Chapter 557: The Incredible West and My Heart Feeling Ye!
Because of the Seattle SuperSonics' win and the Phoenix Suns' loss, the record between the twelve-game winning streak of the Seattle SuperSonics and the second-place Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference has become one and a half games.
The Seattle SuperSonics have one more game and are 54-8, while the Phoenix Suns have one less game and are 55-6.
A gap of one and a half games means that if the Suns lose the next game, the SuperSonics and Suns will have only one game left.
Even if the Suns win the next game, the SuperSonics and Suns' record will only be two games!
For the NBA, the gap between the two games is actually not that unmatchable.
Especially in the second half of the schedule, when the entire Western Conference is struggling, any game may be a game that changes the entire league!
Before the start of the All-Star Game, the Phoenix Suns never thought that they would lose two games in such a short period of time after the All-Star Game.
From the loss to the Lakers after the All-Star Game to the loss to the Nuggets in early March, the two games were only half a month apart!
After losing two games in half a month, many teams seem to have a very good record.
But for the sun, it is really difficult to accept.
After all, the Suns only lost four games in the first four months!
Before the start of the All-Star Game, the whole world was touting the Suns as the strongest team in NBA history.
The whole world is looking forward to the Suns becoming the strongest team in NBA history this season.
Won the first regular season record in NBA history and won the championship.
In order for the Suns to fulfill this mission, Yes said in his famous speech at the All-Star Game that he hopes the Suns can create a legend that belongs to this era.
But before this legend even started, it was stumbled one after another.
Although the Suns lost these two games, it can still be seen that this team is indeed a historically strong team, one of the strongest teams in the history of the league!
"But obviously, in this year's Western Conference, the historically strong teams are definitely not just the Suns and Rockets. The Lakers and Nuggets have proven that they are also historic teams that can compete with the best teams in history!"
"No, it's not just the Lakers and Nuggets, but also the Spurs with Bowen's comeback and the SuperSonics that are becoming more and more mature now!"
"There are six historic teams in the Western Conference this season!"
When the Seattle SuperSonics narrowed the gap between themselves and the Sun Rockets, it created a very visually impactful picture.
That is, the top six teams in the Western Conference are finally connected!
There is a one-game difference between the Rockets, who are first in the Western Conference, and the Suns, who are second in the Western Conference. There is a one-and-a-half-game difference between the Suns, who are second in the Western Conference, and SuperSonics, who are third in the Western Conference. There is a three-game difference between the SuperSonics, who are third in the Western Conference, and the Spurs, who are fourth in the Western Conference. The Spurs, who are fourth, are one game behind the Lakers, who are fifth and sixth in the Western Conference.
It can be said that the top six teams in the Western Conference, the second group and the first group are completely mixed.
Although there is still a gap between the second group and the first group.
But at least,
It won't make people feel like before the All-Star Game. The whole world feels that any of the other six playoff teams in the Western Conference will be given away if they meet the top two in the Western Conference.
At least, this integration of the two groups allows everyone to see the possibility of the second group defeating the first group in the playoffs!
"Yes and his supersonic speed broke a barrier, a barrier that seemed very thin, but was extremely strong!"
"When this barrier is broken, this year's NBA will become unprecedentedly exciting!"
"When the Suns, Rockets, SuperSonics, Spurs, Lakers and SuperSonics increase their wins this season to 50, it means that this season's Western Conference will magically produce six teams with a record of six. Teams with more than ten wins!”
Because the Suns and Rockets' records this season are really outstanding.
So before this, at the team level, almost all NBA teams were supporting roles for these two teams.
As a result, when the whole world pays attention to NBA teams, their eyes and eyes are on the Suns and Rockets.
The rockets and the sun sucked away everyone's light, darkening the entire world.
You know, in the past NBA, any team with the possibility of more than 60 wins in a single regular season can become the focus.
But because the Suns and Rockets are two teams that can win 70 games in a single season, those focuses no longer exist. Others can't see how good the Spurs, Nuggets and Lakers are this season.
Now the whole world is seeing it.
Take the Nuggets and Lakers, who are fifth and sixth in the Western Conference, as an example.
Both teams have a record of 50 wins and 12 losses. The two teams have played 62 games. There are twenty games left in the regular season. In the remaining twenty games, as long as the Lakers are good and the Nuggets are good, they will win them all. With half of that, you can complete the legend of sixty wins in a single season!
In one season, there will be six teams with more than 60 wins in a conference league.
This incredible magical thing is impossible to happen even in the game.
If someone had said this before this season, they would have been called crazy!
And what’s even crazier is that since the beginning of this season, the winning rates of these six teams have been above 60 wins in a single season!
In other words, from the beginning of this season, the Western Conference has six teams that can achieve 60 wins!
However, they actually ignored it!
They actually all believe that this season's so-called strongest Western Conference in history only exists to provide a backdrop for the Suns and Rockets and wish them the best position in history!
"Whether it's the Spurs, Lakers, Nuggets or even the SuperSonics, they are not the background of any team!"
"Any team that achieves 60 wins in a single season can become the protagonist, the protagonist of the NBA, and the protagonist of the world!"
"In this year's Western Conference, there are not two protagonists, but six!"
The Leafs and the Sonics had no idea that after their record close with the Suns, it would cause such a sensation throughout the league.
However, this is normal.
When they focused all their attention on who could break the Bulls' 72-10 record between the Suns and Rockets, they suddenly discovered that six teams with 60 wins in a single season were in the same division. This was even more magical than breaking the Bulls' record!
What's more, this season's Western Conference is not necessarily six teams with 60 wins.
Sixty wins for the Suns, Rockets, SuperSonics, Spurs, Lakers and Nuggets is a certainty.
In addition to these six teams, the Memphis Grizzlies are also likely to win 60 games!
Because the Grizzlies' current record is 46 wins and 16 losses!
This year, the Memphis Grizzlies just defeated the Boston Celtics, the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference, at their home court!
After the All-Star Game, starting on February 19th, the Boston Celtics began their road trip to the Western Conference.
All the way down, the Nuggets, Warriors, Suns, Trail Blazers, Clippers, and then the Grizzlies.
In a total of six away games, the Celtics lost three, facing the Nuggets, Suns and Grizzlies, the three Western Conference playoff teams, and they all lost!
Now the top seven teams in the entire league are all from the Western Conference.
The Grizzlies, seventh in the Western Conference, are also seventh in the league.
As the seventh-ranked Grizzlies in the league, wouldn't it be difficult to win 14 of the remaining 20 games?
As long as the Grizzlies can achieve a 70% winning rate in the remaining 20 games, they can become the seventh team in the Western Conference to win 60 games!
There may be seven 60-win teams in the entire league this season, and all of these seven 60-win teams are in the Western Conference!
"What a crazy sight!"
"The teams that break out of the Western Conference this year will be the most difficult Western Conference champions in history!"
"If the team that breaks out from the Western Conference this year can win the championship, it will be the most difficult championship in history!"
The most hellish Western Conference championship in history, the most difficult championship in history.
After such hype from these media across the United States, this year's Western Conference is indeed crazy.
The Western Conference was also crazy last season. Without 50 wins, they couldn't make the playoffs.
This year's Western Conference has taken a step further. Without 60 wins, we can only be eighth in the Western Conference!
The Celtics, who are number one in the East, can only be ranked eighth in the West!
The second-best Wizards in the Eastern Conference couldn't even make the playoffs when they arrived in the Western Conference!
Damn it, anyone who sees such a scene will be frightened.
Even Boston Celtics fans will find it unbelievable to see scenes like this in the West. They can only say bitterly, the harder you fight, the better it will be for us.
You have finished the regular season, but the playoffs are still not ours?
Of course, except now when the whole world is praising the incredible record of the Western Conference.
In addition, many people are lamenting Ye Si's fate, and "I feel sorry for Ye Si" has once again become the most popular phrase on Twitter.
"As Michael's closest friend, Michael once said that his career was a hell of a career."
"No one has ever encountered so many difficulties as he did in the first few years of his career, including a broken leg, encounters with the Celtics, the Pistons, and the Lakers, three historic teams, one after another. "
"Before Yes came, I always felt that Michael's career was indeed very difficult."
"As his closest friend, I feel Michael's sadness."
"Before Yes, it was hell that Michael was going through, but..."
"Compared with the environment Yes is currently in, where Michael is standing is heaven!"
"At the beginning of my career, I came to the weakest team in history and met the most difficult Western Conference in history."
"In the second year of my career, I once again took the weakest team in history and encountered the most difficult Western Conference in history."
"If it were Michael, it is no exaggeration to say that even when Michael and I were at our peak, we might not have done as well as Yes in this year's Western Conference."
"As many people have said, if it had not been for such an unbelievably tragic situation, Yes could have won the championship in the first year of his career!"
"No matter how hard it was for Michael, he got me very quickly."
"And Yes, the people around him are always 'trash' that the alliance does not need!"
"Durant, Rondo, Millsap, Milicic, David Lee... Even if these players have excellent statistics fed by Yes, they don't have any strong or star qualities!"
"Statistics can be improved, but temperament cannot be changed. If it were Michael, he would have kicked away these guys with extremely low temperaments this season!"
"I feel bad for Yes. He can even take Durant, Rondo, Millsap, Milicic, David Lee and other extremely low players to fight for the championship, but he just encountered such a powerful Western Conference. !”
"The unluckiest player in history deserves the title!"
"When Rondo, Millsap, Durant, Milicic and David Lee were competing for the luckiest player in history, they probably didn't realize that all their luck came from Yes. Sucked away.”
Ye Si and the SuperSonics really didn't expect that the league's public opinion would affect them.
However, for Seattle SuperSonics players, such public opinion has little impact on them.
After all, this is the truth.
The only thing that's not true is that they don't know how lucky they are, and how unlucky Yes is.
How could they not know?
If they didn't know, how could they work so hard?
Anyone who sees what Yes has done for them and remains unmoved is the ultimate bad guy!
Even the big bad guys who have no gratitude will be moved!
They are indeed not worthy of Yes now, but they have been working hard!
"Yes, in the Seattle SuperSonics, do you feel aggrieved to have such a group of teammates around you?"
At the pre-game press conference between the Sonics and Raptors, almost all reporters were asking questions like this.
Because they are causing trouble!
Who has already become the unluckiest player in history?
It's not any other team, it's the Toronto Raptors who are about to play the SuperSonics tonight!
"There is nothing to feel wronged about, and no one needs to feel bad. I have always said that my teammates are a group of outstanding teammates."
In the training hall, Yes was being interviewed by reporters before the game, but none of the other Sonics players were still thinking about training.
Everyone was listening to Ye Si's words.
"It was unfortunate for me to lose Ray and Rashad, but I never felt like I was unlucky."
“Because beside me, I am still standing with the league’s assists leader, the league’s scoring leader, the best inside man of the 2003 golden generation, the league’s All-Star, the league’s double-double machine, and the league’s most balanced offensive and defensive power forward who works hardest. On top of that, I have some of the most courageous teammates in the league."
"When you already have so much, do you still feel unlucky?"
"With them, if I fail in the end, it's not their responsibility, it's my responsibility."
Ye Si's words stunned all the reporters surrounding him.
Of course, in addition to these reporters, those who were stunned were naturally those Sonics players who had been eavesdropping.
"Y, Yes, you said the best insider in the 2003 class was Milicic?"
"certainly."
Ye Si didn't hesitate.
Milicic, who was not far away, had his eyes widened.