Chapter 992: Falling into the Dark World and the Light of Hope in the Darkness!
After beating the Nets in New Jersey, the Seattle SuperSonics continued their Eastern Conference road trip with a 31-game winning streak.
January 1, 2010.
There is no holiday in the NBA on this year's New Year's Day, and under David Stern's recent reform this year, the four fixed battles of the Christmas War have become more and more successful, and after the successful reform of the Christmas War, as an ambitious 'careerist', how could David Stern let go of this big meal on New Year's Day.
The current NBA is really much less than in the past because the league strictly controls large-scale revenge actions between players, so the personal grievances between players are really much less than in the past.
Although on the court, it is very dirty to play malicious actions, there is no doubt that the mutual dirtiness between players can sometimes increase the grievances and anger between the two players, and the team will also make the game more intense and interesting.
However, man is a very cheap animal.
Today you yin me by 1 point, tomorrow I will take two points to retaliate back, and the day after tomorrow he will come back with three points of revenge.
The grievances are getting deeper and deeper, and the game is getting more and more intense, but if it is not controlled, the NBA will continue like this, and sooner or later no one will play.
And before anyone plays, those offensive players who can bring huge benefits to the NBA will be wiped out by that group of defensive veterans.
At that time, before the NBA is finished, there will definitely be only a group of guys left who fight well and black methods, as for those who play well and speak well, most of them are probably crippled, even if there are no crippled people left, I am afraid there is no way to improve their basketball skills, make their playing better and sound better, but give up all this to study how black people are yin.
So, David Stern sometimes misses the fierce basketball of the 90s.
But David Stern never regretted that he personally killed the intense basketball he missed.
Because he knew very well that basketball in those days was not the future of the NBA.
Although it is not the future of the NBA to know that it will only lead the NBA to negative intensity, basketball is not the future, but there are two sides to everything, and there is still merit in the intensity and confrontation of basketball at that time.
The prohibition of players to retaliate against each other on the court minimizes the players' personal grievances, and David Stern is reluctant to let go of the once fierce basketball.
Eventually, David Stern came up with something else.
That is, private grievances are abandoned, but a public contradiction can be created.
That is to artificially create some special games, so that the players feel that such games are special, they must strive for victory, and winning such a game can also bring huge benefits.
The current Christmas War and the New Year's Day War are the product of David Stern's philosophy.
The Christmas War was a success.
But the New Year's War was not so successful.
Therefore, New Year's Day always stops from time to time.
Last year's NBA New Year's Day game was suspended.
However, there is no way to do it, how many years has the Christmas war been inherited.
The Christmas War is a regular season with a special significance, and the Christmas War has gone beyond the regular season.
But the New Year's Day battle was different.
Maybe it's fresh for the first time, and everyone will really want to believe that the New Year's Day war is also special.
But over time, everyone will find out, isn't the New Year's Day game still an ordinary regular season?
In an ordinary regular season, why should I work so hard?
82 games in one season!
If Ye Si punched Arenas in the last fight, when the two meet in the next match, Arenas will definitely be far more desperate than Arenas and Ye Si will meet on New Year's Day.
David Stern's reform of the New Year's Day War was not so successful, but it can also be seen from the intermittent pauses of the New Year's Day War that David Stern is really not giving up.
If the NBA can create another Christmas game, it will not only give players another place to settle their grievances, but also add fierce competition to the NBA.
The same is the pressure on other professional leagues in the United States.
David Stern's ambition is to make the NBA the No. 1 professional league, and as the No. 1 professional league, it would be an absolute lie to say that David Stern didn't think about testing the waters for the NCAA Finals Day and the NFL's Thanksgiving battle.
If the New Year's Day battle can be successful, many people can be sure that David Stern's next step is to support the Thanksgiving Day battle, and then the next step will be to launch the NCAA Finals Day battle.
In order to realize his ambitions, David Stern was unwilling to give up the New Year's Day, and the New Year's Day war was a pity for David Stern to abandon the chicken ribs.
But for the players in the NBA, especially for the model teams that played the Christmas War, it was really painful.
The whole world knows that the period from Christmas to New Year's Day in the United States is equivalent to the Chinese New Year holiday.
During this time, the Christmas war and the New Year's Day war were fought, which was equivalent to working overtime on Chinese New Year's Eve in China, and the first day of junior high school had to be added.
If there is no way to rest during the Spring Festival holiday Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year, is it still the Spring Festival?
Everyone can actually endure the Christmas game, which is indeed the dream of many players when they were young and did not enter the NBA.
But the New Year's Day war......
This is really full of complaints.
In this year's New Year's Day matchup, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Wizards are the focus of the four games.
It stands to reason that the Wizards have not played this season's Christmas game, and the Wizards should be the more combative side.
As for the supersonics, as a Christmas war, they continued to work overtime during the 'Spring Festival', and they should be very physically and mentally exhausted.
However, when the game between the SuperSonics and the Wizards began, many people were surprised to find out.
The Wizards' morale is quite sluggish.
On the contrary, they have been working overtime, playing all the time, and recently they have been playing away from Seattle, and the fighting spirit of the Seattle SuperSonics has been quite strong.
In the face of Arenas, an unknown team with unknowns, Yees and the SuperSonics still have basic vigilance.
After all, the Wizards and the Nets are really different.
But winning this game did make Yes and the SuperSonics feel a little unbelievably easy.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, there was no suspense in the game.
At the end of the third quarter, the SuperSonics led by 20 points, and the fourth quarter began to play less than halfway, and the supersonic rotation led by James Harden and Gasol Jr. was completely turning the fourth quarter into garbage time.
If it weren't for the lack of time, this game could have been imagined as another fifty-eight.
"The Wizards are a little sad in this game, which is not at all like the style of the Wizards in the past."
Sitting on the bench and watching James Harden and Gasol Jr. abuse Ding Jinhui and their substitutes for the Wizards, Yes's brow was furrowed.
It's not just his teammates around him who can see it.
Of course he saw it.
Tonight's wizards are very sad, this is indeed abnormal.
Because the boss of the Wizards is Arenas, the Wizards have always been in the minds of Yees, supersonic players and even the world, and they are the kind of disobedient character that I can't help but die.
Not to mention the strength, Arenas and his wizards have never served anyone, nor have they ever disarmed.
But tonight......
The Seattle SuperSonics comfortably defeated the Arenas-led Wizards 150-112 in Washington.
The ease with which the victory in this game was unexpected by neither Yees nor the SuperSonics.
And what Ye Si didn't expect was that after the game, Arenas did not hook up with him as before, but hugged him and walked into the players' tunnel with his head down.
"He's fine."
Seeing the concerned look on Ye Si's face, Sun Yue shook his head with a wry smile, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"Gilbert has been in a bad mood lately, and the fact that the Heat traded Garnett and Pierce has hit him hard."
Hit by that big trade from the Heat......
Ye Si was a little surprised when he heard Sun Yue say this.
In fact, after the Heat's big deal was completed, many teams were actually hit.
In the past, when the Celtics Big Three were formed, the Heat Big Five were formed, the Lakers F6 and the SuperSonics Six were formed, there were calls for the NBA to enter the finale in the league.
But these calls, in fact, in addition to the hype of media reporters, are more ridicule and sarcasm.
In fact, not all teams automatically surrender when facing these teams.
Especially those strong teams, they don't really feel that the NBA has entered the finale.
But this time......
Pierce and Garnett went to the Heat, which is really unbelievable.
You know, Garnett and Pierce were the leaders of the Yao team at the All-Star last season!
Garnett and Pierce's status in the league over the years is really unusual.
Let's talk about the results of this year's All-Star voting so far.
The top four at the forward position in the East, the first is James, the second is Garnett, the third is Pierce, and the fourth is Bosh, and the top four in the East are all in the Heat.
This is the result of the All-Star vote before the big deal is completed, which means that in this deal, the Heat have collected all the best forwards in the entire East into their own hands.
The teams in the East are already weak.
The quality and quality of the stars of the Eastern teams are not very strong.
Now that the Heat have made such a team, how much will the other teams in the East suffer.
This simply extinguishes the illusions of all Eastern teams.
No kidding, any Eastern Conference team sees the Heat lineup, if you TM still dare to say that you still dream, it must have a problem with your brain.
Dream?
In front of a lineup like the Heat, you TM are also worthy of talking about dreams?
Have you ever dreamed of it?
Yees has been hearing a lot lately about Eastern Conference teams after the Heat trade was completed.
More than one or two of them said the eastern powerhouse.
"I knew it was bad at the beginning of the season!"
"Heat, this is not going to let people live!"
"This season is still a hair, brush the data, brush the data, and put it badly, anyway, this season's NBA has nothing to do with the Eastern team!"
Hearing such a voice from an Eastern team, Yes was not very surprised.
How could any normal person be indifferent in the face of such a Big Mac-like heat?
I'm afraid that only abnormal people will react differently.
But from the current point of view, even Arenas, who belongs to the category of abnormal people, seems to be desperate......
The Heat's lineup, for the already relatively weak East, is simply a dimensionality reduction blow from the arrival of aliens.
It can be said that the Heat's lineup has completely ruined the competitive heart of everyone in the East this season.
Arenas is like this, dare to ask who in the east will still have the heart of competition?
"Brother Ye, after you defeated the Heat in the Christmas war, Gilbert was very excited and very motivated, and told us that the supersonic can be and we wizards can too, but ......"
Sun Yue's words did not continue, but Ye Si knew very well what he meant.
Not to mention Yese, Durant and James Harden next to Yes are also very clear.
The Heat's behavior is like an NBA supergiant, playing basketball with children on the training court, and going all out to block these children's shots, and when they fan these children's shots one by one, they still shout in their mouths: "Go to Nima's basketball dream!" ”
Thinking of this picture, Durant and James Harden felt a chill.
This Nima's, how frustrated can a person do this kind of abuse of children?!
For the Heat, these teams in the East are actually children.
Now, the dreams of these children have been completely killed by the heat
In the past, Arenas and many people would still pin their hopes on Yes and the Hypersonics, hoping that Yes and the Hypersonics could help them chase their dreams back.
But in the face of the current Heat, even Arenas no longer has any hope.
It's not just that there's no hope for yourself, it's also about yes and hypersonics......
The supersonic claim to have ten all-stars.
It's just a claim, how can Sessions and Tucker be true All-Stars?
No matter how strong James Harden and Gasol Ibaka Jr. are, they can't offset the terrifying pressure brought by Garnett and Pierce.
What's more, the SuperSonics were brutally abused on the field by the Heat at the start of the last game.
"Many strong teams in the West envy the environment in which the Eastern teams are located, and now that the Heat have made themselves so strong, the Eastern teams themselves do not think that they are in an enviable environment."
"It's true that if I don't have the hope of making it to the Finals and becoming a champion, I'd rather not have any Eastern Conference Finals, Division Finals, and a doomed Division Finals that don't make any sense at all."
The current situation in the east is very distressing.
As both the Yees and the SuperSonics know, it's impossible for James and the Heat players not to be unaware of the impact their teams are having on the entire East.
But what can this be?
The weak are also qualified to talk about dreams?!
Before the start of this season, the Heat's goal is to plunge the entire NBA into darkness!
Now the whole east has fallen into darkness!
"Congratulations Seattle SuperSonics!"
"177-110, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Milwaukee Bucks away to achieve a 33-game winning streak, tying the Los Angeles Lakers' record for the longest winning streak in the NBA!"
"This is a victory that will go down in history!"
On January 3, at Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Barkley was roaring loudly.
Outside the TV, James clenched his fists tightly.
The east has been ruled by him to the point of darkness.
"Next, it's going to be the West, it's going to be Seattle SuperSonics!"
Washington on the other side.
Looking at the streamers of the thirty-three consecutive victories on TV, his unexciting eyes moved slightly.
The fluttering ribbon of victory seemed to be like a faint ray of hope.
It's just that such a faint light of hope is blocked by a powerful darkness like a black hole.
January 5, 2010, Seattle SuperSonics VS Miami Heat......