
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Li Jianhui was truly a spectator today. The team management and head coach were responsible for the Xinjian team's draft selection, and he did not interfere.
Unfortunately, things often backfired, and the reporters who arrived were not willing to let him go. After the draft, many reporters did not go to interview ABA Chairman Chen Zhiyong, nor did they go to interview the number one pick, Jin Mingxi, but went straight to him.
Including reporters from Jiayi TV and Jiayi Daily.
Fortunately, Li Jianhui's bodyguards were very dedicated and immediately blocked these reporters from the outside and did not let these reporters get close to Li Jianhui.
These reporters did not give up. Even if they could not get close, each of them still asked the questions they had prepared for a long time.
"Everyone, thank you very much for your concern for me, but today's topic is the ABA draft, and you should interview the players, club executives and even ABA management who are participating in the draft.
I have no intention of accepting an interview today. It’s already getting late, so I hope you’ll give in. I’m in a hurry.”
After finally seizing the opportunity, these reporters were quite discouraged and Li Jianhui did not want to be interviewed.
If it were a celebrity in Hong Kong, they would still stalk him, but they couldn't do this for a rich man like Li Jianhui.
After Li Jianhui spoke, they had no choice but to give way and watched Li Jianhui walk out of the Xinyi Museum under the protection of bodyguards.