That's what D'Antoni thought, he was willing to take Maddie, who was almost completely useless, and the idea of another trade was made early on, and a pair of chips that Donnie Walsh had worked so hard to get would probably not be left until next summer to be beaten out again by the mustache.

However, Maddy's contract is not easy to trade again, according to the league's transfer rules, the player cannot be transferred again with other players for two months after being transferred to a team, but the team can trade the player alone at any time.

The Knicks want to trade Maddy for Prince and Hamilton, but the Pistons certainly aren't that stupid, and they're bound to ask for draft picks and young rookies like Gallinari. It's a pity that the Knicks can't trade draft picks anymore this season, and Maddy can only play alone, so it's not a simple matter to want to trade, and the Knicks need to take advantage of a lot of loopholes in the trade, and they may not be able to take advantage of it in the end.

Wu Huang didn't hold a special welcome ceremony for Maddie this time, he was going to wait for the former superstar to arrive on the team, and the team would go to the nightclub for two drinks after the first game. Everyone knows that Maddie will not be a member of the Knicks' plan, and considering that he has caused a lot of complaints in Houston, his reputation has long been ruined, and Wu Huang and New York players have a bad impression of him.

What made Emperor Wu happiest was that after Christmas, he was finally freed from the harassment of Chloe Moretz.

The little girl's movie was actually filmed a long time ago, and she was arrested by her parents directly back to Los Angeles after the holiday, Wu Huang applauded at this, and he finally didn't have to go home to face the messy house

On December 28, Wu Huang secretly went to a small concert of Taylor Swift on the day of the game against the Spurs.

After this small two-hour concert. The two made a beeline for the Madison Square Garden Arena. Tyler Swift witnessed the Spurs beating the Knicks on the road!

Wu Huang only got 14 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in this game. In the face of the spicy Spurs three veterans, the Knicks and their young players were unable to use their strength throughout the game, and this real litmus test showed the real strength of New York at once.

In the last game, Wu Huang said that the Heat is the litmus test of the league's strong teams, but in fact, the Miami people are not qualified for this, and the Spurs this season are the real touchstone of the strong team.

The eighth place in the Eastern Conference is now the Milwaukee Bucks, who have a 15-15 record.

The Spurs are now eighth in the Western Conference and have just moved up to seventh place in the West after the win over the Knicks. The record is 19-11.

With such a comparison, the gap between the two sides immediately came out.

If the Spurs' record is moved to the East, they have the same record as the Orlando Magic in second place, which shows that the top eight in the Western Conference are still much stronger than the top eight in the Eastern Conference.

Conversely, if the Knicks' record were moved to the West, they wouldn't even be able to make the playoffs.

However, despite the team's loss at home, Wu Huang received a notice from the league before the game that he won the Eastern Conference Player of the Week again with 47 points in the Christmas game. This is the second time in his career that he has won this award, and he is also the first rookie to win the "Player of the Week" more than twice in his rookie season in the 21st century.

Emperor Wu received such an honor. It's almost certain that the Allie of the Year award at the end of the month will still be in his pocket, and the Rookie of the Year won't be out of the palm of his hand.

Maddie didn't play for the Knicks in this game. He sat behind the team's bench in a suit.

The live camera was aimed at him several times today, and Maddie was expressionless throughout the scene, looking out of place with the Knicks players.

Wu Huang only made one phone call to Maddie after the Knicks completed the trade, and there was nothing else to say except for a polite word, and he was originally going to go to a nightclub to pick him up after winning, but it ended because of this fiasco.

Maddie is a veteran of the league for many years, and after coming to a new team, he received such a cold reception, so he naturally understood that the new team did not welcome him.

Wu Huang didn't know that not only did he, the core of the team, snub Maddy, but Knicks coach D'Antoni also only made a phone call to Maddie after the trade, and the process took less than a minute, and then he never communicated with Maddie alone.

Maddy rushed to the Knicks on Dec. 26, the day after Christmas, less than 12 hours before he was traded, and he wanted to show his attitude with such a move. However, that positive attitude clearly won't impress the Knicks as a whole, and D'Antoni doesn't plan at all to rush to get the league's highest-paid player on the game as he did with Iguodala.

After the Knicks lost to the Spurs, the New York Times did not report the game itself, but instead pointed the finger at Maddy, who did not play.

Da Sabi wrote in his column: For Maddy, the Rockets' performance this season without him has greatly affected his "value." We all know that this Rockets team is passionate, selfless, and resilient right now, and these are three traits that the Rockets don't have when they have Maddie at their core.

He used to be very talented, but even in his prime, he didn't have much success, whether it was with the Raptors, Magic, or Rockets, and he never made it past the first round of the playoffs. We can look for different reasons, but the bottom line is clear.

Maddie wants more playing time, but he can't play like the Rockets right now, so there's no place for him in Houston. To make matters worse, he has no allies in the locker room in Houston, on the coaching staff, or in management.

The Knicks traded Larry Hughes and Jeffries for Maddy, who was isolated by the entire Houston, getting rid of his two big contracts and ushering in a bigger contract, and even paid a draft pick for this, asking for only one thing, that is, Maddy's expiring big contract.

Da Saby also revealed that sometime before Christmas, the Knicks' front desk administration told the video coordinator to ask him to pull up a video analysis of Maddy's previous games, and management gathered to watch the almost 45-minute video to make sure they didn't miss anything, and then the people chatted together and came to a clear conclusion: Maddie is no longer a dominant player, and now he is only a $23 million expiring contract.

Maddie learned of the report and immediately blasted Da Sabi for his lack of professional ethics, and questioned the credibility of the "New York Times" as the most influential newspaper in New York, and reserved the right to pursue it.

But Maddie's popularity is obviously not very good, and no one except his fans is upset about him at all.

On December 30, the Knicks played the Pistons away, and this time D'Antoni finally replaced Maddy, giving him more time to play than the Rockets, as many as 15 minutes.

It's been a long time since Maddy played this long, and he had an all-around performance of 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in 15 minutes of playing time, but the team's plus/minus during that time was actually negative, and the Knicks' bench team lost to their opponents in a rare way.

D'Antoni is not satisfied with Maddy's performance, his style of play is still the same as in the Rockets period, he likes to hold a lot of the ball on the outside, and likes to stop at the top of the arc to observe, but his explosiveness and speed have declined significantly, the efficiency and threat of the ball in his hands are not high, the Knicks are best at fast break and chaos can not play, after Maddy holds the ball, the Knicks always fall into the positional battle that he is not good at.

'He's still with agility and agility, it's just explosiveness and sheer speed that is missing, and we'll see if we can make him transition to off-ball, just like him.' D'Antoni and Woodson watched Hamilton create space for himself by positioning the screen twice, and then looking at Maddy, who is still pictured, with excellent rhythm, coordination and ball sense, if he can transform into an off-ball pitcher like Ray Allen and Grant Hill, he can maintain a good form for at least three years.

But even if Maddie does transform, D'Antoni will still trade him if he has the chance, because there is one thing that Maddie will never be as good as Hill and Ray Allen, and that is his defensive attitude. He doesn't have the defense of those two, and the Knicks don't have a shortage of offensive strikers, they lack role players who are good defensively and have outside range.

To be honest, Maddy's current style of play is similar to Wu Huang and Iguodala, all three of them use their individual abilities to attack or organize offenses with the ball, but the threat of the latter two with the ball is much higher than the current Maddie, and if he doesn't transform, the Knicks really don't have a foothold for him.

The Knicks finally defeated the Pistons, who had plummeted this season, on the road, and Wu Huang easily scored 26 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists and 6 steals on the Pistons' much-praised Starkey, and also broke his own single-game steal record by the way, and his previous single-game steal record was 5.

The young point guard who the Pistons manager described as being able to replace Billups has proven to have very limited potential, and not only has not improved much in the past two years, but has been declining.

At this time, looking at the results of the Nuggets after Billups went to Denver, the most grassroots Finals MVP always seems to be looked down upon, even after he won the Finals MVP.

The next day, the Knicks lost to the Orlando Magic cleanly in back-to-back games, and Wu Huang returned to the court to rest after three quarters, by which time the Knicks had already led the Magic by 24 points.

Wu Huang only got 10 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the end, which was his worst statistic this season, but he managed to maintain his record of scoring double-doubles in 32 consecutive games.

Wu Huang actually broke the record for consecutive double-doubles in his rookie season, he has scored in double figures in 32 consecutive games in his rookie season, and his previous record was set by the Magic, Elvin Johnson had scored in double figures in 21 consecutive games in his rookie season, and the second place was Odom's 19-game scoring streak set in his rookie season in 1997-98. (To be continued.) )