NBA: I am the god of basketball

Chapter 259 The Cavaliers Want to Form a Super F4?

"Successfully defended the title, the Rockets achieved their second championship, and the Big Three of the Heat were completely defeated!"

"Shoulder to shoulder legend! Wang Chao's sixth championship in his career, five regular season MVPs tied with Michael Jordan, and only one Finals FMVP between him and Jordan."

"Contemporary Jordan, can Wang Chao continue to defend his title and achieve a second three-peat, and surpass Jordan with seven championships to become the real best in history?"

The Rockets' championship has aroused a lot of repercussions in the league, the most important of which is the evaluation of Wang Chao's historical status after reaching the sixth championship in his career.

Although limited by the length of his career, Wang Chao has a lot less honors than Jordan in terms of scoring champion, best team, and best defensive team. The current career total score is just over 2 points, and Wang Chao is currently 31. In terms of age, this score is not high.

There is no other way. In the first two seasons when Wang Chao joined the league, he was a soy sauce bench that could not play games. He wasted a long time. Moreover, he was not too young when he joined the league. He joined the league as a high school student. There is a natural gap between James and Kobe in the league.

But the above are just minor honors. Counting the top ten superstars in history, there are only three honors to measure their historical status, the number of regular season MVP, championship and FMVP.

Wang Chao's honor of five MVPs, six championships, and five FMVPs is definitely qualified to sit on the second hand, especially in the past three seasons when he came to the Rockets. Although he didn't win the championship in the first season, he played a shocking game in the regular season. Averaged 40+8+8 data, averaged a triple-double in the second season to reproduce the Big O miracle, and now in the third season, not only reproduced the average triple-double again, but also won the scoring and rebounding champions at the same time , the king of assists and steals, the level of strength can be called the king of kings!
Such a dominant performance is enough to make Wang Chao rank among the top three in history, and many people even think that even Tiangou Kareem, who was originally ranked second in history, is not as good as Wang Chao.

There are many reasons. First of all, two of Abdul-Jabbar's six regular season MVPs were won before the ABA and NBA merged.

It’s not to say that the honors before the NBA merger are not honors, but the difference in the number of teams and the quality of stars does make it relatively easier to obtain the MVP. In addition, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has won consecutive seasons after the NBA merger The MVP who didn't make it in the playoffs is indeed a little watery.

This is like Chamberlain's record of 100 points in a single game and 50 points per game. Russell's 11 championships sound exaggerated, but the moisture does exist. After all, the average competitive level of the NBA at that time was there. Nate is now playing for the basketball team in Huaguo's urban-rural fringe area, scoring 100 points per game is the same as cutting melons and vegetables.

Therefore, if we analyze it from the most rational perspective, only Michael Jordan can be compared with the current Wang Chao.

Even if Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's MVP honor is not discounted, if the six MVPs are one ahead of Wang Chao, his number of championships will be one less than Wang Chao's, and the number of FMVPs will be three less. No matter how you calculate it, Wang Chao is definitely ahead .

After the Rockets won the championship, fans have been arguing on the Internet about whether Wang Chao's current achievement is the second or third in history. In fact, the main reason is that the fans in the United States do not care about it from the bottom of their hearts. Willing to accept that an overseas star almost monopolizes all the honor and historical status of the NBA.

When these hard and big honors began to be inferior to Wang Chao, some people raised Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's other achievements to suppress Wang Chao. Among them, the most recognized and accepted one is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of scoring champion in history. .

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's career scoring record of [-] points is the highest score in NBA history, and it is also recognized as the record that is least likely to be broken.

At least in the current league, there is no chance for any player to break this scoring record. Even James, who has monopolized all the youngest scoring records, theoretically needs to continue to maintain his current state if he wants to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record. By age 37 or so, is that possible?
It is widely recognized in the world that James' playing depends entirely on his unique super physical fitness, and as he grows older and his physical fitness declines, James' competitive state will also decline rapidly.

Many experts generally believe that James will experience a cliff-like decline after the age of 33, and it is simply impossible to continue to reach the age of 37 at the current MVP level.

Therefore, it seems that no one has a chance to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record.

Of course, Wang Chao, who is a time traveler, knows that the so-called experts and professors are all nonsense. James, a monster, can still average 38+29+8 per game in the league until he is 7 years old. In addition to being affected by the decline, it is still the flying KING!

When James was 38 years and 40 days old, he officially broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of 38387 points.

Moreover, it took James 1411 games to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record, 1560 games less than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 149 games, nearly two seasons, and James also made fewer shots than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar when he broke the record, but he had more free throws .

If it weren't for masks and injuries, the number of games played in the next few years would have decreased, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar might have been able to break Kareem's scoring record at the age of 37.

Although James missed a lot of honors that belonged to him because of Wang Chao, his strength has not been affected in any way, and he has even become stronger than before. After all, there is a mountain like Wang Chao standing in front of him , James also had to force himself to train harder to become stronger, otherwise he could only be beaten by Wang Chao constantly.

Therefore, James is destined to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record in the future, but I am afraid that even this kind of honor that only concerns himself, James will face the situation of being surpassed by Wang Chao.

Wang Chao, who has just reached 33 points in his career, and assuming he averages 30 points per game in the following seasons, will only need six and a half seasons to reach [-] points. [-] years old.

And if Wang Chao works hard and averages 35 points or more per game in the following seasons, he can achieve it at the age of 37.

Of course, it sounds easy. With Wang Chao's current scoring ability, he only needs to increase the number of shots to score more than 35 points per game, and reduce the investment in defense and rebounding appropriately.

But Wang Chao doesn't know if there is a mask problem in this world. If the mask is affected and the season shrinks, he will need more time to achieve this achievement.

Therefore, for Wang Chao, it is quite challenging to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's historical scoring record before James.

It's just that Wang Chao is not interested in this kind of thing now.

So what if he beat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record earlier than James?The assessment of historical status is not measured by who achieved achievements earlier. Besides, James, who joined the league in 03, has played more seasons and games than Wang Chao in 04.

Wang Chao, whose personal honor has already formed a tendency to crush James, does not need to use these to prove that he is stronger than James. In fact, he is now recognized as a stronger player than James. The real No.1 in the league ! ——
After winning the championship, there was naturally a championship parade as usual. The winners wantonly vented their excitement and joy. The entire Houston was empty, and countless fans poured into the streets to welcome the return of the king. The scene was unprecedented.

2013-14赛季随着总决赛干脆利落的四场比赛也正式结束，不过13-14赛季的结束，也就意味着14-15赛季的到来。

The management of all the teams in the league has begun to get busy, preparing for the draft and player renewal transactions after the opening of the free market.

Compared with last year, which was 2013, the summer of 2014 can be described as very lively, because the 14 draft was regarded as the draft year by the league, and the top talented inside player Joel Embiid and forward Andrew Wiggins The top picks in the [-] NBA Draft, besides these two, players including Jabari Parker and Aaron Gordon are also talented stars with high expectations.

The draft is not the only thing that is lively, the 2014 free market is also full of superstars.

The contracts of the Heat's Big Three, James, Wade, and Bosh will expire at the same time, which will definitely cause some competition in the league. In addition to these three, the same superstars whose contracts expire include Carmelo Anthony of the Knicks, Lakers Kobe Bryant of the Pacers, Paul George of the Pacers, DeMarcus Cousins ​​of the Warriors, John Wall of the Wizards and others.

Similarly, high-quality role players like the Rockets, Isaiah Thomas and Chandler Parsons also have their contracts expired, and they are the objects of competition for many teams in the league.

With the opening of the free market, this summer is bound to be very crazy.

June 6, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York.

The NBA Draft 2014 started as scheduled.

The lucky Cavaliers won the No. [-] pick for the third time in four years, and signed center Joel Embiid with the No. [-] pick.

History changed at this moment.

Wang Chao was not surprised that the Cavaliers chose Embiid, because when he learned about this rookie list, he had already discovered that Embiid, who is known as undefeated on Twitter, is very different from the original historical process.

Originally, Embiid suffered two serious foot injuries before he started his career, which caused him to miss his rookie season and second season directly after he landed in the NBA. He didn't finally start playing until the third season.

This situation really scared the 76ers management enough, for fear that Embiid would become Oden's second, and he would never be able to play normally due to injuries.

Fortunately, such worries are superfluous. After Embiid officially landed in the NBA, he quickly showed a superb level inside. He averaged 20+7 per game in the first season, and improved to 23+11 in the second season. This season, he has been able to contribute 27.5 points and 13.6 rebounds per game to the team with a large double-double data.

The future 76ers built a team around Embiid, making the 76ers gradually become a powerful team in the East, and even Embiid later had the ability to compete for the regular season MVP.

Of course, that's all for the future.

The current Embiid should have been affected by the hidden dangers of injuries and the draft pick. He fell from the top pick to the third pick and was selected by the 76ers.

But the time and space where Wang Chao is, perhaps because of the chain reaction of various magical butterfly effects, Embiid has not even suffered a single injury, and is currently a completely healthy player. The draft evaluation is naturally much higher, and he was selected by the Cavaliers. It is also a matter of course to sign.

Just in this way, the butterfly effect happened again. The Cavaliers who selected Embiid, if James returns this summer, they can form a Big Three combination of James + Irving + Embiid.

Even though Embiid is just a first-year rookie, when he is fully healthy, his level is not necessarily worse than Love, who is already the boss of the Timberwolves at this time.

Although Love's statistics have skyrocketed in the two seasons of the Timberwolves, in the final analysis, he is only a player who has only been selected to the best second team twice. In the two seasons when he won the second team, the Timberwolves did not enter In the playoffs, it's all because Love's personal data is better.

It is undeniable that Love has strengths, especially the shooting percentage from outside the three-point line is remarkable. He is the 2.0 version of the Cavaliers, an important inside backbone under James' one-star four-shot system.

But fans who know Love should know that although Love is inside, his real barefoot height is only 2 meters, which is only a little taller than James after wearing shoes, and his wingspan is limited to 03 meters. Its ability to protect the frame.

Embiid is completely different. Even considering the rookie period, that is, the level of combat power is not as good as Love, but Embiid's talent is the top level in the league.

He is 2 meters tall, weighs 13 kilograms, and has a wingspan of 126 meters. Although his athletic ability is slightly worse than that of top inside players such as Howard at his peak, he is still at the top level. More importantly, Embiid has comprehensive skills and touch Soft, with a range that can reach the three-point line. In the first season of his career in the 2-28 season, his three-point shooting percentage can reach 16%. Although it is slightly lower than Love, as an inside center, this three-point shooting percentage is already enough.

While his offensive ability is better than Love, Embiid also has a strong ability to protect the frame under the top height and wingspan.

In the second season of his career, Embiid was selected to the best second team and the best defensive second team.

An Embiid can make up for many of the shortcomings of the Cavaliers in the 2.0 version.

Now, with Irving and Embiid, the Cavaliers will already have the configuration of the Big Three when they sign James back, and then let's take a look at the salary space of the Cavaliers.

On the premise that James joins with an annual salary of 2000 million, the players with relatively large contracts in the Cavaliers are James with 2000 million, Irving with 700 million in the fourth year of his rookie contract, and Embiid with 500 million in the first year of his rookie contract. $500 million for Tristan Thompson and Bennett...and then there's a bunch of lower-paid players.

Can you see what this means?It means that the Cavaliers still have enough salary space to sign a star with an annual salary of around 2000 million.

Rao Wang Chao couldn't help but gasp, the Cavaliers are going to form a super F4 rhythm!

(End of this chapter)