In New Jersey, the Hawks and Nets are actively preparing for the game, and the second round is over, and the major awards are announced one after another during the second round.

The best defensive player was won by Ben Wallace of the Pistons, although he was out of the game after the first round, but it did not affect Ben Wallace's excellent performance in the regular season, Ben Wallace got more than half of the votes, and the others got more than 10% of the votes, only Artest, Ratliff, Garnett, and the three together did not have Ben Wallace's votes.

In terms of best rookie, Yao Ming won the best rookie with 41 percent of the votes, beating Stoudemire with 39 percent of the votes.

Yao Ming had 15.1 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks, and Stoudemire had 13.5 points, 8.9 rebounds and 2 assists.

The record data Yao Ming is better than Stoudemire, and the final vote rate is only two percentage points different, which is really not easy.

History, though!

This is the first time in the history of the NBA that an overseas player has won the best rookie for two consecutive years, and it is the first time in NBA history!

On the domestic side, although Yao Ming was eliminated in the first round, after all, he is his own son, which is much more popular than Liu Mang's publicity at that time, and he is a center.

The main reason is that there was an outside core before, and now there is an inside core, domestic fans have high expectations for the men's basketball team after experiencing the tragic World Cup journey of the national football team last summer, and the combination of Liu Mang + Yao Ming has become a new hope for Chinese sports!

Most Improved Award, Arenas beat Reed to win the Most Improved Award of the Season.

In terms of the best sixth man, the votes are the same as the Most Improved Award, MVP, and Best Defensive Player, all of which are three types of votes, with 5 points for the first vote, 3 points for the second vote, and 1 point for the third vote, Liu Mang got 46 first votes, 40 second votes, and 8 third votes, and beat the Kings' Bobby Jackson's 327 votes with 358 points, and won the best sixth man again!

In terms of the best rookie team, Yao Ming and Stoudemire were unanimously selected for the first team, and the Hawks bench power forward Boozer, the Heat's main small forward Caron Butler, and the Magic center Drew Gooden were selected for the first team.

The rookie second team was led by Neng, Croatian guard Gordon Kirisek, Argentine demon knife Ginobili, Hawks swingman Prince, and Cavaliers point guard Dajuan Wagner were selected.

The Hawks selected three rookies ranked after the 20th pick, two were selected for the best rookie team, plus Liu Mang was selected in 2001, and the reputation is rising, many teams have sent scouts to prepare to go to the Hawks' trial to find out the information, and the draft draw will be held on the 29th, non-playoff teams and some teams that have been eliminated have begun draft tryouts, especially the Cavaliers, Raptors, Nuggets, Heat, the three teams with the worst records and the inexplicable Pistons, James has been invited to try out, Anthony and Bosh.

In terms of the All-NBA team, the OK duo and the two No. 21s continued to dominate the first team, and although the scoring champion Maddy did not make the playoffs, he was the only superstar with an efficiency value of 30 this season, and Jason Kidd, who had 50 first-choice votes, was selected to the All-NBA first-team team with 67 first-place votes.

Ben Wallace, Nowitzki, Webb, Kidd and Iverson were named to the All-Star Second Team.

In terms of the three teams, Francis, who made the playoffs, beat Marbury and was selected to the third team of the All-Star team for the first time in his career, the other four are Raheem, Nash, Kenyon Martin, and Peja.

Raheem saved the Eagles, and one player was named to the All-Star team.

In the best defensive team, Ben Wallace, O'Neal, and Ratliff received similar votes at the center position, with Ben Wallace leading the next two with 140 points, and the latter two were both 122 points, and the three received more than 98 percent of the votes for the center position.

One team was led by Ben Wallace, the best defensive player, but Ben Wallace's first defense was not the highest vote, because it was the head coaches who voted, Duncan and Garnett continued to win all the first votes, and both of them scored 260 points and all 130 first votes dominated the forward position, and Kobe Bryant and Kidd, the two best defensive perimeter players in the West and the East, were selected for the first defense.

In the second team, Ratliffe and O'Neal scored equally and were selected for the second defense, while the Spurs' Bowen and the Kings' Christie, the Pacers' Artest, and the Wizards' Larry Hughes occupied the other four positions.

With a three-team, a two-defense team, two rookie All-Rookie teams, and a sixth-man All-Year team, the Hawks have made their name on this year's honor roll.

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"Oh oh ......"

Liu Mang watched the talent skill fragments in the system panel become (3), and he was so excited that he didn't want to, what was the 5,000 superstar value of advancing to the East Finals, the 10,000 superstar value of the best sixth man, and the 20,000 superstar value of the best sixth man in Lianzhuang, he was not there at all...... I still care a lot.

Sure enough, the battle record is king! Honor is king!

45,000 superstar value, plus the three level 1 tasks and 1 level 3 mission that played the piston 4 games before, the total 6,000 superstar value, and the 4,000 superstar value of the 4 level 1 missions that played 76 people, Liu Mang suddenly became a poor peasant and became well-off, and the 45,000 superstar value was in hand all of a sudden! Add the remaining 15,000 superstar values to 60,000!

Liu Mang looked at the system, as well as the madman's 98-99 season star card, Jordan's rookie season star card, Reggie Miller's peak star card, and the obvious role of Atlanta's rage, which is very beautiful, Liu Mang is more confident in the next series with the Nets.

Playing Kidd, Liu Mang's fighting spirit burned to the fullest!

If playing the Pistons is to prove that their team is still one of the two best teams in the East, and it is a strong team that really deserves to win the Eastern Conference championship in the regular season, and in the second round, they met the 76ers with real superstars but felt Iverson's helplessness, then playing Kidd, Kidd is at his peak, and his teammates are also the most suitable teammates for him, and the Nets are at their peak, challenging the Nets, Liu Mang is so excited!

This excitement is also contagious to teammates, and if we talk about playing the Pistons and the 76ers, the Hawks can easily win and play the Nets...... The more difficult it is, the more stressful it is, which makes this group of young people very excited!

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At half past five in the afternoon, the Nets are at home, and the players of both teams have entered, and the game is about to start.

The Hawks and the Nets are about to take the lead in starting the division finals, in the pre-game interview, both teams have tacitly chosen to be low-key, the Hawks don't want to add difficulty to the East Finals, including Liu Mang, who did not go to make bold statements, act in a low-key manner, and play in a high-profile manner, because the Nets and other teams in the East are not at the same level, they are not at the same level at all, the Hawks can sweep the Pistons, and in the original history, the Nets and other teams in the East can sweep the Pistons, the first in the East, and the Nets and other teams in the East are not opponents at the same level.

The Nets chose to keep a low profile, but to give the Hawks a face, the Hawks gave them face before believing that they could make it to the Eastern Conference finals and come directly to New Jersey to prepare for the game, although Kidd still hates Liu Mang very much, but this time he feels that Liu Mang respects him very much.

Indeed, Liu Mang has always been full of respect for his opponents...... The only thing Kidd has a good impression of Liu Mang is Liu Mang's respect for his opponent.

It's just that more than one-tenth of the fan area at their home stadium is occupied by the away team's fans, and most of them are in the front row, which makes the Nets players very unhappy, and the Hawks fans and Liu Mang fans poured into the Nets' home court and occupied a lot of positions.

And compared to the Spurs playing the Mavericks in the West, the East Final is more exciting for fans.

The main reason is that the Spurs are already low in popularity, and the Mavericks are also very popular, and even their sense of presence is lower than that of the Spurs.

There were many celebrities at the Eastern Conference finals, including Nets star Bernard King, Hawks star Dominic Wilkins, and the eliminated 76ers center who was also former Nets player Derrick Coleman...... A lot of Hawks and Nets celebrities came to watch the game.

In the final preparation stage before the game, after Liu Mang entered, he was not surprised by those Nets and Hawks celebrities, because they also came to the Harbor Center Hotel chartered by the Eagles to rub their suites, and the Eagles also warmly entertained them.

However, when Liu Mang saw Michael Jordan, the god of basketball who had just retired for three months, talking and laughing with Wilkins and Bernard King, the two biggest names who came to watch the game, he was very surprised!

Liu Mang ran over to say hello to the "master", if it wasn't for Jordan's pretense before, although Liu Mang complained a lot, but if it wasn't for Jordan's words, it would not be easy for the Eagles to get on the right track quickly.

"Michael......" As soon as Liu Mang called out his name, he heard Old Man Qiao cough, Liu Mang was speechless, but reacted quickly: "Teacher-Michael, wow, I didn't expect you to come here to watch the game, why didn't you tell me in advance." ”

Sure enough, Jordan suddenly gained a lot of weight and smiled like a chrysanthemum, and Wilkins and Bernard King on the side knew that this old rival was showing off again.

It's so helpless and powerless! The honors and data of the two have been crushed, and now they are quite good at accepting disciples, and the two are considering whether to go to which team to be the general manager, and there is always a chance to win this guy in the draft.

Jordan patted Liu Mang's shoulder, revealing that he had been a mentor all the way: "Ace, well done, I reached the Eastern Conference Finals again, I heard at noon that today is the day when your Eastern Conference finals begin, I rushed over from Charlotte to see how you can play." ”

"Of course, I'm much better than you, I made it to the Eastern Finals last year, and it's too easy to get into the Eastern Finals." Liu Mang is not modest at all.

Jordan's favorite thing about Liu Mang is Liu Mang's self-confidence, and when he heard Liu Mang's words, he smiled and said: "Ho, the tone is not small, but you are right, if you can't enter the East Finals, what NBA will you play, let me see your progress in this game!" ”

"Just watch......"

"I heard that the Harbour Center was chartered by you? Let your boss give me a room. ”

“…… You're not welcome......"

Wilkins and Bernard King on the side watched the two pretend to be forced and wanted to beat the two of them, but thinking about the two of them, one had just retired and the other was young and strong, they really couldn't beat it, so they had to give up.

But both of them are angry! Because none of them made it to the division finals, at most they only made it to the second round, and finally, the other players came to say hello to the celebrities, and Wilkins and Bernard King finally had an excuse to stay away from the two pretending criminals and take the initiative to go up and greet the juniors and hug them......

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At the end of the pre-match event, both teams started on the field.

The Eagles sent Liu Mang, Prince, Rahim, Mohammed, and Ratliff to the starting lineup, which is still the old lineup in the past.

There are changes to the starting lineup on the Nets' side, with Kidd, Kittels, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin unchanged, and the center position, Mutombo is back in the starting lineup to fight the Hawks' frontcourt group.

The Nets used Van Horn to replace Mutombo back last summer, mainly to deal with the Lakers' O'Neal, who knew that the Lakers were eliminated, and more importantly, Mutombo collapsed from last season's 11+11+2.5 blocks to the Nets to 6+5+1.5, and the Nets are going crazy, especially Mutombo played more than 20 games and was reimbursed for the regular season, and his state plummeted.

However, when he played the Bucks in the last round, Mutombo was powerful at a critical moment, and there was a feeling of dreaming back to the top, which gave the Nets confidence again, and Byron Scott put him in the starting position, anyway, Jason Collins's strength is like that, no matter how bad Mutombo plays, the data is still better than Jason Collins.

Ratliff came to the center circle and Mutombo jumped the ball...... The Eagles fans at the scene picked up Coke and other drinks and drank water and chatted, and Latlif still needs to watch the jump ball? Drinking saliva is ...... again There wasn't much suspense, the referee blew the whistle and threw the ball into the air, and the old and strong Mutombo ball was dialed to Kidd.

The Nets came out in the first round, playing a Kittles no-ball running tactics, Kittels, as the first gun on the outside of the Nets, ran up quickly, getting rid of Prince's defense, too decisive and unexpected, the Hawks thought the Nets would press the rhythm, but I didn't expect it to be a three-pointer, Prince followed very closely, but met Kenyon Martin's off-ball block, Prince and Boozer both went to chase the fierce Kenyon Martin, Kittels stepped back to the three-point line, Kidd sent the ball to Kittels in time, Kittels catches the ball and hits a three-point shot.

The Nets opened the game with a three-point lead over the Hawks!

It's really getting better and better!

Liu Mang felt the strong strength of the Nets, who originally opened the light after a difficult victory over the Bucks in the first round, and swept the Celtics and Pistons in the next two rounds, showing their invincible dominance in the East.

Sure enough, this time they still showed super dominance, Liu Mang took a deep breath, and slowly advanced to the front court after receiving the serve.

Liu Mang pushed over, or hit the inside line first, but there was a change!

Liu Mang made a gesture, Rahim came to a step outside the free throw line, facing the basket, Liu Mang passed the ball to Rahim, and then cut inside, sparing the bottom line to the bottom right corner, trying to open the space...... Still haven't pulled it apart!

When Raheem was preparing to play singles, Richard Jefferson in front of him, Mutombo behind Richard Jefferson guarded the three-second zone, and Kidd, who followed Liu Mang, did not follow the corner, but was ready to wrap Rahim at any time.

When Raheem played the 76ers, he was too impressed with the Nets! Unlike the Hawks, who are waiting for their opponents, the Nets have full confidence in themselves, and when they play the Bucks, they are still paying attention to the Hawks' game, and they firmly believe that the Hawks can enter the Eastern Conference finals, and they have already begun to study the Hawks.

Raheem saw Kidd's defense and quickly passed to Liu Mang in the bottom corner.

Liu Mang did not hesitate to take the ball, received the ball and threw it out with a three-point point.

"Bang ......"

Liu Mang didn't hit the three points at the beginning! Leaving Ratliffe to interfere with the opponent to grab a defensive rebound and counterattack, Liu Mang, Raheem, and Prince hurried back to defense, Kidd won the defensive rebound, and saw that the opponent had three people back to defense, and there was no forced speed, the Hawks wanted to play steady, and the Nets also pursued stability!

Kidd pushed forward again, and this time the Nets didn't choose a three-pointer, but chose the low post!

Kenyon Martin sat in the low post and leaned on Mohammed for the ball!

Kenyon Martin received the ball and turned sharply when Ratliff and Mutombo were confronting, suddenly turned and threw a shot, which caught the Hawks by surprise, and Muhammad was also shocked by Kenyon Martin's explosiveness, and Kenyon Martin threw and scored two points.

It's actually playing low! The Nets' opening offensive routine was simply unexpected by the Hawks! Who didn't expect the Nets to start playing from Kittels and Kenyon Martin in the opening game!

It's very different from the Nets' usual tactics!

The Nets opened by surprise to the Hawks, Liu Mang advanced again, or hit Rahim, Rahim's containment is very sufficient, even if he is trapped, his outstanding height and arm span in the small forward position can also pass the ball out, Liu Mang went around the bottom line again, came to the bottom corner on the right side, this time Kidd did not go to help defend Rahim, it was Kittels who helped defend Rahim, Rahim was divided to the left 45-degree angle outside the three-point line, Prince received the ball for three points...... Didn't hit either!

This time, Kidd quickly rushed back to the basket, and when Ratliff and Mutomboka were in position, Kidd took the lead in rebounding!

The Nets fight back on three fronts! Kenyon Martin rushed inside, Kittels ran to the bottom corner, drawing away the defenses of Prince and Raheem, and Kidd's ball passed to Richard Jefferson, who countered with a dunk and scored two points!

Liu Mang caught up with Richard Jefferson, but people had already rushed up, and Liu Mang couldn't help it!

7 to 0!

The Baskets started the game against the Hawks 7-0!

The momentum is not good!

Liu Mang immediately called a timeout! It's only been two minutes!

What a change! Liu Mang feels that he has been overshadowed by the Nets! When the Nets arrived in the Eastern Conference finals, they played out their hidden tactics! Even if they played the Bucks before, the Nets didn't change so much!