In the end, Wang Xiao fixed Curry's playing time at 20 minutes.

20 minutes is already quite a lot of playing time for a first-year rookie, more than Garnett, Pierce and others of the Celtics.

Curry scored 16 points in 20 minutes of playing time and was outstanding.

And the final winner of the game was the Eastern All-Star team led by Wang Xiao.

Relying on Wade's 28 points and 11 assists and James's 25 points and 6 assists, the Eastern Conference All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars 142-140, and Wade, who won a double-double, also became the MVP of the All-Star Game.

No one but the fans will care about the outcome of the All-Star Weekend, but when the All-Star Weekend is over, the real highlight begins!

The first is the trade deadline after the All-Star break.

Taking advantage of the trade deadline, teams across the league are making big and small trades.

On February 19, the Houston Rockets, New York Knicks and the Saramento Kings made a three-way trade involving nine players, and the Rockets sent Maddie to New York in exchange for the Kings' star Kevin. Martin.

Although the Rockets' move broke up the Yao Mai combination that Chinese fans loved, it was also to fight for a playoff spot in the next game.

Wang Xiao's Wizards team was quite low-key in this trade event, and did not make any trades.

Wang Xiao himself has received offers from many teams, most of which are interested in Curry and Harden, and some teams want to get two experienced and capable veterans, Jamison and Butler.

However, the chips they provided were like dealing with Hanako, and Wang Xiao was not interested at all, so he passed them all.

The only thing that interested him was the deal request for Haywood.

The Dallas Mavericks are interested in Wizards center Haywood and have floated the idea of trading a first-round pick and a bench player for Haywood.

Haywood's contract will be renewed at the end of this season, and after returning from injury this season, Heywood can average 11 points and 8 rebounds in 28 minutes per game, and his interior defense is quite good.

Haywood has previously made it clear that he wants to sign a big contract, and in Wang Xiao's memory, Haywood seems to have been traded to the Mavericks by the Wizards in another time and space, and signed a six-year contract worth $55 million with the Mavericks in July 10!

With Jordan Jr., Wang Xiao is not ready to renew Haywood at all, let alone a big contract.

The Mavericks' first-round pick isn't worth much, but it's better than being prostituted after Haywood's contract expires, right?

But after careful consideration, Wang Xiao vetoed the deal.

The reason is simple, the Wizards' interior line is still inseparable from Haywood.

Jordan Jr. and McGee are both doing well, but they are not as good as the experienced Haywood.

The competition will be more intense after the trade deadline, and there will be a playoffs after the regular season!

Wang Xiao needs Haywood to charge for the Wizards during this time.

So even if Heywood is going to be taken away for nothing and can't make anything, Wang Xiao has to keep him in the team.

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Before All-Star Weekend, all 30 teams in the league have played 50 games, and each team plays 82 games in a normal regular season season, and after All-Star Weekend, the next 32 games are played.

These 32 games will determine which 16 teams will participate in the playoffs this season.

The teams at the bottom of the standings will have to start fighting for a ticket to the playoffs, and the teams at the top of the table won't be too comfortable.

Playoff matchups are played in ranked order, with teams with better records and weaker opponents they will encounter.

In the East, the Cavaliers are far ahead, while the Wizards in second place and the Magic in third place are not far behind.

The Magic team is very similar to overtaking the record and regaining the second place in the East, in addition to the relatively weaker opponents, Van Gundy has another consideration.

Judging from the current situation, as long as there are no surprises in the second and third positions in the East, the Magic and the Wizards are basically two battles, and once it comes to the second round of the playoffs, after the Magic and the Wizards have eliminated their respective opponents, the two teams will have a life-and-death knockout game.

If the Magic sit second in the East, the two teams will have a home-and-away advantage when they meet in the playoffs.

Van Gundy doesn't think the Magic will lose when they meet the Wizards in the playoffs, and the playoffs and the regular season are completely different rhythms, more confrontational, and a lot of tests of the team's defensive ability.

A team like the Wizards that relies on three-point shooting will not be able to compete with the defensive Magic team once they miss the shooting in the playoffs.

The Suns, who are as strong as the previous two years, are not also in the playoffs every year?

However, Van Gundy is used to being careful in everything, and it never hurts to win second in the East and keep the home advantage just in case.

But to Van Gundy's surprise, when the All-Star Weekend ended and most teams had a stronger desire to win, the Wizards still maintained a very high winning rate, constantly using offense and three-pointers to win game after game!

After the All-Star Weekend, Stephen Brown. Curry's form is getting better and better, and it seems that the start of the All-Star Game has given him a lot of encouragement and made him quite positive.

In the remaining seven games in February, Curry averaged 31 points and 6 assists per game, and the Wizards won 6 of the 7 games under Curry's explosive performance in the small universe, and Curry was also selected as the best player in the East in February because of his explosive performance in the second half of the month.

As a rookie, Curry was the first rookie in the class of '09 to be named Player of the Month, and in February, when he was selected as Player of the Month, Curry averaged 11 three-pointers per game and shot 4.8, a 43.6% shooting rate.

The current player with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the league is also on the Wizards, and it is McMiller, who averages 4.2 three-pointers per game, hitting 2 of them at a 47.6% shooting rate.

In fact, players who can shoot more than 40% of three-point shots per game basically average less than 5 three-point shots per game.

Curry is averaging 11 three-pointers per game and still being able to maintain a super-high shooting percentage of 43.6%, which is quite an incredible situation.

It only takes a little comparison to understand how incredible it is.

Arenas, who was traded to the Timberwolves by Wang Xiao last year, is still playing for the Timberwolves because there was no gun-to-door incident, and so far this season, he has averaged 21.3 points per game, averaging 19 shots per game, hitting 7.5 shots and shooting 39.5%.

And the Warriors' guard Monta, who is currently ranked seventh on the scoring list, is in seventh place. Ellis, who averages 25.5 points per game and shoots only 44 percent from the field.

Curry can compete with these guards just by virtue of his three-point shooting percentage, which shows how accurate his three-point shooting is!

In fact, not only Curry, but also the Wizards' entire three-point shooting percentage is jaw-dropping.

From the start of the new season in October to the end of February, the Wizards averaged 42 three-pointers per game and hit 16 of them, a shooting percentage of around 38 percent, which ranks second in the league and is second only to the Phoenix Suns' 41 percent three-point shooting percentage.

The Suns shoot half as many three-pointers per game as the Wizards!

Basically, if it weren't for this excellent three-point shooting percentage, the Wizards would not have achieved what they are now.