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Congratulations to the Clippers! The three-party deal was reached and the new four giants was born, how can other teams play

2:13am, 11 July 2025【Basketball】

As we all know, since the trading market officially opened this summer, the league has produced one major deal after another. Bain joined the Magic 1 for 7, and Durant traded seven parties to join the Rockets to set a record. As one of the favorites to win the Western Conference, the Clippers naturally would not give up this potentially rare opportunity to strengthen. They first renewed their contract with Harden with a 1+1 contract, and then dug out the championship inside lineup from the Bucks, further enhancing the depth of the inside lineup.

But for the Clippers, such strengthening cannot break through the siege in the Wild West. Therefore, in order to seize the window period of Harden's 1+1 contract to compete for the championship, the Clippers' management decided to take a desperate bet and used the main defenders Powell to finalize a three-party trading plan with the Heat and the Jazz. The specific transaction details are as follows:

The Clippers get Collins, the Heat get Powell, and the Jazz get Love + Lee Kyle + the second round pick in 2027. The transaction instantly sparked heated discussions across the Internet. After all, Powell had just played a phenomenal data performance in the Clippers last season. Responsibly speaking, George ran away and Leonard was on the verge of the regular season. The Clippers could stabilize their position in the early and mid-term of the regular season, relying on Powell's crazy performance of stable 20+. Without him, even if Harden had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to make the situation come true.

But he is such a super shooter who averages 21 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game and has a three-point shooting percentage of 41.8%, but he was quickly traded after just reaching the peak of his career. But for Powell, the deal is really cruel. But for the Clippers, their reinforcement plan has just begun.

First of all, the Collins who exchanged Powell is also a quasi-All-Star player with an average of 19+8 per game, and Collins is a player urgently needed by the Clippers at the moment. In the past, the Clippers' fourth position has always been a shortcoming, and Leonard can only top it, which has also caused the latter to have a potential for injury to the latter to a certain extent. Now, Collins' arrival has completely released Leonard, allowing him to return to the most familiar third position and crush his opponent with his body advantage.

Moreover, Collins has teamed up with Trae Young in the past few years, and he has shown his outstanding ability to eat cakes. Now around Harden, this ability will be developed to the extreme. In addition to Zubac and Lopez, the Clippers content next season is truly the strongest in the past few years. Zubac finally doesn't have to fight alone.

In this way, the starting lineup of the Clippers in the new season will most likely be the super four-tiered team of Harden + Leonard + Collins + Zubac, and the offensive firepower is stronger than in any year in the past few seasons. And this is not the case with Bill, who has been in love with the Clippers recently. I really want to congratulate Harden this time. I thought last season was the most promising year, but I didn’t expect that after a year of going around, he ushered in the best opportunity to compete for the championship. How can other teams play?