The Western Conference Championship is very clear! The three-legged Nuggets make a fortune in silence, and their strength is comparable to the Rockets Thunder

On July 1, the NBA Western Conference Championship competition was clear, and it became a three-legged team in just one day, but the team that made a fortune in silence was not the King James Lakers and the Golden State Warriors.

The NBA offseason in 2025 highlighted a loud thunder and a small raindrop, without that kind of super shocking sensational trade, but some teams are silently strengthening, such as the Rockets completed 12 operations in half a month, becoming a new favorite for the Western Conference championship. After signing Capela back, grabbing Finney Smith, and taking Durant. The Rockets kept the head coach and left Jabarry Smith and VanVleet at a price that was basically equivalent to a salary cut. Their strength was indeed a bit too strong. There is one of the three poles in the Western Conference next season, and that must be the Rockets. The next two years will also be their best chance to compete for the championship. While Durant can still play, he must bring the championship back to Houston.

Another strong team to compete for the championship is the championship Thunder. The Thunder must be the second part of the three-legged stadium. After all, I just won the championship, and the team has not suffered any damage and can even become stronger. If Thunder is willing, it is not impossible to trade Antetokounmpo with Chet as the main bargaining chip. If this is really the case, Thunder will be very strong.

But the third pole is not James and his Lakers, because the Lakers have not completed any major operations so far, which can only be said to be very embarrassing. The only operation was to remove the middle class. He signed a Lalavia for 12 million in two years. This operation made James want to leave the team. His agent Richie ran out and said that he had to wait and see the Lakers' operations before deciding whether he would leave. He didn't want to do it here for retirement tours. You can imagine that the Lakers' operations made him very dissatisfied.

Of course, it is not Curry and the Warriors, because the Warriors have not done much important operations now. At most, they will keep Kumingga and take him to fight for another year. Kumingga is preparing to trade a $7.9 million qualification offer for free, which will not make them a team that locks in the championship.

So in fact, the real third pole in the West is Jokic and his Nuggets, a team that makes a fortune by quietly making a deal. The Nuggets first used a very cheap and very discounted wonderful operation to quietly exchange for Bruce Brown. A super bench gangster who once played an important role in the Nuggets' 2023 championship.

He signed a one-year minimum salary contract with the team, which really made a lot of money. The Nuggets prescribed the right medicine and achieved key supplements. There was finally someone in the bench, and there was a tough guy. A player who averaged 8 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists last season, earned this salary and returned to the Nuggets at the age of 28. They must have made a lot of money.

In addition, the Nuggets re-taken by Cameron Johnson, a super god pitcher with a shooting percentage of 39%. It has to be said that once these two signings arrived, the Nuggets' core lineup of the five-man group was very strong, and the substitute was much stronger than before with Brown. With this current lineup, the Nuggets are much better than last season.

The most important thing is that they also gave up Westbrook and sent away the people who should be cleaned up, in exchange for two powerful players, and even cut Potter in tears and traded this player with a useless contract. The Nuggets really won. If they had a player like Cameron Johnson last season, they would definitely pass the Thunder. After all, even if Porter played so badly, they would have pushed the Thunder into a desperate situation.

is now replaced by Cameron Johnson, saving 40 million in luxury taxes, signing Brown with a basic salary, clearing Porter and Westbrook, and freeing up a full middle-class 14.1 million space, and even using this contract to continue chasing Aiton. Do you think this Nuggets is the third part of the three-legged team? And it is the team that is more likely to emerge and smash the Thunder and the Rockets.