The toughest man in the NBA

Chapter 306 This is the worst time
The Suns are so invincible, severely squeezing the living space of other teams. When the Black Mamba decided to undergo surgery and was reimbursed for the season, it triggered a snowball effect:

The superstars in their twilight years could not see hope and chose to retire one after another.

In June 2013, the finals had just ended.

In his 19-year NBA career, he has the second most assists in history, the second most steals in history, the third in triple-double history, and the fifth in three-pointers. Defensive lineup, ten-time All-Star five-time assist leader --

Jason Kidd announced his retirement!
Not long after, Tracy McGrady, who won the NBA scoring title twice, was selected to the All-Star team seven times, and was selected to the All-NBA team seven times during his 16-year career, announced his retirement on the first show.

The miracle of 35 seconds and 13 minutes has since become a legend!
After the draft, in his 14-year career, he won the NBA scoring title four times, won the NBA steals title three times, was selected to the NBA All-Star team for eleven consecutive times and won two NBA All-Star MVPs, and was selected to the best team seven times. Game MVP Forever "Son of Philadelphia"——

Allen Iverson announces retirement in Philadelphia...

An era has come to an end!

The other one belongs to the era of savagery and the Phoenix Suns——

Turned out!

In this season, Kobe became the fifth player in NBA history to break through 5 points, and became the youngest player in this club at the age of 30000 years and 34 days...

In this season, the Spurs ranked third in the Western Conference with 58 wins and 24 losses.

Since the 1999-2000 season, they have won at least 50 games in each season, even last year's shrinking season with only 66 games. In NBA history, no team has achieved this --

14 wins for 50 consecutive seasons!
在这个赛季，勒布朗·詹姆斯在28岁17天的时候，拿到了第20000分，打破了之前由科比保持的29岁112天的最年轻20000分先生纪录。

In this season, Jerry Buss, who has achieved two generations of Zijin Dynasty, went to heaven with ten Larry O'Brien Cups.

In this season, the New Orleans Hornets ended their trusteeship, and NFL Saints owner Tom Benson bought the team and officially changed its name to the New Orleans Pelicans.

In this season, Tu Man has exchanged all his foot bones, hand bones and muscles, and even has a golden spine, completely turning into a humanoid mech...

Ragnarok, this is the worst era——

The Lakers are going to ruin, the Celtics are going to ruin, the Knicks are going to ruin, and even the Heat with all their strength are on the verge of collapse...

The NBA has lost its suspense!
The 2013-2014 season was cruel to NBA teams. They didn't even know how to recruit and how to strengthen in order to face the undefeated Suns?
Only the Spurs are an exception.

17 years is an extremely long period of time.

Long enough to make a naughty boy get married, enough to turn a lolita into a royal sister, enough to deflate grapes, enough to wilt bananas, enough to blacken fungus...

Enough to let the undefeated Fire Phoenix win all 82 games again!
It's just that for the Spurs with the No. 21 rookie, 17 years seems to be a snap of the fingers, without any change:
17 years ago, the team got Duncan.

The Spurs began to move from one victory to another.

17 years later, Duncan is still the same Duncan, and the team is still moving from one victory to another one after another...

It seems that Popovich has a fountain of youth.

This season, Duncan is about to turn 38, Ginobili is about to turn 36, Parker is about to turn 32...

Numbers like that would be a disaster in Boston, and Danny Ainge threw this hot potato and brokered a deal—

Nets Retro Big Five!
Under the lure of Danny Ainge, the Nets, who moved to Brooklyn for the second year, traded almost half of the team and three future draft picks from the Celtics for Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jay Sen Terry.

Then the old Maozi boss signed his "fellow" Andrei Kirilenko at a "friendly price", together with Brook Lopez, Deron Williams and Joe Johnson.

The Nets completed a powerful upgrade to their lineup in almost one summer. From the perspective of honor, they are even more powerful than the undefeated Phoenix Dynasty...

So, they hired Jason Kidd, who had just retired, as the head coach, and let a rookie take a group of peeled old birds——

They have the confidence to single out the sun!
Of course, if you only look at the book strength, the Nets are really awesome:
The first "Big Five":
Deron + Joe Johnson + Pierce + Garnett + Lopez

The substitute is also ruthless:
Terry + Kirilenko + Blatche + Livingston + Teletovic

If time goes back five years, or even three years, this lineup does have the strength to wrestle with the Suns, but they thought they were the Spurs, and it turned out...

The Eastern Conference semifinals were beaten by the Heat:
4:1 out.

They didn't even have a chance to meet the sun, so they went fishing!
The Celtics and the Nets are afraid of numbers.

In San Antonio, those numbers are just numbers.

It doesn't make any sense anymore!

With 62 wins and 20 losses, the Spurs once again slammed other teams other than the Suns, and even broke the Suns' undefeated golden body in the Western Conference Finals...

Although, the ending is still skinny:

4:1 defeat!

However, the aging Spurs gave latecomers hope, and the undefeated Phoenix Dynasty is not really invincible!
Perhaps, just need an opportunity?
Phoenix has not been involved in the player market for two consecutive years. They continue to exchange draft picks for the next year, as if trying to reproduce the miracle of exchanging paper clips for villas.

A solid lineup, a running champion.

Ray Allen, Alston, and Battier are all almost 40 years old, and they are still running on the road of the dynasty. Channing Frye, who has overcome heart disease, has also reappeared on the court. Oden, who played 15 minutes, actually played full time for two seasons!
The sun has created too many miracles, but it is undeniable:

They are getting old, and the tactical system is about to be figured out...

The Spurs' victory encouraged the Heat, and when the contracts of the Big Three were about to expire, a bright light suddenly gave them a glimmer of hope!
Or, can we win?

However, they underestimated Tuman.

Others are getting older, but Tu Man is only 22 years old. He has enough meat in his inventory to give a facelift. How can he let Quan Zhan succeed?

In the four games, Tu Man played 108 hot pots, and the average data of the Big Three was cut off by [-] points, dropping three ranks in a row from the superstars:

James averaged 14.2 points, Wade 9.8 points, Bosh 6.2 points...

It's still a sweep!
The Suns won three consecutive championships, the Phoenix Dynasty was born, and the Heat were runner-up for four consecutive years and were swept away for three consecutive years...

James can't hold it anymore!

(End of this chapter)