Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 16

The annual NBA Draft is a carnival for basketball fans, because on this day, the world's top basketball talents will gather here. They are the most promising stars of hope in various countries in the world, and they will also enter the NBA, the world's No. [-] player, through this window. One of the basketball halls to show their talents.

Of course, 86 did not have that much influence, at most it caused a huge wave in the United States.

If you want to select the most successful NBA draft in NBA history, I am afraid it must be 1984. The 84 draft, known as the "Diamond Generation", not only selected Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, but also the Olympic Games. Rajuwon, Barkley, Stockton, these stars have been selected as the top 50 superstars in NBA history.

Of course, there are "96 Golden Generation", "03 Platinum Generation", "14 Glass Generation" and so on.

However, results always take time to accumulate. For people in 1986, 1984 was a big year in the draft, but no one realized that he would become the greatest draft in history. Even, it is generally believed that this year Just better than '84.

"I think this year is more successful than the year before and last year's draft. I have never seen so many super talents like this year. They are destined to leave their names in the history of the NBA!"

When Frank heard the commentator on the TBS super TV station say this sentence, he couldn't help laughing out loud, and almost lost his temper.

On June 6th, a week passed in the blink of an eye, and this week, Li Weisi has also completed his graduation. He officially graduated from university and became a member of society. As for whether he can become a professional player, it depends on tonight.

In order to participate in this year's draft, Li Weisi came to New York with Frank and stayed in the hotel where he stayed in the NCAA finals. Since the draft started at 19:35, Li Weisi and Frank had dinner early in the hotel, and Watch TV in the room, waiting for the driver to pick you up.

"Are you okay, Frank?" Li Weisi was a little puzzled looking at Frank who was about to fall off the sofa laughing, not knowing why Frank laughed like this.

"I'm fine...I'm fine...hahaha..."

Frank was still overjoyed, and his symptoms showed no signs of abating. In desperation, Li Weisi quickly got up and turned off the TV to prevent Frank's symptoms from deepening.

"Hey, what are you doing? I can hear it wonderfully!" Frank recovered immediately, got up and turned on the TV.

"Turning off the TV will help your condition weaken. You see, you are not much better now."

"You're the one who's sick! I'm just laughing at these explanations." Frank couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Li Weisi.

"What's so funny about this? I think the commentators are a bit exaggerated, but there are indeed a lot of geniuses! I played against several of them when I was in college." Li Weisi was puzzled.

"No no no, you don't understand, this year's draft is simply terrible, yes, but for the first-round pick, it is too small to be small."

"I really don't understand where you have such confidence?" Li Weisi rubbed the back of his head, doubtful.

Frank saw Li Weisi's doubts, but he didn't say much. This doesn't mean that Frank was wrong, but he couldn't explain the reason to Li Weisi.

And this year's draft is actually worse than what Frank said, and it can even compete for the worst draft in history. If the 84th draft is the diamond generation, then this year's 86th draft can be called the sad reminder generation.

So much so that some media later described that this time was not a draft, but a disaster.

If you want to say that there are no talented talents this year, of course not. In this year's draft, there are not only Len Bias who claims to beat Jordan one-on-one, but also Brad Doherty, Chris Washburn , Kenny Walker and a whole bunch of other geniuses.

But in the end, these geniuses were dead and wounded, making people wonder if this draft was cursed.

Ren Bias, who was given high hopes by the wealthy Celtic "cardinal", is estimated to have entered the countdown of his life, and the cause of death was cocaine overdose.

And he is not the only player affected by the drug this year. The top ten picks also include: Chris Washburn, the third pick, was swept out by the team in just two seasons due to the plummeting state of West Drugs. , Later, he stole meat and picked up garbage to satisfy his hunger, and finally went to prison.

It is worth mentioning that the bad luck team is the Warriors.

The sixth pick, William Bedford, played only six seasons and was later imprisoned in a federal prison for alleged drug dealing.

Roy Tapley, the 7th pick, is another genius. In the normal history, he won the best sixth man in 1988. However, he was kicked out of the league twice because of smoking drugs. Doping is permanently banned.

There were even rumors later that 80.00% of the players in this draft had taken cocaine.

Although the league promulgated the anti-drug ban as early as January of this year, it will be implemented seriously and comprehensively in the next season. Among them, the rookies of the 86th class may be regarded as making some contributions to the NBA from the side.

In addition, Brad Doherty, the originally talented and powerful No. 8 pick, only played for 30 years because of a back injury, and retired hastily at the golden age of [-].

Kenny Walker, the No. 5 pick, was once the 89 Slam Dunk Contest champion, and finally left Europe in the chaotic environment of the Knicks and a serious knee injury.

Because of his inability to lose weight, he had to leave the NBA's 12th pick "Hot Plate" John Williams early.

God is jealous of talents, Drazen Petrovic, who died in a car accident after only playing in the NBA for 4 seasons, and so on.

In short, various problems have led to the fact that there are not many first-round picks in this draft. On the contrary, there are many good players in the later rounds, and these players are also the Warriors or Frank's goal this time.

However, many bad things happened to this rookie at the same time, which made Frank, who has always been an atheist in his heart, also worried, fearing that Li Weisi would be implicated.

But at this time, it is impossible for Li Weisi not to participate in the draft. He can only hope that the genius who was originally sacrificed can meet the needs of God, and concentrate all his luck on Li Weisi. a good deed.

It's a pity that these are just Frank's thoughts. Even if there is a God, I'm afraid he won't be like Frank.

"Dong dong dong!" Just as the two were watching TV in the room, there was a knock on the door.

Li Weisi got up to open the door for the visitor. The reason why Li Weisi was so conscious was because he knew how lazy Frank was.

"Hello! Mr. West, boss, the car is here, we should set off!" The visitor greeted Li Weisi respectfully, and then walked into the room and said to Frank.

"Pa-ta!" Frankie got up and turned off the TV, moved his body, nodded and said, "OK, let's go!"

(End of this chapter)