Wang Chao wants to join the Clippers, and he doesn't need to consider the intentions of the Clippers at all.

With his current reputation in the league, no team in the league can refuse him, as long as he is willing to nod his head in agreement, the general managers of all teams will get down on their knees and offer a maximum salary offer, enshrine Wang Chao as the emperor.

There is no exaggeration in this statement.

However, now is not the best time for the time being, after all, Wang Chao is still on the Nuggets, and it is somewhat unreasonable to start contacting the next family in advance.

But there's no urgency.

The Clippers themselves are a team to rebuild, and the team's salary space will always remain relatively healthy for the next two years, and the only long-term big contract on the team is Gallinari, who has an annual salary of 20 million.

It is precisely because of this that the Clippers were able to get two superstars with an annual salary of more than 30 million in the 19-20 season. Leonard and Paul. George.

In fact, Wang Chao's name has always been red-marked in the reinforcement list of the Clippers' reconstruction, because everyone knows that he will not stay with the Nuggets for long, and once the Nuggets win the championship, it is estimated that he will choose to retire like when he was in the Nets.

Wang Chao's previous rhetoric is no secret in the league, and all teams know that if Wang Chao thinks about his next home, he will definitely choose a team that has not won a championship in history.

The Clippers fit that perfectly into the equation, and not only that, but the attraction of Los Angeles' big city has always been a big plus.

Wang Chao bought a mansion in Los Angeles a year ago, and his confidante, well-known fashionista Candace. It's no secret that Swanepel settled here.

From all aspects of the situation, the Clippers are also very likely to become the best choice for Wang Chao.

It's just that there is no mind reading, and neither the Clippers management nor the fans know what Wang Chao thinks.

But it doesn't matter if you don't know, they want to take advantage of this All-Star Weekend to show Wang Chao the greatest enthusiasm and make him fall in love with the city! ——

The 2018 Los Angeles All-Stars are co-organized by the Clippers and Lakers.

Both teams are currently in a state of rebuilding and their regular season records are teetering on the brink of the playoffs, but as the second-largest city in the whole metro and the cultural and entertainment capital, Los Angeles has absolutely the best football market and fan atmosphere, even better than the first city, New York.

As soon as All-Star Weekend began, the streets of Los Angeles were filled with all sorts of All-Star related elements, and fans holding up all kinds of signs were everywhere.

And the most seen among them is that the Clippers fans held up Wang Chao's posters, cheering and shouting "Wang Chao, welcome to Los Angeles!" And "Come on the Clippers, we need you to win a championship for us!" Banners like that.

Many Nuggets fans who came from Denver to watch the All-Stars will feel unhappy when they see such a slogan, and they have a feeling of being bullish.

Wang Chao is their star, and the regular season hasn't ended yet, why did he start digging corners?

But if you change the perspective of the parties, Wang Chao, who is sitting in the car to the Staples Center, looks at the welcome signs that can be seen everywhere on the street, and his mood is still slightly different.

"Baba, so many of you!"

Xiao Keer was lying by the car window, looking at the poster of Wang Chao held high by many Clippers fans outside, and said in a milky voice.

"yes." Wang Chao smiled and rubbed Xiao Keer's head, and was more determined in his heart to join the Clippers.

Originally, his reason was just to be able to spend a year of pregnancy with Candace, but now seeing such active and enthusiastic Clippers fans, there is naturally another reason, although this reason can be said to be insignificant compared to the previous one, but in the end it is still better than nothing.

After all, in this world, who doesn't like the compliments and popularity of others?

Wang Chao is just an ordinary man in the final analysis, and he also has vanity.

Clippers fans naturally don't know that Wang Chao has already seen what they are doing, but the purpose of their own thing is to let Wang Chao see their enthusiasm.

And this enthusiasm was better reflected in the All-Star Game a day later.

On Feb. 19, the Los Angeles All-Star Game officially began at the Staples Center.

After a wonderful performance, Wang Chao and James, as the captains of the two teams, made their debut under the passionate commentary of the live DJ.

As the all-star ticket king, as soon as Wang Chao appeared on the stage, the audience immediately resounded with a tsunami-like cheer.

It's Los Angeles, after all, and the Clippers and Lakers fans buy tickets far more than the fans who come from other cities to watch, with the Clippers accounting for the vast majority of fans, far more than Lakers fans.

This is not surprising, unlike the Clippers, the Lakers have no idea about competing for Wang Chao, it's not that they don't covet Wang Chao's body, the key is that Wang Chao doesn't look down on a team like them that already has more than a dozen championship trophies.

In this year's All-Star, only Towns was selected as an All-Star substitute in the Lakers, which can be described as a bleak star, which also makes Lakers fans lack interest in All-Stars, which is far from the Clippers who are trying to take advantage of the opportunity of the All-Star Game to vigorously pursue Wang Chao.

Therefore, in the Staples Arena, at least more than forty percent of the fans present are Clippers fans, and all of them ventilated in advance to cheer for Wang Chao in the game, so that he can see the enthusiasm and sincerity of the Clippers.

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In this All-Star Game, Wang Chao did not paddle and play soy sauce like in previous years.

On the one hand, the atmosphere of the "home" fans is very good, and all kinds of cheering and cheering shouts make Wang Chao embarrassed to swing.

On the other hand, this game is also different from the previous confrontation between East and West, and the names of the two All-Star teams are Wang Chao and James respectively.

Wang Chao, as the captain of Wang Chao's team, is also the representative of this team, and he can't accept that the team with his name loses to the opposite James team.

Therefore, at this All-Star Game, Wang Chao took it a little seriously for a long time, and understated a big triple-double of 36 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists, leading Wang Chao to defeat the James team.

As if tacitly, James on the James side also wanted to win the team named after him for the first time this year, but on the All-Star stage, James had no choice but to lose under Wang Chao again.

James didn't play badly in the game, with 29 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists also being a quasi-triple-double, and even his 70% shooting rate was slightly higher than that of Wang Chao.

But there was no way, Wang Chao's strength was mainly concentrated in the second half, especially in the last quarter, and his scoring at the critical moment was completely unstoppable, resulting in the game being taken away directly by a wave.

James was speechless, it was just an All-Star game, even if he lost the game, he could pretend not to care, and congratulate Wang Chao on winning the All-Star MVP trophy with a smile.

In the interview after the award, the reporter also seemed to have some ulterior motives.

She didn't ask Wang Chao how he felt after winning the championship, but asked like this.

"First of all, congratulations on leading the team to win the game and win the All-Star MVP, I think a lot of fans want to know how you feel about this All-Star weekend and how it feels for the city of Los Angeles and the fans."

As soon as this question was asked, Wang Chao knew that this reporter was probably a fan of the Clippers, because if he was a fan of the Lakers, he would definitely not test his tone like this.

But Wang Chao doesn't matter, although he also needs to consider the feelings of Nuggets fans, but the fact that he will leave the Nuggets after winning the championship is not a secret, and the enthusiasm of the Clippers fans is also worthy of his little feedback.

"Los Angeles is a great city and the fans are very welcoming, and it's one of the best All-Stars I've experienced, and it's great." Wang Chao replied with a smile.

As soon as the reporter heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

Wang Chao's words, it sounds like a play!

She hurriedly continued to ask: "As we all know, once you win the championship with the Nuggets, you will leave and rejoin a non-championship team to compete for the championship, and the Los Angeles Clippers have been a non-championship team so far, I wonder if you have any ideas about joining the Clippers?" ”

"I haven't thought about it yet." Wang Chao smiled and shook his head, even if he already had the idea of joining the Clippers, he couldn't make such a hasty decision, which would not only affect his layout, but also more likely to hit the morale of the Nuggets. "There's only one thing on my mind right now, and that's to lead the Nuggets to the championship, and as for the rest, I'll think about it after we win the championship."

That being said, everyone is a smart person, and there is no need to make it completely clear.

When the reporter raised this question, Wang Chao did not directly veto, which means that this matter is possible.

After all, there are not many teams in the league that have not won a championship now, and among these teams, the attraction of the Clippers is still quite large, especially since they still have three first-round picks this year, and Jordan Jr.'s big contract will also expire, so there is a lot of room for maneuver, and he is definitely one of the most powerful contenders for Wang Chao.

Wang Chao also didn't care about the Clippers management and fans who came to mind after his interview.

After the All-Star event, he returned to Denver for the final sprint of the regular season.

After the All-Star Weekend, the regular season officially entered the late stages, with 58 of the 82 regular season games previously played, leaving only 24 games remaining.

In the first 58 games, the Nuggets achieved a 44-15 record, with a winning rate of 75%, which is not particularly high, but it ranks first in the league.

Below the Nuggets, there are the Warriors with a 73% win rate, the Nets with a 72% win rate, the Raptors and the Spurs with a 70% win rate.

In the 17-18 season, the league can be described as a group of heroes, with a lot of stars, among which only Wang Chao is an all-star Nuggets can be called a white lotus.

In the next 24 games, Wang Chao does not intend to give up the league's first advantage, after all, after entering the playoffs with the league's first record, any opponent will have home court advantage, for the Denver Nuggets, a team with the devil's home court, home court advantage is quite important, especially if the hypothetical rival is the Nets, Cavaliers, Warriors These superstar teams are gathered, the home court advantage must be held in hand.

The Nuggets' first game after the All-Star break was a trilogy match against the Spurs at home.

It was a tough game, because after a long silence, Howard finally played a representative game, slashing 38 points, 19 rebounds and 5 blocks, and blasting Gobert, who was opposite him, to the ground.

The Nuggets relied on Wang Chao to score 41 points at home, which was a difficult way to win the game.

The game against the Spurs was just the beginning, and the schedule and intensity after the All-Star break were noticeably higher, followed by the Nuggets' defeat on the road against the Rockets.

If Leonard had God's help in this game, he scored 45 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, and played a triple-double of 44 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists.

This kind of failure is completely a plot killing, which is often staged in the NBA, and even Wang Chao can't do anything about it.

Fortunately, in the subsequent game, the Nuggets quickly stabilized the situation and began to win a wave of consecutive wins, from the end of February to the beginning of March, the Nuggets successively defeated the Grizzlies, Mavericks, Lakers, Kings and other teams, won a wave of five consecutive wins, until March 9, the game with the Cavaliers ended the winning streak.

Throughout the 15 games in March, the Nuggets have maintained a high winning percentage, with an 11-4 record, and the record continues to lead the league.

In the last six games in April, the Nuggets' confrontation intensity plummeted, and the opponents were all the league's bottom weak teams such as the Timberwolves, Pacers, Suns and Hawks, and easily won all of them, and the final record was fixed at 62-20.

62-20, a 76% win rate.

This record is a relatively poor record compared with the team led by Wang Chao in the past few years.

However, the performance of the record should not be compared with the past, but should be compared horizontally with the same period.

In the 17-18 season, there were too many strong teams in the league, which led to only one team with more than 60 wins in the league, and that was the Nuggets.

Let's talk about the West first, the Nuggets with 62 wins are naturally in first place, and the second-ranked Golden State Warriors only finished with a 58-24 record, with a winning rate of just over 70%.

Moving on, the third-ranked San Antonio Spurs have a record of 55-27 and a winning rate of 67%, the fourth-ranked Portland Trail Blazers have a 49-33 record and have fallen below 50 wins, the fifth Houston Rockets has a 48-34 record, the sixth Thunder has the same record as the Rockets, also 48-34, the seventh is the Dallas Mavericks with 47 wins, and the eighth in the West is the Los Angeles Lakers with Towns, Ingram, Tatum and other potential new stars and a 44-win record.

It is worth mentioning that the Los Angeles Clippers, who are in the same city as the Lakers, finally fixed their regular season record at 42-40, ranking tenth in the West and missing the playoffs.

The record in the east is not much different from that in the west.

Ranked first in the East, is the Brooklyn Nets with a luxurious team left by Wang Chao, with a record of 59-23, the second is the Raptors with 58 wins, and the next record from high to low is 56 wins over the Cleveland Cavaliers, 55 wins over the Boston Celtics, 52 wins over the Charlotte Hornets, 45 wins over the Milwaukee Bucks, 44 wins over the Miami Heat, and 43 wins over the Washington Wizards.

(End of chapter)