Whenever James "needs", the No. 1 pick will always come as promised. Is this all a coincidence?

There is no serious article today, so let's talk about it not very serious. The inspiration for this article was when Fireworks suddenly popped out of my head when I was sleeping at night. Then I couldn't sleep anymore and couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I thought about it. This problem is -

James has always been inseparable from the No. 1 pick in his career, and every time James "needed", the No. 1 pick always comes as promised.

When Zhan Mi saw this, don't rush to criticize me. Let's talk about it first and declare in advance that I am not Zhan Hei, I like James very much.

The first No. 1 pick to be associated with James appeared in 2008.

As we all know, James was the No. 1 pick in 2003, and his debut time was just right. The tactics that David Stern, then president of the league, focused on star-making strategies. To put it bluntly, it was to win stars and let stars drive the market. In 2003, David Stern's star-making strategy suffered a blow.

The God of Basketball Michael Jordan retired for the third time, and the biggest sign in the NBA's history no longer exists. The potential star Kobe, who was promoted in the past few years, was discredited by the Eagles County incident. At this time, he was still playing in high school games, but his popularity has surpassed the Cavaliers, and he has become one of the targets of the league's support. The performance that was strongly supported by

was the best proof of the performance. The best rookie that year was controversial, giving James the best proof. The year before, in 2002, Yao Ming lost to S. in the competition for the best rookie, because the Rockets' record was not as good as the Suns and did not enter the playoffs. In a blink of an eye, by 2003, James' Cavaliers did not enter the playoffs, and Anthony, whose data was equal to James, led the Nuggets into the playoffs, but the best rookie was still given to James.

Of course, if you want to become a qualified sign that the league supports, a small best rookie is nothing. Leading the team to win the championship is the least controversial and the hardest honor. James led the team to the finals in 2007. Although he was swept 0:4 by the Spurs, it turns out that the Cavaliers were just one breath away from the championship. But the problem is that the Cavaliers are a small-scale team, and the city's attraction and salary make them unable to sign ups.

But in February 2008, the Cavaliers reached an important deal with the Bulls, and the Cavaliers paid Larry Hughes, Drew Gooden, Cedric Simmons and Shannon Brown, as well as a 2009 second-round draft pick, and got Ben Wallace and Joe Smith.

At that time, Da Ben was 33 years old and had the last point of his peak. He played 50 games for the Bulls this season, all starting, and averaged 5.1 points, 8.8 rebounds, 3.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.6 blocks in 32 minutes. He is still the all-round guardian of the inside. Joe Smith performed even better, and averaged 11.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game in 22 minutes. He once ranked fourth in the Best Sixth Man selection. Strengthening these two people can be said to be completely aimed at Duncan.

There is no way. Last year in the finals, the Cavaliers were beaten up by Duncan.

The Cavaliers seem to have a lot of chips, but in fact they are all useless. They are all role players. The most important thing is that the Cavaliers also got rid of the big LJ contract, Larry Hughes. This deal can be said to be the Cavaliers' winning, and the Bulls suffered a big loss. Of course, the Bulls didn't care much about that stage, after all, they were all devoted to the No. 1 pick in 2008.

Then at the 2008 lottery conference, the Bulls magically won the No. 1 pick with an ultra-low probability of 1.7%, and chose Chicago local star Derek Ross as he wished. After going to the Cavaliers, Big Ben and Joe Smith were completely destroyed. The Cavaliers were also eliminated by the Celtics in the second round of the playoffs.

The top brother on the list is about to speak after seeing this paragraph. Your paragraph is purely a bad guy. If the Bulls get the No. 1 pick, it means that they are lucky. You just want to say that James is under the secret care of the league to give him a helper, and then give back to the Bulls a No. 1 pick? If you want to do something bad, you have to come up with some strong evidence, which doesn't count at all.

Okay, please remember the three words "lucky", please continue reading.

The next No. 1 pick related to James is in 2011 and 2013.

In 2010, James decided to 1.0 and brought his talent to the South Coast. Old fans who watched the game during that period knew that James had a stalemate with the Cavaliers management at that time, and the Cavaliers owner Gilbert was furious. As a small-scale team, all his assets were basically on James. After James left, the Cavaliers' market value shrank.

But in fact, there is a bug in the matter of James going to the Heat.

At that time, due to salary restrictions, the Heat could not afford James' maximum salary or a contract close to the maximum salary by signing naked. In other words, James wanted to go to the Heat, the only way was to sign first and then exchange, that is, sign a contract with the Cavaliers for the maximum salary first, and then the Cavaliers traded James to the Heat. But the problem is that everyone in the world knows that James is determined to go to the Heat. Therefore, the Heat raised the price and gave the Cavaliers a very cheap trading chip that was very different from James's value..

This made Cavaliers boss Gilbert even more popular. If James could get rich trading chips, the Cavaliers would not have suffered too much. They might have risen even after a few years. However, the Heat have used a few insignificant draft picks to slap the Cavaliers from beginning to end, and even a player refused to give up. James was determined to go to the Heat and constantly used his influence and alliance relationship to put pressure on the Cavaliers' management. He didn't care what chips the Cavaliers could get. As long as he became the Heat, the rest of his brother had nothing to do with me.

During that time, Gilbert and the Cavaliers fans hated James to the extreme. James's classic huge poster was taken off before the Cavaliers' home court. Fans burned James' jersey and played slogans that insulted James at home. Gilbert argued with James in a distance on social media. The former called the latter ungrateful, and the latter called the former a bad character and stingy. Anyway, the scene at that time was ugly. Fans who watched the football from that era should know this.

What's strange is that in the end, James's deal to the Heat was amidst the anger. Now it seems that Gilbert is fighting with James on social media, and helping James to where he wants to go. The most important thing is that Gilbert only got very cheap chips in the end. Why did Gilbert do this? What reason does he have to do this? All of this is full of strong paradoxes.

How much did Gilbert suffer at that time?

Let's take a brief look at the formula for sending James to the Heat in 2010. This deal is the most unfair deal in NBA history. None of them, James' strength at that time is the first player in the league. Let's take a look at what the Cavaliers got back then. The Heat's 2012 draft swap rights, two first round picks in 2013 and 2016, the second round pick in 2011 and 2012, and a trading exception worth $14.5 million. The Heat didn't even give out the entire transaction. This is a naked free sex!

Draft swap rights are just a decoration. Anyone who knows it knows it. In 2011, the Cavaliers selected a Serbian player who did not play in the NBA. In 2012, the Cavaliers selected Jay Claude, and then packaged it with the second round pick Bernard James and the first round No. 24 rookie Cunningham, who won Azubuk and Taylor Zeller.

The first round of 2013 became the 30th pick. The Cavaliers were sold directly to the Lakers without even choosing. Later, they became one of the chips for the Lakers to trade Nash. The 16-year draft pick Cavaliers were useless. At that time, James had returned to the Cavaliers, and this draft pick became one of the chips for trading Love and was given to the Timberwolves.

It can be said that the Heat nominally gave the Cavaliers up to five draft picks, but in fact there is nothing useful. However, the last chip, the trading exception worth 14.5 million, was a miracle of qualitative change.

In order to train Griffin, the Los Angeles Clippers at the time sold Barran Davis, who held a three-year, 42 million LJ contract, but no one was willing to take over. At the critical moment, the Cavaliers stood up and used Mo Williams and Moon, nicknamed Black Moon to get Barran Davis over, and "by the way" he also asked for a Clippers' 2011 first-round draft pick. The difference in the deal was split from the previous 14.5 million trade exception.

Then a miracle happened!

The 2011 lottery conference drew the No. 1 pick with an ultra-low probability of 2.8%, thus choosing Kyrie Irving.

Luck is really good!

Of course, even if I use the No. 1 pick Irving as a bargaining chip and put it into the five draft picks given to the Cavaliers by the Heat, the value is still low in exchange for James, and the miracle happened again!

At the 2013 lottery conference, the Cavaliers once again drew the No. 1 pick with a low probability of 15.6%, but they played it themselves and chose Bennett, the largest single pick in history.

Why has the Cavaliers been so lucky since James left?

Double No. 1 pick + 5 draft picks + 14.5 million trade exceptions, it is a bit reasonable to replace James.

The top brother on the list may be asking, where did the 2012 draft in the middle go?

No, if you give the Cavaliers the No. 1 pick in 2012, the Cavaliers will be the first pick for three consecutive years, and the blind man can see that there are some tricks in it. Moreover, at that time, except for Davis, Davis, the rookies in 2012, all the others are very similar. The Cavaliers got the No. 4 pick and chose Dion West without losing. However, in 2013, only one or two rookies could play, but the Cavaliers didn't play according to common sense and made a Bennett come out.

The paradox of the Cavaliers boss Gilbert mentioned above, and the Cavaliers won the draft in succession in succession. We have every reason to guess that in order to help James join the Heat as he wished, the league secretly promised Gilbert two No. 1 picks. This made Gilbert curse James while enduring disgust and successfully send James to the Heat.

If this conjecture is not valid, or if I am Gilbert, I will send James to other teams. There are more than the Heat in the league. Anyway, they are all strong teams, and others can't find anything wrong with me. Moreover, the chips given by others are not necessarily lower than the five draft picks given by the Heat.

If this conjecture holds true, then the question arises again, why does the league secretly help James?

The reason is very simple. In order to create stars, Kobe, the biggest big name in the league at that time, was already 32 years old and was about to start to decline. The league must re-establish a strong top card. James, who was 25 years old at the time, was the best choice, but the problem is that James has the biggest problem, which is that there is no championship. If you don’t have a championship, why are you talking about whether you are the top card or not? Once James goes to the Heat and forms the Big Three with Wade and Bosh, there is basically no suspense to the championship. The development of the NBA behind is indeed as in the above guess. James entered the Finals four times and completed a small dynasty with two consecutive championships. He himself has truly become the first player in the league and the top star in the league. His personal reputation, popularity and business value have also ushered in explosive growth. After Kobe completely reached the peak, James successfully took over the banner in Kobe's hands.

Do you think this is over?

It's early!

The fourth No. 1 pick to be associated with James was in 2014. Yes, the Cavaliers just won the No. 1 pick the No. 1 pick in 2014 with a super-ultra-low probability of 1.7%, thus choosing Andrew Wiggins. The luck is real, real, and really good! But it should be noted that although this is only one year away, the situation is completely different.

In 2014, James announced his return to the Cavaliers. This is of course a great news for the Cavaliers, but a new question comes again, that is, to find help from James. James' previous success at the Heat confirmed a problem, that is, the so-called "James system" can win the championship, so what is the James system?

To put it bluntly, it is to select teammates around James as the core. Three positions are crucial. First, James needs a striker with extremely high scoring efficiency (Dwyne Wade) to make up for his weakness of his singles ability. At this position, the Cavaliers already have people, that is, Kyrie Irving, and second, James needs a large number of three-point shooters, which is not a problem. Later, the Cavaliers have successively brought Mike Miller, James Jones, JR Smith and others.

The key is this third one. James needs a space-type insider who can shoot at mid- and long distances. He uses his own shooting ability to attract the opponent's squat-type center and free up space for James to break through. This space-type insider is best able to defend and grab rebounds. It is Boshkent's job at the Heat, but the Cavaliers at that time were not such a person.

Not to mention the Cavaliers, there are no few inside players who can meet these conditions in the league. In the end, the Cavaliers focused on Kevin Love of the Timberwolves, but another new problem was born, that is, Love's trading value was too high, and the Cavaliers simply gathered out the right bargaining chips.

So the question is, how high was the transaction value of Love back then?

In the previous season of the Cavaliers, Love averaged 26.1 points, 12.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, and was very comprehensive inside and outside. In the regular season MVP selection of the season, Love ranked tenth. Among the top 10 stars of the season selected by ESPN, Love ranked eighth. In the famous game 2K13, Love scored 89, ranking tenth in the league, second only to Howard in the inside player. In the best team selection at the end of the season, Love entered the second team, second only to Jockin Noah who had cheated that year.

At that time, Love was the superstar in the league ranked around tenth, and he had just reached his peak. He was only 26 years old. Some people always say that Love is a big data brush. The Timberwolves cannot enter the playoffs. The blame cannot be all on Love. In fact, it has a lot to do with the poor operation of the Timberwolves' management back then. He got a bunch of parallel goods, which led to Love having no help for a long time, and he felt dissatisfied with the transaction and leaving the team.

After the Timberwolves failed to persuade him, they could only put Love on the shelves. As soon as Love entered the trading market, it immediately caused crazy snatches from the whole league. At that time, the next ones who had the most hope of getting Love were the Warriors and the Celtics. In order to get Love, the Warriors took out the chips for David Lee + Klay Thompson + Harris Barnes + the first round of picks in 2015, while the Celtics took out the chips for Jeff Green + Salinger + Brandon Bath + No. 6 rookie Smart + 2015 first round picks.

As for the Cavaliers, except for the No. 1 pick Irving in 2011 and the No. 4 Show Dion West in 2012, there was nothing else, and the trading chips were not matched at all. Therefore, no one thought that the Cavaliers could win Love in the end.

Since there are not enough chips, I will add some chips to you. The Cavaliers' first round pick in 2014 won the No. 1 pick with a very low probability of 1.7%, and the transaction value has increased sharply. However, with just one No. 1 pick, I want to exchange for the tenth star in the league. The chips are still a bit thin, far less than the Warriors and Celtics who have made a lot of blood. However, strangely, the Timberwolves still completed the transaction with the Cavaliers and Love airborne Cleveland.

So what did the Timberwolves get in this deal?

This is a three-party deal between the Cavaliers, Timberwolves and the 76ers. The Timberwolves sent Love to the Cavaliers, sending potential rookie, nicknamed "Russian Magician", Alexei Schevid and 3D forward Luke Bamot to the 76ers, thus obtaining the No. 1 pick Wiggins in 2014, Bennett and Sadies Young in 2013.

This transaction is also unequal. At that time, Bennett was the No. 1 pick and averaged only 4 points per game in the rookie season, with offensive efficiency at the bottom of the league. He confirmed the title of the largest single pick in history in one year. He basically had no transaction value. The Timberwolves did not have the patience of the Cavaliers. After playing for a year, they found that they could not do it.

, and Sadies Young scored a career-high 18 points per game in the 76ers last season, but most of his offenses were fast break points. His ball-holding offense, outside shooting and organizational support were his weaknesses. He was a player who was a pity to abandon. The Timberwolves only used Sadies Young to send him to the Nets for half a year, and Kevin Garnett, who was the last in his career.

It can be said that the Timberwolves also had two players in the deal to sell Love, but the only one who was useful to exchange for the Timberwolves was the No. 1 pick.

But strangely, in the 2015 draft, the No. 1 pick was "as expected", "as expected" and "unexpected" and so he chose Anthony Towns.

And we can also conspiracy theory, the 76ers who helped the Cavaliers complete the deal also won the No. 1 pick in 2016...

The last No. 1 pick related to James is the Pelicans in 2020.

In 2018, James came to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers' management's top priority, and he was also looking for helpers for James. They fell in love with Davis, who ranked third in the MVP ranking last season, but the journey of Davis joining the Lakers was more difficult and tortuous than all James' helpers before.

As early as 2017, Unknown was dissatisfied with the signings of general manager David Griffin and threatened to leave, but David Griffin persuaded Unknown to stay. At that time, there was still a trace of affection between the two and did not make things worse. However, since James transferred to the Lakers in 2018 and locked up Unknown as James' potential helper, Unknown suddenly fired his agent who had worked with for seven years and turned to the agency of James' younger brother Ricky Paul.

The decision to change agents of Davis directly exploded in the Pelicans management. After the start of the new season, with the boost from Ricci and Paul, the conflict between Davis and the Pelicans management was rapidly and worse and worse, and it was once irreconcilable. Davis would rather be fined $500,000 at the press conference than to speak out that he forced a deal, and that the only next home is the Lakers, and he would not go anywhere else.

Pelicans' persuasion was invalid and could only put Davis on the shelves. However, because Davis had already told the whole league that he wanted to go to the Lakers, the value of the transaction shrank significantly. Because Davis still had a one-and-a-half contract, all other teams were afraid that after they paid a lot of chips, they only had a one-and-a-half-year-old right to use Davis. Only Celtics general manager Danny Angie was sure to be a good player, saying that except for Tatum, the Pelicans would pick any other person in the team, including Brown, Horford, Smart and other stars.

But when Ricci and Paul learned the news, he immediately spoke on behalf of Davis, saying that Davis only wants to go to the Lakers. Even if any other team gets Davis, Davis will have to leave in a year and a half. When Anji heard this, he became timid and immediately withdrew his offer.

, but the Lakers, who thought they were stable, came up with a very cheap contract. Several role players gathered together and wanted to get the thick eyebrows. Who knew that Pelicans general manager David Griffin was not a soft persimmon. He immediately filed a lawsuit in the league, complaining that the Lakers management and Ricci Paul colluded to suppress the price of the Pelicans. This incident was very big at the time. Almost in the second half of the 2018-2019 season, it occupied the hot search on the front page of the NBA every day.

This incident made people in the NBA office feel embarrassed. They didn't give any accurate letters for half a season. Seeing that the Lakers are becoming more and more proud of their victory, David Griffin was forced to use a secret weapon and explode.

In the second half of the 2018-2019 season, Thick Eyebrow was always DNP and was not allowed to play for a minute without any illness. This resulted in Thick Eyebrow playing only 56 games that season. Not only that, David Griffin also threatened that in the face of the Lakers' "black forces", the Pelicans management will never compromise. It will not be able to play this season, and continue to DNP of Thick Eyebrow next season. Even if Thick Eyebrow is let go in vain, we will admit it! David Griffin knew very well that the trader behind all this was actually James. If James didn't go to the Lakers, Thick Eyebrow wouldn't be determined not to go anywhere except the Lakers.

David Griffin's move received a miraculous effect. James was indeed panicked because James was already 36 years old at that time. If he fought with David Griffin for another year, it would be like wasting his few peaks in a year... James couldn't wait at all.

So James kept putting pressure on the Lakers management, and in the end the Lakers management was forced to put Ingram on the trading list. Other chips include Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, DeAndre Hunter, and the next three first-round picks. This was the only time that the Dark Brow was exchanged for.

But something strange happened again this year. The Pelicans won the No. 1 pick with a 12.5% ​​chance...

Yes, their luck is so good.

The above are all nonsense, and now we are sorting out and summarizing it up.

In James' career, all the teams that gave James key helpers won the No. 1 pick in the second year by arrogance!

For example, the Bulls gave James Big Ben and Joe Smith. The following year, the Bulls won the No. 1 pick with a very low probability of 1.7% and selected Derek Ross. For example, the Cavaliers sent James to the Heat's partners Wade and Bosh as they wished. The following year, the Cavaliers won the No. 1 pick with a very low probability of 2.8% and selected Irving. In the third year, the No. 1 pick with a 15.6% probability, and selected Anthony Bennett.

For example, in 2014, the Timberwolves sent Love to James, the next year, the Timberwolves won the No. 1 pick with a 20.5% chance, and again, for example, in 2019, the Pelicans sent James the Davis Davis, the next year, the Pelicans won the No. 1 pick with a 12.5% ​​chance and selected Zion Williams.

The most bizarre one is the No. 1 pick in 2014. The Cavaliers traded Love's chips, and the Lotto lottery instantly turned into No. 1 pick in seconds. The most bizarre thing is that since the Cleveland Cavaliers were founded in 1970, they won the No. 1 pick in about every sixteen or seventeen years.

When they first established the number, they won the No. 1 pick and chose Austin Kyle. Sixteen years later, they won the No. 1 pick in 1986. They won the No. 1 pick in 2003. However, since James left the Cavaliers in 2010, the Cavaliers' fortune is like a cheat. They won three in four years. The Cavaliers' six No. 1 picks in the league were the first.. How to describe

? Is it true that something is abnormal and there must be a demon or is it just that it is good luck? Could it be all coincidence?

Pang Ling said something in the TV series "Detective Di Renjie", everyone should carefully appreciate it -

The coincidence of coincidence must not be a coincidence.

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