NBA: James wants to team up with me

Wang Chong's biggest source of confidence is not how the Heat's strength will improve if Bosh is replaced by Howard, but the Bulls' basic strength.

Next season will be the 13-14 season. For the Bulls, Curry has become stable. He has played in 82 of 78 games, averaging 24 points, 4 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game, shooting 47% from the field and 43% from the three-point range. , there is no fault in either the performance or the attendance rate. During this period, Curry can be considered to have officially entered the Curry period, but his teammates including Thompson, Green and others have not yet fully grown up. Therefore, the Warriors only achieved 51 points in the regular season. With a record of 4 wins, they were defeated by the Clippers 3: in the first round of the playoffs.

Gasol has also won the best defensive player during this period, and his personal ability has reached its peak. Although his data this season is still around 14+7+4, that is only because of the team's division of labor. In the past few seasons, as Gasol took on more offensive responsibilities, his personal data also increased. At his best, he averaged 19.5 points, 6 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.

Of course, compared to these two players who have already made a name for themselves and are known as the Bulls' Big Three together with Wang Chong, Jimmy Butler, who is a blue-collar player on the team and has played conscientiously for a season, is the most critical.

In the season that just won the championship, although Butler has secured his position as the team's starting small forward, his personal performance is not outstanding. He still plays the role of a defensive champion more often on the court, despite his vigorous defense. It's eye-catching, but the reviews are generally not high.

This is exactly the same as Butler's experience at the same time. In the original Bulls team, in the 13-14 season, Butler became the team's starting small forward after Ruel Deng was traded away from the team, and his personal data immediately increased to average per game. 13 points, 5 rebounds and 2.6 assists, and was successfully selected to the All-Defensive Second Team after the regular season.

这使得巴特勒迅速被公牛队重视，并且在随后的14-15赛季作为球队核心主力出战，场均数据暴增至场均20分5.8篮板3.3助攻。

Going back to the 13-14 season, although Butler has not yet reached the peak of his personal strength during this period, his performance is indeed not bad, otherwise the Bulls will not quickly determine the tactical play with Butler as the core of the team.

The biggest difference between the current Butler and the original Bulls Butler is the degree of attention he receives.

Ever since he first joined the league, he has always received special care from Wang Chong. Not only did he have a dedicated trainer to tailor a training plan, but he would also play against Wang Chong in one-on-one matches from time to time to increase his matchup experience.

This allowed Butler, who trained extremely hard, to increase his level very quickly.

At least in Wang Chong's intuitive feeling, in fact, Butler has reached the All-Star level this season in the playoffs. That is because in the Bulls, the ball rights are basically monopolized by Wang Chong and Curry. Otherwise, As long as Butler is given ample opportunities to take action, there will be absolutely no problem for him to average 20+ points per game in the regular season.

During the summer offseason, Butler will continue to work hard to improve himself, and will only become stronger when he returns in the new season.

With Butler as a strong support, the Bulls will not have a Big Three configuration next season, but a proper Big Four configuration. The strength is no worse than the five-star Warriors that Durant will join in the future. The Miami Heat only have the Big Three. , why fight with them?
For this reason, Wang Chong expressed that he has no panic at all about the formation of the Heat's new Big Three.

Throughout the holiday, Wang Chong spent the entire holiday in the luxury house he bought in Los Angeles, taking care of his baby and accompanying his wife. He ignored what was going on outside the window, as if the turbulent alliance had nothing to do with him.

After the shocking trade between Howard and Bosh, the league began to gradually quiet down. Although many teams made trades and signed signings, they were all trivial and insignificant.

For example, the Lakers made several transactions and signings after completing the Howard deal, but they were all unimportant and small transactions, and none of the players they acquired could bring about a qualitative change in the strength of the Lakers.

This undoubtedly made Kobe very dissatisfied. Just looking at the lineup, he knew that whether this Lakers team could enter the playoffs, let alone compete for the championship, was a question.

For this reason, he put pressure on the Lakers management more than once, and even expressed his dissatisfaction through the media.

But the Lakers management is also a clever woman who can't make a meal without rice. In order to form the Lakers' Big Three, the Lakers overdrawn their future and gave away most of their hard-earned wealth. They originally planned to wait until Kobe gets old and retires, and the Lakers' fundamentals will be reduced. It was up to Paul and Howard to work together to support it. Who would have expected that in just two years, Kobe would be on the same level as these two.

Howard is better, at least he left a fortune for the Lakers before leaving, in exchange for Bosh and a first-round pick.

Paul was so cruel that he just patted his butt and walked away, causing the Lakers to lose all their money.

Even if you are recruiting, you must at least have some chips in your hands!

The only thing the Lakers have right now is barely sufficient salary space. After all, the only players on the team with an annual salary of tens of millions are Kobe and Bosh.

But in fact, Kobe's annual salary next season will reach 3045 million U.S. dollars, and Bosh's is 1907 million U.S. dollars. The two of them combined are close to 5000 million U.S. dollars, plus other players in the team such as Jamal Crawford, Haslem With an annual salary of more than 500 million, the actual salary the Lakers have at their disposal under the salary cap is just over million, which is not enough to join the competition for All-Star-level centers.

After a full search in the free market, the Lakers had no choice but to turn around and sign center Andrew Bynum, who had made a name for himself with the Lakers, for 3 million in three years.

Despite being traded to the Magic a year in advance in exchange for Howard, Bynum's career trajectory has returned to his old path.

After leaving the Lakers, without the paranoid supervision of Kobe, Bynum, who became the core of a team, quickly sank, greedy for enjoyment, and went bowling during the injury, which aggravated the injury.

After putting up with Bynum for two seasons, the Magic finally had enough. They did not choose to renew Bynum's contract after this season and were ready to rebuild the team.

Bynum has lost his reputation in just one season, making it very difficult to get a decent offer and contract in the league.

The Lakers took a huge risk by re-signing Bynum. After all, considering Bynum's current poor professional attitude, no one can guarantee whether Bynum can regain his competitive form two years ago, but they can only They can take a gamble, after all, there are not many players left for them to choose from in the free market.

Bynum's three-year salary of 3 million seems to be an average annual salary of 3000 million, but the details of this contract are very particular. The first and second years are only 1000 million, and the salary in the third year will increase to 800 million, but in the third year In 1400, the Lakers had a team option to choose whether to execute the final year of the contract.

This is obviously to take advantage of Bynum and warn him to play well in the Lakers, otherwise you will only get half of the salary at most from this contract.

In this way, given that Bynum was selected as the Eastern All-Star starter at his peak and averaged 20+10 data per game, even if his status is unknown, an annual salary of 800 million is considered a reasonable price. It's just that after this contract is given out, the Lakers have very little salary space left, and the few million left are only enough to select some role players in the free market to supplement the lineup.

The main lineup of the Lakers for the new season has basically been determined in this way. The main starting players are Kobe, Chris Bosh, Andrew Bynum and Jamal Crawford.

Just looking at this lineup makes Lakers fans feel extremely desperate. They even doubt whether the Lakers can make it to the playoffs next season.

Some pessimistic fans have begun to think that five championships may be the ultimate height that Kobe can reach in his career.

After all, Kobe will be 35 years old next season. No matter how good his competitive status is, he will still decline uncontrollably. He will only have two or three years left in his peak period at most. The Lakers will not be able to put together a strong enough lineup to win the championship. The honors that Kobe can finally receive are these.

Although they won the same five championships as before, the reality is completely different.

Originally, among Kobe's five championships, at least two of them were won by the undisputed No. 1 core. Kobe, who won two consecutive FMVPs, was also the undisputed No. 1 player in the league at the time. After all, Kobe was Jordan, the first player in the league after O'Neal. Players who can win the FMVP again.

But now Kobe only has one championship after leaving O'Neal. Although he has five championships in his career, he only has one FMVP and one MVP. His historical status is bound to be greatly affected.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. Kobe is already the one least affected by Wang Chong among all the top stars, but all stars in the same era as Wang Chong will be more or less suppressed by Wang Chong.

It's hard for James to win a championship. Nowitzki's championship, FMVP and MVP were all snatched away by Wang Chong. Durant doesn't even have a scoring champion so far.

In comparison, Kobe only lost one FMVP and two scoring champions, and was already among the group of stars with minimal losses.

By the way, there are also many players who have benefited from Wang Chong.

The biggest beneficiary is undoubtedly the Wolf King Kevin Garnett. The Wolf King originally only had one championship in his career, but with Wang Chong and the Bulls, he won four championships, directly tying his old rival Tim Duncan. , although Duncan's two MVP and three FMVP trophies are something Garnett will never be able to match, but at least now when it comes to the most powerful forward in NBA history, Garnett can compete with Duncan a little bit, although people still think Duncan Stronger, but the Wolf King won't be crushed without any suspense.

After all, during the Bulls era, Garnett was definitely the No. 2 player after Wang Chong, and the four consecutive championship dynasties were more valuable than Duncan's four championships.

The same is true for Billups. Although he lost his only FMVP, he gained four championships in exchange. This also made Billups highly praised among point guards, and his historical status increased.

In early July, Billups officially announced his retirement, ending his 7-year career.

As soon as Billups announced his retirement, the owner of the Bulls promised to retire Billups' jersey number. Even if he only played for the Bulls for a few seasons, Billups will definitely have four championships with the Bulls. Pus made great contributions.

After Billups retires, there is no doubt that he will be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame and become one of the stars who can leave his name in NBA history.

Wang Chong’s compatriot Dayao, known as the Moving Great Wall, is obviously one of the players who has been influenced by Wang Chongguang. Although the two have never teamed up in the NBA, Dayao and Wang Chong teamed up to help the Chinese men’s basketball team win the Olympic Games. One gold and one silver achieved a historic breakthrough from zero to one for Chinese basketball.

And it is precisely because of the butterfly effect brought by Wang Chong that Dayao was not injured in 09, and his career has continued to the present. This has made Dayao win many more personal honors than before.

Just a few days after Billups announced his retirement, Dayao also held a press conference to announce his official retirement.

Although Dayao did not suffer serious injuries due to the butterfly effect brought by Wang Chong, the high-intensity competition in the NBA still left him physically scarred, especially in the shortened season of 12-13. The compact schedule made Dayao suffer. torment.

This season, Dayao's attendance rate is less than half, and his average data per game has dropped to the lowest in his career. Obviously, his huge and heavy body can no longer support him to continue playing in a high-intensity confrontational arena like the NBA.

Retirement has become a natural decision.

Although Dayao's achievements in the NBA are far less than Billups's, his influence is not comparable to Billups. As the first Chinese No. 1 pick in the NBA, Dayao's momentum when he landed in the league was a year later than that of the draft. Wang Chong is much bigger than Wang Chong. This can also be seen from the violent sensation and repercussions caused when Dayao retired.

Dayao also specifically mentioned Wang Chong in his retirement speech.

"Unfortunately, I have never teamed up with Wang Chong in the NBA in my career, otherwise my number of championships may have surpassed Shaq (Yao Shi laughed), but I am very lucky to be able to partner with Wang Chong in the national team and achieve I realized the dream of generations of Chinese basketball players and won the Olympic gold medal! At that time, I felt that my career was perfect enough.

"Thank you, Wang Chong, you are the best, most gifted and talented player I have ever seen. Now it seems that your journey is really star-studded. Although you have retired, I will still pay attention to you. Your performance on the court, come on! You are the pride of our Chinese basketball people!”

Dayao's heartfelt words made thousands of Chinese fans cry.

Suddenly, many fans realized that Dayao, who participated in the 02 draft, only entered the league one season earlier than Wang Chong, who participated in the 03 draft.

Fortunately, although Dayao has retired, they still have Wang Chong! Wang Chong is still playing in the league and has been the league's number one player for many years. Considering that Wang Chong is only 28 years old now and will only be 29 next season, this position may last for a long time. (End of chapter)