NBA: I am the god of basketball

On May 2018, 5, G24 of the Western Conference Finals series.

When Barkley was explaining the game, he weighed in his mind for a long time, and he was always struggling with whether to pretend to be sick and ask for leave.

But the Western Conference Finals is such an important game, as TNT's signature commentator, if he misses the game, his salary will be deducted, and the deductions will be quite large.

Barkley loves money very much. He was famous for worshiping money when he was a player. He prefers money to championships. Therefore, the teams he chooses in his career are all teams that are willing to give him a higher salary. The only team in his entire career A salary cut was the last year of his career when he joined the Rockets, the big dream Olajuwon and the glider Drexler to form the Big Three and wanted to win the championship.

And even if the salary is reduced to join the Rockets, it is conditional. In 99-00, the last season of Barkley's career, the Rockets offered him a one-year contract of 1 million US dollars, which can be regarded as a salary cut for the previous few years. Compensation for joining the Rockets.

For the sake of face or something, giving up the high commentary salary is still not worth it in Barkley's view.

So after some entanglement, he still licked his face and appeared in the commentary booth, and brazenly planned to reject the bet of eating a big bowl of horse manure, after all, that thing would really kill people!
But what made him relieved was that in this game where the Nuggets had already held the match point in advance and was still playing at home, he got a ticket for a reprieve.

The Warriors in desperation broke out with amazing fighting power, tenaciously won the next round in the away game, and chased the score to 3:2.

"It seems that the game is not over yet. Now the score is 3:2. If the Warriors can win another game at home in the next game, the score of 3:3 will be hard to say!"

Barkley began to analyze it in a decent manner. "It seems that the Warriors still have a chance!"

The Nuggets fans at home shouted angrily.

Because of the Warriors' win, the happy to hear and see used off-the-board tricks again.

No way, the name of the Golden State Martial Arts Team is also well-known in the entire league.

In the past few years, the entanglement between Wang Chao and the Warriors can be regarded as a long-standing grievance. During the regular season this season, Wang Chao was even called a malicious foul for returning an elbow.

This is still the case during the regular season, but in the life-and-death battle of the playoffs, the Warriors' various rough actions can be described as endless.

Green, needless to say about Pachulia's methods, even Cousins ​​directly gave Gobert a hug and wrestling action during the game, which was quite fierce.

When you think about it, this is actually not surprising.

Cousins ​​himself is an impulsive and irritable player. Originally, in time and space, the Kings were the king of technical fouls in the team for several seasons, but in the Warriors, the team's environment and the more vicious Green, Bogut and others made him His sharpness was covered up.

Now that the team is about to lose, and the level of Gobert's defense has been greatly lost in the previous consecutive games, he has long been extremely annoyed.

With the Golden State Martial Arts team fully fired, the Nuggets can only temporarily avoid the edge. Wang Chao is not willing to injure one or two main players in the process of fighting against the Warriors, which will lead to deviations in the finals.

If the score between the two sides is now 2:2, in the battle of Tianwang Mountain, he will definitely not evade in the slightest. Even if the bayonet is red, he will win the crucial battle, but now the score is 3:1, and he has the absolute upper hand Under certain circumstances, it is also possible to give way appropriately.

In this process, constantly putting pressure on the referee, guiding the public opinion storm, and forcing the referee to whistle more vigorously in the next game is the best way to deal with the Warriors' violent play.

Of course, Wang Chao can also choose to counterattack like he did during the regular season. With his ruthless talent, the Warriors have no one who can fight at all, whether it is Green, Pachulia or Cousins. A single elbow of strength can kill them half.

But this is the playoffs after all, and Wang Chao is still more worried that he will be called a malicious foul or even additionally punished and suspended because of his too malicious actions.

After all, he doesn’t have any superstars in the league right now. Many people wish he and the Nuggets would fail. Whether it’s the Warriors or the Nets and Cavaliers in the East, it’s better than Wang Chao’s ninth championship. .

Except for Wang Chao's die-hard fans, no one in the league now hopes that Wang Chao will continue to win the championship, including the league officials.
However, Wang Chao's current energy is too great. He is not only a player, but also an influential capitalist with a worth of more than 30 billion yuan.

Wang Chao's net worth is more than half of the team owners in the league. It is quite a strange event in the NBA. Because of this, the league's attitude towards Wang Chao cannot be like other players. In this capital-controlled country, Money can really solve a lot of things.

Not many people know now that Wang Chao's worth is no longer 30 billion, but 300 billion. Looking at the entire NBA league, only the owner of the Clippers, Steve Ballmer, is richer than him. All other teams No boss can compare.

Although the Nuggets, who did not fight against the Warriors, lost the G5 game and the score was chased to 3:2, but two days later in the away game, they did not give the Warriors another chance, and the reason for the victory was not because of the referee's call .

In this game, the Warriors continued their relatively rough defensive actions, and various malicious fouls emerged in an endless stream. Most of the referees would only give an ordinary defensive foul.

But in this case, the Nuggets are more blooming on the outside. Wang Chao hit 8 three-pointers in the whole game, Murray made 10 of 5 three-pointers, and even Mitchell, who is not good at three-pointers, made 7 of them. 3 performance.

The Nuggets, who feel hot from the outside, can be said to use the Warriors' best offensive method to defeat their opponents.

The Warriors fans at home could only helplessly watch their team lose the game, with a total score of 2:4 to stop the Western Conference Finals.

However, at 3:1, most fans were already mentally prepared to lose, so when this day really came, it was not so difficult to accept, but the Warriors played so ugly in the game, all kinds of Dirty moves came out one after another, but they failed to drag the game into the tiebreaker, especially in the middle of the game. Because of the ferocious firepower of the Nuggets outside, the Warriors, who had gradually been unable to support themselves, broke their cans and smashed. Green directly choked Wang Chao maliciously. The foul was so obvious that the referee had to expel Green directly from the field.

Green's moves are quite big, but Wang Chao, who has the talent of steel and iron, has nothing to do at all. He loses and loses. It's almost numb.

In fact, if you want to talk about dirty moves, the Nuggets also have ruthless people. For example, the starting small forward PJ Tucker is actually a player with no less moves than Green on the defensive end.

When the Warriors made an extraordinary defensive move, the fiery Tucker would immediately return it.

However, at the Warriors' home court, the whistle was obviously biased. As a result, Tucker was sent off for six fouls early.

Fortunately, Tucker himself has no role in the offensive end of the Nuggets, and the Warriors on the defensive end do not have outstanding strikers who need him to make contributions, which is a dispensable state.
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In any case, as the Nuggets eliminated the Warriors 4:2 and advanced to the finals, the battle in the West officially came to an end.

The Barkley horse shit incident that many viewers have been thinking about did not happen in the end, and Barkley had the cheek to deny the bet.

This is also expected by Wang Chao. The original bet should be the 2022 finals. Barkley used it. At that time, he bet that the Warriors would never win the championship. If the Warriors won the championship, he would eat a bowl of horse dung. , As a result, the Warriors really defeated the Celtics in the finals to win the cup, and Barkley also failed to fulfill his promise.

But in this way, Barkley would be much more honest as long as he was in front of Wang Chao. After all, he had suffered such a big loss, and he probably didn't dare to bet on Wang Chao casually.

While the Western Conference finals were decided 4:2, the Eastern Conference finals were tied at 3:3, and the exciting tiebreaker is about to usher in.

Just as Wang Chao thought, the Cavaliers were indeed not that bad. Although they lost face to the Nets in the opening game, and then lost the second game, the start was 0:2, but when they returned home After the home court, the Cavaliers finally regained their glory. Under the leadership of James, the Cavaliers fought two consecutive cities to a 2:2 tie. Although they lost the battle of Tianwangshan, the Cavaliers tenaciously regained their strength at home in G6 of the series. One city, the score came to 3:3.

From the perspective of the overall situation, the Nets won the game, and several games were won by a large score, while the Cavaliers basically passed the single-digit point difference. This shows that there is still a certain gap in the strength of the two teams.

The reason why the Cavaliers were able to reach the tiebreaker with the Nets was due to the explosion of James' small universe.

The fighting power of Thanos Zhan in the 17-18 season is obvious to all. The Cavaliers, who originally led such a sluggish lineup in history, were able to counterattack all the way to the finals in the East, even though the finals were defeated by the Warriors 4:0. Swept out, but the performance of 51 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in the opening game is also a glorious defeat.

No matter how much James is criticized as a top superstar for his actions such as grouping together, there is no doubt about his personal ability.

It's just that when manpower is limited, no matter how strong a person is, it is difficult to fight against a stronger team.

It is an indisputable fact that the overall strength of the Nets is stronger than that of the Cavaliers.

In the tiebreaker, James played 47 minutes and played almost the entire game. He scored 42 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists, which was a quasi-triple-double. The level was greatly missed, and only 14 points were recorded on 5 of 15 shots.

On the Nets side, Durant scored 37+6+4, which is not inferior to James. At the same time, Paul contributed 20+10 steadily, Booker and Jokic also scored 18 and 16 points respectively.

Two fists are hard to beat four hands, James and the Cavaliers finally fell short, and had no choice but to accept the result of stopping the Eastern Conference finals.

The Nets reached the finals for the third consecutive year, but unlike the previous two years, they did not have Wang Chao this time, and Wang Chao joined the opposite Denver Nuggets.

Nuggets vs Nets.

Such a matchup in the finals was a situation that no one expected before the start of the season.

Wang Chao's current team is playing against his former team. This alone can show Wang Chao's strength. After all, whether it is the Nuggets or the Nets, the basic team is built under the leadership of Wang Chao, almost all of them are To his own credit.

Not to mention these two teams, even the Rockets have been one of the strong teams in the Western Conference in the past few years since Wang Chao left. The post-match is terrifying!
Closer to home, the perspective returns to the finals.

The opponent in the finals is the Nets. In Wang Chao's view, it can be regarded as an ideal opponent.

In terms of the quality of the stars, the Nets are even slightly better than the Warriors, but if it is compared to the overall strength and coordination and the rationality of the lineup, the Warriors are obviously still better.

As I said before, the Nets are a team with a strong offense and a weak defense, and there are too many players who need the ball, which leads to uneven distribution of the ball. Like Jokic, he can't play his due strength at all. .

This was reflected in the Eastern Conference playoffs when the Nets faced the Celtics and Cavaliers, but the Nets won abruptly by relying on their super lineup and star personal ability. In other words, the Eastern Conference The overall strength this year is indeed not very good, including the Cavaliers' overall strength due to Irving's departure.

To sum up, Wang Chao feels that the strength of the Nets is slightly weaker than that of the Warriors, and in the game against the Warriors, PJ Tucker will also have a place to play. The playing time is not even as much as that of the substitute Kuzma.

His task is very simple, there is only one, and that is to stare at Durant and try his best to consume the opponent's physical energy.

In the original history, after Tucker joined the Bucks from the Rockets, he played against Durant in the Nets period in the playoffs, and it was that match that made people realize the value of Tucker more deeply.

In the series, Tucker, who was in charge of defending Durant, consumed Durant's physical strength very well, and he did even better than the best defensive player Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo.

Of course, Durant's performance in the entire series is still very explosive. He himself is a super scorer who will never be restricted. Even Wang Chao can't prevent the opponent from dying.

But Tucker's candy-style defense and indomitable spirit of never admitting defeat allowed him to entangle Durant throughout the game, consuming a lot of Durant's physical energy, making him suffer from physical problems at the end of the game. Perform below normal level.

This is one of the main reasons why Wang Chao chose to sign PJ Tucker at the beginning of this season.

Of course, the factor of Tucker's high quality and low price is even more important.

Durant, at this time, did not know that Wang Chao had prepared a big gift for him.

To be able to meet Wang Chao in the finals is something Durant could only wish for.

The humiliation Wang Chao gave him in last year's finals, Durant, who is narrow-minded, still vividly remembers it, and he still can't help his chest heaving violently every time he thinks about it.

Because of Wang Chao's behavior, he joined the Nets and became the laughing stock of the entire league. Although he won a championship, his historical status has not improved but has even declined.

This made Durant more eager to prove himself to the world by defeating Wang Chao on the field.

"Wang Chao, I will pay back all the humiliation you gave me that day! As long as I beat you head-on in the finals, it will be enough to prove that I am stronger than you!"

Obviously, Durant misunderstood some things. For example, even if he really wins Wang Chao in this finals, it cannot prove that he is better than Wang Chao. It can only show that the current lineup of the Nets is indeed the most luxurious in the league.

Who made the gap between the accumulation of honor between the two be so large?

As the former basketball god recognized by the league, Jordan won the NBA championship six times, but in his 15-year career, he also suffered failure in nine seasons. Those players who defeated Jordan in nine seasons, such as once in Is Larry Bird, the top star who led his team to sweep Jordan twice in the playoffs, stronger than Jordan?The Pistons also beat the Bulls in the playoffs three times during the bad boy period, and no one said that Isiah Thomas was better than Jordan.

So Durant's idea is just wishful thinking. If he doesn't win Wang Chao three or four times in a row in the finals, it is basically impossible to change the fans' opinions. Besides, the finals of the two teams have not yet started. (end of this chapter)