Texas was originally part of Mexico, and later Mexico announced the abolition of slavery, which caused the indignation of the whole country, and the Texas region directly declared independence and became the Republic of Texas.

Since its independence, the Republic of Texas has been in constant friction with Mexico, especially the border issue between the two countries, which has been very controversial.

Nine years later, the angry Texans, seeing that they could no longer compete with the Mexicans, took refuge in the United States, which at the time supported slavery, and became a state in the United States.

After the United States took over Texas, it naturally took the border recognized by Texas as the border and sent troops to the disputed area. The Mexicans, seeing that the American troops were coming, decisively took them prisoner!

U.S. President Polk, furious when he heard that his troops stationed on the border had been captured by the Mexicans "inside the United States," proposed to declare war on Mexico.

The southern states of the United States are very much in agreement to declare war on Mexico, after all, this country is a big rebel, it has abolished slavery, and it must be educated. The northern states of the United States were opposed to the war, and they even felt that the United States should learn from Mexico and abolish slavery.

Polk agitated Congress, got a majority of votes, and eventually the United States declared war on Mexico, and a large number of Americans considered the war unjustified and called it "Polk's War."

To this day, many Americans still think that Polk was uneducated, unintelligent, unsympathetic, and a cunning, deceitful, and conspiratorial man.

However, the Mexican-American war launched by the ambitious Polk cost Mexico 2.3 million square kilometers of land, and you must know that Mexico now has only 1.9 million square kilometers!

To this day, many Mexicans sigh at the mention of that war.

Most of the country has been cut out, why can't we cut more? If they cut a little more, wouldn't they also become Americans?

The ancestors are not powerful!

Not only did Polk annex more than half of Mexico, but he also settled the Oregon problem and extended the western border of the United States to the Pacific coast.

However, this careerist, who has expanded one-third of the territory of the United States, promised in the general election that he would never seek re-election once elected. Four years later, he kept his promise and became the first president not to seek re-election after one term.

The heavy workload left Polk with a blank hair, and he went to see Jesus just three months after leaving the White House.

Now, Texas is the second-largest state in the United States, the second-largest in terms of area, after Alaska, which is far from its homeland, and has also surpassed New York State in terms of population, and is the second-largest in the country, after California.

The total GDP is currently the first in California and the second in Texas, where industry and agriculture are very developed, and high-tech industries are thriving, such as the famous Texas Instruments Company is located in Dallas, Texas.

According to Forbes, Houston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Boston are among the top five cities to grow and succeed. Two of the top four cities in the country are Texan, making the state one of the most developing states in the future.

With more people and more money, there are certainly more teams, and the state has three NBA teams, second only to California, which has four NBA teams.

The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is the largest metro area in Texas and, by some statistics, the fourth-largest metro area in the nation.

In general, in this kind of statistics, the top three are all thunderous, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and then Greater Washington, Greater San Francisco, Greater Philadelphia and other regions are all vying for fourth, and Dallas sometimes becomes fourth.

Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States, but the greater Houston metropolitan area is slightly worse than the Dallas area, and at its best it is probably the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States.

San Antonio is the second-largest city in Texas and the seventh-largest city in the United States, and it has a little more population than Dallas, but not the entire metropolitan area.

The Dallas metro area has a population of about 7 million, Houston has more than 6 million, and the San Antonio metro area has just over 2 million. In 2011, the Greater San Antonio area had a GDP of about $86.4 billion, ranking 36th among all metropolitan areas in the United States.

There are only 29 teams in the NBA (30 after 04), and excluding those in the same city and abroad (Canada), there are more than 20 cities with teams. If Dallas and Houston are first-tier ball markets, then San Antonio, which ranks more than 30, can only be regarded as third-tier, and the market is relatively small.

Of course, some cities smaller than San Antonio also have teams, such as Memphis, Oklahoma City, etc., which later moved into the team, which are all "small" places with a population of just over one million in the metropolitan area, ranking more than 40 in the United States.

San Antonio has a total population of about 1.44 million (2014 data), of which more than 60% are Hispanic, the highest proportion of Hispanics in the United States.

This Latin American city has become a bright spot in the U.S. economy with emerging industries such as biotechnology, health care, clean energy, and information security, and is home to five Fortune 500 companies.

In fact, a small city also has the advantage of being small, that is, there are fewer teams.

For example, the New York metropolitan area is very large, and everyone is also eyeing this market, the four major sports leagues have a total of nine teams here, and most fans don't recognize teams such as the New York Knicks, only the New York Yankees (baseball), because people win championships every year and do well.

In the case of Texas, Dallas has four teams in the Big Four Leagues, one for each ball, and Dallas people also identify more with the Dallas Cowboys than the Mavericks.

No way, the Cowboys are one of the most successful teams in NFL history, the team that has reached the playoffs the most times, and has reached the Super Bowl eight times, and is also the team that has reached the finals the most. It is also the first team in NFL history to win the Super Bowl three times in four years and five Super Bowls.

Houston doesn't have an ice hockey team, but the Houston Rockets also face competition from the Houston Astros (baseball) and the Houston Texans (football) that are being formed.

The Spurs don't have to think about it so much, as a small ball city, San Antonio has and only one team in the big four leagues, that is the Spurs, and the whole city of San Antonio is a Spurs fan!

This year is the first time in Spurs history that the Spurs have reached the Finals, so the citizens of San Antonio are happy!

The Spurs don't have their own arena right now, and their games are held at the Alamo Arena.

The Alamo Arena is a general-purpose arena that is said to have been built to attract a football team. Unfortunately, no football team wanted to come to the city, and the arena could only host a few NCAA games, and the Spurs saw that the place was good and moved to borrow it.

Watching a basketball game in a stadium designed for football is terrible to see and feel at, and Spurs fans have been calling for a stadium in the city to be built to watch basketball games.

When Li Wei led the team to the Alamo Arena, many reporters immediately surrounded him.

The Finals are certainly the most media-focused race, and sports journalists from all over the country are heading here.

"Coach Lee, what do you think of Popovich?" A reporter asked.

Li Weidao: "I seem to have answered this question many times, I think Popovich is the top three coaches in the league, very wise!" ”

On the other side, Popovich was also in an interview, and heard Li Wei reiterate that he is the top three coach in the league, just turned 50 years old, and his eyelids jumped in the prime of life.

This little guy always wants to kill me, I can't be fooled!

So the head coach of the Spurs cleared his throat and said loudly: "Coach Li said that he laughed, in terms of coaching level, I can't even compare to a single hair of him!" ”