NBA 2024-2025 Season Opens on the 23rd...Boston's second straight win or the West's counteroffensive
NBA 2024-2025 Season Opens on the 23rd...Boston's second straight win or the West's counteroffensive
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The 2024-2025 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) will begin on the 23rd (Korea Standard Time).
The regular league is an eight-month long run in which 30 teams will play 82 games each until April 2025, and the playoffs and championship game will continue until June.
The opening game of the regular league on the 23rd will be held at 8:30 a.m. between the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves at 11 a.m.
Boston, the winner of last season, is out with center Kristaps Porzingis due to a left ankle injury, but the winning members such as Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown are in good shape.
Ahead of the season's opening, Boston topped the NBA Secretariat's survey of 30 club leaders asking for the championship team with 83 percent of the respondents.
The most recent cases of two consecutive championship games are the Golden State Warriors in 2017 and 2018.
Boston's opener New York acquired All-Star big man Carl Anthony Towns in a trade with Minnesota earlier this month.
Along with the existing Jaylon Brunson, Michal Bridges and Towns' "Big Three" combination, which he recruited during the off-season, will challenge the top.
In addition, the Philadelphia 76ers, who recruited Paul George and built a luxury lineup with Joel Embiid and Tyreece Maxey, are considered formidable players.
In the Western Conference, Oklahoma City Thunder, who ranked first in the regular league last season, and the Dallas Mavericks, who advanced to the championship game, are considered strong teams.
Oklahoma City, led by Shai Gilzer Alexander, who was considered the No. 1 MVP candidate in a survey of the general manager, is determined to relieve the regret of being eliminated in the second round of the playoffs even after ranking first in the regular league last season by reinforcing Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein.
Dallas is ready to unleash its massive firepower by bringing its former Golden State players Clay Thompson to Luca Doncic and Kyrie Irving. It is worrisome that Thompson showed poor performance at exhibition games.
The Denver Nuggets, where Nikola Jokic is alive, and Minnesota, which advanced to the Western Conference finals last season, also deserve to be called the "West Power."
LeBron James, the "King" of the Los Angeles Lakers, is set to share a meal with his son, Bronny James. A scene in which James and his son are both on the court together has already been staged at an exhibition game.
Bronny, who was criticized for his poor performance in the exhibition game, scored 17 points in the game against Golden State on the 19th and played a long time.
Among the teams that were sluggish last season, the San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies attract fans' attention.
In San Antonio, "alien" Victor Wembanyama, who is in his second year, will work with veteran guard Chris Paul.
In addition, in Memphis, Merant, who failed to play properly last season due to disciplinary action and injuries, returned, and I wonder how many opportunities Japanese guard Yuki Kawamura, who is 172 centimeters short, will get to play. 먹튀검증
It remains to be seen how far Stephen Curry, one of the league's best star players, will elevate Golden State, where Thompson left.