Curry left the court with tears in his eyes, 40-year-old James shook his head and withdrew from the competition, 35-year-old Harden renewed his contract and played a bad job -- who retired first?

"In the early morning of May 17, 2025, the NBA playoffs completely tore the youth filter of old fans - Curry watched the Warriors get out with a crutch, James was nailed to the post of shame by Edwards' dunk, and Harden just signed a 75 million contract and watched the Nuggets advance. In just three days, the three traffic kings collectively 'get off work', and social media was furious: It turns out that what we are chasing is not basketball, but youth that never returns!"

Curry: Injury smashed the last dance

37-year-old Curry fought a hamstring strain this season, and forced the Warriors to reach the semi-finals from the 11th in the West. The first round tiebreaker scored 19 points in a single quarter, making people dream of "Ku Ritian" in 2018, but after just one game in the Western Conference semi-finals, he was injured and retreated, so he could only watch the Warriors beating by the Timberwolves. The firepower averaged 30 points per game could not fill the lineup loopholes. The Warriors were crushed into pieces by Towns and Gobert in the interior, and there was no reliable scoring point on the bench except Butler. Curry's eyes were red at the post-match press conference: "Watching the sidelines to watch the loss is even more uncomfortable than being overturned by the Cavaliers back then."

James: The 40-year-old man's lonely charge

40-year-old James is desperate to lead the Lakers to the third place in the Western Conference this year. When he met the Timberwolves in the first round, he directly showed his true form - he couldn't defend Edwards' breakthrough and could not withstand Towns' back hit. G5 was so tired that he was so tired that he was breathing heavily when he was holding his knees. The average of 25+9+5 per game looks OK, but the plus or negative value of -12 is at the bottom of the team. What's even more heartbreaking is that he has won 2 wins and 12 losses in the playoffs in the past three years, and being swept has become commonplace. Lakers fans now only ask him not to retire: "Look at one game less, we will admit that we lose!"

Harden: 75 million contract cannot be exchanged for tough battles

After the Clippers lost to the Nuggets in tiebreak, Harden was criticized as a hot search - 2 of 8 shots in the life and death battle and scored 7 points, and the key ball was thrown to Leonard. Although he had just signed a two-year contract with Ballmer, fans have already given him a name: "The god of the regular season, the ghost of the playoffs." G6 scored 28 points in the first round, which made people think he was awakened, but G7 was invisible, which made Westbrook so angry that he smashed the locker room after the game. Now even experts are too lazy to analyze tactics and directly blame them: "Brother Deng is destined to be the boss." After the youth ended, the new king ascended the throne

, the playoffs completely became the world of young people: Alexander led the Thunder to the Western Conference Finals, Edwards killed all over the Timberwolves, and even Halliburton dared to challenge the Knicks. While scolding "the current NBA has no taste", the old fans secretly saved Edwards' dunk James' animated picture...