NBA: I am the god of basketball

In G1 of the Finals, the Raptors actually played very well. The Clippers' current lineup, especially the starting lineup, is not as strong as it looks. When the Raptors have Lowry, DeRozan, George, and Siakam And Gasol's starting lineup, in fact, the Clippers' starting lineup does not have an advantage.

On the bench, the Raptors also have the bench combination of VanVleet + Powell. Although their scoring firepower is still slightly inferior to the bench bandit combination of Lou Williams + Harrell, they can at least make a few gestures.

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

During the game, the Raptors successively tried George, who has the strongest perimeter defense, to defend himself alone, double-team and other methods, but all failed in front of the cheating Wang Chao.

When Wang Chao scored 51 points in the entire game, even if his teammates were slightly inferior to their opponents, they could still win the game.

That's the problem for the Raptors.

If they could have one more superstar in their lineup, such as James, Durant, Curry or even Antetokounmpo and Leonard in their prime, they might have a chance to win.

However, if the Raptors' current lineup gets another MVP-level superstar, it would be a shame. The lineup alone is even more exaggerated than Durant's version of the five-star Warriors.

Even the five-star Warriors team has weaknesses in the game. For example, their inside line is as bad as ever and can easily be used as a breakthrough.

But the Raptors are different. The Raptors are equipped with Siakam + Gasol inside. The strength of the inside is not weak at all. Whether it is attacking difficulties or protecting the basket, they are at the top level in the league. If more additions are made on this basis, For a top star, apart from the distribution of ball rights and chemical reactions, there really is no flaw at all.

Unfortunately, this possibility only exists in YY.

Lowry, DeRozan, Paul George, and even Gasol all received super-large contracts of more than 2000 million. Together with a number of other role players, the Raptors' salary space has long been fully occupied.

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

In other words, this season is the Raptors' theoretically strongest season in recent years. They will not be able to maintain the strength of their current lineup next season.

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

Two days later, G2 in the finals.

For the Raptors, Paul George was in hot form and scored 34 points, competing against Wang Chao who scored 37 points.

But the winner of the game was still the Clippers.

In this game, the Clippers' bench began to work hard.

In the G1 game, Lu Wei and Harrell faced off against VanVleet and Powell. It was just a close fight, and neither one could take advantage of the other.

But in this game, the situation is completely different.

Lu Wei made 18 of 8 shots in the game, 5 of 2 three-pointers, and 6 of 5 free throws, scoring 23 points. Together with Harrell, who scored 18 points and 7 rebounds, the two combined to score 41 points. The Clippers team totaled Only scored 114 points.

After two games, the Clippers are once again leading 2:0.

But unlike the Clippers who crushed them 4-0 in the Western Conference, the Raptors still have some strength and can basically be regarded as the strongest opponent the Clippers have encountered in the playoffs this season.

Who made the Lakers and Warriors fight so hard that both sides suffered losses, resulting in the Western Conference Finals having no difficulty at all?
In G3 of the Finals, the Raptors relied on 7 players from the team to score in double figures. Among them, George, DeRozan and Siakam all scored 20+ points. They finally fought back tenaciously and changed the score to 2: 1. Avoided the fate of being swept 4:0.

This victory made Raptors fans a little happy for two days. Then in the G4 game, the Raptors once again lost to the Clippers. The score was 3:1, and the Clippers took the lead in getting the match point. .

With half a foot on the edge of the cliff, the Raptors once again showed their tenacious will to survive in the fifth game and once again pulled one back, with the score reaching 3:2.

But in the end, Wang Chao did not give the Raptors a chance to make a comeback.

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

The Clippers won the championship for the second consecutive year, and Wang Chao also won the No. 11 championship in his career, completing the miracle of tying King of the Ring Bill Russell.

Lifting the championship trophy in an empty park always feels like a bit of fun.

But this does not prevent Wang Chao and the Clippers from receiving flowers and applause.

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

In this season that became extremely difficult due to special reasons, the Clippers were still able to win the championship with their stable performance and nearly crushing them all the way. This is enough to show the strength of this team and to prove the dominance of Wang Chao. The power is terrifying.

However, since the Clippers' championship was expected by most fans, when the team actually won the championship, the excitement about the unknown possibility of the game was much weaker.

For many fans who don't pay much attention to the NBA, when they saw the Clippers winning the championship, this was the first reaction that flashed through their minds.

"Wang Chao won the championship again? Why am I not surprised at all?"

"What's so surprising about this? We've already won 11 championships. In the past ten years, how many times have teams other than Wang Chao won the championship?"

As a result, on the Internet, there were more topics discussing whether Wang Chao would stay with the Clippers than the Clippers winning the championship.

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

Wang Chao played for the Clippers for two years and won two championships for the team. Except for the fans of the Clippers, no fans of any team hope that Wang Chao will continue to stay with the Clippers. In that case, the league will Another three-peat team is about to emerge.

If Wang Chao does not renew his contract with the Clippers, which team will he join next season?Should we carry out targeted poverty alleviation as before and join a team without a championship, or do we have other ideas?
All of the above are issues of great concern to fans of Wang Chao and even fans across the league. Even though Wang Chao is already 37 years old at this time and will reach 38 years old next season, with reference to his regular season and season this season, There was no shrinking data performance in the post-game. No one thought that Wang Chao's competitive status would decline significantly after half a year. He is still the strongest player in the league.

So what does Wang Chao think?
He actually wants to stay with the Clippers, not because the Clippers are worthy of his nostalgia, but because Los Angeles makes him a little reluctant to leave. In other words, the life of having a lovely wife in his arms and accompanying his adorable baby makes him a little bit reluctant to miss home.

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

There are only seven teams left in the league without a championship. He still wants to complete the final task released by the system before officially retiring, so that there will be no championship-less team in the entire league.

The seven teams without a championship are the Charlotte Hornets, New Orleans Pelicans, Toronto Raptors, Memphis Grizzlies, Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Utah Jazz.

Among these seven teams, Wang Chao has already decided where to go.He is preparing to move to the Utah Jazz next season.

The reason why Wang Chao chose the Jazz was not because of the Jazz's priceless draft picks, nor because of the excellent team lineup.

He has only one reason, and that is that Salt Lake City, where the Utah Jazz is located, is the closest to Los Angeles among the seven teams. It is only a little over a thousand kilometers away and only takes 1 hour and 50 minutes by plane.

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

Yes, the reason is that simple.

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

Everyone in the Jazz front office was dumbfounded.

This is really a good thing like pie in the sky!And what fell was a big pie, which almost knocked the Jazz general manager unconscious.

Without thinking, the Jazz general manager immediately nodded in agreement and promised to free up salary space as soon as possible to free up the maximum salary for Wang Chao.

The Jazz's record this season is quite bad.

Thanks to Wang Chao, they have neither Gobert nor Mitchell, but like the original time and space, they obtained Mike Conley from the Grizzlies through a trade with a garbage contract with an annual salary of more than 3000 million.

In the 19-20 season, the Jazz's players with an annual salary of more than 1000 million include Conley with 3251 million US dollars, Joe Ingles with 1195 million US dollars, Derrick Favors with 1765 million US dollars and Rubio with 1619 million US dollars.

This season, the Jazz's record is ranked No. 12 in the Western Conference. They are a bad team that is not thorough enough. In the draft lottery ceremony, they only received the No. 14 pick in the first round.

This team lineup...

Wang Chao was a little ashamed, this guy wouldn't capsize in the gutter.

Although the teams he chose before were all championship-less teams, the team's lineup structure was still acceptable. After he joined as the backbone, he would immediately have good combat effectiveness.

But the Jazz are completely different. He can't even look down on any of the several players with an annual salary of more than [-] million.

Needless to say, Conley is just an ordinary main point guard. He has never been selected to the All-Star or All-NBA Team in his career, but he has a super-large contract of 5 million in five years with the Grizzlies. It is incredible.

This season with the Grizzlies, he averaged only 14 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game. It can only be said that as a starting point guard, he is still so-so, and that's it.

Derek Favors and Joe Ingles are both ordinary role players, and they have never had any outstanding performances in their careers. They averaged 11+7 in one career and 8+3+2 in the other, which is even more worthless. Mention it.

As for the famous Spanish golden boy Rubio, in Wang Chao's view, he is just an injury to Zhongyong.

He had many legends when he was young and was indeed regarded as a talented player.

However, Rubio has played in the league for nine years without realizing it, but he is still tepid. He averages 9 points, 11.3 rebounds, and 4 assists in his career, and his shooting percentage is only a pitiful 7.8%.

If possible, Wang Chao even wants to clear out all these players at once, search for them in the free market, and add some fresh blood. Maybe the Jazz team will be stronger.

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

"I have a headache... I can't help it. In order to spend more time with my daughter and son, I need to use my brain a little..."
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While Wang Chao is worried about the Jazz's lineup for next season, the league's normal operations are still going on.

On November 2020, 11, the NBA draft will be held online.

The Minnesota Timberwolves, who won the No. [-] pick, selected Anthony Edwards as the No. [-] pick.

Going round and round, no matter how much change Wang Chao brings to the world, it will not affect the outcome of the Timberwolves' bottom-ranked team.

However, Edwards is indeed a player with outstanding strength, and his subsequent performance is worthy of being named the No. [-] pick. The Timberwolves have obtained such a core player, and their record can finally improve.

As for the subsequent draft players, Wang Chao didn't know most of them.

You can't blame him. It has been more than ten years since he came to this world. Some of Wang Chao's memories of the original world have become vague and ambiguous, especially in the NBA drafts like 20, 21, and 22. Except for those who first entered the league, Except for players who performed well immediately, it was really difficult for him to make an impression on other rookies.

Among the top five picks in the first round, he only remembers No. 2020 pick Edwards and No. 20 pick LaMelo Ball, who is known as the three-goal pick, because these two players are the fastest among the [-] rookies to average [-] per game. + Score performance players.

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

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

After selecting Stewart, the Jazz immediately traded with the Orlando Magic, sending Derrick Favors, Saiya Stewart and a second-round pick next year to acquire forward Aaron Gordon from the Magic.

The deal didn't attract much attention.

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

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

This transaction was of course carried out under the planning of Wang Chao.

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

If the Nuggets win the championship in the future, Jokic will be the absolute contributor, but the performance of the main starting players including Murray and Gordon will also be indispensable.

As a power forward, Gordon can run and jump, and his impactful scenes impressed Wang Chao.

More importantly, Gordon signed a four-year, $4 million contract with the Magic last year. In this era of billion-dollar contracts, the average annual salary of $8400 million is considered relatively affordable.

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