Chapter 750: A New Contract II

On June 28, the '07 draft was held as scheduled.

Jandy watched the grand scene in New York at home, the Warriors just ended a two-game winning streak, stabilizing the roster is the top priority, and Chris Mullin also said that he will not make too many adjustments.

On the same day, Greg Oden won the first pick in the first round with no suspense and was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers' general manager enthused, "Greg Oden is the most promising big man I've ever seen, he's a combination of Youngdy, Olajuwon and Ewing, he's just all-powerful, we need his talent to lead the team to glory, and we're confident he'll be able to do that." ”

Kevin Durant was second, drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics.

SuperSonics' general manager Presti is slightly depressed, and after the draft draw ended, he has been looking for a trade for the top pick, and he wants to acquire Greg Oden in order to form a supercharged twin-tower roster with LaMarcus Aldridge. Presti has been on the job for less than a month, and he's already made a name for himself before he helped the Spurs draft Parker when Presti was 25 years old, and he's just turned 30.

Presti didn't hesitate to choose Kevin Durant, a per-listed SG who is 6'9" tall and is the quintessential jumper king.

Today, when Lewis is determined to leave, the SuperSonics chose Durant, which looks like looking for a successor to Lewis.

Subsequently, Presti was unusually aggressive in the draft, and he wanted to complete a trade with the Celtics, but the Celtics insisted on Rashard Lewis and were only willing to pay chips like this year's No. 4 pick, Jeff Green, and Szczebiak.

Jeff Green had a reputation in college and was one of the best in the entire training camp due to his physical talent in the draft, and Presti was very bullish on the player, but he was reluctant to keep Rashad Lewis, who had a higher trade value.

The trade plan was put on hold, while the Celtics are still aggressively peddling their pick No. 4.

The Celtics themselves have a top small forward like Paul Pearce, and the reason why Angie chose Jeff Green is because of the potential effect brought by Jeff Green himself, and Angie himself prefers to trade Jeff Green in exchange for instant star.

The draft stimulated the trade market, which was in a state of continued heat.

The Trail Blazers took the lead, and after getting Greg Oden, the general manager of the Trail Blazers immediately traded away the team's original interior core Zach Randolph, Randolph was traded to New York, and the Portland Trail Blazers got young players such as Channing Frye from New York, and New York also successfully ushered in their first statistic star in so many years.

The Heat sent Jason Smith, the selected Colorado center, to Philadelphia and then got the 76ers' rookie Cook, along with some cash.

No. 24 rookie Rudy Fernandez was traded by the Suns to the Trail Blazers for some cash.

The Trail Blazers traded some of the cash for No. 42 rookie Derick Beyersga for the 76ers' No. 30 rookie Petry Courbern.

The Mavericks sent No. 60 rookie, Serbian black Rakovic, to the Magic in exchange for No. 44 rookie, North Carolina forward Rayshawn Terry. The Clippers announced that they have cut guard Daniel Ewing and decided to terminate the contract of team forward James Singleton. Bobcats announce the cuts of veteran guard Blevin Knight; The Pacers cut guard Orion Green.

The dazzling deals, the rookies were dumbfounded, and for the first time they found themselves like a commodity, at the mercy of others.

No one knows where they will be traded or which city they will play in.

The Warriors drafted Morris Almond with the 28th pick in the first round, a 1.98-meter-tall swingman who averaged 15.1 points per game in college and continued to hoard talented players on the wing as he did in previous years.

In the second round, the Warriors drafted Stephen Rasmu, a short power forward from Gabon who looks quite strong and is mainly used as an interior reserve.

With Foyer getting older and not guaranteeing playing time, Mullin is already consciously hoarding players for the interior as well.

Although he can't guarantee whether these selected players will be able to adapt to the rhythm and confrontation of the NBA.

No way, in Mullin's words, the Warriors' uniform team is concerned about the Warriors' playoff performance, busy serving the Warriors to win the championship, and neglecting the scouting of players in this draft.

The Warriors now have that confidence, and the attraction is very high for veterans who are hungry to win a championship.

On July 1, after the free market opened, Yang Di officially signed with the Warriors.

Yang Di and the Warriors completed an early contract extension, and at least three more seasons will be with the Warriors, and the Warriors will retain their core leaders and attack for a third championship.

At the same time, high rookies such as Oden, Durant, and Horford have signed with the home team.

The Warriors have begun to schedule their summer league rookies, with the two newly drafted rookies, as well as Shannon Brown and Louis Williams, who will play together.

On July 12, the NBA made its first blockbuster trade since the summer.

The Magic and the Supersonics completed the trade cooperation, and Rashad Lewis signed a six-year, 118 million contract for the tenth billion yuan in history, and the Magic paid a bunch of players in exchange for the space No. 4 position that Big Van Gundy believes can drive the entire Magic team's outside attack.

Lewis is the leading three-point shooter in Supersonic history, hitting 973 three-pointers and has been a regular averaging 20+ per game for the past few years, and crucially, he's only 27 years old and in his prime as a professional player.

At the same time, the Magic also completed an early contract extension with Howard, with a five-year contract value of more than $85 million, and a maximum salary after the expiration of the full rookie contract.

The Nets and Carter have also completed contract extensions, with a five-year contract of more than $80 million.

Mo Williams signed a six-year, $52 million contract with the Bucks, and in the new season, Mo Williams will wear the Bucks jersey.

Subsequently, the Golden State Warriors announced that they had completed a two-year contract with free agent guard Azubuike, the 24-year-old Azubuke had been wandering all these years, and his participation in the Warriors trial was recognized by Mullin, and he signed a base salary contract, 2 years and 1.5 million US dollars, and finally settled down in the NBA for the first time.

The Rockets got the signing rights of Luis Scola through a trade, and after Scola and the Rockets connected, he paid a $3 million buyout fee, and then left the European Tau Ceramics Club, and completed a three-year $9.3 million contract with the Rockets to start his NBA career, this year, he was 27 years old, which can be called an older rookie.

Signing and trading in free agency, big contracts flying in the sky, and team managers waving checks have been the main theme of the NBA all summer.

It's also the NBA's most attention-grabbing approach.