Chapter 970: 2010 Finale

In the Christmas game between the Thunder and the Nuggets, Anthony, the Nuggets leader, missed the game because he had to attend a court hearing.

The Thunder, on the other hand, were strong, with center Kerstic returning as a starter after missing seven games due to injury, and after a fierce battle, the Thunder defeated the Nuggets 114-106, and the Nuggets suffered two straight defeats.

In this game, for the Thunder, Durant broke out again and scored 44 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, and Westbrook contributed 19 points and 4 assists. For the Nuggets, Ellis had 30 points and three assists, while Nene had 21 points and 11 rebounds.

The Thunder, who played at home today, started well, and Durant scored 10 points in a row at the beginning, showing a frightening scoring efficiency, so that the Thunder once led 15-10.

However, the Nuggets adjusted and led the attack by Ellis and Nene and quickly suppressed the Thunder and achieved a comeback.

In the third quarter of the game, Durant's hands were hot, and he and Westbrook led the Thunder to an offensive climax and overtook the score again.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Eric Mayno led the Thunder to another wave of attacks, widening the margin to 94-85, and the Nuggets struggled to catch up and finally lost 106-114.

The last game will be a lot of big names, and it is the Heat led by the Big Three who will sit at home to face the Suns who come to challenge.

The selling point of the Heat is naturally the Big Three, and on the Suns' side, it is the veteran Nash who leads the new Oden to fight the world together.

After a season of running-in, since the start of this season, the Suns have shown a very strong trend, after suffering four consecutive defeats at the beginning of the season, they ushered in waves of consecutive wins, the longest winning streak reached a respectable nine consecutive wins, and the nine consecutive wins happened to be the results before the Christmas game, so the Suns want to win.

Oden and Bosh jumped the ball and the Suns gained the right to attack first, followed by two points each for Oden and Wade.

Under Nash's command, Oden dunked again and teamed up with Barbosa to help the Suns take a 7-2 lead, but soon after Bosh opened the prelude to the Heat's counterattack with a three-point dunk, he hit consecutive shots, James also hit two three-pointers, and the two of them played a wave of 13-2 together, and the Heat led by as many as seven points at 17-10.

Oden scored two points inside to finally break the scoring drought that lasted for 4 minutes and 40 seconds, but the Suns still trailed the Heat 14-20 after the first quarter, and Bosh scored 9 points and 6 rebounds in a single quarter.

Bosh added three more points at the start of the second quarter, and then Wade made a layup to give the Heat a double-digit lead at 25-14. Nash, who had been shooting 0-of-5 from the field, finally scored a three-pointer to start his score, but Wade and Moneymos combined to help the Heat maintain the lead and go into the final six minutes of the quarter 35-23.

Richardson made a shot and a pass to stabilize the Suns, but Robin Lopez was dissatisfied with the referee's decision and received a technical foul shortly after. The atmosphere on the court gradually became hot, and James and Raja Bell, who were scrambling for the basket, pushed each other and almost caused a conflict, but were separated by the referee in time, and finally the Heat continued to lead 47-38 after halftime.

James became the Heat's playmaker at the start of the second half, and although Nash's three-pointer helped the Suns trail 45-51, Wade hit two free throws after Arroyo's mid-range shot to bring the margin back to double digits.

Barbosa and James each hit a three-pointer, and then Bosh hit a mid-range shot to score his 20th point of the game. Nash stole James but dribbled out of bounds and smashed into the Heat bench as he flew to make a save, and Wade hit both free throws to give the Heat a 62-58 lead.

After that, the two sides went through a hot game, and finally the Heat led 75-64 into the final quarter. James had a quasi-triple-double of 21 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists, and the Big Three combined for 59 points.

The Christmas game seemed to be a day of revelry for the center, with Chamberlain scoring 22 points in the final quarter of Game 1 and Oden's turn in the final game.

In the final quarter, at the beginning of the game, Oden's crazy basket dunk chased the score to 69-75, at the same time, the Big Three fell into a stalemate that could not score, this time it lasted 4 minutes and 17 seconds, although James used the breakthrough to make a foul and made two free throws to stabilize the situation, but the Suns took the opportunity to launch a counterattack and completed the overtake at 78-76.

James Jones hit a three-pointer, and then Nash delivered his 10th assist of the game to help Oden hit a shot, and the Heat also began to play hard, but James disappeared on the scoring end at the critical moment, but he kept passing, as if he became a playmaker, and got his 31st triple-double in the regular season.

The Heat's interior shortcomings were clearly revealed in this game, and no one could limit Oden at the last moment - unlike the Lakers, the Lakers at least had Bynum and Gasol to deal with Chamberlain, and the Heat's interior line was eaten clean by Oden!

In the final quarter, Oden scored 18 points by himself, in addition to 5 rebounds and 4 blocks, becoming the dominant leader in the final quarter, and the Heat won the first three quarters, but lost in the fourth quarter!

In other words, the Heat lost to the bench, and even they only have the Big Three to use, and the other people's expressions are average, and the inside Danpier, who has high hopes, was beaten by Oden without tears, but except for Dampier, the Heat really don't have anyone who can carry Oden - can't let Bosh go?

James scored a triple-double and led the Big Three to 69 points, but the team lost 90-99 to the Suns.

The Suns won the Christmas game and went on a 10-game winning streak, with Oden scoring 35 points, 16 rebounds and six blocks and Nash having a big double-double of 15 points and 15 assists.

James had a triple-double of 27 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists on 8-of-14 shooting, as well as four steals, including 5-of-6 from the three-point line, his 31st career triple-double in the regular season and 37th in the playoffs.

Bosh scored a double-double of 24 points and 13 rebounds on 11-of-17 shooting, Wade scored 18 points and 6 assists, the Big Three combined for 69 points, and the rest of the players added up to only 21 points, and the most Chalmers only had 7 points.

The Heat game attracted a lot of media attention, and ESPN gave a special report - "The Heat won the trade and lost the game, the Big Three are strong but have no helpers"!

After the Christmas game, the Warriors were given a valuable opportunity to rest for three days, and then they had one game left in 2010, which was against the Knicks on December 29.

The Knicks are a funny B team that has been in turmoil since Riley left New York and Ewing retired.

The turmoil continued until Donnie Walsh and Mike D'Antoni, and the New York Knicks were in a state of ruin from the time they took office.

Helplessly, "the road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high", and what the new managers have been doing more in the past few years is how to clean up the mess left by Isaiah Thomas.

They have already given multiple future draft picks to the Houston Rockets last season in order to send away Jarred Jeffries. Other team rebuilds are to redraw a picture on a blank piece of paper, such as the Thunder Timberwolves, and there are picture models on the paper for them to copy.

And what about the Knicks? They were tracing the future on a crumpled piece of paper full of strange lines.

The Knicks owner is the richest Dolan boss among NBA owners, so this team is not worried about money, and they were also ambitious this summer to capture James, the big shark, and the result? The big shark was not caught, but it tasted fishy.

However, the Knicks are not indifferent, they first signed Amare Stoudemire, and the "Little Overlord" could only be regarded as a second-tier free agent in the summer of 2010, after all, he has been suffering from injuries for several years, and his playoff defense has been criticized a lot.

But sometimes happiness is comparable, Dirk Nowitzki, Paul Pierce and Joe Johnson stay on the team, the Big Three in the class of 03 gather in Miami, the Knicks and the Bulls can each get Xiaosi and Carlos Boozer is considered a merit, so in comparison, the Knicks are also very awesome.

The arrival of Xiao Si at least allowed this team to regain the stars to sell tickets, who was the most awesome in this team in the past few years? Now Marbury, who is in the CBA mix, is handsome!

In addition to acquiring Jr., the Knicks also signed former Charlotte Bobcats head guard Raymond Felton and got Anthony Randolph, a promising young player named Randolph who is hailed by the industry as having the potential to become Marcus Camby II, and Felton was the best point guard among free agents in 2010.

The above few people are certainly not comparable to the Heat Big Three, but at least the Knicks' strength on paper has been qualitatively strengthened.

The Knicks management also has a deep understanding of this.

After LeBron James fell in love with the Heat, they quickly gave their own response: We regret that we can't make it, but that's all, good luck for the future. The implication is actually very clear, the Heat's recruitment this summer is rare in history, and it is not surprising that the Knicks can't do it.

Where does hope come from? A look at the plight of derby rivals the New Jersey Nets, a team that has decided to move to Brooklyn, New York in the last two or three years, shows that there is a real future: the Knicks and the Nets, both of whom had a "we have the money, and then ......" before the summer window opened Let's see" attitude, because they can come up with other capital that attracts big-name freemen. Now that the Knicks have a first-line star like Xiao Si, supplemented by a group of supporting players with good strength and future, their inner confidence is much stronger than that of the Nets.

If not, why is it that when Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony trade rumors abound, the first thing that comes to mind is that they will soon be in New York City?

What's more practical is that Paul and Anthony have an affair, and the media circle will instinctively rush to it, but if you really calm down and think about it, they are not short of money, and naturally they will not change for the sake of change, and what they can get after changing hands is the most important thing.

Remember Kobe Bryant's public case? The industry hyped up for a long time that the Lakers traded Kobe for Ben Gordon, Ruel Deng and Joakim Noah, until a voice woke up the dreamer: If the Bulls hollowed out the roster for Kobe, what was the point of him going to Chicago?

In other words, even if the Nuggets send Anthony away before the start of the season in order not to lose money and money, there is no need for the Knicks to be anxious about "the groom is not me".

If the new owner can't give Anthony enough hope to win the championship, he will still be a free agent next summer if he chooses not to renew his contract, and the salary space vacated by the Knicks due to the expiration of Eddie Curry's contract can come in handy.

In order to avoid the situation of "only hearing the sound of the stairs and not seeing anyone coming down", the Knicks have and only one way to go in the new season, that is, to play a relatively decent record and prove that there is hope for those players who may come to shoot in the future.

The key to this answer is that the Knicks have been showing demons for too long, and they have hope for the future, but they must also live in the present, and they can't fast forward to the future right away.

If between now and next summer, Smalls fails to take on the role of New York's No. 1 brother as he wishes, and Randolph, Gallinari and Felton fail to cash in on their values, the Knicks will inevitably still feel like they can't hold up the wall, and the playoffs should be their only bottom line.

Overall, the Knicks' summer trade was quite successful, what this team needs is a record, but it has been two months since the start of this season, and the Knicks' record is still average, but they were born in the generally poor East, and now they are barely on the last train of the Eastern Conference playoffs with a 40% win rate.

However, in this game against the Warriors, they felt more painful.