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Antetokounmpo wants to trade and join forces with the literary class?

7:43pm, 16 May 2025Basketball

Just just ended the lottery draw for the 25-26 season draft, and the Mavericks won the No. 1 pick with a 1.8% chance.

How lucky is this? They became the fourth-largest team in history to draw the No. 1 pick, with the lowest score in 1993 Chris Webber, 2014 Wiggins, and 2008 Ross.

is also the team with the lowest probability since the draft restructuring (the lowest was that the Hawks drew 3% in 2024)

I feel that fans will not buy this result. Although objectively speaking, good luck can explain everything. Who knows what Xiao Hua is doing? Why are you, the Mavericks, so lucky, able to draw the No. 1 pick and get Flag?

It is not that the Mavericks are not allowed to draw Flag, but that after Doncic trades, the team's fortunes are at its lowest point throughout the season.

Because Flag was basically elected with 999.999%, forget it, I changed my words, because Flag was basically elected as the No. 1 pick with 100% probability. So it was analyzed directly.

If I were healthy, Irving + Davis should be the top six in the West? ! Now, there is another super team combat power, Cooper Flag is considered to be the strongest hexagon four-position in modern basketball in the past 20 years. Many scouts believe his playing style, and some people think he is Jason Tatum or Scott Pippen after gaining weight in recent years.

Some people also think that he is the ideal Ben Simmons who can practice shooting.

Anyway, how strong you are, does it mean that if Flag stood at the position 4, still he would have to hit 5? Unless the Mavericks also feature the lineup of the Timberwolves and Rockets that are the weird big guys that are set up in the playoffs, let Flag play 3.

But under normal circumstances, Thick Brow should just play 5. Even though he doesn't want to play, to be honest, the Mavericks should be considered Flag's team now, even if he hasn't joined yet.

Except for the Mavericks who drew the No. 1 pick, all the other top three picks were upset. The Spurs won the top pick and the 76ers drew the Tanhua.

In other words, the Hornets, Jazz, and Wizards who were the most fiercely played were wiped out, and the best signs were all to those old-fashioned teams with certain strength.

76ers' lineup is already very strong on paper (only on paper). I don't know what kind of person will be chosen by Tanhua and the others to match Embiid + George + Maxi + McCowan.

The Spurs were even more miraculous. In the past few years, they drew the Chinese class Yama with the highest probability. Last season, they were not very upset. Although they did not draw the top three picks, they also got the fourth pick.

This year, the Spurs were no longer bad, but Wenban's strength dropped sharply after the reimbursement halfway through the season. The team could only take one step and finally fell to 13th place. As a result, they still got the second draw again.

At present, no matter which team wins the second place, it is likely to choose Dylan Harper.

And the more interesting thing comes. Just five hours before the lottery draw for the draft, shams broke the news that Antetokounmpo was open to open trades for the first time in his career.

This is a high emotional intelligence statement, and a low emotional intelligence means you want to leave.

If he wants to leave, it depends on whether the Bucks agrees. Although the NBA star applied to leave the team during the contract period in recent years, the probability of leaving is basically 100%, because Antetokounmpo's contract still has a three-year control period, the decision is not on the letter himself, but on what chips the Bucks want.

Knicks (he did joke at the time that if he left, he wanted to go to a big city), but none of these teams had enough chips. When returning from holiday next month, Antetokounmpo will meet with the Bucks team to discuss whether to leave the team and the needs of the team if they leave the team.

Last night, salary expert Bobby Marks said that as long as Antetokounmpo applies to leave the team, the Rockets, Spurs and Pelicans will definitely quote.

The Spurs were theoretically inferior to the Rockets in terms of chips, but after drawing lots in the draft, they have surpassed the Rockets and become the leader in trading top NBA stars.

Evan Sidery of Forbes Sports said that the Spurs should trade Antetokounmpo at the moment of the highest winning streak, and Dylan Harper is not suitable for the Spurs.

I finally want to ask back, according to the current pace of Antetokounmpo leaving the team, will the No. 1 NBA pick be the next season?

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