The King sent Halliburton away, does it look like the Bucks gave up Curry? The Lakers are the most arrogant in this regard

In the second game of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, the Pacers defeated the Knicks 114-109 away, leading 2-0 with a big score, only 2 games away from the Finals. The last time the Pacers reached the finals was in the 1999-2000 season, 25 years ago, and they had never won the championship. Now, two records-setting opportunities are in front of you, and it is difficult for the Pacers team not to be excited and excited.

In fact, after the failure to win the championship at the beginning of the century, the Pacers have not yet re-established the team, but both Granger and Paul George stopped in the Eastern Conference Finals. Oladipo is good, but the injury is too severe. Halliburton is most likely to be the one who hopes to lead them to a breakthrough in the end.

And Halliburton was not the Pacers' own draft, but was traded.

Halliburton was selected by the Kings in 2020 with the 12th pick. The Kings at that time should still want to train Halliburton, although there were already Folk, Barnes and Hilder in the team. He was selected for the All-Rookie Team in the rookie season.

However, in the middle of the 2021-2022 season, the King traded Halliburton away. There are two main reasons for the King to send Halliburton away:

First, the King wants an inside line, and the Pacers' Sabonis is really good.

The second is that the defender already has Fox, and in comparison, Halliburton's style is even more incompatible with the team.

So the king used Halliburton as the main bargaining chip and got Sabonis. After the

trade, the Kings won third place in the Western Conference next season and reached the playoffs. Although they were hacked 6 in the first round, they also gave the team hope. The combination of Fox + Sabonis is still OK.

Halliburton is also in the Pacers, with his data and performance improving rapidly. It is also the next season after the trade, Halliburton was selected as the All-Star. The seemingly win-win deal later, there was a differentiation. Halliburton led the Pacers to the playoffs in 2024 and stopped in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Kings missed the playoffs again after being hacked 6 in the playoffs just once, and they later sent Fox away.

Halliburton still has hope to lead the team to the finals.

can only be said that overlapping positions will really kill the team. Coincidentally, when the Warriors had three defenders, Ellis, Curry and Thompson, Ellis and Curry overlapped a bit. At that time, they also wanted an inside line, so they asked the Bucks to choose either Ellis or Curry, and the Warriors wanted Bogut. Unexpectedly, the Bucks chose Ellis, and the story later was that the Warriors took off.

What's even more exaggerated is that the Trail Blazers used to hold the second place, and some people suggested that they choose Michael Jordan, but they refused, saying that we have Drexler, and everyone has heard of the story later. There is no need to worry about the overlapping position of

, you can give it a try. The Lakers are more generous in this matter.

With James, the Lakers have also obtained defenders such as Rondo and Westbrook who have unstable shooting and need the ball, which must have been controversial. There must be some overlaps in

, but they may not be all bad. This won the championship in 2020. Of course, the combination of James + Westbrook was considered a failure later. However, this does not affect the Lakers. Doncic has been brought to you this season. Doncic + James also overlaps, but this is not important. You can try it, what if the effect is good.

It doesn't matter if it's really bad. Anyway, it can be used for both young and old. Sometimes, failure is not scary, if you succeed once, you will make a profit.