Legendary star

Chapter 816
"Crazy! Really crazy!"

On April 2013, 4, the Spurs lost to the Timberwolves 17 to 95 at home, thus ending all the regular season games of the 108-58 season with a record of 24 wins and 12 losses, and ended the regular season with a defeat. The Spurs lost today, but as the head coach, Popovich, for some reason, is in a very good mood now.

Looking at his old opponent, Rick Adelman, who is now coaching the Timberwolves, who is a loser, but has a happy face, and Popovich, who is shaking hands and chatting, sat on the sidelines for most of today's game Meng Xu couldn't help but complain.

I don’t know if it’s because of being beaten continuously that Popovich really doesn’t care about the ranking in the regular season, or is he confident enough to think that he can do whatever he wants. Anyway, Popovich this season, in Meng Xu’s opinion, is Abnormalities were revealed everywhere, especially in this wave of operations at the end of the regular season, which Meng Xu couldn't understand at all.

The Spurs have been leading the Western Conference since the start of the new season. Although they were overtaken by the Thunder in the last few games in March, the Spurs still had a chance to come back in the following games. The Spurs, especially Meng Xu also hopes to overtake the Thunder. After all, if they can get the first record in the Western Conference, then after encountering the Thunder in the playoffs, the Spurs will have the home court advantage.

But just as the Thunder was tense up and down and continued to sing all the way, the Spurs' rotation became even more frenzied. The five main players on rotation are routine operations. The time was also controlled below 25 minutes, which caused the Spurs to lose 4 of all 9 games in April, giving up the No. 7 position in the Western Conference to the Thunder.

In the end, after the final round of the regular season, the Thunder ranked first in the Western Conference with a record of 60 wins and 22 losses. Although the Thunder's three minorities disintegrated after losing the finals, but after Kevin Durant and Russell Under the leadership of Bill Westbrook, the Thunder played a better season, and under the leadership of the Shuangjun, the Thunder once again launched an impact on the championship.

The Denver Nuggets can be regarded as the biggest dark horse of the season. After sending away the head star Carmelo Anthony, the Nuggets' performance plummeted. With a record of 57 wins and 25 losses in the Western Conference, you must know that even the Nuggets during the Carmelo Anthony era have never achieved such an outstanding record in the regular season, and this Nuggets team is an All-Star There are no players at the same level. This is a completely civilian team. Although they lack stars, their road to the playoffs is destined to be very bumpy, but the third record in the Western Conference is for the current Nuggets. It was also a result that exceeded psychological expectations by a large margin.

Behind the Nuggets are the Clippers led by Chris Paul and Blake Griffin. Winning 11 more games is enough to make the Clippers fans hold their heads high in front of their rivals in the same city.

After the Clippers, they are the Grizzlies with 56 wins and 26 losses, the Warriors with 47 wins and 35 losses, the Lakers and Rockets with 45 wins and 37 losses. The Lakers this season are undoubtedly the most disappointing team. The Lakers, which formed a luxurious lineup of the Big Five before the start, were in the middle of the season amidst the call of the Lakers championship. They even hovered around tenth in the Western Conference. They almost missed the playoffs this season. After a wave of sprints, the Lakers successfully caught the last train of the playoffs. However, the core of the Lakers, Kobe Bryant, was reimbursed for the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon at the end of the regular season. Kobe's absence also doomed the Lakers. Can't go further in the playoffs.

Unlike the fiercely competitive Western Conference, the Eastern Conference has shown a situation where the Heat are thriving from the beginning of the season. Although the Eastern Conference still continues the tradition of the top three, the records of the Knicks and the Pacers, and the heat between the The gap is simply too great.

Under the leadership of the Big Three, the Heat not only achieved the longest 27-game winning streak in team history this season, but also created the best record in the regular season since the establishment of the Heat with a record of 66 wins and 16 losses. With the support, the call for the Heat to defend their title this season is getting louder.

After the Heat is the Knicks with 54 wins and 28 losses. After trading for Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony, two first-line stars, and hoarding Jason Kidd and Rasheed Wallace , Kenyon Martin, Tyson Chandler, Quentin Richardson and a group of former All-Star players, the Knicks finally got rid of the hat of "pothole" and "mud cannot support the wall". He has made it to the playoffs in two seasons, and is still among the top powers in the East this season. Under the fairly good situation, the NC owner of the Knicks is now shouting the slogan of revenge for the Pacers and aspirations for the championship. If nothing else, the Knicks will meet the Pacers in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Of course, this is on the premise that both the Knicks and the Pacers can eliminate their first-round opponents.

Although after Meng Xu retired, the Pacers lost the ability to compete for the championship, but the Pacers have never fallen out of the top five in the Eastern Conference. Last season, they fought seven games with the final champion, the Heat. The record of the Pacers is also rising steadily. Paul George, who has been confirmed by Larry Bird as the core of the team, has also performed very well this season. Not only was he selected as an All-Star, but he also led the Pacers to the Eastern Conference. Three's record.

The NBA league this season is still showing a situation where the West is strong and the East is weak. The Grizzlies can only rank fifth in the West. If it is in the East, the record of 56 wins and 26 losses is enough to rank second in the East. In addition to the top four in the Eastern Conference, if the other teams are in the West, they will not even be able to make the playoffs. Therefore, in recent seasons, some people have been proposing reforms in the division. What is the North-South division system? There were a lot of proposals to abolish the east-west partition, but David Stern rejected them all.

After all the games in the regular season are over, the matchup and schedule for the first round of the playoffs will be released. The Spurs will face their old rival Los Angeles Lakers in the first round. However, due to Kobe's absence due to injury, the Spurs and There is no suspense in this round of the Lakers series.

　Thank you for the reward for lighting the lamp, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)