The championship is easy for some people, such as Robert Horry who easily wears seven championship rings, but the championship is very difficult for some people, such as the retired Elgin Baylor, Karl Malone, Ewing, Barkley, and Chris Paul, who is second only to James in his current career, Paul still has no chance to win the championship with the Spurs next season, so what about other stars who have struggled for many years but still haven't realized their dreams?
No. 10: DeRozan, the first round of the West last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: almost zero!
DeRozan entered the league in 09 like Curry and Harden, and only had the honor of being the best team for so long, DeRozan joined the Kings for 3 years and $73.7 million this summer, and the Kings failed to make the playoffs last season in the ninth place in the West, and now the Kings have DeRozan, Fox and Sabonis three All-Stars or quasi-All-Stars, and the strength has increased but is still 108,000 miles away from the championship.
Who will stand up in their three key headwinds?
No. 9: Harden, the first round of the Western Conference last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: very small!
There is less and less time left for Harden, Harden just turned 35 years old last month, and there are only two years left to win the championship as a core, and winning the championship after the age of 38 is at most an ordinary rotation role of the team, such a championship has no historical status bonus for Harden, and at present, the Western Nuggets, Thunder, Timberwolves, and Mavericks are gathered, and the Clippers can't rush out at all.
Eighth place: Mitchell, last season's Eastern Conference semifinals, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: very small!
The Cavaliers finished fourth in the East last season, but they lost 4-1 to the Celtics in the playoffs and had no way to fight back.
The knights are still in the same cast, counting on the potential of the interior
No. 7: Butler, the first round of the Eastern Conference last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: very small!
Butler, Adebayo, Tyler Herro, this trio has reached the finals twice, plus the best head coach in the league at the moment, Spostela, the Heat still has hope of becoming a dark horse, it depends on whether the Celtics, Bucks, and Philadelphia 76ers will give them a chance.
No. 6: Lillard, the first round of the Eastern Conference last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: a glimmer of hope!
Last season, the Bucks were third in the East in the regular season, and in the playoffs, Brother Alphabet lost 2:4 to the Indiana Pacers, and now the Bucks are neatly staffed, but the interior center Lopez is about to be 37 years old, and his state has declined a little.
In the absence of the alphabet, Lillard led the team to a loss to the Pacers
Fifth place: Devin Booker, the first round of the West last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: the chance is not small!
The Suns' three offensive players turned out to be paired with a defensive head coach, and the biggest reinforcement of the team this offseason is that the head coach is replaced by Budenholzer, Budenholzer will not consume the main force, and the tactics are not bad, the disadvantage is that the on-court changes are not good, once the situation on the court does not develop in the expected direction, Budenholzer will seem helpless, and at this time it will depend on Durant's strong solution.
Fourth place: Paul George, the first round of the Eastern Conference last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: the chance is not small!
In fact, the 76ers did not make up as much as they imagined, although Paul George belonged to the naked signing, but after all, Philadelphia lost Toharris, who averaged 17 points per game, and there are always people in the Big Three teams who have to make sacrifices, Heat Bosh, Cavaliers Love, Nets Harden, Philadelphia Harden, Clippers Harden, and now Embiid's first core in the team, Maxey's team will be popular in the future, and it is not surprising that George will also face the situation of focusing on defense as 3D.
Embiid holds the ball at the top of the arc, and Paul George stands in the corner?
Third place: Embiid, the first round of the Eastern Conference last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: the chance is not small!
First of all, Embiid has never touched the floor of the Eastern Conference finals, and secondly, Embiid has all the life-and-death battles and closing games in the playoffs, especially the 19, 21, and 23 years of stealing seven performances, Maxey and Paul George have the ability to attack with the ball, if Embiid is still obsessed with holding the ball from the outside as in the past to dominate Maxey and George's position, then this trio will not be able to achieve the goal of 1+1 greater than 2.
Second place: Doncic, last season's Finals, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: the chance is not small!
Last season, the Mavericks defeated the Clippers in the first round, eliminated the Thunder in the second round, and won the favorite Timberwolves in the Western Conference finals.
Klay needs to shoulder the burden of perimeter defense
First place: Westbrook, the first round of the West last season, the probability of winning the championship in the new season: once in a lifetime!
Teams that already have a core with the ball don't need Wei Shao, such as Harden Clippers, Doncic Mavericks, Alexander Thunder, etc., so the only suitable team among these championship teams is the Denver Nuggets.
The Nuggets lost to the Timberwolves 3:4 last season, and Jamal Murray played a disastrous performance in the series, especially in the sixth game of life and death, shooting 4-of-18 from the field and scoring only 10 points.