When the Lakers were swept home cleanly, the Eastern Conference Finals were unexpectedly anxious.

After losing two away games in Chicago, Larry Bird led his team to two straight home wins, including the fourth game in the final moments, Reggie Miller pushed Jordan away and hit a three-pointer, which is a classic!

In the fifth game, the Bulls who returned to their home court won Tianwang Mountain, but in the sixth game, the Pacers who returned to Indianapolis tied the score again!

3：3！

In the seventh game of life and death, under the command of Larry Bird, the Pacers led by 13 points as soon as they came up. Phil Jackson hurriedly adjusted, first letting Kukoc and Rodman force the inside, and then letting Kerr and Buichler shoot from the perimeter, and the Bulls took the lead in the halftime.

But Larry Bird didn't give up, and neither did the tenacious Pacers. In the fourth quarter, they chased the score back!

With nine minutes left in the game, the Pacers led 72-69. Phil Jackson adjusted at the right time, and the whole team increased their defense, controlled the rebounds in the front and back courts, and Pippen hit two key goals!

When the final whistle blew, the Bulls won 88-83 and won the Eastern Conference championship with a score of 4-3 to enter the Finals!

Larry Bird's brow furrowed, he knew the Pacers were one successful offense and defense away from the Finals!

"We're not lucky enough!"

On June 3, the finals were officially staged.

This is the second year that the Bulls and Jazz will meet in the finals, and both teams have a regular season record of 62 wins, but the Jazz beat the Bulls twice in the regular season, so they have a home-court advantage!

Due to the distance between the east and west, in order to reduce the fatigue of travel, the format of the Grand Finals has been 2-3-2 since 1985. That is, the team with home field advantage plays two home games first, then three away games, and if the series is not over, then come back and play two more home games!

Later, many pundits decided that the 2-3-2 format would be good for the teams that were behind because they could play three home games in a row, so in 2014 the Finals became a 2-2-1-1-1 format, the same as the other playoffs.

In the first game of the Bulls Jazz, the Jazz, who had home-court advantage, dragged the game into overtime, and then narrowly won by 3 points in overtime. In the second game, the Bulls won the away victory, and the big score was tied 1:1!

The classic third game is coming, the Bulls who returned to their home court won with a score of 98:54, and the poor Jazz actually set the lowest single-game score since the NBA adopted a 24-second offensive time limit!

Countless fans exclaimed, is this really a finals? Are the Jazz really the highest level team in the West?

Larry Bird, who was watching the game, was also sighing on the sidelines at this time. The league is strong and weak, and if it is the Pacers who enter the Finals, he is confident that he will beat the Jazz so badly!

If you want to say that the most surprised person after watching the game, it has to be Li Wei!

This year's Jazz team is different from the Jazz team in previous lives, they traded Hornacek for the Knicks' Starks before the start of the season!

But this still didn't stop the Jazz from losing in the finals, the only difference is that the final score has changed from 96:54 in the previous life to 98:54 now!

The Bulls actually scored two more points than in their previous life!

History is always strikingly similar!

Then, Li Wei's familiar plot happened again. Pippen suffered a recurrence of his back injury, went undercover in the fifth game, and only made 2 of 16 shots, and the Jazz took the opportunity to win the first game.

In the sixth game, Pippen's back injury was even more unbearable, and he received electrotherapy in the locker room in the second and third quarters.

In the fourth quarter, Jordan was obviously physically exhausted, but he still stayed on the court, attacking again and again.

In the final moments, he steals Karl Malone, bursts into the front court with the ball, stops at the top of the arc, dribbles to the left, and then pushes down the defender to hit the last shot!

Lore, the Bulls win!

Phil Jackson and his team won their sixth championship!

Li Wei looked at the scene in front of him and was speechless in surprise.

All this is too similar to the memories of his previous life, maybe there is only one difference between the two - in the previous life, Jordan pushed Russell, and in this life, Jordan pushed down the Jordan terminator Starks, who he traded to the Jazz!

"Alas, Starks, you're too good to change anything!" Li Wei sighed.

When reporters stormed the field to interview the Bulls' championship-winning players, an era came to an end.

And another new era will also open a chapter!

"Dad, can our Knicks win a championship like the Bulls?" Xie Siqi asked.

Li Wei glanced at the girl beside him.

Dinah is also pregnant, and everyone in the family has to raise a baby, so he can only bring two daughters to Salt Lake City to watch the game this time. Fortunately, the summer vacation in the United States is early, and it is already June, and Xie Siqi and Sylvia are on vacation, so they can run around with him.

"Of course you can, our Knicks are the strongest team!" Li Weidao.

"But you were eliminated by Larry Bird." Sylvia exposed his shortcomings on the other side of Li Wei, and what was even more interesting was that the little girl's sentence was said in Chinese.

In fact, Sylvia has been learning Chinese, but Luo Wei doesn't like to speak, and Li Wei usually doesn't speak, so her speaking skills are very poor. This year, Xia Cuirong, Xie Siqi and others have moved in, and the frequency of everyone speaking Chinese has greatly increased, and Sylvia can drag a few sentences if she is fine.

Xie Siqi immediately said: "Dad is letting him play a game first, after all, Bird is a senior, and the next time we meet, he will not be polite." ”

"You, it's really hopeless, our dad brags and believes it!" Sylvia said.

"Our dad never brags!" Xie Siqi pouted, then looked at Li Wei and said, "Dad, you said yes?" ”

Li Wei nodded: "Siqi is right!" ”

"Two shameless guys!" Sylvia pouted.

Xie Siqi said: "Dad, why is our team called the Knicks?" It's dirty! Why not change the name to a handsome one? ”

"Dirty?" Li Wei was slightly stunned, and then chuckled.

Many fans may have noticed that NBA team names are paraphrased, not transliterated. For example, the Bulls did not translate it into Bull according to the pronunciation, and the Bucks did not translate it into Buck, everything was translated according to the original meaning of English.

The Celts sound like a transliteration, but in fact it is also a paraphrase, this is an ancient people in Western Europe, the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh, etc., all belong to this people. Boston is a predominantly Irish-American city, and the team adopted the name mainly to attract Irish and other Celtic descendants to the game.

Of course, there are some teams whose names are not accurate enough, such as the Mavericks. The word has many meanings in English, and calf is just one of them, and the translators have taken only the most commonly used ones.

Translating team names according to the meaning of words, rather than pronunciation, is easier for fans to understand and easier to promote.

But among the many teams, there is one team whose name is completely transliterated, and there is no paraphrase, it is the Knicks!

Why is Knicks the only exception to the transliteration of translations?

That's because if it is directly paraphrased like Mavericks and Pacers, this team name is too dirty, and its most commonly used meaning is inner ten pants!

Such a strange team name, even if the translator is willing to translate literally, the relevant departments will urgently stop, the name of the team is "Inner Ten Pants", which does not meet the requirements of the construction of spiritual civilization of the Ten Societies and Ten Principles!

So it can only be transliterated as Knicks, so that most fans can't figure out what Knicks are, and it will be harmonious.

However, when the Knicks used the Knicks as the team name, they did not mean the underwear, but a kind of bloomers with short legs.

There were a lot of Irish people in Boston, so their team was called the Celtics, and New York was a city founded by the Dutch, and the Dutch liked to wear that kind of bloomers at that time, and this kind of clothing gradually became popular throughout New York.

In 1809, Washington Irving, the father of American literature, used the word "bloomers" to refer to people who wore bloomers in his famous book "A History of New York".

Xie Siqi came to the United States for less than a year, and of course she didn't understand the popular attire of New Yorkers in the 19th century, so the name "Knicks" only had one meaning in her ears!

Can you use this thing as a team name without being dirty?