Chapter 581: James’ Ownership and the Worst Tour in History

"Is this the rise of fairy tales or the collapse of dreams?"

At the end of the last game of the regular season, the entire NBA was embroiled in controversy over Yeas.

The Seattle SuperSonics' miraculous victory over the Nuggets was filled with shock, confusion and a lot of respect and understanding.

These people have many emotions, but the most positive ones are actually positive ones.

In a place like the NBA, where there are so many calculations, having such a player and a team can really make people feel a bit overwhelmed.

Although this player and his team have always used fairy tales and dreams as their trademarks.

Yes ignored the controversy.

For him, it is natural to choose the Nuggets as his opponent in the first round of the playoffs.

The Lakers are as difficult to beat as Kobe. If he could, he even wanted to pick the Spurs as his first-round opponent.

The SuperSonics now end the regular season ranked third in the Western Conference, and their final opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Nuggets. For Leafs and the SuperSonics, this is a pretty perfect result.

The magical result of the game between the SuperSonics and the Nuggets caused a huge sensation and impact. However, no matter how great the impact, this game is also the last game of the regular season. In the face of the upcoming playoffs, this The influence eventually passed away like the wind.

This year's NBA regular season ends on April 16 and the playoffs start on April 19, with only two days in between.

The day after the regular season ended, the league released its playoff schedule.

On April 19th, the first day of the NBA playoffs, eight playoff teams will appear. The game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Nuggets will be on the first day of April 19th.

The eight teams on the first day of the game on April 19 are the Magic, which is fourth in the Eastern Conference, and the Raptors, which is fifth in the Eastern Conference. The Spurs, who are fourth in the Western Conference, and the Lakers, who are fifth in the Western Conference, are in the second game. The Suns, who are second in the Western Conference, will compete. Game 3 is against the Grizzlies, who are seventh in the Western Conference, and Game 4 is the finale against the SuperSonics, who are third in the Western Conference, and the Nuggets, who are sixth in the Western Conference.

On April 20, the other eight teams will also all appear, the Celtics first in the Eastern Conference and the Pacers eighth in the Eastern Conference, the Wizards second in the Eastern Conference and the 76ers seventh in the Eastern Conference, third in the Eastern Conference The Pistons and the Hawks, who are sixth in the Eastern Conference, and the Rockets, who are first in the Western Conference, and the Thunder, who are eighth in the Western Conference.

After the first two days of the playoffs, the subsequent playoffs are basically two games a day or three games a day.

After the league's schedule came out, almost the entire NBA began to take stock of the focus games in the first round of the playoffs.

Mainly the west.

There are indeed no bright spots in the Eastern Conference. The Celtics and Pacers, Wizards and 76ers, Pistons and Hawks, these three matches are almost without any suspense.

Even the Magic, which is fourth in the Eastern Conference, and the Raptors, which is fifth in the Eastern Conference, don't seem to have much suspense. The Raptors' performance in the regular season this season is surprising, but the playoffs are different from the regular season after all. of.

The Magic performed quite well in the second half of the regular season, especially Magic Howard, the head player of the Magic, who almost ravaged the unconventional big centers in the league.

The Raptors are exactly a team without a traditional powerful center.

In this series, the Raptors may be beaten to death by Howard.

The first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs may seem incredible.

The Cavaliers, who are ninth in the Eastern Conference and have not made the playoffs, may be the biggest attraction in the Eastern Conference right now.

The recent conflicts between O'Neal and James, the two leading players of the Cavaliers, no longer need to be concealed.

In fact, in the last few games of the Cavaliers' regular season, James has refused to play at the same time as O'Neal.

The Cavaliers are rumored to have been selling O'Neal to keep James, but the Cavaliers have no sincerity in selling.

O'Neal still has strong strength, but it is definitely not worth trading for a young player like Milicic.

Similarly, it would be difficult for other teams to trade O'Neal's chips to satisfy the Cavaliers.

O'Neal's contract is so big that ordinary All-Stars cannot match it. No matter how strong O'Neal is, it is impossible for others to use an All-Star in his prime and add another player to replace it. O'Neal is already old after all.

Therefore, the bargaining chips that O'Neal can trade are those players with large contracts and not very strong players. If O'Neal is to be used for these players, James will also be unhappy.

According to internal information from the Cavaliers, James has already had a showdown with the team's owner.

Don't talk to him about his feelings and future. If he wants him to play again, he only has two requirements. The first is to trade O'Neal away, and the second is to bring him enough helpers.

Judging from internal news from the Cavaliers, James was very dissatisfied with the Cavaliers boss who had been cheating him. After the team was cheated and did not enter the playoffs this time, he completely exploded.

Now James's showdown, to many people watching the excitement, is the Cavaliers boss's own fault.

If he hadn't always treated James as a fool before, James wouldn't have reacted so strongly.

Now there is no trust between James and him. In this case, the Cavaliers boss has no choice but to use practical sincerity to keep James.

But whether it is trading O'Neal or bringing real helpers to the Cavaliers instead of Larry Hughes, it is an impossible task for the Cavaliers owner.

O'Neal cannot exchange for truly strong immediate combat power, and the Cavaliers cannot attract real big names.

This is a dead end!

Although Cavaliers fans now go outside James' home every day to beg James to put aside his decision to refuse to play and renew his contract, everyone watching the excitement knows that James is preparing to leave the Cavaliers.

Since these two requirements are impossible for the Cavaliers boss to fulfill, and James made them, he was naturally ready to leave.

Moreover, James' 3+1 contract expired in 2011, and there was an option to get out of the contract in 2010. Now it is 2008, and it seems that there are still two years left. In fact, when James calls out that O'Neal will not play, the team will not strengthen. After the condition of not renewing the contract, the two years are quite short.

If one thing is not handled well, the Cavaliers will be in trouble.

Even if it is handled well and James is exchanged for a bunch of things, the Cavaliers owner still needs to deal with his relationship with the Cleveland people.

Trading away James is a huge outrage!

Unless the Cavaliers' boss can put all the team's fault for this incident on James.

However, this is difficult.

Although James refused to play with O'Neal on the same team, and the team would not renew his contract unless he replenished his guns, James would invite representatives of Cleveland fans to his home every day for heart-to-heart talks.

It can be said that Cavaliers fans are 100% on James' side now.

Which one is more important to them, O'Neal or James?

Of course James!

Is it wrong to strengthen the team? If James couldn't bear it anymore, would he use his love for Cleveland as a threat?

How deep is James' love for Cleveland?

Even yes has recently responded to the controversy in Cleveland.

"If James is not desperate, he will not joke about his love for Cleveland. I believe that as long as the Cavaliers owner meets James' conditions a little bit, he will stay."

Now those league executives who are watching the excitement believe that James is definitely leaving.

However, those fans of the Cavaliers and James fans like yes always believe that this is James using his love for Cleveland to threaten the Cavaliers boss for the future of Cleveland.

It can be said that the Cavaliers boss is now very passive after being manipulated like this by James.

"Daniel Gilbert always thought LeBron James was an idiot, and it turned out he was the real idiot."

"LeBron James played this move very beautifully. I bet that when James was traded by Gilbert and left the Cavaliers, he would tell the Cleveland fans live on TV that he would come back!"

"I swear, that day, all of Cleveland will cry for LeBron James!"

These are the exact words of the general manager of a Western Conference playoff team, as relayed by an NBA executive, and the greatest general manager in NBA history.

It is precisely because of this that almost all general managers of teams that have not entered the playoffs have begun to take action and provide the Cavaliers with offers they can provide.

Now, the focus of the entire Eastern Conference is not the upcoming playoffs, but James' ownership.

It's different from the current focus in the East that has completely shifted.

In the current Western Conference, the playoff atmosphere has reached an incredible level.

It is true that the eight teams in this year's Western Conference playoffs performed too strongly in the regular season.

The top eight teams in the Western Conference are all teams with the best record at the same position in NBA history.

From No. 1 in the Western Conference to No. 8 in the Western Conference is from No. 1 in the strongest division in history to No. 8 in the strongest division in history.

"If it were in a normal season, based on the performance of these eight teams this season, Yao Ming, the leading player of the Rockets in the Western Conference, Nash, the leading player of the Suns, second in the Western Conference, Yes, the leading player of the SuperSonics, third in the Western Conference, and so on. Duncan, Kobe, Anthony, Greg Oden, Chris Paul, they are all qualified to win the regular season MVP!"

"Now, eight players who have reached MVP level this season are actually concentrated in one season and in one division!"

"I swear, this year's Western Conference playoffs will be the most exciting playoffs in history!"

The most exciting playoffs in history, this is how the national public opinion evaluates the Western Conference playoffs before the playoffs have started.

The evaluation is quite high, but what is incredible is that no one thinks this evaluation is too high.

Just look at the records behind these Western Conference teams and you can see what persuasiveness means.

There are 8 teams, seven teams have 64 or more wins, and one team has 55 wins.

We may never see such a spectacle like this in the west this year again.

One season, seven historic teams.

So when the national media previewed the Western Conference, the four teams in the Western Conference, except for the Rockets, which was first in the Western Conference, and the Oklahoma City Thunder, which was eighth in the Western Conference, which was 4-2, the other predictions were all 4-3!

The Rockets' regular season record this season is 73 wins and 9 losses, the best regular season record in history. Generally speaking, if a team like this encounters the eighth in the division in the playoffs, it will be swept 4-0. However, the ESPN organization Of the 100 experts, only a few think this group will be swept. Most people think the Thunder can win one or two games. Chris Paul, Peja, David West, Tyson Chandler Le...

Thunder is not weak at all!

The Suns, second in the Western Conference, and the Grizzlies, seventh in the Western Conference, have a record of 71 wins and 11 losses for the Suns and a record of 64 wins and 18 losses for the Grizzlies. The record difference is a bit big, but the whole world now knows what the Suns' weaknesses are, killing Stoudemire. , can make the Suns' offense less invincible, and the Grizzlies are the strongest team in the league. Oden and Gasol can all kill Stoudemire!

In this case, when one hundred experts from ESPN predicted this matchup, 55 experts stood on the side of the Suns and 45 experts stood on the side of the Grizzlies, and most of the experts predicted the final score of 4 to 3, no matter whether the Suns win or the Grizzlies win, the final score is 4 to 3.

The Spurs, who are fourth in the Western Conference, and the Lakers, who are fifth in the Western Conference, also predict a score of 4-3. However, most experts believe that the Spurs will win 4-3. There are 65 experts who believe that the Spurs can win.

This ratio is already quite disparate.

The Lakers performed well in the regular season, but it's hard to say in the playoffs. Spurs players have been successful in the playoffs, while Lakers players, except for Kobe and Kidd, have not been successful in the playoffs. Even the Lakers' current three players have been successful in the playoffs. Randolph, who is in charge and faces Duncan, has always been a data brush in the regular season.

Such data brushers will naturally not be trusted in the playoffs.

The most watched matchup in the first round is the SuperSonics, which is third in the Western Conference, and the Nuggets, which is sixth in the Western Conference.

90% of espn experts think the Nuggets can win, and 50% of these 90% experts think the Nuggets will win 4-3. Most of the remaining 45 espn experts who think the Nuggets can win think the Nuggets can. Settle this series within five games.

Although the final prediction for this matchup is that the Nuggets will win 4-3 against the SuperSonics.

It seems quite intense.

But what may make the Sonics a little embarrassed is that there are only 10 experts, or 10%, who think the Sonics can win this series.

According to the predictions of these experts from ESPN, the Seattle SuperSonics have almost no hope of advancing in the first round of the playoffs.

"Yes, we may have the first round of tour this year!"

After ESPN's playoff preview was released, the question of whether the Leafs will be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this year immediately became the biggest hot topic on Twitter.

"I feel sorry for Ye and Zhan, this year is a year of disaster for the chosen ones!"

"Who is worse, Yes or James? I think Yes is worse than James. James just didn't make the playoffs. Yes led such a lineup and worked hard to reach the playoffs with a record of 69 wins, but in the end he had to go out in the first round. , this is probably the worst round in history!"

"The 69-win first round can indeed be regarded as the worst in history. The Mavericks who were defeated last year did not have this record...