Chapter 70: The Eve of the Draft (Part II)

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"Hello?"

The phone was quickly answered, and hearing that it was Su Mei's voice, Tang Shuai finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Coach, where are you now?" He asked eagerly.

"I'm at home, what's wrong?" Su Mei's tone was very calm, and she seemed to be doing well.

"That...... I heard you left school? ”

"Well, the coach's job is too tiring, I quit and am ready to change jobs." Su Mei's explanation is simple.

Tang Shuai's heart was inexplicably touched, he knew that Su Mei loved basketball, and it was all his responsibility to leave.

"Don't listen to other people's thoughts, this matter has nothing to do with you." Su Mei heard Tang Shuai's silence, seemed to guess his thoughts, and continued.

"Hmm." Tang Shuai knew that it was useless to say anything at this time, and then asked, "Then what are you going to do next?" ”

"I'm preparing for IELTS and TOEFL, and I'm getting ready to go abroad."

"Going abroad? Ready to go somewhere? Tang Shuai felt inexplicably excited in his heart, if Su Mei came to the United States, then he could at least help in the future.

"It's not decided yet, I'm choosing these days." Su Mei's answer was still very simple, and Tang Shuai only remembered at this time that Su Mei was a relatively indifferent person.

"Well, then you must talk to me when you choose." Tang Shuai didn't explain why, he still hoped that Su Mei would come to the United States.

"Well, if it's going to the United States, I'll definitely come to you." Unexpectedly, Su Mei said by herself.

"Hmm." Tang Shuai responded, I don't know why, at this time, the feeling in his heart is no longer a simple relationship between the coach and the players, he always feels that he owes something, and this debt seems to be more than just a trace of apology.

"Well, you can concentrate on preparing for the draft, and I'm going to concentrate on reading books too." Su Mei said.

Tang Shuai didn't say anything more, he hung up the phone after answering, he knew that with Su Mei's English level, whether it was IELTS or TOEFL, she should have no problem coping with it.

Hanging up Su Mei's phone, he made a few more intermittent calls to other friends, and by the time he was done, it was already early in the morning.

At this point before, he was already sleepy, but today, too many thoughts came to his heart, and he tossed and turned for a while, and he couldn't sleep.

In the general manager's office of the Rockets, Darrell Morey put down the phone in his hand with a gloomy face.

Negotiations with the Trail Blazers eventually collapsed, and for the No. 23 pick in the other side's hands, he has already taken Papanicolau's expiring contract and his own No. 31 draft pick, which is quite a bargaining chip for the Trail Blazers who are already determined to rebuild, but it seems that this chip is not enough in this draft year.

Since watching the video of Tang Shuai and Paul's heads-up, Morey has expressed a very strong desire for Tang Shuai, from the initial downward trade of draft picks to the preparation of the No. 31 pick in his hand to choose directly, but as the draft day approaches, Tang Shuai's pick has risen again and again, and the No. 31 pick in his hand is obviously not enough, but the first-round picks are very tight on each team, and he has failed several attempts.

And just yesterday, he learned from Nahura that the Mavericks' top management is discussing the plan of using the No. 21 pick in the first round to directly select Tang Shuai, although it has not yet been finalized, but this has made him a little unable to sit still.

"Do you really want to use first-round picks?"

Morey said secretly that the Rockets have the No. 18 pick in their hands that is higher than the Mavericks, but in the recent trial, Sam Decker from the prestigious University of Wisconsin performed very well, although his arm span is somewhat lacking, but he is definitely a talented forward, and this signing was originally intended for him.

If Tang Shuai can come to the team for a trial, he will be able to make the most correct judgment through comparison, but let him struggle to speak, Tang Shuai's agent James Duffy is unmoved, and he is determined not to let Tang Shuai participate in the trial.

"Damn the agent!"

Morey cursed, and then dialed the phone number of Raptors general manager Marsee Ujerry, the biggest threat now is from the Mavericks, if he can trade the No. 20 pick in the hands of the Raptors, then even if the Mavericks are ready to go straight to the draft, he can cut it first.

After all, compared to the No. 18 sign, the No. 20 sign is always more appropriate.

It's just that, if it weren't for the necessity, he really didn't want to call Ujerry, in the circle of the general manager, this is the only shrewd general manager who can match him.

The 2014-2015 season finally came to an end after the Golden State Warriors staged a grand championship parade in Golden State, and the Warriors, led by Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, successfully reversed the Cleveland and won the NBA championship after 40 years.

The champions and fans are still in the joy of victory, and the 2015-2016 season has quietly begun.

As the first draft of the season, it has naturally become the focus of major teams.

On June 25, the NBA Draft was just one day away.

In the Mavericks general manager's office, Nelson Jr. frowned and remained silent in the face of the report in his hand.

The content of the report is very simple, he knows from insiders that the Rockets and the Raptors have reached a preliminary agreement, ready to trade the No. 31 pick and veteran Prigioni to get the Raptors' No. 20 pick, although I don't know why the always shrewd Ugeri would agree to such a plan, but years of experience tell him that there must be details that he doesn't know, and Morey, who has always been shrewd, likes to do this kind of smoke bomb the most.

But this rumor had too much impact on his choice, and after several rounds of discussions, the team had confirmed that it would use the No. 21 sign in his hand to directly elect Tang Shuai, but the Rocket's targeted approach made him have to be cautious again.

Tang Shuai performed well in the first trial of the Mavericks, but compared to the two videos after that, it is still a lot inferior, and it is a very intuitive fact that Tang Shuai deliberately retained his strength in the trial, which is not unseen in the player trial.

"There must have been teams with higher picks who gave him the promise of drafting."

Now that the internal competition in the Texas top three is getting fiercer, and after snatching Chandler Parsons from the Rockets, the relationship between the Mavericks and the Rockets has deteriorated dramatically.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally dialed the Bucks, who had the 17th pick, and since the Rockets were so targeted, he didn't mind doing things a little better.