Ten years in Parallel World.
The fans in New York were already complaining!
Even though the Knicks were the most popular team in the NBA, and there was no lack of rich audiences and huge exposure, the team's continued low performance in recent years still attracted dissatisfaction from the team.
Even the fans in the upper echelons would complain about the team's boss, James Dolan's bad behavior over the years.
As a result, Dolan, who heard all of this, began to make drastic changes to the team. He directly stepped forward and fired the smiling assassin, Isiah Thomas, who had no achievements in his coaching career, and hired D'Antoni as a trusted coach.
The change of manager had indeed achieved good results, but as the saying went," a clever housewife cannot cook a meal without rice." During the years that Smiling Assassin had been in charge of the team, the management was equally terrible. The entire team did not have any outstanding players.
Especially after the Knicks lost Stephen Curry in last year's draft, the team's management changed again!
Steve Mills, who had been in the management of the Knicks for many years and had extensive experience in various departments, was appointed as the new general manager. After that, the Knicks welcomed a huge wave of transactions!
At the end of last season, they traded for Amare Stoudemire, a powerful offensive player, from the Suns. This team, which should have been the most dazzling team in the league, finally welcomed an All-Star player.
Meanwhile, General Manager Steve Mills publicly told the fans,""Our signings have just begun. Don't worry, we will definitely build a superstar team!”
Steve Mills had such confidence because the team's boss, Dolan, had given him the power and full support.
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There weren't many big fish in the 2010 offseason, and the Knicks were aiming to improve their competitiveness, so they wanted to try their luck in the draft.
The entire team needed a qualified point guard, but they didn't have a top pick in this year's draft, so they could only trade up. Fortunately, the Knicks had plenty of assets.
Of course, all teams wanted John Wall, and the New York Knicks were no exception. However, as the only bright star player in this draft, the Washington Wizards obviously would not trade their first pick.
In the end, the Knicks spent some of their assets to trade the First Round's seventh pick from the Diamonds.
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There was only one day left before the draft. At this time, in the meeting room of the Knicks 'higher-ups, there was a heated discussion about the draft simulation that would begin tomorrow at the Garden.
The team's manager, Mike D'Antoni, gave his opinion."For the seventh pick, my suggestion is to choose Gordon Hayward. If you want a defender, Paul George shouldn't be wrong. If you want a point guard, you should choose Eric Bredsoe... I don't think there's anything outstanding about the Dragon Country point guard you're talking about.”
The meeting had been going on for more than an hour. The main topic of discussion was actually a player from the Dragon Country, Bai Feng.
In the NCAA tournament that had just ended, Bai Feng had won the championship with Duke University, but he did not win the final MOP. The winner of this award was his teammate Kyle Singler.
However, in the end, Bai Feng was the only one from Duke University who had the confidence to participate in the NBA draft.
Bai Feng was indeed the core of this Duke University team. His performance was extremely stable, but his statistics were very average. As the point guard of the team, he could get 11.3 points, 4.3 rebounding, and 5.2 assists per game. This kind of data was not obvious. He could be considered a qualified data for the core point guard in the university field.
The strangest thing was that Bai Feng's data was extremely stable. It was the same data almost every game. There was no explosive performance, nor was there any abnormal performance.
In the semi-finals and finals, he still performed like this. As a result, the MOP award was won by his teammate who performed exceptionally.
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But at this time, the Knicks general manager, Steve Mills, shook his head at D'Antoni's opinion. He emphasized again,""Bai Feng's most outstanding aspect is his stability. Although his average data is very average, the way he plays on the court is extremely reasonable. Look at his high-level data, his average field goal percentage is 64%, and his three-point accuracy is 57%. He had sent out 31 assists in six games and only made one mistake. The assist-to-error ratio had reached an astonishing 31! In the future, we will attract a lot of star players with personality to join our team, but the team's point guard must be able to maintain the rhythm!”
After the general manager finished speaking, many people nodded repeatedly.
But D'Antoni frowned. He didn't like this kind of uncreative point guard. On the Suns, he was used to using a wild and imaginative guard like Steve Nash.
Now that he was in the New York Knicks, the team had traded his right-hand man, Stoudemire. They thought that with a point guard like Nash, they could replicate the previous Suns storm.
Now, the team's new general manager seemed to have a soft spot for a fullback who played well on the court, did not create anything, and did not make any risky attempts.
It seemed that the general manager had a lot of opinions about him.
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