New York, Big Apple.
Su Feng remembered that the last time he came here, he and Kobe came to play with Sam Gold.
As a result, in the slums of Brooklyn, Su Feng witnessed "the emergence of magical skills."
After a year and a half, when Su Feng came to New York again, his identity had become a member of the "96 Golden Generation".
June 26, 1996 is destined to be a day that will be remembered in history.
In the summer of 1996...
Just as Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to an incredible record overlooking the league...
A group of hot-blooded young people also stepped on the stage of the NBA with their youthful steps.
The four quarterbacks, the four pfs, will successively take over the authority from the seniors, and the old order will eventually be replaced by the new order.
Sharks travel west, thrones change, and stone Buddhas do not appear, who will compete
East Isico, North Carolina Nanmai, Webber Driver, Wolf King Yi Roar, who has such a "lonely" show
It is worth mentioning that when Su Feng walked into the little green house in Madison Square Garden, the hot man at the moment was really a primary school student.
Um... ...
Um!
As we all know, after the NBA introduced the lottery rules and the small green room, the general managers of each team will select 15 candidates for the small green room in a fair, objective and non-fraudulent way every year in the draft.
Therefore, as the cornerstone of David Stern's construction of the bridge across the sea, why can't Su Jishi enter the small green house
Cough, I can't wash it anymore, let's talk about the next paragraph.
As a member of the small green room, the biggest advantage is that everyone will get the right to shake hands with Stern before the draft, and will also get the personal "blessing" of the NBA president.
Of course, whether it is a blessing or a poisonous milk, it depends on your true abilities.
In other words, when shaking hands with Stern, Su Feng always felt that the boss looked at him twice.
"Su Feng, nice to meet you."
Also, Stern definitely deliberately practiced his own name pronunciation because he didn't pronounce it "Shoofen."
"Good morning sir."
This is the first time Su Feng and Stern have met. Stern is not tall. He is very kind with glasses and always smiles when shaking hands with each rookie.
So, what was Stern's first impression of Su Feng when he saw Su Feng with his own eyes
handsome
That's impossible, this president is not so superficial.
"Sure enough, it is a good seedling of an idol star."
emmmmm...
In fact, apart from being handsome, Su Feng really didn't leave a deep impression on Stern.
In this way, before the start of the draft, Su Feng and other members of the 96th Green House left a precious group photo together.
At this time, in the draft venue, all the gods from the 1996 draft conference have all arrived.
And even Su Feng, who has always been calm and calm...
After seeing so many objects that he had hacked in his previous life at once, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"Su, don't be nervous!" Kobe, who was holding Su Feng's left hand tightly, looked at Su Feng while sweating in cold sweat.
Su Feng: "..."
In the draft venue, the Su Feng family sat next to the Kobe family, and not far from them was Iverson who was blocked by a chubby "hairball".
Speaking of which, although it has been a while, Su Feng is still curious why Iverson would pass the ball to himself during the trial training.
The camera position on the scene quickly aimed at Iverson, who was about to take the No. 1 pick tonight.
And that chubby "hairball", that is, Iverson's mother, Ann Iverson, as if afraid that others would not know that Iverson was her son, kept pointing at her son to the camera— Allen Iverson.
Facing the camera, Iverson kissed his wife who was sitting next to him, while his wife was holding her and Iverson's newborn child.
I have to say, Jie Kezhen, the whole family goes into battle together.
"Su, your parents are too calm, aren't they?"
In the future, many Ke Mi always thought that Kobe was not afraid of the sky, but in fact, after getting along with Su Feng, he found that Kobe was also an ordinary person.
Just like he gets nervous too.
After all, he is not yet 18 years old.
Su Feng smiled and patted Kobe on the shoulder, "Because my parents don't understand English, I told them that it's okay to be a little bit happier when you read my name."
Kobe nodded, and unconsciously clenched Su Feng's left hand.
In fact, at this time in the draft venue, it was not only Kobe who was nervous.
Because not far from the draft venue is the "temporary war room" of the NBA29 team.
In 1995, after the Grizzlies and the Raptors joined the league, the NBA has expanded to 29 teams, and as for the 30th team...
Don't worry, didn't you see that the owner of the 30th team is now creating the second dynasty
Wait until he retires!
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call!
New York, Madison Square Garden, there was a saying, when you hear the boos, it means the draft is on.
Amid the boos at the scene, NBA president David Stern made his debut.
It is worth mentioning that the booing of Stern was not too violent before the lockout came shortly after.
Don't ask, just ask Stern's face.
Off the court, every rookie played a hundred and twenty spirits at this moment.
Especially the players in the small green room are looking forward to which team they will be selected.
"Kobe...I don't think you need to worry too much, really."
Su Feng, who felt distressed about his left hand, looked at Kobe and said.
"I'm not nervous, Su, but don't be too nervous."
Kobe was "not nervous" on the surface, but he actually held it tighter and said.
Su Feng: orz.
On the rostrum, after a brief opening remarks, it was time to reveal the answer.
I saw Stern read out unhurriedly: "The Philadelphia 76ers, who have the first round and the first overall pick, chose—"
"Allen Iverson from Georgetown University!"
This is a no-suspense answer.
There were cheers when Iverson's name was pronounced.
The excited Ann - Iverson is even more excited to dance.
Although Iverson with a small flat head is far less domineering than later, his big eyes really make you feel that he is discharging every second when he is young.
It is not unreasonable for Su Feng to have many female fans of Iverson in his previous life. After all, such a rebellious little handsome guy is too lethal.
I saw Iverson wearing a gray suit on stage, wearing a 76ers hat, and then, the big screen also played Iverson's college game.
The question of the attribution of the champion has been settled.
However, for the 96th draft, which is called the golden generation by the media, this draft has just begun.
Immediately afterwards, Stern read out the name of Marcus Camby with the second overall pick in the first round.
This is also a no-suspense choice.
Because as long as you don't look at it with a passing eye, there is nothing wrong with the Raptors choosing Camby in this position.
Camby was the most talented big man in the class of '96.
At this time, the Raptors, who were still a new team, adhered to the concept of building a team around the inside line, and it was reasonable to choose Camby.
The third pick in the first round, Stern read out the name of Sharif Abdul Rahim.
Like the Raptors, the Vancouver Grizzlies, as a new team, dare not make any ruckus in the draft.
Raheem is skilled and has excellent footwork. In the future, he will have five seasons in his career with more than 20 points.
In the 99/00 season, he also won "20+10" and was selected as an All-Star.
The next fourth and fifth picks were the same as Su Feng remembered. The Bucks chose Marbury and the Timberwolves chose Ray Allen.
If Su Feng remembers correctly, the Timberwolves and Bucks will complete the swap soon.
Next, it's time for the Celtics to sign.
Stern pronounced the name of the volute.
Um... ...
Not the volute next to Su Feng, but the volute of Antoine Walker.
Although Walker has a face of "If you dare to look at me, I will kill you", but in fact, if you look at him, he will at most send you a few rebounds in front of you.
Walker belongs to that era, the rules can't stop him from throwing 3-pointers, and the more inaccurate, the more joyful he throws.
If he hadn't known about his career experience, Su Feng would even think that this guy had the same system as himself.
Then, with the seventh overall pick in the 1996 first round, the Clippers...
slightly.
"The Dallas Mavericks, who had the first-round, eighth overall pick, chose—"
When he heard the eighth pick and the Dallas Mavericks, Su Feng always felt that something was wrong.
And soon, he knew what was wrong.
Let me move the time forward a few minutes...
Not long after the Clippers selected Lorenzen White, the Mavericks' front office was in chaos.
Because next, it's their turn to make a choice.
However, there was still no movement in Los Angeles.
And just a day earlier, Jerry West had just met with the Mavericks uniform.
"I want your first-round pick." As soon as the logo man came up, he went straight to the topic.
"But Jerry, you gotta know, this was the eighth pick in the first round in 1996."
Clemens, the new Mavericks coach who participated in the talks, laughed.
"I know, so we're going to send Verratti Divac to Dallas," West said calmly.
Before the old Nelson went to Dallas and Cuban didn't buy the Mavericks, I'm sorry, even if the Mavericks will have the "Dallas Three Heroes" next season, they are not afraid to poke the hearts of the cattle and honey, they are still-
Garbage in spicy chicken.
Dallas is notoriously racist, so this makes it difficult for the Mavericks to recruit stars.
The time when Nowitzki is about to retire after winning the championship in the future is an example. At that time, no matter how the old driver took a pay cut, no superstar was willing to go to Dallas.
Until the man named 077 appeared.
So, when West said he was willing to send Divac to Dallas, the Mavericks team was heartbroken.
Because at this time, the Mavericks are trying to select an inside player in the draft.
Not to mention an excellent white center like Divac
However, Clemens, who thinks he is very good at negotiating, said after thinking for a while: "Verratti's salary is a problem. I think you need to add some chips."
West seemed to have responded, "No problem, how about I give you our second-round pick next year?"
"Next year's second-round pick?" Clemens shook his head.
"In that case, I'll give you Ceballos and Eddie Jones too."
"How about I give you the entire Los Angeles Lakers?"
After that, West turned to leave.
At this time, the Mavericks uniformed the team in a hurry.
What an international joke, this year the Mavericks are going to choose Samaki-Walker. In the eyes of the Mavericks uniform, Divac is more fragrant...
You know, Divac was twenty-eight years old at this time, and it was the year of the fight.
In this era of more conservative thinking, in the words of the Mavericks uniform: The Lakers are giving us a big gift!
In Su Feng's previous life, the reason why West didn't trade for a higher pick in addition to the objective fact that the first-round pick of the 1996 golden generation was valuable, there was another reason was because the Hornets at that time were an Eastern Conference team that lacked a center. team.
You know, sending Divac to trade Kobe is just the first step in West's next game of chess.
How could West not know how powerful Divac is
West is reluctant to give Divac to his opponent in the West, whether emotionally or threateningly.
However, the appearance of Su Feng in this life made West have no choice but to fight the Mavericks.
To put it bluntly, the logo man really wanted to jump out of the logo and have a meal with Su Feng.
At the moment, the Mavericks lacked a center, and at the same time, the No. 8 pick they got was the safest choice for Bryant in West's view.
West believes the Mavericks will agree to the deal.
But in order to ensure the deal can be completed, he is willing to add a second-round pick, and this is already the limit West can bear.
more...
That's not a deal, it's really being blackmailed.
Well, despite a lot of rhetoric, the py trade between the Mavericks and the Lakers was finally reached.
According to the agreement, the Mavericks will be responsible for helping West select someone with their No. 8 pick in the first round of the draft, and then the Lakers will complete the transaction with them.
"Who do you want to choose?" The Mavericks uniform asked curiously.
"You'll know when the time comes." In order to ensure that nothing else would happen, West was also tight-lipped even about his upcoming py trading partner.
Then, let's bring the camera back to the Mavericks' forward war room.
"It's only five minutes away, the Lakers aren't lying to us, are they?"
The Mavericks' uniforms, who felt fooled by the Lakers, were dying of anxiety after they could not wait for the instructions from Los Angeles. …
Because next, it's their turn to choose.
"Forget it, don't wait, if it doesn't work, then..."
And just when the Mavericks' uniform decided not to wait for a notification from Los Angeles, the Lakers' call came.
"Please help me choose Kobe Bryant," Jerry West said on the phone.
…
"The Dallas Mavericks, who had the first-round, eighth overall pick, chose—"
"From Lower Merion, Kobe Bryant!"
At the draft conference venue, when Kobe heard his name, he could be regarded as letting go of the hand he had been holding on Su Feng's left hand...
However, when Kobe was busy and excited, Su Feng was stunned.
ha
Rookie No. 8
Dallas Mavericks
"Isn't the Mavericks ninth overall? Wait..."
Although he didn't understand why the Mavericks became the eighth overall pick, Su Feng remembered that the Mavericks were not short of outside players for a while.
Because they have Jim Jackson and Mashburn...
Huh
Yes, at this time the Mavericks are not short of outside, but they lack inside!
And the Mavericks uniformed team in this period is quite nc...
Because they did not choose Dampier behind them, but went to choose Samaki-Walker. As a result, after going around in the future, Dampier still went to the Mavericks after a few years.
After thinking for a while, Su Feng felt that he had guessed the answer.
Sure enough, just after Kobe showed up on stage wearing a Mavericks hat...
In addition to hugging his parents when he returned to the venue, he quietly whispered in Su Feng's ear, "Su, you know what, my agent told me not to be in a hurry to be interviewed."
Su Feng nodded, pretending to know nothing, looked at Kobe curiously and asked, "Then what?"
"He told me that the Lakers have proposed a trade, and I'm going to the Los Angeles Lakers!" Kobe was excited like a child at the moment.
"..."
Logo man, he is the logo man.
Even if Bryant runs to the eighth pick, it can bring him to Los Angeles.
Su Feng took it...
However, the trajectory of history seems to be different from before.
Because Su Feng remembered that in Kobe's biography, Kobe knew that he was going to the Los Angeles Lakers, at least a few days later...
Well, although I don't know what went wrong, but seeing Kobe's life from the No. 13 rookie to the No. 8 rookie, don't tell me, Su Feng doesn't even think it's inconsistent...
"Su, I'm not going to interview for now. I want to see which pick you will be selected."
Excited Kobe sat next to Su Feng. At this time, he was no longer nervous.
"Don't be nervous!" Kobe smiled and patted Su Feng on the shoulder.
Su Feng: "..."
After Bryant was selected with the eighth overall pick, the Nets with the ninth pick swapped their pick with the Mavericks, but they still chose Corey Kittles.
"Well...it seems that the reason why the Lakers chose Kobe with the No. 8 pick is that they knew that if they didn't pick Kobe with the eighth pick, the Nets would probably pick Kobe with that pick. Kobe's."
Su Feng knew that because of his appearance in this life, the situation was completely different from the previous life.
In his previous life, in the eyes of many media, Kittles was superior to Kobe in this period.
But in this life, a few days before the draft, Su Feng discovered that many media believe that Kobe's potential is higher than Kittles.
"The logo man is really stable. He was the thirteenth pick in his previous life, and he is also the eighth pick in this life..."
Su Feng felt that when he had the opportunity in the future, he must find a way to test the logo man.
Because this stuff is so much like crossing the party.
Next, with the tenth pick, the Pacers chose Dampier, who claimed to be the No. 1 center in the West in the future, and was then abused by Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal.
But the spit comes back to the spit, one thing to say, Dampier is indeed relatively good in the pile of meat shields in the future.
In the 11th pick in the first round, the Warriors who had previously disliked Su Feng chose Todd Fowler.
Well, this choice is as bad as the Warriors uniform of this period.
With the twelfth pick in the first round, the Cavaliers selected Peter Tappan of the Ukrainian Meat Wall.
Perhaps it was because he was still excited after being selected. At this time, Su Feng could clearly feel that Kobe couldn't wait to be interviewed.
"Why don't you... go for an interview first, I feel like I'll be here for a long time."
Su Feng estimated that he would have to be selected around the top 20, so looking at Kobe who was already impatient, Su Feng smiled.
"No... I'll accompany you." Kobe said after tangled for a while.
Su Feng is happy, it really is a friendship of steel, it really deserves to be a plug-in for his long-term investment, reliable!
And when Su Feng and Kobe were chatting...
"Having the Charlotte Hornets with the 13th pick in the first round, they chose—"
"From Lower Merion, Su Feng!"
Su Feng: "..."
When he heard Stern pronounce his name, Su Feng was stunned for a moment, then stunned.
Especially after Kobe, who was more excited than him, shook him several times, Su Feng could be described as stunned, confused, dizzy...
"Wei Guo, is our son selected?" Wang Yuanyuan asked in surprise.
"It seems so!" Su Weiguo agreed.
In 1996, the 13th pick in the first round...
Su Feng pointed at himself.
between... ...
When Su Feng came to the stage, he could no longer hear the cheers or boos around him.
Looking at the amiable CEO on the stage, Su Feng always felt like he was in a dream.
"Congratulations, Su Feng." Stern patted Su Feng on the shoulder, and Su Feng also put on...
Charlotte Hornets hat.
Su Feng, who is familiar with the Hornets' lineup during this period, is very clear that the Hornets are not short of outsiders at this time.
And he never went to the Hornets to try out.
So after calming down, Su Feng's first reaction was:
Which team is betting on itself with such a high pick
Actually...
Just when Su Feng was stunned under the tree.
In the front war room, the King's uniform, the Supersonic uniform, and the Phoenix uniform have a feeling of being a ghost...
Who cut us off
After saying a few words according to the draft prepared before the draft, Su Feng, who stepped down, quickly knew the answer.
Bill Duffy pulled him aside with delight.
"Su, keep a low profile in the interview, don't mention how to position and develop in the team in the future." Bill Duffy said quietly.
"Huh?" Su Feng looked at his agent curiously.
"The Philadelphia 76ers have officially submitted their trade application!
The staff in Philadelphia just told me that this deal can be completed as long as the league approval is over! "Bill Duffy patted Su Feng on the shoulder and smiled.
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Philadelphia 76ers
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ps: Well, Chapter 76, selected by the 76ers, all the foreshadowing, all completed, as for the explanation? Let's talk about the next chapter... .. This chapter is 6000, 7000, and today is 13000! It's about to be edited and cooked again! Please collect, reward, and recommend tickets! !