In the blink of an eye, the time has come to mid-April, and the annual playoffs have begun.

Until the end of the regular season, the Clippers still maintained the fourth record in the West.

But even so, when the Spurs won the championship with a fourth-place record in the West last season, no one would have underestimated the strength of the Clippers.

In the eyes of fans from all sides, although the first place in the West is the Nuggets and the Trail Blazers, it is definitely not these two teams that really have a chance to win the championship, but the Spurs and Clippers who pretended to be dead in the regular season.

These two teams will definitely be the strongest contenders for the championship.

Last season, the Spurs and the Heat battled, and the Spurs finally won, on the one hand, the Spurs' three newcomers broke out with amazing strength, and on the other hand, Wade was actually injured......

Originally, the head coach of the Heat was going to shorten Wade's playing time, but Wade refused, and Wade extracted knee fluid in advance, which made the Heat not defeated.

It was precisely because of the early extraction of knee fluid that Wade suffered from chronic arthritis and his overall condition worsened, and he only played 50 games this season.

Under normal circumstances, the Heat's second championship, which was won in the Finals last season, is unlikely to win the Spurs in the tiebreaker if it weren't for Wade's radical treatment.

It can be said that Wade has given everything to the Heat, but what the Heat did was a bit disappointing, they gave Bosh a five-year salary cap, but Wade only gave Wade a two-year, $31 million short-term contract.

Why are contracts short-term? That's naturally because of Wade's potential injury risk, which makes the Heat afraid to risk signing a five-year contract.

As a result, no one expected that Wade, who signed a two-year contract, would be healthy in the future, although he was occasionally injured and absent, but it was no big deal, but Bosh, who signed for five years, said goodbye to the NBA stage completely because of blood clots in his body.

The world is really unpredictable......

If nothing else, whether the Heat can enter the Finals this year is a matter of two words, and even if they do, they will definitely not be the opponents of the Clippers or the Spurs.

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In the first round of the playoffs, the four teams in the top half of the West swept their opponents 4-0, which was the first time Richard knew that this had happened, and since he entered the league, this kind of collective sweep has never happened.

The Clippers' opponent in the first round was the Thunder, who averaged more than 20 points per game after four games.

The fifth position in the Thunder West is actually not weak, but the main reason is that there are too few main attack points in the team, Wei Shao's point was directly pinched by Leonard, and the point of Guofu was ravaged by Gobert and Big Ben in turn......

Having a player like Leonard on hand is simply the happiest thing for a manager, they don't have to worry about how to limit the opponent's scoring points at all, they just need to put Leonard there, and Leonard himself knows what to do.

The key to the effect is quite amazing.

Willis averaged 6.4 turnovers per game by Leonard and shot just 39 percent from the field......

With this significant advantage, it's no wonder that the Clippers don't sweep the Thunder.

As for the Spurs, this time it is against the Warriors again.

Last season, the Spurs played fourth in the West against the Warriors, who were fifth in the West, and this season the Spurs were third in the West against the Warriors, who were sixth in the West......

The result can be imagined, and it is naturally still a sweep.

The Warriors are now half-dead, saying that they are weak, and they can enter the playoffs every year, and they are a strong team, and they have been swept in the first round for two consecutive years, which is a strong team......

According to Richard's estimates, perhaps Mark Jackson's head coaching role is coming to an end.

In the second round of the playoffs, the Western Conference semifinals, the Clippers face the Trail Blazers.

This can be regarded as a battle between Weng and son-in-law, and as a result, the Clippers players did not save face for Paul Allen at all, and finally eliminated the Trail Blazers with a score of 4:1 and reached the Western Conference Finals.

The most satisfying thing about Richard in this series is Gobert's performance.

Once upon a time, Gobert was pressed to the ground by Oden on the court and rubbed against him, and he was so miserable that he couldn't do it.

And now, although Gobert is still not Oden's opponent, he can at least limit some Oden and will no longer let Oden do whatever he wants under the basket.

Auden can't do whatever he wants, and Granger is looked at by Leonard at this point, and the Trail Blazers are naturally difficult to turn over.

After two rounds of the series, Leonard's desperate defense is already terrifying.

There is no doubt that Leonard is truly in his prime on the defensive end at the moment.

Under normal circumstances, Leonard also won the honor of MVP in the Finals this year.

As for the offensive end, Leonard still has room for improvement on the offensive end, but it is better than the previous Sun Yue.

The series between the Spurs and the Nuggets was also 4:1, and the Spurs had a chance to advance.

The Western side has completed the following situation in the Western Conference semifinals, which is also unique in NBA history.

On the contrary, it is the situation in the east that makes fans frown.

The Heat was killed by the Pistons led by Yao Ming in the Eastern Conference semifinals, and the two sides fought to a tiebreaker, but Yao Ming played bravely in the last battle, which is completely the kind of courage that no one can limit.

The Heat's interior line is not good, although Bosh is good, but over the years, because of the needs of the team, the tonnage has become smaller, although it has become a lot more flexible, but the tonnage has become smaller, and the ability to fight in the restricted area has become weaker, and naturally it is not Yao Ming's opponent.

As a result, in this tie-break battle, Yao Ming led the team to defeat the Heat with 47 points, 19 rebounds and 5 blocks, and returned to the ranks of the Eastern Finals.

The Pistons have not been able to make it to the East Finals for some years, and they have always been the third in the East, and now they are finally raising their eyebrows.

The fight in the East is extremely fierce, Yao Ming is also desperate, he knows his situation very well, he is now 33 years old, and there is not much peak to play.

If he can't lead the Pistons to the next level in these two years, then the rest of his career may be over.

In the history of the NBA, there are some old monsters on the inside, who can still maintain a pretty good state at the age of nearly forty, but the vast majority of insiders will immediately show a steep decline after the age of thirty-five.

Even O'Neill, the most dominant man in history, is no exception.

Yao Ming asked himself if he was definitely not that kind of old monster, after the age of thirty, he already had some feelings of powerlessness, many goals that he could score steadily at his peak, and now it has become difficult to score goals.

After the age of thirty-five, Yao Ming felt that his career was almost over.

So taking advantage of these last two years, how could he not fight hard.

The final result was a pity, Yao Ming fought to the sixth game, probably because he was too tired, plus because of age, he was directly injured.

Without Yao Ming's pistons, he was directly defeated and taken away by the Hornets in waves.

Richard watched this round of the game, and he was embarrassed, and before he knew it, Yao Ming was also a 33-year-old old guy.

He is now 46 years old, and he will be 50 years old in a few years, and this year is exactly the twentieth year that Richard has crossed over.

94 years have passed, and now it is 2014......

It's really a blink of an eye, and 20 years have passed.