"Elwyn, how is your mother Barbara? If you need help, just say that for the recovery after surgery, in fact, the diet therapy in TCM is very good, and the team can contact you with the best TCM practitioners. ”

In the locker room of the Runners, Wang Lei was communicating with the players.

Elvin Butler has brought all of his family directly to Sacramento since signing with the team, and Oakland is a serious security problem with shootings every day.

Erwin's mother, Barbara, was completely retired after coming to Sacramento, and the leisurely life made the woman who had suffered a lot in her early years suddenly gain weight, and then suffered from heart disease, and just had heart bypass surgery a few days ago.

"Salish, you can't stop your medicine, I support Dr. Zhao, you have to insist on taking another course of Chinese medicine."

"And Stephen, remember going to Dr. Carlisle every week, I think he's a very reliable psychiatrist, at least you're a little bit better defensively now."

Almost every player on the Runners team knows Wang Lei very well, their family, their habits, and their psychological activities, Wang Lei can basically understand one or two now.

And Wang Lei has also established unparalleled prestige among the players through such exchanges, which is the player's respect and gratitude for his hard work.

The regular season is over, and the playoffs are in full swing in the next two days, and the Runners' first-round opponent is Texas' San Antonio Spurs, which are not all that easy to play against.

"The playoffs are just around the corner and it's going to be the first time a lot of you are in the playoffs and it's my first time in the playoffs, so to be honest, I'm a little nervous."

"I once heard the saying that when a person's desire to succeed exceeds the desire to breathe, the person is not far from success."

"I think this sentence is too idealistic, breathing is the survival instinct of human beings, and only survival is the most basic foundation for a person to truly succeed."

"But this sentence is also reasonable, you enter this alliance, some for money, some for honor, and even more to show off your strong body."

"However, since you have chosen the career of basketball, I believe that any of you love basketball, and you have found happiness through basketball, which is what has brought you to where you are now."

"I hope that my players can keep their love alive, keep a positive attitude, maintain a strong desire for money or glory or happiness, and then use that mentality, with this love to devote themselves to what we are doing now, and I believe that together we can go further and go higher."

The experience of two worlds, coupled with the experience of coaching over the years, Wang Lei's words inspired the fighting spirit of all the players of the Runners, which is a summary of the long regular season and a pledge meeting for the upcoming playoffs.

On April 15, 2021, the North American NBA League playoffs officially began.

As the league's No. 1 team, the Runners' playoff games have received a lot of attention, which is something that the league is happy to see and that they are promoting, especially in Asia, in the East, almost all Asian national television stations will broadcast the entire playoff games of the Runners.

And in Sautaca City, the team's home tickets for the playoffs have long been sold out, and the enthusiasm of the entire Sachusetts has been stimulated by the honor of the Runners winning the 2020-2021 regular season championship.

For the Runners' first-round opponents, the Spurs, they were lucky enough to make the playoffs, after all, they were able to squeeze into the top eight in the West thanks to a sudden drop in results caused by the Suns' internal turmoil.

But the Spurs, who are eighth in the West, don't plan to let the team just go to the last playoff round.

As the oldest team in the league in terms of average age, the Spurs have a natural advantage that the Runners don't have, and that is that they have a lot of playoff experience.

The Spurs are a very well-known retirement team in the entire league, many big-name stars will choose to take a salary cut to join the Spurs after their physical fitness declines, the living environment here is comfortable, and there are excellent medical conditions, coupled with the Texas tax system to a certain extent, it is more attractive to athletes to join, so the Spurs have no shortage of veterans with rich playoff experience over the years.

As for the Runners, the team's most experienced playoff veteran is the team's fringe figure, and although the atmosphere in the Runners is harmonious, this has always been their biggest flaw.

The Spurs, who came to Sasa City two days early, were very low-key in an interview, but they have a saying in the team that they want the league's No. 1 young team to see what the playoffs are.

Spurs head coach Alexander Pope has explained to the team's veterans before coming to Sax City, he believes that if it is against the Lakers, maybe the Spurs will be more than lucky, but against the Runners, who have basically zero playoff experience, the Spurs have a great chance to create a "black eight" miracle.

And, more importantly, the Spurs were the only team to beat the Runners home and away in the regular season this season, and their experience advantage is incredibly strong against the Runners.

Fernando Torris, the Spurs' core point guard, is also confident about the first round of the playoffs, and although he is 35 years old, the veteran believes that the Runners' style of play will lose its effect when they enter the playoffs, and their young players will struggle to maintain the same shooting percentage as they did in the regular season under pressure.

At 8 p.m. on April 15, 2021, the first game of the playoff game between the Runners and the Spurs kicked off at the Energy Balance Arena, the home of the Runners.

In the next season, the Energy Balance Arena will be renamed Anning Arena, and due to the relationship between Wang Lei and Turgon, the Republic businessmen, who are already preparing to develop the North American market, have a very strong interest in naming the home stadium of the Runners.

The Runners continued to have a more balanced lineup for the team's first playoff game, with Turgun and Blair in the backcourt, Sallich and Toby Sevig up front, and Erwin in the center.

The lineup on the Spurs' side is a little weird, they did not send the starting lineup in the regular season, but a short lineup like the Runners, which made Wang Lei a little incomprehensible.