Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 461
In the end, in the military expansion draft, Price was selected by the Orlando Magic, who had just joined the NBA. So far, after spending three seasons with the Warriors, Price joined the Orlando Magic with one year left on his contract. .

The night the news was announced, the Warriors' teammates gave Price a collective farewell.

Unlike Smith, Price was a core member of Li Weisi's rookie training camp. It can be said that he is the core member of the biggest force in the Warriors locker room today. His departure has a far greater impact on these people than Smith.

The party that night was very vegetarian, there were no meat dishes, and everyone was not in the mood. Even Rodman, who has always been fond of meat, drank honestly. Obviously, everyone was still very sad about Price's parting.

After reminiscing about the past all night, the music ended the next day, and the banquet ended after all.

Price left Oakland not long after, quietly leaving without even letting his teammates see him off.

Immediately after that, time also moved forward rapidly, and soon a week passed in a flash, and it was June 6th, the annual draft meeting.

That is to say, after the NBA reduced the number of draft rounds last year, the number of draft rounds has been reduced again this year, becoming two rounds. This major rule change has thus become a regular rule of the NBA and has continued for decades.

This year's draft is hailed as one of the three worst drafts in NBA history. It is worth mentioning that the other two draft years are 1986 and 2000.

Now because of Li Weisi's appearance, everyone doesn't think that this year's draft is so bad. It can be said that Li Weisi reversed this year's draft by himself.

However, in the 1989 draft, there was no second Li Weisi.

In fact, a group of talented players emerged in this year's draft, and some of them have left impressive statements in the history of the NBA, but overall, it still cannot be compared with other years, let alone the draft year. .

Among the top ten picks in the first round, 8 are considered unworthy of their names, including this year's No. [-] pick Danny Ferry and No. [-] Pervis Ellison.

This year's No. [-] pick was won by the Clippers, while the No. [-] pick was won by the Kings.

It is worth mentioning that in the original time and space, it was the No. [-] pick of the Kings and the No. [-] pick of the Clippers, but it did not affect the selection of the two. The only one who lost was Pervis Ellison. The second place in parallel imports, of course, does not seem to be a loss from the perspective of future generations.

The third pick was won by the Spurs, who chose this year's John Wooden Award winner, small forward Sean Elliott.

The Heat and the Hornets ranked fourth and fifth respectively. The Heat chose Glenn Rice with a discerning eye, the future three-time All-Star and AMVP winner in 97.

The Hornets' vision is relatively worse. They chose JR Reid, a player who is not even on Baidu Encyclopedia in later generations.

The newly joined Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic won the 10th and 11th picks respectively. The two teams also blindly chose two unknown players, Poole Richardson and Nick Anderson.

Oh, it’s not rigorous to say so, Nick Anderson still has a little reputation, but the most famous is that he missed 95 free throws in the 4 Finals, which caused his mentality to collapse. After that, his free throw career plummeted and he never recovered.

And the players with real potential this year are mostly outside the 10th place, such as Tim Hardaway, who was selected by the Suns with the 14th overall pick through a trade, and Sean Kemp, who was selected by the Supersonics with the 17th overall pick. , In addition, the 16th pick is also the Supersonics. They selected the 180cm tall guard Dana Barros, who was also selected as an All-Star in later generations. It can be said that the Supersonics are the big winners of this draft. The conference selected two All-Stars.

In addition, there is another rookie who fell into the hands of the Warriors, that is, the white center from Yugoslavia, Vlade Divac, who is well-known in later generations as a man who can replace Kobe alone, although this is not a good reputation.

Since the Warriors have only the 27th pick in the first round this year, it is difficult to select Divac with such a pick. For this reason, Frank did not hesitate to make a deal with the Eagles who hold the 23rd pick. Frank used this year's first round The pick and the second-round pick were packaged and traded to the Eagles in exchange for the first-round pick in the hands of the Eagles.

This deal can be described as a win-win. For the Eagles, they had no intention of drafting a good player at the end of the first round. There is not much difference between the 23rd pick and the 27th pick in the young year of the draft. How can the Eagles not change a second-round pick?

As for the Warriors' selection of Divac, it did not cause any waves in the league.

It's no wonder that the Warriors chose a lot of European players, but the only European player who really played in the Warriors was Schramf who was traded, and the other players hadn't even logged into the NBA yet!
It is not surprising to choose a European center now, not to mention that the Warriors themselves have two centers, Moses Malone and Duckworth. Even if Divac entered the Warriors, he didn't have much chance to play.

The fact is that as most team managers think, Frank chose Divac because he did consider that the team's old center Jerome Whitehead announced his retirement and the team lacked a third center.

But more importantly, Frank believed in Divac's potential, and with Price's departure this time, Frank worried that other players in the team would also want to leave, so he needed to make second-hand preparations.

In other positions, the Warriors have enough talent reserves, but not at the center position. Malone will be one year older next season, and Duckworth has one year left in his contract. It is imperative to enter the All-Star center.

What's more, Divac is still a player who is enough to be ranked in the top five in this year's draft. If he doesn't pick up such omissions, is that what Frank should do if he doesn't steal?

As for whether he intercepted the Lakers, Frank would not care. Anyway, he has intercepted other teams not once or twice. Besides, the decline of the Lakers is inevitable, and Divac is not alone.

In addition, in this year's draft, there are still some relics of the sea, such as Mucci Blaylock, who was selected by the Nets with the 12th overall pick in the first round, BJ Armstrong, who was selected by the Bulls with the 18th overall pick in the first round, and BJ Armstrong, who was selected by the Trail Blazers with the 9th overall pick in the second round. Clifford Robinson, the No. [-] pick, and more.

However, they can only be regarded as some good team puzzles, and no players who can change the league structure were born.

In this way, the draft in 89 came to a dull end, and entered this year's offseason in a calm manner.

(End of this chapter)