Chapter 581: James's Belonging and the Worst Round in History
"Is this the rise of a fairy tale or the shattering of dreams?"
At the end of the final game of the regular season, the entire NBA was mired in controversy over Yes.
The Seattle SuperSonics' miraculous victory against the Nuggets was full of shock and incomprehension, and there was a lot of respect and understanding.
These people have a lot of emotions, but the most of them are actually positive praise.
In a place as calculating as the NBA, having such a player and a team can be a little overwhelming.
Although this player carries his team, which has always been marked by fairy tales and dreams.
Yees ignored the controversy.
For him, it was a matter of course to choose the Nuggets as a first-round opponent in the playoffs.
How difficult the Lakers are, how difficult Kobe Bryant is, and if he can, he even wants to pick the Spurs as a first-round opponent.
Now that the SuperSonics finished the regular season in third place in the West, and ended up facing the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs, it was a pretty perfect result for Yees and the SuperSonics.
The supersonics' magical result of the Nuggets game caused a lot of sensation and impact, but no matter how big the impact, this game is also the last game of the regular season, and in the face of the upcoming playoffs, such an impact will eventually disappear.
This year's NBA regular season ends on April 16 and the playoffs start on April 19, with only two days in between.
The day after the regular season ended, the league had a playoff schedule.
On April 19, the first day of the NBA playoffs, there will be eight playoff teams, and the Seattle SuperSonics and Nuggets game will be the first day on April 19.
The eight teams that played on the first day of the game on April 19 were the Magic in fourth place in the East and the Raptors in fifth place in the East, the Spurs in fourth place in the West and the Lakers in fifth place in West in Game 2, the Suns in second place in West and the Grizzlies in seventh place in West in Game 3, and the SuperSonics in third place in West and Nuggets in sixth place in West were the fourth finale.
On April 20, the other eight teams will also make their debuts, the Celtics in first place in the East and the Pacers in eighth in the East, the Wizards in second place in the East and the 76ers in seventh place in the East, the Pistons in third place in the East and the Hawks in sixth place in the East, as well as the Rockets in first place in the West and the Thunder in eighth place in the West.
After the first two days of the playoffs, the playoffs are basically two games a day or three games a day.
After the league's schedule came out, almost the entire NBA began to take stock of the focus of the first round of the playoffs.
Mainly in the west.
There really are no bright spots on this side of the East, the Celtics and Pacers, the Wizards and the 76ers, the Pistons and the Hawks, these three matchups are almost no suspense matchups.
Even the Magic, who are fourth in the East, and the Raptors, who are fifth in the East, don't seem to have much suspense, and the Raptors' performance in the regular season this season is very surprising, but the playoffs, after all, are different from the regular season.
The Magic performed quite well in the second half of the regular season, especially the Magic's dominant player, Howard, who was almost ravaging the league's unconventional big centers.
And the Raptors are just a team that doesn't have a traditional strong center.
In this series, the Raptors are afraid to be crushed to death by Howard.
The first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs may seem incredible to say.
Ninth in the East, the Cavaliers, who didn't make the playoffs, is perhaps the biggest attraction in the East right now.
The Cavaliers' two leading players, O'Neal and James, have recently had conflicts that no longer need to be hidden.
In fact, in the final games of the regular season Cavaliers, James has refused to play at the same time as O'Neal.
The Cavaliers are rumored to have been peddling O'Neal to keep James, but the Cavaliers have no sincerity in peddling at all.
O'Neill is still very strong at the moment, but it is definitely not worth trading a young player like Milicic.
Similarly, it will be difficult for other teams to trade O'Neal's chips to satisfy the Cavaliers.
O'Neal's contract is so big, the average All-Star can't match, even if O'Neal's strength is strong, it is impossible for others to use the All-Star of the year to add someone to exchange, O'Neal's age is already old after all.
Therefore, the chips that O'Neal can trade are those players whose contracts are not small and their strength is not very strong, and James will also be unhappy if he really wants to exchange O'Neal for these players.
According to the Cavaliers' internal information, James has already had a showdown with the team's owner.
Don't talk to him about his feelings and future, and if he wants to get him back on the court, he only has two demands, the first, to trade O'Neal away, and the second, to bring him enough help.
Judging from the inside news from the Cavaliers, James is very dissatisfied with the Cavaliers' boss for a long time, and after the team was pitted this time and did not enter the playoffs, he completely broke out.
Now a showdown like James is a self-inflicted act of the Cavaliers boss for many people who watch the excitement.
If he hadn't been treating James like a fool before, James wouldn't have reacted so much.
Now that there is no trust between James and him, in this case, the Cavaliers boss has no choice but to keep James with the sincerity of practical actions.
But whether it's trading O'Neal or bringing real helpers to the Cavaliers instead of Larry Hughes is an impossible thing for the Cavaliers boss.
O'Neal can't get a really strong instant power, and the Cavaliers can't attract real big names.
This is the dead knot!
Although Cavaliers fans now go to James' door every day to beg James to put away his refusal to play and refuse to renew his contract, those who watch the excitement know that James is preparing to leave the Cavaliers.
Since these two requirements are impossible conditions for the knight boss to fulfill, James put it forward, so he is naturally ready to leave.
And James's 3+1 contract expired in 2011, and there was an option to jump out of the contract in 2010, and now it is 2008, and it looks like there are still two years.
If one is not handled well, the knight will be beaten with chickens and eggs.
Even if it is handled well and James is exchanged for a bunch of things, the Cavaliers boss will need to deal with his relationship with the Clevelands.
Trade away James, this is a monstrous rage!
Unless the owner of the Cavaliers can put all the blame for the team's incident on James.
However, it is difficult.
Although James refuses to be on the same team as O'Neal, and the team will not renew his contract if he does not make up the gun, James will invite Cleveland fan representatives to his home every day for a heart-to-heart talk.
It's fair to say that Cavaliers fans are now 100 percent on James' side.
Who is O'Neill or James important to them?
James, of course!
Is there anything wrong with the reinforcement of the team? If James hadn't really been able to take it anymore, would he have threatened with his love for Cleveland?
How deep is James' love for Cleveland?
Even YES has recently responded to the Cleveland controversy.
"James wouldn't joke about his love for Cleveland if he hadn't gotten to the point of despair, and I'm sure he'd stay as long as the Cavaliers boss met James' conditions a little bit."
Now the league executives who watched the excitement thought James was definitely leaving.
And those Cavaliers fans and James fans like yes always believe that this is James threatening the Cavaliers owner with his love for Cleveland's future.
It can be said that now the Cavaliers boss is very passive after being put on a position like this by James.
"Daniel Gilbert always thought that LeBron James was an idiot, and in the end, it turned out that he was the real idiot."
"LeBron James played a pretty beautiful hand, and I bet that when James was traded away from the Cavaliers by Gilbert, he would definitely be on TV live to the Cleveland fans and say he'll be back!"
"I swear, that day, all of Cleveland will cry for LeBron James!"
These are the exact words of the general manager of a Western Conference playoff team and the greatest general manager in NBA history, as relayed by an NBA executive.
Because of this, almost all general managers who didn't make the playoffs are now moving in and making offers to the Cavaliers that they can.
Now, the focus across the East isn't the upcoming playoffs, it's where James belongs.
It is not the same as the current focus in the east, which has completely shifted.
Now in the West, the atmosphere of the playoffs has reached an incredible level.
It's really that the eight teams in this year's Western Conference playoffs are too strong in the regular season.
The top eight teams in the West are all the teams with the best records in the same position in NBA history.
The first in the west to the eighth in the west is the first in the strongest division in history to the eighth in the strongest division in history.
"If you change to the usual season, in terms of the performance of these eight teams this season, Yao Ming, the leading player of the first Rockets in the West, Nash, the leading player of the second Suns in the West, yes, the leading player of the third SuperSonics in the West, and then Duncan, Kobe, Anthony, Greg Oden, Chris Paul, they are all eligible to win the MVP of the regular season!"
"Now, eight players who have reached MVP level this season are actually concentrated in one season, in one division!"
"I swear this year's Western Conference playoffs are the best playoffs ever!"
The most exciting playoff in history, this is the evaluation of the Western Conference playoffs by public opinion in the United States when the playoffs have not yet started.
It's a pretty high rating, but it's amazing that no one thinks it's too high.
Just look at the records behind these Western Conference teams to see what it means to be persuasive.
Eight teams, seven with 64 wins or more, and one with 55 wins.
This year's wonders in the west may never be seen again.
One season, seven all-time teams.
So when the media in the United States previewed the West, the four groups in the West, except for the Rockets, who ranked first in the West, played the Thunder, who were eighth in the West, and the Thunder was 4 to 2, and the other predictions were all 4 to 3!
The Rockets' regular season record this season is 73-9, the best regular season record in history, such teams generally meet eighth in the playoffs, which is a 4-0 sweep, but only a few of the 100 experts in the ESPN organization think that this group will be a sweep, and most people think that the Thunder can win one game or two, Chris Paul, Peja, David West, Tyson Chandler......
Thunder is not weak at all!
The second Suns in the West and the Grizzlies in seventh in the West, the Suns' record is 71-11, and the Grizzlies are 64-18, the difference is a bit big, but the whole world now knows what the Suns' weaknesses are.
In this case, 55 experts from ESPN's 100 experts predicted this set of matchups on the side of the Suns and 45 on the side of the Grizzlies, and most of the experts predicted the final score of 4 to 3, regardless of whether the Suns won or the Grizzlies won, the final score was 4 to 3.
The Spurs, who are fourth in the West, and the Lakers, who are fifth in the West, also predict a score of 4-3, but most experts believe that the Spurs will win 4-3, and the number of experts who think the Spurs can win has reached 65.
This ratio is already quite different.
The Lakers' performance in the regular season is excellent, but it is difficult to say in the playoffs, the Spurs' players have been successful in the playoffs, and the Lakers' players, except for Kobe and Kidd, have not been successful in the playoffs, and even the Lakers' current three-in-command, Randolph, who faces Duncan, has always been a regular season data brush.
Such a data brush is naturally not trusted in the playoffs.
And the SuperSonics, who are third in the West, and the Nuggets, who are sixth in the West, are the most watched matchups in the first round.
90% of ESPN pundits believe the Nuggets can win, of which 50% believe the Nuggets will win 4-3, and most of the remaining 45 ESPN pundits believe the Nuggets can win the series in five games.
Although the most predicted in the final of this set of matchups is the Nuggets winning 4-3 against the SuperSonics.
It seems to be quite intense.
But perhaps embarrassingly for the SuperSonics, there are only 10 experts who think the SuperSonics can win this series, or 10 percent.
According to the predictions of these experts at ESPN, the Seattle SuperSonics have little hope of advancing in the first round of the playoffs.
"yes may be going to be the first round this year!"
After ESPN's playoff preview was released, the question of whether Yes is going to play a round in this year's playoffs immediately became the biggest hot topic on Twitter.
"I feel sorry for me Ye and him Zhan, this year is the year of disaster for the Chosen One!"
"Who is miserable yes or James? I think yes is worse than James, James just didn't make the playoffs, yes with such a lineup worked hard to reach the playoffs with a record of 69 wins, but in the end it had to be a round, which is probably the worst round in history!"
"The 69-win round tour can indeed be regarded as the worst in history, and the Mavericks who were blacked out last year did not have this record......