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Chapter 808 [Active Market, Rising Team]


The Kings are playing well, the Western Conference teams are at risk, and the free agency market is active.There are only a few teams that can compete with the Kings, and there is a serious imbalance between the East and the West.When Wang Jun and James were there, the top few in the east were not inferior to the west.After Wang Jun retired and left the Bulls, the strength of the East dropped again and again, and it was so miserable that even the 12 All-Star players were almost unable to make up.This pattern has become more serious this season.NBA commissioner David Stern convened a meeting of management and proposed trying to reform the playoffs so that the 16 teams with the best records would advance to the playoffs instead of the existing top eight in the East and West.This would have made the competition more intense, but the idea was met with a lot of resistance as soon as it was proposed, and the Eastern teams were the biggest opponents, because the weak Eastern teams would have a much lower playoff status.The bosses want to make more money, and now because of labor problems, the NBA may be shut down next season, and of course there is no way to change the system.Stern threw out this topic out of desperation, and under the trend of elite concentration in the West, it is time to take some measures to ensure the balanced development of the NBA.In fact, the NBA has always lacked competition, not the best teams to reach the round of 16, and there is no relegation, which allows the bad teams to play as bad.If you don't have enough competition, you won't be able to attract fans to the maximum, and it's not easy to make money.Both the Thunder and the Trail Blazers completed big trades.Trail Blazers star swingman Brandon Roy was reduced to a role player due to a knee injury, and interior core Al Horford was reimbursed for the season because of a completely torn chest muscle, and the Trail Blazers could only swing this season.This past season, Roy has suffered from the lack of cartilage in his knee.The meniscus is the cartilage between the two bones of the knee, which acts as a cushion for bone collisions and is a protective membrane to prevent direct collision of the leg bones.Due to injury, Roy has worn out the cartilage in both of his knees, and he has undergone two major surgeries on his knees to get back on the field, but the recovery is not ideal.Doctors warned him that if he continued his career, he would most likely spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.It's a miracle that Roy can still play this season.The Trail Blazers sent bench swingman Rudy Fernandez and marginal point guard Patrick Mills to the Thunder for Thunder starting center Nenad Kostic.It's a win-win deal, with Ibaka improving significantly this season, defending well, and partnering LaMarcus Aldridge better on the inside, with Kostic in an awkward position.If he is sent to the Trail Blazers, he can play as a starting center, and if the statistics are good, he may fight for a big contract next year.The Thunder could send him away to develop young interior Cole Aldridge.In addition, the Thunder also acquired two role players to make up for the lack of offensive ability of the bench lineup.No one led the offense in the second quarter.Fernandes doesn't have a high shooting percentage, but he has the ability to attack with the ball.The Thunder have become the biggest dark horse of the season, finishing second in the West behind the Kings.Their tactics are more retro, and both interior players can pull out to shoot, creating space for the star to play alone.Westbrook, Durant, and Aldridge all played star data, but they lacked consistency and poor shot selection.The top four Kings in the West, the Thunder, the Mavericks, the Spurs.The Lakers are only in fifth place, which is a big surprise.The Grizzlies are sixth, with a similar lineup configuration to the Thunder, with a group of young people as the core, strong impact and full of energy.The Nuggets and Hornets are in 7th and 8th place, respectively, and the Rockets are injured and have a poor interior defense, ranking ninth, and they are hanging half-dead in one breath.The Western Demons are dancing wildly, the competition pressure is too great, and the Nuggets don't think they have any hope of winning the championship, at most they will only be in the playoffs, and they will simply start rebuilding at the beginning of the season.The Nuggets, Knicks, and Timberwolves also made a three-way trade.The Knicks got Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups, Anthony Carter, Corey Brewer, Sheldon Williams.The Nuggets got Parker Yodo, Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Costa Kouvers, Villanueva.The Timberwolves got two interior lines, Anthony Randolph and Eddie Curry.The Knicks didn't hurt their muscles at all, and they sent a few newcomers and bad contracts to the two major stars of the Nuggets, and it was impossible for no one to manipulate behind their backs.The Knicks form a triumvirate of Billups, Anthony, and Stoudamire and are very competitive in the East.The Knicks are definitely going to have to pay more luxury tax, and owner James Dolan won't care about that.The Nuggets got four good rookies, and Villanueva can open up space to shoot threes, and he can play in the system, which is not bad.Afflalo is young and a good 3-and-D player, and the young point guard Tylawon is getting better and better, and letting him go up is also the reason to send Billups away.As long as Kenyon Martin's contract expires in the summer and gets rid of this super pack that has plagued the team for a long time, the Nuggets have plenty of salary space to sign reinforcements and have a future next season.As for the Timberwolves, this is clearly a rebuilding to help the Knicks clean up a bad contract.Curry has become a ball, can't play at all, has no value other than an 11-year expiring contract, and Randolph Jr. is also poor, and has little effect on the offensive end.If there were no shady things, the Timberwolves' David Kahn must be the stupidest manager in the league, having not done a good job since he took office in 2009.The Nets relied on several drafts and the play of newcomers, and the ranking is still above the Knicks for the time being, and fifth in the East.The media has stepped up the publicity of the two teams, and also specifically mentioned that the Nets are preparing to take the stadium to Brooklyn, which is the team that the league is ready to compete with the Kings.The Nets haven't made a trade yet, and the surprise is that interior player Chris Humphries is averaging 10 points and 104 rebounds per game, going from the bench to a double-double, pushing Favors to the bench.Management's goal now is to get a super point guard, and at the moment Harden and Harris are very mediocre in their playmaking skills.At present, the prospects of the Nets are generally optimistic by experts.In December, the Player of the Month selection, the best in the West was selected between Wang Jun and James, even Durant, the record cannot be compared with them.Relying on a super performance of 91 points in a single game, Wang Jun won the best of the month in the West, and Derrick Rose of the Bucks in the East.Wang Jun's statistics are significantly better than James, averaging 326 points, 51 rebounds, 42 assists and 2 steals per game.James is more comprehensive, with 245 points, 73 rebounds and 94 assists, as a forward, he often plays power forward, ranking fifth in the league in assists, which can be called a pervert.Even so, James still didn't give his best, he didn't play enough time, otherwise he would compete for the assist title.He's doing too much to focus on assists like Rondo.Wang Jun's data is mainly scored, and he defines himself as a scorer.He thinks less, and one way to the extreme.The comparison between him and James proves that all-round is not necessarily better than a person with a single move.In the regular season V rankings, Wang Jun ranked first without any suspense, followed by Derrick Rose of the Bucks, and James was only ranked third.There is no longer any dispute about which of the two kings is stronger.s: