Bishop of the Devil

The East and West finals have now entered a fierce stage.

In the West, the Spurs and the Lakers went straight to the tiebreaker. Both sides truly demonstrated the strength of the top players in the West.

Both teams performed poorly last season, but this season they have shown their strength.

The Buccaneers and the Heat's Big Three in the East also reached a tiebreaker. The showdown between Wade and Roy in this series can be said to be the highlight of this Eastern Conference finals.

After the first six games, Wade averaged a terrifying 36 points per game, and Huang Manbaloy was not to be outdone. He averaged 33 points per game, not much behind Wade.

Nowadays, Roy has truly entered his peak period, and his strength is quite terrifying. In this Pirates team, although Milicic is the captain, in terms of popularity and strength, Roy is the leader of the team.

As for Curry and Durant, although they are also quite strong, compared to Roy, they are a bit inferior. If these two people have reached their peak, then it is impossible to win this series. seven.

The tiebreaker of the Western Conference Finals started first. As a result, the Lakers relied on Gasol's outstanding performance and narrowly defeated the Spurs with a score of 89:87 in the away game.

From this score, you can see how intensely these two teams played.

Jimmy Butler, the new player introduced by the Spurs this year, performed extremely well and played a very important role in defending Kobe. In this G7, Kobe only scored 20 points in the end, and his efficiency was not high.

Spurs fans can still accept this result. If they lose this year, they will lose. The Lakers will have to leave many people next year. In this case, can they still win?

In the eyes of Spurs fans, next year will definitely be their Spurs' world.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pirates were slightly better and qualified for the finals.

But although the Pirates advanced, Jordan was actually not happy at all, because this summer the Pirates will face contract renewal issues for three core players.

The first one is DeAndre Jordan, who entered the league in 2008.

In the summer of last season, Jordan gave Durant a maximum salary and Curry a four-year, $52 million contract.

Including Roy's original contract, these three people have almost completely locked up the Pirates' salary space...

Don’t forget that Milicic’s annual salary contract is tens of millions.

Jordan was also selected to the All-Defensive Second Team this season. He averaged 10.9 points, 12.3 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game. He seemed to be no better than Monroe.

But Monroe's defense and intimidation on the court are not at the same level as Jordan.

In this case, even if Jordan does not sign a maximum salary contract, his contract cannot be less than Curry's under normal circumstances.

In any case, it is impossible for Jordan to renew DeAndre Jordan's contract, and he can only watch DeAndre Jordan leave.

The second one is James Harden, and the other one is DeRozan...

Both of these two were selected by Richard in the 2009 draft. It is not impossible for them to stay with the Pirates this summer, but if they stay, the Pirates will face losing everything by the summer of 2013. situation.

At present, the Buccaneers' salary space is locked up by Roy, Durant and Curry. Even if Jordan wants to sign and trade next year, it will not work because they have no salary space to sign Harden and DeRozan.

The current plan, for Jordan, the most cost-effective deal is to sell Harden and DeRozan this summer in exchange for draft picks, and then select high-quality newcomers.

This is what Richard has been doing...

But Jordan himself had no idea about his talent selection vision. Even with draft picks, would he really be able to select reliable newcomers?

The finals are right in front of him, and Jordan doesn't dare to think about these things now. Once upon a time, when Richard left the team, Jordan once felt a sense of relief.

Finally, the Pirates are completely his own, and he can finally fully utilize his talents on the Pirates.

But you don't know that food, rice, oil and salt are expensive when you are not a leader. Now that Jordan is the leader, he only feels that his head has grown several times in the past two years, and there are too many things that need to be dealt with by him.

Everything is difficult to deal with, such as Jordan's contract issue. If Richard were here, I'm afraid Richard would have sold Jordan without hesitation last summer and then selected a new big man in the draft. Strengthen the inside position.

But Jordan doesn't have this kind of ability. He doesn't dare to take such a risk. If he doesn't choose a suitable new inside player, it will definitely affect the overall strength of the Pirates. With the Heat behind them, they may not even be able to make it to the finals. , how to talk about winning the championship.

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Richard is now looking forward to the finals being over and the draft starting so that he can prepare for next season.

On May 31st, the finals officially started.

The Lakers faced the Buccaneers. These two teams can be said to be old rivals in the Finals. In the past five years, these two teams have played against each other four times in the Finals, and the Buccaneers won three of them...

In other words, the Buccaneers' previous four consecutive championships, including three championship trophies, were won by stepping on the bodies of the Lakers.

Now they meet again in the finals. Because the Buccaneers were defeated by the Mavericks last season, there is a lot of suspense in this round of finals.

Although the Lakers' home games are played in Los Angeles, Richard has no interest in going to the game.

On the contrary, Li Bit and Li Jin were clamoring to watch the finals. Tiana had no choice but to take several children to watch this round of finals.

Li Bit is a die-hard fan of Da Ben. His bedroom is covered with posters of Da Ben. His taste is quite unique.

Li Jin is a fan of Chris Paul and Curry...

Richard didn't know why the brothers' tastes were so deviated. They only liked players who had nothing to do with them.

Li Bit cheered for Ben, and Li Jin cheered for Curry. The two children were shouting lively on the sidelines.

In the finals, which lasted nearly half a month, Libitt had the last laugh, and the Lakers finally defeated the Pirates in the tiebreaker.

The reason why the Buccaneers lost to the Mavericks last season was mainly due to the wave of injuries.

Although the Pirates were not that miserable in this season's finals, Jordan's injury this time directly caused the Pirates' inside line to drop by more than one level.

In the end, the Lakers relied on the perfect performance of their generals to win the game with difficulty.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although Richard has left the Pirates for two years now, if the Lakers hadn't performed perfectly in this round of the Finals, I'm afraid they would still be the losers.

The Pirates have had core players injured in the finals for two consecutive years, which is really bad luck...

After failing to win the championship this time, the Pirates' hope of winning the championship will become smaller and smaller in the future.

After the finals, Richard called Kobe, Ben and others to congratulate them on getting a precious championship ring.

Big Ben also stated that after participating in the Lakers' championship parade, he will go to the Lakers to go through the procedures to leave the team, and then join the Clippers.

The Lakers are obviously also having a headache. They just won the championship, and as a result they are facing the tragic situation of Ben leaving the team.

Because Ben has the attributes of a solid combination, he has actually been in pretty good shape in the past two years. Now that he has left the team rashly, where can the Lakers find a replacement...

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On June 21, one week after the finals, the draft that Richard had been longing for finally came as scheduled.

The draft picks Richard has on hand this time are quite shabby, with only the 24th pick and the 37th pick. It can be said that this is the shabbiest draft pick since Richard entered the league.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. Stern sold the Clippers for nothing before, and now he can buy two draft picks. It is actually quite difficult.