Many times, the pain of others will make us forget our own pain.
The All-Star Captain Draft, when LeBron couldn't bear to joke about Harden to make a Joke about Durant, he completely forgot that the Lakers were also the losers in the players' trading market for the 2021-22 season.
However, we look at it another way, and the Nets eventually made a trade, exchanging Harden for another Simmons who was regarded as a "giant baby", and even they didn't get the younger Sable and Maxi, the Nets' management, and their brains were squeezed by the door?
Let's pull the long line, in October 2021, Harden refused to renew his contract, everything laid the groundwork, and even earlier, in January 2021, Harden was traded to the Nets, which is a hidden danger, because Harden wants to go to the 76ers more than the Nets, but in the bidding, the Rockets prefer the Nets to the 76ers.
Yes, the beginning of the story is a tragedy, and perhaps the beginning of some tragedies can be turned into the end of comedy, but injuries, luck, destroying the Nets in 2020-21, are also destined to carry the tragedy to the end.
Harden didn't renew his contract or announce the player option for the 2022-23 season, clearly signaling that Grandpa was staying at the Nets for his final season.
The Nets want to fight, and the bike becomes a motorcycle.
ESPN reporter Wernalovsky said in his article, "The Nets want to emulate the Raptors who won Leonard in 2019 — the championship or nothing."
But in fact, the 2019 Raptors are out of print, and no team can be as successful as they are.
Both the Nets and Wonarovsky overlooked the fact that in a season with the Raptors, Leonard didn't have another home, and everyone was watching out for his form, while from 2021 to 2022, the 76ers were always coveting Harden.
I guess Nash's "Harden won't leave" before the deal was genuine, but again, the Nets made the final deal, and it was also sincere.
The Nets' "big gamble" is finally less meaningful, they are sticky, tangled like a prostate, and they want to pee out. On the one hand, they have to consider Durant's mood, on the other hand, they are put up and cannot accept the loss of the regular season.
How did the Raptors gamble in 2019?
Leonard played only 60 games in the regular season that season, 41 wins and 19 losses, a winning percentage of 68.3%, while the 22 games he missed, the Raptors 17-5, a winning percentage of 77.3%. Just by looking at the winning percentage, you can completely draw a conclusion that, at least in the regular season, there is no Leonard's Raptors better.
However, the Raptors gave all their trust to Leonard from management to coaches to players — and of course, it may also be because the media in Toronto is more restrained, not as surprised as the New York media.
The Nets can't, losing a regular season game is the end of the world.
Is Owen going to make a comeback?
What is Harden's state?
When will Durant be back on the court?
I guess in those days, Nash would dream of someone asking him such a question, and he was never able to shout out a word of love as Li Chunjiang.
All the questions point to one answer, the Nets no longer believe that the combination of Durant, Harden and Irving can win the championship in 2022.
To put it another way, I came to that conclusion at the beginning of the season, but no one believed it. It's like last April, when I said the Bucks could win the championship and get sprayed by a bunch of people, the people who walked in the front were always the most painful.
Why can the 2019 Raptors trust Leonard, while the 2022 Nets no longer trust Harden?
Because the Raptors have nothing to lose, the Nets have too many worries.
In the end, the progress of the epidemic has changed everything.
Owen was destined to write into the history of the NBA as a "part-time" because he did not get vaccinated, but as the epidemic changed, the NBA and the entire United States believed that they could not continue in such an environment. Maybe in a few months, they'll give up treatment altogether and Irving will be back on the court.
So the Nets chose another gamble. They believe Irving will come back without any influence, home or away, maybe in the playoffs, and then next season.
Well, the Nets are equal to one more life, even if they lose this season, they will not have nothing, and they can look forward to next season.
The Nets now have to bet on whether there are bullets in the gun. So, do you trust Harden more, or the epidemic policy of the United States?
So when Irving came back and was on the road, the Nets had already made a decision.
Yes, on January 5, 2022, Irving made his first appearance on the court in Indiana, and perhaps no one could predict the future at the time, but it made everything come to an end.
Philosopher Durant summed up the deal, "Everybody got what they wanted." ”
It's very KD.
And finally.
Harden's trade evolved into a permutation of giant babies.
Which giant babies will win the championship in the end?
Maybe, neither.