In the end, Wang Xiao fixed Curry's playing time at 20 minutes.

20 minutes is already quite good playing time for a first-year rookie, more than the Celtics' Garnett, Pierce and others.

Curry scored 16 points in 20 minutes of playing time and performed very well.

The final winner of the game was the Eastern All-Star team led by Wang Xiao.

Relying on Wade's 28 points and 11 assists and James' 25 points and 6 assists, the Eastern All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars 142:140, and Wade, who scored a double-double, also became the MVP of the All-Star Game.

No one except the fans will care about the outcome of the All-Star Weekend, but when the All-Star Weekend is over, the real highlight will begin!

The first is the trade deadline after the All-Star Game.

Before the trade deadline, every team in the league is making large and small transactions to strengthen their teams.

On February 19, the Boston Rockets, New York Knicks and Sacramento Kings conducted a three-way trade involving nine players. The Rockets sent McGrady to New York in exchange for Kings star Kenyon Martin.

Although the Rockets' move broke up the Yao-Mai combination that Chinese fans loved so much, it was also an attempt to secure a spot in the playoffs in the following games.

Wang Xiao's Wizards kept a low profile during this trade event and did not conduct any transactions.

Wang Xiao himself has received offers from many teams, most of which are interested in Curry and Harden. There are also teams that want to get Jamison and Butler, two experienced and capable veterans.

However, the chips they provided were like dealing with beggars. Wang Xiao was not interested at all, so he passed them all.

The only thing that interests him is Haywood's trade application.

The Dallas Mavericks are very interested in Wizards center Haywood and have floated the idea of ​​exchanging a first-round pick and a bench player for Haywood.

Haywood's contract will be renewed at the end of this season. After Haywood returned from injury this season, he averaged 11 points and 8 rebounds in 28 minutes per game. His interior defensive ability is quite good.

Haywood has made it clear before that he wants to sign a big contract, and in Wang Xiao's memory, Haywood seems to have been traded to the Mavericks by the Wizards in another time and space, and signed a 6-year contract with the Mavericks in July 2010.

$55 million contract!

With DeAndre Jordan, Wang Xiao was not prepared to renew Haywood's contract at all, let alone a big contract.

Although the value of the Mavericks' first-round pick is not high, it is better than having Haywood's contract expired and being paid for nothing, right?

However, after careful consideration, Wang Xiao still rejected the deal.

The reason is very simple, the Wizards still cannot do without Haywood in the paint.

Although Jordan and McGee performed well, they were not as good as the experienced Haywood.

The competition after the trade deadline will be more intense, and there will be playoffs after the regular season!

Wang Xiao needs Haywood to lead the charge for the Wizards during this period.

So even if Haywood was to be hired away for nothing in the future and he would not earn anything, Wang Xiao would still have to keep him in the team.

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Before the All-Star Weekend, the league's 30 teams have generally played 50 games. In a normal regular season, each team will play 82 games. After the All-Star Weekend, they will play the next 32 games.

Contest.

These 32 games will determine which 16 teams will participate in the playoffs this season.

Teams with lower record rankings will start to fight for playoff tickets, while teams at the top will not be too comfortable.

Playoff matches are conducted in order of ranking. The team with a better record will have a correspondingly weaker opponent.

In the East, the Cavaliers are far ahead, but the gap between the second-place Wizards and the third-place Magic is not big.

The Magic seem to have gone ahead and regained the second place in the Eastern Conference. In addition to their relatively weaker opponents, Van Gundy has another consideration.

Judging from the current situation, as long as nothing happens, the second and third positions in the Eastern Conference will basically be competed by the Magic and the Wizards. Once they reach the second round of the playoffs, both the Magic and the Wizards will eliminate their opponents.

After that, these two teams will have a life and death knockout match.

If the Magic's record ranks second in the Eastern Conference, then the two teams will still have home and away advantages when they meet in the playoffs.

Van Gundy does not think the Magic will lose when they encounter the Wizards in the playoffs. The playoffs and the regular season are games with completely different rhythms, which are more confrontational and will test the team's defensive ability.

A team like the Wizards that relies on three-point shooting will simply not be able to compete with the Magic's strong defense once their shots are inaccurate in the playoffs.

Didn't the Suns, whose offense was as strong as the previous two years, also fall in the playoffs every year?

However, Van Gundy is used to being cautious in everything. Just in case, there is absolutely no harm in finishing second in the Eastern Conference and maintaining the home court advantage.

But to Van Gundy's surprise, when the All-Star Weekend ended and most teams had an even stronger desire to win, the Wizards still maintained a very high winning rate, constantly using offense and three-pointers to win one game after another.

A game!

After the All-Star weekend, Stephen Curry's condition is getting better and better. It seems that starting in the All-Star game gave him a lot of encouragement and made him quite positive.

In the remaining 7 games in February, Curry averaged 31 points and 6 assists per game. Under the explosive performance of Curry's universe, the Wizards won 6 of the 7 games.

His explosive performance earned him the title of Eastern Conference Player of the Month in February.

As a rookie, Curry was the first among the 10 rookies to be elected Player of the Month. In February when he was elected Player of the Month, Curry averaged 11 three-pointers per game and made 4.8 of them.

The rate is 43.6%.

Currently, the player with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the league is also on the Wizards. It is Mac Miller. He averaged 4.2 three-pointers per game, made 2 of them, and shot 47.6% from the field.

In fact, players who can average a three-point shooting percentage of more than 40% per game basically take less than 5 three-pointers per game.

Curry averages 11 three-pointers per game, but can still maintain an ultra-high shooting percentage of 43.6%. This is already quite incredible.

It only takes a little comparison to understand how incredible it is.

Arenas, who was traded to the Timberwolves by Wang Xiao last year, is still playing for the Timberwolves because he did not have a gun incident. So far in the season, he is averaging 21.3 points per game, averaging 19 shots per game and hitting 7.5 goals.

Hit rate 39.5%.

Warriors guard Monta Ellis, who currently ranks seventh in the scoring list, averages 25.5 points per game and only shoots 44% from the field.

Curry can compete with these guards just by relying on his three-point shooting percentage, which shows how accurate his three-pointers are!

In fact, not only Curry, but the entire Wizards team's three-point shooting percentage is jaw-droppingly high.

From the start of the new season in October to the end of February, the Wizards took an average of 42 three-pointers per game, and were able to hit 16, with a shooting rate of around 38%. This shooting rate ranked second in the league, only

Second to the Phoenix Suns' 41% three-point shooting percentage.

The Suns take half as many three-pointers per game as the Wizards!
Chapter completed!