Bishop of the Devil

In any case, Richard has tried his best. Even if McClendon's incident does happen in the future, Richard can comfort himself...

Seeing McClendon choose the first option, Richard continued with a wry smile.

"Man, since you chose this plan, we can be considered a family from now on. If the alliance holds a voting meeting, I hope we can unite the front."

McClendon agreed without saying a word. Small bosses like him don't actually have a strong presence in the league. Anyway, compared to giants like Richard or Paul Allen, they are definitely incomparable. .

First of all, he is not the only owner of the Thunder. In fact, his worth is somewhat pitiful.

Although Richard's meaning was a bit obscure now, McClendon also understood Richard's meaning immediately.

That is, if Richard confronts Stern in the future, you, McClendon, have to be on your side.

There is actually no need for Richard to talk about this matter. McClendon will definitely not become Richard's opponent.

Because he really doesn't have a good impression of Stern, he was fined a heavy sum of money by Stern a few days ago. Now that Richard wants to help the Thunder rebuild, he must also help Richard and let Richard Chad can be more dedicated in rebuilding the Thunder.

"Don't worry, Lee, I don't have much affection for that old guy Stern. If anything happens in the future, if you say hello to me in advance, I will definitely be on your side." McClendon said with a smile.

…

The two finalized the trade plan on the phone. The Buccaneers sent the fifth pick in the first round from the Grizzlies to the Thunder in exchange for the Thunder's first-round pick for next year plus one of the Thunder's stock from the Lakers in 2009. First round pick.

The Lakers' first-round pick is definitely not very valuable, and is probably at the bottom of the first round.

In addition to this apparent transaction, Richard also agreed to help the Thunder rebuild so that they can enter the playoffs as soon as possible after moving their home court.

The Thunder also promised Richard that they would perform badly next season, guarantee a top three position in the record list, and strive to help Richard get a high draft pick.

These private transactions must not be made public, which means that the owners of the two teams know that there is something fishy about it.

It's not even accurate to say that the boss knew about it. Jordan and the other Thunder bosses don't know about it right now...

Richard gained quite a lot from this transaction. He received two high-ranking draft picks in 2009 and gained McClendon's friendship.

McClendon's friendship was actually a factor in Richard making this deal.

This year's No. 5 pick, Richard actually has no use in keeping it. The only thing he can do is probably use this pick to select Love.

But the Pirates already have a lot of inside players, and there is still Jordan to join the team...

Taking another Love makes no sense at all.

Richard simply exchanged it for the 2009 draft pick.

…

Early the next morning, Wo Shen showed his magic again. In his column on Yahoo Sports, he broke the trade plan between the Buccaneers and Thunder.

This news once again shocked the entire NBA circle. In addition to being shocked by Wo Shen's miraculous source of information, it was also shocked by Richard's operation.

Because in the eyes of all parties, Richard's operation was really unreasonable.

Take the fifth pick in exchange for the Lakers' first-round pick and an uncertain Thunder first-round pick...

This year, the Thunder received the fourth and fifth picks in a row. They may be able to rise next season, and Richard will be beaten and lose all his money.

Obviously, in the eyes of all parties, Richard's operation was quite unwise and somewhat out of his mind.

Many reporters tried to interview Richard and get some insight into Richard's true thoughts on the deal, but they were all rejected by Richard.

The draft is about to begin, and Richard now has to focus on the draft.

On June 17, the annual draft meeting was held.

This time Jordan also came to join in the fun and came to New York with Richard.

Although Jordan is not going to get involved in the draft, he still wants to show off. After all, Richard has always been the most glamorous one in the draft.

As soon as he entered the venue, Richard attracted the attention of countless people in the venue. Representatives from several teams came up to greet Richard.

Generally speaking, few owners personally participate in the draft, but Richard is a special case. He has never missed a Pirates draft.

Stern muttered on the court again, and then the draft officially began.

The Chicago Bulls hold the No. 1 pick, and they are different from the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies have a point guard on the team, but the point guard is not strong enough. They want to get Paul, making the team's point guard position a strong point of the team.

The Bulls don't have any decent point guards. They want Paul because they want to get there right away...

Now Richard has not traded with the Bulls. The Bulls directly selected Rose with the No. 1 pick in the absence of a point guard.

Among the rookies in this class, no one is a stable candidate for the No. 1 pick. If we want to say that the No. 1 pick is popular, Beasley and Mayo may have more advantages.

Seeing Rose being selected with the No. 1 pick by the Bulls, Richard sighed with regret.

If a task about Kwame Brown hadn't suddenly come out before, Richard might really consider going to the Bulls to make a deal, and then use the No. 1 pick to select Rose and let Rose play for him.

In this way, Richard's future starting lineup will likely be Rose, Roy, Granger, Milicic and Oden!

Attentive fans should be able to find that these five people all have common characteristics.

That is, the careers of these five people are all regrettable and sighing. When mentioning one of these players, most fans will sigh deeply and say: "Hey, what a pity, if..."

If Rose is not injured and can fully blossom, no one knows how high the youngest MVP in history can reach under normal circumstances. Maybe the Demon God Emperor Buddha Shark will become the Flower God Emperor Buddha Shark.

The flower naturally refers to the Windy Rose Rose.

If Roy had not been injured, judging from his career growth trajectory, would he, the Yellow Mamba, surpass the Black Mamba and become the second-leading scorer in history?

if……

These five players all have deep regrets.

But now it is obvious that Richard cannot form this regrettable combination, and Rose was selected by the Bulls.

…

Next came the Heat's choice. The Heat were actually quite happy to see the Bulls draft Rose.

Rose is not attractive to the Heat. Even if they have the No. 1 pick, they will definitely not choose Rose.

Rose's style of play is too similar to Wade's, which is not a good thing...

The two core offensive players in the team will rush to the basket suddenly and furiously. It will be easy for the opponent to target them, and it will be over if they just send heavy troops to defend the basket.

And Beasley's appeal to the Heat is extremely huge. He has strong physical talent, can shoot well, and can shoot three or four. The key is that he has a very important label.

That is Richard's little cousin...

The fact that Beasley is Richard's cousin is something that almost the entire league knows about. It's not that Beasley himself brought it out, but Durant mentioned Beas when he answered a reporter's question. The relationship between Leigh and Richard.

Richard's cousin, Pat Riley, feels that Richard does not look at the monk's face or the Buddha's face. His cousin is in his hands. When the time comes to trade with Richard, can't he make some concessions?

However, the fortune teller’s calculation this time is probably wrong.

Richard is unlikely to give up the team's interests because of Beasley, and he himself doesn't like Pat Riley very much.

Richard will definitely not let anyone take advantage of someone he doesn't like.

As for the reason for not liking Pat Riley, in addition to Riley always wanting to treat Richard as a fool, Richard also looked down upon Riley's "history of fortune".

The fortune teller is undoubtedly a very successful head coach in this league, but the older the fans are, the more they dislike Pat Riley because Pat Riley's head coaching position was unfairly obtained.

He hugged Magic's thigh, and then got the position of head coach of the Lakers.

That’s right, Pat Riley’s first time as a head coach was with the Lakers.

In the 1981-82 season, the meritorious coach West Hyde, who led the Lakers to two championships, planned to slow down the team's offensive rhythm and play more half-court battles because of the poor record of the Lakers last season...

This plan annoyed Magic Johnson, because playing a half-court battle, Magic felt that this would affect his tactical status in the team. After all, in the tactical system of a half-court battle, the center player has a higher tactical status.

The Magic directly forced Buss to force the team to fire Hyde and correct Pat Riley, or he would leave the Lakers after this season...

At this point in time, Pat Riley was just a small assistant coach under Hyde and had never held a head coaching position before.

Everyone knows that Old Buss doted on the Magic. In the end, he agreed to the Magic's request without saying a word, fired Hyde, the meritorious coach who had worked so hard for the Lakers, and restored Pat Riley...

Did Riley instigate the magician to force Bass into the palace? Then he killed his immediate boss, Hyde?

No one knew about this, but after playing away games in the future, Magic and Riley were booed for several seasons because of Hyde's incident!

Richard admitted that Riley's coaching ability was very strong, but he always felt that this person was too cunning and might be waiting to trick you somewhere. He was definitely the biggest trickster among the coaches.

Richard had always kept a distance from such old yinkers. As long as he didn't get into trouble, he would treat the other person as nothing.

Therefore, the fortune teller's idea of ​​​​getting benefits from Richard is destined to fail.