Chapter 256: The Cavaliers are also going to form a Super F4?
"Successfully defended the title, the Rockets' second championship was achieved, and the Heat triumvirate was completely defeated!"
"Comparable to legend! Wang Chao won the sixth championship in his career, tied Michael Jordan for five regular season MVPs, and was only one finals FMVP between him and Jordan. ”
"Contemporary Jordan, can Wang Chao continue to defend his title to achieve a second triple championship and surpass Jordan with seven championships to become the real best in history?"
The Rockets' championship caused a lot of repercussions in the league, the most important of which was the evaluation of the historical status of Wang Chao, who achieved the sixth championship in his career.
Although limited by the length of his career, Wang Chao is much less than Jordan in terms of scoring champions, best team, best defensive team and other small honors, and the current career total score is just over 20,000 points, which is not high in terms of Wang Chao's current age of 31.
This can't be helped, Wang Chao just joined the league in the first two seasons, and he was completely a soy sauce bench that couldn't play, wasting a long time, and he was not too young when he joined the league, and there was a natural gap between him and James who joined the league as a high school student.
But the above are just small honors, counting the top 10 superstars in history, there are only three honors to measure their historical status, the number of regular season MVPs, championships and FMVPs.
Wang Chao's five MVP, six crowns, and five FMVP honors are definitely qualified to sit in the top three, especially in the three seasons when he came to the Rockets, although he did not win the championship in the first season, he played a shocking average of 40+8+8 data per game in the regular season, and in the second season, he averaged a triple-double per game to reproduce the big O miracle, and now in the third season, not only to reproduce the average triple-double per game again, but also to win the scoring king, rebounding king, assist king and steal king at the same time, the toughness can be called the king of kings!
Such a dominant-level performance is enough to make Wang Chao rank among the top three in history, and even many people think that even Tiangou Jabbar, who was originally ranked second in history, is not as good as Wang Chao.
There are many reasons for this, starting with two of Abdul-Jabbar's six regular-season MVPs before the ABA and NBA merged.
It's not that the honor before the NBA merger is not an honor, but the difference in the number of teams and the quality of stars does make it relatively easier to win the MVP, plus Abdul-Jabbar also won an MVP that didn't even enter the playoffs after the NBA merger, and the moisture is indeed a bit big.
This is just like Chamberlain's record of 100 points and 50 points per game in a single game, Russell's 11 championships sound very exaggerated, but the water does exist, after all, the average competitive level of the NBA at that time was there, just like letting Bennett now go to the county basketball team in China to play games, and cutting an average of 100 points per game is the same as chopping melons and vegetables.
Therefore, if you analyze it from the most rational perspective, only Michael can compare with the current Wang Chao. Jordan alone.
Even if Abdul-Jabbar's MVP honor is not discounted, when the six MVPs are ahead of Wang Chao by one, his number of championships is one less than Wang Chao, and the FMVP is even less than 3, so Wang Chao must be more ahead.
After the Rockets won the championship, fans debated on the Internet about whether Wang Chao's current achievements are second or third in history, in fact, the main reason is that the local fans in the United States are unwilling to accept from the bottom of their hearts that an overseas star almost monopolizes all the honors and historical status of the NBA.
When these hard honors began to be unable to compare with Wang Chao, some people brought up other achievements of Abdul-Jabbar to suppress Wang Chao, the most recognized and accepted by people is Abdul-Jabbar's record as the all-time scoring champion.
Abdul-Jabbar's career scoring record of 38,000 points is the highest in NBA history and is widely recognized as the most difficult record to break.
At least the current league doesn't see any player having a chance to break this scoring record, even if James, who has a monopoly on all the youngest scoring records, wants to break Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record, theoretically needs to continue to maintain his current form until he is about thirty-seven or eighteen years old, is that possible?
It is recognized in the world that James plays completely by relying on the unique super physical fitness in history, and as he gets older and his physical fitness declines, James' competitive state will decline rapidly.
Many experts generally believe that James will fall off a cliff after the age of 33, and it is simply impossible to continue to reach the current MVP-level level of 37.
Therefore, Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record, it seems that no one has a chance to break it yet.
Of course, Wang Chao, who is a traverser, knows that the so-called experts and professors are all nonsense, and James, a monster, can still cut an average of 29+8+7 per game in the league until the age of 38.
At the age of 38 years and 40 days, James officially broke Abdul-Jabbar's all-time scoring record of 38,387 points.
And it took James 1,411 games to break Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record, 149 fewer than Abdul-Jabbar's 1,560, nearly two seasons, and James took fewer shots than Abdul-Jabbar when he broke the record, but made more free throws.
If it weren't for the masks and injuries that led to fewer games in the following years, Abdul-Jabbar might have been able to break Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record by the time he was 37 years old.
Although James missed a lot of honors that belonged to him because of Wang Chao, his strength was not affected in any way, and even became stronger than the original, after all, there was such a big mountain as Wang Chao in front of him, and James had to force himself to train harder to become stronger, otherwise he could only be constantly beaten by Wang Chao.
Therefore, James is destined to break Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record in the future, but I am afraid that even if it is only about his own honor, James will face the situation of being surpassed by Wang Chao.
Wang Chao, who has just scored 21,000 points in his career, assumes that he averages 33 points per game in the following season, he will only need six and a half seasons to reach 38,000 points, and he will happen to be the same as James at the age of 30.
And if Wang Chaonu works hard and averages 35 points or more per game in the following season, he can achieve it at the age of 37.
Of course, it sounds easy, with Wang Chao's current scoring ability, he only needs to increase the number of shots and appropriately reduce the investment in defense and rebounding by averaging more than 35+ points per game.
But Wang Chao doesn't know if there is a mask problem in this world, and if the season is reduced due to the impact of masks, he will need more time to achieve this achievement.
Therefore, for Wang Chao, it is still a relatively challenging thing to break Abdul-Jabbar's all-time scoring record before James.
It's just that the current Wang Chao is not interested in this kind of thing.
What about breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record earlier than James? In terms of judging the status of history, it is not measured by who achieved achievements earlier, and James, who joined the league in '03, has played more seasons and games than Wang Chao in '04.
Wang Chao, whose personal honor has crushed James, does not need to use these to prove that he is stronger than James, in fact, he is now recognized as a stronger player than James, the real first person in the league! ——
After winning the championship, as usual, it was naturally a championship parade, the winner wantonly vented his excitement and joy, and the entire Houston was empty, and countless fans poured into the streets to welcome the return of the king's army, and the scene was unprecedented.
The 2013-14 season officially ended with the crisp four games of the finals, but the end of the 13-14 season also means the arrival of the 14-15 season.
All of the league's team executives are starting to get busy, preparing for the draft and the possibility of trading player extensions after the free agency market opens.
Compared to last year, which was 2013, the summer of 2014 was very lively, because the 14-year draft was regarded as a draft year by the league. Embiid and forward Andrew. Wiggins is the top pick in this draft, along with the two men, including Jabari. Parker, Aron. Players such as Gordon are also talented and highly-expected stars of tomorrow.
It's not just the draft that's buzzing, but the 2014 free agency market is also star-studded.
The Heat Big Three, James, Wade, and Bosh have their contracts expiring at the same time, which will inevitably cause a scramble in the league. Anthony, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers. Bryant, Paul of the Pacers. George, DeMarcus of the Warriors. Cousins, John of the Wizards. Wall et al.
Similarly, quality role players like the Rockets, Isaiah. Thomas and Chandler. Parsons is also out of contract and is up for grabs from many teams around the league.
With the free market opening, it's going to be a crazy summer.
June 26, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York.
The NBA2014 draft kicked off as scheduled.
The luckily Cavaliers won the No. 1 pick for the third time in four years and signed center Joel. Embiid.
History changed at this moment.
Wang Chao was not surprised that the Cavaliers chose Embiid, because when he learned about the rookie list before, he had already found that Embiid, who was known as undefeated on Twitter, was very different from the original historical process.
Originally, Embiid suffered two serious foot injuries before starting his career, which led to the direct absence of his rookie season and second season after landing in the NBA, and it was not until the third season that he finally started playing.
This situation really scared the 76ers management enough, for fear that Embiid would become Oden's second, and he would never be able to play normally due to injury.
Fortunately, such worries are unnecessary, after Embiid officially landed in the NBA, he quickly showed a superb level of the inside, averaging 20+7 per game in the first season, improving to 23+11 in the second season, and in the third season of his career, he has been able to contribute 27.5 points and 13.6 rebounds per game to the team's big double-double data.
The future 76ers built a team around Embiid, making the 76ers gradually become a strong team in the East, and even Embiid later had the ability to compete for the regular season MVP.
Of course, that's all for later.
The current Embiid should have been affected by the draft pick due to the hidden danger of injury, and he fell from the top pick to the third pick and was selected by the 76ers.
But the time and space where Wang Chao is located, perhaps because of the chain reaction of various magical butterfly effects, Embiid has not even suffered a single injury, and he is currently a completely healthy player, and the draft evaluation is naturally much higher, and it is natural that he was selected by the Cavaliers with the top pick.
It's just that in this way, the butterfly effect will happen again, and the Cavaliers who selected Embiid, if they welcome James back this summer, they can form a Big Three combination of James + Irving + Embiid.
Don't look at Embiid as a first-year rookie, but when he is completely healthy, his level is not necessarily worse than Lefou, who is already the boss of the Timberwolves at this time.
Although Lefu has been in the Timberwolves for two seasons, in the final analysis, he is just a player who has only been selected for the best second team twice, and in the two seasons when he won the second team, the Timberwolves did not enter the playoffs, and it is completely because Lefou's personal data is better.
It is undeniable that Lefou's strength is there, especially the shooting rate outside the three-point line is remarkable, and he is an important interior backbone under the Cavaliers 2.0 version and James' one-star shooting system.
But if you know Lefou, fans should know that although Lefou's position is inside, his real barefoot height is only 2.03 meters, and he is only slightly taller than James after wearing shoes, and his 2.11 meter arm span limits his ability to protect the frame.
Embiid is completely different, even considering the rookie period, that is, the level of combat power is not as good as Lefou, but Embiid's talent is the top level in the league.
Height 2.13 meters, weight 126 kilograms, arm span 2.28 meters, although athleticism is slightly inferior to top interior players such as Howard at his peak, but it is also a first-class level, more importantly, Embiid's skills are comprehensive, soft touch, and the range can reach the three-point line, in the first season of his career in the 16-17 season, the three-point shooting rate can reach 36.7%, although it is slightly lower than Lefou, but as an interior center, this three-point shooting rate is enough.
While his offensive ability is better than Lefou's, Embiid also has a strong rim protection ability under the top height and arm span.
In the second season of his career, Embiid was named to the All-Defensive Second Team and All-Defensive Second Team.
An Embiid can make up for many of the shortcomings of the Cavaliers 2.0 period, much better than Love, plus a 4-year rookie contract, which can be described as a model of good quality and low price.
Now, with Irving and Embiid, the Cavaliers are already a Big Three configuration to sign James back, and then let's take a look at the Cavaliers' salary space.
Under the premise that James joins with an annual salary of 20 million, the players with relatively large contracts in the Cavaliers are James with 20 million, Irving with 7 million in the fourth year of his rookie contract, Embiid with a rookie contract of $5 million in the first year, and Tristan with the same $5 million. Thompson and Bennett ...... And then there's a bunch of low-paid players.
See what that means? It means that the Cavaliers still have enough salary space to sign a star with an annual salary of around 20 million.
Rao is Wang Chao couldn't help but gasp, the Cavaliers are also going to form a super F4 rhythm!
(End of chapter)