The China Power of NBA

Compared with the glorious history of the Los Angeles Lakers or the Boston Celtics, the Miami Heat who joined the NBA in 1988 can only be regarded as a new army. In the 1988-1989 season, Miami players represented the team for the first time in the NBA. Ron- Rosh Stern is the No.1 head coach of the Heat. During the season, the team held high the banner of team basketball. After one season, the entire team had fifteen players who scored more than 5 points, and six players who scored more than 10 points. , but limited by the overall strength, Kevin Edwards with the highest score is only 13.8 points.

In the 1989 draft, Miami selected the team's first star, Glenn Rice, with the fourth overall pick in the first round. He scored 20 points, shot over 26 percent from three, and stole the All-Star MVP from Jordan in the 40 All-Star Game.

But the Heat who got Rice still stagnated in their record. The team really ushered in a turning point in 1995. Pat Riley came to Miami from the Knicks to serve as the general manager and head coach of the team. , Riley, who has always been known for his boldness and carefulness, carried out drastic reforms. He used Glenn Rice as a bargaining chip to get the iron-blooded tough guy Mourning from the Hornets as an inside pillar, and at the same time signed veteran Tim Hardaway. These two people, one inside and one outside, brought the team into the playoffs. Unfortunately, in the first round of the playoffs, facing the Bulls with 72 wins and 10 losses that year, the Miami team had no chance of winning and lost 3:0. Come down.Although the team failed to compete for the championship, the bright future of this team can be vaguely seen.

Time quickly confirmed this view. The Heat next season will be unstoppable. The 61 wins are only lower than the Bulls' 69 wins and the Jazz's 64 wins. Except for Mourning and Hardaway's stable performance in the team, this season The newly traded Jamal Mashburn and PJ Brown played well enough. The Heat entering the playoffs defeated Anthony Hardaway’s Magic and Ewing’s Knicks one after another, and finally joined the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals , just like last year, the Heat couldn't restrain Jordan at all, and finally lost again with a 4:1 regret. Jordan scored 30+ in the series against the Heat for two consecutive years!

In the 1997-1998 season, there is nothing to say. The Heat were eliminated by the Knicks in the playoffs. What I want to talk about is a round of history. Larry Johnson tore his face and fought violently during the game. Van Gundy broke out in the "thigh hugging" incident. In the end, both of them were suspended.

In the next two seasons, the Heat met the Knicks in the playoffs every year. The Heat were eliminated every year. None of the teams made much progress. In 2000, Riley, who was unwilling to be mediocre, once again offered Big money, he sent Ma Shiben and PJ-Brown to the Hornets, and traded for All-Star shooting guard Eddie Jones, but the Heat this season is not calm, first of all Tim Hardaway's state has declined sharply, Mourning After participating in the Olympics, he was diagnosed with kidney disease. Jones and Brian Grant, who was also a newcomer to the team, tried their best to bring the team into the playoffs, but they were eventually swept out by the Hornets 3:0. It is worth mentioning that , the best player of the Hornets in this round of the series is Marshburn, who was traded this season. He was like a god in this round of the series against his old club. He averaged 24 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in three games , The three-point shooting rate is as high as 66%!The other traded PJ-Brown played steadily as the team's starting insider, averaging 8 points and 9 rebounds per game.

In the next few seasons, as Tim Hardaway was traded and Mourning was reimbursed for the season due to illness, the strength of the team was greatly weakened, and they could not even make the playoffs. At this time, the Heat urgently needed a new leader. , Save the Heat in distress!
Thankfully, Miamians didn't have to wait too long!
There is an old saying in China that goes, "If you lose a fortune, you know it is a blessing." The Heat, which had a dismal record, got a lot of money in the draft. In the 2002 draft, the Heat selected Caron Bart with the 10th pick in the first round. Leh, is he the end of Miami's misery?No!

In the 2003 NBA Draft, the Heat selected the little-known Dwyane Wade from Marquette University with the fifth overall pick in the first round. In the free market, he signed the all-rounder Lamar Odom, and the strength of the team has greatly increased. After winning 42 games in the regular season, he entered the playoffs. At that time, Jones, Wade and Odom in the team were all capable. Scoring more than 16 points per game, the starting point guard is Ralph Alston. It is worth mentioning that there is another Chinese player in this year's Heat lineup-"Chasing the Wind Boy" Wang Zhizhi. He was waived after playing two games for the Clippers, but on December 2003, 12, he roughly signed a two-year, $1 million contract with the Heat. This season, he played a total of 2 games for the Heat, wearing the No. 120 jersey , averaging 14 points and 15 rebound in 7.5 minutes per game, shooting 3.1% from the field, 1% from three-pointers, and 37.8% from free throws.The Heat faced their old enemy Hornets in the first round. In the first playoff game of Wade's career, he sent a lore ball. At the last moment of the game, he passed the bearded Baron Davis, but rushed into the In the next game, Wade led the team to advance 28.6:83.3, but lost to the Indiana Pacers with Reggie Miller and O'Neal 4:3 in the second round, and was unfortunately out.

2004 was a turning point for the Heat. Shaquille O'Neal, who broke up with the Lakers, traveled to Miami. The chips were Lamar Odom, Brian Grant and several draft picks. Changes, O'Neal not only led the players to victory on the court, but also helped Wade improve off the court. This season, O'Neal averaged 23 points per game and Wade averaged 24 points per game. The team also ranked first in the Eastern Conference with 59 wins and 23 losses , In the playoffs, the Heat swept the Nets with Vince Carter and the Wizards with Gilbert Arenas 4:0 in two games, and stood on the stage of the Eastern Conference Finals with the defending champion Detroit Pistons. In the first game, the Pistons were all soldiers, and in addition to Wade averaging 26 points per game and O'Neal averaging 20 points per game, Jones scored the most points, and his shooting percentage was only 37%. The team 3:4 Sorry to be out.

In the 2005-2006 season, the Heat eliminated Caron Butler and Eddie Jones in order to solve the problem of the team's duo transfer, and successively introduced Anthony Walker, Jason Williams, James Posey, and Jason-Williams. Kapono and Gary Payton all played a big role in the subsequent playoffs.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Heat's opponent, the Chicago Bulls, fully demonstrated the Heat's strategic intention of all soldiers in this round of the series. The Bulls played against Nocioni, Ben Gordon, and Hinrich. Averaged 20+, but in six games, the Bulls were eliminated 2:6, Wade averaged 24 points per game, O'Neal averaged 20 points per game, Walker averaged 15 points per game, Posey averaged 13 points per game, Williams averaged 10 points, Haslem averaged 9 points.

The second opponent was last year's defeated Nets. In five games, Carter completed the performance closest to Jordan after Jordan, averaging 30 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game. O'Neal in the Heat did not play well. Only able to grab 7.2 rebounds, but Haslem made up for it, averaging 12 points and 8 rebounds per game. Under the leadership of Wade averaging 28 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds per game, the Heat defeated the Nets again 4:1 into the Eastern Conference Finals.

The opponent in the Eastern Conference finals was the Detroit Pistons who defeated themselves last year. Compared with last year, it is still a familiar taste, or a familiar six-man group, Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Tyshawn Pullin S, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace and Antonio McDyess, in this round of the series, O'Neal's performance is back, averaging 21+10 per game, Wade's performance is against the sky ! 26.7 points, 5.2 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 1.8 steals, 1.5 blocks, as an outside player, the shooting percentage is as high as 61.7%!In the end, the Heat stepped over the dead body of the Pistons 4:2 and stepped on the floor of the NBA Finals.

Their opponent is the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks swept Pau Gasol's Grizzlies 4-0 in the playoffs. Steve Nash's Suns joined forces with the Heat to reach the Finals.

This year's Mavericks have Dirk Nowitzki, who can be said to be incomprehensible, scoring 27 points in the regular season, Jason Terry, the "Jet" who is crazy and frightening, and the funny-looking Josh Howard, and Jason Stackhouse, who is still at the end of his career, and Eric Dampier, the second center in the West, and Devin Harry, who is known as the fastest dribble in the NBA s.The configuration is reasonable, and each performs its duties. The Mavericks during this period are a team that can be called incomprehensible.

In the first game of the playoffs, the Heat lost 80:90, and the Heat almost caught up for an entire game, but in the last quarter, the Mavericks played a wave of 12:20 attacks, completely killing the game, the Jets Terry soared in this game, scoring 18 points on 13 of 32 shots!
第二长小牛85:99再次落败，热火被打的毫无反手之力，在第三节结束的时候就已经落后了整整24分！诺维斯基16投8中拿下26分和16个篮板球，斯塔克豪斯在替补席上贡献了19分，而热火的韦德19次出手只命中了6球，得到了23分额8个篮板球，奥尼尔完全被丹皮尔限制住了，前者5分6篮板，后者6分13个篮板球。

Two consecutive victories made the Mavericks feel that they can start to celebrate the arrival of the championship in advance, but they ignored one person, he is Dwyane Wade, at this time, he began to explode!It is no exaggeration to say that in Wade's next four games, only the former Jordan can be compared!

In the third game, the two teams played extremely stalemate. With 1.4 seconds left in the game, the Heat only led by 2 points, but the ball belonged to the Mavericks. After this attack, the game was dragged into overtime, or even a lore The possibility, but Wade killed this possibility in the cradle. He stole the ball from Nowitzki and won the game with difficulty. In the end, Wade made 26 of 14 shots and scored 42 points and 13 shots. rebound!With the team's second highest score O'Neal's 16 points, Wade almost single-handedly led the team to victory!

In the fourth game, the Heat won 98:74, and the Mavericks were defeated in the fourth quarter. They only scored 7 points in a single quarter. No one on the team could score more than 20 points!Weld made 23 of 13 shots and scored 36 points again!In addition to Wade, Posey also played a good level, playing 26 minutes and scored a double-double of 15 points and 10 rebounds.

At this point in the game, the big score between the two sides was a 2:2 tie, so the fifth game of the Tianwangshan battle was very meaningful. In the fourth quarter, the winner was decided in the last second of the game in overtime. In the last minute, O'Neal fouled Dampier. The latter made two free throws to help the Mavericks lead by 1 point 98:97. Then Antoine Walker made a shot and Josh Howard grabbed this crucial defensive rebound. O'Neal Forced to foul, but what is surprising is that Josh, who has made 1% of his free throws in his career, missed two free throws at such a critical moment!Then Gary Payton scored two points, 77:99, and the Heat led by one point. At this time, there were less than 98 seconds before the end of the game. Who knew that Nowitzki made a mid-range shot, leading the small Niu overtook the score again, and there were only 10 seconds left before the end of the game!At the critical moment, Wade stood up and resolutely broke through the inside after holding the ball, which caused Nowitzki's foul. Then Wade, under tremendous pressure, made two free throws, led the Heat to lead by one point, and won the game , Wade scored 1.7 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, and scored 17 points in the game!
In the last game, Game 29 of the Finals, the Mavericks stood on the edge of a cliff, and the whole team fought hard. Nowitzki scored 36 points, but this is not the highest score in this game. The highest score is For Wade's 18 points, he made 10 of 11 field goal attempts, including [-] points in the crucial fourth quarter!When O'Neill, Walker, and Williams did not perform well, they once again won the game by themselves!
Six games, 4:2 Heat is the best team this year, and Wade, who averaged 34.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 2.7 steals and 1.0 blocks per game, deservedly became the FMVP, in fact, in the finals, O'Neal averaged only 13 points per game. While Walker scored 14 points, his shooting percentage was less than [-]%. Wade, O'Neal, and Walker are the only three who can score more than Two people, to put it bluntly, the first championship trophy in the history of the Heat belongs to Wade completely!This is the first place. In the finals where Shark O'Neal won, the most valuable trophy was awarded to someone else. In fact, O'Neal was also convinced by this result!
In the season after winning the championship, O'Neal's condition declined and injuries were frequent. Wade also began to suffer from injuries. The team's record was greatly affected. After being swept out by the Chicago Bulls, next season, the team still has no signs of recovery. At this time, Riley made another bold decision to play badly!Using O'Neal as a bargaining chip from the Suns in exchange for "Hacker" Sean Marion, the Heat only won 15 games throughout the season!And this time, it's just the second season for the Heat to win the championship!

From Zhuge Liang's point of view, do you think Riley is playing badly?You are wrong, he is playing a big game of chess!
In the 2008-2009 season, the Heat won Michael Beasley, who was good at the game but had trouble off the court, and then exchanged Marion with O'Neal, who had only one year left on his contract. Wade crowned the title of scoring champion this season, and the team also entered the playoffs, but lost after seven games with the Atlanta Hawks in the first round. Wade averaged 30+5+5 per game.

In the 2009-2010 season, the Heat once again swallowed Quentin Richardson's short-term contract worth close to 33.2 million yuan. The team entered the playoffs with the fifth place in the Eastern Conference. The Humans fought five games and lost. Wade once again became a lone hero, averaging 5.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, and [-] assists per game.

In the first half of the season, Riley's big game gradually opened up, which stunned everyone in the league. He cleared O'Neal's contract worth $2302 million, Richardson's $935 million contract, and Beasley's $464 million contract. US dollar contract, James Jones' contract worth US$432 million, and through the method of pouring chicken soup, Haslem, who could have received US$745 million, only signed US$350 million, clearing a lot of salary space. For whom?

The answer soon surfaced.

On July 2011, 7, James announced on "Decision 8" that he would bring his talents to Miami. There was an uproar in the sports world. , the head of the Raptors, Chris Bosh with a killer hairstyle also announced to join the Heat!In an instant, the Heat made up a new Big Three with strength comparable to or even surpassed the Celtics!

This season, the Heat are aiming at the championship, which opened the door for the Heat to shine again!

PS: I can't help but talk about the impact of James joining the Heat.

James' "Decision 1" caused him to be criticized by people from all walks of life in sports, regardless of the feelings of the local fans in Cleveland. The change of team brought his first impact on his historical status. Greats like Jordan, Kobe, Pierce and even Iverson were all consistent at their peak, like Iverson was traded by the team. The method, after all, is not "running away" in the subjective sense!
Before the Big Three of the Heat, the Celtics also formed the Big Three of Pierce, Ray Allen, and Garnett, but before that, Pierce will not talk about it. Garnett stayed in the Timberwolves for 12 years. Ray Allen also stayed in the Bucks and Supersonics for 12 years. Although he changed teams midway, he has always been the core of the team's tactics. It was the team's management signings to help Allen, while James stayed in Cleveland for seven years. , Seven years, compared to those players who have won many honors in a certain team, it is just considered the entry-level playing time. At this time, the league, including the previous league history, has never had such an excellent player. Players who were playing in their prime took the initiative to throw themselves into the arms of other teams, that is, that year, a word became popular-"hugging thighs".

Regarding this matter, Jordan has a very famous and profound saying,
"I would not have called Larry and Magic and say let's play together, I wanted to beat them (I would never have called Larry and Magic and say let's play together, I wanted to beat them .)"