This year's NBA favorites are considered to be the Lakers and Bucks , they are the two teams with the best performance in the regular season. However, as soon as the playoffs started, the two teams lost one after another, which also revived the suspense of the championship.
as the defending championship Raptors has been ignored, they relied on the Nets 2-0 in the first two games of the first round of the playoffs, so never ignore the heart of a championship. In the first two playoff games, the Raptors scored 238 points in two games and averaged 119 points per game. In the second game, they beat the Nets by 24 points.
Last year's championship was not won by Leonard alone. After the finals MVP left and went to the Clippers, the contract-year "Van Jordan" became a key player in the playoffs. He played in the first two games. He averaged 27 points and 10.5 assists. He made 11 three-pointers and made 11 of 21, and his shooting percentage was nearly 50%. Van Fleet, whose contract is about to expire after the end of this season, took advantage of Leonard's departure to show his progress in the regular season. He averaged 17.6 points, 6.6 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game, changing from the sixth man of the original team to the team's third-leading scorer.
Van Fleet's salary for the 19-20 season was only 9.34 million US dollars, which is almost a cabbage price in this day and age. It would be easy to get an annual salary of 20 million based on his performance. Due to his height and lack of talent, he is not a draft player. When he joined the Raptors in the 16-17 season, his salary was only 540,000 U.S. dollars, and only 1.31 million U.S. dollars in the second year. In the past two years, his salary rose to eight or nine million.
was the best sixth man for the Raptors to win last year's playoffs. He made nearly 40% of his three-pointers. After Leonard and Green left the team this season, he took the starting position. In the first game with the Nets, he scored 8 of 10 3-pointers and scored 30 points and 11 assists. In the second game, he scored 24 points and 10 assists.
In the playoffs this year, the Raptors showed their strong strength. Six of them scored in double figures in the two playoff games. They scored very evenly. Lowry and Siakam were all above 18 points, Ibaka, Powell Davis and Davis are both in double digits, and Gasol, who has experience defensively inside, is also a defensive champion.
Although they currently do not have a superstar like Leonard, the Raptors as a whole will definitely be the Bucks' biggest enemy in the Finals and an opponent that the Lakers can't ignore in the Finals.
