Chapter 288 Trading
The second day of the All-Star Weekend is the three major challenge events.

The winner of the “Skills Challenge” was Lillard.

Michael Jordan was also there today.

When Lillard held the trophy, the camera frequently focused on Jordan.

He looked proud and proud, and from time to time he turned his head and said something to Oakley next to him. From Oakley’s expression, it was not difficult to guess what he said:

“See? Now I wonder who dares to say that I have bad taste!”

Lillard can be said to be the most outstanding rookie in the 12th generation. Apart from him, the “12th generation” including the “No. pick” Anthony Davis is not as eye-catching as him. When the Bobcats selected him with the second pick in the first round, there were some doubts from the outside world.

But now, everything has been proven. Michael Jordan selected the most powerful guy in the entire “12th generation” this time, and he averaged 19.1 points per game. Even if he does not continue to improve, he is still a top player in the league.

Many media have changed their views and they all believe that Lillard will become an All-Star player in the future.

By selecting a guy like this in a weak draft year, Michael Jordan’s “reputation for selecting players” suddenly improved.

The winner of the “Three-Point Shooting Contest” is Stephen Curry.

His three-point shooting is indeed excellent this season. It is estimated that with another season of training, he will be able to truly become a “big core” who can stand on his own. In terms of three-point shooting, he will also enter the “Kuritian” mode.

Su Wan high-fived him, listened to his acceptance speech, and then left the stage.

There was also a “Slam Dunk Contest” next, but Su Wan did not stay and chose to leave early.

Before LaVine and Gordon entered the league, he refused to watch any “slam dunk contest”. When he left, the live camera followed closely. In the TNT studio, Barkley noticed this scene and asked curiously: “Will Suwan still broadcast the dunk contest this year?”

Kenny Smith was stunned for a moment: “I haven’t heard any rumors about it!”

“He probably just doesn’t want to watch this dunk contest!” Shaquille O’Neal guessed.

After the “Slam Dunk Contest” ended, the three of them once again talked about Su Wan’s early departure.

“Now it seems that Suwan was right to leave early!” Shaquille O’Neal just complained, and now he couldn’t help but complain, “This is the worst dunk contest I have ever seen!”

Barkley said: “No, this won’t be the worst class you’ve ever seen. The next class will be worse than this!”

Kenny Smith, as the one who needed to play the role of the rationalist among the three commentators, was also shaking his head with a wry smile, because he couldn’t find any highlights.

How ugly is this slam dunk contest?
Let’s put it this way…

Some fans online have called for the cancellation of the All-Star “Slam Dunk Contest”!
That was an “eyeball” disaster!
But there’s nothing we can do about it. Why was the “Slam Dunk Contest” so interesting in the past?
There are many big names and stars.

Michael Jordan participated in the dunk contest several times, and his “dunk duel” with Wilkins made that year’s “dunk contest” a classic one.

Later in 00, Vince Carter, Francis, McGrady and others created the most classic “Slam Dunk Contest”!
From this we can see that if the “Slam Dunk Contest” wants to become a classic, it must have big-name stars joining.

It’s just that the idea of ​​the stars in the past was “As stars, we should give the fans the best performance”, so they took the lead in participating in these All-Star events. Now the stars are more careful about their reputation.

The title of “Slam Dunk King” is actually very useless.

Most basketball stars are not willing to take the risk of participating in the “Slam Dunk Contest” just for such a title.

If not handled properly, this may become a “stepping stone” for newcomers.

Just like LeBron before, wasn’t he “blocked” by the “super rookie” Griffin and McGee who came out of nowhere!
Moreover, outstanding performance in the “Slam Dunk Contest” can easily give the outside world the impression that he is a “dunk king”.

This may also be the reason why LeBron was reluctant to participate.

Everyone said he had no skills.

If he were to be labeled as a “dunker”, his image would become even more fixed.

It can be seen from Vince Carter’s external image that when many media and fans mention Carter, the first thing that comes to mind is his super dunking.

But in fact, his shooting ability has always been top-notch in the league!

It can even be described as stable…

This is just a point that fans who only follow the impression of the topic won’t notice at all.

Of course, the most important point for LeBron is:
Even if he participates, he may not win the championship!
This is what made him shrink back.

Since becoming the “chosen one”, LeBron and his team have been doing everything they can to prevent him from losing. Unfortunately, sometimes it is like this, the more you fear losing, the more likely you are to lose!

There was an interesting “trending search” on Twitter that night, which said:
Su Wan chose to leave because he had a premonition that this “Slam Dunk Contest” would be boring!

Suwan took this opportunity to promote the second season of the variety show “This is Slam Dunk” on Twitter: “Fans who don’t like the ‘NBA Slam Dunk Contest’, don’t worry, you will soon be able to enjoy slam dunks that you have never seen before, so stay tuned!”

After this tweet came out, ESPN followed up with publicity.

The outside world quickly forgot about the criticisms of the NBA’s “Slam Dunk Contest” and started discussing “This is Slam Dunk”!
Su Wan’s first season of “This is Catch” officially ended in January, with an average of 1 million views per episode, which can be said to be the popularity that only top variety shows can have. Sponsors also made a lot of money by relying on the relevant linkage of the call-in session.

This makes many sponsors jealous. It is said that many sponsors have contacted ESPN in advance to discuss cooperation in the second quarter.

It’s not just the sponsors who are ready to make a move, but also the street basketball players!
The winning team of this season, a total of 9 players, all signed a million-dollar endorsement contract with the “Suwan” brand. Among them, the three most popular streetball players are currently producing their exclusive signature shoes. At the end of the show, their commercial performances also increased.

Those with high net worth can earn $5 from a baseball game!

Such glory has made many street circle bigwigs who did not participate in this program extremely envious, and they can’t wait to come to the second season to share the “cake”.

But no one expected that in the second season of the show, Su Wan was not going to hold a “streetball game” anymore, but a “slam dunk contest”…

This time…

It’s even more exciting!

And those “dunkers” who have already become famous did not hesitate this time and chose to participate in this program.

There is no way, this program’s ability to create stars is too strong. Compared to slowly accumulating popularity on the streets, participating in this program is the fastest way to “leap over the dragon gate.”

These discussions once overshadowed the All-Star Weekend.

But this is not surprising…

All-Star Weekend is ultimately a festival for NBA fans.

Variety shows are the focus of many viewers who don’t like watching basketball games…

What’s more, the number of NBA fans cannot represent the basketball fan base in the United States.

To be honest, “March Madness” better represents the number of basketball fans in the United States.

So much so that before the All-Star Game the next day, there were still reporters asking Su Wan about his views on “This is Streetball”. Su Wan said: “As a basketball powerhouse, America has a strong basketball atmosphere. It’s just that compared to the streets, most people’s attention is on campus and professional leagues. But what I want to say is… there are geniuses on the streets too, and they can also do things that professional players can’t do!”

“Like a slam dunk…”

“This will be a variety show that will refresh many people’s perception of dunkers!”

“I am looking forward to the day when this program will meet everyone!”

Soon Su Wan’s remarks were published in the newspapers.

His words, “There are geniuses on the streets, and they can do things that professional players can’t do,” caused heated discussions in the streetball circle.

Many street players expressed their admiration for Suwan at the first opportunity.

Especially these streetball players under the “Suwan” brand…

They felt like they had found a soulmate!
After all, as street basketball players, most of them have encountered similar situations. When they are showing off on the streets, people often say to them, “Why are you pretending? You can’t play in the NBA after all.”

This is definitely a sentence that stings them.

Now that they have Su Wan’s words, they can use his words to “endorse” and refute these remarks: “Hey, even Su Wan acknowledges us, are you more qualified than Su Wan to comment on this matter?”

This is why these streetball players are so excited.

American culture, after all, is “identity culture.”

Su Wan saw the outside world’s reaction before the game, especially the reaction of those street basketball players. He believed that the second season of “This is Slam Dunk” would definitely be an exciting show, and it might even increase the popularity to a higher level.

Interestingly, Su Wan heard that similar variety shows were also being prepared in China.

At this stage when “Where Are We Going, Dad?” has just been released, a basketball variety show has been launched in China. This will definitely boost the atmosphere of Chinese basketball.

But Su Wan doesn’t think this can change the fundamental problem.

In the final analysis, no matter how good the soil of Chinese basketball is, it can never reach the level of America, so it is impossible to achieve “let a hundred flowers bloom”. Coupled with the various drawbacks of youth training teams and “vampire” organizations, it has led to the fact that the Chinese men’s basketball team will never undergo any fundamental changes.

In fact, this can also be seen from the later “big traffic era”. So many brands emerged on the streets, and even “village ba” became popular, but the future of Chinese basketball is still dark.

It was so dark that the “vampire” organization followed the old path of the neighbor, constantly changing the “leader”…

Take Yao Ming’s resignation as chairman of the basketball world, for example. It is essentially an explanation for the past decade.

The man who once carried the flag of “Chinese basketball” has become the scapegoat for the fact that the Chinese men’s basketball team has not entered even one Olympic Games in the past 10 years.

But what is more worrying is the future direction of Chinese basketball.

There is a ready-made path before us, and we can learn from its success.

But even if we follow this path, the outlook can only be described as pessimistic…

The reason is simple: streetball culture has generated sufficient commercial value.

A successful streetball player’s ability to monetize even far exceeds the annual salary of an ordinary professional CBA player.

You know, even ordinary players in the CBA would be at the ceiling level if they were put on the street court.

This leads to a problem…

To hold fast to a dream means not to make money; to make money means it is impossible to continue to pursue the dream;
Even in America, if 15 or 16-year-old “basketball geniuses” can earn more US dollars on the basketball court, would they still focus on playing in the NBA professional arena?

The answer is obvious!
This is also what Su Wan is worried about.

Basketball variety shows have opened up the domestic market ahead of schedule, and the basketball atmosphere on the streets of China will become even stronger. However, the commercial value brought by this strong atmosphere will make the CBA league even more embarrassing.

How many talented young people are still determined to become professional players as their final destination in basketball?
The reason why the next door life can avoid this is:

Their model is mature!
They have a national competition big enough…

There are even passionate comics like “Slam Dunk” that protect the dreams of young people.

Therefore, in Su Wan’s view, all the measures taken by Yao Ming during his tenure were very correct.

Make CBA more professional and make college leagues more standardized.

Su Wan felt that if time was longer, Yao Ming would definitely promote provincial high school basketball leagues…

But all this takes time, not just ten or twenty years. It took the NBA 75 years to achieve its current success, and the NCAA league took even longer to establish.

Chinese basketball has only been developed for twenty-five or twenty-six years since the establishment of the CBA league.

The coincidence is that…

It was around this point that the NBA almost went bankrupt.

The emergence of David Stern put the NBA back on track.

It depends on whether the new chairman after Yao Ming can stick to this path.

If this path is overturned, then in Su Wan’s opinion, no matter which path is taken, it will be a path with no light for Chinese basketball.

However, from the perspective of the struggle for the destiny of great powers, this may not be a bad thing.

Anyway, at the time when Su Wan traveled through time, the “three major balls” in Chinese sports were not ranked in the world, but in other aspects, especially in science and technology, they were catching up.

and so……

Weaknesses are just weaknesses!

Suwan did not play for too long in the All-Star Game. He played for less than 10 minutes before sitting on the sidelines. There were constant boos coming from the audience.

Houstonians have had a rough time these years.

Now they blamed all these dissatisfactions on Su Wan.

After all, the Rockets’ unsatisfactory performance that year started from that All-Star Game…

In the end, the Eastern Conference All-Stars defeated the Western Conference All-Stars, and Stephen Curry, who scored 29 points in his first All-Star Game, became the final All-Star MVP.

When Stephen Curry heard that he had become the “All-Star MVP”, he was a little confused. It was his first time participating in the All-Star Game, and he thought he was just a bystander, but in the end… he actually took home the All-Star MVP trophy, which symbolizes the “Star among Stars”.

The New York media was very satisfied.

This year’s All-Star Weekend officially ended with Stephen Curry’s acceptance speech.

The free trade market also ends along with the All-Star Weekend.

As in previous years, this year’s free trade market closed and a last-minute deal appeared:
Carmelo Anthony, who has been clamoring to leave Denver, finally has news.

The Clippers sent DeAndre Jordan and Eric Gordon to the Nuggets for Carmelo Anthony.

“Melo” joined the Clippers and formed the “Big Four” with Stoudemire, Blake Griffin and Deron Williams.

ESPN’s comment on this deal is:

“The Clippers’ desperate fight!”

Obviously, the Lakers’ rapid rise after the trade stimulated the Clippers, who had finally surpassed them last season.

Their momentum this season is clearly not as good as last season.

In this case, of course they have to try all in!
You know, Xiao Si is not young anymore.

Will it work?

It all depends on this time!
Carmelo Anthony is still very satisfied with his arrival with the Clippers.

No matter from which angle you look at it, his teammates on the Clippers are much better than his teammates on the Nuggets.

Looking at the luxurious lineup of his new team, Carmelo Anthony really has a feeling of “it’s today”!

In addition to this deal, the Bobcats also made a deal with the Nets, in which the Bobcats sent Walker to the Nets in exchange for Chris Humphries.

At this time, Humphries had not yet met Kim Kardashian, so he was still in good shape…

The Nets already have Lopez in the interior, and they need someone to replace Devin Harris, who has been repeatedly ruled out due to injuries.

Kemba Walker is a very good choice!
Just tap on both sides and get what you need.

Seeing the Bobcats make such a deal, even Barkley couldn’t help but ask: “Did God change Michael Jordan’s brain? Why are the deals he completes becoming clearer and clearer now?”

ESPN also highly recognizes the Bobcats’ reinforcements, believing that this wave of operations will help the Bobcats maintain their current seventh place in the Eastern Conference, or even go further.

In addition to these two transactions, there were some minor deals, but those deals did not even have a slight impact, so most media summarized them in one sentence.

Su Wan had already returned to New York. To his surprise, when he got home and opened the door, he saw a dark shadow rushing towards him. Just as he was about to knock down the invading enemy with a punch, he first noticed the appearance of the person who was about to “sneak attack” him:
Ivanka!
And dressed…

So sexy!

Su Wan put aside the stupid question of “Why is she here” and catered to her desire to get to know her quickly and deeply, chatting from the sofa to the bedroom.

At the end, Ivanka smoothed her sweaty hair, pulled up the quilt to cover her snow-white face, and suddenly asked, “Did you have fun in Houston?”

Su Wan immediately showed an embarrassed expression.

You don’t have to guess, he must have seen the report.

He smiled and prepared to get up and get something to eat.

Ivanka stopped him, threw her quilt on Su Wan, then put on Su Wan’s clothes, dragged his large slippers, and walked towards the door: “Take a rest, I’ll do it for you.”

“Is there anything to eat?” Su Wan was not sure whether there was any food in the refrigerator at home.

Ivanka said: “I bought it.”

About 20 minutes later, Ivanka’s voice was heard outside the door. Suwan searched for his slippers for a long time and finally walked out of the room barefoot.

Ivanka looked at him, smiled and sat down, kicking her slippers to Suwan. After Suwan sat down, she pushed the steak and mashed potatoes in front of Suwan, handed him a spoon and a knife and fork, and then hugged her legs and looked at Suwan like a girl.

“Don’t you want to eat?” Su Wan asked her. Ivanka leaned on her knees and shook her head slightly.

“When did you come back?”

“I came back the day before yesterday.”

“Are you done with your work?”

“Um……”

“what’s next?”

“I have to go to Los Angeles for my dad next. It may take a week or half a month for me to come back.”

“when are we leaving?”

“tomorrow!”

“Tomorrow?” Su Wan was a little surprised.

“Yes.”

Su Wan understood why she was here.

After dinner, the two went to sleep directly. When they woke up the next day, Ivanka was gone. She left a note in the living room:
I put the breakfast sandwiches in the refrigerator and can eat them after heating them up.

Su Wan opened the refrigerator, found a sandwich, ate it, and went to the gym.

In the first game after the All-Star Weekend, the New York Knicks faced the Los Angeles Clippers, who had just completed a trade.

As the last big deal of this season, the Clippers’ formation of the “Big Four” has aroused great expectations from the outside world.

From a functional point of view, Carmelo Anthony is indeed a very good addition to the Clippers, a team that lacks a top wing ball handler like Carmelo Anthony.

Neither Griffin nor Stoudemire are such players, and Deron Williams exposed many problems after leaving the UCLA system. His one-on-one ability is not as eye-catching as when he was on the Jazz.

The reason the Clippers lost this season was often because no one stepped up at critical moments.

Carmelo Anthony is one of the league’s top wing ball handlers with “killer qualities”. The Clippers have long been eyeing him and bargained with the Nuggets for a long time. Finally, they traded Gordon and Jordan for the coveted “wing reinforcement” to fill the weakest link.

Don’t think that Anthony has no reputation.

You should know that Gordon averaged 18.6 points per game this season, and Jordan, as a substitute, can also contribute 6.4 points and 6 rebounds per game. What’s more exaggerated is that this is the data he got in 25 minutes. If converted to 35 minutes, it would be a “double-double data” of “10 plus 10”.

This means that the Nuggets traded Carmelo Anthony for two quasi-All-Star level players.

On paper, it’s not much different from LeBron leaving the Heat.

Well, originally, LeBron and Anthony have similar market prospects.

They have all led their teams to the conference finals and have impressive averages…

But in their 10th season in the league, they still have not demonstrated their ability as the “absolute core” to lead the team to win the championship, so naturally they have no way to exchange for better chips.

Since Anthony has only made it to the conference finals once, the Clippers don’t even want to give him both.

Thanks to the patience of the Nuggets management, they finally waited for the Clippers to give in.

However, although the price was high, the change in outside public opinion made the Clippers feel that it was all worth it.

Now they are just waiting for the game against the New York Knicks to be their first game!

The Clippers are gearing up and are full of enthusiasm.

Not only the management, but the players as well.

The arrival of Carmelo Anthony has made others feel that the team’s strength has been further enhanced, and they can definitely accomplish great things this year.

It was a pity for the entire Clippers to lose in the Western Conference Finals last year. Now they are eager to go one step further!
The New York Knicks also attach great importance to this game.

Every game against a strong team is a good opportunity for the New York Knicks to hone their “screen tactics”!
D’Antoni is determined to make this set of tactics work to create a real chemical reaction and unleash real power.

He felt this would be a championship-level offensive tactic for the team.

more importantly……

The concept of this tactic is to focus on shooting from beyond the three-point line.

This coincides with the philosophy he has always advocated!

D’Antoni always believes that three-pointers are the trend of the future.

Even though he was frustrated with the Suns and even though he was still frustrated in New York, he knew very well that God had opened a door for him and given him a chance to prove his tactics.

This is the time:

Tyson Chandler’s aging makes the New York Knicks more dependent on outside shooting accuracy.

The New York Knicks’ main signature team this season is also the “Tsunami Brothers”!
All of this means the same thing:
Three-pointers are very important for the New York Knicks this season!
Of course, his ideas are constantly changing.

For example, he now discovered:

The reason why the Suns failed is that they had Steve Nash, but not the “Tsunami Brothers” like Suwan and Stephen Curry!
The Suns mainly rely on three-pointers, but the core is the “engine” Steve Nash.

This is why the three-point shooting style ultimately failed to sweep the entire league in those years.

It’s different now. As the engine of the team, Dio’s accomplishments in fast breaks are definitely not as good as Steve Nash’s, but the New York Knicks’ offensive firepower is even more fierce than the original Suns…

The main reason is that Suwan and Stephen Curry’s attack from outside the three-point line was too fierce!
This is the key!
D’Antoni finally realized where he lost all those years.

This “screen and pick-and-roll” tactic is his redemption of his own philosophy.

Both sides wanted to gain something from this game, so the momentum of both sides was very high at the beginning…

But as soon as the Clippers came on, they exposed their problems:

The defense is so bad!
Deron Williams’ mobility is not good, Carmelo Anthony at the 3rd position and Stoudemire at the 5th position do not have good defensive habits. As for the “supernova” like Griffin, let alone.

There is really no vitality on the defensive end.

This led to the mutual screens against the New York Knicks, which easily left them with open space and allowed the New York Knicks to make easy three-pointers.

The New York Knicks made six three-pointers in the first quarter alone.

There were 24 three-pointers in the whole game!

Just from three-pointers, the New York Knicks scored 72 points in this game…

The Clippers lost 33 points in this regard. They made a total of 13 three-pointers, 11 less than the Knicks.

It’s not that the Clippers don’t have advantages.

The “inside duo” of Griffin and Stoudemire bombarded the New York Knicks’ inside line and established a considerable advantage.

It’s just that the goals scored in the paint are all two-point field goals or one-point free throws.

Even if the advantage was big enough, they only established an advantage of about 24 points, which was still not enough to make up for the debt they owed outside the three-point line.

At the end of the game, the New York Knicks defeated the Clippers, who had just formed the “Big Four”, by 119 points with a score of 102 to 17.

苏万在这场比赛拿到了38分，命中了6记三分球；斯蒂芬-库里在这场比赛拿到了28分，命中了5记三分球。他们两个人加起来就命中了11记三分球。

In addition, Paul George also made 4 three-pointers tonight!

Dio also made 4 three-pointers!

“Blooming in many places” can only mean two things;
One is that the New York Knicks are in good enough shape, and the other is…

The Clippers’ defense is so bad!
“This is the biggest problem for the Clippers in this game. I hope they just haven’t developed a good defensive tacit understanding yet, otherwise…” Barkley paused and said directly, “No matter how good this team looks, the ultimate ceiling will not be too high!”

On the other hand, Bill Walton also expressed a similar view in the ESPN live studio: “Any championship team has high-quality defensive capabilities. From this perspective, the Clippers are not yet a championship-level team!”

Shaquille O’Neal proposed another hypothesis: “Is it possible that it’s not that the Clippers’ defense is too poor, but that the New York Knicks’ three-point shooting is too fierce?”

This hypothesis was quickly verified:

The New York Knicks will continue to face a strong team in the next game.

They challenged the Chicago Bulls away.

As one of the best defensive teams in the league, the Knicks once again exploded from beyond the three-point line when facing the Bulls, making 19 three-pointers in the game.

It seems that he is not as hot as he was in the last game outside the three-point line.

But the problem is…

The Bulls haven’t been as good from beyond the arc as the Clippers have been from beyond the arc.

As a result, the Bulls lost more points from beyond the arc.

The same story happened again. Even though the Bulls scored more points in the paint, the New York Knicks still took away the victory from the Bulls’ home court with a score of 109 to 98, by 11 points.

Seeing the New York Knicks win two games in a row with three-pointers, some media couldn’t help but sigh:

Eating feces!

In the past, controlling the basket was the only way to win.

But now the New York Knicks have told everyone through these two games that even if they control the points and rebounds under the basket, it is not as effective as controlling the three-point line.

This was reflected in the games against the Clippers and the Bulls. After losing to the New York Knicks, the Clippers quickly defeated the Spurs, proving that they are not a bunch of good-for-nothings, but are actually capable…

It was also the Clippers’ victory over the Spurs that made the New York Knicks’ performance beyond the three-point line in these two games even more valuable.

After defeating the two teams, the New York Knicks showed their strength beyond the three-point line to the fullest in the next game against a weaker team.

A very scary statistic, the New York Knicks made a total of 6 three-pointers in 100 games!

On average, 16.6 three-pointers can be made per game!

Two words to describe it:

Crazy!

At the end of February, the New York Knicks had a seven-game winning streak, which allowed Suwan to successfully retain the “Player of the Month” award.

In early March, the New York Knicks continued their momentum from beyond the three-point line, turning a “3-game winning streak” into a “7-game winning streak”, before losing their first game after the All-Star Weekend.

D’Antoni didn’t care about the loss at all.

In his opinion, the New York Knicks lost tonight entirely because of their poor shooting from beyond the three-point line. It can only be said that God did not allow them to win this game.

But in other aspects, such as the execution of the “screen tactics”, the New York Knicks did a good job tonight. Just for this reason, it is enough for D’Antoni to feel relieved.

But nothing in this world is always smooth sailing!

The NBA is even more so…

After the All-Star Weekend, as the “screen tactics” gradually produced a chemical reaction, the New York Knicks’ performance outside the three-point line was particularly outstanding, which also made other teams more targeted at their finishing outside the three-point line when targeting the New York Knicks.

After losing the game in mid-March, the New York Knicks suffered a two-game losing streak.

Every team they encountered during this period began to block the New York Knicks’ perimeter.

In this situation, the New York Knicks’ lack of ball-handling breakthrough players was immediately exposed.

Even though Su Wan’s existence has repeatedly reduced the consequences of this problem.

But he couldn’t fill it completely.

It is a fact that he is the only reliable ball handler on the New York Knicks’ perimeter!

Stephen Curry has good breakthrough ability, but his confrontation under the basket and his lack of ball handling methods when facing interference from the opponent’s inside players have led to his tendency to shoot from the outside more often when he is handling the ball…

In late March, the New York Knicks lost another three games and ended the month with a record of 3 wins and 3 losses.

The Eastern Conference Player of the Month award went to Chris Bosh!

Seeing him win the “Player of the Month”, the Miami media couldn’t help but sigh: “If only we hadn’t gotten LeBron!”

If he hadn’t wasted that year, maybe Chris Bosh would be in even better shape and could have won the regular season MVP.

This made the Miami media feel extremely sorry for Chris Bosh, and at the same time they cursed LeBron James harshly.

In the last seven games of April, the New York Knicks’ playing style was completely fixed. They covered each other outside the three-point line and looked for finishing opportunities. In addition, their “invincible technique” of passing the ball to Suwan at critical moments made them still the strongest team in the league.

最终，4月15日来临，纽约尼克斯靠着4月份的6胜1负，将本赛季的战绩打成了66胜16负！
Ranked first in the league.

In second place is the Oklahoma City Thunder, with a record of 63 wins and 19 losses!
At the same time, with the end of the season, the list of the top eight teams in the East and West this season has been officially finalized.

In the East, from first to eighth in the East, they are:

New York Knicks, Heat, Pacers, Chicago Bulls, Atlanta Hawks, Celtics, Bobcats, Milwaukee Bucks;

The biggest dark horse in the East this year is naturally the Bobcats.

No one expected them to make the playoffs.

What is even more unexpected is that…

The way they entered the playoffs was actually thanks to Michael Jordan’s “good eye for talent”!
What can I say?

Magic!

It’s so fucking magical!

The day after the regular season ended, Lillard received the “Best Rookie” award from the league.

This made him the first player in Bobcats history to win the “Rookie of the Year” award.

In fact, the original Bobcats won this award in their first year.

It was only Su Wan’s sudden appearance that finally changed the owner of this award.

The Bobcats finally broke this record until they acquired Lillard.

At the same time, Lillard is the rookie player with the most three-pointers made in a single season.

His three-point shooting percentage is not high, not even 40%.

Therefore, the media once again couldn’t help but say: “Times have really changed!”

If it were 10 years ago, when newcomers first entered the league, how could they dare to shoot three-pointers so crazily?

The first to eighth teams in the Western Conference are:
Thunder, Lakers, Spurs, Timberwolves, Clippers, Golden State Warriors, Nuggets, Mavericks;

The most unexpected team in the Western Conference is definitely the Thunder.

The departure of James Harden means the disintegration of the “Thunder Big Three”, but no one expected that under such circumstances, Kevin Durant and Westbrook would transform into a “king bomb” combination, and the Thunder relied on these two people to become the first in the Western Conference.

The Warriors were also something many people didn’t expect.

The team composed of a bunch of rookies, plus a “sixth man” abandoned by the Thunder, staged the “Golden State Myth” and made it to the playoffs in one fell swoop, thus becoming another representative of the “youth army”.

This story is no less than the “Black Eight Miracle” created by the Warriors that year.

The Bay Area is therefore called the “Miracle Team” by the Golden State Warriors!
As for the team that was a bit disappointing, that was of course…

Minnesota Timberwolves!
Before the start of the new season, the media made various predictions for the Western Conference, and finally concluded that the Timberwolves would either be second or first in the Western Conference, and at worst would be in the top three in the Western Conference.

Because other teams have too many problems.

Most media were optimistic about them, but the “double top scorers” just didn’t live up to expectations.

In the end, they only ranked 4th in the Western Conference.

Even given the fighting spirit shown by the Clippers, if the schedule were longer, I’m afraid they wouldn’t even be able to keep the 4th place.

LeBron, that’s it!

(End of this chapter)