With the regular season over and the playoffs three days away, the Warriors are busy all over the place, everyone is in a hurry and busy with the work at hand.

The staff is now busy deploying the Oracle Center arena, many of the signs have to be replaced with playoff titles, and the players are not having an easy time, they don't get a break after the game against the Pistons, and go straight to the club activities before the playoffs, which are designed to help the team sell more tickets.

In terms of playoff promotion, the players are very active, because they play playoff games without salary, and the money they get comes from two parts, one is that the company rewards the team and then the team deducts the operating costs and gives them some; The second is from the ticket, so the level of playoff ratings is directly proportional to the amount of money they can get.

Chamberlain arrived at the court early and found that someone in the arena was adjusting the hoops, and the original hoops were removed and replaced.

This surprised him and said in surprise: "The uniform team attaches so much importance to the playoffs? A new hoop? You only need to change the Nets, no, the Nets don't need to be replaced, aren't they all new? ”

Billups and Chamberlain have become close friends, and he loves training and charity, so he came here very early today, and after Chamberlain arrived, the two of them hooked up and shook around together.

Listening to Chamberlain's words, Billups laughed, and he blinked mysteriously and said, "Do you think the team changed the hoop because it paid attention to the next game?" ”

Chamberlain was inexplicable, shrugged his shoulders and asked, "Isn't it?" ”

After joining the NBA, he realized that the league is not as positive as advertised, what 'i-believe-i-can-fly', 'whereamazinghappens', 'no brothers, no basketball', in fact, there are many curves and curves in it.

Sure enough, Billups pointed to the hoop and said, "This is a different hoop, one is very tight and the other is very loose, you understand what's going on, right?" ”

It dawned on Chamberlain that he really understood what was going on, the NBA's hoops were different from those rubber hoops on the street courts, because they had to withstand the violent dunks and other damage of the NBA's monsters, and these hoops had a special texture and could be adjusted loosely. If the hoop is adjusted too tightly, the hoop will bounce high and fly out once it touches it, and it is easier to hit long shots when it is looser, so that when facing that tight frame, the team is suitable for the main positional battle, and when facing that loose frame, add three-point shots and other projections.

"The team is too insidious, isn't it?" Chamberlain smiled excitedly, as if he had seen the scene of the hapless Jazz players striking iron in the Oracle Arena.

Ellis, who came over with a waist guard, sneered when he heard Chamberlain's words, pouted and said, "Is this insidious? Damn, you haven't been to the Utah Plateau, what those bastards do is called insidious! ”

"What did they do?" Chamberlain liked to hear this kind of gossip because he could relay it to Li Qun, who would publish some interesting and less important information, which would increase the success of her work.

Ellis has been recuperating from an injury recently, holding back his resentment and anger, and when Chamberlain asked, he poured beans from a bamboo tube with nothing to do, and began to tell the injustice he had encountered: "Wasn't our opponent in the Western Conference semifinals last season the Jazz?" Damn, those brutes are such bastards, do we know what we're losing for? ”

Chamberlain smiled: "Of course I don't know what to do, isn't it because your inner line was beaten into shit?" ”

Ellis's expression froze for a moment, then he waved his hand and said, "Well, that's a reason, but the more important reason is that we've been fucked by the damn Utah!" ”

The night before the first meeting between the two sides, the hotel where the Warriors players stayed suddenly caught fire in the middle of the night, and the sleeping players panicked and thought there was a fire, and they rushed out, only to find out that it was a prank of the fans after a big mess, and this mess was more than two hours, and the players were exhausted by the toss.

"Utah has a really bad reputation, even Michael Jordan has been hit, and it's normal for you to have this kind of experience." Billups said with a shrug.

Chamberlain knew about this matter, and some time ago the relevant news caused a stir in the sports circle, and the matter originated from a complaint when Jordan's royal trainer was interviewed by reporters, saying that Jordan's 1997 flu battle was actually poisoned.

As Jordan's royal trainer, Tim Glover's poisoning theory has some credibility. And at that time, many reporters speculated that it was a poisoning incident as soon as this happened, but no one dared to be as sure as Glover. And the reason why everyone suspects that Jordan was poisoned is largely because some extreme fans always like to play black tricks on the away players, especially Jazz fans.

At that time, it was precisely because of the frenzy of Jazz fans that the night before Game 5 of the '97 Finals, when Jordan was a little hungry, he chose to order a meal in order to avoid unnecessary trouble that might be caused by going out. As a result, he was still recruited, but Chamberlain was still depressed, isn't it easier to be recruited when ordering food? As long as someone stops outside and stops the delivery person, why not send someone to buy it yourself?

Therefore, you can't be too lazy.

What's even stranger is that when the pizza is delivered, it is five people who come together to deliver the food. Glover felt a little weird, and he said to the people around him at the time, "I have a sense of foreboding. "In the end, Jordan was the only one who ate the pizza, and no one else ate it. As a result, at 2 a.m., Jordan called Glover to say he was sick.

Glover said that Jordan was curled up in bed like a baby at the time, and Jordan later said in his autobiography: "I woke up in the early hours of the morning and could no longer sleep, I was in a bad mood, I had a severe gastrointestinal upset, I took a little medicine, but the symptoms worsened." Jordan had a high fever, and the doctor thought it was the flu caused by eating unclean food, while Glover thought it was a poisoning caused by food poisoning

"It's definitely true, because Jazz fans are so extreme, it's the Finals, but it's reasonable that they didn't poison Jordan." Ellis muttered unfairly, "It was a lot of struggle when we went upstairs, and the house numbers in the rooms were changed by those damn fans, and fuck, I was so angry when I talked about it." ”

Hearing Ellis's news, Billups also began to cheer up and said, "What are you in the west? We're the ones in the East, especially the damn Celtics, damn it, I don't know who's going to be the champion of the West this year, and if it's us, we'll have to be careful. ”

"In the playoffs in 2005, we were second in the East against the Celtics, who were seventh in the East, and we were staying in a hotel in Cambridge when we arrived in Boston, and when we went to the Alibi Leisure Center in the hotel after training, the damn owner asked the bartender to double the alcohol in the drinks we ordered, and we went back drunk and had a headache the next day, and lost a game, otherwise it would have been a 4-0 sweep of the damn Green Shirts."

After Billups finished speaking, the players began to criticize the Green Shirts, and in this regard, the Celtics did the best in the league, almost their tradition, especially in the era when the "Cardinal" Auerbach was in power, and they liked to use home court advantage to make a big fuss and make a lot of tricks.

The Celtics' Garden Arena is the oldest court in the NBA and the home court with the most "traps" in the NBA. From the away room to the stadium floor, from the sidelines of the drinks to the lighting angles of the arena ceiling, the Garden Arena is best known for its floor, and there is a story about the floor in NBC's movie about the glory of sports in the early '80s

The Magic had a floor loss when he first came to play in his rookie season. When he was forced into a certain area by a defender, suddenly the floor became soft, he was not used to shooting the ball, and the height of the ball bounced changed greatly, and the defender who had been waiting for him immediately snatched the ball.

In addition to the stadium floor, the away team room was also designed to be very small, and the bathroom was always blocked, and dirty water flowed all over the floor.

In addition, the Garden Arena often makes a fuss about the temperature, and when the away team players come to the Garden Arena for training sessions, the stadium always turns down the air conditioning temperature; And when it comes to the game, the temperature in the away room is deliberately turned up so high that many players are drowsy.

Celtic have claimed to have never lost in their seventh home game until this season, and players believe that a large part of the reason for this is that their home stadium is heavily structured, which has deterred many players who have suffered losses.

In 1984, when the Magic first appeared in the Finals with the Celtics, Jerry West, then the general manager of the Lakers, refused to go with the team on the road, and the hapless guy was defeated by the Celtics in the Finals seven times, three of which were seven-tie failures, and the Garden Arena and the city left a lifelong shadow on him.

On May 26, 1984, the Lakers flew to Logan Airport. It was an hour and a half to wait for their checked luggage, and all the boxes were opened, while the contents were there, which was undoubtedly a demonstration and a warning. And when the Lakers checked into the hotel, they were full of green and Celtic logos, and even the Magician's bedroom curtains were green

The Lakers drew 2-2 in the first four games of the Finals, and when the Lakers returned in the fifth game, it was a hot day, and the away team room was extremely cramped, the temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the Lakers were told that the air conditioner was broken. Although the Lakers procured a few fans on an ad hoc basis, to no avail. The Lakers ultimately lost that game, and the Lakers' leading scorer Abdul-Jabbar shot 7-of-25, and the then 37-year-old could only use an oxygen mask to get oxygen.

After the Lakers finally lost the championship in Game 7, the whole court went into a frenzy. After the game, a group of Celtics fans celebrating their victory threw debris into the water. The players hid in their cars and did not dare to move, and it took an hour of siege for the belated police to disperse the fans.

Blocking the away team's buses, giving the players food and drink, and causing trouble at the hotel where the away team is staying are the habitual routines of many die-hard fans in the playoffs. Generally speaking, it is believed that these slightly aggressive fan behaviors originated from Auerbach.

The old bishop is very good at playing the edge of the game with home advantage, and many teams often scold him while secretly stealing the teacher. For example, now the Warriors adjust the hoop, is the experience learned from the Celtics, in previous years, the Celtics every important game such as the opening game or the Christmas game, they will deliberately adjust the basket very tight, so that when the shot is not scored, the rebounds will bounce far away, as we all know, before Garnett went, the Celtics in recent years lacked a strong interior line, they are very mobile but the interior dominance is very poor.