"18 wins in a row, 18 wins in a row, Meng, we have won 18 in a row!" On Dec. 4, when the Pacers beat the visiting Pistons 97-93 at home, increasing their winning streak to 18 games, tying the Pacers' record for the longest winning streak in franchise history set last season, all Pacers players on the court and on the sidelines on the bench rushed into the court and began to celebrate wildly.

"Let's go, Richard." Richard Hamilton, who has become a member of the Pistons, did not walk into the players' tunnel after leaving the court, but stood on the side of the court, watching the streamers falling from the top of the arena and those former teammates celebrating wildly in the center of the court. Milicic, who was about to walk into the players' tunnel, saw Hamilton in a daze, and plucked up his courage and called him softly, in the current Pistons, Milicic has no friends, from head coach Larry Brown to most members of the team, they are not very friendly to Milicic, and only Hamilton takes care of Milicic in his usual training.

In today's game, Hamilton, who returned to the bankers life arena as a Pistons player, can be said to be very embarrassing, although in the finals last season, Hamilton played a very important role in the series in which the Pacers defeated the Lakers, and also won Hamilton a big contract this season. However, Hamilton's move to join the Pistons as a free agent in the offseason was regarded as a betrayal by Pacers fans, so at today's appearance ceremony, Hamilton was a Pistons player who was booed by the Pacers fans on the spot, and on the court, as long as Hamilton touched the ball, the bankers arena would sound boos, and these boos were undoubtedly the fans' return for Hamilton's betrayal of the team. Of course, the most uncomfortable thing for Hamilton was that before the game started, Hamilton walked to the edge of the Pacers' bench and greeted these former teammates, only Meng Xu hugged him, and the rest of the players all pretended not to see it and didn't care about Hamilton at all, perhaps in their eyes, Hamilton was also a traitor who betrayed the team.

And Milicic, who came to the Bankers' Life Arena, was also in a trance after seeing Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle, and in less than 3 minutes of playing time, Milicic only shot 1 of 2 and got 2 points and 1 rebound. This year is a big year for the draft, with the top pick LeBron James, the spout pick Carmelo Anthony, the No. 4 pick Chris Bosh, the No. 5 pick Dwayne Wade, and even the No. 7 pick Kirk Hinrich, they all performed very well in their rookie seasons, especially James and Anthony, who are already showing superstar appearances. But Milicic, who is the star of this year's list, has rarely played time in the Pistons, who have played 18 games in the new game, but Milicic has only played in five games, averaging less than four minutes per game, and only averaging 1 point and 1 rebound per game.

Before walking into the players' tunnel, Milicic glanced back at Rick Carlisle, who was standing on the sidelines, and walked into the players' tunnel with mixed feelings, after Milicic confirmed his participation in the draft, Rick Carlisle, as the head coach of the Pistons, personally contacted Milicic and told him that the Pistons would use the No. 2 pick in their hands to select him, and also made a future development plan for him, all of which made Milicic very grateful, but just as Rick Carlisle called Milicic to tell him, Just one day after the Pistons had chosen him as promised, the excited and sleepless Milicic received the news of Rick Carlisle's departure, and Rick Carlisle's departure also cast a shadow on Milicic's upcoming Pistons career. And after Larry Brown took office, he traded All-Star power forward Rasheed Wallace from the Trail Blazers, Larry Brown himself does not like to develop rookies, plus Larry Brown does not like Milicic's style of play, so after having the inside combination of double Wallace, Larry Brown is even more unpleasant to the rookie selected by his predecessor, if it were not for the repeated requests of management, Larry Brown would not even want to give this rookie who looks soft for four minutes. In Milicic's subconscious, if Rick Carlisle was still in the Pistons, he might not be in the current situation, and Milicic also had an envious look on his face when he saw the Pacers players on the court who were frantically celebrating.

After tying the longest winning streak in team history, the Pacers at this time are already thinking about making persistent efforts to break the Bucks' 20-game winning streak, as for the Lakers' 33-game winning streak? That's too far for the Pacers, who are now on an 18-game winning streak.

On December 6, the Pacers defeated the Knicks 106-83 on the road, and then in back-to-back away games, relying on Meng Xu's stunner, the Pacers defeated the Nets 93-92, and the winning streak officially reached 20 games.

Just when the entire NBA and even the national sports world were talking about the Pacers' crazy start to 20 consecutive wins, the results of the first phase of the 2003-2004 All-Star voting season were released, and this year's All-Star voting began on November 13, with 60 candidates from each of the East and West, and after a total of three rounds of voting, five All-Star starters will be selected. After O'Neal and Rashid Wallace traveled east, this season's Eastern All-Star voting became more and more intense, in the center position, there are veteran All-Stars like Mutombo, and two-time best defensive player Ben Wallace, and the most dominant center in the entire league, Shaq O'Neal, in the forward position, there are Jermaine O'Neal, Rasheed Wallace, Vince Carter, Paul Pearce, as for the guard position, after Meng Xu changed to organizational guard, the competition is particularly fierce, Meng Xu, Jason Kidd, Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, no matter which of these four players missed this year's All-Star, it will undoubtedly be a very big loss for the entire league and all NBA fans.

Finally, after the league announced the results of the first round of voting, Ben Wallace surpassed O'Neal in the first place in the center position in the East with 540,000 votes, and Mutombo behind O'Neal was only less than 10,000 votes away from O'Neal. Originally, O'Neal's fans thought that after leaving the West and without Yao Ming's suppression, O'Neal would be able to become an All-Star starter again, but they didn't expect that even in the East, it would not be easy for O'Neal to sit in the starting position.

In the forward position, Vince Carter stands out, with the second total number of votes in the league, far ahead of the other candidates behind him, behind Vince Carter, Jermaine O'Neal's votes, also ahead of Rashid Wallace and Paul Pierce, although it is only the first round of voting results, but the vote in the forward position has basically been decided now, because whether it is Vince Carter or Jermaine O'Neal, the lead of the two of them is too big.

The last is the voting result in the guard position, after the first round of voting, Meng Xu became the first stage of the vote king with 870,000 votes, and behind Meng Xu, Allen Iverson, Tracy McGrady, Jason Kidd, the gap between the three of them, only tens of thousands of votes, may have to wait until the last round, to finalize, who will be the All-Star starter. As for this year's No. 1 pick, LeBron James, is really very sad, his position in the All-Star voting this year is guard, so with four gods above his head, James is basically hopeless this season.

As for the Western Conference, this year's All-Star voting is as stable as last season, with Yao Ming leading the way at the center position, two forwards Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, and two guards Kobe Bryant and Steve Francis are all far ahead of the other candidates, and after the first round of voting, the five of them have basically confirmed the All-Star starters for this season.

After the results of the first round of the All-Star voting were released, all the focus was on the All-Star voting for a while, and in this case, the whole Pacers team also came to Boston with great ease, ready to hit the league's second-place winning streak.

The Celtics sent away one of the twin stars Antoine Walker this summer and corrected Paul Pearce, who had reached the division semifinals for two consecutive seasons, and was full of thoughts about going further this season, but the current situation has cast a shadow on the Celtics, with the strong rise of the Heat and Pistons this season, the Celtics have now fallen to the sixth place in the East.

However, the Celtics still have a very good strength, this game from the first quarter, the Celtics have been biting the score tightly, and even at the end of the first half, they once led the Pacers by two points, but in the crucial third quarter, the Celtics were beaten by the Pacers 35-22 in a single quarter, and finally at the end of the game, 116-107, the Pacers had a thrilling victory over the Celtics.

After winning this game, the Pacers officially moved into second place on the NBA's all-time winning streak with a 21-game winning streak, leaving the Lakers with 33 consecutive wins ahead of them.