Chapter 397: Four-Way Deal

The grand finale of All-Star Weekend, the East-West All-Star Game, was staged, and after a bloody clash of stars, the Western Stars defeated the Eastern Stars to win the latest tournament. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Los Angeles media said sourly after the game: Although Kobe Bryant did not win the final MVP, he did not lose to anyone in the limelight. Because, on this night, Kobe surpassed Michael Jordan and was crowned the NBA All-Star all-time scoring champion!

The New York media didn't bother to complain at all, what's the big deal about being crowned the "All-Star All-Time Scoring Champion"? This only proves that he has played a lot of games, and in fact has no technical content.

But their holy leaders are different, Wu Huang surpassed Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett, Bob Pettit, and Ray Allen in one breath on this night, breaking the three major records of the All-Star Game in a row, and became the only player in NBA history to win the AMVP for three consecutive years.

There is also a lot of controversy within the NBA about whether to award the MVP to Wu Huang, and in the past, everyone took turns to sit in the bank, and after Bob Pettit and before Wu Huang, there was no one who even had a second person to defend the AMVP. Wu Huang was able to defend his title last year and was already tied with the legend, and this is still due to the fact that his first AMVP was shared with James. When many black fans of Wu Huang talk about it, they will ridicule Wu Huang for only getting a half MVP, and he is still half a head lower than Bob Petit.

Although there is no longer this attack point, but after Wu Huang's AMVP triple championship came out, it still attracted many people to complain that the alliance was deliberately creating gods, and they were questioning Wu Huang's AMVP triple championship, and the biggest reason for these people is: Wu Huang's Eastern Army obviously lost the game, according to the tradition of the winner taking AMVP for so many years, why was the final MVP trophy awarded to him?

"Yao is obviously more qualified for this award." This is the voice of more than half of the media in North America, although Yao Ming's award also made him very unhappy, but it is better than Wu Huang winning three sessions alone, how can the latecomers surpass it now?

However, the media that supports Wu Huang to win the MVP believes that since there is no rule that the losing side cannot win the AMVP, and there has been such a precedent before, then Wu Huang, who has broken three records in a row, is eligible to win this MVP, and his performance is not to say that he is the best in this competition, even if he wins the 12th All-Star Game in the 21st century, Wu Huang is the one with the best performance.

As a victim, Yao Ming, who felt that he had been fooled again, could only say depressedly after the game: "I don't think there is a problem with the league's approach, he did perform beyond everyone's expectations, Wilt's record is not so easy to break, let alone such a long record." We only have to look at the fact that no one has scored 40+ points in a single game since then, except for Chamberlain, to know how valuable Hugo's 48 points are today. And I also agree with Barkley and O'Neal's suggestion that the league should consider eliminating the three-point shot, a rule that affects the balance of the game. "The little giant had a hard time after the game, and at the end he made a joke, this heart is at least two streets higher than someone's.

Wu Huang was not as excited as he imagined after the game, because he really just played casually, until the end of the game, he did not rise to the idea of breaking any record, which can also be seen from the fact that he still has the physical strength to continue to play three or four overtimes after the game, he did not put much energy into this game at all, but the fruits he finally harvested were abundant.

Why is this strange phenomenon occurring, even Wu Huang himself can't explain the reason, if he insists on explaining, then he can only say that his teammates and his opponents are CBA level, even if he just goes up and plays casually, he can mix the best in the whole game, he thinks those guys should delete the game.

The next day, ESPN gave him an explanation, describing the game as "record night", but instead of praising the performances, the way the records were broken was not convincing enough.

In the whole game, the Western Stars scored a total of 164 points, once again breaking the NBA all-time All-Star Game single-game scoring record, and the two sides scored 322 points in the whole game, which also set a new NBA all-time record! The Western Stars made a total of 51 three-pointers and hit 20; The East team made 49 three-pointers and hit 23 of them; The two sides made a total of 100 three-pointers and hit 43, breaking another NBA All-Star Game record.

If you didn't watch the game, just looking at the scoring stats, you might think that the attack in this game was extraordinary, but that's not the case. Throughout the game, players on both sides were more casual on the court, especially Eastern players who often shoot within three passes on the offensive end, including Hugo, who finally won the MVP, his way of handling the ball in the game is also extremely simple, more than half of his shots are unreasonable shots, and he can finally get the MVP, he really wants to thank his ex-girlfriend.

It can be said that this game was not taken seriously by anyone except Yao Ming, and the two sides turned this game into a shooting exercise, or more precisely a three-point shooting exercise. There are also some people who deliberately score points for the MVP, and there are few wonderful matches and amazing dunks in the whole game, and the superstars would rather score with a simple layup than jump up to please the fans.

But you can't blame the players for this, and with the Devil's schedule of four games a week, or even five games a week, how much effort can you expect from these stars in the All-Star exhibition game? At this point, we have to thank Hugo's ex-girlfriend, without her help, we might not even be able to see those wonderful three-pointers.

The only regret of this game is that the man who worked hardest on the pitch did not get the reward he deserved in the end; A loose guy who has better luck ends up beating another guy who is hardworking but not lucky enough.

Finally, this story tells us how important it is to have a great ex-girlfriend.

Emperor Wu had already returned to New York the next night, and he sneaked into little Hermione's room while Christine was taking a shower. Although he already felt in his heart that he and the British girl had a little bit of, Christine had known about it for a long time, but he was still used to doing things secretly, which was more exciting. Besides, he's a villain, and most villains die like this!

After he left the post-game press conference last night, he went directly to Taylor Swift's hotel room for half a night, and he still had the energy to play two more overtime today, which shows that he really didn't spend much effort in that day's game, otherwise how could the energy be so strong?

He had already seen the ESPN report this morning, but he still felt in his heart that those stupid people couldn't even snatch him from such a non-serious person, it was completely because he was too vegetable!

"Look at it this way, I'm sure I'm winning the championship this year!" Wu Huang unconsciously milked himself, even he was a little scared of his three-point shot these days, if he had eighty percent of his strength in every game, then he was too powerful.

On February 28, just when Wu Huang continued to look at the praise and reports of various media on him, and unconsciously floated a little again, a bombshell news from Los Angeles cooled him down in time and made him feel a sense of crisis again.

The NBA officially confirmed on the 28th that Howard officially switched to the Lakers through a 4-way trade, which is similar to the history 15 years ago!

The details of the 4-party deal are:

The Lakers get: Dwight Howard, Siddo Turkoglu, Quentin Richardson, and long-awaited Ramon Sessions, and send Andrew Bynum, Amare Stoudemire, 2014 first-round pick, and 2016 first-round pick (all protected).

The Magic get: Andrew Bynum, Amare Stad, Calderon, 2014 first-round protected draft pick (from the Lakers), sent: Dwight Howard, Sido Turkoglou, Jamil Nelson, Quentin Richardson.

Cavaliers get: 2016 first-round protected draft pick (from Lakers), some cash, and Ramon Sessions.

The Raptors get: Jamil Nelson, Quentin Richardson, trade exceptions and some cash, and give: Calderon.

Wu Huang was a little unconvinced when he saw the news, he knew that the Raptors had always wanted to trade Calderon and Barnia, who played well, but he sold his starting point guard cheaply, which still made him wonder why, although the Raptors had previous trade rumors that were more loss-making than this.

It's understandable that the Cavaliers sent Ramon Sessions, this is mainly for the stability of the locker room, Sessions who can't play has long asked to trade him, and continuing to keep him with the Cavaliers is easy to cause locker room problems, at this time, the team will generally find a way to send him away, so if there is a draft pick, it will basically be traded, and it has been delayed until now just to get more price.

The Magic are a bit of a mystery in this deal, and if they want to rebuild, then why would they take Calderon, who has an annual salary of tens of millions? And Bynum and Smalls have three years left on their contracts, which is not what it looks like to rebuild, it's more like a rhythm to gamble.

But if you take a closer look at the post-trade Magic, if Bynum and Smalls can play what they should be on paper, supplemented by Calderon, who is good at distributing the ball, and then switch to a two-tower strategy entirely, it seems to be a good system and personnel pairing.

The lineup after the Magic trade, if you look at the strength on paper, is indeed more balanced than the Magic with only Warcraft, no matter how bad Xiao Si is, it will be better than Turkogru, as long as he can return to the form of last season, then the Magic will make a lot of money.

However, once the deal is lost, the magic will basically not be able to turn over for three years, and the odds of winning their bet are not great, and this transaction is still in the ranks of the incomprehensible in general.

The Lakers are barely a winner, although this trade pays for future draft picks, but the team aiming to win the championship will not care about the draft, they just want to be able to produce results in front of them, and after getting Sessions and Howard, the Lakers have filled their two biggest shortcomings in one fell swoop. Although he had to eat Tekoglu's bad contract and pay two interior players at once, he couldn't get Howard at all.

The All-Star news has not yet reached its highest point, and the Lakers' four-way trade has instantly occupied the sports section of major portals around the world, and for a while, the bright red words of the "Purple and Gold Army" rising again are everywhere, and Lakers fans are also shouting: They want to return to the Finals again.

Although this four-way trade involves more than a dozen players, the most high-profile of them is Howard, who is the core of this deal, even if Bynum shouted very high-profile "This is a swap between the league's first center and the second type of bee" after the trade was exposed, but everyone knows that the Lakers got Howard, and they are the most profitable of the four teams.

In the past half season, the future of the All-Star center has been the focus of attention, starting with the Nets' trade negotiations with the Magic, Howard's future has become more and more unclear, and then the Lakers proposed a three-way deal with the Timberwolves and Raptors still failed to satisfy the Magic's appetite, during which the Cavaliers, Hawks, and Thunder all coveted the super center.

And in the end, the deal is finally completed, and Howard's decision to join the Lakers will largely change the pattern of the league's power distribution, no matter which team has such a super center, it will become a strong contender for the championship, not to mention that the Lakers have players like Kobe, and his combination with the peak monster will be another OK combination.

Born on December 5, 1985, Howard is only 27 years old and has played for the Magic since he was drafted by Orlando in the 2004 draft. During this time, he averaged 18.2 points, 13 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game, and his shooting rate of an astonishing 57.8% was quite gorgeous, and the age of 27 was his prime.

At this stage, Howard is arguably the best center in the league right now, he dominates the interior with his super physical fitness, and he won the Defensive Team of the Year award for three consecutive years in '09, '10 and '11, and he also led the pack with rebounds and blocks for two consecutive years. In 2009, Howard led the team to defeat the Cavaliers led by Emperor James Jr. to reach the Finals, but was eventually eliminated by the Lakers. In the years that followed, the Magic had a poor record, often being eliminated in the first round, which was the most important reason for the departure of the Magic Beast - the championship.

The Los Angeles Times reported as soon as the deal was completed: Joining Los Angeles, Howard will form a new double-K combination with Kobe, and its combat power will be immeasurable, and the Purple and Gold's chances of winning the championship have greatly increased, and they have the qualifications to challenge the Knicks.

"That's what they said at the beginning of the season, I just want to see if they can improve their record first, except for the Rockets who didn't finish in the top four in the division and still won the championship, have any other teams won the championship outside of the top four?" Wu Huang expressed his opinion ahead of the Knicks' final game at the end of the month, and he is qualified to doubt the Lakers' trade, because the Lakers are currently only in sixth place in the West, and when the Lakers can move up to the top four in the division, it will not be too late to talk about winning the championship or something.

The Knicks played the Cavaliers at home on Feb. 29, and the four-way trade had little impact on Cleveland, and the Knicks were not too challenged by the Knicks at home, winning their first game since the All-Star break.

Although Owen's data is infinitely close to the average of 20+6 per game, the gap between him and Wu Huang is becoming more and more obvious.

In the first year, Wu Huang had already brought the Knicks, who were still at the bottom of the league, into the playoffs, but the Cavaliers are still the bottom of the league, so the gap between the two is very big.

Wu Huangneng is tied with Duncan and Bird as the three strongest rookies in history, and even James is a lot worse than this status, not to mention the current Irving. A rookie's personal data is only part of the story, and how much the team's record can be improved under this premise is the ultimate embodiment of his ability, Irving obviously only has the ability to make his stats look better, but he is powerless to help the team improve too much.

Eastern Division Rankings -

1. New York Knicks (28-8).

2. Chicago Bulls (26-10).

3. Miami Heat (25-11).

4. Indiana Pacers (22-14).

5. Atlanta Hawks (21-15).

6. Boston Celtics (20-16).

7. Orlando Magic (19-17).

8. Philadelphia 76ers (18-18).

After the game in February, the Knicks still led the league. However, the Bulls in the East and the Spurs in the West are chasing very closely, especially the Spurs in the West, and their strong performance in the regular season in the past two seasons has surprised many fans.

Last season, the Spurs overtook the Knicks in the middle of the season to rank first in the league, and this year, in the shrinking season, they are still clinging to the Knicks. These old guys shout every year, "I'm getting old, I'm going to die", but they can still bite any opponent all over the body when they fight.

The Knicks' schedule in March is not easy, especially in the first half of the month, most of the opponents are strong teams in the East and West regions, and one bad thing is the rhythm of consecutive defeats. Although the strength of the opponent in the second half of the month has decreased a little, the schedule has become dense again, and basically March is the most difficult month for the Knicks every year.

On March 2, the Lakers made their debut with a new roster at home, finishing with an easy 111-98 victory over the Sacramento Kings. Although the opponent this time is a fish belly team, and Howard is not familiar with the new teammates and new tactics, but the interior line guarded by him has been called airtight, the Kings' interior core Cousins only scored 12 points in this game, and Howard handed over a big double-double of 18 points and 15 rebounds in the Lakers' first game.

Los Angeles fans said excitedly after the game: With Warcraft guarding on the inside, the Lakers finally don't have the soft feeling they had before.

Kobe Bryant also gave his new teammates a very high evaluation after the game, he praised Howard for his very good performance, especially in terms of enthusiasm and running, and called Howard the most explosive interior in the league, and used "beast" to describe his performance on the inside after the game!

Coach Mike Brown also praised Howard for stepping up several times in key moments, and the Lakers' restricted area was like a big lock today, "He played incredible, his energy, his defense, his dominance on the inside, he led us to win the game," the Lakers coach smiled when talking about Warcraft after the game.

In the face of praise from all sides, the monster himself behaved very indifferently, because he was pulled by the league to participate in the urine test after the game, so Howard just said flatly: "Our defense today is in place, and the communication on the court is also very good, I like this team, as long as we continue to play hard like this and stay aggressive, we will not have any problems." ”

Wu Huang felt that the reason why this product was not so excited was that he didn't get too many opportunities for inside singles in the game, and after he watched the Lakers' highlights, he found that Howard's scoring basically came from dunks, or rebounds in the front court, and there were only a handful of back-to-back singles in the whole game, and the efficiency was still very low, which is probably the reason why he was not so happy.

"How do I feel that Turkoglu is the man who played this game?" After watching the ten-minute highlights provided by the team, Wu Huang found that the Turks who scored 16 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists in this game are the number one contributor to the Lakers.

"Kotkoglu is 33 years old, can he keep it that way? He has already had a lot of decline this year, will it plummet next year or the year after? Wu Huang still doesn't think that the Lakers' deal is very cost-effective, if Turkoglu is three years younger, then this deal is naturally worth it, but it's a pity that Turkoglu is too old, and the Lakers' hidden dangers in this deal are not small, especially in the face of strong teams, can Turkoglu still have such a performance.

On March 4, the Knicks' first game of March was against the Celtics, the last time they lost back-to-back games on the road, today the Knicks are full of energy, and the old guys of the Green Army are no longer opponents.

This away, Wu Huang used 32 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists to help the Knicks defeat this old opponent, and at the same time he also overwhelmed Rondo in rebounding, although the latter brushed 13 assists, but Wu Huang has long given up competing for the assist king, and he has long been squeezed out of the top three on the assist list.

After playing this game, Wu Huang's average data per game came to 30.6 points, 5.2 rebounds, 8.8 assists and 3.4 steals. He shot 53.2 percent from the field, 43.2 percent from three-point range and 92.5 percent from the free throw line.

This kind of data makes Wu Huang still the number one leader in the regular season MVP this season, but his assist statistics have dropped from 10 times at the beginning of the season to less than 9 times, and it is too difficult to maintain 30+10 data like last season, and he can only hope to do it by sacrificing the data of his teammates. But this is something that Wu Huang can't do, in the face of these teammates who have sacrificed a lot of personal data for the championship, he can't do this kind of thing even if he squeezes others.

The Knicks moved to the West after their win over the Celtics, and they will next play back-to-back road games against the Mavericks and Spurs in the West, which are considered key to the Knicks' maintenance of the league's No. 1 record.

The Mavericks' record has begun to decline after the "Lin Madness" has passed, and the teams have figured out the strength of Jeremy Lin, although the Mavericks are more confident than before against midstream and lower-tier teams, but they are prone to overturn against strong teams.

This is due to Jeremy Lin's inconsistent performance, and when facing strong teams, he is easily targeted by opponents and becomes a team shortcoming; But against an average team, he has the potential to play well and make up for the team's shortcomings.

Against the Knicks today, Jeremy Lin will obviously become the team's shortcoming, because he met a full-fledged Wu Huang, and was decisively ravaged again without mercy.

Wu Huang was a little unhappy in this game, before the game he missed last month's "Eastern Player of the Month", but he felt that this was a small balance after the league awarded him another AMVP, last month he was the best performance among Eastern players in terms of team record and personal data, but the league did not award him this award.

Therefore, this game became a place for Wu Huang to vent his dissatisfaction, he played 45 minutes in the game, cut 38 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 steals, and got a triple-double for the third time in the season.

Wu's triple-doubles have also decreased this season, mainly because the team has better protected his rebounds, resulting in fewer rebounds, which makes it less easy for him to cut triple-doubles.

The next day, the Knicks played back-to-back games against the Spurs away, but after three quarters, they were exhausted by the Spurs' precise passing and off-ball running, and after consecutive missed shots in the fourth quarter, they were directly beaten by the veteran Spurs in waves, and could only accept that they suffered their ninth loss of the season on the road.

Wu Huang feels that there is no regret, this is a game that will be lost in eighty percent, and every team will encounter more than a dozen such games in a season, and if you want to get 60+ wins, it depends on the winning rate against the weak team. Last year, they were able to get 67 wins, and that was because they were lucky, and they grabbed a lot of these must-lose back-to-back away games on the way, but this year's back-to-back away games, and against strong teams, the Knicks basically didn't win, who made this a shortened season.

The Knicks didn't have time to think about it after losing to the Spurs, and then they beat the Bucks and 76ers, but after a slight recovery, they lost to the Bulls in back-to-back games, which was their second loss to the Bulls this season.

"It's okay, just think it's about building character and adjusting the winning rate, so that we can continue to eliminate them in the playoffs." Wu Huang comforted his teammates in this way within the team, and they still didn't have time to stay in this losing force. It's not a big deal if you lose the game, they're still number one in the league. The most crucial thing is that the first half of the most difficult month of March has passed, and the opponents in the second half of the month are mostly mid-to-lower teams, which is a good time for them to consolidate their rankings.

The Knicks did play the momentum of the defending champions in the second half of March, first slaughtering the Trail Blazers by 35 points at home, then beating the Pacers twice in a row, and then beating the Raptors and 76ers back-to-back, consolidating their record as the No. 1 in the league with a five-game winning streak and locking up their playoff home advantage ahead of schedule.

Compared with the Knicks' overcoming difficulties, the Lakers on the other side are not so comfortable, lacking the No. 4 position, they first won a wave of three consecutive wins, and then were defeated by the Grizzlies, Clippers and Hawks in a row, and suffered a sharp baptism of three consecutive defeats. In the three games lost, the opponents are all teams with the top No. 4 position and the strength of the center position, and it is difficult for Howard to play two at a time.

Mike Brown was once again attacked by the angry Los Angeles media and fans afterwards, and the voices calling for him to leave class once again filled the entire City of Angels, and poor Black Bread could only move the Turk to the sixth man position and put Jordan Hill in the fourth position.

But in this way, the Lakers' interior line has completely lost its mid-range shooting ability, no one can help Howard open up space, and the opponent can unscrupulously empty Hill to wrap Howard, and the Lakers got defense after the trade, but lost the offense, and it is impossible to say whether they have earned or lost at the moment.

Mike Brown said that he was very aggrieved, and he really wouldn't use a center like Howard who was not as efficient as Kobe Bryant in back-to-back singles, so he could only use him as a top blue-collar worker. But this made Howard very dissatisfied with him, and a few days ago he began to complain in front of the media that he had too few opportunities to play with the ball on the inside, and completely forgot about his poor back-to-back singles efficiency.

The Lakers have only a 6-6 record this month, and although their interior defense has improved, the interior offense has been lost again, and they have run from one extreme to the other, and in the end, they still have to rely on the boss to win the game alone, which is no different from before.

What's even more embarrassing for the Lakers is that the Magic team played a 7-5 record in March, although this is not very good, Xiao Si and Bynum are still not very compatible, but the overall strength of this set of interior lines is there, as long as the two do not really fight, this set of twin towers can still make the middle and lower reaches of the team feel very powerless.

Big Van Gundy completely inside offense as the team's main tactic after the trade, and without Kobe Bryant's large number of balls on the outside, Bynum and Xiaosi have begun to have signs of running-in, because the number of shots and ball possession of the two has improved a lot compared to the Lakers, once they can make their offensive position clear, one is mainly in the low post, and the other is mainly in the high post, in fact, they will not have too much conflict, plus the Magic has a lot of excellent three-point shooters on the outside, this lineup is likely to be more threatening than Howard's single core, At least in terms of post-trade records, the Magic are slightly better than the Lakers. (To be continued.) )