NBA Draft is that every team has the opportunity to obtain a player who can improve the team's strength or even the cornerstone level in the future at a relatively small cost, provided that the vision must be accurate and the shot must be ruthless.
During that crazy night, there were not only the hottest lottery candidates waiting in the small green room for the president of the league to name their names, but also a night of frequent transactions-the general managers of the teams were fighting and fighting together. Lian Heng achieved his goal through a single transaction, that is, to improve his combat power or focus on the future and obtain a potential core for team building.
Next, let this article briefly review the operations of the five dark positions in the history of NBA draft night. Afterwards, we can see that through such a magical operation, the development process of the league has been directly changed.
Celtics got Parrish and McHale in the 1980 NBA Draft. In 2017, Angie used the No. 1 pick and the 76ers to trade down to get the pick of the year and a future first-round pick. Look at this deal now. It is perfect, the team won one of the double-exploration "Mamba Heir" Tatum, while Fultz, who was selected by the 76ers with the No. 1 pick, has long gone to Orlando. At that time, Angie had long targeted Tatum in the draft, but felt that using the No. 1 lottery was too wasteful to get the deal mentioned above to maximize the value of the No. 1 lottery. However, this is not the first time in Celtic history that this has been done. Cardinal Auerbach has already set a precedent and created a dynasty.
In the 1980 NBA Draft, the Celtics also held the No. 1 pick, and there was also a No. 13 pick in the first round. At that time, Auerbach thought after thinking about it, it would be a horrible thing to choose McHale with the No. 1 pick, after all, other teams looked down on the thin and weak refrigerators. So he turned his gaze to the Golden State Warriors who was holding a lottery.
then hit it off, the Greens packed the first round pick to get Robert Parrish and the third pick from the Warriors, and took away Kevin McHale in the third overall pick. Everyone knows the rest of the story. The Celtics got one of the best frontcourt combinations in history they dreamed of. They surrounded Larry Bird and won three championships in the 1980s. The Celtics in 1986 may be the strongest team in history. McHale was also successfully selected into the Nai-Smith Hall of Fame.
As a comparison, the Golden State Warriors selected Joe Barry Carroll with the No. 1 pick. The center has a career average of 17.7 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. He was selected as a center once but is far from great. The Utah Jazz used the second pick to select Darrell Griffith, the season's best rookie candidate, but that's it. He has never been selected to an All-Star in his career. There is no harm if there is no comparison. The cardinal's operation was originally magical, and under the background of his peers, it was even more prominent as a choice after opening his eyes.
The Mavericks were traded for Nowitzki in the 1998 NBA Draft.
In the 1998 NBA Draft, the Dallas people, also called the Mavericks at the time, used their sixth pick to obtain the nickname "Tractor" Robert Treller, which was immediately used. He traded their No. 9 pick Nowitzki and No. 18 pick Pat Garrity from the Milwaukee Bucks. Then he used Garrity to trade Steve Nash from the Suns.
Although it seemed at the time, it was a very risky move to choose a thin and tall 19-year-old who played in the German secondary league. In contrast, Trelle, who has long been famous, is a more secure choice. However, the latter did not bring much revenue to the Bucks. Treler moved too slowly on the court, which caused him not to get a lot of playing time. The best season was only 5.5 points per game. 4.5 rebounds, late in his career and even suffered from the dual problems of weight and heart problems for a long time.
In contrast, Nowitzki played in Dallas for 21 years, reached the playoffs 15 times in his career, and successfully led the team to win the first championship trophy in team history in 2011. He himself was also awarded the FMVP. Although Tyson Chandler, Jason Kidd and Jason Terry also played important roles, the outside world generally believes that the championship is the purest example of a single-core win, which also makes that championship. The sharp increase in gold content has become a miracle that will be difficult to replicate in the future.
Nowitzki is also the only 7 who has won the regular season MVP and scored more than 3000 points in his career.One of the players with the 0 mark and the only international player who can complete this achievement. You must know that Nash was also acquired in this trade. Although the son of the wind eventually left Dallas, from the perspective of Zhuge Liang, if he can stay, how high will he take the team with Nowitzki. ?
The Celtics drafted Bird in the 1978 draft and waited for him for a year. Originally Auerbach had persuaded Bird to give up his final year of college and enter the NBA early. In the end, he decided to return to Indiana State University to fight for another year, and eventually lost to Michigan State University led by "Magic" Johnson in the final that year, and missed the NCAA championship. This is so, Bird still created the pinnacle of this small team with only 3100 seats at home.
So how did the Cardinals get Bird, who has been coveted by all teams, with only the sixth pick? I have to mention a rule that was abolished because Bird was later-Junior Eligible. In short, Bird, who was frightened by the size of the school due to his autism in 1974, dropped out of Indiana University and Northwood University twice. As a result, even when he was in his junior year, the Junior Eligible rule was triggered four years after he graduated from high school.
So, Auerbach just talked to himself and used the sixth pick to select Bird, who had originally announced not to run. In fact, this is a loophole where the cardinal has taken advantage of the rules. Originally, this clause applies to young players who have not been able to enter college after graduating from high school, but have emerged in the amateur league. They have graduated from high school for 4 years and have reached the age of 22. As a result, he became the "accomplice" of Auerbach's "Big Bird" interception a year earlier. Although the head coaches and general managers of the other teams were quite dissatisfied with this, due to the prestige of the cardinals, they had to swallow their anger and dare not speak.
The Celtics selected Bird in advance and waited patiently for a year of his operation to have a profound impact on the league at the time. First of all, the league abolished the rule of Junior Eligible; Bird was elected as the best rookie when he landed in the league. In the following years, they won the regular season MVP trophy three times and won the FMVP title twice; as for the Celtics, they reversed the decline of the 70s in one fell swoop after getting Bird, and played three times in his 13 years. Won the championship laurel, and another giant lake created a rivalry, black and white battle for hegemony in the 1980s.
The Lakers were traded for Kobe in the 1996 NBA Draft.
At the age of 17, the immature Kobe stood as if after knocking on the door of the NBA—the Charlotte Hornets drafted him at the 13th overall pick. He sent to Los Angeles and got the then All-Star center Divac from the Lakers. The latter averaged 13 points and 9 rebounds per game during his seven years with the Lakers, making him the fifth position of the veteran star.
This is not over yet. In order to right Kobe so that he can get more playing time and shot rights, the Lakers sent away Eddie Jones afterwards, which is why people always jokingly called to get and train Kobe, and the Los Angelesers paid The price of two All-Stars. But all of this is obviously worth it. Divac's departure was perfectly filled by the "big shark" O'Neal who was Journey to the West. He and Kobe completed the three consecutive championships that a dynasty-level team could only achieve in the following eight years.
Kobe is one of the best players in the history of the Lakers and even the entire history of the NBA. He has dedicated his 20-year career to the city of Los Angeles, leaving a moving story of one person, one city. During this period, Black Mamba won 5 championship trophies, was elected FMVP twice, won the most valuable player of the regular season once, and countless other honors.
In his curtain call, facing the Jazz that made his rookie career debut in the playoffs quite embarrassing, Kobe scored an unprecedented 60 points, leaving behind an unattainable back. , With a rather chic "Mamba Out" to draw a perfect end to an extremely splendid career.
The Celtics were traded for Russell in the 1956 Draft.
. It can be said that without the 1956 deal involving Bill Russell, there would be no follow-up Celtics’ terrifying 11 Crown, Boss todayDayton will not have such a glorious history and enviable team background. That deal changed everything. What exactly happened that year
? The Celtics originally chose to use the "Regional Draft Rules" to get local Tommy Heinsohn, which caused them to lose their first-round pick. Watching the Rochester Royals choose Sahugo Green with the No. 1 pick, the St. Louis Eagles chose Bill Russell in the second overall pick-a super rookie who had 20.7 points and 20.3 rebounds in the first three years of the University of San Francisco. .
Auerbach responded very quickly. He did not hesitate to send the team's best players Ed McCauley and Cliff Hagen to get Russell from the Hawks. At the time, this trade was regarded as a win-win. Macaulay had been famous at St. Louis University for a long time. It was of great significance to him to return to his hometown team. In his first season with the Eagles, he averaged 17.5 points per game. A transcript, and Hagen is a potential newcomer worth developing, even though he left the court to perform military service two years later.
But after seeing the changes that "Lord of the Rings" Russell brought to the Celtics, I think the Eagles can no longer calm down. In addition to Russell and Heinsohn, the Celtics also selected KC-Jones in 1956. All three of them were important rotation players for Russell's first season to win the championship. This is the first championship in the history of the Green Army. What people didn't expect was that this was just an opening for their generation. After that, they won the championship trophy 11 times, and they also completed an eight consecutive championship during the period.
It is worth mentioning that in the 1958 finals, the two sides who completed the transaction two years ago met on a narrow road. Macaulay and Hagen followed Bob Pettit to successfully complete the revenge against the Celtics who sent them away. . But as powerful as the Eagles, they can only stop the Celtics once, and they can't stop Russell from winning the next 10 championship rings. After 1958, the Eagles met the Celtics three times in the finals, but after that they could not beat their former trading partners and could only become the background board of the Celtics dynasty.
Compared with the Los Angeles Lakers, who are good at robbing and recruiting super giants to form a dynasty, the wisdom of the Boston Celtics on draft night is their way of survival. It is also the only way they can tie with the Lakers to win the league's 17 championship trophies.
In your opinion, what other operations that took place on draft night are equally exciting and worthy of being recorded in history as the five operations in the morning? Or in other words, are you optimistic about the trades that took place in the recent drafts. For example, the Greens get Tatum and the Lone Rangers get Doncic. Will they become one of the classic moments in their respective team history in a few years? What will happen in the upcoming draft on November 18th?
