After the first quarter, in the NBA league office, David Stern got a message.

The message is simple, it's the Nuggets and Trail Blazers' Game 5 ratings, which are about to break the second-round playoff viewership record.

In this shrinking season, the NBA's influence has diminished a lot, and Stern is struggling to regain his influence, and after Jordan retired for the second time, he was bent on erecting a second Jordan.

Among these candidates, O'Neal, Grant Hill, Iverson and others are included, while Chi Liang is in the alternate ranks, and the ranking is not outstanding.

Stern didn't expect this to happen, which of course is good news for the league.

Why is this happening?

After thinking about it carefully, Stern thought of a reason, and there were three reasons.

1. In the last game, there were too many hot news spots and great influence, which made the series between the Nuggets and the Trail Blazers well-known.

Second, in the second round of the playoffs, the rest of the teams all won and lost, and the Nuggets and Trail Blazers were also the only remaining teams, and they played inextricably.

3. Chi Liang's personal influence!

In terms of draft picks, Ji Liang is the most underrated rookie in history and the strongest rookie.

In this season, Chi Liang's performance is not strong, not to mention the data and honors, and he has also broken many records, which also makes his fame rise.

In addition, Ji Liang is also a foreign player, especially in the Asian region, and his fame can be said to be a household name.

Although there is no survey, when it comes to the most influential players in the NBA this year, there is definitely a place for Ji Liang.

After thinking about it, Stern immediately convened a high-level meeting, and after a meeting with Adam Shaw and other high-level executives, the tone was finally set.

When the league held a meeting, the second quarter of the game finally began, and the Nuggets replaced the lineup, but because Ji Liang played the whole game, it took some time to recover, and Van Exel's replacement.

In this way, Van Exel has become the core of the field, in addition to his own attack, but also to distribute the ball reasonably and turn the team into a whole.

On the other side, the Trail Blazers continued to field their starting lineup.

From the perspective of the lineup, the Trail Blazers are very strong, but without Sabonis and Wallace, they are not much better than the Nuggets, at least the Nuggets still have the ability to resist.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Van Exel was in good shape, and it was difficult for both Stadamire and Greg Antony to limit his play. Sometimes he breaks through and hits the basket, and sometimes organizes the team to attack, showing his personal ability to the fullest.

In addition, there are Billups' three-pointers, Williams' back-to-back shots, Fortson's rebounds, and Clark's hard work.

But they also found it difficult to limit the Trail Blazers' offense, and the Nuggets were not known for their defense, so they naturally couldn't stop the opponent's offense.

However, the Trail Blazers could not narrow the point difference, and the scores of the two sides rose alternately, and the two teams were tied for a while.

In this case, the scene is deadlocked!

However, just three minutes later, the situation changed abruptly, and under Dunleavy's arrangement, Van Exel's play was limited, causing the Nuggets' shooting rate to begin to decline, and the opponent began to quickly narrow the difference.

In the fifth minute of the second quarter, seeing that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable, D'Antoni immediately arranged for Ji Liang to play.

Ji Liang replaced Williams as a small forward, and a lineup is also the strongest lineup that the Nuggets can put out.

As soon as he got on the court, Ji Liang pressed Walter Williams and turned over and made a jumper.

Suppressed by Chi Liang, Wolft Williams couldn't jump at all, and it was difficult to form a powerful interference.

"Brian, you defend him!" At this time, Dunleavy came to the sidelines and shouted at Grant.

Compared with Walter Williams, Grant is obviously much stronger, at least not to be pressed by Chi Liang to shoot.

It's just that Grant's speed is a hard injury after all, and Chi Liang naturally didn't let go of this opportunity, even if his right hand is inconvenient, he will always be able to use his speed to take advantage.

In addition to this, Ji Liang also increased his running, and could always use his speed and agility to shake off Grant and get open shots.

However, compared with the first quarter, Ji Liang reduced the number of his shots, increased the number of break-through balls, and passed the ball to teammates who ran out of position to attack.

Relying on his personal ability, Chi Liang once again revitalized the Nuggets, improved the team's offense, and began to play inextricably with the Trail Blazers.

49:58

By the end of the first half, Ji Liang scored 7 points again, and a total of 29 points in the first half.

Relying on the performance in the first half alone, Chi Liang got extremely good data, which is inseparable from Chi Liang's hot hand.

Of course, it also has something to do with the fact that the Trailblazers can't limit Chi Liang.

Ji Liang's performance did not end, and his hot hand was stunned until the second half.

By the time the second half began, the Trail Blazers players were in excellent shape, shooting how they could shoot, and Ryder even hit two three-pointers.

But it was such a performance that the Trail Blazers still did not overtake the score.

After finding that his teammates' hand felt declining, Chi Liang had no choice but to increase the number of individual attacks, and once again staged the drama of one person against the whole team. Under his leadership, the Trail Blazers never took much advantage.

Ji Liang's hand is so good that neither Walter Williams nor Grant can put much limit on him, and in Iverson's words, the basket is like the sea.

In the entire third quarter, in seven minutes, Chi Liang scored 15 points again, and his personal score reached 44 points.

It's just that in the fourth quarter, Chi Liang's hand suddenly cooled down, and even if the dynamic vision state was activated, he could still only maintain the usual hit rate.

However, D'Antoni was not in a hurry, perhaps because of the loss of physical energy, the Trail Blazers' hand also tended to decline, and the Nuggets always maintained the score advantage.

Swish~

At this time, with two minutes left before the end of the game, Ji Liang hit another mid-range shot to increase his personal score to 48 points.

Just one more goal is a playoff 50-point player club.

The teammates were naturally happy to succeed and handed the ball to Chi Liang one after another, but perhaps they were too excited, and Chi Liang missed two consecutive shots.

So, the Trail Blazers took the opportunity to catch up and looked like they were about to overtake the score.

In this case, Ji Liang had no choice but to put aside his mind about scoring and reorganize the team's attack.

Intentionally planting flowers does not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade!

Just when Ji Liang gave up scoring, his teammate's shot hit the iron, and then the basketball bounced far away and took the initiative to fly towards him.

Ji Liang grabbed the rebound in the front court, and before the opponent made up the defense, he scored two points on a jumper shot, increasing his personal score to 50 points.

Soon, the game is over!

With a five-point advantage, the Nuggets finally defeated the Trail Blazers and won the battle of Tianwang Mountain.