Chapter 277 Jenny's Miscalculation

On June 24th, the Lakers held their championship parade in Los Angeles.

Compared to the championship parade the year before, this year's Lakers parade was all about frugality, saving a lot of unnecessary expenses.

After the death of Old Buss, Jeanie Buss, who had originally wanted to use the support of the "Lakers Old Boys Club" to usurp power, became the most disappointed person on the day of the championship parade.

Because on the day of the championship parade, even "Magic" Johnson, who had always had a good relationship with Jeanie Buss, surrendered to Jim Buss during his speech.

In addition, when it came time for the Lakers management to speak, compared to the infinitely glorious Jim Buss and Kupchak, Jeanie Buss didn't even get applause...

At the time, the Lakers fans were already giving her a lot of face by not booing her.

Lakers fans didn't like Jeanie Buss's connection to Phil Jackson.

Although Jeanie Buss had cut off all contact with Jackson in previous years.

But Lakers fans hadn't forgotten Jackson's evaluation that Kobe couldn't be taught back then.

In addition, in the past two years, as Coach Lue's coaching talent had gradually been revealed, the old story of Jeanie Buss strongly recommending Jackson to take the helm when Su Feng parachuted into Los Angeles was also dug up by the vindictive Lakers fans.

In Su Feng's previous life, the reason why Lakers fans didn't like Jim Buss during this period was mainly because the Lakers' record was too bad at the time.

But now, with the Lakers able to guarantee their performance, Jim Buss's sentimentality towards meritorious players has won him a lot of support instead.

After this championship parade, Jeanie Buss, who was much smarter than Jim Buss, knew...

That in the short term, she probably wouldn't be able to shake Jim Buss's control over this Lakers team.

However...

Jeanie Buss might not believe it if she were told...

That even in another ten years, she wouldn't be able to shake her brother's control over this Lakers team.

Because as the real general manager of this Lakers team...

Su Feng had already made long-term plans for the future of this Lakers team.

After the championship parade, that night, on the Buss family's yacht, the entire Lakers team also attended the championship party organized by Jim Buss.

Unlike those aloof bosses of other teams...

Jim Buss was indeed a bit simple-minded...

But in terms of getting along with the players...

He had indeed received the true inheritance of Old Buss, who used to take "Magic" to find young ladies.

And after partying hard on the yacht for a night, Su Feng and Kobe had just drunkenly returned home arm in arm when they were forced to kneel on washboards by Britney and Vanessa.

"Oh? You're saying that the lipstick stain on your neck is Su's kiss?" Vanessa asked, pointing at Kobe, who was kneeling next to Su Feng.

Kobe: "..."

"Looks like you two had a lot of fun last night!" And aside, looking at Su Feng, who was still trying to argue, Britney pulled him into the room.

Su Feng: "..."

"Were the young ladies on the yacht last night... big?" In the bedroom, looking at Su Feng, Britney asked with a curious expression.

"Big... Ah, spit!

No matter how big, can they be bigger than my wife's?" Looking at Britney, who might draw her knife at any moment, where was Su Feng's drunken state at this moment after wiping the cold sweat from his forehead?

And upon hearing this, after hugging Su Feng's neck, Britney smiled and said, "My chest hurts. Help me massage it."

Su Feng: "..."

Come on!

Honey!

Your husband hasn't slept all night, can't you let me sleep for a while first?

Seeing this, Britney was amused.

Because she knew Su Feng's character very well, Britney hadn't suspected Su Feng from the beginning.

However...

When it was time to knock Su Feng into shape...

In Britney's view, she still had to knock him into shape.

...

In the next few days, let's not talk about Su Feng trembling at the mention of going into the house.

On the 27th, the 2013 NBA Draft was held as scheduled at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Previously, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had won the lottery in the draft lottery, just like in Su Feng's memory, used their first overall pick without hesitation to select Anthony Bennett from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

And with this...

Those players who had been ridiculed as "flop状元" (shuǐhuò zhuàngyuán, bust first overall pick) for not realizing their talent also welcomed their savior.

Admittedly, as a draft year with fewer outstanding players, many of the high-ranking rookies in the 2013 class were busts.

But...

With Bennett at the bottom...

No matter how bust, no flop could compare with Bennett.

Regardless of how Bennett's fans whitewashed him in Su Feng's previous life.

In this year's draft, the fact that the Cavaliers used their first overall pick to select a player who was ignored after playing out his rookie contract in the NBA and who could only score an average of 4.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game in his career...

You could only describe it as "Kennedy riding in a convertible - a wide open mind".

And next, with the second and third picks in the first round...

The Rockets and Magic selected Otto Porter Jr. and Victor Oladipo respectively.

The Rockets' front office, who had also cried in the bathroom because of their wide-open minds in last year's draft, returned this year to the idea of selecting players according to the predictions of draft websites.

Plus earlier during the workouts...

Porter's appearance and performance successfully impressed the Rockets' front office.

So in the Rockets' management's view, after being unlucky for many years...

This year, they were finally going to turn their luck around.

However...

The Rockets' front office might not believe it...

Although Porter did have the potential to become a top 3-and-D player...

But the high-quality lottery tickets in the 2013 draft...

Were basically concentrated between the tenth and fifteenth picks in the first round.

Admittedly, in Su Feng's memory, Oladipo had also been selected to the All-Star team for two consecutive years.

But as the second overall pick in Su Feng's memory, this world's third overall pick... as a high draft pick, Oladipo being able to do these things was nothing to brag about.

At the draft site, after the first, second, and third picks were successively produced, the only thing that surprised the commentators responsible for commentating on the draft was probably the fact that the original first overall pick favorite, Nerlens Noel, had fallen to the sixth pick.

Because of the Oden case, before the draft began, NBA teams had placed a huge question mark on whether Noel, who had a torn meniscus in his left knee, could realize his talent.

And at the scene, Noel's dazed expression when he was selected with the sixth overall pick seemed to express his confusion.

Come on!

How could I, Nerlens Noel, fall to the sixth pick?

At this moment, if you were to ask Noel, who was wearing a Spurs hat, what he wanted to say to the teams that didn't select him...

Then what Noel wanted to say must be:

You all wait for me!

Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river! (idiom, meaning fortunes change)

Don't bully a young man for being poor!

It was just a pity...

That Noel, whose "heart is higher than the sky, but whose life is thinner than paper," was destined not to be able to slap the faces of those teams that missed him.

Because facts would prove in the future...

That in this small-ball era, you could generally understand Noel's type of player as...

Not valued by strong teams.

A tool for weak teams.

NBA general managers weren't fools.

If Noel really had Oden's talent...

Then even if he had a torn meniscus in his left knee before the draft began...

How could other teams not use a higher pick to bet on his talent?

While Noel was still thinking about how he would slap the faces of those who looked down on him in the future...

At the Barclays Center, in the Lakers' forward operations room, Kupchak completed a trade with the Nuggets.

Because before the draft began, the Nuggets' management, which had already planned to start rebuilding, didn't have a favorite target, so facing the Lakers' Little Jordan, the Nuggets simply couldn't refuse.

Although in this world, in the Lakers team, Little Jordan's stats weren't as good-looking as those of the Clippers in Su Feng's memory because he didn't have as much playing time.

But the Nuggets' management was very optimistic about Little Jordan's talent.

Even when this trade was completed, the Nuggets' management once believed that they had robbed the Lakers.

However...

In Su Feng's view, the Lakers were the ones who really made a bloody profit in this trade.

Because with this ninth overall pick in the first round that they got from the Nuggets...

The Lakers selected Steven Adams, whose style of play was more compatible with Su Ke and Lang.

Admittedly, Little Jordan and Adams each had their own advantages and disadvantages at their peak.

But in this Lakers team...

Adams's style was more suitable for Su Ke and Lang.

After all...

When playing with Su Ke and Lang, interior players had to be prepared to give the defensive rebounds to these three.

Little Jordan had excellent athleticism.

But based on Little Jordan's talent alone, if the Lakers wanted to keep him in the future after the salary cap greatly increased, they would have to offer him at least 15 million or more per year.

But what about Adams?

At least for the next four years...

Before his rookie contract ended, the Lakers didn't have to worry about their salary cap at all.

Although Su Feng didn't want to save the Buss family money.

But you had to know that in the NBA, if you maxed out your salary cap early, the price you would have to pay to strengthen the team's lineup in the future would only be higher.

In addition, before, when discussing the future of this Lakers team with Kupchak, the reason why Su Feng didn't recommend Kupchak to renew Whiteside's contract next year was because Su Feng knew that there were many teams in the world willing to offer Whiteside a million-dollar annual salary.

Don't look at "Big White Edge" only handing over an average of "5+4+2" stats in the just-concluded 12/13 season.

But just like how the Blazers were willing to spend a sky-high price to poach Warriors' Ezeli in the future.

In the NBA, when poaching these players who were strengthened by strong teams, others wouldn't just look at his stats.

If nothing unexpected happened, the Lakers would definitely use their first-round pick to select Jokic next year.

Therefore, with Jokic and Adams as the premise, Su Feng believed that the most correct decision for the Lakers was to let Whiteside go next summer.

And at the draft site...

After the Lakers used the draft pick they got from the Nuggets to take Adams, next, what surprised Su Feng more was that the Clippers selected CJ McCollum from Lehigh University after trading up for a draft pick.

It had to be said.

After Baylor left office...

The Clippers' front office was simply deliberately trying to block Baylor!

Because as one of the few treasure players in the 13th draft...

Having already owned Lillard...

The Clippers, who selected McCollum, were just a replica of the "Trail Blazers" in Su Feng's memory.

There was no doubt.

Next, as long as Sterling was shot three times in the back...

This Clippers team would usher in their moment of rebirth.

And immediately after, another choice that surprised Su Feng more was...

Because Kidd was very optimistic about Giannis Antetokounmpo from Greece during the workouts...

So after decisively trading up for a draft pick, the Nets selected this long-armed and long-legged monster from Greece with the fourteenth pick in the first round.

Well!

Paul, Griffin, Howard plus Antetokounmpo...

To be honest, if it wasn't because he was already numb to the Warriors' lineup in this world...

Once Alphabet Brother could grow up under Kidd's training...

Would you dare say that this Nets team wasn't the foundation of a dynasty team?

However, what was interesting was that when wearing a Nets hat and accepting interviews from American media, Alphabet Brother, who didn't have a high EQ, asked the American media a question that drove them crazy with a curious expression.

"Nets coach Jason Kidd is very optimistic about me?

Sorry, this is the first time I've heard this name, is he very powerful?"

In Su Feng's previous life, in the 14/15 season, after the Bucks' coach was changed to Kidd, Antetokounmpo had also asked a similar question when accepting interviews at the time.

However, not only did Kidd not make things difficult for him afterward, but he also gave him more ball rights and gradually guided him onto the right track.

However, from this question, you could still easily see...

That Alphabet Brother...

Was lacking "德" (dé, virtue).

Because Greece wasn't some remote village...

How could Antetokounmpo not know Kidd's name?

Look, didn't he...

Not long after shocking the American reporters at the scene with the sentence "I don't know who Kidd is," Antetokounmpo then asked the reporters at the scene another question that drove them crazy.

"I just heard you all talking about Su...

I'm very curious, is he very powerful?"

Reporters: "..."

Good fellow!

Not knowing Kidd was fine!

Kid!

Are you really pretending to be stupid, or are you deliberately making things difficult for us?

Do you know what you would be like if we wrote your questions out truthfully...

You would be torn apart by those countless Fengmi (Su Feng fans)?

Okay...

Probably there was no need for the reporters to convey it.

Because in Su Feng's villa, Kobe immediately conveyed to Su Feng the disrespect that Antetokounmpo had committed against him in his interview.

"How should I put it, next season when playing the Nets, do you need me to pass you all the balls?" Looking at Su Feng, who knew that this guy was vindictive, Kobe asked with a curious expression.

"Am I such a petty person?

And what if he really doesn't know who I am?" After shrugging, Su Feng smiled.

Looking at Su Feng.

At this moment, Kobe, who knew Su Feng inside and out, knew...

That next season, this Alphabet Brother kid would definitely be in for a lot of trouble.

Because Kobe knew very well that when Su Feng said he wasn't angry.

That was often when he was the angriest.

"I'm very worried...

That this kid, when facing you next season...

Will be beaten into autism by you." After pondering for two seconds, looking at Su Feng, Kobe said.

And upon hearing this, Su Feng smiled and said...

"Autism?

Don't worry, I won't give him a chance to become autistic!"

...

ps: Well, Qiao's physique is indeed 1, and the tendency to get injured is indeed 20. Today, due to gastric reflux, I suffered for another day =. =, oh my, it's almost the New Year, can I ever get better?