Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 419 - 139: When the Noise Dies Down (6000-word - , pleading for subscriptions and monthly votes!)_3
Instead, as a draft year of significant talent...
What assets do the Warriors have to trade up for a first-round draft pick?
Unless the Warriors offer quality backups like Jack and Barnes.
Otherwise, it’s really hard for Mulin to persuade the general managers of other teams with just cash.
Moreover, if the Warriors use a higher first-round pick to select Little Gasol, they must also take on risks.
Because just as in Qin Yue’s memory, Little Gasol can’t immediately join the NBA.
In this regard, after figuring it out, Qin Yue chose not to make things difficult for Mulin.
After all...
For the Warriors to use the 30th pick in the first round to choose Little Gasol, who is ranked early in the second round in mock drafts, is already an insightful move.
If the Lakers really use a higher first-round pick to select Little Gasol at the draft, then the Warriors can only accept it.
Qin Yue knows that after winning two consecutive championships, the Warriors have now become the target of everyone.
Additionally, considering that Murphy is still in his career peak...
The Warriors, who just need a rotation player to share playing time with him, are unlikely to dismantle their current championship roster for a player who can’t immediately join the NBA.
Qin Yue vaguely remembers that at the peak of his career, McRoberts was a quality role player who could get a mid-level contract just by facilitating.
So, as long as they can pick either Little Gasol or McRoberts, the Warriors would be considered successful in the draft.
This summer, since there are no national team duties, Qin Yue will focus his training on coaching Kwame Brown.
Qin Yue plans to restart the "Divine Selection Training Camp" after the holidays.
At that time...
Besides Brown, Qin Yue also plans to send invitations to Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue, who will participate in the draft this year.
Although Qin Yue is not preparing to give Sun Wukong any special privileges, but considering his intention to completely destroy the United States basketball redemption dream at home in 2008...
Therefore, the special training for Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue, in Qin Yue’s eyes, must be scheduled as soon as possible.
Qin Yue doesn’t know which NBA team will select Ah Lian in this life.
But it must be clarified...
No matter how unreliable Yi Jianlian’s agent Dan Feigen may be, during the trials, having Ah Lian use a chair for non-contact demonstrations was by no means the "pitfall" that marketing accounts later described.
Because given Yi Jianlian’s physical confrontation ability at that time, if he encountered too strong opposition during trials, it would instead reveal his core playing style from the CBA.
As early as last summer, Qin Yue had already assessed Yi Jianlian’s confrontation ability.
In short, Ah Lian’s potential is undeniable.
But often...
People really underestimate that Yao Ming being able to become a super center in the NBA was because he possessed the physical talent to endure the fierce confrontations in the NBA.
In Qin Yue’s previous life, during Yi Jianlian’s time with the Nets, he wasn’t without strong support from the team.
However, to survive in the NBA...
Yi Jianlian must correct many of his bad habits and accept being positioned as a defensive-oriented stretch four.
In Qin Yue’s view, Yi Jianlian’s talent absolutely does not support the possibility of him continuing to showcase his core playing style in the NBA.
Because in the talent-filled NBA...
To be a core, your talent must be Superman among Supermen.
...
On the 23rd.
The Warriors held a grand championship parade.
This year’s championship parade route was basically the same as last year’s.
The fans, interacting closely with the players, spent an incredibly joyful day with their heroes.
In the enthusiastic cheers of the fans, the championship players of the Warriors received the most beautiful reward. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Led by Mulin and Rovai, the Warriors’ management team was widely praised among fans for their perfect team-building at the time.
Except for the team’s owner Chris Cohan, who never gained the fans’ trust.
On the day of the championship parade, Cohan couldn’t understand why, despite putting money into the Warriors, he was so unpopular with the fans?
"It’s clearly my team!"
In the NBA, Lakers owner Jerry Buss once had a famous saying.
"As team owners who make profits while wearing suits, you can’t expect everyone to like you while making money.
Whether fans recognize me or not is not important, as long as the Lakers can make me money, I am the most successful owner in the NBA."
Clearly, Warriors owner Cohan did not live as insightfully as Old Buss.
And this made Cohan decide in his heart.
He planned to sell the team once its market value increased further.
Since even back-to-back championships couldn’t gain him fans’ recognition, why should he continue owning the team sentimentally?
On the night of the championship parade, the team held another party at Qin Yue’s luxury home in the East Bay.
At the party, Baron Davis, looking worried, approached Qin Yue.
"You mean, after winning the championship, your agent talked to the team management about renewal, but their response left you unsatisfied?" Looking at Davis, who seemed unstoppable in this year’s playoffs, Qin Yue curiously asked: "Barang, could you first tell me what kind of contract, in your eyes, would be considered a decent retirement contract?"
Davis expressed his feelings to Qin Yue: "These two championships have made me fall in love with this city, and I want to dedicate the rest of my career here. But now, they aren’t even willing to give me a retirement contract with a starting salary of 9 million US dollars."
A starting salary of 9 million US dollars?
Qin Yue could see that Davis indeed had thoughts of ending his career with the Warriors.
