Chapter 636: The Land of Our Dreams!
The Western Conference Finals for the Seattle SuperSonics and Houston Rockets are over.
The Seattle SuperSonics eliminated the Rockets 4-2 at home to represent the West in the NBA Finals.
The time for the Finals was also announced after the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Rockets, and the first game of this year's Finals will be played in Seattle on Thursday, June 5, 2008, US time.
The format of the finals is 2-3-2, which is different from the first three rounds of the playoffs, which are 22111.
The Seattle SuperSonics have a regular season record of third in the West and third in the league, while the Boston Celtics have a regular season record of first in the East and ninth in the league, so the Seattle SuperSonics have a home-court advantage.
However, for the current format of Finals 232, home field advantage is not so significant.
The 232 format is famously a format that doesn't add much to home field advantage.
In this format, if the team with home advantage loses one game at home, they need to wonder if they can play back at home and get the remaining two home games.
If both teams win their home court in the first five games, then the team without home field advantage can take a 3-2 lead and get the series match point.
The match points were all won by the opponent, and the home advantage will definitely not have any advantage.
It can be said that the league changed the format of the finals to 232 so that the finals can be fierce.
The playoff convenience that teams get during the regular season runs out before they reach the Finals.
When it comes to the finals, it's time to really fight for strength.
For the current NBA, after the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Rockets, although many people are still shocked by this crazy series, although many people are still nostalgic for this incredible series, just as they missed the Seattle SuperSonics and Nuggets series before.
But it's clear that after the Seattle SuperSonics beat the Rockets, the NBA's gears were already turning, and they were already spinning to the Finals.
This round of Finals matchup between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Boston Celtics is really a set of matchups that many people did not expect before this matchup comes out.
The Boston Celtics and the Seattle SuperSonics, two of the five big deals of 2006, the SuperSonics, the Celtics, the Raptors, the Timberwolves and the Bucks.
In that incredible big trade that shaped NBA history, the Boston Celtics have been considered one of the biggest gains.
The Seattle SuperSonics, on the other hand, are considered the worst team in the pit and don't even need one.
At the very least, at the beginning, at the time of this big deal, public opinion around the world was like this.
After the big deal was completed, many people said that the NBA league had entered the era of the Boston Celtics.
Garnett, Pierce, and Ray Allen, these three superstars who have been able to lead the team to the playoffs and win the series as big names are nearly invincible in the entire NBA.
All three of them are in their prime, and all three of them are so adaptable, and all three of them are also eager for honor.
Under these conditions, at that time, even the most demanding media pundits could find a reason to look down on the Boston Celtics.
After the success of the three superstars, some arrogant Boston Celtics fans even played slogans like 82-0.
Of course, the performance of the Boston Celtics in the NBA in the past two years has finally proved that the good wishes of the fans are really just not good wishes.
The Boston Celtics haven't been as invincible as the 82-0 tagline in those seasons.
It should be said that the NBA has had an invincible team in the past two seasons, but this team is not the Celtics.
Although the Celtics' performance in the NBA did not meet invincible expectations, there are a few strong teams in the West in the past two years.
But there's no doubt that the Boston Celtics East is truly invincible!
The playoffs in the West in the past two years have been Black Eight, a 0-3 reversal, the greatest series in history, the most tragic series in history, etc., it can be said that the West in the past two years has really been a group of heroes and played a tragic role.
But in the East, the Boston Celtics really dominate.
Just as everyone expected when the Big Three were formed.
The Boston Celtics have not met the expectation of a minimum of three years of domination in the league, but they are close to achieving a minimum of three years of domination in the East.
Reaching the Finals two years in a row is not a very remarkable achievement for the Celtics.
This is what they should have achieved.
So, in both years they have reached.
But on the other side.
As the worst side of that big deal, the Seattle SuperSonics shouldn't have been on the opposite side of the Celtics so early.
After that big deal is completed, the world's evaluation is that the Seattle SuperSonics will make the playoffs in three years, will take three years to become a strong team, and then in the seventh year, the SuperSonics may become a championship team with a major impact on the league!
This was the mainstream public opinion around the world at that time.
These public opinions are not blind comparisons.
These public opinions are clearly a reference to Jordan's career.
Jordan spent the first three years of his career trying to get into the playoffs, and then trying to avoid being swept in the playoffs, but in the end, he was swept for two years in three years, which was quite miserable.
In the next three years, entering the playoffs is no longer Jordan's pursuit and goal, Jordan's pursuit and goal has become a strong team that can make a difference in the playoffs, and in the next three years, Jordan began his career of being constantly repaired by the Pistons, although it was not as miserable as the previous three years, but it was also quite miserable.
As a player who has been compared to Jordan since entering the NBA, YES is highly expected by the entire NBA.
yes and his supersonic should be abused for at least six years!
That's how much the league as a whole has hopes for yes and hypersonics.
But in two years, the supersonic speed has fought its way out of the terrifying west!
And in the past two years, yes and his supersonic have not even been abused, which is amazing!
The Boston Celtics and the Seattle SuperSonics, after the completion of that big deal, should have been a relationship of 'I was born before I was born, and I was born with my old age', and the peak of the Celtics' Big Three could not touch yes and the Sonics.
But the final result was that the two teams met under the magical play of yes!
What an amazing thing!
It's no wonder that after such a magical matchup, Raptors fans cried the most.
They were the biggest winners in theory after that big deal came out.
But now they realized that they had served as a stepping stone for Boston and Seattle.
It's still cold in Toronto, while it's spring in Boston and Seattle.
For this Grand Final in Boston and Seattle, the world's demands are low.
It's time for the Celtics to win the championship, and it's time for the Big Three to blossom.
And what about the Seattle SuperSonics?
Even if the Seattle SuperSonics don't win the championship this year, this team will have a bright future under the leadership of yes!
"We haven't seen a 20-year-old Jordan in the NBA, but we did, very powerful, unusually powerful!"
That's what the whole coconut community and the coconut media and Seattle fans are thinking right now.
This grand final, they are full of confidence in the future of Seattle and yes!
"The era of the 23rd has passed, the era of the 9th is coming, and we have seen the beauty of the dawn!"
It can be said that when the finals are approaching, the public opinion before the finals is particularly peaceful.
Everyone thinks that the Boston Celtics are indeed sure to be the champions.
But yes and supersonic have done it perfectly, and there is no need to prove anything more in the finals.
Boston was lucky to win now.
Seattle was also lucky to win the future.
So, now in the NBA, Boston and Seattle are definitely two happy cities.
Here in Boston, fans are already preparing to celebrate the Celtics' 17th title, and the Boston fans are excited and enthusiastic.
After all, the team has not reached the finals for 21 years, and the team has not won a championship for 22 years.
I thought that the team's seventeenth championship was coming soon, but I didn't expect the Lakers to catch up with them, and their seventeenth championship was still far away.
It was a period of 22 years of dark and dreary years, and now, in the last moments of the dark years of bitterness, they can finally celebrate, laugh and sing uncontrollably.
"USA Today also predicted this year's Finals, the Boston Celtics will end this round of the Finals in Boston, and the final result is 4-1!"
"Hehe, there are so many authoritative media in the United States, and the forecast of the United States today is the latest to come out, but it is normal, and it really takes courage to turn zero into one behind this big score."
In the Boston Celtics' training gym, the Celtics players are quite relaxed.
and the supersonic round of the finals, for them, it is indeed quite easy.
This year's Finals matchup is undoubtedly God wearing the Boston Celtics jersey.
As a team with many veterans, the Celtics players are certainly not blindly optimistic.
But that's just the way it is.
In the past two years, the Seattle SuperSonics have lost four straight games against the Celtics in the regular season!
The SuperSonics have not won a game against the Celtics in the past two years with YES.
This is still before, yes did not gain weight,
Now after yes weight gain, the Seattle supersonic is even worse!
The whole world knows that the reason why it is so difficult for the supersonic to play the Celtics is that the Celtics can't find anyone who can defend Ray Allen, so they can only play yes themselves, yes was restrained by Ray Allen, and in the end, even if yes can make Ray Allen deflated every time, but the defensive end of the supersonic team was finally collapsed by the Celtics because of the lack of yes's defensive contribution.
Now yes is fat!
With him now, can he chase Ray Allen?
Even if he can chase Ray Allen, with yes' current weight, the amount of physical energy he consumes will be astronomical!
It won't take a few games, and yes will collapse directly!
Why is yes the best player to run without the ball in history?
In addition to his excellent technique, there is also the fact that he is thin!
The thin man is really not able to run to death on the off-ball run!
In the history of the NBA, the top off-ball runners are basically skinny people, and Jordan is a special case.
In short, when facing the Rockets, yes' weight is the cornerstone of victory.
But when facing the Celts, yes weight, that's deadly poison!
Ray Allen will be the one who is really impossible to defend in this matchup!
In this series, Ray Allen can imagine a repeat of what he scored in this year's All-Star Game!
In this year's All-Star, the one who shines the most is yes.
And in addition to yes, the most shining is the middle distance all-in, 18 minutes thundered down 28 points of Ray Allen!
Why did Ray Allen perform so well and only play 18 minutes?
Because his opponent in these 18 minutes is not yes!
From another point of view, as long as he is not entangled by yes, or as long as yes can't entangle him, even if the opponent is an All-Star, Ray Allen still has incredible scoring explosiveness!
This plus one subtraction, one strong and one weak, the Seattle SuperSonics have a chance to beat the Celtics, that's weird!
USA Today was the last authoritative media to predict this round of the series, 4-1, and the only one willing to give SuperSonics a one-game victory.
"yes loses speed, Seattle SuperSonics lose speed, and the Boston Celtics are the last thing they fear is the team that loses speed, Perkins, Garnett, Pierce, Ray Allen, Tony Allen...... Celtic have enough power and toughness, but we still believe that SuperSonics can win, even if it's a game. ”
"Because, this is the yes team!"
Looking at USA Today's predictions, Ray Allen put down the newspaper noncommittally.
Because, this is the yes team......
This is already a yes team.
Seattle SuperSonics, that familiar logo, that familiar name.
The green of the body is still the same, but the green of the world has changed.
Now the world's public opinion is crazy about Yes's first trip to the Finals, but Yes and his team are praying for Durant's broken leg surgery.
"The surgery will be a success and I'm sure you'll still be able to see your best teammates on the pitch."
Everyone at the Seattle SuperSonics breathed a sigh of relief to hear the doctor say that.
Tomorrow's surgery, everybody wants to be successful, and the best of all, and they all want Durant to come back with the best Durant, or even a better Durant!
"Doctor, can I go see KD now?"
"Yes, but not too long, KD needs to rest now."
The doctor finished with a smile, and Ye Si nodded.
It was dim, it was lonely, it was cold, and there was the emaciated back curled up on the bed with its back to him......
Seeing the emaciated figure tremble slightly as he entered, Ye Si placed what he had been holding beside his bed.
"It's still not certified, but it'......"
"In half a month, it will come true."
After saying that, Ye Si turned and left.
Durant, who was originally facing away from Ye Si, slowly turned around and picked up the box, and when he opened it, Durant's hands trembled slightly.
This is...... Ring.
Championship ring?!
"This is the first one, and there will be many, many more of them together."
Picking up the card in the gift box, all the anxiety of Durant's broken leg these days turned into tears and wailing......
Ye Si, who was leaning against the door, listened to the cry behind the door, his closed eyes also opened, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.
Ahead, is the dream place we open up together!
A dream place to never lose!