Juwan Howard is the No. 5 rookie in the first round in 1994, spent the first six and a half seasons of his career with the Washington Wizards (the first three years are called Washington bullets, but they are all one team), 206 cm tall, serving as a power forward, Howard's physical fitness is average, there is no ability to fly away, and back-to-back singles are not his strengths, but a small mid-range shot makes the defender want to die, and he does not dare to leave him half a step, on the defensive end, although the body is not very strong, but he dares to fight and dare to play, and the card position is fierce, Definitely not a soft old persimmon, Howard in his second year as a rookie, with an average of 22.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per game was selected into the All-Star team, when he was only 22 years old, the limelight was unparalleled, after the end of the season, the Wizards couldn't wait to renew Howard's contract, but it didn't come to pass, the Wizards haven't worked out a specific contract amount, "God Operator" Pat Riley's discerning eyes took a fancy to Howard, and gave Howard the second 100 million yuan contract in NBA history - 7 years 101 million! (The first was a 12-year contract worth $110 million for Larry Johnson offered by the Hornets in 1991), the Wizards must not be reconciled, and they went to court for both Howard and Riley, and finally the NBA league ruled that Riley's contract exceeded the team's hard salary cap, and the contract was withdrawn, and the Wizards happily renewed a 7-year 107 million sky-high contract with Howard!

Everyone expected Juwan Howard to go further, but they didn't expect Howard, who signed a big contract, to be at his peak, and then he didn't play to this height in his 17-year career, more of a stable performance between 15-20 points, after averaging 18+ points per game in the next two seasons, Howard's state in the Wizards began to decline last season, averaging 14.9 points per game and 47.4% shooting, and 7.0 rebounds were all career lows, The team's record did not improve, and Howard's annual salary was getting higher and higher year by year, so the Wizards gritted their teeth and stomped their feet and gave Juwan Howard to the Mavericks.

The world always laughs at Juwan Howard for being the biggest garbage contract in history, but the object of ridicule should be the management of the Wizards, not Juwan Howard, who plays the court, if it were you, I believe you would not hesitate to sign, and Howard was at his peak in the years, although he failed to reach the league's top achievements, but he was not bad.

Nelson Sr.'s fast and agile style of play is very suitable for Juwan Howard, Howard can be said to have been reborn in the Mavericks, averaging 18.0 points per game, 7.1 rebounds, and shooting 48.8% from the field, a career high!

After the season, the Mavericks are in fourth place in the West with an excellent record of 53 wins and 29 losses, and they have set a record in the NBA by not making the playoffs in 11 seasons, and their first-round opponent is the Utah Jazz!

Remember the Mavericks in 1986, that year the Mavericks were in full swing, the team's Aguirre, Blackman, Sam Perkins' Derrick Harbour are all the league's leading stars, they met the Jazz in the playoffs, that year's Jazz fledgling, Karl Malone was still in the second year of his career, and Stockton was still playing on the bench, time flies, fifteen years have passed in a blink of an eye, the Mavericks have reached the playoffs for the first time in eleven years, and their first-round opponent happens to be the Jazz again, Under the leadership of his twin evils, the Jazz led this iron-blooded division to a new height, but it is a pity that the Mavericks did not accompany the Jazz at the peak, and this Jazz is dying of old age, and Karl Malone is already in the penultimate year of his career. But the evergreen Malone can still score as many as 23.2 points in the regular season, compared to Malone, Stockton is declining extremely fast, averaging 11.5 points and 8.7 assists per game in the regular season (although it is also excellent, but it is more excellent in other seasons) is almost equal to the lowest data in the past thirteen seasons! Many of the rotation lineups are also older, in addition to the 38-year-old Karl Malone and the 39-year-old Stockton, the starting center Alden Pollis is 38 years old, the backup center Danny Manning is 35 years old, and the backup small forward Brian Russell is 31 years old, as for Malone's backup David Bennott, he is in the last season of his career, also 33 years old, and in the rotation lineup, only the starting small forward Don Yell Marshall is 28 years old when he is playing.

In the face of such an aging team, the media is generally optimistic that the Mavericks will easily advance 3:0, but unexpectedly, the Mavericks lost in the first game, and only lost 2 points, Nowitzki in his first game of the playoffs, handed over 20 shots and only 7 of 20 points and 12 rebounds (1 front board) data, and the Jazz's Stockton is old and strong, and only two of the 18 assists and turnovers in the whole game, although Nash scored 20 points in 6 of 11, but only 7 assists and 5 turnovers, In terms of organizing the team, Nash gave the veteran assist king in the first game.

In the second game, the Mavericks lost again, and they lost worse than the previous one, no one in the Mavericks team could match Malone, whether it was Juwan Howard, Nowitzki or Bradley, they couldn't stop Karl Malone from taking and giving on the inside, and finally the old Malone scored 34 points, and Nowitzki's play was still unbearable, and 3 of 11 scored 15 points and 4 rebounds.

The Mavericks fell behind 0:2 in the first two games, and the first round of the NBA at that time was still a win of five games, and the Mavericks were forced to the edge of the cliff.

The third game was played at the Mavericks' home stadium, and the library board stipulated that as long as the fans who came to watch the game wore the Mavericks' T-shirts, they could receive free tickets! Note! It's not a discount, it's free! And promised that as long as the Mavericks won the third game, he also included the tickets for the last two games! What money is not money, it is too vulgar to talk about money, as long as you are a Mavericks fan, come and help Mavericks!

The Mavericks' home field was already full, and this was even more impassable because of Kuban's crazy moves, it was really noisy gongs and drums, firecrackers, red flags, and crowds! As an older team, the Jazz have a lack of physical strength, which cannot be solved, and the extremely aging Jazz immediately encountered a physical crisis in the last three games, and the most important performance is that the number of mistakes has skyrocketed, and the shooting rate has plummeted! And the Mavericks themselves, Nowitzki got rid of Finley for the first time on the stage of the playoffs and proved himself, and in the third game, the Jazz made 17 turnovers in the whole game, which is unimaginable for the always steady Jazz, and the Mavericks Finley played dismally, scoring 8 points, 5 assists and 3 turnovers in only 2 of 14 shots, but the Mavericks took away the game with Novitzki's 9 of 19 hits and 33 points and 10 rebounds!

Nowitzki has proven that he can still lead the team to victory after leaving Finlay!

The last two Mavericks did not give the Jazz any chance, the Jazz's shooting rate plummeted to 38.5% in the third game, and the Mavericks were 10 percentage points higher than the Jazz, Nowitzki scored 33 points, and in the last game, Finley scored 33 points again, and in the end, the Mavericks won three games in an incredible row in a 2:0 unfavorable situation, defeated the Jazz, and advanced to the second round!

Their opponent in the second round was the powerful San Antonio Spurs, at that time the Spurs were still playing the twin tower lineup of David Robinson and Tim Duncan, and other players such as Antonio Daniels, Terry Burt, and Sean Elliott are also very good role players, in the face of such a team, the overall strength is far inferior to the Spurs' Mavericks, and there is no doubt that they were defeated 1:4, even if the Mavericks won a game, the Mavericks also lost nearly 12 points per game, and the Mavericks had nothing to do with the Spurs' interior twin towers, Robinson and Duncan contributed 45 points and 30 rebounds per game! And the Mavericks only have Nowitzki alone, averaging 23 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, Finley's performance plummeted, averaging only 15.6 points per game, and the shooting rate was a miserable 29.1%, and in the last game, he actually came up with spicy data of only 1 in 17 shots......

And even if the Spurs are such a strong division, they were swept by the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, which made the Mavericks realize the gap between themselves and the championship division.

So, in their new season, the Mavericks began to recruit like crazy. Although Finley fell short in last year's series against the Spurs, there is no doubt that Finley is a good player, and the team renewed Finley with a seven-year contract worth a total of $102 million.

Then the Mavericks sent a second-round pick to the Heat, got 35-year-old veteran Tim Hardaway, and gave the 2001 first-round pick to the Celtics in exchange for guard Adrian Griffin. Veteran Danny Manning has also been recruited, and China's Wang Zhizhi has played 55 games for the Mavericks this season after playing only five games for them last season.

Hardaway averaged nearly 15 points per game for the Heat last season, and this season he averaged 9.6 points per game as a substitute for Nash, Adrian Griffin is 26 years old, and his third year is in his playing year, Griffin basically relies on leaks on the offensive end, but has good defensive ability, averaging 7.2 points and 3.9 rebounds per game in the Mavericks this season.

After Finley was the boss of the Mavericks for three years, he officially handed over the power to Nowitzki this year, Finley has a better personality and has no dissatisfaction, averaging 20.6 points in 40 minutes per game, still in his peak state, and Nowitzki has gone further this season after his outstanding performance last season, averaging 23.4 points per game, 9.9 rebounds (also eighth in the league), shooting 47.7% from the field, 39.7% from three-point range, and 59.9% from the field Ranked eighth in the league, while Nowitzki is fourth in the league behind O'Neal, Duncan, and Maddy!

Nowitzki scored 30+ points on 21 of his 76 games, especially on Feb. 15, 2002, when the Mavericks beat the Hawks, where Nowitzki scored a career-high 40 points on 12-of-22 shooting! This match kicked off Nowitzki's 4-game streak of 30+ points. After 4 years of training, Nowitzki has finally become the cornerstone player of the Mavericks! Honors are also pouring in, this season for the first time selected to the All-Star Game, thus starting his 13th consecutive year of selection in the NBA, also selected to the best team, the next 11 years, Nowitzki appeared in this list, the end of the season, Nowitzki's rookie contract expired, the Mavericks did not hesitate to present a 6-year contract worth a total of 80 million in front of Nowitzki.

And Steve Nash also ushered in the second glorious season of his career this season. Averaging 17.9 points per game and 7.7 assists ninth in the league, in the 2011 Mavericks' narrow victory over the Trail Blazers, Nash hit 12 of 16 shots to score a career-high 39 points, although Nash's defense is still porous, but he still uses extremely sharp offensive and organizational skills to make up for himself, in the season, Nash was also selected to the All-Star All-Star team (3 teams) for the first time in his career, this is the first time that Nash has been selected as an All-Star for 8 times. At the same time, his contract, which once made Nash much-criticized, only received $5.75 million this year, which has become one of the cheapest contracts in the NBA! And this contract will last for three years!

Speaking of which, I have to admire Kuban, which is worthy of being engaged in investment, and his vision is absolutely unique! In just two years, the junk stocks that everyone thought at that time were turned into high-quality stocks!

Under the leadership of the Mavericks troika, the Mavericks have been making great progress, and this season they have also won the highest ten consecutive wins, five consecutive wins, and six consecutive wins in the team's history. The team, which held high the offensive banner when it was founded, finally began to carry forward the team tradition, and at the end of the season, the Mavericks averaged 105.2 points per game and ranked first in the league! But in the same way, due to the presence of Nash, including Nowitzki, two players who are not very good at defense, the team has conceded an average of 101.3 points per game, ranking second to last in the league, second only to the Golden State Warriors who have a poor record this season. Offensive! Offensive! Offensive!

Because of his excellent record, Mavericks coach Nelson Sr. also became the coach of the Western Conference All-Star this season, and defeated the East 135-120 with the help of Nowitzki and Nash, and this season's Mavericks made a big trade on the eve of the trade deadline for the second season in a row, this time with Juwan Howard.

Jwan-Howard's form this season has hit rock bottom, averaging only 12.9 points per game, and the Mavericks sent Jwan-Howard, along with Tim Hardaway, and the water cooler Donnell Harvey and the 2002 first-round pick to the Nuggets, getting power center Leaf Lafrentz, veteran guard Nick Van Axel, junior Avery Johnson and forward Tariq Wahad, who recovered from a major injury last season.

Havard used to be the main player of the Kings, Magic and Nuggets, but he was seriously injured for two consecutive seasons, although he returned from injury, but he has already lived up to the courage of the year, the 36-year-old Avery Johnson is not forgiving, it is difficult to contribute on the court, when he was 32 years old, at the tail of his prime, This season, he averaged 18.4 points and 6.6 assists per game in the Nuggets, and came to the Mavericks Van Axel because of his lone wolf style of play, mainly playing on the bench, and became a sharp knife on the Mavericks' bench, averaging 12.5 points per game.

Lafrentz is 211 cm tall, serving as a center, and was selected by the Nuggets in the first round of the third draft pick in 1998. What's worse is that Lafrentz also has a three-point shot, and this season he became the first player in NBA history to contribute 200 blocks and shoot 150 three-pointers in a single season! Being able to defend, shoot three-pointers, and have good running and jumping abilities is not very much in line with Nelson Sr.'s appetite?

After the Nuggets selected Lafrentz, the record is still not improving, in the three years that Lafrentz has been in the playoffs, this year this year's record is basically cool, and Lafrentz's rookie contract expires, and the money to be asked for cannot be less, in this context, the Nuggets sent Lafrentz to the Mavericks, it is worth mentioning that Zhu Wan Howard, after the Mavericks and Wang Zhizhi became teammates, in the Nuggets, he became a teammate of another Chinese player, that person is ***, It wasn't until later that Juwan Howard was sent to the Rockets and became teammates with Yao Ming, and Juwan Howard also became the first player in NBA history to become teammates with all three Chinese players - this ...... It's a small achievement......

Not to mention most of the regular season, just a few games, on December 26, 2001, the Mavericks played against the Spurs at home, Duncan was unable to stop, and scored a career-high 53 points! One person fought against Nowitzki, Finley, and Nash's three major scorers, but in the last 17 seconds of overtime, Nowitzki completed a steal on Malikroos, and Nash completed a 0.7-second stunner, turning Duncan's milestone into a milestone.

On January 5, 2002, the Spurs completed revenge, and no one in the Mavericks team could complete the defense of Duncan, and Duncan scored 29 points and 17 rebounds in 10 of 18 in the game, leading the Spurs to a 2-point victory, and on March 21, 2002, the Spurs beat the Mavericks by 3 points under Duncan's performance of 32 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists, and on April 6, the Mavericks met the Spurs for the fourth time in the season, and lost by 2 points. Duncan still scored 33 points, 16 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks.

Of course, in addition to the Mavericks vs. Spurs, there is another team that has to mention, on December 5, 2001, the Mavericks lost to the Lakers 94-98, although Nowitzki shot 33 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in 12 of 20, but Lakers center O'Neal broke the Mavericks' interior line, and made 18 shots in 23 shots, and slashed 46 points and 15 rebounds in the whole game! On February 3, 2002, the 32-win Lakers met the 33-win Mavericks again, and the Lakers won the game again with 7 points under the leadership of O'Neal with 31 points and 13 rebounds! On March 17th, the Lakers Mavericks with the same record ushered in the showdown again, this time O'Neal scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists in 13 of 18, led the Lakers to beat the Mavericks by 2 points, and beat the Lakers back-to-back the next day, this time, the Lakers themselves dropped the chain, Kobe contributed the worst game of the season, 4 of 18 scored 12 points, and the Maverick Nash exploded, 11 of 18, scored 30 points, the Mavericks beat the Lakers, but O'Neal in the Lakers team is still incapable of blocking, He finished with 32 points and 10 rebounds on 13-of-23 shooting.

Now you finally know who the Mavericks brought in Lafrenz to deal with!