‘This medal is very good. It doesn’t require any conditions. It’s too difficult to improve a technology after rating of 95. A little bit of improvement is good…’

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"We will retire Michael's No. 23 jersey in the opening game next season. If he still wants to continue playing, then we will retire the jersey time..."

In an interview, Supersonics owner Howard Schultz clearly mentioned the No. 23 jersey that was about to retire Jordan.

Heat general manager Pat Riley went abroad strongly, calling on all teams in the league to retire the No. 23 jersey, pay tribute to Jordan, and took the lead in announcing the time to retire the Heat version of Jordan's No. 23 jersey.

No tribute, no other team can control it, and no one responded to Pat Riley.

Jordan retired, and the bodies of major NBA champion-level teams were shocked!

Although Jordan is not as good as the 99-00 season and 00-01 season, even if Jordan only averages 15+ points per game in the playoffs next season, it is very uncomfortable for other teams.

Jordan only has 1.03 million, Ben Wallace's middle class...

Jordan, Ben Wallace, and Cassel, the bonus of these three low-paying players was so good at the Supersonics' two consecutive championships.

Finally, Kassel's three-year contract expired and his salary would inevitably increase, but Ben Wallace actually executed the player option of a middle-class contract.

Ben Wallace and Jordan's combined salary is more than US$6 million, which is too much.

Now that Jordan has retired, the Supersonics' strongest player on the back line has retired. The Supersonics have lost not only an experienced veteran superstar, but also the most valuable contract in the league.

Now, except for the rookie contract, the Supersonics are only one cheap contract left by Ben Wallace, and other teams feel much better.

This made all teams more restless!

The probability of other top teams winning the championship next season is even greater!

In addition to top teams with goals for winning the championship, other teams also have their own goals.

For example, the Hornets, who will move to New Orleans next season, are also actively strengthening after the Finals, in order to make the playoffs in the first year of moving to the new city.

Not every team's goal is to win the championship. The team with the core lineup of Damon Stoudemire, Bathir, Brand, and Gasol like the Grizzlies is to make it to the playoffs. As long as you can make it to the playoffs, it is a successful reconstruction.

For the Heat, Mo Ning will be absent next season. Even if he is not absent, the Heat will give up struggling and choose to play badly, selling high-quality role players that they have accumulated for many years.

There is another special one, such as the 76ers. The star of the company is at its peak, but the lineup is aging and there are many middle-class people in the long term... But they actually found a takeover!

On June 23, the 76ers reached a deal with the Hornets. The 76ers sent George Lynch plus a second round pick, and got a trading exception worth $5.6 million from the Hornets.

The Hornets relied on the space and received a second round pick, which ended the 2006 contract, and was about to turn 32 years old. George Lynch, who had already experienced a significant decline!

In the opinion of experts, this deal is quite fantastic and is definitely a good deal.

But the magical thing is that the Hornets are not losing money. The Hornets originally had a lot of room. In the just-concluded season, the Hornets' highest-paid players were PJ Brown and Marshburn, both of which were more than 6 million yuan, with a total salary of over 30 million US dollars.

For the Hornets, even if George Lynch is old and slow, he is still a veteran who has experience in winning championships in both teams.

George Lynch is getting more and more pitiful, but this is true for the 76ers.

Championship-level teams always have higher requirements for players...

For the Supersonics team, Zhang Hao took a few days off after winning the championship parade. On June 24, he re-entered his work status, started training on the training card, and communicated with the management and coaching team about what happened next...

On June 26, the day before the draft, the Supersonics officially announced that they would sign a four-year, rookie contract with Argentine defender Manu Ginobili to 6.22 million US dollars.

This incident has attracted some attention, after all, it is a new player to the team with two consecutive championships.

In the 99th class, he is about to be 25 years old, South American defender led his team to win the Italian League championship, Cup championship, and Europa League championship in the 200-01 season, becoming another triple-champion champion after Sabonis...

Apart from this, the media can't find any news about Ginobili.

Sometimes it is difficult to judge whether European players enter the NBA. They play very well in Europe like Gasol, and they play very well in the NBA.

There are also people who play in the Bundesliga in the low-level European league, but they can play better in the NBA.

But there are also some who are stars in Europe and can only guard water dispensers when they go to the NBA.

If you change a team to sign an older rookie like Ginobili, no newspaper will report it, that is, it is because the Supersonics who signed Ginobili.

Time flies, and June 27th, and the day of the draft has arrived.

The draft will begin at 8 pm.

Instead of choosing the talented high school student Amare Stoudemire, who is increasingly calling for the No. 1 pick, the Rockets made the same choice as they did two years ago - choosing the best performer in college, and in 2000, Stromare Swift.

Kobe, Battier, Brand, Margety... and others' junior brother, Jay Williams became the No. 1 pick this year.

This is not surprising. The Rockets have long said that they do not want to choose Stodmeier, who is basically consistent with Stromayer Swift's style of play.

Not only is the Rockets tending to be conservative, but although the call for "draft talent" is getting higher and higher, and it will inevitably develop in this regard, there are still some teams who choose to be conservative in a short period of time.

The Warriors selected Mike Dunleavy, the son of famous coach Mike Dunleavy, in the second pick.

This year's NCAA has three most shining stars, one is Yao Ming, who stayed in school for a year, the other is Jay Williams, the last one is the technical tycoon Mike Dunleavy, who was selected by the Rockets.

The Pistons, who are third in the pick, pick up what others have left, and the two strongest players in college have been selected, so choose the most talented one, and Amare Stoudemire was won by the Pistons.

The Nuggets, with the fourth pick, won Georgia's Nick Loz Sgotishvili, and the fifth pick, with the Wizards, with the fifth pick, chose power forward Jared Jeffries.

The sixth pick is the Hawks' draft pick, which belongs to the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers chose Memphis University star point guard Dajuan Wagner.

The Cavaliers are now quite optimistic and have become a team favored by some superstars - they have excellent salary space, strong lineup, and have already made it to the playoffs... The broken ground in Cleveland is even worse than Detroit, making many stars want to go but dare not.

In the seventh pick, the Knicks chose Nene Hillaryo according to the needs of the trading partner and then sent him to the Nuggets.

In the eighth pick, the Magic chose athletic power forward Chris Wilcox, and combined with Kwame Brown, both of them were black and hard.

In the ninth pick, the Heat selected Caron Butler of the University of Connecticut.

In the tenth pick, the Grizzlies quickly won Drew Gooden, who was first regarded as the top five pick.

In the 11th pick, the Spurs chose Melvin Eli of North Carolina.

With the 12th pick, the Celtics traded the draft pick to the Wizards, who selected this year's NCAA Final Four MOP Juan Dickson.

In the last pick in the lottery, the Jazz selected Notre Dame's Ryan Humphrey...

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When the talent show was underway, Zhang Hao was watching the live broadcast.

‘There has changed a lot from the draft in my impression, but there are still some things to see, such as what type of players a team traditionally likes, there are more radicals and more conservatives…’

At this year's draft, when Zhang Hao looked at the list of candidates before, he felt that he should not be as good as last year's rookies.

The 2000th class was too down. The 2001 media were conservative, but the 2001 class was launched. This year, the media began to brag again.

The Rockets won the top two picks twice in three years, selecting Stromayer Swift and Jay Williams respectively... Zhang Hao rarely liked the Rockets.

After the lottery area, Zhang Hao had a casual chat with the little loli.

"Lelin, are you losing weight again? You have lost weight enough, so you don't have to lose weight."

"Lelin is 95 pounds!"

"95 pounds is great. I remember reading the survey report where I read the average weight of girls in the first grade of junior high school is 100 pounds, and you are much thinner than them."

"Brother, don't you know that Americans are fat? Lelin shouldn't be fat girls."

"Okay, fine, reduce..."

The two chatted, and when they reached the 24th pick in the first round, the Supersonics did not exchange the Nets in the first round, and the Nets selected Serbian center Nenad Kostic at the 24th pick.

The Kostic contract, currently playing for the CSKA Moscow, expired in 2004, with a penalty of approximately $7.4 million, which means that the Nets can only wait until 2004 if they want to sign him.

Soon, we reached the 26th pick in the first round.

David Stern came to the stage again and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the 2002 NBA Draft, the Seattle Supersonics chose... UCLA senior, Matt Barnes!"

Barnes won successfully. At the earliest, Barnes had expectations for the second half of the first round, but had a hot temper. He was suspended for five games in three fights in his senior year... Draft expectations were declining all the way.

The little loli looked at the suit on the TV screen but didn't wear a single piece, and her T-shirt showed her two big flower arms... and she looked worried.

"Brother, why is our team less and less like playing basketball?"

"Lelin, it's not good to judge people by their appearance!"

"It seems that you don't judge people by your appearance. If Lelin gets fat, Lelin will probably drive Lelin home, brother!"

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The Supersonics team's goals were basically completed in the draft.

At the end of the first round of the 2002nd, there are only a few that can be chosen.

The inside line is first ruled out. Of course, if Scola can be selected at the 27th pick in the second round, of course, you have to choose it. It’s good to keep it aside.

But Scola was selected by the Spurs at the 11th pick in the second round.

In the first round pick, the two targets, Matt Barnes and Boozer, based on the principle of first excluding the inside, chose Matt Barnes to defend the defender.

The Supersonics already have Zhang Hao, Ben Wallace, and Chandler. If you come to the rookie inside again, isn’t that a joke?

It is impossible to give a rookie only a few minutes of playing time and make contributions when he wants the opponent to play. He will take up a position after he is selected, which hinders the signing.

It's also a bad luck for the player.
To be continued...