Legendary Basketball Tycoon

The 1997 draft was held in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Time: 1997.6.25

Location: Charlotte Arena

Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina in the southeastern part of the United States. It is 525 kilometers north of the capital Washington, and 370 kilometers south of Atlanta, the capital of Georgia. It has a mild and humid climate with four distinct seasons. The annual average temperature is 12°C. The city has lush trees and green grass Ruyin enjoys the reputation of "Green City".

And Charlotte's sports are also quite good, especially the basketball department of regional universities, which is definitely the number one state in the United States.

The universities in Charlotte, North Carolina include the University of North Carolina among the public universities. It was established in 1795 and is the oldest state university in the United States. In addition, Duke University and the current private university Wake Forest University where the No. 1 pick and popular rookie Tim Duncan is located.

So this is one of the reasons why this draft is quite interesting. Tim Duncan is Charlotte's own. Charlotte fans don't care who cares!

The 1997 draft will be held here, which also makes it the focus of the United States for a short time.

Of course, in this year’s draft, apart from whether Tim Duncan can become the No. 1 pick and the final winner, there is nothing to behold. Why? No one, because this year is a young draft year and is considered by most experts to be nearly ten. In the worst year in the past, there are few outstanding rookies. It’s not like Iverson Kobe’s appearance of a group of superstars headed by Iverson and Kobe last year. It also provided a large number of core players for the league. Known as the Golden Generation, it also deserves its name. There are not many rookies who can be ranked among all-star college all-stars this year.

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In fact, Bruce had communicated well before the start of the draft, and even informed the Hans general manager Mitch Kupchak, who is still in office, of the rookie list to be traded with the Raptors.

So this time the Han Chinese general manager Mitch Kupchak came to the draft to participate in the draft is particularly relaxed, because as the boss Bruce has done all his homework, and even the grandma who sent O’Neal can handle the rest.

Mickey Kupchak has also participated in many drafts. He has been familiar with the road for a long time. He easily talked and laughed with the management of various teams. Then he walked into the draft box belonging to the Han people and waited for one. The draft is about to begin.

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Time is still running away unconsciously, and the draft is about to begin.

Stern attracted everyone's attention as soon as he appeared, but at the moment he first shook hands and blessed the rookies in the small green house.

The players who enter the draft green house are generally voted by the general manager of the NBA team, and ultimately the vice president of the league decides based on the selection intentions of the teams holding the high-ranking picks before the draft meeting controlled by the league.

This is Wang Zhizhi’s removal of the roster before the draft. Otherwise, there is definitely a place for him in this small green room. Just kidding, Wang Zhizhi is another Chinese player who signed up after Song Tao, let alone others. Wang Zhizhi's performance in the NCAA is quite satisfactory, even if it is very poor, Bruce believes that Stern will allow Wang Zhizhi to enter the small green room in order to increase the influence of the NBA in China. This is completely allowed by the "rules".

Starting from the Toronto Raptors joining the league this year, the current lottery area has been postponed from the top 13 picks, that is, the current lottery picks have 14 positions. The league now includes the New York Hans who entered in 1992 and The Toronto Raptors entered this year, with a total of 29 teams, 14 lottery picks are almost the same, just wait for the new century to see if there are other changes, whether to form another team to become 30 or what? Anyway, the current lottery lottery has one more position, which makes the future lottery lottery not as easy to get as before, and it won't work without paying more.

At the end of the greeting, Stern also calmly walked back to the podium, saying what he said repeatedly every year, still a familiar show, or a familiar boo, and the 1997 draft conference officially began.

Stern slowly opened the envelope on the stage, glanced at the rookie name written by the Spurs, his eyes lit up, and he said word by word: "I announce that the San Antonio Spurs have chosen the first pick from Victoria in the first round. Tim Duncan of Kerlin University!"

When Tim Duncan's name was pronounced by Stern, there was enthusiastic applause.

The son of the Chosen, he deserves it. These eight words are absolutely all the praise to Tim Duncan. This means that James has not appeared yet, so Tim Duncan laughed at the title of the "son of the Chosen" in advance.

Stern is also quite satisfied. In fact, as long as the Celtics can't choose Tim Duncan, he will even be happy to get Tim Duncan at a huge price. The reason is very simple. The main reason is that the Celtics have disgusted him in the past few years. As a wealthy family, he doesn't even have the most basic face. In order to get Tim Duncan, let's see what it is like.

As one of the presidents of the four major leagues, doesn't Stern need to lose face? The desolation of the Celtics is not only the face of the league, but also the face of him.

For this reason Stern completely "deliberately" let the Celtics get a lottery, even if he finally scolded "Cardinal" Auerbach, the main thing is that he is "cool"!

It is definitely a "bad anger" to be able to **** off the Celtics management!

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With the warm applause at the scene, Tim Duncan stood up happily and hugged his family together.

At this moment, Tim Duncan not only completed his "exhortation" to his mother, but also appeared in front of all Americans as the No. 1 pick in the NBA. This is definitely the peak of his life.

Stepping onto the stage, Tim Duncan shook hands with Stern on stage after he took the Spurs cap on his head.

Even the Spurs management under the stage are very excited, and they are not excited to get the "child of heaven", so what is the excitement? !

So Popovich, who is the team's general manager and head coach, immediately went to the stage to wait, and waited for a while to "talk and laugh" with Tim Duncan!

Seeing Tim Duncan and Popovich "you and mine", Auerbach stomped angrily in the box in the distance.

At this moment, Auerbach’s thoughts are: Tim Duncan should belong to the Celtics, **** Greg, **** David, it’s not for the two of you to have trouble with it, Tim Duncan is already Celtic’s. What's in the bag.