Every year, many teams start sprinting after All-Star Weekend in hopes of getting a better position to dominate the playoffs. Of course, those teams that aspire to the top pick will continue to work hard to release the water and make it their mission to get the worst record in the league, and they rarely think about whether this is a draft year or not, and they are blindly confident in their vision anyway.

In the history of the NBA, many teams have relied on a draft to turn over and step into the ranks of strong teams, which is also the most ambitious goal of many fish belly. The most famous of these is the Bucks, who joined in 1968 and drafted Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the following year and won the championship in the 1970-71 season, setting a record for the shortest time for an NBA team to win a championship. The same was true of the Bulls' selection of Jordan in the 1983 draft, who went on to bring six championships to the team and make him one of the greatest teams in league history, despite Jordan's early hits.

But none of that has any effect on the 76ers, who are only aiming for a championship. Billy King's operational ability is still too watery, and if the general manager position is the old foxes of Jerry West, Danny Ainge and Pat Riley, Chang Wei may still be able to expect the team to get a future high draft pick. Billy King's words are forgotten, Chang Wei feels that it is better to focus on Taobao with a low pick in the 76ers, and if you want to get a high pick, you must definitely give up one or even a few main players.

The 76ers' record is now unrivaled in the East, and although the Kings and Lakers are close to each other in the West, the 76ers can at least guarantee that they have home-court advantage until the Eastern Conference Finals. However, it would be nice to maintain that advantage until the finals, and they are still in the lead.

However, for the 76ers, the sprint stage is not without impact, especially those teams that are on the threshold of the playoffs, no matter how strong the opponent is, they will go up to fight with red eyes, and a lucky win will be considered a return to the cost. Although the NBA does not have a relegation and relegation system, it is absolutely possible to fight for a playoff spot, let alone the 76ers, even if the Bulls won 72 games that year, didn't they lose 10 games? Rabbits can bite when they are in a hurry.

The only good thing is that although the average age of the 76ers is not very old, there is nothing to say in terms of experience, and most of the players have experienced the seven games of the Finals last season. They can make the best guarantee that they don't capsize in the gutter, which is enough for the strong teams, after all, they dare not say that they are sure to win against any team.

The schedule is also relatively friendly for the 76ers, with the exception of the Celtics in the same division, the other strong teams have basically played each other before the All-Star weekend, in other words, their schedule after the All-Star break is relatively easy, which also emboldens Brown to execute a large rotation and give the bench more time to work.

Naturally, the most satisfied with such an arrangement was Arenas. Although he has been on the official rookie list for a long time, it is difficult to appear at the top of the list, and the Rookie of the Week award has only been won once, which is completely unacceptable for an ambitious player. Now that he has more minutes and shots with Brown's tacit approval, his personal data will naturally improve a lot, which is very conducive to him competing with Gasol, the hottest rookie at the moment, for the Rookie of the Year award.

In fact, there is a reason why Brown has increased the playing time of the bench lineup, the intensity of the playoffs is more than a notch higher than that of the regular season, although the main players have to play more time because of this, but this is not without a bottom line, Brown as a proven head coach must create time for them to rest. In order not to let the situation get out of control after the main team is off the court, it is completely necessary to have a set or even several sets of powerful bench lineups, and the 76ers have enough personnel reserves in this regard, but more run-in is needed.

Arenas is excited about his rising numbers, but Chang Wei is not optimistic about him becoming the best rookie of the season, and Gasol is also being cultivated by the Grizzlies as a future core, and Arenas is only a backup scorer for the 76ers. And each individual award will be announced directly at the beginning of the playoffs, which means that even if the 76ers win the championship for a second time, they will not add a little impression point to Arenas. However, seeing that Arenas played chicken blood every day, Chang Wei thought about it, don't pour cold water on this guy, his current state is still very good for the game.

Soon the 2001-02 regular season came to an end, and the top eight in the East and West were largely clear. Unlike last year, the gap between the ninth-place teams in the East and West and the top eight is not small, with the Wizards already 2.5 wins behind the eighth-place Hornets, and the Clippers in the West trailing the Jazz by as many as four wins, which is almost impossible to erase with few games left. However, Chang Wei still feels a bit bleak when he sees that the Jazz are only ranked eighth in the West, and Stockton and Malone are still on the team, but now they, including this team, have entered the aging process.

However, Chang Wei still expects them to cause some problems for the top of the Western Conference in the first round of the playoffs, and it doesn't matter if the top spot is the Kings or the Lakers. Of course, judging from the impression of the previous life, it is more beneficial for the 76ers if the Lakers are the words, after all, if nothing else, the Lakers will once again reach the finals and compete with the 76ers for the championship. But Chang Wei is not sure whether he will change the course of history, at least in terms of overall strength, the Kings and Spurs are also strong contenders for the Western Conference championship.

After the end of the regular season, the dust has finally settled on the top eight teams in the East and West, and the first to eighth teams in the East are the 76ers, Celtics, Raptors, Nets, Pistons, Pacers, Bucks and Hornets; In the West, the Lakers, Spurs, Kings, Mavericks, Timberwolves, Trail Blazers, SuperSonics, and Jazz. The 76ers don't have any ideas about this order, after all, they are the first in the East, only others look at their faces, they don't need to be afraid of any team in the East, it's not impossible to fall before the Finals, and there are even top teams in NBA history who have suffered the Black Eight, but everyone has confidence in themselves.

The first-round opponent Hornets is not a big deal, although they have Mashburn, one of the "Dallas 3Js" of the year, and Byron Davis, the bearded point guard, but the overall strength is completely incomparable to the 76ers, maybe for them to make the playoffs is a success, the second round is already out of reach.