After the selection of the regular season awards, the NBA league's schedule for the semifinals of the Eastern and Western Divisions has also been released, the two teams with the best regular season records in the Western Conference, the Spurs and the Mavericks, have to meet in the semifinals in advance under this special format arrangement this season, and the Eastern Conference, the Pacers, who are in the top four in the regular season, the Heat, the Nets, and the Pistons, after eliminating their respective opponents, have also advanced to the next round, and in the semifinals, the Pacers will face their sworn enemies, It is also the Pistons, who have the second-highest record in the East in the regular season.

This weird ranking rule directly led to the fact that the two strongest teams in the east and west met in advance in the semi-finals instead of the finals, so after the semi-finals schedule was released, there were a lot of doubts immediately, and the two strongest teams stumbled in the semi-finals, which directly led to the fact that the excitement of the divisional finals is likely to be less than the semi-finals. It is undoubtedly the top of the alliance who slaps his thighs indiscriminately.

David Stern, who is only now aware of the seriousness of the matter, also had to stand up amid the doubts and said that after the end of the season, the league will convene the management of all players and hold a general meeting to formulate and arrange a more reasonable ranking rule after widely consulting everyone.

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On May 8, 2006, at 8 o'clock in the evening, the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals had not yet begun, and the Pacers' home bankers living arena was already full, compared to the Pistons and Mavericks who kept complaining about the ranking rules of this season, for the Pacers who played the same everyone, the Detroit Pistons were the opponent they wanted to meet the most, the feud between the Pacers and the Pistons has a long history, Mutombo and Chauncey Billups, James Posey and Ron Artest, The whole league knows about the personal feud between them, plus the Pistons and the Pacers poached each other, the Pistons poached the Pacers' Richard Hamilton, and the Pacers signed the Pistons' former head coach Rick Carlisle, so every time the Pistons and Pacers played, this feud reached its peak in the Eastern Conference Finals last season, an Auburn Hills group fight, which shattered the Pacers' four-game dream, so the Pacers up and down, now all holding their breath, ready to take revenge on the Pistons.

The Pistons' record this season is second only to the Pacers and ranked second in the East, but because of the ranking rules, they encountered the Cavaliers ranked fifth in the East in the first round of the playoffs. The series against the Pistons is definitely tougher than the series against the Bulls.

"The Pacers are a very good team, they have a 66-win regular season record this season, but the regular season is the regular season, the playoffs are the playoffs, the two are not comparable, there are a lot of teams that kill in the regular season, but they languid in the playoffs, so we don't have to be presumptuous, not to mention that we eliminated the Pacers last season, we have a way to deal with them, and the final victory must still be ours."

As a thorn who once competed with Chris Webb for the boss position, Peja Stojakovic has been much more low-key after swapping owners with Ron Artest, but after entering the playoffs, this thorn has obviously floated again, especially in the 7-game battle with the Cavaliers, slashing 41 points, averaging 26 points and 7 rebounds per game in the entire series, Peja Stojakovic is even more confident, for Peja Stojakovic in the contract year, The performance in this series is enough for him to get a big contract, and the outstanding performance in this series has also made Peja Stojakovic's careful thinking come alive again, becoming the boss of a team, has always been Peja Stojakovic's goal, and the Pacers are undoubtedly a very good stepping stone, as long as they can help the Pistons eliminate the Pacers in the series, and they also contribute a beautiful statistic by the way, Peja Stojakovic believes that some teams are willing to offer themselves the core position of the team.

"Remarks about Peja? I really don't know him well, and I've never seen him as an opponent, in my eyes, there is only one person who can pose a threat to us in the whole Pistons, and that is Richard Hamilton, I have been teammates with Richard, I know his strength, of course only Richard can't beat us. ”

"Is this my declaration of victory? To be honest, since the beginning of the season, we've only had one opponent, and that's the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, and of course Shaq's Heat is also one, you know, every time we meet Shaq's team, it's going to be tough, so we've started to figure out how to deal with Shaq and his Heat now. ”

"yes, you're right, we're already thinking about the next round, and for us, the Pistons are never a problem, the question is whether we're going to use four or five to send them back to fishing."

After Peja Stojakovic declared war on Meng Xu and the Pacers in the air, there were immediately media who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal to find Meng Xu, although Rick Carlisle has been persuading Meng Xu not to be fooled, not to care about the fanning of these media who are not as good as BIAO's, let alone make some radical remarks, but when Meng Xu was interviewed by USA Today, he couldn't help but open fire, and he was very arrogant and told USA Today reporters that we are already thinking about the next round.

"We're already thinking about the next round!" This is a classic and arrogant sentence that has been circulated for a long time, Larry Bird said it, and Maddie seems to have said it, but they all spoke wildly when they had a big lead, or when the two sides were strong or weak, and Xiang Meng Xu, the difference in strength between the two sides was not large, and the series was not played, so he said "We are already thinking about the next round", which is heard in the entire history of the NBA.