On April 16, half of the league's first-round eight matchups were played. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Raptors, who are second in the East, and the Pacers, who are seventh in the East, are the first to win the game on the road.

In this game, Paul George made a strong effort in the second half, scoring 33 points and 6 assists, Monta Ellis 15 points and 5 assists, and George Hill 10 points. Solomon Hill, who came off the bench, had 13 points and Myles Turner had 10 points and five blocks.

The Raptors lost a good game and lost home-court advantage.

DeMar DeRozan scored 14 points on just 5-of-19 shooting, and Kyle Lowry didn't do much better, finishing with 11 points and seven assists on just 3-of-13 shooting. Younas Valanciunas had 12 points and 19 rebounds, but was out with six fouls in the fourth quarter. Cory Joseph, who came off the bench, scored 18 points and Patrick Patterson had nine.

This is the first time in the history of the two teams that they have met in the playoffs.

Previously, the Raptors had few chances to make the playoffs, and most of them were out in the first round.

This time, the Raptors qualified in second place in the East and had home-court advantage. Toronto was boiling, not only was the stadium full, but a large number of fans gathered at the Maple Leaf Plaza outside the stadium to watch the live broadcast on the big screen.

However, Lowry and DeRozan deserve to be the "Iron Flower Brothers", and the performance of taking turns to play iron disappointed these excited Raptors fans.

After that, it was the game between the Warriors and the Rockets, and the Warriors, as the leaders of the league, naturally won the game.

Although it was a home game, the Warriors only scored 104 points, and they did not finish the whole effort, because the Rockets, an opponent, could not force the Warriors to go all out.

However, although the game was won, the Warriors fans were not happy.

Because Curry is injured!

At the beginning of the game, Curry was defended by Beverley's "mad dog", and Beverley, who had a lot of small actions and an unclean mouth, quickly annoyed Curry.

The angry Curry and Beverley reasoned, while Beverley was aggressive and showed no weakness, and the two of them almost had to make a move!

Although the farce ended with both men receiving technical fouls, the hot atmosphere and fierce confrontation of the playoffs were vividly displayed.

Curry, who has the highest anger value, is naturally furious, and he repeatedly cuts points against Beverley's strict defense.

Beverley, who was on the other side, saw that his defense was not very effective, and his movements began to get bigger and bigger, and he was fouled one after another. But he's still doing it.

With 1:07 left in the second quarter, the Rockets attacked, and Motai Yunas fell on the run, and after he fell to the ground, sweat made the floor slippery. Curry quickly stepped back and his foot hit the sweaty floor, not only falling to the ground, but also severely straining his right knee.

After Curry fell to the ground, he covered his knee with his hand, his expression was quite painful, and it seemed that he was not lightly injured. Immediately afterwards, he left the field early and returned to the locker room for examination and treatment.

Curry played less than 20 minutes in this game, but he shot 8 of 13, including 5 of 7 three-pointers, and scored 24 points and 7 rebounds! With such an efficient performance, it's no wonder that Beverley desperately tried to defend him.

The Rockets scored just 78 points on the road, giving them a good taste of the Warriors' defensive ability that was overshadowed by ferocious offensive firepower.

The loss of the Rockets is not worth too much attention, and people are more concerned about Curry's injury. As the Warriors' lead, Curry's injury cast a shadow over the Warriors' title defense.

Next up is the Eastern Hawks' away game against the Celtics.

It was a close game, with the Hawks narrowly beating Celtic on the road.

The three of the Hawks scored 20 points, Al Horford had 24 points and 12 rebounds, Jeff Teague had 23 points and 12 assists, and Kent Bazemore had 23 points and 8 rebounds.

On the Celtic side, after falling behind by a large score in the first half, they began to counterattack in the second half under the leadership of Thomas Jr. However, in the end, the big reversal failed, and he lost by 1 point.

It didn't hurt to lose this game, but the team's big man Bradley left the game with an injury in the second half, which was big bad news for the Celtics.

Bradley is averaging a career-high 1.5 steals per game this season, and he's also helped the Celtics rank fourth in the league in defensive efficiency. As the Green Shirts' perimeter defensive gate, he's also one of the offensive cores that head coach Brad Stevens relies on. He averaged 15.2 points per game in the regular season this season, which was also a career high for Bradley.

However, the loss of such an all-round offensive and defensive player by Celtic today is indeed more worrying than losing.

The Hawks and Green have met 11 times in their history in the playoffs, with the Celtics winning 10 times.

The most recent was in the first round in 2012, when the two sides fought to the sixth game, and the Celtics advanced 4-2. In the 2008 championship season for the Celtics, they also eliminated the Hawks 4-3 in the first round.

Four years later, the two sides met again, the Celtics had undergone a rebuild, and the Hawks lineup was not very different. In terms of team strength, the two teams are evenly matched, and judging from the final result, this is indeed the case.

But after Bradley retired from injury and didn't know when he would return, the Celtics' chances of winning the series would certainly be much smaller.

The final matchup on the 16th will be between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Russell Westbrook played three quarters and had 24 points, 11 assists and five rebounds, Kevin Durant also played only three quarters with 23 points, five rebounds and five assists, and Serge Ibaka had 17 points and nine rebounds on 3-of-3 three-point shooting. Inés Kanter, who came off the bench, had 16 points and 13 rebounds.

The Trail Blazers trailed the game and didn't have any chances.

Lillard and McCollum both guns were dumb on the Thunder's home court today, and the Trail Blazers relied on these two people the most, they couldn't play well, and the Trail Blazers naturally struggled.

The Thunder vs. Trail Blazers series is considered by many fans to be one of the most exciting of the league's eight first-round series.

The Trail Blazers have two backcourts as the core, and the existence of others is almost all about making these two play better; And the Thunder can be described as an enhanced version of the Trail Blazers, and the king of Westbrook and Durant is also the dual core of the Thunder, and there are no players who can take charge of it alone.

I thought that the Trail Blazers would be able to surprise everyone like they did in the middle and late stages of the regular season, what a bloody scene of two guns against the king of bombardment!

But I didn't expect the two guns to be directly dumbfired, which was really disappointing.

On April 17, the NBA's post-four series also began.

The first game that started was the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. the Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons shot 15 of 29 three-pointers, and the outside firepower was unexpectedly fierce. Marcus Morris scored 20 points, Cardwell Pope scored 21 points on 4-of-8 three-pointers, Reggie Jackson had 17 points and seven assists, Andre Drummond had 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Tobias Harris had nine points and 10 rebounds.

The Cavaliers are at the top of the East, while the Pistons are only ranked eighth, and there is a certain gap in strength between the two sides, but surprisingly, the Pistons are very tenacious and not afraid of the first place in the East.

The Pistons also lost to the Cavaliers on the road.

Although the Cavaliers took a big 1-0 lead, they did not play the momentum of the Eastern Conference leaders in this game. People didn't see their dominance in the Cavaliers, and compared to the Warriors who tortured their opponents yesterday even after the leader was injured, people began to ridicule James for winning the overall runner-up again this season.

It was the 179th playoff game of James' career, tying Michael Jordan for 17th all-time in NBA history.

In this game, James scored 22 points, 11 assists and 6 rebounds, and his performance cannot be said to be bad, but fans really can't see the dominance in this "thirty-year-old man". In the past two years, he has been able to reach the finals every year, but he is the runner-up every year, and more and more people are sighing that James is also old.

This season, Curry has risen strongly, ready to snatch power over James, the league's No. 1 player.

This season, Yi Feng, a rookie, was born, directly skipping several levels such as rookie, main rotation, main player, star player, etc., and immediately became a popular all-star! In the end, he beat Curry and won the scoring title!

Curry has not yet succeeded in ascending to the throne, and the latest generation of Yi Feng has begun to compete for more right to speak......

Although it is inevitable that a new generation will win over the old, it is still unknown whether James is really willing to do the front wave that was slapped to death on the beach by the back waves.

When he returned to Cleveland, he reorganized the Big Three, which shows his ambitions. Although he lost in the finals last year, it did not dampen his determination to win the first championship in history for Cleveland.

This was followed by the sixth-place Hornets in the East taking on the third-place Heat, who won their first playoff game at home against the Hornets.

The Heat scored 41 points in the first quarter, tying the franchise record for single-quarter points in a playoff game. At the same time, they only had 22 shots, the most efficient in history.

With a rebellious performance in the first quarter, the Heat quickly opened up the gap and successfully maintained the advantage to the end.

Then the war spread to the west, and the first to fight was the Spurs and Mavericks.

The Bull and Horse Wars are generally a match between the Mavericks and the Spurs, but more often it refers to the battle between the two teams in the playoffs.

The battle between cattle and horses has become a familiar term in the NBA in the past ten years, and to some extent, it is even more eye-catching than the matchup between the two giants of the Lakers and the Celtics.

There are many reasons for this.

The high level of tactical literacy of the two teams makes the scene of the duel almost "beautiful".

In addition, the two teams each boast two Hall of Fame-caliber power forwards, Nowitzki and Duncan, and their matchups are always eye-catching.

After entering the 21st century, the two teams have met 6 times in the 2001 Western Conference semifinals (Spurs 4:1 Mavericks), 2003 Western Conference finals (Spurs 4:2 Mavericks, and finally Spurs won the championship), 2006 Western Conference semifinals (Spurs 3:4 Mavericks), 2009 first round (Spurs 1:4 Mavericks), 2010 first round (Spurs 4:2 Mavericks) and 2014 first round (Spurs 4:3 Mavericks), of which the Spurs have a 4-2 advantage.

The best of the best has their own strong players, and although the Mavericks are also a strong team, the Spurs are clearly stronger.

The last playoff meeting between the two teams was the first round of the Western Conference playoffs in 2014, when the Mavericks forced the Spurs to lose the series in Game 7, and the battle of wits between Carlisle and Vicky was also a highlight, as well as Carter's 13-year late killing, and the Spurs after defeating the Mavericks reached the finals and took out the Heat triumvirate to win the championship.

At that time, the Spurs' GDP combination was no longer favorable, and they were all too old to perform, so they must have played a good performance. But the result was that everyone was slapped in the face by them, and although Leonard won the Finals MVP, Duncan's contribution was still indelible.

Two years have passed, and the GDP three veterans have performed tepidly in the regular season, but no one thinks they can't do it, and everyone knows that they are "playing dead".

And the amazing thing is that there is such an old and strong guy in the Mavericks. There are a lot of strange things this season, the young people are particularly fierce, and the old guys are not convinced of the old. The Spurs have the most old guys, and all of them are still old and strong, the Grizzlies still have Carter who is still active on the court, and the Lakers also have Kobe.

Dirk Nowitzki, born June 19, 1978 in Würzburg, Germany, was drafted by the NBA Milwaukee Bucks with the ninth pick in the first round in 1998 and was soon traded to the Dallas Mavericks, where he has played ever since.

Nowitzki was the same year as Kobe, but he was two months older than Kobe. Duncan was born on April 25, 1976, two years older than the two.

By the way, Ginobili was born in 1977, and Carter was the same year as him; Parker, on the other hand, was born in 1982 and is now the youngest in GDP, with the most minutes played by the three.

This season's Nowitzki, who is thirty-seven or eighteen, performed even better than last season, averaging 17.3 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 0.5 steals and 0.4 blocks per game last season, and this season he can contribute 18.3 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 0.7 steals and 0.7 blocks per game!

Although this is not unrelated to Nowitzki's extra minutes of playing time this season, it has to be said that it is a miracle that he can still be in such good competitive form at this age.

In this year's playoffs, the two teams met again, and fans naturally hoped that they would collide with brilliant sparks again. However, after watching the game, they were disappointed.

The Mavericks trailed the whole game, didn't have any chances, and finally lost the game by a score of 75-106.

Nowitzki was the only player on the team to score in double figures, finishing with 18 points and four rebounds, while the other four starters combined for 12 points.

If you want to find a bright spot in this game, the only thing you can find is the matchup between Nowitzki and Duncan. The two exploded with each other for a few minutes in the third quarter, and neither could help the other. However, in the end, both of them lost to time, and their physical strength was not as good as before, and now they are still fighting so highly, and it didn't take long for them to be replaced by their respective coaches out of breath.

The Mavericks shot less than 30 percent from the field, including just 4 of 18 three-pointers. To add insult to injury, they also lost the general Barria!

Barria is the Mavericks' chief playmaker, although he is only 1.8 meters tall, he can also contribute 11 points and 4 assists per game in a season. Now that he has a groin injury and doesn't know when he will return, it is a big blow to the Mavericks.

In the first round of this year's playoffs, the eight-game series, not counting the Los Angeles Derby, which has not yet started, has three injury cases in the first game alone!

Although the intensity of the playoffs is indeed easy to increase the tendency of players to get injured, the playoffs have just begun!

I have to say that this year's playoffs are a bit strange. Those who were injured had nothing to do but consider themselves unlucky. (To be continued.) )