As a direct consequence of these two deals, the pattern in the east has completely changed.

This can be seen in the Eastern Standings that ended in November:

The first is the Columbus Explorers, 14-2;

second is the Toronto Raptors, 12-3;

Originally, before the trade took place, they had already lost three games without playing, the same record as the Bulls, but after the arrival of Paul George, they had a wave of three consecutive wins.

Paul George's improvement on the Raptors' wing defense has been significant.

It was also this wave of 3 consecutive wins that opened a 1-win gap between them and the third-place Chicago Bulls.

Without Derrick Rose, the Chicago Bulls finished in November and finished in third place in the East, and the Chicago media and fans were quite happy with the result.

The advantage of the "super team" is "many strong points", and the disadvantage is "only these few strong points", but any "super giant" injury, it is fatal for the strength of the whole team.

For example, the Lakers later, because of the thick eyebrows injury, they were directly swept by the Suns.

So in third place in the East, and the first two teams are "behemoths", they can accept such a result.

Fourth is the Milwaukee Bucks.

As experts predicted before the start of the season, this season's Bucks will reach the upper reaches of the East in one fell swoop.

The fifth is the Wizards.

After they traded, they also won a wave of streaks, and Howard's arrival brought this team interior defense, as well as the ability to attack twice, plus the "double gun" on the outside......

John Wall's average data this season is 19.6 points and 9.4 assists per game, which doesn't look very good, and it is the level of an ordinary All-Star, but in the same season, the Wizards reached the playoffs, and John Wall can contribute 26 points, 11 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.3 blocks per game in 6 playoff games.

Few people even remember that during that time he was the No. 1 point guard in the East, the top three and even the top two in the league's best organization!

And Bradley Beal's annual salary this season has officially entered the 20 million mark, and his average points per game have also reached the Wizards' team-first average of 22.3 points per game, and it is worth saying that he has averaged 48% per game so far this season!

Extremely efficient scoring efficiency......

This classic "two outside and one inside" combination reminds Washington fans of the "Three Musketeers" period, although Howard and Jamison have different styles.

But......

The team is indeed as competitive in the East as it was back then.

This is the top five in the East played in the first month of the new season, compared to the top five in the East after the regular season last season...... Columbus Explorers, Bulls, Celtics, Nets, Wizards......

In addition to the first is still Columbus, the fifth is still the Wizards, and the competitive team in the East has undergone a big change!

Compared with the "turbulent changes in the rivers and lakes" in the east, the pattern in the west is a bit stable:

The first is still the Warriors, who lost only one of their 16 games in November;

The Hornets are also in second place, having lost two of their 16 games in November;

Third place is the Trail Blazers, who lost three games in November......

1、2、3……

The number of losses corresponds to their Western standings.

As November comes to an end, the East and West Player of the Month awards have also come to an end.

The eastern side belongs to the "garbage brothers".

Well......

With the number of regular season MVPs tied with Michael Jordan last season, and the number of championships surpassed Michael Jordan, Li Wan was "disliked" by the league again. This is said to be David Stern's final season as president, and he will step down as president of the league in January of next year.

But this little Jewish old man does things in a measured way, even if he wants to retire, he is still pushing for newcomers, he knows that if this league wants to survive, it needs generations of stars to stand up.

For these players who have strong performances, especially those who have not paid much attention, they must be given enough exposure when they play well and achieve new results.

This is also one of the techniques of promoting new people.

So even though Li Wan averaged 33 points, 12.5 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 3 steals and 2.5 blocks per game in November, the "best of the month" in the East was still given to DeRozan and Lowry of the Raptors.

DeRozan averaged 24 points, 5.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game in November, and Lowry averaged 20 points, 6.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game...... The two men combined to make the Raptors second in the East, beyond the expectations of many media and experts......

This is the first time in the history of the Raptors that a "duo" has won this award.

It's a pity that the "Xiao Hua" who came to power later did not learn.

Let's talk about the regular season MVP, he gave Jokic the regular season MVP when he didn't have to give him the regular season MVP; When it was time to give, because Jokic did not have the quality of "three-time regular season MVP", he chose another "crying bag" that suddenly opened in a certain game, and the result was ...... Jokic ushered in a season of supergodhood, Embiid pulled into the crotch of his pants again, and the whole picture is more than Ga!

Why don't you jump ship?

This alliance can be saved.

The "Player of the Month Award" on the Western side went to LeBron James.

Throughout November, he averaged 28.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 1.5 steals and 1 block per game. In his words after his final game in November:

I've completely regained my feelings!

This season, LeBron has played more dominance with the Warriors. - So far, the Warriors have won by at least 15 points per game except for the one they lost.

This dominance is in four words:

Scary!

Because of this, the media began to blow up LeBron James again.

After winning the "Player of the Month", LeBron James stressed again: "We have been through some things, but now, we have solved everything well, I feel that we are the right combination right now, and we will bring an unimaginable season!" ”

The meaning of this is: I lost before, the combination is wrong, the atmosphere is wrong, anyway, it is all kinds of wrong, everyone writes it off, the score is still 0-0, from now on, it is the real PK, who wins, who is the most bullish!

The typical "one win" represents all ......

Some media asked about this year's "Christmas War".

This year is still the Warriors VS Columbus Explorers.

But last time it was the home court of the Warriors, and now it's the home of the Columbus Explorers.

With Columbus winning the championship and the changes brought to the city by Levan's arrival in Columbus, Columbus is now known as "Spotlight the World" and has become one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.

In terms of exposure, it's no less than these places in San Francisco.

From the fact that this summer, the Grand Navigation Arena hosted six or seven of the world's top music concerts, and many movies began to be filmed in Columbus, it can be seen that it has become another "entertainment capital".

Putting the home of the "Christmas War" here, there is no shortage of influence!

LeBron James talked about this "Christmas game", avoiding the topic related to Leevan, and instead mentioned Carmelo Anthony again, which ended in November, Carmelo Anthony averaged 23.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.5 steals in 16 games since coming to Columbus.

The data can show that he integrated into Columbus quickly, and there was no "adaptation", but what the data does not reflect is the change in his attitude.

Whether it is willing to share the ball on the offensive end and not obsessed with singles; or the active top man on the defensive end, all embodying the same four words:

The melons are ripe!

ESPN's assessment was: "Carmelo Anthony is expected to save his career in the middle and late stages of his career!" ”

A complete reversal is out of the question, and he's missed the stage.

After all, it's 33 years old!

From now on, he can correct his attitude and hug Li Wan's thighs, he can still make up for some career regrets.

For example, his wind review......

LeBron James said: "I'm looking forward to meeting him on the stage of the Christmas game, we are brothers, we had a high-profile matchup before we entered the league, but this is the first time we have met in the NBA on the stage of the Christmas game, I thought it wouldn't take that long, but here it should be!" ”

These words aroused the feelings of many fans.

The "peerless double pride" of that year was indeed the focus of many people's attention.

At the time, everyone thought that O'Neal was with Tim Duncan. After Kobe, this era will be the era of "peerless double pride", the 2.0 version of the "black and white heroes" back then, but I didn't expect that there was such a demon in the 07th class, and he directly ruled the 10s......

Although there are still 18 and 19 years of championship to be decided, it can ......

Li Wan is only 29 years old, at this age, no one would think that he can't rule for another 2 and a half years, right?

Anthony felt a little uncomfortable when he heard LeBron James' words.

Because this season, LeBron mentions himself a little more than in previous years.

However, he didn't think much about this "life-saving benefactor" who had known him for more than ten years and had saved his life in the sea, and said: "I also look forward to meeting him in the Christmas War, I believe that this is enough to attract attention!" ”

03 "Peerless Twins" met in "Christmas War......

You can sell tickets just by this title!

On December 2, the Columbus Explorers ushered in their first game of December.

This game still has some meaning for Carmelo Anthony.

Because of this game, he will return to Denver to challenge the Denver Nuggets.

This is where his career began, where he played for a total of seven years and led the team to the Western Conference Finals, the best result in the history of the Nuggets.

This result is actually enough for the Nuggets to retire his jersey.

In the history of the Nuggets, a total of 5 jerseys have been retired so far, some of which have been longer than him, but Anthony has been in the Denver Nuggets for 7 years, and all of them have made the playoffs, one of which also reached the Western Conference Finals.

It's just that after Jokic's arrival, especially after Jokic played his own score, it directly became a small probability...... Because Jokic is wearing the No. 15 jersey.

If Jokic plays better than Anthony and leads the team to the Western Conference Finals in the future, what will the Nuggets' management decide?

You know, it wasn't peaceful when Anthony left the Nuggets......

It's possible that the Nuggets won't retire his No. 15 jersey, so where should his jersey be retired...... Anthony actually thought about this question when he was with the Clippers.

At that time, he thought that as long as he could make a mark with the Clippers, then he would definitely become a famous player for the Clippers, or maybe Los Angeles, a big city, and it would feel better to retire his jersey here than in Denver, right?

Standing on the home court of the Nuggets at this moment, Anthony thought of his thoughts at the time, and suddenly thought of the nostalgia for other teams in the West in those years, thinking that if they hadn't blocked him, he would have gone to the Finals to clean up Li Wan.

Cameron Anthony couldn't help but laugh at the thought of this childish thought......

In fact, he is not entangled in where his jersey will be retired now, and the reason is very simple...... The attitude of the Columbus management towards Chris Bosh proves that as long as he can succeed here, then he will most likely retire his shirt here......

There's a place to retire your jersey, and that's enough for Anthony!

So when he returns to Denver at this moment, his heart is more calm.

The Denver Nuggets currently sit in ninth place in the West, just one step away from the playoffs in the West.

Jokic is averaging 18.6 points, 10.1 rebounds, 7.2 assists and 1.2 steals per game this season while shooting 49.8% from the field and 39.8% from three-point range...... Except for a slight drop in shooting percentage, from 52.4% to 49.8%, all other figures have seen significant increases.

This is also the case, and more and more experts are beginning to pay attention to this "essence of pork belly".

However, even though his data is already very versatile, Li Wan knows very well that this lump of "pork belly" has not really entered his peak.

Speaking of which, a big reason why Jokic was so good later was that he experienced this transformation from a "data brush" to a real "regular season MVP".

And before him, all the dominant supergiants had such a process......

Needless to say, Michael Jordan is the most bullish, and after he "upgraded and fought monsters", he also cultivated Scottie Pippen, the greatest "second leader" in NBA history;

Before O'Neal won the "three consecutive championships", he was also all-you-can-eat with various sweeps;

After Kobe Bryant parted ways in the "OK Combination", he also enriched his arsenal for two seasons before he had the later on-court influence;

Including Stephen Curry, before there was no "five small", he was also constantly enriching his arsenal, from only shooting, to practicing dribbling and breakthrough, and then to the top shooting three-point shot, every step of the "transformation" is in line with the growth trajectory of these "supergiants" in the past.

and LeBron James, Kevin Durant......

There is such a process.

But if you look at the growth trajectory of the "supergiants" who are not in good condition, you will find that there is a lack of such a period of data explosion......

Except for Li Wan......

His entry into the data explosion period coincided with the period when he led the team to play "four consecutive championships".

This also greatly accelerated his pace to the "President Mountain"!

But he is a "wall-hanger" after all.

In this game, it can also be clearly felt that Jokic is still very immature in the face of these real supergiants, and in addition to not having a high shooting percentage, his turnover count is also higher than usual.

In the end, the game was also lost to the Columbus Explorers by 108-119, 11 points.

However, head coach Malone didn't care that Jokic's performance in this game was not as usual, and he patted Jokic's ass comfortingly and told him not to take it to heart.

He's only 23 years old, and he's already having this kind of performance, and the future ...... Definitely bright!

In addition to Jokic, Murray scored 19 points in this game.

So far in the new season, his average points per game have soared to 16.8 points, which is already a second-rate scorer in the league.

It is worth mentioning that there are one or two media outlets that say that "I saw the shadow of Li Wan from Murray's body".

Here's why:

He always hits some incredible goals!

It's like Li Wan, who just debuted!

Even if it's just one or two media outlets, it's enough to show how incredible Murray's performance is at certain moments.

You must know that this is Li Wan's peak period, and the league's media and experts dare not say that there is a rookie like him, because the result is that he will be "attacked by a group".

It takes enough courage to say that Murray is like Levan at such a time, even if it is emphasized that it is only a certain time, and it is just a lost shadow.

It will take Murray to put in enough performances.

Not to mention, in this game, he really completed a similar "stroke of genius" in the face of Li Wan, a three-point shot that Li Wan had completely blocked his sight, and he threw it into the basket.

But Li Wan didn't give him a thumbs up, but used three consecutive three-pointers of equal difficulty to shoot him into doubt.

Who has nothing to do on the pitch and give a thumbs up to their opponents!

Making this alliance is really like a "game of friendship between brothers".

The GOAT fan who did this also said that this is called "respecting the opponent"!

Are you sure you're not taking the initiative to bring your talent over in the future?

However, although Li Wan chose to make him doubt his life on the field, after the game, when talking about Murray's goal, he still gave affirmation: "When he can hit more similar goals, he will be an excellent scorer!" ”

Murray, who heard this, was very encouraged: "I grew up watching Kobe Bryant and Li Wan's game, I look forward to that kind of matchup, and I also hope to do the same thing as Kobe!" ”

Well......

Murray is a "Komi".

After the '23 Western Conference Finals, he said: "When I watched the game, people said that Kobe Bryant was the nemesis of the Nuggets, but now I don't have a chance to play him and beat him in the frontcourt." If Kobe Bryant is still on the Lakers, then this Western Conference final, maybe he can play a tie-break, of course, I have always believed that we will win. ”

Look, you give him a thumbs up on the playing field! Although people are also perfunctory to you, they can turn their heads and say, "Kobe Bryant leads the team, we will be more difficult to play"!

So......

To win people's hearts, it still depends on the performance on the field.

After Li Wan knew Murray's words, he also remembered that Murray was a "Komi", and felt that beating Murray was too light.

Well......

He's not unhappy because Murray is "Comy"~

Li Wan knew it well......

The player who grew up watching him play hasn't made it to the league yet!

Tyronn Lue's biggest post-game boast was Sabonis Jr.

Sabonis Jr., who has not been on the fence all November, played what can be said to be his best performance since the new season in this game, with 23 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 block.

In particular, these 6 assists fully demonstrated his ability to respond in the high post.

That's what Tyronn Lue has been looking forward to, too.

If there is something wrong with Jokic, the defense is really not as satisfactory, and there is nothing to argue at all.

So Sabonis Jr. modestly said after the game: "I hope to carry on my performances. ”

On the 4th, the Columbus Explorers continued to challenge the away team, this time it was Li Wan's "old club" New York Knicks.

Excited New York fans came to the airport to pick up the plane, and the crowd of people couldn't help but think of the scene when Li Wan had just transferred to the New York Knicks. It's now the fourth year that Lee Wan has left the New York Knicks, but New York fans are still full of nostalgia for him.

ESPN reported: "Please stop saying that New York fans are enough bastards, like that, look at their attitude towards Li Wan, when you give them a shocking enough era, then New York fans will be the most affectionate fans of this era!" It's just that no one has done anything like this before...... I'm afraid no one will be able to do such a thing in the future! ”

The attention of the outside world in this game is still quite high.

Because this is the first time in 17 years that "Champion Lang" Fultz has faced Li Wan in his career.

When reporters asked Fultz before the game how he felt about this, he said: "There is no doubt that this is an exciting time, when Li Wan won the championship in '09, it was the first year that I officially started to contact basketball, I watched him step by step to the top, become the greatest player of this era, grow up, from the moment I was sure that I would play in the NBA, I was looking forward to this day!" ”

Li Wan: Huh?

Two days ago, I just said that the player who watched him play has not yet entered the league, but I didn't expect that a 17-year-old "champion Lang" would emerge and disclose his identity as a "fan brother".

Li Wan has always been a "favorite fan", so before the start of this game, he found Tyronn Lue: "Man, leave this guy to me to defend!" ”

Tyronn Lue was not surprised by this, and when Fultz said that he was a fan of Leevan, he had already expected such a "femdom party" to "welcome Fultz to the NBA"!

In this way, Li Wan was ready to fight Fultz.

Looking at Fultz's scouting report......

So far this season, Fultz has averaged 15.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game...... Of all the rookies in the '17 class, his stats weren't that great.

Compared with Ben Simmons, who averaged 15.8 points, 8.1 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game, Mitchell, who averaged 20.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, Kuzma, who averaged 16.1 points and 6.1 rebounds per game, and Dennis Smith Jr. who averaged 15.2 points and 5.2 assists......

He really doesn't have too obvious advantages, and it can only be said that he has not broken away from the first sequence among his peers.

But at this time, Li Wan suddenly remembered that he originally seemed to be reimbursed for the season after not playing a few games with the 76ers.

It seems that during an injury in the summer league, he got a strange disease called "neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome". - It's also terrifying, the original Fultz averaged 18.5 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game when the 76ers played in the summer league, and his performance was completely worthy of the "name of champion", and even Michael Jordan praised "this son has a promising future", and then he was injured and had a strange disease.

Even later encountered a torn ligament, a strange disease that ruined his career.

The praise of the "God of Basketball" is so unpretentious and terrifying!

Suffice it to say, Fultz suffered all the bad things that an outside player could have suffered, except for losing his life...... But he still played 60 starts in the 2022~2023 season, averaging 29.4 minutes per game, and could get 14 points, 3.9 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game...... 51% shooting!

Fate tossed him for 5 seasons, but he still handed over such a report card, compared to Milicic, a European golden boy, who did not play for 2 years and was directly wasted. This shows the strength of Fultz's talent.

And after being selected by the New York Knicks this time, it seems that even his luck has improved, not to mention that he has not been injured in the summer league, and he has not encountered anything strange until now.

It's just that I can say that "the choice of fate" was at that moment.

Fultz, who is not injured, is slowly cashing in on his talent with the New York Knicks, and is even on the verge of realizing his dream of facing off against Lee......

Forehead......

All right!

Although they competed on the same stage, Fultz, who was only in the first grade, obviously couldn't do it yet.

In particular, Li Wanfang is very serious.

On the first shot, Fultz just wanted to show his excellent explosiveness, but it turned out that Li Wan accurately predicted his change of direction and broke the ball off his hand.

Turning your head is a fast attack.

And the moment Li Wan got the ball and started to move, Fultz was frightened, he asked himself if he was already a genius with explosive physical talent, and in the 17 draft, even if there were Mitchell, Tatum, and Lonzo Ball, a group of equally talented players sitting next to him, he didn't take them seriously.

At this moment, Li Wan's explosiveness made him feel the gap.

Is Suke a "god"?

He tried his best to give the confrontation, but unfortunately he had only been polished by the NBA for less than half a season, and he was directly pushed off in just one moment. In their dialect of Upper Marlborough, Maryland, it is:

God, you're killing your brother!

But that was just the beginning, and over the ensuing period, Levan worked harder and harder on the defensive end, and in the end Fultz made 17 shots, hitting just five of them.

The hit rate is not even 30%.

However, after the game, Fultz was very excited, and he said this in front of the media: "I can feel Li Wan's seriousness, to be honest, this feeling of being regarded as an opponent by him and then breaking up is great!" I'm looking forward to playing him next! ”

His words won Li Wan's "like".

This kind of spiritual head, in Li Wan, this is a plus.

Sure enough, our fans are all this kind of guy who is getting braver and braver the more frustrated.

He said bluntly: "I like this guy, maybe the New York Knicks will enter the next stage under his brought, I think the New York Knicks need to protect this guy, if there is no injury, he will be a very good guy!" So he made a few minor remarks.

Even if Fultz is unlucky, if the team's management and the team doctor can pay more attention to his growth, it should make him have a healthier physical fitness, right?

Seriously, some teams just have that kind of atmosphere, and you have to accept it if you don't accept it, such as Portland, and then the original Philadelphia 76ers, starting with Embiid, this team has experienced the season reimbursement of its rookie season every year.

And judging from the fate of Embiid, Ben Simmons, and Fultz in the original plane.

Embiid is the luckiest of them all, but it goes without saying how often he's been injured......

The other two, Ben Simmons' bizarre back injury, and Fultz's bizarre and even once-in-a-century ailment.

It's hard to find this kind of thing in other teams......

You have to wonder if it's the ethos of the team.

If you leave there, you might have a completely different career.

For example, the current Wiggins and Wiggins, who was originally traded to the Timberwolves by the Cavaliers, are completely two attitude players, and the current Wiggins is full of enthusiasm in the game!

Li Wan's words are no less than a "holy decree" for the management of the New York Knicks, or rather, for New York fans, no less than a "directive", after he determined that Fultz is likely to become "his successor to the New York Knicks", the whole team, no, it should be said, the attitude of the whole city towards Fultz changed all of a sudden.

Fultz got a much higher heat than before!

In the face of these heats, Fultz felt the deepest affirmation from Li Wan, and he immediately said secretly in his heart:

In the name of Li Wan, save New York!

Barkley couldn't help but joke: "Obviously, this is still Li Wan's city, and it has not changed!" ”

In this game, Sabonis Jr. still played brightly, with 18 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, and he played easily in front of Jahir Okafor.

Played well in two games in a row.

Tyronn Lue is more confident: "I think he'll remember how he feels and then make his performance normal, he's still going to be tested, but I'm sure he can get over it because he's going to improve better than he was!" ”

Sabonis Jr. is obviously very uncomfortable with his coach praising himself one after another, and he wants to say a word, begging for "milk".

Because in the next game, he will be tested.

The next game for the Columbus Explorers will be back at home to take on the Portland Trail Blazers.

Facing Aldridge and Oden's "inside combination", Sabonis Jr. ushered in the first hard game in December.

It is worth mentioning that the day before the start of this match, Sabonis Jr. received a call from his father, who was known as the "Roof of the World" Arvidas Sabonis who would come to watch him play!

(End of chapter)