Sacramento is back in the playoffs, and Kings fans are in tears.

The rise of a small ball market requires too many opportunities, and perhaps more often, it will be in the role of soy sauce and fish belly, constantly reincarnating.

The five tigers are gone, but the legacy is still there.

Wang Tomorrow is undoubtedly an opportunity for the entire Sacramento, and his arrival has changed the entire Kings team, bringing the existence of a first-to-last team in the league, the Timberwolves that can sweep the season, to the second place in the West and the top five in the league.

Just as Wang Tomorrow did with the 76ers three years ago, his ability to turn decay into magic is amazing.

Only the ability of Wang Tomorrow this season, this kind of ability to take all the players, the different types of players, and finally combine them into a whole, is one of the few in the league.

Wang's call for the best coach tomorrow is extremely high, after all, not everyone can take a team with a 17-65 record to the point of 58-24.

The Kings have won 31 more games than last year.

It seemed that overnight, it sparked the excitement of watching football throughout Sacramento, and countless basketball fans rushed out of the city, and fans wearing king's jerseys could be seen in every corner of the city.

With the playoffs just around the corner, the atmosphere of competition is already in full swing.

The Kings' first-round opponent, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Thunder are one of the Young Guards in the West, and the Portland Trail Blazers are the young upstarts who have a chance to compete for a championship in the future.

The advantage of the Thunder over the Trailblazers is that the Thunder is located in the Northwest Division, and the entire Northwest Division is weak.

It turns out that there is still a hard bone in the Northwest Division, and the Jazz used to be one of the toughest teams in the West.

But since the beginning of this season, the Jazz have had ups and downs, the team is full of contradictions, and the final record is not satisfactory.

The Nuggets took advantage of the situation last season, and this season they firmly grasped the top position in the Northwest Division, firmly standing on the top four list in the West, and even when the Kings fell out of the top four, the Nuggets were still as stable as Mount Tai.

Young players play with a lot of momentum, and this season, the Thunder's Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, known as the Oklahoma twins, have all but determined the future of the Thunder's team.

Russell Westbrook is the point guard position.

This season, he played in 82 games with the Thunder, averaging 16.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, eight assists and 1.3 steals in 34.3 minutes per game, ranking seventh in the league in assists per game.

Durant was even more aggressive, averaging 30.1 points, 7.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.0 blocks per game, and won the first scoring title of his career.

And this year, he is only 21 years and 6 months old.

Durant became the league's hottest superstar, Oklahoma's first scoring champion, the darling of the Thunder, and the most popular man in the region.

The Thunder went to Sacramento, and the momentum was violent, and the playoff horn had just sounded, and the war letter was already given to the Kings.

"I think we were able to settle the battle in five games, and the Kings have a good record, but after a season, they're tired, and we're just warming up and have a lot of energy."

Durant and Westbrook are both relatively low-key people, especially Westbrook, who is very active on the court, and looks like he doesn't want to communicate with the media at all off the court, and immerses himself in the beautiful world of his own matching clothes.

The interviewee was the team's current No. 3 person, Jeff Green, who was very enthusiastic about the media and said a bunch of things like beans, which instantly made the media reporters think about it, and added fuel to the fire to the news and publish it.

At this time, they were in the preparation area, and the juniors were so rampant, where could the king's big brothers endure it, and they scolded one after another.

"It's so arrogant, the Thunder have no playoff experience at all, and the odds of winning us are like buying a lottery ticket and winning the jackpot." Artest was also sharp-tongued, and then talked about geographical issues: "If the Thunder team is in our Pacific Division, I'm afraid they won't be able to make the playoffs." ”

The players of the two teams sprayed each other, and the fans naturally did not stagnate, and they began to curse on the Internet.

This is already a regular phenomenon in the playoffs, just like two armies fighting, always having to call the battle first.

It's just that when the reporter wanted to interview the head coach of the team concerned, the two head coaches were silent, saying that the game was easy, the opponent was rare, and the Thunder (King) was a respectable opponent and worth going all out.

Wang Mingming was surprised to find that this kind of pre-game discourse situation of praising opponents is becoming more and more popular in the league.

Anyway, the higher you hold the opponent, the more painful it will be when you fall, and it won't be yourself, a typical hurting tactic.

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April 17 is the first day of the NBA's 09-10 playoffs.

Eight teams played games on the day, with the Magic vs. Bucks in the East, the Celtics vs. the 76ers, and the Bulls vs. the Cavaliers; There is only one game in the West, the Suns at home, against the Denver Nuggets.

The Nuggets' record is ahead of the Suns, but according to the record, it is lower than the Suns, so there is no home-court advantage in the first round.

In previous years, rockets often encountered this kind of thing.

In the end, all three teams playing at home in the East won, but the Nuggets in the West won the first game of the playoffs, beating the Suns 105-97.

The next day, the other eight teams in the playoffs will face off.

Among them, the Hawks and Heat are left in the East, and the Spurs are against the Rockets, the Thunder against the Kings, and the Mavericks against the Lakers in the West.

The race time is divided according to longitude, with the east in the front, the center in the back, and the Pacific coast last.

Chinese fans can also feel this change, broadcast in China, generally the eastern team, the game at 8 o'clock, the earlier four or five o'clock, the central like the Rockets, generally play at around 9 o'clock, and when a team like the Lakers plays at home, the game even starts at 11:30.

The second day of the game was more attractive than the first day, especially the strong encounter between the Spurs and the Rockets.

Although the Spurs have a mediocre record this season, when the troika arrives in the playoffs, they have all been in shape, out of injury troubles, and they are in the same Texas as the Rockets, which is equivalent to a derby, which has attracted the attention of the entire Southwest region.

In the evening in Sacramento, the Arco Arena is flooded with fans.

The fans did not wear uniform uniforms, but most of them wore the classic purple jerseys of the Kings, and the scene was crowded, full of voices, and the atmosphere was enthusiastic.

Wang Mingming himself also changed into a purple tie, a suit and leather shoes, and shiny leather shoes, walking in front of everyone, leading the players of the Kings team out of the player tunnel.

Under the bright daylight of day, the fans cheered, whistled and raised their hands to welcome the home team's players.

And as soon as the Thunder players came out, they were booed.

There's no reason for that kind of booing, but that's the hostility, that's the atmosphere of the playoffs, and all the Sacramento fans are on the verge of a strong flag, and there's no sportsmanlike applause here.

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Every game is broadcast live across the United States, with TNT hosts, Amy Johnson and Kristen Ledlow.

Amy Johnson is a famous TNT celebrity who has hosted many NBA games, while Kristen Ledlow is a famous beauty anchor of TNT, who was once rated as one of the hottest beauty reporters in the United States.

On the court, the Thunder and Kings have completed their appearance ceremony.

The starters of both sides are on the field.

The Thunder's starters are Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green and Nenad Kostic.

The Kings started a season-long lineup with little change, with Jason Kidd, DeMar DeRozan, Ron Artest, Chris Bosh and Tyson Chandler.

Safrosa is also on a rookie contract with the 76ers, and James Harden is reused to start with the Thunder. It's just that Harden's starter will be rested after a few minutes, and the main task is to lead the second-tier lineup to score.

"After a season, the inside problem still hasn't been solved?" Michael Curry said with a smile, with a slight hint of disdain for the Thunder in his eyes.

But Wang Tomorrow is serious and takes a more long-term view, moving from the Thunder's starter to their bench.

"The Thunder came out in the second half of the game, not just because a few youngsters were more impactful, but because their lineup was more reasonable, and I heard that the young man on the bench was later heavily used by Scott Brooks?"

Wang Mingming pointed his finger, Michael Curry looked at his finger, how do you know which one Wang Mingming said?

"Forget it, let's watch the field first."

The king turned his head tomorrow.

The reason why Wang Tomorrow said this is because when he checked the rating of the whole Thunder team before the game, he found that the Thunder team had a young player with a score of 85 points, including an offensive rebounding score of more than 80 and a block score of 89, almost a super blocker.

Sergi Ibaka, the Congolese striker has been honed for a season, and his defensive ability has skyrocketed, although he is still a substitute, but in fact he has begun to faintly affect the status of Jeff Green's No. 4 position.

In the regular season this season, he averaged 18.1 minutes of playing time per game, contributing 6.3 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocks.

On the field, the referee is already on the field.

The referee held the ball, exchanged ideas in front of the technical table, then picked up the whistle, put it in his mouth, and came to the center circle.

The Kings and Thunder players stood across from each other, with Tyson Chandler and Nenad Kostic jumping the ball.

Kostic is not well-known, but he is actually a young man, 27 years old, the oldest of the Thunder's starting five.

Chandler jumps to win.

Kidd took the basketball, his face calm, and dribbled steadily through the half court amid the offensive sound of the full-court call.

The roar of the fans in the stadium has an impact on players like Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook who are participating in the playoffs for the first time, and it is a huge impact on rookies like James Harden and DeMar DeRozan + players who are participating in the playoffs for the first time.

Tyson Chandler received the ball at the top of the arc, turned to the left, and covered with a hand-to-hand pass to DeRozan, who was spinning around.

James Harden was very close to the ground, it was a fake cover, DeRozan flickered by, and the basketball was called into Artest's hands.

Artest took advantage of Chandler's cover and cut into the middle, and Chandler went down at the same time.

Kostic had to defend Artest and Chandler behind him, and it was a dilemma, and the small steps were adjusted very quickly, but at that moment, there was still a gap.

Artest tossed the ball high and Chandler made three and two steps to get behind Kostic.

jumped blatantly, caught the ball with long arms, and completed a hanging frame dunk.

"Bang!"

The Arco Arena was boiling in an instant.

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"The Thunder are still too young, and Kevin Durant should choose to guard around Ron Artest instead of chasing the defense, because Ron Artest is not a good three-point shooter in the sport, he will not choose to shoot with dribbles easily, and Nenad Kostic's defense is also very hesitant, whether it is to pinch Ron Artest or stick to the inside, this must be a choice question."

The voice of the beautiful hostess is sweet, and the comments are the way.

Amy Johnson laughed twice in the American style, and then followed the topic and talked about Artest's problem: "We can see that Ron Artest has changed, this kind of ball, whether he is in the Pacers or in the Rockets, has never been passed, but now this season, it has become the normal offense of the Kings." ”

"That's right, Coach Wang Tomorrow gave Ron more room to play, or Ron apprenticed Jason Kidd, we never thought that such a strong man could pass such a delicate pass."

The scene was full of noise, James Harden's black face changed color, and his heart was pounding, as if he was playing an NBA game for the first time, that nervous feeling.

Thunder, Westbrook possession of the ball.

Westbrook raised his left arm, pretended to command, and was about to hand the ball to Kevin Durant, but Artest was experienced and blocked the pass to Durant.

Westbrook hesitated and didn't make the first pass.

It's okay if he doesn't pass it, Durant turns around and runs to open up space for Westbrook Cra.

Westbrook dribbled twice from the outside, and Kostic ran out and covered on the right-hand side, a very straightforward high pick-and-roll.

Kidd glanced at the "wall" out of the corner of his eye, took a sharp step back, and chose to let go of Westbrook's shot.

Westbrook also knew that his 22 percent three-point shooting rate in the season was really indiscriminate, and when he saw the center on the line, he stepped out with his right foot, and the whole person was like a Ferrari, and instantly accelerated in a straight line to a terrifying point, and the wind rushed through Kostic's right side.

Kidd was in front of him, flanked and stepped away with his right leg to follow Westbrook.

"Bang!"

The two faced off, and Westbrook was a point slower.

Unable to squeeze out of the powerful Kidd, Westbrook slowed down completely, eventually turning around on the paint and stalling the dribble.

Veteran ball Tyson Chandler decisively pinched Westbrook.

In a panic, I don't know if he was fouled by others, anyway, the basketball rolled out, and the quick-eyed Chris Bosh grabbed the basketball, lightly handed it to Kidd.

Aggro!

The "old people", with an average age of 28.6 years old, who are older than the oldest players in the Thunder's starting lineup, burst out at a speed that does not match their age at this moment, and they are also striding towards the frontcourt.

Kidd got a good run, a long pass.

Artest received the ball outside the three-point line, paused slightly, and pretended to chase three points, but suddenly flicked his wrist and threw the ball.

A black shadow flew over, took the basketball with both hands, and like a glider, smashed it into the frame from the other side of the fast attack.

"DeMar DeRozan!"

It's Artest's pass again, and it's an empty dunk again, and at this moment, the Kings are playing more like the Young Guards than this group of Northwest youngsters.