June 27, 2001, for all teams in the NBA, today is undoubtedly the most important day of the entire offseason, the 2001 NBA Draft will be held today, at the home of the New York Knicks, Madison Garden Plaza, for countless players who signed up for this year's draft, today is undoubtedly a fate-changing day, and today is also a day that many teams look forward to turning over.

Although the Pacers' first-round pick has been traded to the Spurs, leaving only one second-round pick with the No. 11 pick, Larry Bird still brought Meng Xu and Reggie Miller to Maddison. Today's theme is not just the draft, but the trade after the draft is the main event, and the Pacers naturally want to get a piece of the pie.

"Meng, why did you choose to go to Indiana? The Indiana of today is not the Indiana of the past, and there are already many people who are worried about your situation in Indiana, and there are many people who think that Indiana will lead you into the abyss. ”

"Yes, Meng, why don't you choose New York? The Knicks are no worse than Indiana, and with Alan Houston, Latrill Sprewell, Glenn Rice and Larry Johnson, a whole bunch of All-Stars, there's everything you need. ”

"Meng, when Ratrier was interviewed yesterday, he publicly declared that he was going to blow you up next season."

Since the Spurs and Pacers trade was completed, Meng Xu has not appeared in front of the media except for McDonald's summer training camp, so when Meng Xu appeared in Madison, he was immediately chased and intercepted by a large number of reporters, the first to bear the brunt of the New York Times reporter, after Nike released the news that Meng Xu was coming to the Knicks, the New York media who had pulled Meng Xu out of the black before when there was nothing to do, immediately made a 180-degree turn and began to praise Meng Xu constantly, that report, Meng Xu was embarrassed to blow it, and Meng Xu finally chose to join the Pacers, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face, so to this day, these media have a lot of resentment about Meng Xu giving up the Knicks.

Moreover, Meng Xu joined the Knicks' sworn enemy Pacers, which made their faces even more unbearable, and the current New York media are even black with Meng Xu and the Pacers. And Dolan, the owner of the Knicks, publicly declared in the media that Meng Xu made the stupidest decision in his life after Meng Xu joined the Pacers, and as long as the Knicks are there, Meng Xu and his Pacers will never win the championship.

"Ratrel? I'm looking forward to playing against him, but hopefully he can do a little bit better than this season, otherwise it will be a bit too boring. ”

"Last season's Pacers were poor, but now that we've rebuilt, we have a very good head coach, a great group of players and a perfect team, so for next season we are very confident that I and my team, at all times, have only one goal, and that is a championship."

After the championship declaration, Meng Xu and Reggie Miller got rid of the crazy group of reporters under the cover of Larry Bird. The Pacers sent Jalen Rose and three of the team's five starters in order to trade Meng Xu. In addition to Meng Xu, the Pacers are left with the aging Reggie Miller, and a group of old, weak, sick and disabled, although there are also young players with full potential such as Jermaine O'Neal and Al Harrington, but whether the potential can be converted into strength, no one can say. Therefore, no matter how you look at the Pacers in front of you, they are a duck, which is one of the main reasons why Larry Bird came to Maddison, and strengthening the roster is Larry Bird's only task at the moment.

"Meng, it looks like you're very confident about next season." Larry Bird found Meng Xu and Reggie Miller, who were still waiting for him there, in the players' tunnel. As the president, general manager and head coach of the Pacers, no one knows better than Larry Bird about the current status of the Pacers, although the trade came to Meng Xu, who he dreamed of, but compared to last season, the strength of the Pacers is still inferior, so when Meng Xu said the championship declaration in front of the New York Times, Larry Bird wanted to know very much whether Meng Xu really had confidence in next season, or he couldn't pull it down, and he was bragging B.

"Larry, don't worry, although with our current strength, it looks like we are barely getting into the playoffs, but leading the Pacers to win the championship is me, Reggie, and the mission of all of us." Although Meng Xu also wanted to pretend to be very forced to say that as long as I was there, at least I could win the second round, and I could win 50 wins in the regular season, but when Meng Xu saw Reggie Miller looking at him expectantly, Meng Xu was still a little low-key.

"Hmm." After hearing what Meng Xu said, Larry Bird also nodded with great satisfaction, if Meng Xu really didn't even have this confidence, then it could only mean that he had seen the wrong person. For this season, Larry Bird actually has no requirements, the Pacers' roster last season has only been saved less than half, and Larry Bird will continue to trade, and at the same time, after Isaiah Thomas is gone, the Pacers' tactics will all be pushed back. Therefore, the task of the Pacers this season is to run in the roster, as long as they can enter the playoffs, they will complete the task perfectly.

This year's draft is a recognized draft year, since the 96 draft, the NBA draft is not as good as a year, especially last year's draft, it has been worse than ever, and this year's draft situation has improved, but the situation is still a little worrying.

At this year's draft, Popovich and Mike Budenholzer also came to the scene, and after saying hello to them a little awkwardly, Meng Xu returned to his seat. Since Meng Xu didn't have the opportunity to come to the scene when he participated in the draft, Meng Xu was still very much looking forward to the scene of the draft conference, but when Meng Xu sat here, he found that the draft meeting was so boring, and if he knew that it was so, it was better to stay in the hotel and sleep.

In the end, this year's champion, the Wizards still chose Kwame Brown, who is known as a talented high school student comparable to O'Neal, Kwame Brown is this year's best high school student in the United States, and has been selected to the All-American team for two consecutive years, so the Wizards who are eager to change did not hesitate to choose Kwame Brown, and it is said that Kwame Brown is still the champion handpicked by Jordan, just after the end of this season, Jordan bought 5% of the shares of the Washington Wizards, became the small owner of the Wizards, and entered the management of the Wizards, At the same time, there is also grapevine that Jordan may return to the game this season, as for whether he will be a player or a coach, it is unknown.

After Kwame Brown, the Los Angeles Clippers selected another high school talent, Tyson Chandler, with the No. 2 pick, while the Atlanta Hawks selected Spaniard Pau Gasol. The Spurs, who have four draft picks this year, have selected four outside players, except for Tony Parker, who is a playmaker, and the other three are all swing guards. The Pacers, on the other hand, used their No. 40 pick to select a pitcher, Bobby Simmons.

Just an hour after the draft, the otherwise calm NBA was immediately detonated by a number of major trades, first the Los Angeles Clippers used Tyson? Chandler and Brian? Skinner, who traded Elton, the top pick from the Bulls in the same class as Meng Xu? Brand, after last season's Duncan storm, Elton? Brand made it clear that he would not renew his contract with the Bulls after the contract ended, and that it would be Elton next season? Brand is on contract for several years, so in order to avoid chicken and egg fights, the Bulls chose to put Elton on the board this season. Brand sent away.

Just after the Bulls and Clippers trade was completed, the Hawks and Grizzlies also completed a blockbuster trade, with the Atlanta Hawks trading this year's probe, Pau Gasol, and Brian Wright, Lorenzo Wright, and next year's first-round draft pick for the Grizzlies' All-Star power forward Sharif Abdoul Raheem.

In addition, the Rockets traded this year's No. 13 pick Richard Jefferson, No. 18 rookie Jason Collins, and No. 23 pick Brandon Armstrong for New Jersey Nets-drafted No. 7 pick Eddie Griffin.

The Pacers used next year's first-round draft pick to trade the No. 27 rookie from the Grizzlies, Jamal Tinsley, after the main point guard Austin Crohill was sent to the Spurs and the backup point guard Tejus Edney was abandoned, the Pacers currently don't even have an orthodox point guard, although Meng Xu is here, the Pacers don't need an excellent playmaking guard, but there must always be a dribble guard.

While people were stunned by this trade, one of the biggest NBA deals of the season was made, with Jason Kidd, the star player of the Suns, and Stephen Marbury, the star player of the Nets, swapping owners. Although with the rise of Kobe and Meng Xu, Jason Kidd has been squeezed out of the ranks of the top 5 players in the league, but Jason Kidd and Stephen Marbury still have the strength of the league's top 10, so the transaction between the Nets and the Suns has brought a shock far more than Meng Xu joining the Pacers.

"It's unbelievable that the Nets are my enemy now? So good luck to them. Just after the Nets and Suns deal was made, New Jersey and Phoenix immediately became the center of public opinion, and Stephen Marbury's words undoubtedly added fuel to the fire.