Who knows the pain in the small ball market? The popularity of the Thunder s championship has disappeared, and it is not as popular as Durant joining the Rockets

The Thunder finally won the first championship trophy after moving to Oklahoma after decades. Alexander gathered the scoring champions in a single season. First team, the regular season MVP, the Western Conference Finals MVP and the Finals MVP, and directly entered the ranks of superstars.

In order to celebrate this championship trophy, the entire Oklahoma was in a crazy celebration and held a grand championship parade. However, Oklahoma was just a small city with a population of only more than 700,000 people throughout the journey. There was no big scene as the whole city was dispatched. Compared with the Nuggets Warriors and the Lakers' championship parade, the Thunder's championship parade does look a bit shabby, and neither the city street scene nor the parade scene can be compared. What's even more embarrassing is that the Thunder won the championship not long ago, and there is basically no news now.

The Nuggets won the championship quickly and there was no news, but that was because James made a retirement remark at the time, and his popularity was all attracted. On the other hand, the Thunder is because the market is too small, there are really no waves, and there are not many reports on the championship parade. Instead, it was stolen by Alexander's contract with an annual salary of more than 70 million yuan. When Durant announced his joining the Rockets, the news of the Thunder winning the championship almost disappeared, and almost all the attention was predicting the favorites to win the championship in the new season.

Nuggets, Rockets, Thunder, and Warriors are all the top few on the hot search list, and the Thunder mostly just brings a word to defend the champion. This is the helpless pain in the small football market. It does not have much commercial value and does not have much traffic attention. This is also the reason why most stars are willing to go to the Lakers and the Knicks. The commercial value and additional income brought by the big market are much better than those in small cities. In order to retain the stars, many small football markets are unwilling to pay luxury taxes, and most of them are in the dilemma of disintegrating as soon as they win the championship. Harden stayed away from the Thunder because the other party was unwilling to pay more millions.

Fortunately, the Thunder are still taking advantage of the rookie bonus of Jerryn and Chett, and they will still have strong competitiveness in the next two years. In two years, they will really face contract problems.