The Whip of the God of Basketball

After watching Iverson’s Crazy Night’s performance, Arenas couldn’t calm down for a long time. He sat in the cafe’s private room and kept thinking about the plot of the game, Iverson’s emergency stop jumper, Crossover dribble, and fast. The moment he made layups, faced O'Neal's breakthroughs, and crossed Tyronn Lue, his figure was deeply imprinted in Arenas' mind. A fire began to burn in his heart. He imagined himself after entering the NBA, invincible on the court, breaking through, shooting, fast break, three-pointers, and destroying opponents with scoring like Iverson.

　　 Then, Fox-Leon and Darryl-Morey came. They had agreed to meet tonight, but Leon's first words poured cold water on Arenas. This made Arenas very uncontrollable. This kid from a single-parent family was brought up by his father with an angry face and a stubborn temper. His basketball career was full of underestimation and then staged a counterattack because he always fought with anger.

His father once created an amateur basketball team, but Arenas always served as a substitute in his father’s team. Angrily, he left the team to join another team, and then played well against his father’s team. Performance.

　　 In high school, the coach told him that your upper limit is here. Arenas became angry again. He practiced from morning to night and transferred to another high school. He became a starter and became the best player in the league.

　　 When he arrived at university, Arenas, who was born in Los Angeles, hoped to join the famous UCLA, but UCLA thought that the opponents Arenas had faced were too weak and gave up him. Arenas therefore left Los Angeles angrily and went to Arizona.

In college, he was not a starter either. There were outstanding players like Richard Jefferson and Luke Wharton on the team. Arenas used the opportunity of an informal summer game to knock down his starting rivals and get the starter. position.

At this moment, when Fox-Leon told him that there are not too many teams optimistic about him, Arenas became angry again. He stared at Leon and Morey with wide round eyes, and then said in a low voice. : "If you don't like me, then don't choose me, then you can slowly regret it."

　　 Leon is unmoved by Arenas' anger. His conversation style has always been outspoken, and he quickly enters the core topic instead of making boring greetings. Leon took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and handed it to Arenas, then said: "This is a scout report I gave you a week ago. At that time, you should have attended a small training camp in Los Angeles. , Along with Tyson Chandler, Eddie Curry, Randolph and others. Before my scout report is released, your draft pick is...probably in the middle of the first round. Position. Let’s take a look at some of your evaluations from a scout report, “Height is filled with water and defense is average. As a shooting guard with his strength and height, it will be difficult to face his opponent.” And here ,'Have an excellent ability to stop jump shots, but the shooting options are average, will not be a good team player.'"

Leon took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and flipped through it. This is the scout report of other scouts to Arenas. In the scout circle, the scout report is not a secret, of course it is handed over to the ball. Of course, there will be some differences in the details of the team's report and the public report, but the overall evaluation of the players will not differ too much.

　　 After reading these few sentences, Leon could feel the anger on Arenas. He clenched his fist with one hand and the coffee cup with the other. But he calmed down quickly, took a sip of coffee and said: "Tell me what you think of me, and after you gave me a scout report, how did my rank change?"

This time Leon did not speak, it was Morey’s turn to speak, because Leon’s scout report was sorted out by him. After Leon’s on-site observation and writing, Morey collected and processed Arenas’s game from high school to college. Data, and commissioned Vogel to conduct a video analysis, and finally released the Celtic version of Arenas scout report.

"Our evaluation of you is actually not too different from other scouts. After all, we are all people from the earth. But there are two points that we do not agree with their evaluation of you. The first is your height. Rookies often falsely report their height in order to increase their draft pick. Leon also thought you falsely reported your height after watching your game on the spot. He visually determined that your height is 6 feet 3 inches and 1/2. And the height you reported is 6-foot-5, which is a bit short for a shooting guard... But we don’t think you should be a shooting guard. We think you are more suitable for a point guard."

　　 In most scouting reports against Arenas, they all think Arenas is suitable to be a shooting guard. His outstanding attacking skills are really impressive, but only if he really has 6-5. Leon's ability to visually measure height is also outstanding in the NBA. He can tell at a glance that Arenas does not have a 6-foot-5 at all, but his evaluation of Arenas does not drop but rises because he believes that 6-foot-3 is scoring. The guards are short, but the point guards are tall. Since Arenas' height can't be changed, change his position.

　　 Arenas listened to Morey's words and shrugged and said, "The point guard is not a problem for me."

Morey continued: "The second question is about sharing the ball. Many people think you are a bit unique, but we don’t think it’s a big problem. If you can score, then you can score two points with your teammates. There is no difference. The only question is whether you aspire to be a great player who can make your teammates better. If so, I think you will change. I'm done."

　　 Morey's words are full of provocations and challenges. For Arenas, he will never lack these things in his life, which is why he chose No. 0.

　　The conversation between the two parties was not pleasant, but it was efficient and fruitful. Arenas, a kid who grew up in Los Angeles, has begun to take an interest in Boston. Maybe there will be some teams who are interested in him and make various promises and benefits, but there is nothing that attracts him more than arousing his anger. Especially at the end of the conversation, Arenas asked Leon: "You have three first-round picks, which one will you use to choose me?"

　　 Leon did not even think about answering: "Of course it is the last one."

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Time passed quickly. After meeting Arenas privately, Leon and Morey traveled to several cities and met with some other super newcomers or newcomers’ agents. Some of them had already decided on their positions. The top ten guys in the draft should not accidentally be ready to go to a certain city.

　　 Of course, the NBA is always full of surprises, and the draft is no exception. Just like the Philadelphia 76ers broke the Lakers' undefeated golden status in Los Angeles, everything could happen before Stern stepped onto the stage and read the result.

　　 So, the San Antonio Spurs were broken for their 28 pick. Before learning that Fox Leon and the Celtics were interested in Tony Parker, everything went smoothly and perfectly. Although international players are constantly pouring into the NBA, and some of them have shown extremely high standards, they are all big men, like Divac, Kukoc, Schramf or Nowitzki, but none of them Small men from Europe, especially point guards, really prove themselves in the NBA. Those NBA general managers are convinced that Europe can't make a point guard suitable for the NBA. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Buford, the assistant general manager of the Spurs, thought so at the beginning, but he began to change his mindset during the 2000 Nike Challenge and field trips in France. At the same time, he also convinced Pope with videos and scout reports. Vicki, the insightful Popovich also believes that this is a rare talent and a worthy choice for the Spurs point guard position. Although this is a gamble, Popovich is willing to bet.

When trying to use Chris Anderson to win favor with the Celtics and pay a certain price for further contact-such as a future second-round pick to get the Celtics' promise not to take Parker in advance, they accepted The Celtics slapped fiercely. New York's big-mouth king Pete Vicsey broke the news that Auerbach is interested in Tony Parker and thinks this is a very good point guard. Auerbach’s vision is unknown in the United States, so Tony Parker suddenly became popular, news reports and scouting reports about him began to increase, and his predicted draft pick also soared.

　　 Popovich almost has to pull his hair out to cope with such a complicated situation. From now on, it is not only the Celtics that may rob Parker, but almost all the teams in the league. Popovich had to use all of his relationships to communicate with the managers of the league's teams who might win Parker, and hoped that they would not win Parker in advance.

　　 From the beginning, they wanted to make a fortune with a muffled voice, but now they have to fight a lot. They paid the price for a wrong show of goodness. However, Leon and the Celtics proceeded with the layout in a hurry, quietly waiting for the coming of the big bet of the draft.

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