As a rule, every time the NBA president announces the results of the draft, the line is always: "With the X pick, XX team selected XX player!"

However, during this year's draft, Xiao Hua, on behalf of the NBA, selected rookie Isiah Austin, who retired from basketball due to a serious illness.

Before the start of this year's NBA draft, Baylor University's "rookie with prosthetic eyes" Isiah Austin was suddenly revealed to be suffering from "Marfan syndrome", and his basketball career was ended, which is regrettable.

After learning the news, the NBA responded quickly. Xiao Hua publicly invited Austin to the draft.

However, what most people did not expect was that the new NBA president would welcome Austin into the NBA family in such a very special way during the draft.

Isiah Austin said excitedly in an interview: "When God closes one door, he opens another door, and I will have a dream again."

Xiao Hua's move affected everyone at the draft. Everyone stood up and applauded the president and Austin.

Regardless of whether Xiao Hua did this for show or not, Zhou Si thinks this behavior is worthy of praise!

Dreams are always priceless!

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After the draft is over, the free agent market is coming.

Rumors have been rife throughout the media world these past two days!

Will Wade jump out of his contract and sign with the Heat for 4 years and 50 million? Will James stay in Miami?

Anthony will terminate his contract early and become a free agent. Next club: Heat, Bulls or Rockets?

Kevin Love joins the Warriors in a three-way trade? Two NBA executives think Love will eventually go to the Lakers?

ESPN: Mavericks want to pursue Pau Gasol?

TNT: The Cavaliers send Batum to make room for James to return home?

Spurs pursue Monroe, next cornerstone?

Zhou Si was training after returning to Portland. He was not idle while eating, discussing the next operations in the free market with General Manager Orsi and Coach Stotts.

In the past two days, Orsi has contacted all the players on the team, and none of the players with contracts have any intention of leaving, which surprised Zhou Si.

Do they think so highly of me?

In any case, Zhou Si is still happy to accept this situation. After all, it is very troublesome to get familiar with his teammates and tactics after the transaction, and to recognize his face.

Neither Ye Ze nor Meyers Leonard have any opinions on exercising the team option.

The two of them still have a pretty good idea of ​​where they stand.

He also expressed his understanding for Nolan Smith who declined the team option. After all, with Billups here, even if he renewed his contract, he would still be the water cooler keeper.

In terms of players whose contracts expired, Billups and Courtney Lee chose to re-sign without thinking. They are very comfortable in the Trail Blazers and have great success in life.

Casspi thought for a while and agreed, but Miles was the only one who chose to refuse.

It's not because he has any grudge against Zhou Si, but because the Pistons offered him a high price. As a low-level player in the NBA, he can't say no to money.

The situation is now relatively clear.

Point guard: Lillard, Billups;

Points: Matthews, Courtney Lee, Ye Ze;

Small forward: Zhou Si, Casspi;

Power forward: Millsap;

Center: McGee, Leonard, Jokic;

The No. 2 and No. 5 positions are already full, but the No. 4 position is extremely lacking. Based on the suggestions given by Zhou Si, Orsi set his sights on the No. 4, No. 1 and No. 3 positions.

What Zhou Si means at the fourth position is that it is best to find someone who can shoot three-pointers, so that he can open up space for him when playing small ball tactics.

We need to find a strong defensive player back at the first position so that he doesn't have to defend Curry.

Coupled with Courtney Lee and himself, the Warriors are not afraid even if they play McCollum!

At the third position, Zhou Si means to find an attacker. The team's breakthrough ability besides Lillard and himself is also very worrying.

Zhou Si can break through, but having teammates cut into Zhou Si can also save some energy.

Orsi wrote down Zhou Si's request in his notebook and agreed wholeheartedly. Didn't you see Coach Stotts nodding his head?

Zhou’s decision is definitely the right one!

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In addition, Zhou Si also discussed with coach Stotts to determine the areas where each player should pay attention to improvement.

In Zhou Si's view, they are a team. He doesn't care what happened in the past. They will work hard together in the next season.

During this playoffs, Zhou Si deeply felt that basketball is a game of five people. A team only needs two or three people to be able to do everything. Others can make the difference as long as they do their own specific jobs.

For example, against the Spurs, Zhou Si can always play alone, without the need for other teammates to dribble. They only need to make three-pointers after receiving the ball.

He will definitely still be in charge in the new season, and with his support, Lillard will be the most lethal weapon.

Therefore, after Zhou Si communicated with coach Stotts, he felt that Lillard did not need to spend too much time on support and breakthroughs, and the right way was to think about how to improve the three-point shooting rate.

You can practice three-pointers hard by yourself, or you can learn to move, use screens, and fake moves. Zhou Si doesn't care how to do it, just let Coach Stotts inform you.

Billups? This old man doesn't need any advice. He just needs to maintain his physical strength.

Matthews’ task is to lose weight and practice more catching and shooting three-pointers;

Courtney Lee is practicing defense and shooting three-pointers;

Casspi practiced catching and shooting three-pointers;

Millsap, practicing low post and face-up offense;

Leonard, practice defense and spot-up three-pointers.

As for the remaining McGee, Jokic and Ye Ze, Zhou Si plans to take them to practice together.

Needless to say, Ye Ze has been practicing together before. Jokic wants to control his diet and make him lose weight as soon as possible. As for McGee?

As the highest paid player in the team, he must work extra hard to come back!

The training content Zhou Si arranged for him was very simple, defense and pie-eating.

It would be unrealistic for a player like McGee, who relies on instinct to play the game, to allow him to practice techniques that are too difficult...

On July 1, the NBA free agent market officially opens!

The first thing that came out was the news that Randolph renewed his contract with the Grizzlies for 20 million for two years. It seems that the Bear is extremely popular in Memphis and is determined to stay here for the rest of his life. I have to say that this is a good destination for him.

Then the Celtics and Hayward reached a four-year, $63 million max-salary contract, and the Jazz had three days to consider whether to match it;

If Wiggins was not selected, the Jazz would still choose to match. Now that Wiggins is there, Zhou Si estimates that Hayward will join the Celtics earlier.

There is also an agreement between the Bucks and the Nets. The Bucks will send second-round picks in 2015 and 2019, and Jason Kidd will go to Milwaukee to coach.

With Antetokounmpo and Jabari Parker, the old Kidd should have a good life!

Duncan stayed with the Spurs for $10.4 million in one year, Stoudemire stayed with the Knicks for $23.4 million in one year, Gay stayed with the Kings for $19.3 million in one year, and Gortat stayed with the Wizards for $60 million in five years.

Some are for fame, some are for money, and so on.

Different from previous years when the door to the free agent market opened, it was surprisingly calm this year because everyone was waiting for that man's decision!

The storm is coming!
Chapter completed!