After winning the MVP in the Finals, Mark Jackson also received more attention. Many people, even fans who often watch NBA games, including most Pacers fans, do not know that Mark Jackson is actually ranked fourth in the assist list in the regular season and 15th in the assist list in the playoffs.

Mark Jackson's career is really a tragic future. Originally, if the Pacers had not won the championship this season, Larry Bird was ready to give up on him again.

But he won the championship. The day after winning the championship, Larry Bird gave Mark Jackson, a veteran who was already 35 years and $12 million to renew the contract.

On the other hand, the Trail Blazers lost in the finals for two consecutive years, but the reconstruction of the Trail Blazers is still very successful. However, they are in trouble now. They want to renew their contracts for 5 years, $40 million to help them reach the finals, but they are rejected. Brian Grant is ready to test the free market.

According to media reports, many teams are already preparing to win Brian Grant, trying to communicate with the Trail Blazers, trying to sign first and then exchange.

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The 99-00 season finals ended, and the trading window with this year's draft has been opened. For the management and coaching teams of each team, the new season has begun.

The draft conference in the past two years has almost emptied the NCAA genius. Scout reports from each team pointed out that the prospects for this year's draft conference are very low.

Of course, the media are still promoting how powerful the geniuses who applied to participate in the draft this year are also very awesome, but there are more rumors about pick trading this year than in any past few years.

On May 14, the draft lottery was completed.

Since the 1995-96 season, so many years have passed, the Nets have finally obtained the No. 1 pick they have always dreamed of.

The Rockets won the second draw this year with a 9.6% chance.

The Clippers got the No. 3 draw, the Warriors got the No. 4 draw, the Wizards got the No. 5 draw, the Celtics got the No. 6 draw, the Cavaliers got the No. 7 draw, the Grizzlies got the No. 8 draw, the Nuggets got the No. 9 draw, the Grizzlies Pistons got the No. 10 draw, the Hawks got the No. 11 draw, the Magic got the No. 12 draw, and the Hawks got the No. 13 draw.

Due to previous transactions, the Warriors' No. 4 draw and the Grizzlies' No. 10 draw are both Magic, which means that the Magic holds three lottery draws and does not draw the top three picks... They chose Weber and O'Neal in a row that year, spending all their luck for ten years...

However, even the Nets, who won the No. 1 pick, had rumors. They put the No. 1 pick on the shelves after the regular season, trying to trade an All-Star player, and were willing to add one of Corey Kittels or Van Horn, but did not get a quote that met their expectations.

The most interesting thing about this year's draft is that except for the talent or strength shown by Kenyon Martin and Stromayer Swift in college, they are sure that they will be selected in the top three picks, and the other picks are vague.

To put it simply, it is very common to mediocrity.

On June 24, just one day after the finals, the Magic sent their first round 12 pick to the Clippers. The details of the transaction have not been announced yet, but the first lottery pick deal in this year's draft show appeared earlier than in the past few years.

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On June 27th, the day before the draft, Howard Schultz brought Larry Harris to... his daughter's villa in Beverly Hills.

"Aix, do you think you have a talented rookie this year?"

"The information about my place, Kenyon Martin, Mike Miller, Jamal Crawford, Hideo Tkoglu, Quentin Richardson, these players have potential."

"Do we want to trade this year's draft picks? We have plenty of draft picks in the next few years and can be used... But I don't think we need to choose young people now to have talent for growth."

"I think so too. I even think that our team has many players of the same type, and if it is unnecessary, we should trade some, concentrate the playing time on 10 or 9 people, so that the main players and young geniuses can get more playing time.

If you add your youthful talent, it will distract us and delay the growth of that young genius."

When Howard Schultz and Larry Harris heard Zhang Hao's words, they both nodded in agreement.

The Supersonics only have one second round 55 pick this year, and many teams have quoted it. They didn't agree to use this year's draft pick for their future draft picks.

After clarifying the direction, Larry Harris took out two rosters and took over the conversation: "Doug and Del both like this player. We have communicated with the Bucks. They want these two..."

"If you think it's good, you can trade! I think it's good too. Don't ask me about this, right? This will not affect our lineup structure. It's just a minor repair. If you want to repair it, you must make efforts."

"This is not a worry that the trade will not tell you. One day you will be unhappy. Tell me that you will retire if you don't trade you." Howard Schultz once again turned into an inappropriate NBA manager role.

Zhang Hao rolled his eyes at the boss: "Mr. Schultz, I feel like you are blaming me...

But if this deal can be done, it's really good. Mr. Jordan would like to partner with him and make our inside line more diversified... It would be great if we could take Corey away, it would be a big problem."

"Haha, if he hears you, he will come to your house for free every day at noon."

"I'm really convinced, why did I meet him..."

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The day before the draft, Zhang Hao communicated with the management and did not participate in this year's draft.

On June 28, the 2000 NBA Draft Day has arrived.

At noon, Yahoo Sports reporter broke a deal, and the Supersonics and the Bucks completed the deal.

The Supersonics sent out the 55th pick in the second round of this year, with Jason Cafe, Travis Best and Rashad Lewis, and the trade was given to the Bucks' Tony Kukoc.

Kukoc played 73 games last season with the Bulls and the Bucks, averaging 14.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game, making him one of the contributors to the Bucks' playoffs.

In terms of value, the Supersonics will not lose money by 4 or 1, but it is not worth it.

However, the evaluation received was pretty good. After the SuperSonics had Muchi Breckle, Travis Best seemed irrelevant. Lewis showed a certain talent in the second grade, with two single-game performances of 20+, but his playing time was unstable. Jason Cafe had an average of 8+5 per game, but his SuperSonics had no position, and only Schramff had occasional minutes of playing time when he was injured.

Overall, in this deal, the Bucks lost one first-class player, but the lineup depth was better, and the Supersonics lost a few high-quality role players, but streamlined the lineup.

However, in the Supersonics lineup environment, Kukoc played a role that was the younger Schramph, who could do anything, just a frontcourt swinger who could do anything, and he would definitely not be the main player in the inside.

The Supersonics did not try to trade to get this year's draft pick, but instead sent out the second round pick, which is not surprising.

There is really no way to tell who can bring a clear improvement to a team this year's rookie.

But every operation of the Supersonics team is very eye-catching and will cause heated discussion.

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"Ah da da da da da da da da da da... da da da! Finally, it's done!"

At 10:40 am on June 30, Zhang Hao collapsed on the floor of the indoor training ground.

10 minutes ago, he finally completed the 9th hour training of the 9th phase of the 'Pressure Defense Master' training task.

"Muscle memory engraving has been completed. Congratulations to the host. When the object of use: the special signing player Zhang Hao meets the conditions (with sufficient research and understanding of the opponent, concentration, and full efforts), the defensive end can show a maximum 95-rated oppressive single defense ability."

The muscle memory is engraved, and this feeling is extremely sour and refreshing. Zhang Hao once thought he would twitch to death! Compared to the previous top training card, which engraved muscle memory to 90 evaluation, it is even more painful when it comes to strength!

But after the muscle memory was engraved, I looked at the system prompts and my mood suddenly became better.

"It's almost a year and a half, right? Finally, the pressure defense has reached the top level! I really want to find someone to try it right away... Hey? Shake Kobe to have fun? He doesn't seem to be planning to play in the Olympics and don't go to the US training team..."

Originally, Zhang Hao felt that he could complete the training in mid-June, but by the last 36 hours of training, the difficulty had increased. He could have been able to practice 3-4 hours a day stably, but suddenly it was reduced to half that he could only complete two hours a day.

Fortunately, the training was completed at the initial expected time!

"I haven't practiced my skills well for almost a month and a half. During this period, I have been taking care of my children, practicing defense, resting for two days, and asking Pickley to practice three threats and technical training, so as to adjust my condition before returning to the national team!"

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Chapter completed!