Howard is helpless, after all, when you drive on a road that is at peak times all day, it means that you will spend the whole day in a traffic jam.

Compared to Howard, the mood of Magic fans at the moment is desperate.

Their own star has no room to play, which means that not only will they continue to lose G2, but they will most likely lose the entire series.

And that's exactly what happened.

A few days later, the Bulls attacked the Magic's home court on the road and swept the Magic directly with a score of 4-0 to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

This result even exceeded Xu Yong's expectations.

In his previous judgment, although the Magic team is inferior on the inside, how can it be more difficult than the digital man.

But after four games, Howard has no benches, no outside defensive guards, single tactics, etc., this Magic team does have too many problems, and it is indeed a notch weaker than in the past few years.

However, even if this Magic can still reach the Eastern Conference semifinals, it also shows that the level of the team in the East in recent years, or the benefits are indeed a bit big.

Swept in two consecutive rounds, the Bulls showed the strength of a championship favorite team.

Now they can sit back and wait for their opponents in the divisional finals, as they did before.

Over there, the series between the Heat and the Celtics was much more intense than theirs.

The presence of Kwame Brown has significantly improved the quality of the Celtics' interior, and the Heat have always relied heavily on Wade when encountering this kind of team play.

And the Celtics switched to Rondo to defend after finding out that Ray Allen's defense was not effective, and the effect was quite good.

Rondo's long arms, coupled with this season's first-defense level performance, are just right for Wade.

Of course, these are not the focus of attention from the outside world at this time.

Because only the day after the Bulls eliminated the Magic, the Lakers were out, and they were directly swept by the Mavericks!

Although the Comies have always refused to believe it, and posted statements on social media such as "Although the Lakers are 0-2, there are many 0-2 turnovers in history, and the Lakers will be the next team", "Even if it is 0-3, the Lakers will become the first team in history to fall behind 0-3 but complete the comeback", but in the end, the Lakers did not win a game.

The pre-game ESPN survey didn't seem right, but it seemed right again, because the result of this series was a sweep, and it was indeed the least suspenseful group.

Some people are happy and some are sad, and this result directly leads to the climax of Jammy.

Kobe Bryant was out of the game before James, and in this embarrassing way, it's not a person who doesn't mock it.

"You have to believe that even though the Lakers are down 4-0, they will still come back 5-4."

"It's all Gasol's fault, he can't lead Kobe Bryant to win the championship like O'Neal."

"The championship team was swept by the garbage Mavericks, can Kobe Bryant consider retiring?"

……

Jammy's wave of high-energy output, Cormit's side can't refute it.

After all, what kind of star has what kind of fans, Kobe Bryant is the kind of person who will say "number one loser", and they will naturally not look for excuses for this trick or that.

If you lose, you just have to find a way to win it back next year.

But after all, they are also human beings, and if they don't vent their emotions, they will suffocate themselves.

So a lot of them took off Comy's vest and put on the vest of their Heat opponents.

A small number of them have become new fans of the Green Army, while many more have become Bulls fans for two decades.

And there's nothing wrong with that, twenty years ago, the Bulls were in Jordan's era.

The series continued, and a few days later, the series between the Heat and the Celtics ended first.

With James' burst of hands, especially the 5-of-9 three-pointers in the final game, the Heat won two games in a row, eliminated the Celtics 4-2, and also entered the Eastern Conference finals.

As a result, the Heat and Bulls that fans had been expecting before the start of the playoffs finally came as promised.

It was also at this time that the league announced the fourth and final batch of awards for the regular season, the best team.

The All-NBA includes All-Rookie Team, All-Rookie Team, and All-Defensive Team.

The best rookie generally doesn't get much attention, and it's the latter two lineups that really get attention.

And those two lineups are differentiated, the best lineup has three, and the defensive lineup has two.

Best Team: Rose, Kobe, Durant, James, Howard;

Best Second Team: Wade, Xu Yong, Stoudemire, Nowitzki, Noah;

Best three teams: Westbrook, Ginobili, Randolph, Pau Gasol, Yao Ming;

Defensive formation: Rondo, Kobe, Xu Yong, James, Howard;

Defensive second team: Paul, Iguodala, Garnett, Tyson Chandler, Yao Ming;

At this point in time, this best lineup, there will inevitably be another bloody storm on social media.

"One for a while, one for two, one for three, plus a first defense, a second defense, it turns out that the Bulls are the pinnacle of the group!"

"This is the first time that Yao has been selected to the best defensive team in his career, and by replacing Bosh with Yao, the Heat can also play the first in the league, or even have a better record."

"The Bulls also have O'Neal, O'Neal Jr., Artest, this is a six-star lineup, what is there to brag about playing like this!"

……

The two sides are about to play each other, and the Jammys continue to go crazy on social media as before.

It's just that this time without Harden and Durant making a move, there are already quite a few new Bulls fans on social media who have started to go crazy on the line.

"You can really reverse right and wrong, the Bulls are so many people selected for the best team because they played well this season, why don't you say that Xu and Rose didn't make any of the teams last season? Why don't you say that Lynx's Gerald Wallace was still in a burst last season? ”

"Yao got the first defensive lineup of his career with the Bulls, on the other hand, Wade, from a first team to a second team, and then the second defensive team is gone."

"Oh, this boomerang can be used, if Yao goes to the Heat, I'm afraid he won't be able to get any lineup like Bosh."

"There are five-star magic in the front and six-star bulls in the back, I think you say less, Battier and Hinrich also have to count, how can this be eight stars."

……

Before the game even started, fans were already hyping up on social media.

After the grievances between the two sides in the season, the encounter between these two teams is really Mars hitting the earth, the standard NBA Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, for the media, it is no longer that they want to build momentum for this series, but to rub the traffic of this series.

For example, in the latest episode of TNT, Barkley and Kenny Smith made a season prediction program for the first time.

They even made bets again after a long abstinence in the game.

"Trust my brother, the Heat will definitely win this series, even though their first two series were tougher than the Bulls, they faced a much better opponent than the Bulls, so I bet on the Heat, without hesitation, if they don't win the series in the end, I will drink a bowl of horse urine in the live broadcast room."

Barkley's remarks on the show instantly rushed to the hot search.

Although he has some truth in what he said, in fact, judging from the previous record of the two teams, the Bulls are also the dominant side.

But that's Buckley's style, which has always been against the mainstream voice.

In the previous first round of predictions, he, as a famous digital person, also said that the digital person would be the black eight bulls.

It's just that today's digital people don't pay much attention in the NBA, and his words naturally didn't attract much attention.

But this wave of predictions is obviously different, you must know that although Barkley has a big mouth, he is still a person who dares to say and do.

After this wave of bets, fans are really looking forward to Barkley's live broadcast of drinking horse urine.

Some fans even commented on social media: "Charles Barkley is trying to find an excuse for himself to taste horse pee!" ”

A cold knowledge, horse urine is a medicinal material, diuretic, calcium, can dispel wind and dampness, disperse stasis and stop bleeding, invigorate blood and relieve pain.

As for what it tastes like, not many people can really say, after all, it is only added to the medicinal herbs that only those who have actually tasted it know.

Barkley's popularity is almost textbook, and of course, it has also made this series more and more interesting, and some fans have even directly nicknamed the series: the battle of horse urine.

The battle of the horse pee is poised to take place, but the Bulls are facing headwinds before the game.

Because of the recurrence of knee injuries, out of an abundance of caution, the Bulls will not let O'Neal Jr. appear in the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals.

This was unexpected, but it didn't seem so unexpected.

The Bulls have a lot of veterans, and injuries are inevitable, such as the Christmas game, where O'Neal was sidelined due to injury.

In fact, the Bulls' stellar record and the lack of season reimbursement due to the abundance of personnel have swept the bill under the rug.

Except for the young and strong ones like Rose and Xu Yong, the veterans of the Bulls have more or less missed some games.

For example, Yao Ming missed 18 games, O'Neal Jr. missed 21 games, and O'Neill missed the most games, reaching 31.

Injuries, like most chronic illnesses you know, are incurable and irreversible.

The rational use of players is only about avoiding the worst-case scenario and delaying the time it erupts.

O'Neal Jr.'s absence gave Thibodeau the same choice question he had when he chose O'Neal Jr. to be the starting power forward.

Although the Bulls are consciously covering up this matter, the paper can't contain the fire, just like Green's punch will have a video leak, this kind of news that only needs to be passed on in a few words, it is impossible not to be known by the outside world.

"James, what do I say, Lady Luck is on our side." The training hall at the American Airlines Arena, James said to Jones with a smile.

The information that Xu Yong learned before was correct, the Heat team is now very factional, and before the two faction leaders, James and Wade, bowed to the other side of the faction, they were limited to teammate relationships and on-court communication.

However, it is easy to overlook the fact that not only Arroyo, but Jones is also a former Heat player, but they are all on James' side now.

The two men have one thing in common, which is that they are both marginal players who are struggling to survive in the league and could fade out of the NBA at any time.

And James has a trait, that is, a rare player who can have a say in front of management.

Jones, in particular, has a very high double quotient, and he is the kind of player who can develop a deep friendship with Reggie Miller after only one season with the Pacers.

'I was chatting with David yesterday and he said the coaching staff will let you play more with the ball tomorrow. Jones nodded, then said with a smile.

The David he's talking about is Heat assistant coach David Fitzdale.

Not only the players, but even the coaching staff now has a faction, and Fitzdale is biased towards James's side.

James was immediately happy when he heard it, and Jones was like a magpie in the treetops, although he usually didn't talk much, but as long as he spoke, it was a happy event.

And this wave of O'Neal Jr.'s absence and the coaching staff's information are double happiness.

Because of the adjustment of the Heat's defensive tactics and the evolution of the Bulls' own tactics, the Bulls basically won't use the iron net at the beginning of the season.

So even if the Bulls replace O'Neal Jr. with Gibson, he will have much more room to play.

……

Two days later, the long-awaited NBA Spring Festival Gala is finally about to kick off.

The scene of the United Center stands out as a burst of popularity.

In fact, even if Chicago fans already knew that the first two rounds were stable when the season rankings came out, the theory is a theory after all, and now that it's the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat is the Finals!

At this time, the whole city of Chicago is boiling.

On the commentary bench, Barkley and Kenny Smith were already in place, commentating on the battle of horse pee.

After the opening ceremony, the starting line-ups of both teams.

Heat: Money, Wade, James, Bosh, Ilgoskas;

Bulls: Rose, Xu Yong, Artest, Battier, Yao Ming.

On both sides, this is to meet with the old enemy, what is the temptation of the whole province, and it is aimed at it.

The Heat's removal of Bibby was obviously to defend Rose, and the use of Ilgoskas was also to protect the interior.

The Bulls, on their side, were even more unexpected.

Thibodeau did not let Gibson replace O'Neal Jr. as the starter, but chose to continue to use a big four lineup as in the previous round.

It's not that it's an overturn of almost a season's style of play, it's about the dishes.

Although such a lineup will give Bosh a good space to play, but will it be the Heat's turn to get him Bosh to play?

Bosh has always been a very efficient interior scorer, and he has only taken 16 shots with the Raptors before, which is very low in the core, but he can consistently contribute more than 22 points per game.

Before coming to the Heat, he averaged 24 points per game.

However, he is such an efficient interior player, averaging only a pitiful 13 shots per game for the Heat this season.

This is mainly a single tactic in the Heat position, there is only one ball, Wade and James don't know which round to get him now.

Especially in this sensitive period, even if Spoelstra has a heart, I am afraid that he will not be able to arrange Bosh's possession.

Therefore, Thibodeau is not only a tactical target, but also a thorough study of this old opponent.

(End of chapter)