Chapter 936: balanced

In January of 2017, Harden’s deal dropped a blockbuster on the otherwise dull NBA market.
Because of the Warriors' success, Li Liang decided to stay with the Kings for at least three years, which caused other teams to lose their desire to compete for the championship in the near future, so the entire market entered a dormant state.
The teams are doing some minor repairs and supplements, and basically no major moves.
The mid-season trading of core players like 95, 04, and 2008 led to a championship-level team trade in one fell swoop, and this has not happened in the past two years.
After all, the appearance of Li Liang has made the entire NBA free market environment worse.
Unexpectedly, in the ordinary January afternoon, the deal between the Rockets and the Celtics shocked everyone.
The Rockets are indeed having difficulties this season, holding the two big players inside and outside, and as a result, they can only linger on the edge of the playoffs in the West.
The investment in Howard proved to be a failure, and Warcraft is no longer the Warcraft that used to be.
The overall environment in the West is so bad that it can't be added. The Rockets see little hope in terms of salary structure, draft picks, and market conditions.
In the summer, the Free Market Rockets signed an Anderson with 20 million yuan. The moment the contract was signed, a junk contract was born.
Affected by Li Liang, the Rockets wanted to renew Harden in advance last year, but Harden refused.
Then, Harden watched the Thunder's eldest and second elder brother step onto the pinnacle of life and won the championship.
It is impossible to say that there is no stimulation for him. It is true that he has not won the championship for one person and one city.
Throughout the summer, Harden was stimulated by his two brothers, and they still wanted to return Harden to the Thunder.
But where does the Thunder still have the capital to exchange Harden back.
Besides, it is impossible for Harden to return to the Thunder to be the third. He is fully capable of winning the regular season MVP.
Seeing that the Rockets have no future and hope, the team lost consecutive games in December.
The relationship between Harden and Howard is getting worse.
The Rockets uniforms have been seeking to trade Howard.
After all, Harden is the future of the team.
As a result, Howard has no team willing to take over.
One is that the contract is too big, and the second is Howard is the expiring contract. If he spends a lot of money on the deal and leaves for a season, then everything is in vain?
Therefore, Howard's contract was not willing to ask for it at all, and the Rockets could only watch as badly in their hands.
Now Harden quit. He, who has always had no temper, filed a trade application with the team in January.
Honestly, once a person loses his temper, a few cows will not be able to pull it back.
For Harden, he actually didn't want to run around, he was not Li Liang.
At the beginning of the Thunder, he said that he can accept the identity of the substitute.
The result was sent away by Presti.
To the Rockets, he quickly took the team out of the quagmire.
And the Houston Strip Club is well-known in the United States, and it feels very suitable to play here.
But the times have changed. As a player, how can you have no ambition, how can you think of always being in one place, sinking on the edge of the playoffs.
Li Liang played a good role model for everyone in the alliance.
The tree moves to die, the human moves to live, and if you have the strength, where can you not play?
Once Harden applied for the transaction, it showed that there was no room for recovery.
And the day after Harden proposed the deal, the Rockets reached an agreement with the Celtics.
This also shows that the Rockets have already had a plan to trade Harden, but they just don't want to execute it.
Once it has to be executed, it works very quickly.
Business belongs to business, and sometimes it is so ruthless.
Thus, Harden was sent from Texas to Massachusetts, to Boston, the holy city of basketball.
For the Celtics, getting Harden means that their reconstruction has taken the final and most critical step.
After sending away the Big Three, in just a few years, the Celtics stood up again.
This season, the Celtics can be described as "the tiger-less monkey king in the mountains" in the east.
After James left, the East can be said to have dim stars, and the Celtics even rushed to the first place in the East when the lineup was not favored.
Thomas, who is 175 in height, almost played an MVP-level performance, averaging 28 points per game, leading the Celtics to lead the Eastern Conference.
But Danny Angie was obviously not satisfied with this temporary soaring.
Once there is a chance to get a real superstar, he does not hesitate.
Unfortunately, the Rockets are not a fool. They don't want Thomas in the trade, even if he averages 28 points per game.
The height of 175 is indeed a flaw.
Without the Celtics team's defense, it would be difficult for Thomas Jr. to perform this year.
The Celtics have lost defensive players like Bradley and new stars like Ingram, but for Harden, these are all worthwhile.
The deal that shocked the league affected not only the Rockets and Celtics, but also balanced the situation in the entire east and west.
Therefore, some media and reporters said that behind this transaction, there is likely to be an alliance's promotion.
After all, the East is really bleak now, and this year's All-Star Game feels impossible to watch.
There are no heavyweight stars in the entire Eastern Conference, all of which are ordinary All-Stars.
What about the west? Durant, James, Li Liang, and Curry, the four most heavyweights all gathered in the west.
The rest of Davis, Harden, Howard, Paul and other players with both strength and popularity are also in the West.
The Eastern Conference includes Irving, Paul George, and DeRozan, with Anthony at most. What do you think about this All-Star Game?
The star is second, and more importantly, the team strength, which is too unbalanced.
Just like the first few years of the 21st century, a Western Conference championship is equivalent to a championship, and the finals are just a cutscene.
The situation where the West is strong and the East is weak has always had a negative impact on the alliance, and the call for abolishing the eastern and western parts of the region has never stopped.
The reason why the east and west regions were first carried out was because the east and west parts of the United States were too large and the transportation was not developed in the early years.
So not only the east and west divisions, but also more detailed divisions of the division.
A major reform of this year's regular season rankings is to cancel the rankings in the Eastern and Western Divisions, and directly rank according to the record.
Because the transportation is too developed now, the United States is a country where you can fly everywhere.
At the same time, due to the change of team address in some competition areas, it has long been meaningless.
For example, the Thunder are in the Northwest Division, because his predecessor is the Seattle SuperSonics, and Seattle is in the northwestern part of the United States.
It is almost equivalent to the location of Kashgar, China.
After moving to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is in the central part of the United States. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is almost equivalent to Wuhan, China.
You divide Wuhan and Kashgar into one district. Is this appropriate?
For multiple reasons, the call for cancellation of the eastern and western parts of the district is particularly loud this year.
Of course, it is very difficult to break the tradition of the East and the West.
Since the partition between the east and the west cannot be broken for the time being, how about doing a little action to balance the east and the west?
This is not the first time the Alliance has done this.
To ensure the balanced development of the entire league through the rules on the surface and the small actions in the dark is also a way of checks and balances.
As a disciple of Stern, Xiao Hua should be well aware of this.
Thus, after 2007, the Celtics once again rose through a deal.
However, this year they want to represent the Eastern Conference to win the championship, I am afraid it is still too early. </div>