"We're in the second round!" In the player tunnel after the game, Knoll still couldn't hold back his excitement and shouted loudly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"We won! We really won! Grant shouted as well.

Tang Shuai and Gasol glanced at each other, and then smiled unconsciously.

Knoll and Grant are both playing in the playoffs for the first time, and this is their first time in the second round of the playoffs, so the excitement is to be expected.

"Champagne, Champagne, we need a celebration." Knoll yelled as he entered the locker room.

"Celebrate, Knowens, the coach is here." Batum, who came in at last, shouted with a smile.

As soon as Batum finished speaking, Billups and Shaw followed and entered the locker room with smiles on their faces.

"You played really well today, I have to give you this." Billups said and gave the team a thumbs up.

"Coach, you really have to praise Don today, he did everything a leader should do." Gasol spoke at this point.

"Paul, I know, Don, was a really beautiful last ball of the day." Billups looked at Tang Shuai and said.

'I didn't win alone, Paul, Nolens, Nicholas, Ruhr and the others played well tonight and it should be everyone's win. Tang Shuai said.

Billups smiled and pointed at Tang Shuai, and then said, "Okay, I know what you think, come, come with me to the press conference." ”

Tang Shuai nodded, and then walked out of the locker room with Billups.

Billups had just come out of the locker room on the front foot, suddenly remembered something, turned around to look at the Lakers players, and finally looked at Stephenson, and said: "Lance, you didn't play well tonight, but you have to perform well in the next series." ”

Stephenson was stunned and looked at Billups in disbelief, but Billups had already left the locker room after saying that.

"Hey, Lance, don't be in a daze, the coach has spoken, play well in the next round." Gasol turned around and patted Stephenson on the shoulder.

Stephenson turned his head and glanced at Gasol, looking a little excited, and then nodded vigorously.

Although the team won was exciting and happy, he played very little time in this game and performed very badly, especially in the second half, when he and his teammates apologized and were ready to make up for it, Billups did not give him a chance, which made him feel a lot of diaphragm, you must know that in the previous game, he played the most time on the bench and scored the most.

But at this moment, he let go of these thoughts, to be honest, his state in this game is not good, although he has the heart to make up for it in the second half, but he may not be able to play, after all, the state is there, Billups said this, it is superficial that the reason he did this in the second half was to win, and he did not give up on himself.

"I'm going to do my best." Stephenson looked at the empty locker room door and said to himself.

"Coach Chauncey, congratulations on reaching the second round of the playoffs, and it's a score of 4-1, which is definitely something that most people didn't expect before the game, how do you feel now? After winning the series. At the away team's press conference, the reporter opened his mouth to ask Billups a question.

"Feelings?" Billups straightened up and said with a smile, "To be honest, I feel very comfortable now, as if all the physical problems are gone, it's like having a full body massage (big. Protect. Jian) the same. ”

Billups' humor drew laughter.

"Well, kidding aside, you know this is the first series I've won as a head coach, and it's very special and I'm excited, but I actually want to say that my guys have a lot of surprises for me." Billups said and turned his head to look at Tang Shuai, then turned back and continued, "You can also see that Kevin's appearance today made the Timberwolves play a tough game, and when it came to the final moments, I was even ready to go back to Los Angeles to continue the series, but in the end, you also saw it, and I am proud of my players." ”

"Coach, the biggest contributor to the win is you, you make us work harder and stronger." Tang Shuai said with a smile.

Tang Shuai's sudden sycophant made the reporters stunned, but soon there was a hearty laugh, and the atmosphere in the locker room suddenly became close.

"Don, you played very bravely today, scoring 39 points and 9 assists in the whole game, especially the final stunner, which can be said to be a perfect reflection of the responsibility of the team leader, to be honest, the last ball you hit 5 shocked everyone, what were you thinking at that time?" The reporter took the opportunity to change the object of the question to Tang Shuai.

"Hmm...... I don't think I had time to think about anything else. Tang Shuai said with a smile, "I just want to put the basketball in the basket, which is probably the only thing I thought at that time." ”

"Why did you choose a breakthrough in the end? At that time, the Timberwolves were shrinking their defense, and there was a great risk of breaking through and being defended. The reporter asked.

"It's not as complicated as I thought, we had some physical problems at the time, including me, and I didn't guarantee my own shooting percentage when I chose to shoot jumpers, but I broke through, and at that point, I could only trust the way I was most familiar with scoring." Tang Shuai said bluntly.

His answer was simple, but very realistic, if he only ended up throwing one outside, and didn't enter, he would have been depressed all night, but it was different to go inside, at least the initiative was in his hands, not God.

In any case, the law that the closer you get to the basket, the higher the shooting percentage will not change.

"We all know that the results of the MVP selection are coming out soon, and you have a high voice in the eyes of the judges, will you look forward to that moment of your life?" The reporter then asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately added: "If you succeed in being elected MVP, you will break the record set by Derrick Rose for the youngest person to live MVP at the age of 22." ”

"Really?" Tang Shuai didn't notice this, and after getting the reporter's positive reaction, he smiled and said, "If it can really succeed, it will be great news, I think I should celebrate crazy in the bar for a month after the end of the season." ”

"Haha, of course, it's just a joke, I'll be happy if it does go your way in the end, but like I said after the last game, it's not something I can decide, no matter what the result is, I'm going to give it my all in the next round." Tang Shuai finally said with a smile, in fact, what he said was definitely not pure politeness, you must know that last year's best rookie selection, he played better than Downs in all aspects, but in the end, it was Downs who came out.

"Don, I find your mentality really admirable." The reporter said from the bottom of his heart.

"Thank you." Tang Shuai said with a smile.

After the Lakers won the series 4-1, the matchup between the Eastern and Western teams has also been close to white-hot.

In the West, in addition to the Warriors and Lakers who have already qualified, the Clippers won 3-2 games in a row to reach the match point, and the Thunder won a huge game at home, bringing the score to 2-3.

In the East, the competition is even more fierce, except for the Cavaliers, who have already advanced, the remaining three groups are all tied to a score of 3-2.

This year's first round of the playoffs is more intense than last year's, and it is likely that there will be one or more tie-breaks.

The Lakers sit sixth in the regular season and face the winner of the Spurs and Thunder in the next round, as the series between the two sides is not over and they have a rare break.

On April 30, U.S. time, on the last day of April, the 2016~2017 regular season MVP selection was finally unveiled.

As in previous years, this year's MVP poll was made up of sports journalists and media commentators from the cities where the league's 30 teams are based.

According to the rules, each invited voter will make five choices in their mind, and each choice will give the player a corresponding score according to the order, the first vote will receive 10 points, the second choice will receive 7 points, the third choice will receive 5 points, the fourth choice will be 3 points, the fifth choice will be 1 point, and then decreasing.

If a player wants to get the MVP, to put it bluntly, he wants to get more first-place votes.

It's like the big and small scores of the game, only when the big scores are the same or close, the small points will be compared.

Like last year, Curry unanimously won the regular season MVP, referring to the first vote.

Unlike last year, Curry won the MVP without any suspense, and this year's MVP results can be said to be full of suspense.

For the Warriors alone, Curry (23.6 points and 9 per game, 2 assists and 50% three-point shooting) and Durant (26.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 49.6% shooting) are both strong contenders for MVP. Leonard, who helped the Spurs finish second in the West (25.5 points, 6.7 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game), Harden who led the Rockets to a bombardment (28, 8 points, 5 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game), Tang Shuai who led the Lakers to revival (30.1 points and 8.6 assists per game, 50.6% shooting, 49.9% three-point shooting), and still led the team to the playoffs after Durant's departure, Westbrook, the all-around king who averaged nearly a triple-double per game (26.6 points, 9.2 rebounds and 10.2 assists per game), and the ageless James (23.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game) are all strong contenders for MVP.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the results of this year's MVP selection are the most intense in the past decade.

Among these candidates, the most vocal is the Warriors' duo, after all, in the past selection results, record is a very important selection basis, and the Warriors set a new winning record again in the regular season this year.

The result was full of suspense, but just after the official announcement of the alliance came out, the dust finally settled.

And when everyone saw this result, they were first extremely surprised, and then showed a look of course. (To be continued.) )