"Hey Tim, how are you doing over there?" After finishing the Eastern Conference Finals with the Cavaliers, before returning to Indianapolis, Meng Xu dialed Tim Duncan at the hotel where he was staying.

"What's going on? Don't you know what time it is? You've just finished the game, and the excitement hasn't passed yet, but I'm sleeping! I'm going to play tomorrow. As soon as Meng Xu said a few words excitedly, he heard Duncan on the other end of the phone complaining.

"Haha, of course it's the divisional finals, we've swept the Cavaliers to advance, you must not drop the chain again." Although Duncan complained on the phone, with Meng Xu's understanding of Duncan, even if Duncan slept soundly and called him himself, he would not be really angry, and Duncan's current complaints are eighty percent pretended, Duncan just doesn't want to show too much concern for himself in front of him.

"Whoever drops the chain, who drops the chain, you come to the west to try, do you think the teams in the west are all those weak chickens in your east?" Compared with the Pacers' sweeping all the way to the promotion, the Spurs' road to promotion was not so smooth, after eliminating the Nuggets 4-1 in the first round, in the next semifinals, the Spurs used some disgraceful means, only to spend six games to eliminate the Suns, and after entering the Western Conference finals, they met the stronger Lakers, although the Lakers only ranked fourth in the West in the regular season this season, but the discerning people know that this is not the true strength of the Lakers at all, The Lakers before Pau Gasol joined and the Lakers after are fundamentally two different teams, so the Spurs and Lakers also played extremely hard in the Western Conference finals, after four games, the two sides played a 2-2 draw, and tomorrow is the battle of who can take the initiative.

"The strength is not good, the strength is not good, why do you make so many excuses, I have played the finals with the western team four times, and I have not seen that western team can win against me, if I am in the western region, I will still sweep them all the way." Hearing that Duncan also said that the so-called West is strong and the East is weak, Meng Xu immediately became calm, didn't they all say that the Western team was strong? So why have they only won one championship in the last five years? And the Pacers have reached the Finals four times, and they haven't seen that Western Conference team have the last laugh.

"Strong or not, we will know if we play one game this year, you can win so many championships, in your own words, there is no tiger monkey in the mountains to call the king, if your opponent in the final is the Spurs, you will have already been beaten by me, how can it be your turn to blow water, okay, okay, I won't tell you, I'm going to sleep." After babbling, Duncan hung up the phone.

"Hey, hey, hey, this guy is not polite at all."

Meng Xu cares about the Western Conference Finals between the Spurs and the Lakers no less than the Cavaliers, first, Meng Xu wants to know who his Finals opponent is, and another thing is well known, Meng Xu very much hopes to meet with the Spurs and Duncan in the Finals.

On the other end of the phone, Duncan, who put down the phone in his hand, also fell into melancholy, I don't know if he was worried about the battle with the Lakers tomorrow, he was silent for a long time, watching the game clip between the Pacers and the Cavaliers that was still playing back on the TV, Duncan drank some red wine from the wine glass on the table in front of him, and then turned off the TV and walked towards his bedroom.

After a night's rest in Cleveland, the Pacers returned to Indianapolis en masse, and the Pacers team also ushered in a rare day off.

Although the Eastern Conference Finals of the Pacers and Cavaliers brought together the two most popular stars in the league today, in terms of overall attention and ratings, the Eastern Conference Finals are still a cut short of the Western Finals, because compared to the Eastern Conference Finals, which have some disparities in strength, the Western Conference Finals are undoubtedly evenly matched, four games, the difference between the two sides is maintained at about 5 points, and the fourth game of the series is only decided through overtime, as for the fifth game between the two sides, because the Eastern Conference Finals have all ended, this game is even more expected by the United States, Almost all the media reporters gathered in San Antonio.

After the Lakers "robbed" Pau Gasol from the Grizzlies this season, the overall strength of the team has directly risen to more than one level, from a team that is hovering on the edge of the playoffs to a team that is enough to compete for the championship, Pau Gasol's addition is not only as simple as bringing a reliable helper to Kobe, but more importantly, after having Paul Gasol, who has a superb ball quotient, the Lakers immediately played the triangle offense that Phil Jackson wanted, You must know that before Pau Gasol joined, although the Lakers were also playing a triangle offense, the offensive triangle composed of Kobe Bryant, Ramar Odom and Derrick Fisher was a mess, more often, the Lakers still need to rely on Kobe's personal ability to solve the game, and after having Pau Gasol, the Lakers' triangle offense has directly achieved a qualitative change.

However, the Spurs have a lot of experience in dealing with triangle offense, since the O'Neal era, the Spurs have been fighting with the Lakers in the playoffs, and the Lakers' run-in has always had some problems, so in the battle between the Lakers and the Spurs, when Tim Duncan perfectly limited Pau Gasol, the Lakers have become the team that relies on Kobe Bryant's infinite singles.

Even though Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 39 points in the battle of Tianwang Mountain, after Pau Gasol was blocked, no one in the Lakers could stand up to bear the pressure for Kobe, and the Lakers finally lost the battle of Tianwang Mountain 91-94.

On the eve of Children's Day 61, the Lakers, who lost the battle of Tianwang Mountain, faced the Spurs at home at the Staples Center, and the Spurs, who had already won the match point, still chose to play steadily, while the Lakers once again fell into a similar situation as in the last game, Pau Gasol did almost nothing on the offensive end under the restriction of Tim Duncan, although Kobe Bryant scored a high score of 35 points today, but the Lakers still had no choice but to lose the game.

After the Spurs eliminated the Lakers with a total score of 4-2 in two consecutive cities, the 06-07 season Finals schedule was officially released, and the league finally ushered in the long-awaited "Wake Forest Two-Heroes" matchup.