Chapter 274: Battle Heat

The all-star voting outside the court is gradually continuing. And the Bulls' regular season schedule continues.

The Bulls' next opponent is the Heat, who are heading to Miami to play on the road. This is their second consecutive away game.

And with an unfriendly schedule, this time the opponent is also the strongest opponent they have faced in recent times. The Miami Heat are a playoff powerhouse in the true sense of the word, they don't have any star players, but they play unusually united.

Admittedly, they won't have a high ceiling and are more likely to be eliminated in the first round in the playoffs, but they certainly won't be an opponent any team wants to face in the regular season.

Because they're united and willing to share, teams like Ball tend to be the hardest teams to beat in the regular season.

But the teams that are willing to share the ball are a team of players who are eager to prove themselves, such as the Eagles' five starters, and five of them were voted the best of the month.

And after this month's best, the Eagles, the civilian five tigers, have also achieved fame one by one.

The names of the players on that team were, in that order, were Millsap, Horford, Carroll, Teague and Korver.

Needless to say, there are two players who have successfully won tens of millions of big contracts, one is Millsap, the other is Horford, and even the latter got a big contract of 100 million, which was simply sent to grandma's house.

And Carroll is not bad, he went to the Raptors at the end of that season and signed a 4-year contract of 50 million or more, as for the remaining Teague, he went to the Timberwolves to form the starting five, although this season has not played any bigger names so far, however, this kind of team player is never afraid of no one wants.

As for the American Jay Chou who was born, he is even more remarkable, he went to the Cavaliers to become LeBron's guard with a knife, and last year he directed a 25-point Jedi counterattack with LeBron, which completely played his ability as the league's top pitcher.

And the current Heat team is clearly trending in this direction.

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The Bulls' starting five tonight are point guard Li Ming, shooting guard LaVine, small forward Poundexter, power forward Mirotic, and center Lopez.

The Heat's starters were point guard Dragic, shooting guard Johnson, small forward Richardson, power forward Johnson, and center Whiteside.

Point guard Dragic was selected in the second round in '08 to finish 45th overall, and the Spurs brought him to the NBA, where he entered the Slovenian Pro League II at the age of 17, moved to Division I a year later, and joined Mallorca two years later.

In 2005, Dragic won the Slovenian League's Rookie of the Year award, and just one year later, in 2006, he was named to the Slovenian League's All-Star team.

In other words, he had a lot of playing experience before entering the NBA, and he was a very good instant combat force, but the old Spurs didn't see Dragic's ability at the time, and the reason why they chose Dragic was just for the Suns.

Fortunately, Dragic went to the Suns, where he met Steve Nash, a predecessor who had a completely similar style to him, and he learned a lot by the side of the former regular season MVP, and was once called "Little Nash"!

It is worth mentioning ... Nash Jr. is still a very vindictive person, and the Spurs chose him in the first place but sent him to the Suns, which laid the foundation.

May 8, 2010, NBA Playoffs.

Dragic scored 23 points in the final quarter, which is also his career single-quarter scoring record, 5-of-5 three-pointers, and his career playoff three-point shooting record, scoring a total of 26 points on 10-of-13 shooting to lead the team to a 110-96 comeback against the Spurs.

This is also Dragic's battle for fame, and since then, the entire league has had a place for Dragic, although he has been a wanderer for several years, but he is a starter, and finally fell to the Heat, becoming the core leader of the guard line in the post-Wade era.

The Heat's guard is Tyler Johnson, and this is a draft loss, a 2014 draft pick, but it's not surprising that a bad team is a draft pick...

And he was also a powerful figure in college back then.

He played four seasons, climbing one step at a time, and in the final season of his career, he averaged 15.9 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, and was named to the Western Mountain League All-NBA Second Team.

Unfortunately, he was undrafted in the 2014 draft, but although no one chose him, he quickly received an invitation from the Heat Summer League and played in 11 games, averaging 22.2 minutes per game, 12.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists, shooting 54.8% from the field and 46.7% from three-point range.

This is a very good role player, but also a very good instant power, with this data he successfully stayed with the Heat, and in the following season, Tyler Johnson played better and better, and gradually attracted the attention of other teams in the league, on July 4, 2016, the Brooklyn Nets made an invitation offer for Tyler Johnson, a four-year contract worth $50 million.

On July 11, the Heat matched the Nets with an offer to Tyler Johnson.

And after this contract was signed, Taylor officially became one of the multimillionaires of the league.

From losing the draft to owning a 10 million contract, Taylor Johnson has explained what it means to work hard in life to fight back.

At the small forward position is Richardson, Josh Richardson, a 2015 second-round pick, also played four years in college, getting better and better every year, but his fourth year was a little better than Taylor.

In 2014-15, Josh Richardson averaged 16.0 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.1 steals per game and was named to the All-NBA First Team and All-Defensive Team in the Southeastern Conference.

And with the glorious data of the fourth year of college, he was also successfully selected by the Heat in the second round and signed a contract, and his performance in the Heat team in the past three years is also obvious to all, getting better and better year by year, and getting more playing time year by year, from 21.3 minutes in the first season to 33.2 minutes in the third season, which shows how much he is liked by Heat head coach Sporastra.

And he did not live up to Sporastra's expectations, and his overall statistics also rose sharply, from 6.6 points, 1.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds per game in the first year to 12.9 points, 2.9 assists and 3.5 rebounds per game this year, which is almost doubled.