Chapter 389: Being with the Great Teacher and Trading Targets

After the Western Conference Finals, in order to get away from the limelight, Yeez stayed at the SuperSonics training facility to inspect the rookies.

After spending half a month in the Sonics training facility, the focus of outside public opinion finally shifted away from him.

After three consecutive rounds of legendary playoffs half a month later, the popularity finally began to slowly decline.

The finals between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns are still ongoing.

After the media shifted the focus away from Yees, the Finals between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns finally returned to the most important position in NBA public opinion.

However, when the national public opinion media focused on the finals between the Celtics and Suns, a very embarrassing thing happened.

In this year's finals, the suspense was lost a bit early.

The finals between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns will begin on June 7th, US time.

Because the Celtics killed the dark horse Wizards in the Eastern Conference without any blood, media experts are still very optimistic about the Celtics.

The Celtics are a defensive team, and the Suns are an offensive team.

Although it seems that the sun is really much stronger.

But the iron law that defense wins championships still supports the Celtics' support.

Although most expert media are more optimistic about the Suns, most predictions are that the Suns need seven games to defeat the Celtics.

This kind of prediction is basically no different from 50:50.

Maybe in the end the Celtics can use their iron-blooded defense to complete the counterattack.

But what about the final result?

The time now is June 16, nine days before the finals.

Today will be the Celtics' fifth game at home against the Suns.

The NBA Finals format is 2-3-2. The fifth game of this series is also the Celtics' last home game in this Finals.

Before today's game, the big ratio between the Phoenix Suns and the Boston Celtics was 3-1.

The Phoenix Suns already have match point.

Moreover, in the NBA Finals, no team has ever been able to overtake after falling behind 1-3.

It can be said that the Celtics are dead.

This is a rather surprising result.

In addition to the first game back at home, the Celtics took advantage of the Suns' unsteady footing to win a game.

The Boston Celtics lost all other games.

After losing their first home game in the fourth game, the Celtics also gave away the championship point.

Finally, the media across the United States focused on Ye Si's performance in the finals. When they were preparing to use the finals to drive newspaper sales and clicks on the Internet, looking at the big score, the media across the United States felt like they wanted to die.

How can we bring this big score?

You can’t carry it at all, okay!

Is the Eastern Conference too unsatisfactory this year? !

Although the alliance has been strong in the west and weak in the east in recent years.

But in the 2006 Finals, the Heat still defeated the Mavericks in a David-Goliath victory.

In the 2005 Finals, the Pistons lost with a score of 3 to 4 after an epic battle.

In the 2004 Finals, the Pistons defeated the league's most popular F4 4-1 in the finals.

Even if we push it forward to 2003, the Nets lost the Finals by a score of 2 to 4.

If the Celtics are really defeated by the Suns 1-4, they will be the worst loser this year.

The Celtic Fever lineup is really not weak.

Not to mention that it is definitely better than the previous Pistons, but it is definitely better than the previous Heat and Nets.

At the beginning of the season, after the Boston Celtics formed the Big Three, the Celtics were considered the strongest team in the league.

Although the Nets and Heat are far inferior to their opponents in terms of strength, they can still maintain the suspense of the finals in the first four games.

After the first four games of the finals in those two years, the big score was 2-2.

The national media, which has focused on the NBA Finals, is now on the verge of tears.

In the end, these tearful media thought about it and decided to become a Buddha.

Let this year's finals continue to be cold.

In addition to media reporters across the United States, also crying without tears was the league president David Stern.

And David Stern wants to cry more than these reporters and media.

Before this year's finals started, David Stern really had great expectations for the finals between the Celtics and Suns.

Mainly because the ratings for this year's NBA playoffs are really good.

The first-round series between the SuperSonics and the Mavericks created the highest first-round ratings in NBA history.

The ratings of all four games were above 25%. The ratings of the fourth game, which sent the Mavericks out, created an average rating of 30%.

The average viewership of the first-round series between the SuperSonics and the Mavericks was 27.5%.

Not only were they the highest first-round ratings in history, but they were also the highest ratings in the playoffs.

The second round of the series between the SuperSonics and the Spurs did not have the attraction of Yes' first playoff appearance and eight games.

It did drop a bit in terms of attracting casual viewers, but the legendary showdown between Yes and Bowen still made the average viewership of this series reach 26%.

In this series between the SuperSonics and the Suns in the conference finals, with the temptation of Yes possibly leading the team to the finals in his rookie season, the ratings are still considerable.

The average viewership of 25.5% was also the highest ever for a conference finals game.

For three consecutive rounds, the ratings have been the best in history, which really makes David Stern feel a little dizzy.

Besides, there are other reasons for his floating.

In addition to the SuperSonics games, the ratings of other games are also not low.

In the first round, the most ugly matchup should be the one between the Celtics and the Magic, right?

The showdown between the Celtics and Magic was considered to have no suspense and no highlights from the beginning.

In the past, for such a showdown, a ratings of 5% was enough.

This kind of game was just a handful in the playoffs in previous years.

But this year, the ratings for the first-round matchup between the Celtics and Magic was 12.5%.

It's not the highest ratings, it's the average ratings!

The Celtics and Magic had the lowest ratings of any eight matchups in the first round.

But this rating is higher than the ratings of the finals in four of the past five years.

The ratings for the 2002 Finals between the Lakers and Pacers were 12%.

The ratings for the 2003 Spurs and Pacers Finals were 8.7%.

The ratings for the 2004 Finals between the Lakers and Pistons were 14.4%.

The ratings of the 2005 Spurs and Pistons Finals were 8.4%.

The ratings for the 2006 Mavericks and Heat Finals were 9.1%

Because of the overflow effect of Yes, the influx of a large number of NCAA fans and passers-by made the ratings of this year's NBA playoffs reach the best in history.

As the most popular player in the history of the NCAA, the traffic that comes with Yes is terrifying.

Why are these American media chasing Yes so much?

That's why.

David Stern knows these media in the United States very well, and he won’t be too late if it’s not beneficial!

The American media discovered that negative news about Jordan could drive traffic, so they went crazy to create negative news about Jordan.

The American media discovered that positive news about Yes can drive traffic, and they will go crazy to create a perfect Yes.

These people have no moral integrity at all.

However, no matter what, this is a good thing for the NBA.

Driven by Yes, this year's NBA playoffs have attracted so many NCAA fans and passers-by. Facing so many sweet new NBA fans, David Stern certainly has reason to look forward to the ratings of the finals. .

David Stern is even looking forward to whether this year's finals can also set a new finals ratings record without Yes' participation?

David Stern really didn't think his request was very high.

The 1998 Bulls-Jazz Finals viewership record was 18.7%.

With this ratings alone, it wouldn’t even rank among the top five in this year’s playoffs.

The Rockets and Nuggets in the first round, the Wizards and Pistons in the second round, and the Suns and Rockets in the second round. Except for the three SuperSonics series, the ratings of these three series all exceeded the 1998 Finals. Ratings.

Logically speaking, the finals between the Celtics and Suns will not be lower than the Rockets playing the Nuggets, the Wizards playing the Pistons, and the Suns playing the Rockets?

But the reality is so cruel.

In the four finals that have been held, the average ratings only exceeded 15%.

With a ratings of 15%, in the first three rounds, it didn’t even make it into the top ten!

Since the championship is likely to be decided in the fifth game, the ratings may increase, but it is unlikely to be too high.

It can be said that the ratings of this year's finals are only around 15%.

The ratings of the finals are not the highest in the playoffs, and this situation has not happened before in the NBA.

You can even say a lot.

In the past few years, the ratings of the finals involving the Spurs were not the highest.

But the ratings for the finals didn't even make it into the top ten, which has really never happened before.

This is quite an embarrassing situation for the league.

David Stern invited major data institutions to conduct a professional research report on this situation.

There is only one reason for this. As Yes left the playoffs, most NCAA fans also left.

These are millions or even tens of millions of fans!

Of course, although most NCAA fans have left, some remain, which is why the ratings of this year's finals can exceed 15%.

The 15% ratings are already the highest ratings since 1998.

If you don't look at the explosive ratings data of the first three rounds, but just look at the data of the finals, David Stern should actually be satisfied.

It's just obvious that such data is not so satisfactory now.

In the finals without the blessing of Yes, not only the ratings, but also the discussion on the Internet and the media dropped by more than one level.

Originally, 15% of the finals was already the best in the past few years, but it actually gave people the feeling of being cold in the finals.

This is very worrying.

In Ye's lakeside villa, Ye's was watching TV. The fifth game between the Celtics and SuperSonics was playing on the TV.

Now after halftime, the Phoenix Suns lead 55-48.

Leading by a big score of 3 to 1 and leading by 7 points at halftime. In addition, the Celtics could not solve the offense of Nash and the Suns. This made this round of finals lose suspense early.

"Yes, public opinion in the United States has been discussing the lack of success in this year's finals recently."

This year's finals were indeed far from exciting.

Ye Si ignored Wang Han's words.

Of course he knew what Wang Han meant.

Without him, the NBA Finals would be cold?

Maybe there is a reason for this, but not entirely.

The main thing is the content of the game.

The first two games between the Celtics and Suns.

The scores of the game were 126 to 106 and 121 to 100 respectively.

In the first two games against the Boston Celtics, the Suns, playing at home, beat the Celtics by 20+ in two consecutive games.

In these two games, the Celtics were not unprepared, and they were also well prepared against the Suns.

However, there was something wrong with Boston Celtics head coach Doc Reeves' strategy.

He still has the kind of defense that can win championships.

From the beginning, I desperately wanted to keep the rhythm.

There is no problem with the strategy of pressing the pace.

But the key is who implements this strategy.

The two most demanding positions on the court are center and point guard.

The Celtics center is Perkins and the point guard is rookie Alan Ray.

What does Perkins use to keep pace? Does he have the ability to post up? Does he have a strong isolation game?

Point guard Alan Ray is this year's rookie, a very good ball-handling offensive shooter point guard.

His characteristic is to pull up and shoot with a few dribbles from outside the three-point line.

Alan Ray's three-point shooting percentage is higher than his field goal percentage.

The three-point shooting percentage is 40%, and the three-point shooting percentage is 38%.

Can such a player control the pace?

This is obviously a good rhythm player!

When Alan Ray helped the Suns pick up the rhythm, it was a desperate moment for Perkins and the Celtics.

Fortunately, Douglas Reeves is not a pedantic person.

Seeing that something was wrong, he immediately removed Perkins from his starting position, and never shouted "Defense wins championships" during interviews.

Put Garnett in the center position and put Tony Allen in the starting lineup. The Celtics used Garnett, Tony Allen, Pierce, Ray Allen and Alan Ray to return to the starting lineup. The home team won a game with great difficulty thanks to the outburst of the Big Three.

But the Celtics, who succeeded in sneak attack, still have to face the problem that Nash cannot solve. The team does not have a traditional point guard, the team competes with the Suns, and lacks offensive routines.

Therefore, the Celtics simply lost another game after facing the Suns, who had already adapted.

Fortunately, after the first two games, the Celtics' third loss was not so ugly.

In this game that decided the championship, the Suns finally won 114 to 106. Even so, the Celtics still didn't lose badly.

4 to 1!

The Phoenix Suns defeated the Boston Celtics on the road to win their first championship trophy in franchise history.

Nash also won the Finals MVP trophy by averaging 32.5 points and 8.5 assists per game.

Look at the Suns players on TV holding the championship trophy high.

Watching Nash crying and kissing the Finals MVP trophy on TV.

Ye Si's face was dark.

But Wang Han next to him looked moved.

"Yes, the Suns players are now wearing 'With the Great Teacher' championship T-shirts to thank you!"

"..."

The finals are over.

The NBA 2006-2007 season has also officially come to an end.

The next day, Yes received a call from the team's general manager Presti early in the morning.

"Yes, the Lakers invite us to join the deal with the Nets!"