Speaking of which, part of the reason why Yi Jianlian participated in this year's draft is due to Yang Di.

After Yang Di became famous, basketball continued to be popular in China, and Yang Di and Yao Ming proved that Chinese can play basketball well. Similarly, the basketball industry and major leagues are also developing rapidly, and the enthusiasm of Chinese people to support Chinese players to play overseas is very high, and it has become a matter of pride to participate in the NBA draft.

Take this year's draft as an example, in addition to Yi Jianlian, who was invited to the small green house, there are also two outstanding players Sun Yue and Tang Zhengdong to participate in the NBA draft.

Among them, Sun Yue is still a rare outside player.

Since the 03 draft, Yang Di and Xue Yuyang, who entered the NBA in the same year, one has now become a basketball superstar in the world, and the other is still playing in the CBA.

There are also players who have been trained in the NBA, such as Wang Zhizhi and Battle, and their abilities are indeed much stronger than ordinary Chinese players, so even if they participate in more scientific and systematic training in the NBA, it is better than slowly wasting potential.

In this year's World Championships, Yi Jianlian was supposed to participate in the team's training camp early, but because Yang Di was selected for the national team for the first time, because the finals were played until mid to late June, the team's real training could not be carried out until Yang Di's return report, and it could only be regarded as physical fitness training before.

Yi Jianlian thought about it for a long time, and called to consult Yao Ming.

Yao Ming said to him: "The NBA is a very realistic league, rookie players look at the potential, Yi Jianlian's physical fitness is not much worse than when Yang Di first entered the league, the bounce arm span is first-class, plus a soft shooting ability, it is very popular in today's NBA, the early you enter the league, you can get in touch with the training here as soon as possible, as long as you train your body in the future, with a good guard, it is very easy to score more than ten points in the frame, and it will be a matter of course to become a starter." ”

"The income of starters in the NBA is much higher than that of the CBA. Big players are even rarer, with an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars just around the corner. ”

In this way, 19-year-old Yi Jianlian participated in this year's draft, which surprised Yang Di when he saw it.

He is not familiar with Yi Jianlian, but he has also heard about this young man, after all, during the 04 Athens Olympics, the 17-year-old Yi Jianlian directly entered the national team.

Yi Jian Lian and others participated in the joint trial, and the famous agent Jeff Schwertz became the agent of Yi Jian United and was responsible for various matters of Yi Jian United NBA.

Of course, the Warriors will not choose Yijian United, who is currently predicting a pick at the end of the lottery area, and the Warriors' two first-round picks are one very high and one very low, so it is impossible to get their turn.

After Yang Di saw Yi Jianlian and others, he suddenly became even more interested, he called up the system, and then the system was really connected to the draft conference, and he spent three hundred villain values to check the player cards of Yi Jianlian's three people respectively.

Yi Jianlian: 19 years old.

Height: 2.13 meters, arm span 2.24 meters, weight 114 kg.

Offense: B-, Defense: C-, Rebound: B-, Potential: A+.

"The potential is A+!" Yang Di was taken aback, he didn't expect Yi Jianlian's potential to be so high, and if he was at the A+ level, he could almost be selected as an All-Star at his peak.

This made him a little impressed with the younger brother who was about to enter the NBA, and in the entire draft, he could be regarded as quite talented and potential.

Then he looked at Tang Zhengdong and Sun Yue again, one potential is B, the other potential is B+, they can only be regarded as ordinary players.

Potential is such a thing, which proves that a player's ceiling, and the key to really being able to play depends on continuous training and opportunities.

"Your compatriots from the motherland?" Nancy asked obediently.

"That's right, a very good young man, I hope to train hard and play well when I get into the league." Yang Di nodded and replied.

"I think he's the kind of serious baby at first glance." Nancy said with a smile on her face.

Yang Di laughed, "Can you see it from your face?" ”

After a brief opening ceremony, David Stern announced the official start of the draft.

"In the 2006 draft, the first pick in the first round, the Toronto Raptors selected - Andrea Bagyani! Originally from Italy, he is 7 feet tall. ”

"Wow!"

The audience exclaimed.

Yang Di also cried out in surprise, "Andrea Bagyani? ”

"What's wrong?" Nancy asked.

"In the previous year's draft, Bogut, who was Australian, was already selected, and this year an Italian player was selected, and the NBA team has chosen foreign players in the past two years, which is very surprising."

"Is Bhagyani good?"

"I don't know, but he was the winner of this year's Europa League Young Player of the Year and Future Star title, which helped his team win the Italian league."

"Sounds strong."

"All in all, the potential is good." Yang Di couldn't help but secretly take a look at the intelligence card, Bagyani's potential has reached S-, according to the situation of the draft year, it is already very good to select a player of this level.

Bhagyani took the Raptors' baseball cap and stepped onto the stage.

The young man had a smile on his face, he was the top pick in the draft, and he was the number one in all of Italy. He seems to have foreseen that in the future, he will become a basketball superstar in his country and the pride of his country like Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Yang Di, Yao Ming, and Nash.

After a pledge to the new owner, Bagyani stepped off the stage.

Stern stepped on the pitch again and took the note in his hand.

"In the 2006 draft, the second pick in the first round, the Golden State Warriors selected LaMarcus Aldridge from the University of Texas."

Aldridge frowned slightly, took the baseball cap handed by the staff, and walked onto the stage.

How could it be selected by the Warriors, hey, the Warriors already have Yang Di and Tyson Chandler, how can this come out! Aldridge was a little unhappy in his heart, although the Warriors are a thriving youth army, but there are too many newcomers in the team, and the lineup is complete, and he must have a lot fewer opportunities to play and practice accordingly, according to his ideas, it is best to be selected by the Trail Blazers with the fourth pick, or be selected by Boston and Houston later, these big city teams, the lineup just needs him to save.

All sorts of thoughts flashed through him, his face tensed, and he barely managed to squeeze out a smile.

"I'm thrilled to be selected by the championship team, and I can't wait to start a new journey in the San Francisco Bay Area."

In his voice, there was no sense of excitement or honor.