Guard With a Knife

The much-anticipated 2013 NBA Draft was held on June 27, 2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, USA. The teams are full of enthusiasm for the draft.

The same is true for Adam Xiaohua, because it means that he can finally stand on stage and announce the name of the rookie in the first round. Before that, this was the ‘privilege’ of league president David Stern. He could only shake hands with one second round rookie after another: A large part of these guys couldn’t get into the league and get a guaranteed contract.

Maybe it's to be different from David Stern.

This year's draft meeting was arranged at the Barclays Arena in Brooklyn. Although it is not far from the basketball Mecca Madison Garden Arena, it still shows an extraordinary taste.

Interestingly, Lord Duke appeared on the scene with his fiancee Daphne tonight. They were arranged to watch in a private room.

Subsequently, the black Mamba also followed in.

The two Lakers superstars came to the draft with fanfare. This is obviously beyond everyone's imagination: Isn't this a fabled draft year? Is there any player worthy of these two big fights?

They are the absolute leaders of the Purple and Golden Corps. In fact, Ms. Daphne is still the third largest shareholder of the Lakers: Many teams have opposed this matter, thinking that her relationship with Doug will affect the nature of the club. But whether it was David Stern before or Adam Xiaohua now, they both chose to be a wooden person.

Only idiots will trouble the top star.

When Michael Jordan retired halfway through, he was still able to receive salary from the Bulls, and when most of the stars' annual salary was still hovering below tens of millions, he made an annual salary of more than 30 million U.S. dollars, which is not included in the team's salary space. .

The Lord Duke is nothing compared to this now.

"Are you really sure what Greek monster you like can become the next superstar of the Lakers?"

Black Mamba still maintains a huge suspicion. It is not that he does not trust Doug, but that... this thing is ridiculous.

That kid has only received professional basketball training for a few years. Not every striker who has become a monk can become Snoopy!

Doug gave Kobe a sullen look. Kobe has become more and more silly recently, and talks a lot like a long-tongued woman... I don't know if Vanessa has realized it.

"This is our management business, so don't worry about it, okay?"

Doug stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling glass in front. Adam Xiaohua, whose head was so shiny, walked to the center of the stage in front of him vigorously. Then, in an accented tone, he announced the choice of the Cleveland man with the No. 1 pick this year.

Anthony Bennett!

When the name was pronounced, the sound of surprise at the scene was exactly the same as the slightly opened mouth of the Lord Duke: everyone thought it was incredible.

After all, before that, the forward who was 2.03 meters tall and weighed 240 pounds, graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was only ranked seventh in the professional draft website. The template "NbaDraft" formulated for Bennett is Rodney Rogers or Jason Maxhill. How can such a template look like the person you won the No. 1 pick?

But now, the Clevelandians actually gave this non-stop forward who only relied on his body in the NCAA with a No. 1 pick!

are you crazy?

Daphne, who is well-educated, couldn't help but complain.

In her previous prediction, the Cavaliers will choose either Alex Lenn or Norens Knoll. But now, Cleveland has given such an elusive option.

Undeniably, this is definitely the weakest draft in the past 15 years.

Under the witness of Lord Duke and Black Mamba.

Strange things happened one after another.

First of all...Anthony Bennett was elected the No. 1 pick. Then, as the biggest favorite before the draft, Noel fell to the sixth overall pick.

This guy played well at the University of Kentucky and is a very strong defensive insider.

However, the NBA is forgiven for making such a choice. After all, there are many red flags on Knoll. He has had cruciate ligament surgery on his knee. He is currently in the recovery phase and will not be expected to return until at least November to December. Although his explosiveness, athleticism and defensive qualities are extremely good, he has the Olympics. Every team will think about it. It is worth mentioning that after being selected by the Pelicans with the 6th overall pick, Knoll encountered a trade and was replaced by the 76ers. The price Philadelphia paid was Holiday and the No. 42 pick.

In the draft year, the frequency of transactions is quite high. Before the draft, Nets general manager Billy King revealed that many teams want to trade their picks. Sure enough, the transactions of the teams were dazzling that night. There were 11 transactions in the first round alone. Three cases occurred in the lottery area. The Pelicans chose Knoll and completed the big deal with the 76ers. The Timberwolves selected Trey Burke with the 9th overall pick and gave it to the Jazz in exchange for the 14th and 21st draft picks; the Mavericks won the Zaga University center Kelly Olynik with the 13th overall pick, and then traded to The Celtics, in exchange for the 16th pick and two future draft picks.

The Lakers and Bucks trade appears trivial in these news.

Because the Lakers just used Jordan Hill to change the expiring contract of the Bucks Gary Neal and No. 15 rookie Yannis Atetokounmpo.

This looks more like a long-term contract for a rookie.

"The Lakers are really frantic in order to save salary. I can guarantee...the stingy Kupchak will reduce the salary space to less than 50 million this summer. They have no plans to sign valuable players at all. They just want to Give a basic salary, and it's the kind of super basic salary."

Bill Walton lashed out at the operations of the Lakers management in the ESPN studio.

In his opinion, spending a small amount of money to do big things is simply wishful thinking.

He prefers the recent Miami Heat, the Heat's deal with Dwight Howard has made them the number one favorite to win next season.

As for the Los Angeles Lakers who continue to follow the veteran base salary route, let them taste their regret next summer.

At the same time, Doug and Kobe met with the Greek monster Yangnis in the background. This guy's English is not even very good, but the communication is fairly smooth.

Doug told him: "We are very optimistic about you. After you officially join, all the old players will carefully cultivate you, wait and see, you will become famous."

The words of Lord Duke gave the Greeks unlimited confidence.

As a newcomer, he never thought about joining the Los Angeles Lakers. He did not expect that his idol would take the initiative to talk to him and encourage him to be more optimistic about his future.

He even shed tears of joy.

This made Doug slightly stand on his toes and pat his head: "Come on! You will be the ruler of the next era!"

At that moment, the Greek monster was very moved and felt that his idol might have been drinking too much.

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When the time advances to July.

In Miami, managers and Dwight Howard sat at the press conference at the same time, and the two sides signed the maximum salary contract.

This shocking joining even made some media shout out: The slogan of the NBA is celebrating the finale.

Pat Riley, who has always been known for his careful calculations, also said in the media: "We will never be stingy with money. For the championship, we are willing to pay the luxury tax. Our goal is the championship!!!"

His words were sonorous and powerful.

Not many people even doubt that the new season championship will go to Miami.

Because the defending champion Lakers seem to be too unsuccessful, they just sent Steve Blake to the Phoenix Suns. Changed 500,000 cash and a special transaction.

It sounds like a team that is going bankrupt is becoming a seller.

Moreover, the next signings are even more troublesome.

First signed Stephen Jack with a basic salary, and then signed Sean Marion and Nick Young with a one-year contract of $1.15 million!

In addition, Artest and Byron Davis, who had signed with the basic salary before, were added.

Is this going to gather seven basic salaries, and then summon Shenlong?

Compared to the Miami Heat, which is the Big Four, the Lakers' deduction looks like a township enterprise.

"When your team has Snoopy, what other superstars do you need? We don't want to do something like'not one superstar, not two superstars, not three superstars, not four superstars...' . We only have one core, and we can build a championship team by closely uniting around him."

Kupchak hasn't had anything to do recently, but there are a lot of P talks.

This hatred almost caused LeBron James to smash the sandbags at home.

Isn't this just a mockery of the cynicism he said in 2010?

Wait and see!

I will definitely let you taste regret!

All summer, LeBron James swears.

On the other hand, Lord Duke's side, he really fulfilled his promise.

He has been accompanying Daphne to roam the world all summer, and they are like a couple of gods and goddesses. Either they were photographed feeding pigeons in Paris, or they were met by chance at the London airport, and then they were spotted bathing in hot springs in Japan. Anyway...all summer, people all over the world have been fortunate to meet the Lord Duke.

It looks like they will get married soon.

Many media are speculating about this matter.

But the response given by the prospective father-in-law: They will get married next year.

This made the reporters very excited, as if they would soon be able to drink Lord Duke's wedding wine.

Time passed quickly, and soon came from July to August, then September, and then October.

During this time, Lord Duke only shot 6 commercials and only held 3 concerts.

He finally spent a leisurely holiday.

However, unlike the leisurely summer of other players, Lord Duke is both leisurely and rich, and his assets are still rapidly increasing.

This makes some financial magazines start to say: Snoopy is already the richest man under 30. Moreover, as many companies continue to go public in the future, his assets will even enter the world's top ten! At that time, I really can't figure out why he has any reason to stay in the NBA and fight a group of multimillionaires physically! After all, he was a super rich man in the tens of billions of dollars.

In this regard, the basketball media can't help but have all kinds of worries.

They are also worried that Lord Duke will no longer play basketball one day, because he seems to have little reason to stay in the NBA at the age of 24!

With money, he has long achieved financial freedom.

Honor. In history, no 24-year-old player has been more successful than him.

Although Michael Jordan has been sourly claiming that he is the best and most influential player, but...more and more voices are beginning to lean towards Lord Duke.

To be honest, Adam Xiaohua is also worried about this matter.

If Bruce Lee announced his retirement just after he took office, the influence of the NBA would shrink to a great extent.

Fortunately, on the day the Lakers training camp opened, the Lakers No. 10 player appeared in the training hall.

And, it looks very happy.

He even gave the rookie Yang Nis a jersey number: No. 23 of the Purple and Golden Army.

Nick Young ran over and asked Duge to help select the number. Lord Duke raised his eyebrows: "Or, you can choose the number 88!"

Nick Young also knows a little about Chinese culture. He quickly asked: "Does this mean getting rich?"

"No, you have to take apart this number. It means: you are equal to two Kobes!"

The Duke laughed and teased: "From today, you will be the main shooting guard of the Purple and Gold. The guy Kobe Bryant will spend at least half of his time in giving birth this season."

This word reached Black Mamba's ears, and he almost didn't run over to strangle Lord Duke.

But I have to say that the atmosphere of the purple and gold team in the new season is even better.

The new and old players quickly integrated in, and Nick Young is familiar with him personally, although Yang Niss can't speak English well. But under Doug's instructions, the four old men Stephen Jackson, Ron Artest, Sean Marion and Byron Davis became the masters of this guy!

These four people really taught Yang Nisi as his own sons. Hand in hand, from defensive to offensive, from fake action to staring, to...how to hit the black elbow.

No skill has fallen.

He regarded this gifted Greek monster as the last work of his career.

Regarding this, Lord Duke was quite pleased.

At this time, Nick Young will always cautiously rush to Lord Duke's side: "Can you let Kobe God also teach me some tricks?"

Doug gave a very serious suggestion: "You have learned very well. If you want to get a ten-million-year salary under a contract, I suggest you learn from Steve Nash!"

After about four or five times, Nick Young really ran to learn from Nash.

For a while, the atmosphere of the Lakers training camp was like a training class. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com opened various small stoves, the Duke can only go to the hot pot with Kyle Korver, Carlos Boozer, Whiteside, and Millich.

In this kind of strong teaching atmosphere, the pre-season games are coming soon.

The preseason is often referred to as the beginning of the new season. It is used to integrate new players into the system and restore players who have been resting for a few months.

However, the Lakers played in the preseason very well.

The Duke averaged 6 minutes per game in 8 games, and the Black Mamba averaged 7 minutes per game.

The remaining old men are pretty even. Only Yangnis, Nick Young, and Whiteside are the three who are stunned!

Not to mention, these three played pretty well. After eight games, only 7 were lost.

The only win was the New York Knicks.

This made the fans in New York State vomit blood: Why is the injured person always me.

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