After entering April 2000, this season's NBA regular season has come to an end, and all teams are seizing the time to make the final sprint, hoping to get better rankings, and better results, in this trend, the Spurs are undoubtedly a clear stream, the Spurs are still constantly resting, and even the Spurs' tactics are different in each game, it can be seen that Popovich is already preparing for the upcoming playoffs.

In the road trip that began in February, the Spurs lost to the Heat, Magic, Kings, Suns, plus the last two losses to the Trail Blazers and Mavericks in March, 6 consecutive losses are also the longest losing streak of the Spurs this season, after a wave of consecutive defeats, the Spurs have fallen to the fourth place in the West, and were overtaken by their old rival Jazz in the regular season rankings.

After a six-game losing streak, the Spurs will face two weak teams in a row, the Grizzlies and the Rockets, and even Tim Duncan has begun to rest in these two games. At the beginning of this season, the Rockets were still ambitious to hit the highest honor again, and the regular season results once ranked in the top three in the West, but the injury of the big dream Olajuwon made all this come to naught, and before the big Olajuwon dream season was reimbursed, Charles Barkley was reimbursed for the season because of the injury of the quadriceps Achilles tendon, and the team's two bigwigs were both reimbursed and the Rockets instantly became a fish belly team, and Barkley, who felt that he had no hope of winning the championship, recently revealed the idea of retiring.

Although Duncan was rested, the Spurs easily beat the Grizzlies and Rockets to improve their record to 54 wins with four games remaining.

On April 11, 2000, the Spurs ushered in the last road trip of the season after beating the Rockets on the road, and after this game against the Kings, the Spurs' road trip of the season will also be over. The Spurs, who rested three main players in this game, obviously did not mean to do their best, but the Kings were different, and in order to secure their eighth position in the West, the current Kings did their best in every game.

In this case, facing the Spurs led by Meng Xu and Sean Etellio, the King only took three quarters to beat the Spurs, as the tactical core of this game, Meng Xu only played 20 minutes, scored a career-high 32 points, including 8 of 12 three-pointers, in addition to 4 assists, 8 rebounds, 5 steals and 1 block. There was also a small episode in the third quarter of the game, when only 3 minutes into the third quarter, Meng Xu hit a 3-pointer to break through 30 points in the game, Popovich suddenly patted his head, shouted a timeout, and then replaced Meng Xu with Triporter, and Meng Xu never got the chance to play again in the subsequent game.

After the loss to the Kings on the road, the Spurs returned to San Antonio to prepare for their final four home games, the first of which was against the Jazz. Since the rankings of the two teams have been basically determined, both teams played very relaxed in this game, the Jazz two old Malone and Stockton only played less than 20 minutes, and then went to rest, although it is the league's iron man in addition to the name, but with the increase of age, Malone and Stockton are now a little unbearable, so in the last few games, Sloan also began to arrange for two people to rest, but it is not as blatant as Popovich's rotation rest, after all, Sloan is thin-skinned. The main players of the Spurs side played all the games, but they were basically the same as the Jazz, each of them played for more than ten minutes and then went to rest, and in the end, the Spurs also won the Jazz by 3 points 87-84 in this game.

"This group of fans is really good." Because Meng Xu scored a season-high 32 points in the last game against the King, becoming the second player of the Spurs to score 30+ in a single game this season, the fans of the Spurs also cheered for Meng Xu throughout the game, and even some fans wearing Meng Xu's No. 5 jersey held up a sign that said 32 on it. Popovich is not only a very demanding coach of the team, but also limits the playing time of the team's main players, so it is very difficult to get high scores in the Spurs, even Duncan has only 4 30+ times this season, and other players even David Robinson have not had 30+ once.

And when the game ended, in order to express his gratitude to the fans on the field, Meng Xu also went around the field to express his gratitude to the fans who had not yet left the stadium.

After the Jazz game, the Spurs won at home against the Grizzlies and Wizards, and after losing 86-97 at home to the Raptors on April 19, the regular season came to an end, with the Spurs finishing fourth in the West with a 58-24 record.

After the regular season, the Spurs will have two days off before playing the Suns, their first opponent in the playoffs, at home on the 21st. After the regular season, the NBA quickly arranged the playoff matchups.

In the first round of this year's playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers won 67-15 this season, the second winning record in team history, and the Lakers will face the Kings who are 44-38 in the first round of the playoffs.

The Trail Blazers are in second place in the West with a 61-21 record, and in the final stage of the regular season, the Trail Blazers have begun to adjust when they are hopeless to catch up, and most of the last few games have ended in losses, and the Trail Blazers will face Payton's Seattle SuperSonics in the playoffs, and the SuperSonics almost fell behind in the final moments of the season.

After having the same record as the Spurs last season, the Jazz have the same 58-24 record as the Spurs this season, but this season the Jazz have seen a 3-1 record against the Spurs to overtake the Spurs in the rankings, and the Jazz will face the 50-32 Timberwolves in the first round of the playoffs.

In the East, the Pacers have one foot a year, ranking first in the East this season with a record of 56 wins and 26 losses. The Pacers will face the Bucks, who are 42-40 in the first round.

After finishing first in the East last year, the Miami Heat are in second place in the East this season with a 52-30 record and will face the 42-40 Pistons in the first round of the playoffs.

The Knicks' performance this year is also very good, compared with last year's almost unable to enter the playoffs, this year's Knicks are ranked third in the East with a record of 50-32, and the playoffs will face the Toronto Raptors 45-37, Vince Carter, who is only in the second year, not only played MVP-level data this season, but also successfully brought the Raptors into the playoffs.

The Philadelphia 76ers have also had a decent season, finishing fourth in the East with a 49-33 record and facing the Hornets in the playoffs.