On November 5, 2013, the Suns beat the Pelicans at home to make it four wins in a row, and flew overnight to San Antonio, where they will face the Spurs on November 6.

There are many teams full of "grievances" in the NBA, such as the Lakers vs Celtics, which is known as the classic yellow-green battle, and not all teams can meet multiple times in the Finals, for teams in the same division, they are more in the playoffs, and the beams formed in the playoffs will not be smaller than those in the Finals, what we want to introduce today is the love-hate relationship between the Suns and the Spurs!

The Suns and Spurs met 6 times in the playoffs between 2000 and 2010, and if you go back further, there were 3 meetings between 1993 and 1998, from Barkley to Kidd, Marbury to Nash, compared to the 90s, the grievances between the two teams after 2000 are more profound, especially the Suns during the Nash period, both sides are the top teams in the league, and even the favorites to win the championship. In the 2004-05 season, because Cuban did not choose to renew his contract, Nash chose to return to the Suns, the starting point of his career, at this time Nash was already a two-time All-Star, and no one could have imagined that such a small thin white man could change the future of the Suns! This year, the Suns won the most 62 wins in the league and won their first MVP!

Nash and D'Antoni may be the most seamless connection between master and apprentice, Nash's vision and passing ability combined with D'Antoni's offensive system, the Suns have blown a small ball wind in the league, and Smalls, Marion, and Joe Johnson have all improved this year! In the playoffs, the Suns and the Spurs, who are second in the West, meet in the Western Conference Finals as scheduled!

At that time, the Spurs had Duncan, the strongest power forward in history, and Parker and Ginobili have grown up this year, especially Ginobili, who is almost unguarded in the series against the Suns, averaging 22.2 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game!

The Spurs' composure finally defeated the Suns' running and bombing, and this series is also a series in which Xiao Si became famous, Xiao Bawang showed super face frame skills, and averaged 37.0 points and 9.8 rebounds per game against Duncan in 5 games! Hit rate up to 55%! There is one reason for the Suns' failure this year, and that is Joe Johnson's injury, as the team's No. 2 ball handler, he only played three games! The Spurs were really strong this year, and in the words of the year's championship-winning documentary: "The Suns were really fast, but we showed the world that the Spurs can win at different speeds." ”

In the 2005-06 season, Smalls was injured and Joe Johnson left, although Nash won the MVP for a second time, but the Suns met the peak Mavericks in the playoffs! The Mavericks sent the defending champion Spurs home in seven games in the Western Conference semifinals, and then took out the Suns in the Western Conference finals! Xiao Si watched the whole round of this series, and it is worth mentioning that in the battle of Tianwang Mountain, Nowitzki scored an astonishing 50 points! Quite a blast!

In the 2006-07 season, the healthy return of Xiao Si made the Suns full of hope, and the lineup of Nash, Marion, Barbossa, Ragabel, Stoudemire, and Dio should be remembered by many people, and this year's Suns may also be the strongest Suns in those years!

In the playoffs, the Suns and Spurs became the biggest favorites in the West after the Mavericks were blacked out, and the two teams met in the Western Conference semifinals! This year's regular season Spurs were the team with the lowest points conceded, while the Suns were the team with the most points! It can be said that it is a battle of contradictions!

After three games, the Suns trailed the Spurs 1-2, and in the last 20 seconds of the fourth game, the Suns 100-97 Spurs and possessed the ball, so it can be said that the victory was in hand, but there was a turning point here, when Nash broke through the defense of Spurs veteran Horry, Horry elbowed Nash hard with his arm and pushed Nash down on the billboard. "He tried to stop me with his body, and I understand how he feels." Nash said calmly after the win.

However, Nash, who had just gotten up from the ground, pounced on Horry, and Suns coach De Anthony and his team rushed at Horry in anger. Fortunately, the referee stopped it in time, so it didn't turn into a group fight. The referee then sent Horry off the pitch. "The referee was right, it was a malicious foul, similar to a rugby foul!" Teammate Raga Bale was angry as if he had been violated. Xiao Si, who once criticized the Spurs for their "dirty" style of play, also said: "You saw it, right? As I said, they're a 'dirty' team, it's not someone doing that now, all of them use extremely hurtful moves, I'm sure it was premeditated. ”

But at this time, Xiao Si and Dio on the bench couldn't help but leave the bench, and because of this small move, Xiao Si and Dior were banned for one game respectively!

The Suns won Game 4, but the key Kings G5, due to the absence of Xiao Si and Dior, the Suns lost to the Spurs by 3 points and eventually lost the series. Now it seems that this could be the year when Nash and Smalls are most likely to challenge for a championship, and if they cross the Spurs, with the Mavericks out early, the Western Conference Finals and Finals opponents are the Jazz and the Young Cavaliers, respectively! The chances of the Suns winning the championship are very high!

When Nash, whose face was covered in blood, continued to play with duct tape on his nose, all the fans didn't realize that the Spurs' malicious aggression against Nash had just begun - the bridge of his nose was broken in the first game, and his lower body was hit in the third game - and in the fourth game, Nash was violently pushed down on the advertising board and almost caused a group fight. Although the Spurs have repeatedly criticized the Spurs' dirty style of play, the Spurs are not ashamed but proud, "He has 24 points and 15 assists, and other than that, we don't know how to stop Nash?" Coach Popovich's words left everyone dumbfounded.

"There's nothing more important than defending Nash. You know, we're fighting a two-time MVP, and he's not someone who can be easily defended. I think Horry's foul was inevitable, and I can't think of anything else that could stop him. Spurs coach Popovich's words really left everyone speechless.

What he said is completely reasonable, since the playoffs, Nash, who has contributed an average of 20 points and 11 assists per game, is not something that can be prevented with conventional actions, but he is so brazen to shield and instigate his team members to play black hands and black feet, and the Spurs definitely deserve the word "dirty".

Popovich didn't feel guilty at all after the game, and instead of refuting the "dirty" comments, the Spurs felt that it matched the intensity of the game. "It's impossible to avoid physical contact in such a tight playoff game, and if you feel intimidated by that, then you don't deserve to be a man, let alone win." The main player Duncan said so, and about the group fight that almost started yesterday, Duncan, who scored 21 points and 11 rebounds and lost the game, was full of provocation, "Oh, I mean, if somebody wants to fight me, come on." We'll do that again in the next game, and we'll have a lot of physical contact, so if you're not a, take on the challenge! ”

Presumably, at that time, Suns fans hoped that there would be a Pachulia-like character in the team's lineup, and from the 2016 season to the 2017 season, Pachulia stepped on Leon Ryder, and how many Spurs fans shouted in major forums that the Warriors played dirty? Victory or not? But I didn't think that there is a reincarnation in the way of heaven, who is the dirtiest team in the league? If you look at the evaluation of NBA stars, they are only evaluating Pachuria's dirty play, who will speak for the real dirty team - the Spurs? Even Popovich knew that no one believed them when they said that other people were playing dirty, so he said that it was over, after all, when it comes to stepping feet, don't people still think of your Spurs' Bowen? When the Spurs recruited Carter, Carter said that he would rather not win the championship than never go to the Spurs.

Before the game, Li Mojie and his friends were stunned by the messages under the official website of the Suns when they visited the forum, about the Suns VS Spurs game, the number of comments from fans reached more than 900,000, which was a combination of the number of messages in the first four games.

"Kill the San Antonio!"

"Mo Jie, please lead us to win this game!"

"Why haven't these dirty people been kicked out of the alliance by Stern yet?"

"Only this one, we can't lose!"

"Major, it looks like our fans hate the Spurs!" Middleton said as he read the forum message a little.

Middleton still pointed out a few messages with a less strong tone and read them, and the other tone and words were simply unsightly, but Li Mojie also came to a conclusion from it: This game is no less than a derby battle in the football world, and in the face of the sworn rival Spurs, you must not lose!