Chapter 1262: Chapter 399: Cleveland Is Full of Hope Again?

Moreover, with more mature and safer guards like Chris Paul, Deron Williams, and Raymond Felton available in the first round this year, no team would gamble on an injured high school player.

Secondly, Monta Ellis’s shot selection during trials was extremely poor. Coupled with his height limitation of being under 190 cm, this puts a big question mark on his offensive capability in the NBA.

Monta Ellis’s biggest selling point is scoring, and currently, in the league, scorers under 190 cm either have insufficient productivity or efficiency is too low; even AI cannot escape this curse.

No team would waste a first-round pick for a scorer destined not to be top-tier.

Due to his small frame, team trainers also worry about his future ability to gain weight. Without weight gain, he cannot compete; too much weight gain, he risks becoming injury-prone.

Thus, the high school prodigy faced his first setback in life, and with full confidence, he ended up being picked by the Warriors in the second round.

But Roger need not worry about Monta Ellis failing, he believes this is a good opportunity to cultivate a second-generation sixth man.

Warriors’ current sixth man Old Cat Mobley, like Roger, is already 30 years old, and last season he was occasionally plagued by injuries, and his condition started to become unstable. Perhaps the team will need a new sixth man in the future, and you must never wait until the team lacks a certain role to start thinking about finding one.

Roger increasingly feels the sixth man role is quite important. Although sixth men need to hold the ball a lot to unleash their power, because they are on the court during transition periods, holding the ball extensively will not destroy the team’s overall system. When they cannot erupt, it will not cause serious harm to the team, and once a sixth man erupts, the game becomes very simple.

Monta Ellis is the best choice to succeed Old Cat.

The 2005 NBA draft ended quietly, and the media’s focus was on Australian center Andrew Bogut, versatile forward Marvin Williams, and Roger’s named Chris Paul and super point guard Deron Williams from Illinois University.

The Warriors’ selection did not attract much attention.

To be precise, the entire draft this year did not garner much attention, commonly thought not to be a golden draft year.

Most fans were focused on the year-long soap opera between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Andrei Kirilenko.

Finally, on the first day of the free agency market, the huge weight on Cavaliers fans’ minds was lifted.

After a series of rumors, Cavaliers officially announced signing Russian Andrei Kirilenko with a six-year, 86 million USD max contract.

Hours later, Woj reported that Cleveland Cavaliers acquired last season’s steals leader and first-team guard Larry Hughes, along with energetic defensive big man Brandon Haywood, in a sign-and-trade for Michael Reed.

Michael Reed, who doesn’t defend nor pass, also made sarcastic comments like “I thought I was here to assist LeBron,” was finally removed and seemingly all obstacles blocking the Chosen One from entering the playoffs have been cleared.

This trade fills Cleveland Cavaliers with hope.

Once again filled with hope.

After the trade, Bill Simmons asked on his personal blog: “Why is LeBron always surrounded by so many cancers? Why could Michael Reed win a championship next to Roger? Why was 41-year-old Michael Jordan considered a cancer in Cleveland, yet went to Atlanta and became a miracle hero? I can’t explain all this, I am, after all, just a stupid fan. Perhaps the great LeBron’s hand was really ruined by these cancers, perhaps.”

These were hardly questions, rather face-to-face provocations.

That’s why Bill Simmons can never become the mouthpiece of the Great Emperor, his level is too low.

Cleveland Cavaliers thought the heat of trades and signings would last several days, yet unexpectedly, only the second day, the basketball world was occupied by another breaking news.

At 12:30 midnight, Roger was woken by phone ringing after being exhausted from a day of commercial activities.

He thought Maria Sharapova called to bother him again. Over the past few days, that young girl averaged two calls a day to Roger, and also sent quite a few private messages with photos online to Roger.

Roger wanted to sort things out with Sharapova tonight, but when he picked up the phone he found the call was from his agent Eric Fleisher.

“If I haven’t been traded, you shouldn’t disturb me at this hour,” Roger said impatiently after answering the call.

“Cattino is in trouble!”

“What’s wrong with Old Cat?”

“He suddenly fainted during a commercial streetball game, now diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy!”

“Speak plain Eric, is this serious?”

“This is the same heart condition Reggie Lewis died from in 1993.”

“Damn!”

Roger was wide awake.

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AK47 and Larry Hughes are better suited as LeBron’s partners than Michael Reed. Last season, Andre averaged only 15.6 points, but contributed 6.2 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.6 steals, and 3.3 blocks. He was the block king last season and made the second-best defensive team. Larry averaged 22 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 2.9 steals, and made the first best defensive team. They are both team-oriented and influential players, they can become the Little Emperor’s most robust left and right arms, rather than a cancer like Michael Reed. Cleveland’s dark history, from now on will be gone forever. — “Cleveland Plain Dealer.”

You know, Andre and Larry are both extremely excellent players. I believe that next season I will definitely lead the team to breakthrough. Not Roger’s record? No, no, no, that won’t continue, absolutely not! — LeBron James in an interview with ESPN.

Cattino Mobley’s life is in critical condition, God bless him and his family. — “Slam.”

The people of the dynasty must be mentally prepared, even if Cattino can wake up, he certainly cannot return to next season’s roster. We wish Cattino to overcome this difficulty, and also hope Roger can lead the team through this tough period. — “San Francisco Chronicle”