Finals G1, the Raptors are actually playing very well, the Clippers' lineup at this stage, especially the starting lineup, is not as strong as it seems, when the Raptors have Lowry, DeRozan, George, Siakam and Gasol Jr.'s starting lineup, in fact, the Clippers' starting lineup is not dominant.

On the bench, the Raptors also have the bench combination of VanVleet + Powell, although it is still slightly inferior to the bench bandit combination of Lowe + Harrell in scoring firepower, but at least it can be compared twice.

But the problem is that the Clippers' core ace, Wang Chao, is just too strong.

In the course of the game, the Raptors successively tried George's single defense, which is the strongest outside defense, and various targeting methods such as double bag clamping, but all of them were in vain in front of Wang Chao.

When Wang Chao scored 51 points in the whole game, even if his teammates were slightly inferior to the opponent, they could win the game.

That's the problem for the Raptors.

If they have one more superstar on their roster, such as James, Durant, Curry and even Antetokounmpo and Leonard, they may all have a chance to win.

However, it would be too bad for the Raptors to get another MVP-level superstar on their current lineup, and it would be even more exaggerated than Durant's version of the five-star Warriors.

Even the five-star Warriors team has weaknesses in the game, such as their interior line is as bad as ever, and it is easy to be used as a breakthrough.

But the Raptors are different, the inside configuration is Siakam + Gasol Jr.'s Raptors, the strength of the inside line is not weak at all, whether it is attacking or protecting the basket, it is the top level in the league, if you add a top star on this basis, in addition to the distribution of the ball and chemistry, you really can't find a flaw.

It's a pity that this possibility only exists in YY.

Lowry, DeRozan, Paul. George, and even Gasol Jr. are on super contracts of more than 20 million, plus a number of other role players, the Raptors' salary space has long been occupied.

After this year, the Raptors will also face the problem of renewing Siakam, with the level of the opponent's performance this season, it is difficult to stay without a maximum salary.

In other words, this season is the theoretical strongest season for the Raptors in recent years, and they will not be able to maintain the strength of their current roster next season.

It's a pity that they met Wang Chao's Clippers in the finals and missed the best chance to win the championship.

Two days later, the finals G2.

Raptors Paul. George felt hot and exploded, scoring 34 points in the game, and competing with Wang Chao, who scored 37 points.

But the Clippers won the game.

In this game, the Clippers' bench began to exert its strength.

In the G1 match, Lowe and Harrell faced VanVleet and Powell, but they fought evenly and neither could take advantage of anyone.

But in this game, the situation is completely different.

Lowe scored 23 points on 8-of-18 shooting, 2-of-5 three-pointers, and 5-of-6 free throws, plus Harrell, who had 18 points and 7 rebounds, and the two combined for 41 points, and the Clippers scored a total of 114 points.

After two games, the Clippers were once again in a 2-0 lead.

But unlike the Clippers who crushed 4:0 all the way in the West, the Raptors still have some strength, and they can basically be regarded as the strongest opponent the Clippers have encountered in the playoffs this season.

Who let the Lakers and the Warriors fight each other, resulting in no difficulty at all in the Western Conference finals?

In the finals G3, the Raptors relied on the 7 players of the team to score double-doubles, among which George, DeRozan and Siakam all scored 20+ points, and finally stubbornly pulled back a city, rewriting the score to 2:1, avoiding the fate of being swept 4:0.

This victory made the Raptors fans a little happy for two days, and then in the G4 game, the Raptors lost to the Clippers again, with a big score of 3:1, and the Clippers took the lead in getting the match point.

The Raptors, who stepped into the edge of the cliff with half a foot, once again burst out with a tenacious will to survive in the fifth game, and once again pulled back a city, and the score came to 3:2.

But Wang Chao didn't give the Raptors a chance to turn the tables after all.

In the sixth game, Wang Chao was in charge of the game and led the team to defeat the Raptors with a triple-double of 42 points, 17 rebounds and 11 assists, and also fixed the score of the finals at 4:2.

The Clippers won the championship for the second consecutive year, and Wang Chao also won the 11th championship of his career, tying the Lord of the Rings. Russell's Miracle.

Lifting a championship trophy in an empty park always feels almost meaningful.

But that didn't stop Wang Chao and the Clippers from reaping flowers and applause.

The media and the Internet are full of praise for this Clippers team.

In this season, which has become extremely difficult for special reasons, the Clippers can still win the championship with stable performance and performance, which is enough to see the strength of this team and the horror of Wang Chao's dominance.

However, because the Clippers won the championship was expected by the vast majority of fans, when the team really won the championship, the excitement about the unknown possibility of the game was much weaker.

Many fans who don't pay attention to the NBA frequently, when they see the Clippers win the championship, the first reaction that flashes in their minds is.

"Wang Chao won the championship again? How come I wasn't surprised at all? ”

"What's so surprising about this? have won 11 championships, and in the past ten years, how many times have Wang Chao's team not won the championship? ”

As a result, on the Internet, there are more topics to discuss whether Wang Chao will stay with the Clippers than the Clippers to win the championship.

That's right, with the end of this season, Wang Chao's contract with the Clippers has officially expired.

Wang Chao played for two years with the Clippers, winning two championships for the team, and at the moment, except for the Clippers fans, no team fans want Wang Chao to stay with the Clippers, in which case, there will be another three-in-a-row championship team in the league.

If Wang Chao doesn't renew his contract with the Clippers, which team will he join next season? Is it to carry out targeted poverty alleviation as before, join a team without a championship, or do you have other ideas?

Even if Wang Chao is 37 years old at this time, and will reach the age of 38 next season, but referring to his performance in the regular season and playoffs this season, no one thinks that Wang Chao's competitive state will decline significantly after half a year, and he is still the strongest player in the league.

So what does Wang Chao think?

He himself actually wants to stay in the Clippers, not because the Clippers are worthy of his nostalgia, but because Los Angeles makes him a little reluctant to leave, or that his wife is in his arms, and the life of the cute baby makes him a little happy.

But after some struggle, Wang Chao still decided to leave the Clippers.

There are only seven uncrowned teams left in the league, and he still wants to complete the final task of system release before officially retiring, so that there is no uncrowned team in the entire league.

The seven non-championship teams are the Charlotte Hornets, New Orleans Pelicans, Toronto Raptors, Memphis Grizzlies, Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Utah Jazz.

And among these seven teams, Wang Chao has already figured out where to go.

He's ready to move to the Utah Jazz next season.

Wang Chao chose the Jazz not because of the Jazz's valuable draft picks, nor because the team has an excellent roster.

He had only one reason, and that was Salt Lake City, where the Utah Jazz are based, is the closest of the seven teams to Los Angeles, just over a thousand kilometers away, and it takes only 1 hour and 50 minutes to fly away.

Playing in Salt Lake City, Wang Chao can frequently return to Los Angeles to reunite with his family, and even buy a home in Salt Lake City to bring his family to Salt Lake City.

That's right, it's that simple.

A few days after the finals, Wang Chao expressed his desire to join the Jazz team through his agent.

Jazz management is stupid.

It's a pie-in-the-sky thing! And it was still a big pie that fell, and it almost didn't stun the general manager of Jazz.

Without thinking, the general manager of Jazz immediately nodded in agreement, and promised to free up salary space as soon as possible in order to free up the salary for Wang Chao to sign a contract with the highest salary.

The Jazz have had a pretty bad season.

Thanks to Wang Chao, they have neither Gobert nor Mitchell, but they have obtained Mike from the Grizzlies through a trade, just like in the original plane. Conley's big junk contract with an annual salary of more than 30 million.

In the 19-20 season, the Jazz team had players with an annual salary of more than 10 million, including Conley with $32.51 million and Joe with $11.95 million. Ingalls, 17.65 million Derek. Favors and 16.19 million rubios.

This season, the Jazz ranked 12th in the West, and they were not thorough enough to be rotten, and they only won the 14th pick in the first round at the draft lottery ceremony.

This squad is ......

Wang Chao is a little embarrassed, this guy won't capsize in the gutter.

Although the teams he chose before were all non-championship teams, the team's squad structure was still okay, and after he joined as the backbone, he could immediately have good combat effectiveness.

But the Jazz team is completely different, and he can't even look down on one of the several players with an annual salary of more than 10 million.

Needless to say, Conley is just the level of an ordinary main point guard, who has never been selected to the All-Star and All-Star team in his career, but he has a super big contract of 5 years and 153 million in the Grizzlies, which is incredible.

This season, he is on the Grizzlies, averaging only 14 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game, which can only be said to be so-so as a starting point guard, and that's all.

Derek. Favors and Joe. Ingles is an ordinary role player, and he has never had a highlight performance in his career, with an average of 11+7 per game and an 8+3+2 in his career, which is not worth mentioning.

As for the famous Spanish golden boy Rubio, in Wang Chao's opinion, he is just a wound Zhongyong.

As a young man he had many legends and was indeed considered a talented player.

However, Rubio has been playing in the league for 9 years unconsciously, but he is still tepid, averaging 11.3 points, 4 rebounds and 7.8 assists per game in his career, and his shooting rate is only a pitiful 39%.

If he can, Wang Chao even wants to clean out all these players in one go, look for them in the free market, and add some fresh blood, so that the Jazz team may be a little stronger.

But the contracts of these players are not so easy to get rid of.

"Headache...... There's no way, in order to be able to spend more time with my daughter and son, let's use my brain a little......"

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When Wang Chao is struggling with the Jazz's roster problems next season, the normal operation of the league is still going on.

On November 18, 2020, the NBA Draft was held in the form of an online draft.

The Minnesota Timberwolves, who won the No. 1 pick, selected Anthony Timberwolves. Edwards as the champion.

Going around and around, no matter how much Wang Chao changes to the world, it will not affect the result of the Timberwolves' bottom team.

However, Edwards is indeed a strong player, and his later performance is worthy of the name of the top pick, and the Timberwolves have acquired such a core player, and the record can finally improve.

As for the follow-up draft players, most of them don't know Wang Chao.

This can't be blamed on him, it has been more than ten years since he came to this world, and some of Wang Chao's memories of the original world have become vague and ambiguous, especially in the NBA draft like 20, 21, and 22, except for those players who played well immediately after entering the league, it is really difficult for him to have an impression of other rookies.

Among the top five picks in the first round, he only remembered the champion Edwards, and the No. 3 pick with the three-goal LaMelo Brown. Ball, because these two players are the fastest players in the class of 2020 to average 20+ points per game.

As for the Jazz's first-round No. 14 pick, Wang Chao couldn't give any valuable advice at all, and the Jazz team themselves chose a player named Isaiah. Stewart's short center.

The Jazz chose Stewart not for use, but as a trade chip.

After selecting Stewart, the Jazz immediately traded with the Orlando Magic to send Derek. Favors, Saiyan. Stewart added a second-round pick to next year, trading from the Magic to get forward Aaron Aaron Brown. Gordon.

The deal didn't get much attention.

Neither Favors nor Gordon are well-known players with a lot of attention.

Gordon also played average for the Magic in the 19-20 season, averaging 14.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game.

The deal was of course planned by Wang Chao.

Although Gordon's strength is not particularly strong, it is at least much more effective than Favors.

In the future, Jokic will definitely be the absolute hero of the championship for the Nuggets, but the main starters including Murray and Gordon will also play a lot.

As a power forward, Gordon can run and jump, and Wang Chao was impressed by the impactful scene.

What's more, Gordon signed a four-year contract with the Magic team last year for 84 million, and in this era of 100 million yuan contracts, the average annual salary of 21 million is already relatively cheap.

This is also the most suitable deal that Wang Chao can find with Favors and the No. 14 pick in the first round as chips. (End of chapter)