The emperor took turns to my house this year for seven consecutive years. Why has the NBA defended his title become difficult?

With the Celtics being eliminated by the Knicks, the NBA will officially confirm that there will be no teams in succession this year. Regardless of which team in the final win of the Knicks, Pacers, Thunder and Timberwolves, the NBA will produce the seventh championship team in seven years. This also means that the NBA's era of competition for heroes is still continuing.

"The emperor took turns to come to my house this year" The value of Sun Wukong's joke in "Journey to the West" is still increasing. Although it is just a joke, it truly reflects how difficult it is for the NBA to win in a row. From the perspective of bystanders, what is the reason for the difficulty in defending the title?

1. The luxury tax system suppresses team championships, which is definitely one of the reasons for suppressing a team's growth. For example, the Warriors from 2017 to 2019, they can complete the championships and also gain the dividends of Curry's "labor contract" and the advantages of Durant's free franchise. After Curry, Thompson and Green signed super top salaries one after another, the Warriors' salary space began to tilt towards tension.

Thompson left the team, although he reduced the Warriors' total salary to below the second rich line, he also changed direction and removed the Warriors' championship lineup. The fundamental reason why the Warriors failed to complete their three consecutive championships is that the luxury tax is too high.

The luxury tax not only prevented the Warriors from establishing a dynasty, but also allowed teams such as the Nuggets and Celtics to face demolition shortly after winning the championship. Although the luxury tax has ruined the soil for the birth of the dynasty team, it also gives other strong teams the possibility of winning the championship. From the perspective of fans, luxury tax is still beneficial.

2. The defending champion becomes the target and is studied by the opponent in a targeted manner.

Any team wins the championship and becomes the target of public criticism. For other championship teams, studying the defending champion play lineup is the fastest way to win the championship. For example, shortly after the Nuggets won the championship in 2023, each team began to hoard heavy inside and tall wings to target the Nuggets. The Nuggets were eliminated by the Timberwolves in the second round in the second round, and the Timberwolves were able to eliminate the Nuggets because of their larger front line + heavy metal shield center. Shortly after the Celtics won the 2024 championship, the league set off a trend of building a "ultimate five foreigners" lineup. The New York Knicks signed Anunobi and Bridges one after another, and then came to Towns from the Timberwolves trade. Form a New York version of the ultimate five-in-one lineup. The Knicks were able to eliminate the Celtics this year because they studied the Celtics' playing style and lineup thoroughly. Each point can be matched while doing better.

Every team that won the championship in the past six years will be studied like a ox-cut by his opponent Ding shortly after winning the championship. This also leads to every championship team being able to maintain dominance for one year. In this secretless league, it is difficult for any strong team to establish a dynasty.

3. Dynasty teams have at least one unsolvable offensive point

Looking at the history of NBA, several dynasties have this feature. In the Cosmic Brave from 2017 to 19, Durant's singles stand up is unsolvable offensive point. For Kobe and Lakers in 2009-11, Gasol + Bynum + Odom's three-tower tactics are unsolvable offensive points. OK Lakers, who won three consecutive championships at the beginning of this century, O'Neal's strong inside shot was the Lakers' unsolvable offensive point. Going further ahead of the Bulls Dynasty in the 1990s, the basketball god Jordan itself has no solution offensive points.

The advantages of these dynasty teams are only infinitely close to each other but cannot be suppressed. This leads to a little bit of a loss when any opponent faces a dynasty team. And the point that is not bad is this unsolvable offensive point.

The reason why the current team cannot establish a dynasty to complete the title defense is that the team lacks an unsolvable offensive point. Even Jokic, the Denver Nuggets, is only infinitely close to the unsolved offensive point. Infinite closeness but not, the end result is that the Nuggets cannot establish a dynasty.

To sum up, any team wants to establish a dynasty or win consecutive championships in this era. In addition to having enough money to pay taxes, we also have to develop a lineup that is difficult to replicate. Finally, there is a super giant star without solution. It is difficult to meet all three conditions, so it is destined that you can only finish your performance in this era.