In the blink of an eye, Lin Tian received another steal and an assist!

He's already tied Kidd!

With just one more assist, he'll be the undisputed assist king of the season!

Lin Tian didn't make the fans wait too long!

Or rather, he made the fans wait for 5 seconds!

Hubble came to the baseline and fed the ball to Brent Barry.

Christie immediately rushed over and started an extremely ferocious full-court tight defense against Barry!

Although Barry's dad is a top star in the league, Barry himself is a full role player and shooter, and his ability to control dribbling is really mediocre!

He was so embarrassed by Christie that he could only turn around and protect the basketball, and then he wanted to pass the ball to Hubble.

But as soon as the basketball was shot, Barry knew that it was over, because Lin Tian was in front of Hubble, completely blocking Hubble's route to catch the ball!

This ball is not so much a pass to Hubble, but a direct pass to Lin Tian!

Lin Tian started less than 1 minute in the third quarter, and he made two consecutive steals!

Lin Tian, who got the basketball, did not hesitate at all, he smashed the basketball on the floor, and then the basketball rebounded to a very high height on the spot!

Just by looking at this height, you know who's coming!

Vince Carter!

Carter, who didn't know when he started to rush towards this side, came just right, he jumped high, and then grabbed the basketball with one hand in the air as if he were about to go to the moon, and then smashed the ball into the hoop!

"Boom!"

After a loud bang, Bird got up again and called a timeout!

Fans certainly know who Bird was calling this timeout for.

This pause is called to them!

It's about letting them party, letting them celebrate!

"Lin! Forest! Forest! Forest! ”

“MVP！ MVP！ ”

"First in the league!"

"Invincible in the world!"

The crazy fans are shouting out!

Once again, they gave all their energy and passion to Lin Tian!

Because this is Lin Tian's seventeenth assist!

He officially surpassed Kidd and was crowned the league's assist leader this season!

Lin Tian raised his hand and waved at the fans in all directions, just like he got a triple-double in the first half, saying that I feel your passion!

"Only 1 steal left! Lin has already equaled Kendall Gere! Barkley said excitedly: "Less than 1 minute into the third quarter, Lin sent two steals in a row!" He had 9 steals! 9 times! ”

"Let me see the Nets game...... FUXX！ ”

Barkley suddenly cursed.

Because Kiel, who only had 1 steal just now, has already made 3 steals at this time!

"Are all the scum in Milwaukee? Steal twice in 3 minutes? Why don't they die? A bunch of Lese! Litter! Waste residue! Idiot! Stupid ......"

"Charles!" Kenny reluctantly interrupted Barkley's swear words, and if he continued to squirt, the devil knows how much he would be fined: "Lin has 23 minutes left in the game here!" He only needs to make 3 more steals to become the steal king of the season! ”

Marcus also sighed with some regret: "Kiel is worthy of being one of the best steals in this league, within 3 minutes, he completed consecutive steals on Kassel and Robinson, and in this way, he guaranteed the victory of the team and sealed the victory for the team!" ”

"He got three steals tonight! Although Lin has now made 9 steals, which is already very remarkable, to be honest, it is very difficult for Lin to become the steal king this season! After all, stealing this kind of thing is really hard to come by. ”

Su Qun also sighed and said: "It's a pity, no one could have predicted that Kiel would suddenly explode at the last moment of the game and complete steals in a row, but maybe a little bit is missing, but it's the best!" Lin is now the season's leading scorer, and his consecutive triple-doubles have also set a record! This game is enough to satisfy the fans. ”

The Nets' game against the Bucks made many people dispel their expectations that Lin Tian would win the steal king, and they wanted to concentrate on Lin Tian's scoring performance.

Floyddy was in this timeout, and it was called an excitement!

"Well done! Nice dry land! This game should be played like this! Let them steal, let them score! Then let Lin roll off the court! Floyd yelled excitedly, as if they were now 35 points ahead: "Last round!" Keep letting Lin and the Pacers score! Go on! ”

"Then, Lin is going to be out, I can even help him call a timeout and let him go down! Go ahead! As long as Lin is defeated, our mission tonight will be completed! ”

Well, I have to say that Freud's method of beating people down is very creative!

The Bulls players were also very timely and clever in fulfilling Floyd's instructions!

This time it was Kukoc, he crashed into Davis when he broke through, and then Lin Tian walked out of nowhere, and then broke the ball, and then ran wildly, rushing towards the frontcourt!

Then Lin Tian was too lazy to dunk, today's fast-break 1-on-0 situation was too much, Lin Tian was too lazy to show, he used a layup to end the attack!

48：85！

37 minutes!

Freud roared in satisfaction! It's finally here!

More than 35!

Lao Tzu is not even stuck at 35, I want to exceed 35!

Let you Lin Tian have nothing to say, you must go down early to rest!

Hey, what about 35 points, 17 assists, 13 rebounds, 10 steals?

What about the second steal-double-double in NBA history?

Aren't you still going to be able to win the score on me?

What's wrong with Lao Tzu letting you take 4 pairs in two and a half sections? Let you go! Just a little sweetness for you!

40 points?

Stop dreaming!

Floyd's excitement at this moment is really the same as when he won four doubles!

Glad! Just be happy!

"It's coming! That's too fast, isn't it? Four pairs! Lin got four pairs! Steal four doubles! After Drexler, the league came out with the second steal quadruple-double! For the second time in NBA history! Barkley yelled excitedly.

"I think even the Bulls want to help Lin celebrate, and their head coach took the initiative to call a timeout, isn't this just for Lin to accept the cheers and let Lin enjoy the applause of the audience?" Kenny is also a little curious about Floyd's choice, this rookie coach, is so particular?

"Let's congratulate Lin! Four pairs! He got four doubles! Of course, it's the shortest quadruple-double in NBA history! Marcus said happily: "Lin only played less than 26 minutes and completed the great achievement of 4 doubles!" ”

"I think in the future, maybe someone will be able to get three pairs in a shorter time, but there will be no one who can get four pairs in a shorter time! Lin's record, with a high probability, will be shelved forever along with Chamberlain's average of 50 points per game, and no one can touch it! ”

Su Qun also cheered: "Another one, a record that belongs to our Chinese people!" Let's see what will happen in the next 20 minutes or so! ”

Equally happy, of course, was Freud: "Lin won't play again!" He said that if the score difference reaches or exceeds 35 points, he will not play again! His time is over! Now, let's take it easy and finish this game! ”

On the side of the Pacers, Bird looked at Lin Tiandao with a smile: "How is it, are you still fighting?" Or is it just a break? ”

"Why don't you fight?" Lin Tian glanced at Bird and said: "It's all 4 pairs, this kind of opportunity, there may not be a second time in a lifetime, why don't you fight?" ”

"Didn't you say it before the game......" The honest man looked at Lin Tian and wanted to remind his boss of what he said before the game.

"I forgot to watch the score, and you didn't remind me."

Lin Tian shrugged his shoulders and said, "So I played for another 3 minutes, can't I?" ”

"But we reminded you, Yalin, the current score difference is ......" When Big Ben wanted to say more, Mu Lin had already put his arms around his neck, stretched out a hand to cover his mouth and said: "If you say that no one reminds you, that is, no one reminds you!" Larry, let's set up a tactic! ”

Mullin's words caused the Pacers' bench to burst into laughter, as for tactics?

At this time, what other tactics can be arranged?

Let Lin Tian score and steal as many points as possible, and it's over!

So, the timeout ended, and the Pacers' starting five came back on the court.

Floyd, who was still triumphant just now, glanced at the Pacers' on-court lineup and was immediately confused.

Then he scolded directly!

“FUXX！ He doesn't talk about credit! Lin, this damn bastard! Don't be credited! Didn't he say he wouldn't fight? Why is he still on the pitch? Why is he still on the pitch? It's not fair! Damn, it's not fair! You three idiot referees, just watch this bastard play on the field, don't you care about him? ”

The referee closest to Floyd turned his head to look at him, and then leaked a look of caring for the mentally retarded.

Then he shook his head and didn't give Floyd T.

The Bulls are already miserable, don't make it worse for them.

We, the referees, are also humane, okay!

"Don't pretend you don't see me! You stupid idiot! Unfortunately, Freud was already on the top, and he was already a little dazed by the anger: "I'm going to complain about you idiots!" You stupid bunches know what goddamn ratings idiots! You're going to ruin the Alliance! Ruined the game! ”

"A bunch of damned, bitches!"

"Technical foul! Expulsion! "At this point, the linesman really can't bear it.

How can there be such a bad guy?

That little sympathy for the bull was gone.

He turned around and gave Floyd a T, then walked to the tech desk without looking at him.

The good news is that this is Freud's second T, and he can leave work early, he can leave early, and he doesn't have to continue to suffer on the spot.

Freud had wanted to say a few more words.

But the two assistant coaches grabbed him and dragged him into the tunnel by force.

Just kidding, it's just an eviction now.

If you don't drag it away, you will have to be fined and banned!

Not necessary, really unnecessary!

Lin Tian walked to the free throw line and prepared to make free throws!

"I think I finally know who I want Lin to break the record the most tonight!" Barkley laughed and said, "Floyd! It's definitely him! This guy didn't give Lin any target tactically, didn't make any special tactical adjustments, but let Lin Tian play. ”

Then, he took the initiative to apply for two technical fouls and gave Lin a crucial 2 points! I'm really looking forward to Lin scoring 40 points tonight and then thanking Floyd for giving him 2 points after the game! I know Lin, he would definitely say it! ”

In the next game, Lin Tian played for almost 3 minutes, and then, Bird called him a timeout again, this time, it was still a long timeout!

Bird let Lin Tian enjoy the cheers and shouts of the fans on the court, giving him plenty of time to curtain call and greet all the fans.

This long pause is the last time tonight, let Lin Tian greet the audience!

At this time, Lin Tian had already completed all the main and side quests tonight!

He did everything he could have done tonight!

When Lin Tian played, the difference between the two sides was 43 points!

Lin Tian's data is fixed at 40 points, 17 assists, 15 rebounds, 12 steals and 1 block!

A data that can definitely go down in history and be worshiped again and again as a miracle by countless people!

An incredibly strong stat that took less than 30 minutes to complete!

One will completely blow up the opposite side and conquer the data of the whole league!

This night, Lin Tian completed a total of 11 achievements.

Won the scoring title, won the assist king, won the steal king, became the first player in NBA history to monopolize these three individual kings in the same year, and also the second person in NBA history to win both the scoring title and the assist title! Scored 3 doubles in 10 consecutive games, and the person who took the least time among all the players who got a triple-double!

As well as breaking the NBA's all-time record of 12 steals, and the second steal 4-double in NBA history, as well as the shortest 4-doubles in NBA history, and the first 40+15+15 quadruple-double in NBA history!

After this game, Lin Tian's MVP trophy this season has no suspense!

Absolutely a certainty!

Barkley gave an evaluation after Lin Tian played: "If Lin didn't win the MVP this year, there is only one reason: the group of people who chose the MVP are racist!" ”

"No one can snatch this MVP from Lin this year! No one can! I said it! ”

Lin Tian this night really did everything!

As for the score of this match?

Who cares? Who cares if the Bulls lose by 40 or 50 points!

They've been losing a season anyway!

As for Lin Tian's so-called pre-game remarks about leaving the game after 35 points?

Some people care, but this kind of person is really rare, after all, Lin Tian has only played for less than 30 minutes in total, and his efficiency is terrifying enough!

Not to mention that he has done so many things, a little more than a few minutes, it would be normal!

After all, as Lin Tian said: tonight's opportunity and state, this kind of opportunity that the right time, place and people all occupy, the ghost knows if there will be a next time in this life!

Now that we have it this time, we must grasp it!

As for the pre-game rhetoric and FLAG, anyway, Lin Tian is thick-skinned enough, what others say, he doesn't care at all!

The celebration of this game began after Lin Tian played, and the entire City Square Stadium was thunderous, and the fans even sang very ugly self-created songs to cheer for Lin Tian.

It seems to be called the Song of the Forest.

"Lin, Lin, Lin, that's good, it's amazing, our Lin is so good!"

"Oh, our Lin is more powerful than anyone else, our Lin is the most powerful!"

"Alara, punch Jordan and kick O'Neal, our Lin is number one!"

It's probably just such a song, anyway, Lin Tian thinks ...... This thing can't be called a song, it's far worse than the song of Yao that Houstonians will sing to Da Yao in the future.

The fans are singing, the players are celebrating and playing, and the commentators of various TV stations are still showing how many achievements Lin has achieved in this game and how many records he has broken!

Crazy!

The whole basketball world is crazy about Lin Tian!

The results of his game tonight were unbelievable.

How can anyone be able to play such an explosive performance in such a short period of time, with such a crazy output?

The post-match press conference, the next day's newspapers, the rumors, the league and TV executives, everybody was talking about the game!

39 million!

The final viewership of this game still failed to reach 40 million, failing to break the record of last year's Eastern Conference Finals tie-break, but it set a new record for the number of viewers in a single game in the regular season in NBA history!

Just one step away, it can reach 40 million!

In particular, the disparity in strength between the two sides in this game was so great that the resistance of the Bulls was gone even from the first second of the game! They were beaten from head to tail by walkers, or by Lin Tian alone!

Although the Bulls lost by more than 30 points in the end, the scene of the game is really no different from the NBA team beating high school students! They're completely crushed!

But that's not important, the important thing is that both the league and the top management of the TV station have discovered Lin Tian's terrifying appeal!

In this game, at least 38.5 million of the 39 million people came to see Lin Tian!

It's terrible that one person can bring the heat of the regular season like this!

Then, Stern and the league are meeting overnight, and the Pacers and Knicks must meet in the Eastern Conference Finals!

The two teams of them may be able to dedicate another game, or even a round of 40 million-level ratings frenzy!

Even Stern called Bird again after the meeting and asked him when Miller would be back.

Well, Bird told him: the finals.

Stern hung up the phone angrily, he was too lazy to talk to Bird anymore, anyway, Stern didn't believe it, Bird could not let Miller, who could play, play in order not to make himself happy!

In short, Lin Tian's game really made the whole basketball world excited for a few days, discussing Lin Tian everywhere, discussing what data Lin Tian can win if he plays the whole court, and countless people are predicting whether Lin Tian can get the first unanimous MVP in NBA history this year!

Then, in the blink of an eye, 3 days passed, and by this time, all the fans found out about one thing.

It's been 3 days without an NBA game!

Then they remembered another thing -

It turns out that this game is the final game of the NBA's regular season!

After a three-day break, the playoffs began, and it was only at this time that a large number of fans remembered to look at the specific rankings of the East and West, and TNT and NBC remembered that they couldn't just talk about Lin Tian! It's time to get some playoff preview, too!

So, on the afternoon of the start of the NBA playoffs, major TV stations suddenly started a series of playoff preview programs, and fans also began to study the matchups and rankings, predicting who can enter the NBA finals and win the championship!

Las Vegas, which has never let go of this kind of opportunity, updated the championship odds of the first phase at this time!

The Pacers relied on Lin Tian's strength and the Knicks and Spurs, the two top teams in the East and West, to become the team with the first odds to win the championship!

Then the Knicks and Spurs are second and third, the Lakers and Heat are fourth and fifth, the Trail Blazers are sixth, the Magic are seventh, and the Jazz, Pistons and Rockets are eighth, ninth and tenth.

Judging from this prediction, the distribution of the top teams in the east and west this year is also even! The two sides each have five spots in the top 10, and while the Pacers and Knicks occupy the top two, the overall gap is not huge.

As for the specific ranking of the east and west, it is like this.

Eastern:

1. New York Knicks 38-12

2. Indiana Pacers 37-13

3. Miami Heat 36-14

4. Orlando Magic 36-14

5. Atlanta Hawks 31-19

6. Detroit Pistons 29-21

7. Philadelphia 76ers 28-22

8. Milwaukee Bucks 28-22

This ranking is not much different from the one in Lin Tian's memory, and even the 8 playoff teams have not changed, only the rankings have changed! For example, the Knicks, who were originally eighth and completed the Black Eight Miracle, came directly to the first place in the East because they got Jordan!

According to this matchup, the Pacers will face the Philadelphia Majors led by Iverson in the first round, and if they can advance, they will face the winner between the Heat and Pistons in the second round.

Eastern Conference finals, with a high probability of facing the Knicks!

For today's Pacers, their biggest uncertainty is Miller's comeback time!

If Miller can come back in the second round, and use 2-3 games to get back to his senses, and play 100% in the Eastern Conference Finals, then the Pacers are definitely not afraid of anyone, but if Miller can't get back his feeling or recover not as expected, it depends on Lin Tian's top state and how long he can maintain it!

To put it simply: the current Pacers team has completely become Lin Tian's single-core team, except for him, everyone else is really old and small, and it is hard to believe that they can play any amazing performances in the playoffs.

But the good news is that the 76ers, at least in the first round, are also a fully single-core team.

Hehe, in today's alliance, is there a single core that is stronger than Lin Tian?

In the pre-game predictions, more than 98% of fans believe that the Pacers can easily advance to the second round of the Eastern Conference!

This number ranks first among all the duels!

It's even more one-sided than the series between the Knicks and the Bucks!

No way, this is attribute restraint! Everyone is a single-core team, my core is bigger and harder than yours, and the role players are stronger, crushing you in all directions, that's the result!

The top four teams in the East that are least favored are undoubtedly the fourth-place Magic, and they have brought Chuck Daley, the helmsman of the 'Bad Boy Army' this season, under the mastery of this coach, even if Hardaway is no longer as brave as he was because of successive injuries, but the Magic team still has a sense of resurrection.

They have been in Group 1 in the East for most of the regular season, and even on the final day, they have a chance to fight back to finish second in the East!

It's just that although they can play well in the regular season by relying on the strength of the team, when it comes to the playoffs, it is a stage to test the quality and ability of the stars! Teams are important, but not the most important thing!

Hardaway of the Magic could be arguably the league's top superstar two years ago, but now Hardaway is clearly gone, with 55% of fans believing that they will be killed in the first round.

As for the Knicks and Heat, both received a crushing vote, with 91% and 88% of fans respectively believing that these two teams could easily advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals!

Westward:

1. San Antonio Spurs 37-13

2. Portland Trail Blazers 35-15

3. Los Angeles Lakers 33-17

4. Houston Rockets 31-19

5. Utah Jazz 30-20

6. Phoenix Suns 28-22

7. Seattle SuperSonics 26-24

8. Minnesota Timberwolves 25-25

Compared with the eastern part and Lin Tian's memory, there is not much difference, there is no big butterfly effect, and the butterfly effect in the west is that the strong butterfly wings are about to fan out of Mars!

First of all, the Jazz, because of Stockton's injury, Sloan's frustration and Malone's mediocre state, they have been the hegemon of the West in the past few years, but they didn't even enter the top half of the West, and they can only rank fifth!

Many people say that the era of jazz is over before it even begins! They lost last year, and it was really miserable!

Then there is the Kings, originally this season the Kings could get their core cornerstone for the next 5 years, Chris Webber, but because of the appearance of Lin Tian, Webb did not come to Sacramento, but went to Cleveland.

This makes the Kings' record this season still not improving, not only did they fail to enter the playoffs, but they will probably continue to rot! Until the right person for you shows up!

Then there is the Timberwolves, who originally failed to make the playoffs, because of the decline in the Kings' record, they successfully replaced the Kings and took the last train to the playoffs!

It is also worth mentioning that because of getting Jordan, the Knicks did not take the 'madman' Sprewell, but because of the previous conviction of beating the coach, Sprewell's trade value was greatly reduced.

In the end, it was the Timberwolves who made a move and got the former league guard for almost nothing!

It's just that half a season of running-in is obviously not enough, Sprewell and Garnett have not yet played a tacit understanding, and they still have to wait for a real playmaker to help them rise!

In addition, although the Rockets did not form a big three, the combination of Pippen and Olajuwon did feel like a fish in water, both of them have recovered this year, played well, and brought the team to the top half of the West despite the full degradation of role players!

In addition, they will also face off against their old rival Jazz in the first round!

This has been a confrontation in the past few years, but the division finals level were staged in advance in the first round this year, which has to be emotional.

If you add to this the supersonics, whose record has plummeted due to the self-indulgence of Vin Baker, who are only in seventh place, then the teams that have represented the West in the Finals in the past five years have all lost their former glory.

The era when these teams dominated the west has really passed, and the current west belongs to those emerging powers!

As for the other matchups, the greatest 21 rivals, Duncan and Garnett, will also face each other in the first round of the Western Conference in advance, kicking off their battle for the best No. 4 spot for the next 10 years.

The Trail Blazers, the emerging power, have also unknowingly completed their rebuild, and they have become the most feared gangster in the entire West today thanks to a group of talented players, relying on a fierce, tough style and a group of gang members within the team.

And the most notorious feature of this team is that half of the players in the team have more or less criminal records!

Speeding, hiding powder, gun-owning, fighting, animal cruelty, arguing with fans, drunk driving.

In contrast, Rasheed Wallace just likes to spit a couple of trash words with the referee and then eat a few technical fouls, and compared to his teammates, he's just a good baby!

The name of 'Portland Prison' has also been called unconsciously.

The meaning of this title is also very direct to express the fans' expectations for this team: everyone in this team should go to jail!

As for the Lakers, although they are only in third place for the time being, they are still using an interim head coach, but the relationship between the owner's daughter Jeanie Buss and former Bulls coach Phil Jackson has long been exposed! The two of them are playing hotly now, and they have come to the Atlantic Arena several times to watch the game together!

Even Phil Jackson, who repeatedly said at the beginning that he had no intention of picking up the whip again in the short term and wanted to enjoy life, finally relented in a recent interview.

"The Lakers are one of the two most rich teams in the NBA, and if you can join them and be a part of them, it's the dream of all the players and coaches, and who can say no to Los Angeles and the Lakers?"

"Especially when they have such talent in their whole team, there are talented players in every position in the whole team! I believe they can be a super team no worse than the Bulls! ”

Jackson's speech was regarded by countless people as a signal that he would join the Lakers next season, so the fans of Los Angeles were excited!

What Kurt Lambis, can he compare to one of Jackson's foot hairs? This is the man who won 5 championships and led Jordan Pippen to the top!

He will definitely be able to take O'Neal and his little brother Kobe Bryant to the top!

The excitement of the Angelenos even made them forget that their team still had to play the playoffs!

They even desperately want the team to be eliminated in the first round!

They were worried that what if the team made it to the Western Conference Finals or even the Finals, and Buss was embarrassed to make a substitution?

What if you just let Rambis continue to lead the team?

We are Los Angeleses, but we really don't like Lambis!

We want the best for the players and of course the best for the manager!

The fans in Los Angeles have gone crazy to the point where they are in the last two home games of the regular season and start chanting 'Give us Phil!' Give it to Phil! ’！

They can't wait!

At the same time, countless people believe that the western region will officially enter the Warring States period in the next few years!

The Lakers, Spurs, and Trail Blazers will open a wave of exciting head-to-head matchups!

As for who will win more championships in the end, who will be more successful?

Then no one knows, and can only leave everything to fate!

Of course, with the top 16 teams in the East and West in place, the bad teams in the lottery area are also very excited!

They can wait for the lottery, wait for the champion lot!

This season, there are two teams that are very outrageous, and they have not won 10 games!

They are the Los Angeles Clippers with 9 wins and the Vancouver Grizzlies with 8 wins!

The penultimate went to the Chicago Bulls, the league's dominant player in the past few years, with 13 wins!

Then came the Denver Nuggets with 14 wins, the New Jersey Nets with 16 wins, the Washington Wizards with 18 wins, and the Dallas Mavericks with 19 wins!

These teams are about to start a big battle to determine the future of the team in almost a month!

Lotto draw!

99 years, but it is recognized as the year of the draft!

Some people even think that this is a big year for the draft that will not lose to the 84 diamond generation!

Elton Brand from Duke is known as an extremely mature player, and many people believe that he can average 20+10 per game as soon as he enters the league!

There are also the two point guard twins who are known as the league's future violent No. 1 and lifelong enemies: Steve Francis and Baron Davis!

And the super genius known as the 'left-handed magician', Lamar Odom!

Three top marksmen: Wally Szczebiak, Mike Miller and Richard Hamilton!

Jason Terry, Corey Margetty and Jonathan Bender, who are considered to be elite-level scorers who can average more than 20 points per game.

Of course, there are also traditional defenders Andre Miller, spring man Sean Marion, top 3-and-D James Posey and other strong players.

Well, for Lin Tian, he is also likely to welcome his compatriot this year, another Asian on the NBA court: roughly!

Of course, if you ask Lin Tian who he is optimistic about this year, then Lin Tian will tell you: there are also Russian Andrei Kirilenko and Argentine Manu Ginobili!

In short, this year, whether from the momentum before the election or the success rate after the election, it can definitely be called a big year for the draft!

From the top three to the lotto to the middle and late stages of the first round and even to the second round, there are very good players appearing!

It's definitely a draft event that will make the management of each team happy!

As for this year's draft, it has little to do with the Pacers, they only have one of their own first-round 28th pick, which is the second-to-last pick in the first round, and of course, they also have the Raptors' two first-round picks next year and three years later, that is, the first-round picks in '00 and '02.

It's a pity that when Bird talked about the deal, he didn't blackmail the Raptors in the first round of 03, otherwise, with the Raptors' record and team-building ability, even if they couldn't get James in 03, take Wade and Anthony, wouldn't it be easy?

In addition to their own first-round pick, the Pacers also have their own second-round pick No. 57 and the same second-round pick that they acquired from the Raptors last year in order to free up salary space, which is the eighth pick in the second round and the 37th pick overall.

Well...... To put it simply, the Pacers have a hard time doing anything in the draft this year, and they basically can't pick any great players.

But that's not something Bird and Lin Tian need to worry about right now!

There's only one thing the Pacers need to think about right now!

That's the first-round playoff matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers!

As a former Eastern powerhouse, the 76ers have a glorious history! They won the NBA championship twice in the 1967 and 1983 seasons, making them one of the first teams in NBA history.

They have had MVP-level superstars such as Wilt Chamberlain, Dr. J Julius Owen, 'Prophet' Moses Malone, and 'Fliggy' Charles Barkley, as well as powerful players such as Maurice Cheeks, Dolph Shays, and Hall Greer.

It's just that since Charles Barkley fell out with the Philadelphia media in the 90-91 season, and the media who hated Philadelphia would rather vote for Ewing than vote for themselves, and left Phoenix, the 76ers have not entered the playoffs for 7 seasons!

In the past 7 years, they have selected one high-ranking rookie after another, and the players have changed batch after batch, but none of them can bring the team to the playoffs!

Until the 1996 draft, the 76ers surprised everyone by giving up Raheem and Camby, the two top picks, and choosing a 183 cm small man with endless energy and fighting spirit: Allen Iverson!

Since then, they have finally been on the right path to revival!

After two years of training, Iverson averaged 26.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 2.3 steals per game this year, ranking third on the scoring list and finally successfully bringing the team to the playoffs!

From then on, the name of 'Answer' will begin to resound in the Alliance, and the Son of Philadelphia will officially lead the Philadelphia Heroes to begin to move towards the road of revival!

This season, Iverson and coach Larry Brown have become more and more harmonious, and the two are in the golden honeymoon period of their relationship.

In addition, with Iverson as the absolute core, the team has equipped him with a fierce blue-collar center Matt Geiger, block maniac Theo Ratliffe, a strong guard Eric Snow, and the team's lottery rookie Larry Hughes in '98 is also very strong.

Coupled with George Lynch, Trony Hill, Aaron McGee and other players who are not bad, this 76ers team can also give Philadelphia fans a lot of hope.

Of course, 99% of this hope comes from their love for Iverson!

Philadelphia people, and even fans around the world, are full of curiosity about this unruly, arrogant, fearless and powerful little man!

They hate Iverson, but almost everyone, too, aspires to be Iverson!

(End of chapter)