Chapter 952 Yao Ming's Way Out(1/2)
On Friday, November 6, 2009, the sky in Houston was overcast with heavy rain, and the entire city seemed to be shrouded in an unknown and terrifying haze.
After the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Portland Trail Blazers on November 1, they had a five-day break.
In the middle of the season, such a long break will be very precious.
But at the beginning of the season, the Seattle SuperSonics had such a long break, which was really painful.
At the beginning of the season, when everyone was physically strong and eager to compete and fight, it was really uncomfortable to give them five days off all of a sudden.
However, these five days of vacation and the bad weather in Houston have not affected the popularity of the Seattle SuperSonics throughout the United States.
Yes and the Seattle SuperSonics came to Texas two days ago. Durant and Tucker's alma mater, the University of Texas, is almost equivalent to the Seattle SuperSonics' branch base in the United States.
Texas is different from most states in the United States. Texas does not have only one NBA team in the state, nor does it have no NBA teams. Texas has three NBA teams, and these three teams are all traditional strong teams.
This is a place where the basketball market is quite mature.
Many people say that you can see how popular a team or a player is in the United States by looking at the treatment of this team in Texas.
As long as this team and this person can break out of the siege of the top three in Texas, then this team and this person will definitely be the most popular team in the United States and the most popular player in the United States.
Yes and the Sonics used to be the most popular players on the hottest team in the NBA, but compared with this season, they are really different.
This has something to do with the fact that Leafs and the Seattle SuperSonics have never had such a crazy start in the past few seasons.
After all, no matter how nice it sounds, the NBA is actually a league for winners.
Crazy needs victory to support it.
No matter what the opponent is, he wins every game and beats his opponent by at least 20 points in every game. Who can withstand this?
A team composed of civilian players such as Milicic, Millsap, Durant, Rondo, Gasol, Ibaka, James Harden, etc. was brought to such results by Yes, which is better than the Lakers.
, the three super teams, the Heat and the Grizzlies, are all powerful, which is really shocking.
Even a player with Rondo's level of scoring ability ranks at the top of the league's scoring list.
This plot is too fantasy and too popular.
Of course, there will be such big changes in the Texas basketball market this year.
Except the Sonics have been incredible this season.
It also has something to do with the fact that two of the top three teams in Texas suddenly stretched their hips this season.
The Mavericks, one of the top three, have been relatively stable this season. After acquiring Marion and Kidd this season, they have not lost yet. Like the Seattle SuperSonics, they are tied for first place in the Western Conference with four consecutive wins.
But compared to the Mavericks, the Spurs and Rockets are just inferior.
At the beginning of the season, the Spurs were unexpectedly defeated by the Thunder, led by Chris Paul, Griffin, Spencer Hausperja and others, and the Bulls, led by Rose.
After winning one game in the first four games of the season, the Jazz are now the weakest team in the Western Conference.
As for the Rockets, they were even worse than the Spurs. The Spurs managed to win a game against the Jazz.
The Rockets really didn't win a game, and the Spurs were still able to beat the bastard Jazz. The Rockets faced the bastard Warriors, and not only did they lose, but they were beaten hard by the Warriors and played out garbage time.
The Seattle SuperSonics have had such a dazzling start this season, and it seems that the brilliance of many players on many teams has been severely overshadowed.
In fact, this season, with the public opinion of the Seattle SuperSonics and Leafs overwhelmingly overwhelming, the performance of several teams and several stars this season is very, very amazing.
In addition to the Bulls, who rose last season and are rising even more rapidly this season, the Thunder, who are beating the Spurs, and the Warriors, who are beating the Rockets, are two of them.
After the Thunder acquired two rookies, Spencer Hawes and Griffin, this season, these two rookies who perfectly match Chris Paul's style took the Thunder off straight away.
Spencer can shoot and pass, the white guy Yao Ming from the University of Washington.
Griffin can control, run, pass and jump. He is the dunk version of Malone in Goose City.
Not only can these two rookies cooperate with Paul, they also cooperate with each other very well and are in perfect harmony.
So much so that this season, the Thunder have now become the fourth-ranked team in the Western Conference after the Seattle SuperSonics, Mavericks and Grizzlies, two undefeated teams, with 4 wins and 1 loss.
The Bulls and Grizzlies won both games, so the Thunder could only be ranked fifth.
Let’s talk about the Warriors. After the Warriors’ Saint Beasley got angry and punched Dream Chaser Green before the start of the season, many teams were not optimistic about the future of this young team this season.
The Warriors were the bottom team in the league last season.
This season, three controversial rookies were drafted, a controversial free agent was signed, Jamal Crawford, and Barbosa was traded from the Suns for a sixth man and they want to take off?
This seems a bit difficult.
What's more, before taking off, an internal strife broke out.
However, what people never expected was that for a young team, the most fatal internal strife accident was actually easily solved by this young team.
Beasley, who was originally thought to be a good old man and a saint, has incredible public support in Golden State.
This support comes not only from teammates, but also from local fans.
The foundation Beasley showed in Golden State after the internal strife incident is simply incredible.
But after the Golden State Warriors take off now, it's not difficult to understand.
As an NBA player, who wouldn't want to have such a perfect leader?
He has a good personality, is simple, doesn't make trouble, and doesn't bully others. If you don't want such a good leader, if you replace him with Green who can tell at a glance that he is a bad guy, there is something wrong with your brain, right?
Since Beasley won't back down, they can just back off and go ahead and get it done.
Just like Beasley said, the reason why we are not arrogant is because before you became arrogant, I was tired of being arrogant.
We are all NBA players. Who the hell hasn’t had a fight or smoked a bee? Things like gangsterism don’t come easily. You don’t really think that most NBA players are good kids, do you?
In the end, the development of the Golden State Warriors' internal strife was really beyond everyone's expectations.
In addition to the fact that the main culprit, Green, is rumored to be ‘whipped’ every day by Matt Barnes and some Warriors players.
Curry and Klay, the two biggest backers behind Dream Green, are simply cowardly.
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They directly chose to surrender, and it is rumored that after Curry invited his good friend Durant out, the rift between Curry and Beasley was not only repaired, but they became like brothers.
"KD's mother is my mother, KD's children are my children, KD's old man, uh, KD's brother is of course my brother!"
When they saw Beasley and Curry arm-in-arm in the training hall together, not only were the reporters who wanted to watch the fun deceived, but they were also gearing up to try and find out who was behind the two bad guys Curry and Clay.
The Warriors players who are always defeated by their backers are themselves deceived.
What kind of expansion is this?
Especially seeing the childlike smile on Curry's face, the Warriors players were even more confused.
Damn you, you are such a coward, you will end up eating it if you make a fool of yourself!
To be honest, Curry was unjustly accused. When Chai Meng rebelled, he and Clay really didn't know.
When Zhui Meng did this kind of thing before, he never told them, but this time he encountered a tough problem.
If you encounter such a tough fight, wouldn't you be afraid to get beaten just like chasing a dream?
Before calling KD, when he returned home from the team to Golden State, he was greeted by Warriors fans all the way.
In the end, the internal strife of the Warriors did not turn into a big fight between the Yes department and the University of Washington department, but it became a simple personal rebellion caused by Green's evil intentions.
After the Warriors suppressed Dream Green, they were still the same Warriors who rallied around Beasley last season, and even became stronger with the addition of Curry and Clay.
Especially Curry, a player who was always considered unsuitable for the NBA before entering the league, his performance in these few games during his rookie season was quite incredible.
As a rookie, his three-point shooting percentage actually exceeded 45% right out of the gate. As his teammate at the University of Washington, Klay's performance was not much worse. His three-point shooting percentage was over 40% right out of the gate.
The whole world knows that the Warriors led by Beasley suffered the most from three-pointers last season. Beasley's mid-range singles really looked a bit invincible, but the team's defense was not good, and the three-pointers were not good.
Distance does not quench thirst.
With Curry and Klay, the Warriors really shine this season.
Of course, in addition to these young teams and young players in the new league season.
For example, the Grizzlies team, which is dominated by veterans, is also quite amazing.
With the start of the regular season, speculation about whether McGrady has died has finally come to an end.
McGrady rested due to a season-long injury, which was a blessing in disguise and alleviated some of his previous hidden injuries. His condition is even better than two seasons ago.
He is in excellent physical condition, coupled with his hunger for the game, and his sense of revenge against the Houston Rockets for their distrust.
This makes McGrady's performance at the beginning of this season quite incredible.
At the same time, the Grizzlies led by him, Oden, Carter, Gasol and Shane Lowry are also one of the only three undefeated teams in the Western Conference.
In the NBA this season, in the frenzy led by the Seattle SuperSonics, many teams and many players took advantage of the situation and changed the overall situation of the entire NBA.
These teams and these players are the beneficiaries of this overall situation.
Since there are winners, there are also losers.
The Houston Rockets are undoubtedly the biggest losers.
Because he was unwilling to continue to pay the luxury tax and gamble on his record, Artest and Ariza were let go for nothing two seasons ago.
During the offseason, he trusted McGrady because he was unwilling to pay the luxury tax, so he let McGrady go to the Grizzlies for nothing.
To be continued...