The winner of the 2009 draft is Griffin, the eye of the list is Tabit, and the tanhua is Harden! Maybe the three players wouldn't have had much doubt about that position at the time, and the top three positions were already locked. At the time, a player named Stephen Curry also announced that he was going to run in the draft. Curry was still very young at the time, when Curry's father, Dale Curry, said that his son wanted to go to a team that suited him. What is the right team for you? This has to be said from Curry's talent at that time. At that time, Curry was still very thin and had outstanding projection ability, but his physical talent was average, and the pace of playing was very fast, more of a quarterback playing style than a point guard playing style.
Who was the best team for Curry in the league at the time? No doubt, it's the Knicks! It's not that the Knicks are well configured, it's that the Knicks have D'Antoni as the coach. D'Antoni knows that the famous master of running and bombing tactics, Nash is under his system, and Curry's template is somewhat similar to Nash, so the team Curry wants to go to at that time is also the Knicks. Then Curry tried out, and as a result, Curry only went to the Knicks to tryout, rejecting the trial invitations of the Warriors, Raptors, Timberwolves, Grizzlies, Thunder and other teams.
At that time, the Grizzlies were holding the eye tag, and the Grizzlies wanted to get Curry, but Curry did not come to the trial, so the Grizzlies gave up. At that time, the Knicks were also very optimistic about Curry, the results of the trial were very good, and the Knicks also wanted to get Curry. But at this time, an interesting scene came, the Warriors got the seventh pick, and the Knicks got the eighth pick. And who was the Warriors at that time? Stephen Jackson, Ellis, Margetti, etc., these are the league's famous stingers, curry does not want to go to the Warriors.
So why did the Warriors cut off the Knicks that year? Interesting things are yet to come, as Don Nelson sees Curry's potential. In fact, from the beginning, nelson was very optimistic about Curry, he even thought that Curry would not fall in the seventh pick, and the Warriors even tried to trade the draft picks with the Timberwolves at one point, wanting to get a higher draft position to take curry early. The Warriors thought they couldn't get Curry, but the Timberwolves picked rubio and Flynn with the fifth and sixth picks, respectively, and the Warriors saw this opportunity come! Although the whole league knows that Curry wants to go to the Knicks, and the Knicks are ready to take Curry with the eighth pick, the Warriors directly cut off.
Curry wasn't very happy after being picked up by the Warriors with the seventh pick, and even wanted the team to trade him, but the Warriors were unmoved. And at that time, the Sun wanted to trade Curry, and even once took the 27-year-old Xiaosi out as a chip, the Sun thought that Curry had Nash's style, at that time Nash's age had come up, and the Sun kind of wanted to train Curry to become Nash's successor. But the Warriors are determined, and the peak of the little Si does not want Curry. In fact, this is also thanks to the vision of the elder Nelson, who has been very optimistic about Curry from the beginning, and after the last season of his coaching career, he bluntly said that if the future Warriors want to play something, they must trade Ellis to correct Curry.
Then curry went to the Warriors that year with reluctance, and the Knicks had no choice but to pick a Jordan Hill with the eighth pick! The story behind is very clear, the Warriors' vision is very unique, Curry led the Warriors to become the hottest team in the league.