Chapter 760: The Raptors Who Lost Everything and O'Neal Who Picked Fruits!
On December 16, after the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Clippers, the Seattle SuperSonics' record became 16 wins and 10 losses. At the same time, because the Houston Rockets lost to the Nuggets at home with a score of 108 to 116 on the same day, the Seattle SuperSonics' record rose from the eighth place in the West to the seventh place in the West. On the same day, the Timberwolves, who played back-to-back games at home, also lost at home, losing to the Cavaliers with a score of 80 to 103 at home.
The Cavaliers' away trip to the Northwest Division was quite impressive. The Timberwolves, Nuggets, and Seattle SuperSonics were the three opponents of the Cavaliers' away trip to the Northwest Division, and the opponents were all strong.
The Cavaliers and O'Neal defeated the Timberwolves with thunderous momentum right from the start. O'Neal and the Cavaliers' intention was already quite obvious, that is, to build momentum for the Christmas battle between the Cavaliers and the Rockets!
Now the media across the United States have focused their attention on the two games between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Lakers, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Heat, Yes and Kobe, and Yes and James.
As a "former teammate" of Kobe and James, O'Neal was upset when he saw the whole world hyping up Yes and Kobe, Yes and James.
Why can't the Shark-Yao battle get such attention!
I, the Big Shark, don't accept it!
The Cavaliers and the Big Shark now have a sense of going against the will of heaven.
Aren't you hyping up the duel between these people?
I'll just sweep through all the way and see if you'll be embarrassed!
The Cavaliers' record this season is really domineering.
No one may believe it, but after defeating the Timberwolves, the Cavaliers' record reached 20 wins and 4 losses!
Now the Cavaliers' record is no longer third in the East, but second in the East and second in the league!
I'm afraid that when the Heat formed the Big Five, they never dreamed that their biggest competitor this season would be the Cavaliers.
No matter how big the gap is between the Cavaliers and the Heat in terms of hard power, the current record of the two teams is indeed close, and the Heat is only one win ahead of the Cavaliers.
It can be said that the Cavaliers' record is so domineering now, and the most embarrassing thing is LeBron James.
Especially if the Heat's record is surpassed by the Cavaliers, I'm afraid that the James haters who have been drowned out by Ibaka haters will come out and make waves again.
It can be said that just like the Seattle SuperSonics cannot fall out of the top eight in the West, the Heat also have the pressure of not being lower than the Cavaliers in the rankings.
O'Neal and the Cavaliers' current strong performance has shocked many people, but this can also be regarded as a side help to the Seattle SuperSonics.
After the Cavaliers defeated the Timberwolves away, the Timberwolves' pursuit of the Seattle SuperSonics has obviously slowed down.
However, for the Seattle SuperSonics, although the Timberwolves' pursuit seems to have slowed down, the Seattle SuperSonics themselves have no way to really relax, and the Seattle SuperSonics also have to play against the Cavaliers.
And in the future, the Seattle SuperSonics' schedule looks like the most devilish in the entire league!
On December 21, they will play against the Cavaliers, who are second in the league record, on December 23, they will play against the Lakers, who are third in the league record and the new first team in the West, and on December 25, they will play against the Heat, the strongest team in the league and the strongest team in the history of the NBA.
With these three opponents standing in the way, even if the Seattle SuperSonics want to relax, they can't.
According to the current statement of the national media, the Christmas schedule of the Seattle SuperSonics is the most horrible Christmas schedule in NBA history. In this Christmas schedule, the probability of the Seattle SuperSonics winning a game is less than 10%,
which means that the probability of the Seattle SuperSonics losing three games in a row is more than 90%!
This is even worse than the previous three-game road trip to the Southwest!
It can be said that as Christmas approaches, the whole United States is immersed in a Christmas atmosphere, but Seattle and the SuperSonics now really have a feeling of dark clouds pressing down on the city.
Even if the Seattle SuperSonics are now ranked seventh in the West, they really can't withstand a wave of three consecutive losses!
On December 19, 2008, after three days of rest, the Seattle SuperSonics welcomed the challenge of the third-to-last team in the East, the Toronto Raptors, at home.
Although the Toronto Raptors were considered the most unlucky team in the league in the past two seasons, they sent the Yes they already had to the Seattle SuperSonics for the so-called present and future.
But after struggling and going mad for the past two seasons, this team has completely lost everything this season.
With the angry departure of the former team leader Bosh and the departure of Rashard Lewis, who was robbed from the Supersonics, the Toronto Raptors have lost their present.
And as the Boston Celtics continue to advance, the future they traded from the Boston Celtics is really just the future, and it is still a distant future.
Now, this team that has lost its present and future can only look at the grief of Bagnani, who was traded for Yes.
Now the mood of the Raptors fans is grief, real grief.
The team's fierce operation in the summer of 2006 was almost equivalent to Yes in exchange for Bagnani, and they also got Chris Bosh!
What do you think the Raptors fans think?
Bagnani has performed very well since joining the Toronto Raptors. He averaged more than 12 points per game in his first season, and now he has averaged 21 points per game this season. It only took three seasons for Bagnani to become a star player who can average 20+ points per game.
Such performance is completely worthy of his draft position.
However, such performance is definitely not worthy of the player's value in exchange for Yes!
He only scored 20+ points in this rotten Raptors in his third season. Yes has never scored less than 20+ points in every game of his career!
Even this season, he has not scored less than 30+!
It is a loss to trade one for one with Yes, not to mention that the team also lost Bosh.
If Yes had been kept, Bosh would definitely not have left!
Isn't it better to stay with the Raptors as the second in command of a championship team than to go to the Heat as the third in command of a championship team?
It is not even clear who is the third in command between Bosh and Ben Gordon.
In short, the fans of the Raptors are really upset now. This season, the performance of the Raptors can be said to have completely nailed the Raptors to the most shameful pillar of shame in the NBA.
Of course, the head coach of the Raptors, Casey, is as upset as the Raptors fans.
In order to reshape the spirit and fighting spirit of the Raptors last season, Coach Casey played the self-deceiving Amway spirit in the Raptors.
With the large number of special criticisms of him and the angry beatings of the Raptors after Bosh left, his Amway strategy of inducing players to deceive themselves and paralyze themselves is of course ineffective.
Last season, the Raptors were one of the most motivated teams in the league under his paralysis.
This season, the fighting spirit of the Raptors was completely sluggish after Bosh burst the bubble.
The current Raptors look like people who have been sluggish after taking stimulants. It really feels like there is no cure.
If the current Raptors are not really a pool of mud, anyone who has a little pursuit and a little reputation is unwilling to come here to play in the muddy water, I am afraid he would have been fired long ago.
In the game against the Seattle SuperSonics, when the Raptors came out, the fans of the SuperSonics still gave them a huge round of applause and cheers of gratitude when they came out.
The Raptors players couldn't even raise their heads because of such gratitude and cheers.
Not only when facing the Seattle SuperSonics, they were embarrassed by the applause and cheers of the Seattle SuperSonics fans. When they went to other places to play, they were also uncomfortable with the boos, ridicules and yeses of other teams. Even in their own home court, they were not easy.
It can be said that Chris Bosh's accusation against the Raptors completely pierced the Raptors' protective color and presented their ugliest and most shameful side to the world.
"As long as Yes is still in the NBA, the Raptors are completely useless..."
On the bench of the Toronto Raptors, Casey and Nash looked at each other and sighed.
For the Toronto Raptors, Yes did have a lot of emotions before.
But those emotions all disappeared after the Seattle SuperSonics won the championship last season.
The current Raptors, for Yes and the players of Seattle, are just an ordinary NBA bottom-feeder team.
The current Raptors have no fighting spirit and no strong players. In fact, they are the best warm-up opponent for the Seattle Supersonics in the most difficult Christmas schedule in history.
The game against the Raptors was really a very easy game.
In this game, Yes easily scored 30 points in just 20 minutes and clocked out.
At the same time, in this game, the starters and substitutes of the Seattle Supersonics all got a lot of warm-up opportunities. Even Ingles, the player at the end of the bench, played for more than 10 minutes for the first time in his career and scored 10+ points for the first time.
In this game against the Raptors, old Nelson was a warm-up game to cope with the next three deadly battles, and to observe the status of other players in the team.
The final observation result also satisfied old Nelson. In this game against the Raptors, 10 players in the Seattle team scored more than 10 points!
Ten players scoring in double figures in one game really surprised old Nelson, and also surprised many other experts and media in the league.
"Who could have imagined that the worst team in history, which was robbed by the Raptors, would become a team with 10 players scoring in double figures in less than three years!"
"Although the Toronto Raptors are a weak team, and the biggest joke and shame in the NBA, the Toronto Raptors are still an NBA team now!"
After the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Toronto Raptors 151-100 at home on December 19, many things have been concluded.
Many people do not need to have any reservations in their evaluation of the big deal three years ago, and the winners and losers of the big deal of the century are also completely clear.
On December 21, 2008, after the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Raptors at home, they will start the most difficult Christmas schedule in history with three consecutive home games at home.
"It's finally about to start!"
Sitting in the media seats of KeyArena, many Chinese reporters and coconut powder reporters are now feeling both excited and nervous.
The Cavaliers, Lakers, and Heat are really strong!
Two days ago, on the same day as the Seattle Supersonics and the Raptors played, the Cavaliers defeated their opponents 115-98 on the road again. This time, their opponent was the Denver Nuggets, which is now fourth in the West and first in the Northwest!
In the game two days ago, even a strong player like Anthony was suppressed by O'Neal and the Cavaliers.
Anthony's impact-style play, which was always successful against many teams, was not very useful in front of O'Neal and the Cavaliers.
In the end, Anthony was forced to switch back to his previous kaleidoscope-style play. The kaleidoscope is a kaleidoscope, but it has not been used for a long time, and it is indeed a little unfamiliar. He also missed a lot of shots, 8 of 24 shots, and scored 23 points with 24 shots. This efficiency is really rare in Anthony in the past year.
In the end, the Denver Nuggets also lost miserably to the Cavaliers at home.
After the Cavaliers beat the Nuggets in an away game, O'Neal and the Cavaliers will face the last opponent of their journey against the odds, the Seattle Supersonics.
As long as they beat the Seattle Supersonics in this game, O'Neal and the Cavaliers will be able to attract all the attention and focus.
"Yes, after this game, Yao and I will be the protagonists of this Christmas battle!"
Looking at the fat guy who was laughing in front of him, Yes didn't say anything.
This fat guy is really good in this regard.
He has a natural keen sense of smell in attracting media attention.
He didn't actually do anything in the game between the Seattle Supersonics and the Heat and Lakers, but Kobe and James have been warming up and talking about the games between the Seattle Supersonics and the Lakers, and the Seattle Supersonics and the Heat in interviews recently.
It can be said that James and Kobe are doing their best to increase the popularity of these two games.
But it is obvious that when the game between the Cavaliers and the Supersonics started, the popularity of the game between the Cavaliers and the Supersonics had surpassed these two games.
Unless the Seattle SuperSonics can beat the Cavaliers in this game, the two games between the SuperSonics and the Lakers, and between the SuperSonics and the Heat, will become nutrients for the game between the SuperSonics and the Cavaliers, which will become nutrients for the game between the SuperSonics and the Cavaliers and the Rockets, and the game between the Cavaliers and the Rockets will become nutrients for O'Neal to regain the top center and the MVP throne!
The biggest winner of the Christmas game, coupled with the upcoming 30,000 points in his career, plus the story of supporting the rise of the Cavaliers alone after LeBron's betrayal, no one can compete with O'Neal for the position of the biggest winner this season.
Even under O'Neal's operation, those who were originally looking forward to the confrontation between Yes and Kobe, Yes and the Heat, are now more looking forward to the confrontation between Yes and O'Neal, wanting to see how lively it will be after O'Neal, the fool, picks the biggest fruit.
Anyway, since it's a mess, of course it's better to make things bigger and bigger!
"This dead fat man!"
In front of the TV, James and Kobe almost gnashed their teeth at the dead fat man who picked their fruits at the same time.