In addition to a couple of small trades from the Trail Blazers over the summer, other teams have also embarked on rebuilding plans to prepare for next season's games.

First of all, the Los Angeles Lakers, who just beat the Celtics to win the championship, this is the first time in their history that they have beaten the Celtics to win the championship, erasing the shameful record of eight consecutive Finals defeats to the Celtics, and also becoming the first away team in NBA history to lift the championship trophy in Boston Garden Square.

In the new season, in order to dominate the league and complete the great cause of defending the title - no team has defended the title since the Celtics in 1969, the Lakers continue to strengthen through trades.

One of the most important deals was the exchange of a 1988 second-round pick and a 1989 second-round pick for the Phoenix Suns' power forward, Maurice Lucas.

In the eyes of media commentators, this is another Lakers-style "robbery" deal, using two inconsequential second-round picks to get an experienced interior veteran.

Morris Lucas's peak was spent with the Portland Trail Blazers, when the absolute core of the Trail Blazers was Wharton, but Lucas was the Trail Blazers' leading scorer.

That season, 19761977 season, the Trail Blazers got a trade for Lucas, which completely completed the team's reinforcement and allowed them to win a championship without being favored.

But then, with Wharton's injury, the Trail Blazers finally fell apart, and Lucas's low post was replaced by Mitchell Sampson, and finally Lucas became a wanderer, floating around various teams, but he was still able to contribute 15 points and 10 rebounds per game, which is enough to prove that his strength still exists.

With the trade to get Lucas, the Lakers' original backup inside, former regular season MVP Bob McAdoo also lost his original position, and he was swept away by the Lakers along with another Lakers veteran, Jamal Wilkes.

After the joy of the championship cools, everything returns to the cold reality, no matter how great the contribution in the past, there is a possibility of being traded or cut, this is the NBA.

Compared to the Lakers, their old rivals in the Finals, the Celtics, are also not idle, and after suffering the humiliation of their first loss to the Lakers in 1985, the Celtics are bent on revenge next season.

Like the Lakers, the Celtics have also chosen to bolster their interior, and as a bargaining chip, the Celtics' former Finals MVP, the team's most important backup, Cedric Maxwell.

After Maxwell received his second championship ring in 1984, his overall competitive form declined severely, and at the same time, he also had a conflict with the team's boss Bird, and after losing the Finals, he was inevitably involved in a trade and was sent to another team in Los Angeles, the Clippers, in exchange for an extremely important player, Bill Walton.

I don't know if the Lakers and Celtics have discussed, the two most important trade reinforcements in the summer are players from the former Trail Blazers' championship-winning lineup, one is the top scorer, the other is the absolute core, and the Trail Blazers have suddenly become a reinforcement training base for the East and West hegemons.

In addition to these two important trades, both the Celtics and Lakers have made some minor repairs to further improve the team structure, and their core framework has not changed.

It is worth mentioning that Jamal Wilkes, a veteran who was cut by the Lakers, was immediately signed by the Los Angeles Clippers, and his old rival Cedric Maxwell gathered in Los Angeles.

The Lakers and Celtics are "the only thing I have in the world" to each other at this time, and all trade activities are aimed at opponents, but other teams are eyeing the supremacy of these two teams.

The rising upstarts in the East, the Detroit Pistons who fought the Celtics in the '85 playoffs, first used the No. 18 pick in the first round to take out shooting guard Joe Dumas from McNeese State University in the draft.

There is no doubt that this is an extremely important choice, a very crucial signing.

They also picked Sparty Weber, who is 170 tall and has an amazing bounce in the draft, but they quickly cut the miracle little man.

More critical is the next trade, in mid-June, the day before the draft, the Pistons traded the team's main power forward, former All-Star Dan Rondfeld, to the Washington Bullets, and got the inconsequential McGibson, as well as the interior hitter, "Beef Guy" Rick Mahon.

After trying to play quickly and unsuccessfully, Detroit has begun to take a different path, embarking on a far-reaching muscular, violent path.

In comparison, the other two powerhouses in the East, the Millennial Bucks and the Philadelphia 76ers, the old overlords, have not made much movement.

In the draft, the Bucks picked out Mario Ely, a small forward from American International University (which sounds like a pheasant school, but it was founded in 1885), in the seventh round, with the 160th overall pick, and then cut him.

However, this is a small person who is destined to shine in the future.

Other than that, the Bucks have barely made any adjustments, which is also destined for them to sit on the bench in the third place of the millennium.

And the old overlord Philadelphia 76ers also have little to gain in the draft and trade, free market, Dr. J Irving is one year older, Charles Barkley is still growing, Moses Malone is no longer at his peak, and the Titanic, which was beautiful in 1983, is gradually sinking into the icy Atlantic.

The West is more dynamic than the East, and the Lakers' dominance has grown tired of any team, and perhaps even the Lakers themselves are hoping to meet a comparable opponent in the playoffs in the West.

The Houston Rockets can undoubtedly fulfill the Lakers' wishes, this team full of talent is growing rapidly, they don't have any big moves in the draft or free agency, but they don't need to make big moves, all they need is to wait quietly and wait for this group of talented stars to grow quickly.

Similarly, the Portland Trail Blazers have a young age structure, a few core players in their prime, two superstars growing rapidly, and a thriving team with reserves.

Other teams, such as the Denver Nuggets and the Utah Jazz, have made minor repairs on the basis of retaining the core lineup.

Overall, the 1985 offseason was not an earth-shattering big deal, and if the strong teams continued to rebuild, the labor contract and trade market were not yet perfect, and the teams were more inclined to rely on the draft to complete the team, and it was bound to be a long-term process.

Something like the 1983 Moses Malone deal, or the 1984 Van de Wych deal, doesn't happen every year.

Although there were no big trades, this year's draft was definitely a treasure trove for teams, and because of this, there were exceptionally few deals involving draft picks in the summer, and the quality of rookies this year was really good.

Needless to say, the New York Knicks were the biggest winners of this year's draft, successfully acquiring Patrick Ewing, who is recognized as a future superstar.

Coupled with the fact that the Knicks' previous number one star Bernard King confirmed the season reimbursement, just clearing the hurdles for Ewing's ascension to the throne, a Knicks with him at the core will be destined to rise in the East.

The Indiana Pacers, who won the pick, were not as lucky as the Trail Blazers, who were able to get Gan Guoyang after losing Olajuwon, and the Pacers lost Ewing and could only choose the power forward Weyman Tisdale from the University of Oklahoma with the second pick.

This guy is a good power forward, with the strength to average 20 points per game, but this guy who loves music, especially jazz, will obviously have a lot more achievements in the jazz world in the future than in the basketball world.

It was the Los Angeles second-time Clippers who got the sign, and they got rid of the sick Bill Walton and picked Ben Oit Benjamin from Clayton University, the same Clayton Rays main center who played opposite Gan Guoyang when Gunzaga University visited Nebraska.

Gan Guoyang has another acquaintance in the alliance.

Further on, the SuperSonics took McDaniels, the Warriors got Chris Mullin, Schramf, the German, was drafted by Dallas — but he wasn't the German Dallas needed yet, and the Cleveland Cavaliers chose Charles Oakland — but traded him to the Chicago Bulls in the same division......

In addition, the Utah Jazz picked a hillbilly from Louisiana at the back of the 13th overall pick who wore what he wore in the draft like a blue-collar worker in a suit.

In the back, the Lakers also used a low pick to find the "virgin" AC Green, plus the Portland Trail Blazers got Terry Porter, both of which were relatively successful drafts.

And it was the 1985 and 1984 drafts of the previous year that provided a large number of backbone talents for the NBA, and also laid the initial pattern for the NBA to compete for more than ten years.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was still honing his skills at the University of Houston, but he seemed to be more cautious, and Drexler's precedent was ahead, and he didn't dare to joke with his body.

Although he has a high "talent" for fighting injuries, he knows that injuries will stay with him from the moment he steps onto the basketball court, and he will not be able to stay fully healthy until he retires.

Other players, like Michael Jordan, also sweated it out in Chicago, but he didn't know that next season wouldn't be as good for him as he thought.

The two strongest men in the league at the moment, who also see each other as their biggest rivals, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, got together to shoot an ad at the invitation of Converse in the offseason.

Two people who were hostile to each other in the past, after sincere contact, have become good friends who talk about everything, and I have to say that this is really a friendship that goes beyond basketball.

This summer, some people are busy, some people are laid-back, some are actively preparing, and some are fearless, and this calm and peaceful atmosphere will soon be broken with the start of the new season.

That's the NBA cycle, and the battle is about to start again.

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