From today on is the king

Chapter 553 552. Six Party Big Deal!
The Chicago United Center is conducting its annual joint tryout.

All the talents who are about to participate in the NBA draft, more than 120 American high school students, college students, and overseas players who have received invitations for joint training, are trying their best to show their talents.

The joint trial training, called joint training, is actually the largest trial training for all rookies who have received the joint training invitation and accepted the invitation. It is the Bulls who decide what to try out and the order of the training.

During the trial training process one by one, the scouts and coaches of each team are carefully observing the rookies they want to choose, or the candidates, or the rookies who seem to have no hope of being selected but have a chance to be upset and be selected later.

For the Eagles, the coaching staff, the owner, and Liu Mang, who came to play with him, were all red-faced. Liu Mang also took a stack of scouting reports to find the rookies he was interested in and watch their tryouts.

It's just that what Liu Mang looked at was not the same group of draft candidates he wanted to submit to Coach Kruger.

Liu Mang is also an individual, of course he also wants to watch the trial training of those talented stars whose talents can be seen with the naked eye!

In the morning, there is a joint trial training, and in the afternoon, it is a competition for the 13 members of the Little Green House to demonstrate their abilities.

The joint trial training is divided into three areas. They are respectively in the competition field of the United Center. Most of the seats are removed, and they are divided into several areas. There are various equipment or running tracks. Here, there are physical fitness demonstrations. There are also two training grounds, which are skill and shooting demonstrations. More than 100 invited rookies will perform ability demonstrations in groups according to the order of the lottery. They will start in three areas at the same time, and then change venues.

It's quite troublesome, so a team needs many people to directly see the performance of several players they like.

Liu Mang turned around and saw James and Anthony who were warming up together before the trial training!
"Wow, Ace, I didn't expect you to come! Long time no see!" James saw Liu Mang coming up and gave him a warm hug, "Ace, this is Melo, Melo, this is Ace, my brother."

James has not yet entered the NBA, but he has already begun to show his social skills like a social butterfly.

"Oh, LeBron, long time no see." Liu Mang also gave a warm hug. Although he is a future opponent, but they are also under the same endorsement brand, it is not impossible to be friends.

Although the relationship with the little blacksmith is bad, but the relationship is not too much, the alliance is so big, such as the other party's personality is not bad, why bother to be red-eyed.

But not that familiar with Anthony, Liu Mang just shook hands: "Hi, I'm Ace."

"Hello, I'm Carmelo Anthony." Anthony was not as active as James, and smiled shyly.

"Ace, are you here to help your team draft? I heard that you have a very good draft vision. I'm curious about the Wade you suggested to the Cavaliers. By the way, which rookie are you interested in this year? The two of us plus Wade, you must not be able to pick, why don't you take us to see it?" James said this matter without any grievances.

The latter thing that James said is also what other teams really want to know. Whose trial training does Liu Mang want to see?There are even teams that are ready to snatch the rookies Liu Mang focuses on in the middle and late stages of the first round.

Liu Mang looked at James, who had a very mature personality from the very beginning, maybe this is also an innate talent!
"Dwyane is a great player, you can get to know him better, he and I are in the same company, but today I mainly come to see some of your top picks try out, I'm not interested in anything else." Liu Mang said with a smile.

Liu Mang already has a candidate to recommend, let’s do a trial training. If some buried talents can really show their abilities through trial training, they won’t be buried in the second round or even lose the draft. The draft is nothing more than selecting players with immediate combat power and talent. Every year, there are only a few players who can never be favored to counterattack.

For the trial training, of course it depends on James!Look at this may be the only trial training of super physical fitness men in NBA history.

"Really? Oh, Ace, we are brothers, just reveal who you want to choose!"

"You haven't gone to the Cavaliers yet! You want to help the Cavaliers collect information from me? It's a pity that the Cavaliers already belong to our team in the second round this year. Our team's cool guy Ira Newbell will be your teammate next season."

"How come, what if Dwyane is chosen by the Cavaliers?"

"You are really dishonest..."

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Liu Mang and James chatted and joked for a while, and then James and Anthony were called away by the staff to draw lots and take pictures.

Trial training is still very troublesome and stressful for rookies. There are only more than 100 rookies participating in the trial training. In addition to reporters and the official NBA camera crew, there are about [-] coaches and management staff from other teams. The pressure of trial training in front of these people who determine their future destiny can be imagined.

Liu Mang wandered around for a while, and some tryouts had already started. Liu Mang met Wade and several unknown rookies brought by his agent Schwartz on the way. Although Schwartz had the income of a first-line agent, it was all supported by Liu Reck.

Yesterday, Liu Mang and Wade met and got to know each other. As a senior, the advice to Wade is to relax, and he can't help much else.

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About half an hour later, at 09:30 in the morning, all preparations continued, and the three major regions began their respective trial training.

Liu Mang came to the physical fitness display area of ​​the main court. This is what he most wanted to see, to see a group of "beast" physical fitness men show their talents.

Without a doubt, James is the one that has attracted the most attention. With point guard-level speed, forward-level strength, power forward's body, and such a body, the flexibility that shouldn't be there is a perfect specimen of basketball genius. Liu Mang heard the exclamation of Paul Silas, an acquaintance wearing the Cavaliers logo and the former Eagles star who just became the head coach of the Cavaliers, just next to him.

Wade's trial training has also attracted a lot of attention. Seeing the explosive power and short-distance explosive speed displayed by Wade, some teams that were not able to invite Wade to the trial training in advance lamented that there is nothing worthless under the reputation.

There are also trials of Bosh, Anthony, Milicic and others, all of which have received extremely high praise.

After seeing these big hits, Liu Mang walked around and saw a guy who made him think that he was no slower than Iverson. He conducted a sprint test. The [-] yards was considered a long test, that is, the [-]-meter run.

Leonard Barbosa ran a speed of [-] seconds. This speed talent is simply amazing. He is not a professional sprinter, but he actually ran a speed that only a domestic first-level track and field athlete can have.

Liu Mang felt very sorry for Barbosa, and looked at the scout report in his hand: average skills, poor defense, playing purely by speed and confrontation with the basket, and has a certain shooting ability.

This evaluation is almost exactly the same as the Barbossa that Liu Mang knew.

Liu Mang regretted why Barbosa with such a speed talent didn't practice track and field, and then left.

The assistant coaches of other teams who followed Liu Mang wandered around and saw Liu Mang staying so long for the first time except for popular players, they all wrote down Barbosa's name in their small notebooks.

And when Liu Mang saw some players he liked, he just took a look and left, mainly because his performance in the trial training was really bad...

The large-scale trial training for more than two hours in the morning, and watching the 13-person draw in the small green house in the afternoon, the one-day joint trial training is over.

After returning to the hotel, it was another meeting.

After Liu Mang experienced the work of the team's summer decision-making team this time, he finally felt the hard work of a team's management team, and they really have meetings all day long.

Liu Mang handed over the list of rookies he wanted the team to pick to Coach Kruger.

If it is about who the team trades, the management will be resistant to dictating the players, but regarding Liu Mang's vision for the draft, the Eagles management can only say-convince!

Price and the coaching staff huddled together, eager to see who Liu Mang was looking for.

Then the more I watched, the more worried I became...

He's a handsome guy, but his physical fitness is also poor. Apart from shooting, his other skills are too poor!
One has good skills and good physical fitness, but his looks are too...excessive!

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Time passed quickly, and in a flash, it was the sixth game between the Nets and the Spurs.

After the Spurs defended two consecutive home games, they lost two consecutive away games. At this time, people really felt that the Nets this year are indeed much stronger than last year, and they actually won two games.

In the battle of Tianwangshan, when only two Spurs scored in double figures, relying on Duncan's performance of double 20, which has become a habit in this year's playoffs, the Spurs won the victory and defeated the Nets 89 to 82.

This game is already the biggest point difference in the first five games. The first four games did not even have a point difference of more than 4 points. Especially in the second game, the Spurs beat the Nets 77 to 76, but the Spurs had Duncan at a critical moment.

At the home court of the Nets today, Duncan did not give Kidd another chance. He played the most invincible game in this year's finals, scoring 22 points, 23 rebounds, 10 assists and 8 blocks. He was short of two blocks and got a quadruple-double. He led the Spurs to an 85-75 victory over the Nets and won the championship 4-2.

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After Liu Mang watched the last game of the Finals in a hotel in Chicago, he sighed that Duncan is still at his peak after undergoing meniscus suture surgery and his bounce has been reduced a lot. If there was no serious injury, how strong would he be at his peak at the age of 27 or [-]?

The system's evaluation of Duncan as a "born king" is really not for nothing.

Watching Kidd on the TV with an unhappy expression at home, because the Nets almost always lost by three or four points in the previous games, Kidd was of course not angry.

Seeing that Kidd was so unhappy and upset, Liu Mang cursed that he deserved it, then turned off the TV, and carried Dinah, who insisted on watching the game with him, but fell asleep watching such a boring game, to Levia's door, knocked on the door and handed it to Levia, and then went back to the room to wait for the team's good news.

After the joint trial training, the team management and coaching staff will go to Atlanta immediately to start the trial training and subsequent trade negotiations.

The most important bargaining chip has been obtained, and how to operate the rest is not like negotiating with Angie, gambling psychologically, but relying on the relationship with the owners of each team, which needs to be handled by Price.

Liu Mang's family will continue to stay in Chicago for a few more days, and finally come out for a trip. Of course, they have to take a good look. When it comes to summer, they will be busy, training, endorsement publicity, returning home to visit their relatives...

On July [-]st, all the endorsement fees for the first season will be credited to the account, and Liu Mang will also change from a middle-to-lower poor farmer in the NBA to a local tycoon.

Although the endorsement of the NBA does not stipulate when to give money, it is basically agreed upon. It is given at the end of each season, because there are some reward clauses and so on. For example, Raheem was selected as an All-Star in the first season of partnering with Liu Mang, and he got some extra sneaker endorsement fees that season.

Generally speaking, NBA stars don’t have much money when they are rookies, and banks will give almost interest-free loans, which is a kind of investment. After NBA stars become prosperous, they will deposit the money in their bank branches. People in their branches get their performance, and the bank can use this money to lend to others to earn more money back.

But Liu Mang is not used to this kind of lifestyle of overdrafting the future ahead of time, so he has been poor all the time, waiting for the end of last season on July [-]st, the day when the NBA star endorsement has no express regulations but has become a habit, and he will go home when he has money.

Parents are also considered middle-class in China, otherwise they would not have the money to pay Liu Mang the high tuition fees for the first two years of university, so before Liu Mang received a lot of money, his family did not reach out to him for money, and Liu Mang did not do much.

But now that he is going to be rich, and if he is really rich, of course he has to return home.

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After the joint trial training, after the joint trial training, people suddenly discovered that the teams that were selling some stars suddenly seemed to disappear from the news. Some young fans felt bored, the finals were boring, and there was no news in the trading market.

But the old fans know that this weird quietness makes them feel a kind of undercurrent.

Often speaking, a deal that is so loud will be ruined in all likelihood in the end. On the contrary, in this weird and quiet atmosphere, big things often happen!

When Liu Mang arrived at this time, he was also a little nervous.

Sometimes it doesn't mean that if you give chips, people will definitely agree to accept the deal. This kind of thing is not good.

Ainge has a habit of collecting draft picks. It is definitely no problem to trade to Antoine Walker, but if Antoine Walker can’t make a shot in the end, then this deal will be a failure, and the Eagles’ hard work in the past half month has been in vain.

Finally, at 11:[-] p.m., half an hour before the trading window between the finals and the draft, Liu Mang received a call from Coach Kruger. Hearing the excited voice on the other end of the phone, Liu Mang finally breathed a sigh of relief...

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At midnight on June 2003, 6.

The official NBA website has added a new news window for the draft trading period. Just a few minutes after the template came out at zero o'clock, the trading news broke out.

Several transactions were concluded within a few minutes.

First, the Eagles sent Ira Newbell to get the second overall pick in this year's second round from the Cavaliers.

The Spurs used the 29th pick in the first round and the 20th pick in the second round they traded before to get the Timberwolves' 24th pick in the first round.

老鹰队用2003年首轮14顺位选秀权，得到了凯尔特人早年和黄蜂队互换的2003年首轮20顺位的选秀权、2004年凯尔特人的次轮选秀权、2004年魔术队的次轮选秀权。

And the Kings and Mavericks trade...

In the beginning, it was a few small trades that people thought were insignificant. Although the Eagles split the first round into a first round and two second rounds, it was surprising, but it was not a big deal.

Finally, at [-]:[-] in the morning, the enthusiastic basketball fans who were refreshing the website saw a shocking big deal, a six-team big deal involving nearly ten players and several draft picks!
The Celtics sent Antoine Walker and got the Eagles' first-round pick in 2004, the Eagles' top-five pick protection pick in the first round in 2006, Danny Ferry from the Hawks, and Trier Brandon from the Timberwolves with a partial guarantee contract of only 260 million for one year, and a cash compensation of $300 million from the Timberwolves.

森林狼送出特里尔-布兰登、马克-杰克逊、300万现金、2003年首轮29顺位选秀权，2003年次轮20顺位选秀权，得到了尼克斯队的拉特利尔-斯普雷维尔。

The Blazers sent Rasheed Wallace to Antawn Walker.

The Knicks sent Sprewell to get Kean Van Horn from the 76ers and the Timberwolves' 2003th pick in the second round of 20.

The 76ers sent Keane Van Horn to the Timberwolves center Mark Jackson, the 2003th pick in the first round in 29 and Chris Crawford from the Hawks.

The Eagles sent the lower draft pick between the Eagles and the Spurs in 2004, the top five pick protection picks in 2006, Danny Ferry, Chris Crawford, and got Rasheed Wallace from the Blazers!
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Big deal for six teams!
With a sudden outbreak, the Spurs' championship night was completely taken away!
Originally, the major TV stations were still broadcasting the night carnival of the fans in San Antonio, so they urgently broadcast this news.

This news caused a sensation in the entire basketball circle.

Not to mention who was traded, just a big six-team trade is extremely rare in the history of the NBA. The next morning, it became the focus of discussion on the news of major sports TV stations. The Internet, newspapers and media also reported it one after another. Fans and expert media also expressed their views.

For the 76ers, because Iverson will undergo surgery to treat the injury in the summer, he may not be able to play in the first two months of the season. The injury has dragged on for half a season.

The 76ers' operation has received good reviews.

The Blazers sent away Rasheed Wallace in exchange for Antoine Walker, and the evaluation was not bad, and there were some praises, because although Antoine Walker played a bit cancerous, he had a good personality and was very lively. He didn't suffer technical fouls like Rasheed Wallace all the time.

The Knicks' operations are always so fascinating. Sending away Sprewell in exchange for Van Horn got a bad review. The Madman is much better than Van Horn, and the compensation he got is only a second-round pick.

The Celtics deal was also well-received. Antoine Walker bluntly said that he would leave, and it would be nice to exchange for two first-rounders. Trier Brandon’s contract with equal salary space is partially guaranteed. Trier Brandon played for the first time in March 2002, and has been reimbursed since then. It is estimated that he will be waived, but the Celtics received cash compensation from the Timberwolves.

Especially before the trade with the Eagles raised the pick of this year's draft year to the 14th pick, and they have a greater chance to select the high school center they have tried out several times. The Celtics' trade was well received.

The highest evaluation is the Timberwolves!
They almost empty-handed the White Wolves, sending away Trier Brandon and Mark Jackson's two big contracts, not to mention, they also got a madman who was in good form last season. This is almost the most perfect signing for the Timberwolves since the Joe Smith incident, and what they paid was only the 24th pick in the first round and 300 million cash!
Most of the five teams that were traded by the six teams received good reviews, and the Knicks, who were sprayed again, were regarded as a little worse at best.

As for the Eagles, people feel that the owner of the Eagles has once again plunged his head into the sea!
The 76ers are trying to sell bad draft picks. The Knicks are naturally mentally retarded. There is no worst but worse.

And what is the Eagles planning?Not to mention the two first rounds, he also took over a thorn.

After the events of the season that just ended, the media and fans were not optimistic about the Eagles’ deal. Price was also under the pressure of the head office. Price could only hope that this signing would be a success, and then hope that Liu Mang would do what he promised next time, and would not propose such unreliable deals in the future.

When everyone said that the Eagles lost their minds in the Eastern Conference Finals and made a deal that went wrong, and most people were not optimistic about the Eagles' deal, there was a tough and distinctive curse.

Popovich was furious. In an interview, he cursed the Blazers as idiots and was tricked by the Eagles and Celtics.

Others can't see Rasheed Wallace's plasticity, how can Popovich not see it?It’s just that the Spurs have no chips and no space. Otherwise, Popovich would have wanted Rasheed Wallace long ago, but he didn’t mention the advantages of Rasheed Wallace. His belief is that if he can’t get it, others should not get it.

Just like the Lakers robbing Gasol in the future, Gasol was called a softie during the Grizzlies period. Popovich never praised Gasol, but when Gasol was robbed by the Lakers, Popovich immediately came out and scolded his mother.

But at this stage, Popovich doesn't like the media at all, nor is he liked by the fans. They all think that this alcoholic is drunk again, probably because he was stimulated by the Timberwolves' reinforcements.

The Timberwolves can rank among the top five in the West with just one Garnett. With Sprewell, they also free up 260 million more salary space. Originally, if the Timberwolves cut Trier Brandon, they would also occupy 260 million salary space. A powerful team is about to be born.

So no one paid attention to Popovich's words at all, and the media's brains were also very powerful, and they found a suitable "reason" for Popovich's remarks.

As a result, the news and fan comments criticizing the Eagles' management once again flooded the sky.

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"Ace, is your boss crazy!" Levia watched the report on the TV news and couldn't help spouting.

"Levia, don't worry, this is part of the plan. Rasheed will be completely different after he comes to our team." Liu Mang comforted.

Levia was still very upset. After a while, after Alexia and Dinah came out, even the eight or nine-year-old little girl who was more sensible began to scold the Eagles management.

Liu Mang's explanation was useless.

Even hardcore fans are like this, Liu Mang can imagine how bad the outside world's evaluation of the Eagles is.

The main reason is that the influence of the big dog last year was too bad.

But this is a good thing for the Eagles and Liu Mang.

The Eagles can be in a relatively underestimated position, which is really a good thing for Liu Mang.

Originally, the Eagles split the 14th pick in the first round into a first round and two second rounds, but now this one has also begun to be sprayed.

The Eagles sent the 2003th overall pick in the first round in 14 to the Celtics for a first round and two second rounds. It was purely a trade compensation for the Celtics to help eat Danny Ferina's remaining 2 years and more than 300 million per year. contract.

Seeing that the three girls were very dissatisfied and unhappy, Liu Mang had no choice but to correct Rasheed Wallace when the time came.

When Liu Mang was looking forward to the future while the three girls were chattering endlessly, he received a text message. When he was happy to have Rasheed Wallace as his helper, but when the three girls were so noisy that they couldn't hold in one show, he saw this text message and felt a warm current in his heart.

It's a text message from Coach Kruger.

"Ace, you must pay attention to things like intervening in the team's trade. For a star like Rasheed Wallace who really wants to be a partner, you can raise it yourself. You have more power to speak than I do. But for ordinary players who still want to, don't tell the boss yourself. Just tell me. I will discuss with the boss. I can decide for ordinary players. I will tell the media about Rasheed's trade this time. I will tell the media that it is my idea. The boss is also under great pressure. Any opinion!"

Liu Mang saw the text message from Coach Kruger and saw the exclamation mark at the end, what else could he say?After hesitating for a long time, I can only reply with a thank you.

Four years of master-student love, the man who agreed was not light, but Liu Mang had the urge to cry.

Master, master, Liu Mang felt that Coach Kruger's relationship over the past four years was more than just the former.

It may be that Coach Kruger has no children himself. For Liu Mang, a student who is not expected to enter the university, he has always taken extra care of him. Slowly, this has become a habit of life.

Whether it is severe or scolding, coach Kruger rarely has a good expression on Liu Mang, but he is the most tolerant person in the coaching staff.

At this moment, Liu Mang felt a little homesick, what would his parents be like in this life?

At home, before Liu Mang came to the United States, there was only a not-so-developed wired communication, and Liu Mang was not good at speaking, and he rarely called his parents during college. After Liu Mang entered the NBA, he never contacted his family. Now seeing that the planned time to go home is getting closer, Liu Mang feels the warmth of home again. He is a little uneasy about going home to see his parents...

(End of this chapter)