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"Did you go home early?"

James drove a red classic car and parked on the road in front of Yang Di's rented villa, this classic car has perfect flow, and there is a retro time in the 80s under the sun.

"Yes, Chris invited me to the draft."

"Draft?"

James frowned, a little unhappy, why didn't his general manager invite him?

"But you're still a free agent, not a Warriors signing."

"A verbal agreement has been reached, and it will be able to sign directly on July 1." Yang Di said with a smile.

"How many years have you been signing?"

"Three years, I actually want to sign for two years, but I can only sign 10 million for two years, and Chris Mullin also hopes to sign as long as possible."

"Three years is almost, and I still have two years left on my contract." James said.

"Straight to Chicago?"

After practicing with Yang Di for more than half a month, James feels that he has made great progress, and Yang Di's pace is getting faster and faster, he feels that it is becoming more and more difficult to defend, as if there is an illusion, Yang Di seems to have improved very fast during this time, especially in the first two days. This made James feel a crisis in his heart, and he was not so enthusiastic about vacation.

"Chicago?"

Yang Di spread his hands, not understanding what James said.

"Oh, I was wrong, it's New York." James laughed.

"Yes, let's go to New York for a walk, and then go back to Auckland for a while."

"And then?" James immediately asked more, thinking that if Yang Di went to the summer training camp, then he would have to step up his workout.

"And then? Go to Venezuela for a while and then go back to China. ”

Yang Di told James all about his itinerary, and he now has a good relationship with James, and the two have talked a lot about professional basketball.

James said, "I have to go to New York once, too." ”

"My good buddy, Chris Paul is in the NBA Draft this year, he's a buddy I've known since high school, and I'm going to have to go and cheer him on."

"Chris Paul?"

"yes, he's a very good court commander, I've played against him, and he's going to be an NBA All-Star in the future." James said firmly.

Yang Di showed a slight disdain, not that he didn't believe James's words, but he felt that what James said was too absolute, an all-star player is not something that can be achieved simply, he went to the point of being an all-star level, spent too much time and energy, and sweated in the training hall day and night.

Inside the house, Anne and the others walked out with their suitcases in tow.

"Gone!"

Yang Di and James fist and hug.

…….

June 25, NBA Draft.

Madison Square Garden, New York.

Yang Di and Chris Mullin arrived at the scene in time, and the illuminated theater became a giant social circle, where basketball celebrities, celebrities, team owners and members of the uniform team gathered together to communicate around the just-concluded NBA Finals and the upcoming NBA Draft.

Every year's draft is like a college entrance examination.

There are only 400 positions available for competition in this top professional basketball league, and the 60 positions vacated each year means that another 60 players will lose their jobs, and when it comes to sharing, an average of 2 players per team are facing unemployment.

The chosen ones mean that they have a growth period of 2 to 4 years, during which time they can at least continue to receive a salary.

After 2 years, it is the default old bird of the league, after this period, if the players face some games and still fail to fulfill the talent they declared in the draft, they will be swept out of the game and become the league's wanderers, and worse, even have no place to stand, making room for the 60 rookies who entered the following year.

Week after week, this alliance has always maintained fresh blood and brutally maintained competitiveness.

Yang Di and Mullin sat in the box, and as the general manager of the important team, Mullin had this qualification.

Yang Di didn't find James, thinking that James might have entered the box first.

"We have three draft picks this year, the 17th pick in the first round, the 10th pick in the second round and the 15th pick in the second round. In fact, according to reason, if it is just a draft, there is no need to invite you over. Mu Lin and Yang Di said, and then asked the assistant general manager who accompanied him for information.

Assistant Garcia immediately took out a stack of materials from his bag.

Yang Di glanced at it, and his head suddenly became bigger, and he was very concerned about what Mu Lin meant by this.

"I heard you want to play power forward?"

Yang Di said "um", nodded and said: "I have already told the head coach that I hope to play the power forward position in the new season, because I want to better play my strengths, and in the offseason, I especially exercised my breakthrough ability and shooting ability." ”

"I know, but there's no way Murphy is going to play center, because last season you were at center and had the most rebounds in the league because you were closer to the basket, and if you played power forward, you probably wouldn't have as many rebounds." Mu Lin wanted to convince Yang Di from the perspective of data, but deep down, he didn't want to change.

Yang Di frowned, he knew that what Mu Lin said was right, but it was so tiring to play center, and he fought very hard.

"By the way, why didn't Coach Montgomery come over?" Yang Di didn't want to talk too much about the position, so he led the topic to the head coach, today's draft meeting, according to reason, the head coach should come to the scene to participate.

"The head coach hasn't been in good shape lately and he's still recuperating in San Francisco."

"Huh? Is he okay? Yang Di was taken aback, no one had ever talked to him.

"Fortunately, it's only been a season, and it's really hard, so recently he has pushed off the work he is doing, rested a little, and adjusted his condition."

"It's hard work to be a coach, and this season thanks to his guidance, I've been able to improve so quickly."

Mullin was still thinking about Yang Di changing positions, and assistant Garcia sorted out the excellent seedlings in the middle of the first-round signing, about five players, and then handed all five pieces of paper to Yang Di.

"Sean May PF, Hakeem Warrick PF/SF, Jason Mark Hill PF, Danny Granger SF/SG, Gerald Green SF/SG."

"Interior players are more sought-after, and in this year's draft, many interior players will be selected in the lottery near the top 10, after all, many teams in this league need some big men." Garcia said.

Yang Di nodded, skimmed through the scouting report, and suddenly wanted to see what was in the system store, and I didn't know if there were any props that could help in this aspect of the draft.