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Although many players complain about playing at Christmas, it has to be said that the Christmas war, which has been hyped since the era of David Stern, has given a large number of players the opportunity to perform in front of audiences across the United States and even around the world.

As the defending champions, the 76ers are naturally in the ranks of the Christmas war, the 76ers' opponent in the Christmas war is not a strong team, of course, it is not too weak, their opponent in the Christmas war is the Chicago Bulls, as the ruler of the 90s of the 20th century, in the 21st century, the Bulls have been around the bad words for their endless reconstruction, knowing the emergence of Derrick Rose.

But two years ago, Derrick Rose was seriously injured, and the roses withered before they bloomed, seeing that the Bulls were facing a serious injury to the core and the problem of the collapse of the lineup, at this time, Tom Thibodo used his defense to help the Bulls stabilize their results, and the growth of Jimmy Butler allowed the Bulls to find the core of the next generation.

This season, Jimmy Butler has improved tremendously, from a role player who averaged 13 points per game last season to a star swingman who averaged 20 points per game.

Jimmy Butler's growth trajectory is very similar to Anxi's, and even he entered the league in the 2011 draft, and was a substitute in the bench in his first year with the Bulls, and he didn't get much playing opportunities at all.

The following year, he began to show his talent on the defensive end and began to establish himself in the rotation of defense-focused head coach Tom Thibode.

Then, in the third year, as Derrick Rose continued to suffer serious injuries, Jimmy Butler was given more opportunities, he became the team's starter, and he got better and better, and finally in his fourth year, he grew into an All-Star.

The Bulls' record is not bad, and Derrick Rose is back again this season, although the first few games are very pitiful and always play iron, but as the season progresses, Derrick Rose has also become able to stabilize and start to help the team lock up the victory at critical moments.

Other times, with Jimmy Butler, the team always played smoothly.

Before the Christmas game, the Bulls had a 19-9 record, sitting fifth in the East, behind the 76ers, Hawks, Raptors and Wizards.

Obviously, this is also a not weak opponent.

On the 76ers' side, because of the injuries of Pau Gasol and McCarvey, as well as Anxi's ban, in the last 6 games, the 76ers have 1-5 and only won one Magic, and their record has changed from 20-3 before Anxi's ban to 21-8, and the ranking has also fallen rapidly, and it was actually surpassed by the 22-7 Raptors and the 21-7 Hawks in a row, becoming the third in the East.

The situation in the East is completely chaotic, and the 76ers, the favorites to win the championship at the beginning of the season, have lost consecutive games and slipped in the rankings because of core bans and injuries.

On the other hand, the Cavaliers, who are also favorites to win the championship, have performed a little bleakly, the trade asked by LeBron James has not come, and the Cavaliers have once again entered an unstable state after losing to the 76ers, sometimes losing, sometimes exploding to win, and the game is played to the Christmas war, and the Cavaliers have only achieved a 17-10 record, and even ranked sixth in the East after the Bulls.

The Christmas war, the Cavaliers naturally participated, their opponent happened to be the Warriors who had a fierce conflict with Anxi, the home of the Warriors, in this game, LeBron James shouted the slogan of victory before the game, and they wanted to use a victory in the Christmas war to sweep away the previous decline.

The Warriors didn't do very well after the brawl, and although their core players were present, the players they lost were all important defensive players for the team, and the Warriors' defense collapsed as soon as Andrew Boggart and Draymond Green on the inside and Andre Iguodala on the outside were absent.

They lost three of their next five games and won just two, ending up with a 23-6 record, but still topping the league.

In addition to the 76ers and the Bulls, the Warriors and the Cavaliers, there are three sets of matchups in the Christmas War, of which New York and Los Angeles are bound to have Christmas games, this season, New York and Los Angeles each have two teams, so these two teams are also selected as the opponents of the Christmas War, Lakers vs. Clippers, Nets vs. Knicks.

The remaining set of matchups is the Spurs vs. the Heat, Anxi is still in the Spurs, LeBron James is still in the Heat, these two teams are opponents in the Finals for two consecutive years, and after a year, the league has arranged a Christmas game for them, home in Miami.

The Cavaliers' focus on the Warriors is whether LeBron James can lead the team back to Yong, and whether the Warriors, the number one dark horse this season, can continue their dark horse nature.

The Lakers' focus on the Clippers, Nets and Knicks is the same city derby, compared with the hot derby in football, the local derby of basketball is not very popular, but under the rule of Adam Shaw, he also began to consciously cultivate this kind of city opposition and popularity.

The Spurs and the Heat are naturally a bit like historical rivals in football, the Spurs defeated the Heat Big Three for two consecutive years, and this hatred will obviously continue if it is in football.

The final set of matchups, 76ers vs. Bulls.

The league has a headache, after Derrick Rose was seriously injured, his popularity is not as good as before, Jimmy Butler is just a small role, he has no popularity at all, and he obviously can't find it from the Bulls.

But when they turned their heads to look at the 76ers, the league's staff and media reporters immediately cried, Pau Gasol and McCarvey will continue to be sidelined with injuries, Anxi has not returned from the suspension, and even Jack Leoder has not ended his suspension.

Doesn't the alliance care?

Soon, the league gave an answer.

The league will not want to see this happen, when Anxi completed a community service, and expressed his apologies with actions, the league officially announced: due to Anxi's good attitude of admitting mistakes and positive performance in recent times, the league will reduce the number of bans in Anxi to 6 games at its discretion!

At the same time, the number of bans of Draymond Green, Jack Crowder and others has also been reduced to a certain extent, Draymond Green's 12-game ban has been reduced to 8 games, and Jack Crowder will also return directly in the next game.

In this way, the Oracle brawl that occurred on December 15, and after 10 days, except for Draymond Green, several other players will all be released from the ban and returned.

In this way, before the Christmas war, Anxi announced his comeback, he was like a hungry tiger that escaped from the cage, and he was about to finish pounce on the bull!