On December 11, 2013, the SuperSonics, who beat the Oklahoma City Thunder on the road, continued their road trip and will face another playoff powerhouse in the West, the Memphis Grizzlies led by supergiant Oden.

It's another master-apprentice battle!

It's also a focus battle!

In the Seattle SuperSonics Five now, in the minds of many people, the Grizzlies led by Oden are definitely one of the most powerful teams to beat the Five Little SuperSonics.

Now the five small players of the Seattle SuperSonics are all strong offensive and defensive players who can at least play from the No. 1 position to the No. 3 position.

Antetokounmpo, Leonard, Durant, Yas, James Harden.

Five players is nothing short of a nightmare for outside players in the league.

Especially after Westbrook, the most ruthless boy on the street of the league, was dumb in front of Yes, there are now many people talking about what kind of players and what kind of team can really kill the five super five of the Seattle SuperSonics.

And the Grizzlies led by Oden, who is now the league's No. 1 center candidate, are undoubtedly a big favorite.

The Grizzlies aren't the top three recognized Warriors this season.

But after the Lakers, Cavaliers and Warriors, the fourth Warrior is definitely the Grizzlies.

If it weren't for the structural aging of the Grizzlies, the team's bravery would have continued to rise.

After all, as the de facto No. 1 center in the league now, Oden will still give a lot of people a lot of expectations.

The most decorated center in the league is of course O'Neal and Yao Ming.

But O'Neal now plays basically symbolically some games with the Nets, and most of his time is now in the studio of the TNT team.

After the New Jersey Nets became the Brooklyn Nets in 2012, O'Neal followed Kobe's example and changed his jersey number to the No. 33 college jersey number, and pushed the Brooklyn Nets to add a green jersey to the black and white jersey base.

This is O'Neal's third jersey number with the Nets.

In the past few seasons, O'Neill has basically changed numbers every two seasons.

From the first 34 to the later 36, and then to the current 33.

Clearly, O'Neill's intentions are not hard to guess.

The big center is ready to retire three jerseys at the Nets when he retires!

This makes many people feel that the reason O'Neal is doing this is to continue to press Kobe.

Kobe Bryant is bound to retire the No. 8 and No. 24 jerseys with the Lakers.

He went one step further and retired three jerseys with the Nets.

This is a lot of speculation.

It's just that O'Neill smiled noncommittally at these people's speculations.

What is the pressure Kobe, you also think too simply!

Brother Shark is here to get together a seven-colored suit!

Therefore, as the center with the highest status in the league's history, O'Neal's mind is now all on the seven-color suit and his TV career.

And after O'Neal, Yao Ming, the second and second highest in league history.

Yao Ming is not as laid-back as O'Neill now, and he doesn't care much about the game like an idle cloud and wild crane.

But because he is about to be 34 years old, plus the honors of 2MVP1FMVP and the best defensive player for a while and so on, Yao Ming doesn't care much about the honors and statistics of the regular season, but more wants to continue the length of his career and strive to make a difference in the playoffs.

Therefore, Yao Ming's current data and performance in the regular season naturally cannot support his position as the first center.

Therefore, now the position of the league's No. 1 center has logically transitioned from Yao Ming's hands to Oden's hands.

Compared to the rest of the league such as Howard, Milicic and Bynum, and even the younger generation of Cousins, Oden is now a natural successor to the No. 1 center in terms of strength, fame and prestige.

If Oden did not take over as the first center last season, then this season, Oden, who has averaged 28 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 2.5 blocks per game in the league so far, is undoubtedly the league's No. 1 center.

At the Memphis Federal Express Arena, when Oden came to hug Yes before the game, he looked at the big man in front of him, and Yes couldn't help nodding.

This season is Oden's seventh season in the league, and he is approaching his 26th birthday.

For Oden, this seven-year career has undoubtedly been a success.

He has played a total of six seasons since he entered the NBA as a rookie, and all six seasons have been in the playoffs.

Even if the helpers next to him are getting old one by one, he still relies on his strength to bring the Grizzlies to the top eight in the West and enter the playoffs.

For any player, in a competitive environment like the West, it is a success to bring the team to the playoffs with an infinitely close to a single core.

It's just obvious that as the emperor, and the emperor who has been shouted by the whole United States for ten years.

Oden's current NBA accomplishments have been successful, but they haven't lived up to the standards that would satisfy him and everyone else.

So after taking the initiative to hug and greet Yes, as the host of the home game, Oden accepted an interview with Kenny Smith on the spot.

And Kenny Smith's first question was about MVP.

Players like Oden have always been compared to players like Jordan and Yees.

Yes won the regular season MVP in his second season in the NBA.

Jordan won the regular season MVP in his fourth season.

This season is already the seventh season for Oden.

Originally, as Gasol, Maddie, Carter, Battier and others aged, this honor seemed to be getting farther and farther away from Oden.

This season, though, the opportunity came out of nowhere.

"I'm certainly hoping that this game can beat the Seattle SuperSonics, beat the teacher, and yes, I'm like everyone else and I'm interested in the MVP of this season."

Auden was not secretive about the subject.

Now his career is in a very awkward situation.

Some of them can't go up or down.

So much so that now there are many voices ridiculing him: "Oden and James, who is the worst chosen one in basketball history?" ”

There is no doubt that it was James before, but after James won the championship, the pressure was all on Oden's side.

However, judging by the expression on Auden's face now, Kenny Smith feels that Auden's current state of mind seems to be quite good.

"Although the MVP is very attractive, the master is the strongest player in the NBA, whether it was him three years ago or now, he is the strongest player in NBA history, and the Seattle SuperSonics are also the strongest team in NBA history, and beating such a team is undoubtedly the hardest question about basketball in the world."

"So Greg, are you confident that you will be the answer to this conundrum in this game, or this season?"

At Kenny Smith's expectant gaze, Auden smiled and nodded.

"I'm going to work hard, try not to let the Seattle SuperSonics play their twenty-second winning streak here."

In the face of Kenny Smith's various emotionally provocative questions, Auden's answers have always been neither humble nor arrogant.

This surprised and amazed both Kenny Smith.

In fact, don't look at Auden's big five big and three rough, in fact, his heart is as old as his appearance.

Oden is a fairly low-key and mature player.

"There are countless chosen sons in this world, maybe there are no players like Yes, but talented players like James and Oden are rare, but there are definitely no less, but there are very few so-called chosen sons who can achieve such achievements as Oden in the NBA, most of them are in college, and even fell in high school, it can only be said that Oden's success in the NBA is definitely not accidental, he is indeed a more mature and excellent center than Howard."

Even Kenny Smith, who was mainly trying to sow discord between Auden and Yees this time, sighed heartily after ending his visit with Oden.

Oden's mentality is very, very good at the moment.

But this is on the surface, and deep down in his heart, there is no doubt that he is still a little troubled.

This season is already in his seventh season, and it's time for him to make a difference.

He didn't think his career could match the heights of his teacher.

But he never felt that it was a delusion for him to pursue Jordan's height, and Jordan's height was also very high, but whether it was James in the past or he is now, he has the ambition to chase the past, whether he can chase it or not.

Jordan, on the other hand, began to produce results in his seventh season.

In Jordan's seventh season, Jordan won the championship, the regular season MVP, and the Finals MVP.

And he, in his seventh season, not to mention winning so many honors from Jordan.

Isn't it time to win the first regular season MVP of your career?

This is Auden's current annoyance.

It's not just Auden's troubles.

This is the trouble of all the chosen ones.

Not only Oden, but James was or still is in such troubles.

Because no matter what, both James and Oden feel that they are out of place with the current basketball world.

Both James and Oden sensed that their style of play was not the trend of the world.

And they are not strong enough to reverse the tide brought by Yes.

In the end, they could only watch Nash, Nowitzki, Curry and other miracles continue to play out one by one, and they can only envy and watch from the sidelines.

Because, they can't play such basketball, and they can't change such basketball, so they can only go with the flow in the end.

In this world, no one wants to be the chosen one to go with the flow.

In the era when they were the chosen ones, they were the kind of players who led the way!

However, time changes too quickly.

Some people are like James, who have never been able to get out of the glory of being the chosen one in the past, and have always felt that they are still the 'king of the world', and even his tweets are 'KING', and they have always felt that the world should be covered and shrouded by his wings.

And Oden is different from James, his career is not as smooth as James, his career has had a huge crisis, if it weren't for Master Yes to help him resolve the crisis, he wouldn't even have the opportunity to follow the crowd in the NBA.

But in any case, Auden felt that he should do something about the general trend guided by his master, and not be directly overwhelmed by the water and then overwhelmed.

In the middle of the court, looking at Antetokounmpo in front of him, looking at the circle of small players opposite and around him, Oden never dreamed that this would be the case in the NBA ten years later when he became the Chosen One ten years ago.

He didn't want to say anything about this game, anyway.

In this game, he just wants to bring out all his strength.

It doesn't matter if you beat the supersonics, or if you lose in the end, you can be an MVP, or anything else.

Even if his roar in this game is just a seed to send the end of the big center era in the trend guided by the teacher.

This game, he wants to make his voice heard!

Amid the cries of the fans at the Federal Express Arena, Oden didn't give Antetokounmpo any chance.

Antetokounmpo's bounce and speed are so good that most centers in the league can't really beat him on the jump ball.

Therefore, even in the face of Oden, there are still some expectations for supersonic up and down.

After all, Oden is only 2 centimeters taller than Antetokounmpo.

The imagination is beautiful, but the reality is a little skinny.

The ability of the One Emperor and the One Emperor on the jump ball is really tested for a long time, especially as the First Emperor Auden.

The Memphis Grizzlies' first offense, Oden quickly went to the front court after completing the jump ball, and Antetokounmpo's return speed was also quite fast.

The Grizzlies are on a fast break, but the Seattle SuperSonics aren't out of position.

In fact, the Seattle SuperSonics, who play five smalls, are not very easy to get out of position defensively.

The speed of the team's defensive rotation is now definitely the highest in NBA history.

However, for the Grizzlies, whether the Seattle SuperSonics' defense is out of position or not really makes a difference.

Maddie dribbled quickly past half-court before handing the ball to Pau Gasol at the free-throw line.

After receiving Maddy's pass, Pau Gasol barely had any pause and threw the basketball directly under the basket.

After Oden carried Antetokounmpo, he jumped high and smashed the received basketball directly into the basket!

2 to 0!

After the Grizzlies attacked in the middle of the half, all of the Grizzlies' passes were high-flying.

In the end, Gasol and Oden ended the attack in the form of an inside cross.

The whole time, the Seattle superSonics' defense didn't even have a chance to react.

So much so that after Oden completed the dunk, the entire Federal Express Arena was briefly suffocated for a moment.

"Charles, have you ever seen the SuperSonics so weak on the defensive end this season?"

Buckley shook his head.

And after a short suffocation, the entire Federal Express Arena resounded with even greater cheers.

Listening to the loud cheers in his ears, Barkley's eyes widened.

Could it be that in this game, Oden and the Grizzlies can really swim against the current?!