Here, the 76ers defeated the Celtics 4-2 to advance to the Finals, but the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Spurs were still very anxious. On the same day that the 76ers slaughtered the Celtics in Game 6, the Spurs also narrowly beat the Lakers 98-96 on their home court with Duncan's last-minute mid-range shot, tying the score at 3-3.

And unexpectedly, in this game, the young Duncan directly got O'Neal on the inside, although his body is not as strong as the opponent, but neither technology nor mentality is left behind. Duncan recorded a big double-double of 32 points and 22 rebounds, while also dished out a team-high six assists, along with three blocks and one steal. O'Neal also had a double-double of 27 points and 14 rebounds, but was still slightly inferior to Duncan.

For the 76ers, the Western Conference Finals tiebreaker is definitely good news, which means they can sit back in Philadelphia and wait for the eventual winner to come to the door. Whether it's the Lakers or the Spurs, most of their energy must have been consumed, and it's very likely that they won't be able to perform at their normal level when they fly all the way to Philadelphia.

While focusing on training, the 76ers coaching staff is also focusing on the final game of the Western Conference Finals, in fact, they don't know which team to expect to be their opponent in the Finals. The Lakers were old friends in last season's Finals, but this time they added Szczebiak, a shooter who averaged more than 15 points per game. The 76ers did win the game against the Lakers in the first half of the season, but Szczebiak was still trying to fit into the team at the time, and now it seems that he has succeeded, and he is fully qualified to be the third man after the "OK combination" after hitting 2.3 three-pointers per game.

The Spurs are relatively easier to deal with than the Lakers, who are ranked lower than the Lakers, and Brown is very familiar with Popovich. But they also have an advantage on the inside, to some extent even more than the Lakers, the twin towers of Duncan and Robinson are not something that any team can bear, the starting interior combination of Durham Porter and Lewis is very powerful, but compared to the Spurs twin towers is not at the same level at all, if you want to play against them, how to minimize the impact of the interior is the first task that the 76ers coaching staff must complete.

In addition to the interior, the Spurs' backcourt is not bad, Parker has shown what it takes to be a good commander, he can contribute 9.2 points and 4.3 assists per game in the regular season, and he is not afraid to face strong opponents in the playoffs, and his partner Steve Smith is shooting 47.2% from three-point range, averaging 11.6 points per game, which is the Spurs' third scoring point after the twin towers. Interestingly, the Spurs' small forward is similar to the 76ers, and he is also a pure defensive player - Bruce Bowen, but Bowen's defensive style is much dirtier than Bale, but it is undeniably very effective.

If he plays against the Spurs, Chang Wei is very worried about Reed, he will definitely be the focus of Bowen's defense, in case he encounters a black hand in the game and causes injury, it will not be worth it, Chang Wei fully believes that Bowen can do such a thing. So in that regard, he still hopes that the 76ers will play against the Lakers in the Finals again.

Under the watchful eye, the seventh game of the Western Conference Finals officially kicked off at the Staples Center, and Brown also specially organized all the members to use the big screen in the conference room to watch the live broadcast of the tie-breaker, so that no matter who the final opponent is, there will be an intuitive impression, obviously the tie-break is the best way to observe and compare the strength of the two teams.

Perhaps because the previous six games were enough for Popovich and Zen Master to test each other, this time they still did not change their starting lineup, the Lakers are Fisher, Kobe, Szczebiak, Walker and O'Neal, and the Spurs are Parker, Smith, Bowen, Robinson and Duncan. This made Chang Wei have to admire Popovich's audacity, and it was the best choice to be the team's sixth talent at Robinson's age, but Bobo still put him in the starting lineup.

Sure enough, as soon as he got on the court, the Lakers used him as a breakthrough, and Walker kept asking for the ball in the low post and tried to single Robinson with his back. In fact, Walker's shooting percentage this season is still good, ranking third in the Lakers team at 51.2%, which also makes him confident about bullying Robinson. But as one of the four centers of the year, Robinson, although he has come to the end of his career, is not something that a player like Walker can beat, the latter not only failed to score, but was covered with two big hats next to Duncan, who assisted in the defense, and had no choice but to hand the ball to his interior partner O'Neal to solve the problem.

However, before O'Neill could open up the situation on the inside, Fisher was blown up on the outside by the young French sports car Parker, whose speed was completely incomparable to Parker's. And with Duncan's selfless cover, Parker is almost in a no-man's land, and although he has not yet developed the signature small toss and gyroscopic dribbles in the future, it has also caused a lot of trouble for the Lakers.

At the end of the first quarter, the Spurs unexpectedly led 32-27, while Parker scored eight points and four assists, making him the brightest player of the game in the first quarter. The Lakers' 27 points mostly came from O'Neal's contribution, although Kobe Bryant also wanted to help the team on the offensive end, but he encountered Bowen, the famous defensive master in the history of the league, and now Kobe Bryant was at a loss in the face of Bowen's small actions, and he was too angry to eat a technical foul before the first quarter was too angry.

The Lakers stepped up their interior offense in the second quarter, and O'Neal basically caught Robinson very well every round, and it did allow him to score a lot of points. It's a pity that in retrospect, the points he got on the offensive end were basically recovered by Duncan, and Duncan played more easily than him, and his continuous mid-range shooting directly taught the opponent to be a man.

The score of the two sides was tied at 61 at the end of the first half, and the first half of the game was obviously worth the ticket price, and the only thing that made the Lakers fans on the scene unhappy was that Kobe Bryant didn't get much opportunity to play in the first two quarters, Bowen stuck to him like a piece of kraft candy, and greeted him with small movements in the corner where the referee couldn't see.

Naturally, Bowen became the player who got the most boos in the game, but with the thickness of his face, this is just a drizzle, in his opinion, he can help the Spurs win the game, and whoever likes to say what he does can say!