449. Fight the Pioneers Again

Today is the last game day before the NBA All-Star Games, with two games, the Sacramento Kings hosting the New York Knicks, and the Lakers taking on the Trail Blazers on the road. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

By the end of these two games, the NBA half-time record has been released.

The first place in the West is the Lakers with 48 wins and 4 losses, and they are also the first in the league, and the second is the Warriors with 42 wins and 10 losses, the second best record in the league. The third is the Trail Blazers, who have a tight schedule and are unlucky in recent games. The fourth is the Rockets 37-15, the fifth is the Clippers 38-14, but because of the division system, they can only be ranked fifth, the sixth is the Grizzlies 33-20, the seventh is the Spurs 32-20, often large-scale rotation of their record is average, the outside world speculates that they are preparing for the playoffs, the eighth is the Pelicans 30-22, the courage at the beginning of the season gave them a certain advantage in the long season, and they are still in the playoffs.

The ninth place after the top eight is the Mavericks 29-24, and the Mavericks have a good momentum and have hopes of making the playoffs. Tenth is the Thunder, 27-26, about to fall behind, Westbrook started a crazy statistical time, but since they are in the West, most of the teams they play against are also Western teams, and they are really just right. Eleventh Jazz, Hayward is getting better and better, but it's not enough, and the two interior lines aren't mature enough.

The remaining four teams that have basically said goodbye to the playoffs:

The twelfth Nuggets are 23-30, and George Carr looks up to the sky and smiles, you really can't do it without me. The thirteenth-place Kings, 18-35, the fourteenth-place Suns, 17-35, no one knows how they played so poorly with such a good lineup, and the fifteenth-place Timberwolves, 15-38, the fourth-worst record in the league, they are now completely rebuilding with Rubio, Andrew Wiggins, Shabas Muhammad, Thaddeus Young, and Gogill Giang as the core lineup.

For this reason, the Timberwolves even sent the big center Nicolas Pekovic with an annual salary of 10 million to the NBDL to make room for Giang and Young to play time, the goal is very clear, and strive to win every game.

The competition between the first to eleventh places in the West is fierce, and even the Nuggets theoretically have a chance to hit the eighth place, and the Wild West is really not meant to be played.

And in the east, polarization is evident at a glance.

First in the East is the Hawks, 39-13, the third-best record in the league, and they can only be described in one word, and that is excellent. The second is the Knicks, 37-15, unanimously favored by the media, and the defense has slipped a little by the middle of the season, but it is still in the top 10 in the league, and the offense has been in the top five in the league, and since last year's All-Star weekend, there has been a earth-shaking transformation. Third is the Cavaliers 35-18, fourth is the Raptors 33-19 and fifth is the Wizards 30-23.

The rest of the teams in the East have less than a 50% win rate, with the Bulls at 26-27 in sixth, the Celtics 24-28 in seventh, the Hornets 23-29 in eighth, and the Heat 22-30 in ninth. The Pistons and Pacers are both 20-33, the Nets are 19-33, and the Magic are 19-34.

The remaining two are the worst teams in the league.

The Bucks and the 76ers, one 13-14, both teams are trying to get out of the bottom of the list, although with different goals.

The final power standings before All-Star Weekend are out.

Even if the Lakers didn't play this game, they still ranked first in the power rankings, and Liu Ren continued to rank first in the MVP rankings.

Before you know it, the Warriors and Cavaliers have gradually settled into the second and third places in the power rankings.

The Warriors became only the second team in the league to break 40 wins, holding on to second place.

Although the Cavaliers' record is only 35-18, that is less than a 50% win rate in the first month.

The Trail Blazers and Clippers tied for fourth.

The Knicks have been decent since they started well, winning what they deserve, but there are not too many bright spots, although the record is better than the Cavaliers, reaching 37 wins and 15 losses, but it is still only ranked sixth in the power rankings.

The Hawks, who have the best record in the East, are just seventh, and they recently suffered a three-game losing streak, with the Rockets in eighth, the Grizzlies in ninth, and the Raptors in tenth.

It's worth mentioning that the Cavaliers have strengthened again, they have completed a trade with the Nuggets, Mozgov will report to Cleveland after the All-Star weekend, and the Cavaliers also have a big center.

The Cavaliers traded two bizarre first-round picks they acquired the year before last when they traded for the Nuggets' big center Mozgov.

These two draft picks are very strange, the Grizzlies' first-round pick is the top 20 picks in 2015, this year's Grizzlies regular season record is not very good, it is really possible to enter the playoffs in the sixth and seventh positions in the West, maybe the record really can't enter the top ten in the league, then this draft pick can only be returned to the Grizzlies, and it will be postponed to the Grizzlies next season.

It's okay for the Grizzlies to enter the playoffs, but the Nuggets want the Grizzlies as a draft pick, in fact, the benefits are not large, 2015 is a big year for the draft, and 2016 is another draft year.

The Thunder's pick was even more bizarre, with a 1-15 pick and a 26-30 pick in 2015. It is very likely that the Thunder will not be able to give this draft pick, and this year's Thunder record is estimated to be on the verge of the playoffs, with too many injuries.

If the Thunder win this year, it will be postponed to the 2016 lottery protection and the 26th to 30th pick protection, which means that the Grizzlies can only get the 2016 Thunder draft pick if the Thunder record is in the middle of the league.

And next year, when they are fully healthy, they are basically determined to be in the top five in the league in the regular season record, and it is unlikely that the Nuggets will get this draft pick next year.

If neither of the 2015 and 2016 picks made it to the Nuggets, that first-round pick would become the 2017 first-round pick unprotected and the 2017 second-round pick and the 2018 second-round pick.

And that was many years later.

It can be said that the Nuggets will not make a profit in this deal.

Nuggets management may have thought Mozgov was holding Farid and this year's talented rookie center Joseph Nurkic in the way of development, so they sent him away.

Anyway, everyone who saw this deal thought that the Cavaliers had earned it, Mozgov's contract is 13 million for three years, and the data is 8+8 like their power forward Tristan Thompson, but Mozgov's three-year contract has just started its first season, and Thompson has already begun to want a maximum salary of 85 million for five years.

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At 7 p.m., the Lakers arrived at Portland's Rose Garden, where the game against the Trail Blazers was about to begin in the second round.

"Awesome, the Rose Garden Arena is also heated." Liu Ren said happily after stepping into the Rose Garden Arena.

"Paul Allen is not short of this amount of money, and he will not blink an eye if he buys the heating company in Portland to serve this team. I heard that Paul Allen is one of the richest owners in the league, and I don't know who is richer between him and Ballmer of the Clippers. Nick Young said from the side.

After changing into a jersey and stretching muscles and various tendons, Liu Ren stepped into the court with his teammates under the notice of the staff.

It is worthy of the Rose Garden Arena, which was called the home of the Devils, although the players and coaches of the Trail Blazers have changed several times, and they are not the iron-blooded Trail Blazers who fought seven games with the Lakers at the beginning of the century, but the style of the fans is still so "enthusiastic", and the Lakers are greeted with overwhelming boos.

The Lakers players are used to it, but there is one other person on the Trail Blazers' side who has always been unhappy with this.

"It's so noisy, when will it be quiet!" Aldridge muttered, his voice so low that no one could hear what he was saying, and he liked the kind of fan who reacted at the right moment, not the kind of guy who knew how to roar.

"It's finally here, this time I must take revenge!" Lillard looked at the purple No. 1 on the other side who was looking for a touch in the middle of the shot, full of fighting spirit.

Lillard has been extremely unhappy lately, especially after the All-Star bench came out this morning, and he was almost angry.

Didn't make the All-Star bench! Popovich informed him after the vote that Duncan would not be able to play due to injury, and that the coaches would redraft Westbrook instead of Lillard.

"I'm going to show the people who look down on me who is the number one point guard in the league!"