The first thing Nelson Sr. did when he came back was to find Dampier to calm the latter's emotions.

Then in the next game against the Spurs, Dampier returned to the starting line-up and played 26 minutes.

That's also his average minutes per game this season.

The signal sent by this is self-evident, Nelson Sr. completely abandoned Johnson's set.

Johnson's "Rashomon" was also quickly drawn with a terminator.

And the fans seem to have figured it out, since they can all win, then the old Nelson's way of not causing internal turmoil is obviously better.

Johnson's brief coaching journey has come to an end, but he remains the team's assistant coach after the return of Nelson Sr.

The interlude in between didn't affect his standing with the Mavericks either.

After all, except for Dampier, no one else has any opinions, and even Sun Hao and Bodi Loga's data are still rising.

As for Nowitzki, when Kenny Smith questioned Johnson before, he stood up for Johnson.

'No matter what kind of starting lineup we use, we should play better.'

No way, Nowitzki is just that good.

However, it is precisely because of Nowitzki's actions that the second thing that the elder Nelson did after returning was to increase Nowitzki's right to shoot.

The elder Nelson has coached the NBA for so many years, and although he is short-tempered, he still understands these people very well.

You can't wronged the core of the team and not compensate him.

The rest of the Mavericks didn't have much of an opinion either.

And in fact, everyone knows that this is likely to be Nowitzki's MVP season.

Such changes have not affected the pace of the Mavericks, and the team continues to soar.

So at the end of the day, it was more of a wave of episodes that the Mavericks went through during the season.

Nelson Sr. is back, and the episode is over, and it doesn't look like it's going to make much of a difference for the Mavericks.

It's business as usual and the season continues.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is early April.

The regular season of the 2002~2003 season came to an end.

Unlike previous seasons where the playoff rankings were played in the last moments, this season has been much calmer.

In the East, the Wizards are in first place with a 50-32 record.

50 wins in the East, the first time in the history of the NBA's non-shrinking season.

On the one hand, it shows that the overall strength of the East is not strong this season, and on the other hand, it also shows that the strength of several teams in the East is very close.

The Nets are second with 49 wins.

Kidd's pre-season 720° turnaround rehearsal was a successful rehearsal and their record was ...... It's exactly the same as last season.

The Pacers are third in third place with 48 wins, and their tough defense combined with rising strength makes them an opponent that no one in the East wants to face in the playoffs.

The Celtics also have a 48-win record, but are in fourth place due to their win-loss relationship with the Pacers.

The 76ers are in fifth place with 47 wins.

The battle with the Lakers in the Finals two years ago is still vivid, but two years later, Iverson and his 76ers team have changed beyond recognition.

Many of the players from that former team, including Mutombo, have left.

Now this 76ers, Iverson still averages 27.6 points per game, in addition to him, the team's second-in-command is Keith Van Horn, who was a star in the season with Duncan in 1997.

Van Horn is known as the "Bird Successor", who can swing from the second to the fourth position, is quite versatile, and has performed quite well in the first few seasons of the league.

However, he has since suffered an injury and his form has declined, and he is now mediocre with the 76ers.

This position means they will play against the defending champions of the East last season, and the team's prospects are not promising.

The Hornets are also sixth with 47 wins.

The Pistons are seventh with 46 wins.

The Magic won 43 and beat the Bucks with 42 wins to get a playoff spot.

First round matchups on the Eastern side:

Wizards VS Magic, Jordan and one of his hand-picked successors, Maddy, Yao Ming and Maddy, this group of matchups is full of topicality;

Nets vs Pistons, a tough clash between two defensive teams;

Pacers vs. Hornets;

Celtics vs. 76ers;

On the Western side, the Mavericks have the best record in history, 62-20.

Well, the Mavericks have a bit of a weak team history.

But it is precisely because of the weakness that Dallas fans see the strongest Mavericks of all time.

And, their strongest trio.

Nowitzki averaged 26.6 points, 9.7 rebounds and 3 assists in his fifth career while shooting 48 percent from the field and 40 percent from three-point range.

Without a doubt, this is the pinnacle of Nowitzki's career so far.

Sun Hao, in the third year of his career, averaged 23.8 points, 5.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game, shooting 45.9% from the field and 42% from three-point range.

The data of the two has already revealed the potential of the previous OK combination.

Moreover, they also have Bodi Loga.

Bodiloga averaged 15.6 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game while shooting 50% from the field and 35% in three years.

Combined, the three averaged 66 points and 14.2 assists per game!

The Dallas trio, living up to its name!

All of this has made Dallas fans look forward to the team's performance in the playoffs this year.

The Kings are second in the West with 59 wins.

Adelman's Preston's system is still turbulent, and no one dares to underestimate a team that can play seven games against the Lakers.

The Spurs are third in the West with 60 wins.

Q: Why did the Spurs have a better record but only finished third?

A: According to the existing ranking rules, the regional champion will automatically rank in the top two in the division.

Q: Why the top two?

A: Because the Bobcats have not yet entered the league at this time, there are only two divisions in the east and west of the league.

This ranking rule will always be complained about in the future, but the NBA is a business league, and Stern also has to consider playoff ratings.

Take the CBA as an example, if there is no team in the South in the Finals, then the ratings of the Finals will naturally decline.

The NBA is actually the same thing.

The divisions are divided by geography, and if there are no teams from that region in the playoffs, the ratings can be imagined.

You must know that this is not the era of highly developed networks in the future, and this kind of rule is actually very background of the times.

However, it can be seen from this that the strength of the Spurs this season has improved significantly compared to last year.

As Sun Hao and Nowitzki said, the growth of Ginobili and Parker, as well as Stephen Jackson, has made their previously weak outside line stronger, and they no longer have weaknesses.

The historical Spurs also won the championship in this year, and the reason can be seen from this.

The Lakers are fourth with a 52-30 record.

The performance of the Dynasty Lakers this season can be described as a big surprise.

Kobe Bryant's frantic snatch, the intensifying contradictions between the OK combinations, and the sluggish state of the role players.

Such a record has made many people put a big question mark on their four consecutive championships.

However, no one dares to underestimate them in the playoffs, after all, Phil Jackson and the OK combination, these represent strength.

The Timberwolves are fifth with a 51-win record.

Well, Garnett said MMP in his heart at this time.

Last year, the Mavericks swept the first round with 58 tragic incidents, and this season directly PK the first round of the Dynasty Lakers.

Which God has arranged this fate?

The Trail Blazers are in sixth place with a 50-win record.

While everything from the coaching staff to the players looks like they're falling apart, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and "Portland Jail" is still a tough bone to gnaw in the playoffs.

The Jazz are seventh with a 47-win record.

The arrival of Matt Harprin, the growth of Kirilenko, and the spirit of Stockton's "final season" are inspired.

The Jazz are old, but they're still strong.

With a 45-win record, the Warriors beat the Suns to advance to the playoffs.

D'Antoni's arrival was an immediate boost to the Warriors.

It's like this team is tailor-made for him.

And his running is much more thorough than Nelson Sr., and he is the kind of team that really "the lower limit can be very low, and the upper limit can be very high".

Matchups on the Western side:

Lakers vs Timberwolves, Garnett's miserable playoff journey...... again？

Kings vs. Jazz, in the opinion of experts, this is the most suspenseful group in the first round of the West;

Spurs VS Trail Blazers, the Spurs have been avoiding the Trail Blazers for the past two years, but in the end they bumped into it;

Mavericks vs. Warriors, offseason trades, the former Dallas Grass Three, and the matchup between the Run-and-Bomb teams, this is definitely the West, no, it should be the most interesting group in this year's playoffs.

Sun Hao, in fact, didn't expect to face the Warriors in the first round.

But it seems, fate just arranged it.

It's just Nash......

"Steve, he won't blame us, will he?"

As he began to prepare for the playoffs, Nowitzki couldn't help but speak.

Jealous Steve, and they fought in the first round of the playoffs.

That feels...... It's like opening a hotel door and watching your ex-boyfriend and new girlfriend together.

"I can only grieve him."

Sun Hao's words are exactly the same as those at the World Championships.

At the beginning, he wronged Nowitzki for the Chinese team's medal-winning cause, and now for the Mavericks' championship-winning cause, he can only wronged Nash.

Nowitzki nodded, he had thought so in the first place.

There is a gap between the two teams in terms of record and strength, but Nelson Sr. is very cautious.

This caution is also entirely correct.

The Warriors' offense is just like the damage value of their weapons, and it's easy to hit critically.

If you despise them, you may not even know how to die.

And if it gets the best record in team history but is black-eight, the team can be disbanded next season.

Speaking of history, the Mavericks were really blackmailed by the Warriors, and the head coach of the Warriors at that time was Nelson Sr.

……

Before the playoffs began, as in the past, the league announced its first season awards, the Most Improved Award and the Best Head Coach.

It is these two awards that make fans' attention further focus on the group of Mavericks and Warriors.

With 28% of the vote, Arenas beat Matt Hardlin of the Jazz, Tony Parker of the Spurs, and teammate Troy Murphy to win the Most Improved Award!

Warriors owner Chris Cohan is about to wake up laughing from his dreams.

After so many years of sinking, the Warriors are finally showing signs of a comeback.

And he also has to thank Nash for the Kuban old iron.

The Most Improved Award goes to the Warriors, and the best head coach goes to the Mavericks.

Nelson Sr., after leading the Mavericks to a record-breaking record, was successfully elected Head Coach of the Season.

This is his first time in coaching the Mavericks and the fourth in his coaching career.

In this year in history, the Mavericks played the same record as the Spurs, but because of the win-loss relationship with the Spurs, they could only settle for third.

In the end, the best head coach of the year was also won by Popovich.

That year's cow honey can be said to be half dead of anger.

But the addition of Sun Hao has changed history, and Nelson Sr. ushered in the highlight of his Maverick career.

But if he had to add a highlight before the highlight, he would have to completely shatter the sentence that Popovich had said to him two years earlier.

"You can't win the championship the way you do."

The first step he's going to do that is to knock out the Warriors, the team he's created before.

On April 19, the playoffs officially kicked off.

Wizards vs. Magic in the East, Celtics vs. 76ers; The Mavericks vs Warriors in the West, the Lakers vs the Timberwolves started on the first day.

Almost every group of these four games is full of highlights, and it can be said that the audience's attention was attracted from the beginning.

There is a time difference between the east and west of the United States, and the game in the east starts first.

The Celtics and 76ers started first, and they gave all the fans a dose of medicine from the start.

Pierce's god-level data of 40 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists in the opening game!

However, he was unable to lead his team to victory.

Because on the other side, Iverson blasted 55 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists, and his shooting percentage was 21 of 32 shots!

His breakthrough and mid-range after blocking and dismantling were almost missed, completely stunned Gasol and Walker.

It's not as dazzling as it was two years ago, but Iverson's dominance in the East is still there.

Iverson and Pierce have done a good job of warming up for this year's playoffs.

The game between the Wizards and the Magic that followed was even more unexpected.

In terms of strength, the Wizards are obviously stronger than the Magic.

But in this game, Maddy scored 43 points on 15-of-28 shooting, and Jordan was a little unfounded.

And Gordon Girisek, one of the two first-year players the Magic traded Miller for, also scored 22 points and became Maddy's best helper.

In the end, the two teamed up to help the Magic team defeat the Wizards 98-95, giving the opponent a big dismissal.

In fact, if you watch the game, you will find that the sentence in the future is really not deceiving.

Pinnacle Mai, Reasonable Branch, Full Strength Zhan, and Diligence Shark are not just stalks.

Maddie in his peak season really couldn't prevent it, and the Wizards' single defense and bag clamps were all used, but in the end they didn't work.

In fact, in this year in history, Maddie also single-handedly pressed the Pistons to the ground and rubbed them.

Peak Mai is so unreasonable.

The two series in the east are playing vigorously, and then it is the western side.

The Mavericks and Warriors game kicked off at the National Route Center arena in Dallas.

Nash revisited his hometown, and a love-killing drama quietly began. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)