The Lakers have actually started paying attention to the rookies from major universities as early as the "NCAA March Madness".
The information of every player who has announced that he will participate in the NBA draft is collected in the Lakers database.
The Lakers have been playing in the playoffs recently, and the person responsible for negotiating with the players is not general manager Kupchak, but several deputy managers.
It is no exaggeration to say that this year's young NCAA players are almost all crazy fans of Shen Huan.
As long as there are basketball players who watched Shen Huanshen's performance last season, there will be no basketball players who are not shocked and who are not crazy about calling.
If Shen Huan is in the Lakers, there is no doubt that the Lakers have their sights on whoever is not even the No. 1 pick. They just want to go to the Lakers and become Shen Huan's teammates.
As mentioned before, the number one pick in the NBA is becoming more and more valuable, and more and more players no longer care whether they are the number one pick.
Boss Qiao is still just a prodigy!
The Black Mamba was selected 13th in the first round.
Did such a result affect their status at all
No!
Therefore, today's young players hope to have a team that suits them and a team that can make great progress.
Being able to play with Shen Huan, even if it's just for the playoffs, is definitely a topic they can talk about for the rest of their lives, and it's also a source of pride.
Not to mention that Shen Huan is now taking Ingram, a first-year player, to play in the playoffs. Ingram's progress is simply obvious, and he has suddenly squeezed into the ranks of the second-tier top players.
Young players, basically no one is convinced.
At that time, OJ Mayo excitedly challenged the 43-year-old boss Qiao, but was beaten into a dog.
But now this person has been replaced by Shen Huan, who even Boss Qiao thinks is the best player in basketball, so everyone is convinced.
But they definitely don't think they are worse than Ingram.
Everyone thinks that if they are trained by Shen Huan, they can quickly become a key player in the league, or even a superstar.
Therefore, they want to play ball with Shen Huan and learn from Shen Huan.
As a result, Shen Huan doesn't even play anymore.
The momentum and prestige of the Lakers disappeared in an instant.
Even if the Lakers promised a lot of conditions and benefits, few outstanding college players responded.
Seeing that it is almost June, and the draft for the new season will be held in more than 20 days, the Lakers management team is feeling a little panicked.
In the end, old Kobe came up with a solution.
On the day after the Lakers defeated the Golden State Warriors 4-0, the Lakers announced that they would hold several trial games in the three days from May 29th to 31st.
All players who come to participate in the trial training will have the opportunity to train with Shen Huan and even play within the team.
As soon as this news came out, all players interested in the NBA draft, whether they were American college students or professional players from Europe and South America, sent applications one after another, hoping to participate in the trial competitions in the past few days.
Everyone is not stupid.
If you get praise from Shen Huan during the trial training, or get some pointers from Shen Huan, you can increase your score.
Not only will your prospects in the draft be better, but you may even be able to improve!
Moreover, the opportunity to train with Shen Huan and play against each other in intra-team competitions is only once.
If you don't seize this opportunity, you will regret it for the rest of your life.
Later, my children asked me, Dad, the greatest player of your era was Shen Huan. Have you ever played with him
There’s nothing to say then!
So, when Shen Huan entered the training ground with Kobe and Iverson at 7 o'clock in the morning on the 29th, what he saw was at least fifty young players doing exercises, shooting and other exercises.
"Is this too exaggerated?" Shen Huan frowned and asked Kobe: "Will they come here and delay our preparations for the finals?"
"Delay will definitely delay it a little, but do you think you can't beat James?" Kobe asked Shen Huan.
"Okay." Shen Huan nodded seriously without thinking.
"Isn't that enough?" Kobe said, "As long as you can beat James, there will be no problem. We just need to maintain a normal state."
Shen Huan opened his mouth and wanted to say something else, but Iverson patted him on the shoulder, "You have to think about it, after playing in the finals, you will not stay with the Lakers for another day. Just go to Europe and South America to start brand advertising. If they don’t attract the rookie players while you are here, how long will they wait?”
Only then did the young man suddenly realize.
It turns out that this was the calculation.
The three people were talking here, and the original noise on the field and the sounds of training miraculously stopped.
Everyone looked at the three superstars here, especially Shen Huan.
Shen Huan felt that the eyes were so hot. The most intense ones were of course admiration, but there were also some eyes with ulterior motives and even provocations.
Of course Shen Huan wouldn't take this to heart. If young people don't have any vitality, it won't be a competitive sport.
"Hi, Shen Huan!"
Suddenly a young player walked up.
He is half a head taller than Shen Huan, a bit thin, and has a Super Saiyan hairstyle.
When he arrived in front of Shen Huan, he stretched out his hand and said quickly: "Hello, my name is Lonzo Ball. Are you interested in competing with me? No matter what, I will beat you!"
Iverson burst out laughing.
He remembered that just now the three of them were discussing the matter of Shen Huan beating up James, and now suddenly there was a little guy who didn't know how to live or die, daring to talk like this.
Given the current situation in the league, those superstars have no room to struggle in Shen Huan's hands, let alone these rookies.
Shen Huan is younger than them, but even so, they can't defeat even half of them.
But this kid is quite courageous and very unruly.
Kobe was quite familiar with this kid. He turned to Shen Huan and said, "This little guy is a rising star in our local area. Last year's American Basketball Player and California Basketball Player were both point guards.
You may not be familiar with him, but his father is a big mouth and often talks arrogantly outside the stadium. The last time he said he could beat you was his father. "
Wait.
Shen Huan suddenly remembered.
Lonzo Ball…
Ball, isn't it BALL
This young player named Qiu has a big-mouthed dad...
Damn it!
Isn’t this the weird family of Brother and Ball
In Shen Huan's mind, he finally connected this man with the Brother Qiu in his impression.