With three points at the start, Nash begged for a maximum salary to renew his contract

After defeating the Hornets, the Nuggets defeated the Atlanta Hawks 114:100 in an away game.

A few seasons ago, the Hawks, who had a great glory a few seasons ago and had four players selected to the All-Star at the same time, have now sunk.

Millsap went to the Jazz, Horford joined the Celtics, Korver was in the Cavaliers, and Jeff Teague also went to the Timberwolves.

The main stars left one after another, causing this Eastern powerhouse to fall at the speed of light. If there is no accident, the Eagles' record this season will be at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, second to last in the league, and thus won the third pick in the first round of 2018. After selecting Luka Doncic, he traded with the Dallas Mavericks whose team name was changed to Lone Ranger, thus obtaining the new core of the team Trey Young.

For such a team at the bottom of the league and aiming to compete for the No. [-] pick in the NBA, the Nuggets are naturally relaxed and freehand.

Only in this way, the Nuggets directly won a wave of 5 consecutive victories at the beginning, which is surprising.

"Facts have proved that Wang Chao's ability to lead the team should not be underestimated at any time. Even if he leads such a team without an All-Star player, he can still bring people great surprises. He won five consecutive victories in the regular season. That is the best proof."

There are those who praise it and those who dislike it.

Many people expressed disdain for the Nuggets' five-game winning streak.

"Isn't it just winning a few weak teams at the bottom of the league? What is there to praise? We never deny that Wang Chao is amazing. With him, the Nuggets must be one of the top teams in the league. Winning those weak teams Naturally, it is a matter of course, but facing those strong teams in the league, it is very difficult to win with Wang Chao's single-core leadership alone."

The words are rough and the rationale is not rough, the opponents of the Nuggets at the beginning of the game are indeed not strong, which cannot explain the problem.

However, on October 10, the Nuggets will travel to Brooklyn in their sixth game to challenge the biggest favorite of the new season, Wang Chao's former club, the Brooklyn Nets.

This is definitely a focus battle that has attracted the attention of the entire league. On the one hand, the Nuggets will face the biggest challenge since the start of the new season. The conflicted old teammate Durant faced off directly, which to a great extent satisfied the fans' curiosity to eat melons and gossip.

On the day of the game, the Barclays Center Arena, home of the Brooklyn Nets, was packed, and all Nets fans came to watch the game.

Before the start of the game, the general manager of the Nets presented last season's championship ring to Wang Chao personally at the scene. From the thunderous applause and cheers of the audience, it can be seen that Nets fans The degree of welcome to Wang Chao.

No one slandered or abused Wang Chao at the scene, even though he left the Nets this summer without any nostalgia, he left very decisively.

There is nothing wrong with Wang Chao's departure in the eyes of any reasonable person, because when Wang Chao joined the Nets, he clearly said that he came to the Nets to help the poor, and he will leave when he wins the championship.

At that time, many people thought that Wang Chao was pretending to be aggressive. With the Nets’ lineup at that time, it would be difficult for Wang Chao to win a championship after staying for seven or eight years. After running over, the team broke the record with 73 wins in the regular season, and won the championship all the way in the playoffs.

It is like a dream for the Nets to win the first championship in NBA history for decades. Even until now, there are still many Nets fans who feel like a dream.

And even if Wang Chao left, he still left an extremely strong basic set for the Nets. Durant, Jokic, and Booker are still on the team. The star point guard Chris Paul made the Nets once again the most popular team to win the championship in the new season. Several outstanding players of the Nets as trading chips were all selected by Wang Chao in the draft that year.

Wang Chao is gone, but he left them valuable wealth, so that the Nets will be the league's top strength and a strong team with the ability to compete for the championship for at least the next three to five years.

If this is not worthy of their warmest applause for Wang Chao, what else is worth it?

What's more, even the owner of the Nets promised when Wang Chao left that he would retire Wang Chao's No. 1 jersey in the Nets and build a statue for him to express his gratitude.

When Wang Chao accepted the championship ring, the players of the Nets also applauded and congratulated, but Durant, who was mixed in the crowd, had a stiff smile on his face.

The scene in front of him was different from what he had imagined.

During the finals, the two almost completely tore their faces apart. How could Durant, who was originally not big-minded, get through this easily?
Looking at Wang Chao who calmly accepted the applause and cheers of the audience, Durant's eyes burned with vengeance.

"I want to use the victory of this game to let you know who is the boss of the Nets now!"
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The game between the Nuggets and the Nets is the most noteworthy battle in the near future, and it is naturally broadcast live and broadcast by most TV media.

Including the domestic Huaguo Sports Channel and the US TNT, SEPN TV stations are competing to broadcast live commentary.

What the audience is most willing to watch is TNT's commentary. After all, TNT now has a luxurious team of commentators. Charles Barkley, Shaq O'Neal, Kenny Smith and other well-known TV commentators are on the same stage to comment on the game.

As we all know, at the beginning of the regular season, Barkley made some comments on the Nuggets' lineup.

"If the Nuggets can break out from the Western Conference and reach the finals this season, they don't need to win the championship. As long as they can enter the finals, I will live broadcast and eat a big bowl of horse manure!"

Barkley cheated on eating and drinking in the live broadcast room not once or twice, but it was really the first time to play such a big game.

Regardless of whether he will actually fulfill his promise, the audience is very much looking forward to seeing this scene.

Now that the Nuggets are facing the Nets, the favorite to win the championship, if the Nuggets can win this game, what will Barkley look like?

In the studio at this moment, O'Neill looked at Barkley with a smirk on his face.

"Charles, before I came to work today, many people sent me text messages. Please, I must ask you what horse manure tastes like. Please share your new experience after you have tasted it."

With a dark face, Barkley glanced at O'Neill unhappily. "Dude, what I'm talking about is that if the Nuggets can make it to the finals, it's not even December yet. If you want to ask this question, wait until June to talk about it. If the Nuggets can really make it to the finals In the final."

"Hey, coincidence, I really think the Nuggets can enter the finals, after all, they have Wang Chao." O'Neill smiled, and said meanly: "I am now a fan of Tiegen Wang Chao, he is really too big." Amazing, looking at the entire league and even the entire history of the NBA, there is no second such player, and Michael is nothing compared to him."

"Yeah, Wang Chao is better than Michael, I agree with that, but just like Michael needs Pippen to win the championship, no matter how strong Wang Chao is, he must have at least a Pippen-like figure around him, just like Durant from last season." Barkley said unconvinced: "The current Nuggets, who do you think can become Pippen? Derrick Rose on the bench?"

"So do you think the Nuggets are definitely not the opponent of the Nets in today's game?" O'Neal asked.

"It's not that they can't win, but I think in terms of lineup, the Nets have absolute advantages in four positions, while the Nuggets only have Wang Chao as an advantage. The probability of the Nets winning is at least 1%. 5% I am willing to leave for Wang Chao, this is my recognition and respect for his strength." Barkley talked eloquently, "But as I said, I don't think anyone in the NBA can truly Do things like [-]v[-]."

"Then let us wait and see." Smith on the side took the topic and said: "Now the players on both sides have warmed up and the game is ready to start."

"The Nets' starting five are Chris Paul, Devin Booker, DeMarre Carroll, Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic."

"The Nuggets' starting five are Mitchell, Murray, Tucker, Wang Chao and Gobert."

"From the perspective of the lineup, it is true that the Nets have an absolute advantage. Although they lost Wang Chao this summer and sent high-quality potential players such as Harrell, Powell and Brogdon to the Los Angeles Clippers, they also got We lost the top point guard Chris Paul and retained the overall strength of the lineup."

"Since the start of the new season, the Nets have achieved a record of 5 wins and 1 loss. Although they lost one game more than the Nuggets, they have defeated the Eastern rival Cleveland Cavaliers 112:107 in the process, showing their dominance in the Eastern Conference. , Let us wait and see how intense this focus battle will be!"

On the field, the starting players of the two teams are all in place, and Gobert and Jokic jump the ball in the middle circle.

Jokic, who is known as the essence of human pork belly, has a messy athletic ability. Even Gobert, who is also not good at jumping, can easily win the jump ball. After all, although Gobert is not strong in bouncing, he is 2 meters tall and 16 meters tall. With a wingspan of 2, he naturally has a great advantage in scrimmage.

Speaking of which, the Nets actually have a player who competes with Gobert's static talent, that is, Zhou Qi, the big devil of Huaguo.

Because of Wang Chao, Zhou Qi was selected to the Nets last season, and under Wang Chao's supervision, he seriously experienced systematic intensive training throughout the season.

With the blessing of Wang Chao's training potion, the effect of training is also far stronger than normal training.

After one season, Zhou Qi has indeed grown considerably.

But even so, he still couldn't enter the main rotation of the Nets.

There is no way, although the height and wingspan are the same as Gobert, and the athletic ability is even better, but even if Zhou Qi gains weight and does a lot of strength training, there is still a big gap between Gobert and Gobert in terms of strength.

You must know that even Gobert is not good at strength in the league. Zhou Qi can't protect the basket at all when facing a group of muscular players in the NBA.

Moreover, Jokic, the main center of the Nets, has improved more and more, and has become the mainstay of the team's inside line, giving Zhou Qi very little playing time.

Now that Zhou Qi can continue to stay with the Nets, it is entirely because of the team owner, and the management did not choose to trade or lay off Zhou Qi to sell Wang Chao's face.

As far as Wang Chao is concerned, he has already done everything he can do. The current Zhou Qi must be stronger than him in the Rockets in the 17-18 season, but can he survive in the league? , It still depends on his own efforts.

Wang Chao is not Zhou Qi's parents, even if he contributes to the Huaguo men's basketball team, he has done enough.

At this moment, Zhou Qi, who was sitting on the bench, could only watch Gobert win the jump ball on the court, and then thought silently in his heart, if he came to the jump ball, he would definitely beat Gobert.

The Nuggets had the ball, Mitchell dribbled the ball halfway, and immediately passed the ball to Wang Chao without thinking.

Although he is a point guard, as a first-year rookie, whether it is him or Murray, his tactical position in the Nuggets is biased towards a fixed-point shooter. Although there are opportunities to attack with the ball, there are not many, and the ball is overwhelming. Most of the time it is still concentrated in the hands of Wang Chao.

Seeing Wang Chao catch the ball, all members of the Nets tensed up, including Durant standing in front of Wang Chao.

In fact, Durant doesn't want to mark Wang Chao. Compared with defending, he is better at attacking. Besides, Wang Chao can beat him by several blocks in terms of speed and strength. There are ten thousand ways to pass him.

But now the Nets, he is the only one who can match up with Wang Chao. Durant really wants to win this game to prove himself, so even if he can't guard Wang Chao, he still has to stand in the way. In front of Wang Chao, even if it only caused a little defensive interference to him.

Wang Chao held the ball in the top arc position, his expression was calm, and he looked at Durant who was concentrating on him, and couldn't help smiling.

"Is that all you want to win me?"

Ever since Wang Chao tore Durant apart in the finals and said the classic phrase that I was the champion before you came, the two haven't spoken a word.

Wang Chao knew that Durant must hate him to the bone, but he couldn't help it. Who made Durant think about grabbing the FMVP at that time?
And now the opponent is standing in front of him, making it clear that he wants to win the game.

Coincidentally, what Durant wants to do, he just doesn't want the opponent to get what he wants. Since the opponent wants to win this game so much, then Wang Chao will give Durant another heavy blow in this game.

Don't think that the current lineup of the Nets has a chance to win the championship. I haven't completed the closed loop of Green's formula yet, so you should save it and rest.

While speaking, Wang Chao accelerated while holding the ball. His super explosive power allowed him to pass Durant in the first step, rushing towards the penalty area like a thunderbolt.

Seeing this scene, Jokic at the basket didn't even have time to think about it, and immediately came up to help defend.

This is in Wang Chao's arms.

The Nets fans at home saw Wang Chao jumping from the restricted area. He leaped high and was instantly higher than half of Jokic's height. Jokic, who was following up and wanted to defend, had a very limited jump height. , It is impossible to cause effective defensive interference to Wang Chao.

Under the absolute height advantage, Wang Chao used the impact to directly ride and dunk Jokic, violently pouring the basketball into the basket! (end of this chapter)