After careful consideration for a long time, Fat Krause finally decided to select Yao Ming with the No. 1 pick.

In this history, Yao Ming participated in the draft at the draft site.

He also walked up to the stage himself and took away the Bulls baseball cap from Stern.

From then on, the golden age of Chinese basketball officially began.

When she saw the Bulls drafting Yao Ming, Danzi almost cried on the spot and turned into an emoticon.

Klaus’s Sabbi is indeed blind, hahahahaha!

Danzi happily selected Kwame Brown with the second overall pick, and at this time Jordan had already decided to come back next season!

He was already imagining in his mind the scene of fighting on the court with this super genius.

Li Ang sighed, and now, Danzi is probably crying too.

The next newspaper was a Toronto newspaper.

Li Ang still can't forget how shocked he was when he saw the news.

"Raptors fire general manager Glen Ward, new general manager Babcock: I will bring a championship to Toronto".

Grunwald, the guy who drafted Carter and Leon, was fired suddenly after the team reached its peak.

It is true that he selected Carter and Leon, but it is also true that he let go of McGrady and Christie for nothing.

The 4-1 defeat in the finals stimulated the Raptors management. They all believed that if McGrady and Christie were still there, the Raptors might be able to win the championship.

Even if it doesn't work, it won't be so embarrassing.

So, they transferred their anger to Grunwald.

At first, Li Ang just felt sorry for Grunwald, but he never expected that the change of general manager this time would greatly affect Li Ang himself.

Next, there are newspapers before the start of the 2001-02 season.

The newspaper published a piece of Bulls news, and it only occupied a small section of the sports section because the news was not breaking news.

But for Li Ang, this news is very interesting.

The news content is: One week after Yao Ming participated in the training camp, Artest underwent a concussion test and will miss the preseason.

Well, Li Ang can probably guess what happened on the training ground.

With his cowardly personality, he would definitely be ready to bully Yao as soon as he entered the training camp, hoping to establish his prestige as the boss of his team.

If it were Xiao Yao in the original history, he would probably have been bullied by him.

But now this little Yao...

Let's put it this way, Oakley didn't even want to meet him.

If Yao Ming hadn't grown too tall, he probably wouldn't have had a concussion. I'm afraid Artest would have to feel the pain that Danzi felt back then.

Then, the 2001-02 season began.

Before the start of the season, the team acquired Olajuwon, one of the four major centers, at a very low cost to deal with O'Neal, hoping that the team could make a difference in the finals.

Oakley, who is about to retire, has returned to Chicago, where his dream began, and is preparing to return to his roots. Mark Jackson has also left the team. Generally speaking, the team's lineup has not changed much.

Carter, Leone and Big Dream, this lineup has aroused the expectations of countless fans. Babcock also hopes to use Big Dream to fight against the Sharks and build the Raptors into a championship team.

As a result, Dameng's state this season is not to mention carrying the Sharks.

Even rookie Yao Ming can't beat him.

Dameng only averaged 7.1 points and 6 rebounds per game this season, not even as good as Oakley last season. Dameng's condition has declined like a cliff as he aged.

Of course, Dameng’s joining is not useless.

During this season, he taught Li Ang almost all his low post moves on the training ground.

Because Li Ang has the badge, he has the same flexibility and center of gravity control as Dameng, so his learning effect is unexpectedly good.

As for Carter, he is still an omnipotent UFO and still Toronto's leading scorer.

Even if Dameng is getting old, as long as Carter and Leon can maintain their form, the Raptors will still be a powerful team in the Eastern Conference.

Unfortunately, the 2000-01 season was almost Carter's last healthy season in Toronto.

At the beginning of the 2001-02 season, Carter's knees frequently had problems, and he was always playing in and out.

Only three games into the new season, Carter was absent due to a knee sprain.

The team's record did not meet expectations, so the new general manager made a quick decision and fired Wilkens, who got along well with the players, and appointed Kevin O'Neal, who had no head coaching experience, as the coach.

When an NBA team has a problem with its record, usually the head coach is the first one to get stabbed.

Don't say that you are the first Qian Sheng coach in NBA history, it's not easy.

Unless your team's status is like that of Auerbach or Vic, everything you say is in vain.

The team was clearly aiming for the championship, but in the middle of the season a rookie coach was called in. Both Leon and Carter were confused.

They ran to the general manager. What do you think the general manager said?

"Don't worry, we are working on getting Steve Nash!"

When Carter and Leon heard this, they were so happy.

Although Nash is not very good at hygiene, at least his appearance is a good match for us brothers.

Even if you don’t play basketball, you can form a group and debut.

Moreover, with Nash's ball-conducting ability, if he comes and throws the alley-oop to Leon and Carter, it won't even be called taking off, it will just be a double fly!

Leon and Carter waited, waited, and waited with great joy.

After waiting for a long time, there was no movement at all!

As Carter has been playing in and out, the Raptors' record has not improved or dropped compared to last season.

Li Ang is also working very hard. His scoring average this season has exceeded the 20 mark.

But with this group of old, weak, sick and disabled, even if Li Ang is very capable, there is nothing he can do.

Waiting until the early days of the All-Star Game and the trade deadline was approaching, Carter and Leon asked again.

Where is Nash? Where is Nash?

Babcock smiled slightly, talked a lot of nonsense, and assured Leon and Carter that they would get Nash before the trade deadline.

If he can't get it, he swears he won't be a human being!

After the trade deadline, the Raptors still don't have Nash on their roster.

When Li Ang asked for the third time, Babcock was already impatient: "I tell you Yunlong, stop bothering me with such nonsense! If you have the ability to be an All-Star, you must have the ability."

Win by yourself!”

Li Ang was very angry, damn you, you went back on your word, how many times did you yell.

Not only did Babcock yell, he was also very dissatisfied with Leon's repeated suspensions.

This season, Li Ang also had several fights. One time was when he was playing against the Trail Blazers, and he had a wrestling match with the rude Randolph.

One time was when playing against the Nets, Kenyon Martin, who was not very smart, used racial slurs to spray Li Ang, which made Li Ang angry and directly took action.

At first, Babcock didn't say anything about Li Ang being suspended. But now that there was a conflict, he brought up all these old scores and shared part of the blame for the team's poor performance with Li Ang.

"If you hadn't been suspended at every turn, would our record have been so bad!? The team needs you to stand up, not to cause trouble!"

After that, Babcock also deliberately said in front of the media that he cared about the team's image.

Facts have proved that you should never leave your girlfriend with old scores that can be dug up frequently.

And then, what made him even more angry was that Babcock actually complained because Carter was injured repeatedly.

He even openly complained directly in the locker room that Carter was always recovering from injuries in the training room, and blamed his excessive injuries for disrupting the team's chemical reaction.

At that time, Li Ang had a big quarrel with Babcock in front of everyone. He could not bear this Sabi anymore.

Injuries are mentioned as if any player wants to be injured.

The next day, news soon spread that Li Ang was causing a scene in the locker room. Li Ang didn't even have to guess who leaked the news.

Originally, because he knocked out AI's teeth and smashed Shaq's head last season, Li Ang's reputation was already somewhat bad.

And once the name of the cancer in the locker room is attached, it will solidify Li Ang's character as a thorn.

This kind of persona is very unpopular in the NBA, and Li Ang once received a lot of criticism.

With Carter's recurring injuries and frequent conflicts between management and players, the Raptors only finished fourth in the Eastern Conference in the 2001-02 season.

After just one game in the playoffs, Carter's knee was seriously injured and he was reimbursed for the season. Olajuwon even kneeled down during the regular season, and Li Ang could only continue to fight with the remaining team alone.

In the first round, with a broken formation, Li Ang relied on more tenacious defense to eliminate Maizi's Magic in a tiebreaker.

Maizi is really in trouble, why is it the first round again?

Don’t worry, there’s still next year and the year after.

However, Li Ang, who was exhausted in the second round, really couldn't defeat the Celtics and finally knelt down.
To be continued...