NBA: Magic Johnson opens the season, crowned MOP

Joey did not tell anyone about Anthony's"unexpected call", not even his agent Bill Duffy.

After all, he just thought it was just a"thought" of Guagua who was drunk and not sober.

In the following week, NBA teams gradually began their journey after the All-Star Game.

Basically, by this time, the head coaches of the Eastern and Western teams are"selecting" opponents for their teams' playoffs.

In short, the"playoff ranking" has begun.

For example, the Los Angeles Lakers, who are now ranked tenth in the West, have already passed more than half of the season. No one could have imagined that the Lakers, who were the"Big Four champions" before the season, now have only 25 wins and 29 losses? The

Utah Jazz, who lost the backbone and star player of the team, and the Rockets, who have just completed the reconstruction and established the core of the team, are ranked eighth in the West (30 wins and 24 losses) and ninth (29 wins and 26 losses) respectively.

Therefore, the head coaches and management of the two Western powerhouses, the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder, who are currently ranked in the top two in the West, are already considering their opponents in the first round of the playoffs.

The third-ranked Memphis Grizzlies are only one win away from the second-ranked Thunder, and they are ready to break into the top two at any time.

Especially before February, the Los Angeles Clippers, who had been ranked second and third, were once again hit by injuries because the season was halfway through. First, Griffin missed half a month of games due to a ligament strain, and then the team's sixth man Crawford missed all the games before the All-Star Game in February due to family reasons.

The team's substitute main players Caron Butler and Lamar Odom have not been able to maintain a high attendance rate due to knee injuries...

So the team signed veteran Grant Hill before the All-Star Game in order to make up for the depth of the team's bench.

So before the All-Star Game, the Clippers suffered a wave of 6 consecutive losses, falling from third in the West to fourth. Now the Nuggets and Warriors behind them are eyeing this"opportunity" to jump out of the"lower half" of the playoffs.

The situation in the Eastern Conference regular season is much clearer than that in the West.

The Heat, with 43 wins and 13 losses, lead the league with the Spurs, and officially started their 27-game winning streak with an eight-game winning streak before the All-Star Game. The next tier is the New York Knicks (36 wins and 19 losses) and the Indiana Pacers (35 wins and 19 losses).

The third tier, ranked fourth, fifth and sixth in the Eastern Conference, with a win-loss difference of almost only two wins, are the Brooklyn Nets (32 wins and 19 losses), Chicago Bulls (31 wins and 22 losses), and Boston Celtics (29 wins and 21 losses).

The remaining Atlanta Hawks (22 wins and 29 losses) and Milwaukee Bucks (23 wins and 29 losses) are basically teams that can't even make it into the top ten in the West.

As for the top ten in the East... to be precise, it's the teams outside the top twelve, such as a certain dragon, a certain scholar, a certain strategist... hehe, their team management is already planning how to get one or more first-round draft picks in this summer's draft.

In the last month and a half, the"goals" of NBA teams can be summed up in one sentence - those who want to move up will move up, and those who can't move up will already be looking at next season...

The Heat and Pacers in the East, the Thunder, Spurs, Grizzlies, Clippers and other strong teams in the West, their ultimate goals for this season are very clear, so clear that almost the entire basketball circle believes that the 2013 champion will be born from these teams!

For them, now is the time to"fight with bayonets"!