The second round of the playoffs started on time.

On May 8, the first game of the two series between the Bulls and the 76ers and the Lakers and the Thunder started one after another.

In the first game, the Bulls encountered the crazy impact of the 76ers, Evans and Da Gasol were very active in the first game, Evans got 29 points, 8 boards and 11 assists, Da Gasol got 18 points, 16 boards and 4 assists, rebounding, and in the playoffs, the Bulls' inner twin towers really couldn't grab Da Gasol.

But Griffin was not played by the Clippers, did not run to the outside to play small forward, followed Malone to learn, and made good use of his strong body and soft feel to play with the face frame, although the back body was not developed, but the strong physical fitness did not jump around, and the game was really good.

If it was Griffin during the Clippers, there was a high probability that he would not be able to deal with the basket guarded by Pau Gasol, but now he scored a game-high 36 points, plus 8 rebounds and 3 assists.

Griffin's offense kept the team at the bottom line, and Rose scored 22 points on a close-range shot after a stellar pick-and-roll tonight, along with 13 assists, to help the Bulls win their first series 101-97 over the 76ers.

The 76ers rushed very fiercely, but Sloan's team has always been steady and not in a hurry, and after the 76ers' momentum was slowly boiled down, the Bulls successfully overtook the score in the final quarter.

At 8 p.m., the Lakers and Thunder game begins.

In terms of the strength of this year's playoffs, the Thunder may not be the opponent of the Mavericks, but it is not easy to say that the Mavericks can scare the Lakers out of a cold sweat, but they may not necessarily have a strength advantage over the Thunder.

But the Thunder were really restrained by James! The Lakers' advantage is too obvious, Kobe Bryant, who averaged 28 points per game in the regular season this season, and James, who averaged 24+7+10 per game, are too inexplicable for the duo!

116-101, the Lakers easily defeated the Thunder to win the first game of the series.

On May 9th, the series between the Heat and the Pacers started first, and in previous years, the Pacers had a huge advantage over the Heat, that is, the inside, even if there was a inside, the Heat still suffered in the face of the Pacers.

But now, Chandler and Josh Smith, paired with Paul and Wade, are flying with pick-and-rolls! In terms of defense, Chandler's defensive end is more comprehensive than Hibbert, Wade, who played only 45 games in the regular season this year, reached the playoffs and performed better than last season.

The Pacers no longer have the same unity as they did in last year's playoffs, and the Heat got off to a good start with a thrilling 94-89 win over the Pacers in their first game.

After this game, fans were ridiculing that Paul could touch the floor of the West and East divisional finals for two consecutive seasons.

After the first game of the first three series of the second round, fans found that there may be a relatively large gap in strength in this year's playoffs, and the Bulls, Heat, and Lakers have all won too steadily!

Seeing the Thunder and Trail Blazers play so fiercely in the first round, who would have thought that the Thunder would have such a big disadvantage against the Lakers?

The Bulls and Heat, while not winning much, appear to be very solid.

The Heat have a player's experience, and the Bulls have a head coach's experience.

On the Pacers' side, Hayward, nicknamed White James, tried to lead the team with his personal ability in this year's playoffs because of many factors in the team, and the old man who played the Nets was okay and full of momentum, but in the face of Josh Smith, who was really comparable to James's physical fitness, he was choked enough, Paul vs. Darren Collison was the same as playing his brother, Chandler and Hibbert were half open, and the Heat still had the advantage.

On the Bulls' side, Sloan's advantage over Doug Greens can be seen from the length of his coaching career, Sloan has experienced the Magic Bird era, the Bulls dynasty, the Lakers dynasty, the Jazz team has always been a strong team, and the blocking offense will never be outdated, Sloan's psychological quality has been honed too steadily by the Zen master, leading the team to steadily press the 76ers.

This has Grizzlies fans worried about their team meeting the Spurs, who had the last laugh in this year's regular season and showed unparalleled dominance in the first round.

It was useless to worry, at 7 p.m. on the 9th, after 2 hours and 27 minutes of game between the Grizzlies and the Spurs, the Spurs easily defeated the Grizzlies 126-111 on their first home court to win their first victory!

Sun Ce scored 32 points, 11 boards and 13 assists, Paul George had 22 points, 4 boards and 5 assists, Klay Thompson scored 19 points, and the three of them combined for 73 points, and the Grizzlies scored 111 points as a team, but were scored 126 points by the Spurs!

The strength advantage is too obvious!

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The second round of the playoffs is in full swing, and the difference in strength between the two sides in the second round is far greater than predicted by the media, fans, and experts before the second round began!

By May 14, the first three games of the four-group series were over.

There were two 3-0s, the Bulls led the 76ers 3-0, the difference in strength was there, the 76ers had two players who played at the level of superstars this season, the Bulls also had it, and the other players, the Bulls were far better than the 76ers.

The 76ers looked like they had a chance every game, and they looked like they were a little bit worse in every game, losing the most of their three games by just 11 points.

However, a little bit of a gap, if you lose, you lose.

Just like the Warriors lost, many people think that the overall strength of the Warriors is actually stronger than the Grizzlies, but they lost to the strongest player, and lost to Klay Thompson's 10 three-pointers in a single game in Game 6, allowing Sun Ce to connect the whole team's offense; In the seventh game, he lost directly to Sun Ce, who scored 25 points in the first half and 22 points in the third quarter.

Evans of the 76ers, compared with the steadily developing Rose, can no longer rely on the size to occupy a significant advantage, the big Gasol frame protection and strategy, rebounding protection is stronger than the Bulls inside, but Griffin's offense played a key role in the defensive battle between the two teams, the two teams did not score more than 100 points in a game, but Griffin averaged 31 points per game in 3 games, and the Bulls couldn't prevent Griffin's strong chisel and Rose's blocking offense at all.

The Heat led the Pacers 2-1, and the Pacers snatched home-court advantage away from home on the road for the second, but the Heat quickly snatched home-court advantage back when they arrived on the road.

The Lakers led the Thunder 2-1, Durant averaged 34 points per game, 51 percent shooting, and it was Westbrook who was restrained, facing James's defense, and it was James's defense who lowered his weight to 120 kilograms, Westbrook's average of 23.3 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.3 assists per game looked beautiful, but the shooting rate was 35 percent, and he averaged 5 turnovers per game.

If it weren't for Durant's career-high 46 points in regulation time in Game 3 and a buzzer-beating three-pointer to send the game into overtime, the Thunder might have trailed 3-0.

But in overtime, Westbrook was amazing, the two teams tied at 105 in the third regular time, Westbrook got 12 points, 12 boards and 9 assists in regular time, and the shooting rate was 3 of 15 shots, but in overtime, Westbrook led the way, scoring 10 points on 4 of 5 shots, and also sent an assist to Adams to receive an empty catch, which helped the Thunder play a wave of 12-8, and the Thunder narrowly defeated the Lakers 117-113 and kept the first home court.

But Durant soared more than 40 points, played in the playoffs for 3 years, and Durant was only 40+ for the third time, Thunder fans can't expect Durant to score so high points every game, Durant scores 30 points per game steadily, and plays the role of pulling the ball and throwing the pot ball and the key ball, which is the best way to use it.

The other group is 3-0, which is the Spurs vs. the Grizzlies.

The Spurs won the first game by 15 points, the second by 4 points, and the third game when the Spurs arrived on the road and won by 18 points.

Sun Ce played three games, got 30+ triple-doubles in the first game, 39 points in the second game, and rested after playing 22 points in the third quarter, trailing by 23 points in the third quarter......

The interior is educated to death, Duncan averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds per game in this round of the series, which doesn't look very good, but he plays 35 minutes per game, and the Spurs average 23 points per game!

By May 15, the three best teams were announced.

The All-Rookie Team was led by McCarvey, with Oladipo, Trey Burke, Mason Plumlee, and Antetokounmpo selected for the Rookie First Team.

In the rookie team, only McCarvey averaged more than 15 points per game, and there were only three who averaged more than 10 points per game, except for McCarvey, only Oladipo and Trey Burke, and the other two, Plumlee averaged 7 points and 7 boards per game, and Antetokounmpo averaged 8 points, 4 boards and 2 assists per game.

The rookie second team consists of Olynyk, Dieng, Adams, Cody Zeller, and Hardaway Jr.

Hardaway Jr. played in 58 games this season, averaging 5.5 points, 0.5 rebounds and 1 assist per game, and was selected to the rookie second team.

The worst rookie in history was born, and the last time Hardaway Jr. was selected to the rookie second team with such statistics, it was still the rookie class of 2000, and Siddo Turkoglou averaged 5 points per game to be selected to the rookie second team, but only from the rookie year, the rookie class of 2000 was better than the class of 2013.

In terms of the best team, Paul, Rose, Sun Ce, James, and Pau Gasol were selected for the first lineup.

Evans, Curry, Harden, Griffin, Love, Durant, and Al Jefferson were named to the second team.

Curry and Harden had the same vote, and Durant was also very good, so he played in the early 50s, and was selected for the second team by virtue of these 50 outstanding performances, and the number of votes was the same as that of Lefou, who averaged 26 points, 13.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game in 72 games.

Dragic, Lillard, Paul George, Hayward, Aldridge, Duncan, Howard were named to the three-team.

Hayward and Paul George were on the same ticket, and Duncan actually made the All-Star team again, with the same number of votes as Howard at the center position!

Fans complained wildly when they saw the announcement of the best team, and after 17 years of going around together, the strongest player of the Spurs is still Duncan!

In terms of the best defensive team, Paul, Iguodala, Paul George, Ibaka and Noah were selected for the first team.

Sun Ce, Jimmy Butler, Leonard, Duncan, and Chandler were selected for the second defense.

Sun Ce beat Wall to be selected for the second defense, and was selected for the best defensive team for four consecutive years, and some people believe that it is the subjective consciousness of the coaches of each team that has played an impact, so that Sun Ce has suppressed James and Wall, who were placed in the point guard position.

On May 16, the NBA held a draft lottery ceremony.

The Clippers won the No. 1 pick, the Bucks won the No. 1 pick, and the Magic won the No. 1 pick.

The Rockets were unlucky to get the top pick in the draft, and the draft year was so completely rotten that the Clippers failed to get the first pick, and they didn't get the second and third picks, only got the No. 4 pick.

The Suns got the No. 5 pick, the Celtics No. 6, the Kings No. 7, the Pistons No. 8, the Nuggets No. 9, the Cavaliers No. 10, the Hornets No. 11, the Wizards No. 12, the Timberwolves No. 13, and the Pelicans No. 14.

Since the league was going to sell the Clippers, many people guessed that the Clippers would take the top pick at the beginning, although the Clippers had the worst record and the probability of getting the top pick was the first, but there were still conspiracy theories.

The reason is quite simple, the Timberwolves have been bad for so many years before, and they have not won a single championship sign.

On May 17th, the Grizzlies' second home court, with Sun Ce's 29 points, 11 boards and 13 assists, Klay Thompson's 24 points, and Paul George's 28 points, 7 boards and 7 assists, the Grizzlies team played desperately to win a game, and finally relied on the three outside lines to cut 80+, driving the team's offense, narrowly defeating the Spurs 121-116, chasing the big score to 1-3 and maintaining dignity.

But on May 19, the home and away teams alternated, and the Grizzlies couldn't hold on, losing 91-115 to the Spurs and 1-4 out!

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When the final whistle blew, Sun Ce looked at the 1-4 score, and looked at Guy who was excitedly swinging his fist on the opposite side, Sun Ce was very weak.

This year, I really felt a lot of very powerless moments.

There's no way around this series! Sun Ce felt the powerlessness of James meeting the Spurs in the Finals in the original time and space.

I don't know what to do to win!

The difference in strength is too big!

This time it's a convincing loss!

Looking at Guy, who averaged 20.4 points per game in the opposite series, Duncan, who averaged 17 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 3.6 blocks per game, Ginobili who averaged 19 points per game, Parker who averaged 14 points and 9 assists per game, and Danny Green, who averaged 4 three-pointers per game......

The key is to maintain the ability in Duncan's state, with Guy who is stronger than Leonard in the original time and space for two years, Duncan can play more easily, next season, maybe even next season, the Spurs are still one of the strongest opponents!

In addition to the Spurs, there is another bug in the West, the Kojan combo!

Last night, the Lakers almost slaughtered the Thunder by 30 points at 122-93 and easily advanced with a score of 4-1.

In the regular season, I felt that these two teams were powerful, but in the playoffs, the Spurs, who really entered their heyday, and the Lakers, who James replaced Paul seamlessly, became stronger!

With James' form maintained, Kobe Bryant's reduced consumption as a pitcher, Leonard getting better and better, limiting Durant to just 19 points on 7-of-20 shooting in Game 4 of the series, and countless high-quality role players who hugged Kojan's thighs......

Sun Ce looked at his teammates with extremely complicated feelings.

In this round of the series, not only his grandson, but the whole team lost convincingly, the other party is indeed strong, they have the best state of the two bears, maybe they can fight, but they pointed to the outside trio, and were defeated by the other party.

Silent...... When the final whistle blew, Sun Ce and his teammates watched each other celebrate for a while and began to leave the field.

Sun Ce led Klay Thompson and Paul George, put one hand on one of their shoulders, and didn't say anything, and the two patted the back of Sun Ce's hand hanging on their chests in unison.

This small action represents unwillingness, but it also represents many other complex thoughts......

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The Grizzlies are out!

This sparked a heated discussion among the fans, because the Spurs showed so much dominance.

The NBA playoffs will not stop because the Grizzlies are gone, but because the Grizzlies are out, the topic of the Lake-Horse War will become higher!

The Lakers played super dominance in the second round against Dewey and the Grizzlies, who were not yet in their prime, and the Spurs also played unparalleled dominance in the second round against the Grizzlies, who were weak inside.

And the Thunder and Grizzlies, neither weak!

The two teams that crushed the two teams will face each other in the Western Conference Finals......

More than ten years have passed, and it is still Kobe and Duncan who are playing in the West, and the teams they are on seem to have just entered the period of full victory, Duncan is still the strongest player on the Spurs, and Kobe is still the second strongest player on the Lakers, just like at the beginning of the century!

After the Western Conference playoffs last year, people thought that the older generation of players was going to start fading out of the league, but the Spurs got stronger, and the Lakers got James and got stronger.

These two teams, who are almost invincible after entering the playoffs, meet in the Western Conference Finals, and the topic is bursting!

On May 22, the Heat defeated the Pacers 4-2 and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, and Paul successfully touched the floor of the Western and Eastern divisional finals for two consecutive years!

The Heat will play the Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals, and after beating Evans, will Rose be able to beat Paul to become the No. 1 point guard in the East? The two have occupied two places in the back line this year, which is also very interesting.

For the Grizzlies team did not be able to continue, there were many fans regretted at the beginning, but in addition to the Grizzlies fans and the fans who were just individual Grizzlies players, the eyes of other fans came and went quickly, just like the Grizzlies stole attention back then, and other teams also stole attention after killing the Grizzlies.

At this time, the Grizzlies, whose popularity had dropped, had already started operations on the second day of elimination.

First of all, there is the clearing of salary space!

With Gasol Jr. traded back to just over $8 million, the Grizzlies already have a chance to reduce their specific salary to below the salary cap next season.

This season's salary cap is 68 million, according to the forecast, it may reach 71 million next season, Sun Ce's income increase to the NBA is visible to the naked eye, and the salary cap increase that has been stagnant for a year or two has begun to flourish again after Sun Ce joined.

Just as the Eastern and Western Division finals were about to begin, there was unfavorable news about the Clippers' acquisition.