The Magic did not make any trade at the trade deadline, and the linkage of the butterfly effect led to the fact that the Magic did not trade Arenas this season, and there was no Carter as a bargaining chip to trade back Turkoglou.

The Magic's record after the All-Star Weekend has become a bit more consistent than before, mainly because the Bulls are chasing after them, making the Magic feel threatened, and even Howard realizes that the team will lose more games if they continue to play a lot of back-to-back singles.

From the end of the All-Star break to the end of March, the Magic went 14-4 in 18 games and had an overall record of 58-17, about two wins ahead of the Bulls and Spurs.

In the final seven games of April, the Magic ended up 5-2 with an overall record of 63-19, ending the entire 2010-11 season.

Compared to last season's 70-12, the Magic have only 63 wins this season, which is somewhat disappointing for Orlando fans, after all, they are still counting on the Magic to continue to work hard and break the Bulls' record of 72 wins.

However, even with 63 wins, it is still the best record in the league and is proud of the crowd.

The two teams that are closely following the Magic are the Chicago Bulls in the East and the San Antonio Spurs in the West.

The Bulls finished with a 61-21 record, one more loss than in their history, and this record is also the same as the Spurs in the West, both teams have a 61-21 record, plus the 63-19 Magic team, becoming the only three teams to have a regular season record of 60 wins or more this season.

And the highly anticipated Heat triumvirate at the beginning of the regular season, the regular season record was finally fixed at 56-26, which is also a pretty good record, but it is obviously far from what fans expected.

This is mainly related to the fact that the Big Three have just been formed and the tacit understanding is not enough.

The record of 56 wins is the same as Wang Chao's impression of the 58-win record of the Heat's Big Three in the first year, and they lost two more games in the regular season.

No way, the current Magic is not the turbulent team in the original time and space, except that Howard can't come up with a team that is stable enough, the weak interior line of the Heat team has been comprehensively suppressed by Howard, and now the overall strength of the outside line is not too bad, the result of the four meetings between the Heat and the Magic team in the regular season is 1 win and 3 losses, losing three games.

This also worries many Miami Heat fans, because in the playoffs, the Magic will definitely be the biggest opponent on the way to the Heat's advancement to the Finals.

The 52-30 Celtics are in fourth place in the East, and compared to the Heat, who have only lost two games less than the original time and space, the Celtics' record has dropped from 56 to 52 wins, losing four more games, and in addition to the additional loss to the Magic, the Celtics have also lost to other teams that should have won games.

This is about to steal the center Shaq that the Celtics should have signed. O'Neill is concerned.

Although on the Magic team, O'Neal is a complete burden, and playing on the court can only drag down the team's overall situation.

But in the Celtics, it's completely two concepts, after all, even the 38-year-old O'Neal can still average 9.2 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, and maintain an exaggerated shooting rate of 66.7%.

O'Neal was supposed to play in 37 games for the Celtics and became the Celtics' main starting interior during the period when Perkins was out injured.

But now without O'Neal, the Celtics can only let O'Neal Jr. be in this position.

is also named O'Neal, and it is also the end of his career, and the gap between O'Neal Jr. and O'Neal is still as different as it was at the peak.

Averaged 5.4 points and 3.7 rebounds per game, shooting 46% from the field, which was the contribution of O'Neal Jr. during the period when he replaced O'Neal as the Celtics' starter, and it was natural that the Celtics lost more games.

From fifth to eighth in the East, they are the Atlanta Hawks at 42-40, the New York Knicks at 41-41, the Philadelphia 76ers at 39-43 and the Indiana Pacers at 36-46.

On the western side, as in previous years, the competitiveness is still far better than that of the east, even though there are several super strong teams in the east now, the overall competitiveness is still weaker than that of the western team.

The Spurs are at 61-21 in the West, followed by the Lakers with 57 wins and the Mavericks with 57 wins, and the Thunder with 54 wins and 58 wins in fourth place in the West, followed by the Nuggets, Trail Blazers, Hornets and Rockets.

The Rockets, who were supposed to be ranked ninth in the West and missed the playoffs, finally relied on the extra Da Yao and Lewis to make it to the playoffs very hard, but because there was no Lowry, the point guard position was only Brooks, and the overall strength was limited, after all, the outside combination of Brooks + Martin + Lewis had almost zero defensive ability, and although Da Yao had the assistance of Scola and Hayes on the inside, he couldn't build up the team's entire defensive system like Howard.

Facing the San Antonio Spurs in the first round, the Rockets had no hope of winning at all.

In addition to the team's record and playoff matchup list, the final ranking of the major leaderboards is relatively hot after the regular season.

In terms of scoring lists, Wang Chao won the scoring championship for the third consecutive year, becoming the first player since Jordan to score three times in a row, and his average points per game this season have dropped significantly compared with the previous two seasons, but as said before, the decrease in points per game is not a lack of individual scoring ability, but a slowdown in the overall offensive rhythm of the entire league.

Wang Chao averaged only 29.2 points per game this season, and he secured the position of scoring champion, and Durant, who ranked second, averaged 28.6 points per game, which was 0.9 points higher than the average of 27.7 points per game that won the scoring champion in history.

James averaged 26.7 points per game, ranking third on the scoring list, followed by Anthony with 25.6 points, Wade with 25.5 points, Kobe Bryant averaged only 25.3 points per game this season, a new low since the 03-04 season, people can't help but feel that the 33-year-old Kobe seems to have really begun to age, which also casts a shadow on the Lakers' road to continue to hit the championship.

In terms of rebounding, Timberwolves interior player Kevin . Love became the new rebounding king with an average of 15.2 rebounds per game, while Howard's average of 13.8 rebounds per game did not decline significantly compared with the previous two seasons, but he could only give up the rebounding crown that had dominated for three consecutive years.

is not only the rebounding king, but on the blocking list, Howard's average of 2.4 blocks per game this season can only be tied for second with McGee and Ibaka, and the first to get the blocking king is the Bucks' Bogut.

lost the two honors of rebounding king and blocking king at once, but Howard was not too disappointed.

Because his final average of 24.6 points, 13.8 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game this season is fixed, which can be described as the most gorgeous season of his career just by looking at the data.

Howard's 24.6 points per game puts him in the scoring charts, finishing eighth on the scoring list behind Stoudemire at 25.3 and Rose with 25 points.

Such data also allowed Howard to successfully rank third on the regular season MVP power list, second only to Rose and Wang Chao, and higher than James, Kobe and others.

That's what Howard wants.

Ranked third in the regular season MVP, who's to say he's a blue-collar player? Even if Wang Chao is ranked higher than him, ranking second on the MVP list, and has a high chance of winning the regular season MVP, it is enough to prove Howard's own ability.

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On April 16, the first round of the playoffs officially began, and the Magic's first-round opponent was the Indiana Pacers, who were eighth in the East.

Black Da Yao Roy. Although Hibbert has a somewhat limiting effect on Howard, it is based on the premise that Howard has a lot of ball-carrying back-to-back singles.

Under normal circumstances, Howard must be throwing out Hibbert more than a dozen streets, especially on the defensive end, Hibbert can only protect the frame, but Howard has the ability to protect the frame that is only stronger than Hibbert, and at the same time, he has enough mobility to help defend and make up for defense, and the defensive radius includes the distance from the basket to the free throw line.

The Pacers don't have an advantage against the Magic from the outside.

Not to mention anything else, small forward position Danny. Granger was completely unilaterally blown up when facing Wang Chao.

As the most improved player in the 08-09 season, Danny Brown. Granger is currently the best small forward in the league, averaging 20.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game.

But compared with Wang Chao, the gap is too big.

Granger, who is not very outstanding on the defensive end, can't prevent Wang Chao's offense at all, whether it is a three-point long-range shot or a mid-range or holding the ball to break through the frame, Wang Chao's various and lethal offensive skills Granger can not defend any of them.

This is, of course, the consensus of the whole league, Wang Chao, as the player with the strongest scoring ability in the league today, cannot be limited by single defense.

In the course of the game, the Pacers arranged for Paul. George assists Granger in pinching Wang Chao.

As a small forward, George's future achievements are much stronger than Granger's, and he is also a typical representative star of the league who has both offense and defense.

But it's only the first season of his career, and George, even with his talent and nose on the defensive end, is still too tender.

While unable to contain Wang Chao's offense, Granger was still limited by Wang Chao on the offensive end, and his offensive efficiency was greatly reduced.

Unconsciously, another season has passed, Wang Chao has been continuing to train on defense, under the accumulation of a large number of training potions, Wang Chao's average value of defensive ability has reached more than 85, even if you look at the league, there are very few defensive players who can reach this level among the outside players.

The extremely high value of defensive ability, coupled with Wang Chao's static talent of 2.06 meters and 2.18 meters and dynamic talents such as speed and agility that finally reached 95, as long as Wang Chao's attitude is serious, the sense of pressure in defense is enough to make it difficult for most players to deal with.

Granger is one of them.

Under Wang Chao's defense, Granger shot 7-of-17 from the field, shooting 41% from the field, and only got 17 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists.

As the team's No. 1 offensive core, even Granger is still like this, who else can the Pacers rely on?

Is it still a first-year rookie, but Paul George, who averaged 7.8 points and 3.7 rebounds per game in the regular season?

Incidentally, George started this game and finished with 2 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist on 1-of-2 shooting.

George may be one of the top players in the league in the future, but he still has a long way to go.

The Magic vs. the Pacers was originally the least suspenseful series, and the four games were uneventful and there were no accidents.

4:0, with a crisp score, the Magic completed a sweep of the Pacers in the first round and successfully advanced to the second round, and their opponent in the second round will be the old rival, the Boston Celtics, who are ranked fourth in the East.

The Celtics' first-round opponent is the Atlanta Hawks, who are fifth in the East.

The Hawks are now stronger than they were last season, having managed to retain Joe last summer. Johnson at the same time, Josh. Smith and Al. Horford has also grown further, with the only flaw being that the team does not have Jamal as the best sixth man. Crawford's existence, strength is still affected.

While the Hawks are strong, the Celtics, who are heading into the playoffs, are clearly the stronger side.

4:2, the Celtics used six games to eliminate the Hawks to enter the second round, but the second round met the Magic, which was not good news for the Green Army.

The Magic look a little weaker than last season, as evidenced by just 63 wins in the regular season.

But the Celtics have also regressed significantly this season, with the Big Three getting a year older and the team's record declining more than the Magic.

More importantly, the Celtics, who have fallen in front of the Magic team for three consecutive years, can they really be ashamed of encountering again in the fourth year?

The other group of matchups in the Eastern Conference semifinals is the Bulls vs Heat.

This is also a very interesting game, the new generation team led by Rose single-core against the big three of the Heat, the biggest favorite to win the championship last season, obviously Rose's Bulls are better in terms of record, but when it comes to the playoffs, the stage where superstars have to speak, the situation is difficult to say.

In the West, the Spurs eliminated the Rockets 4-2 and did not suffer from the Grizzlies as they did in history, which can be regarded as a blessing.

They will face the Thunder, who eliminated the Nuggets, in the second round.

The other set of matchups is the Lakers and Mavericks, two teams with the same record in the regular season.

Of course, fans are generally optimistic about the Lakers, one of the favorites to win the championship, after all, the Lakers have reached the Finals and won a championship in the past three years, and their overall strength and heritage are much stronger than the Mavericks.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that the result of this group of matchups was that the Mavericks swept the Lakers 4:0 without pressure to advance to the Western Conference finals.

It's just that this scene hasn't happened yet.

Before the start of the second round, the league announced the Team of the Season and Defensive Team of the Year.

The five players in the best team are Rose, Kobe, James, Wang Chao and Howard.

The best second team five are Westbrook, Wade, Durant, Nowitzki and Stoudemire.

The five players in the best three are Paul, Ginobili, Paul. Gasol, Aldridge and Da Yao.

(End of chapter)