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Chapter 347 The long-awaited arena

Surprisingly, in the penultimate game, the Magic played against the Bullets at home, and the Magic only played one main player, Clay.

O'Neal, Garnett, Finley and Iverson sat off the court smiling.

This wave of rotation of the Magic has caused dissatisfaction among many people, especially those neutral fans.

I paid money to buy tickets to see your stars perform, and you let the stars sit outside the court, is that plausible?
But DeWeese didn't care what those sloppy fans thought, the playoffs were coming soon, and the most important thing was to ensure that the team didn't have any problems.

And the main players who were "classified" as substitutes also played strictly according to the playing time of substitute players.

Even so, the Bullets without Webber are no match for the Magic.

The Magic officially broke through to 70 wins. After the game, Uncle Huo came up to congratulate the Magic for making history.

"You guys are really strong. Congratulations on your 70 wins." Uncle Huo shook hands with Davis and congratulated the Magic.

"You guys have performed very well this year, keep going." DeWeese is both a teacher and a friend to Uncle Huo, so Uncle Huo didn't feel strange when he spoke to Uncle Huo in this tone.

And in the next day's newspaper, the news that the Magic broke through 70 wins appeared on the headlines of all sports sections.

There are four games left in the season. I don't know how many wins the Magic can achieve?

Five days later, the results came out.

In the remaining four games, the Magic only lost one game to the Hawks and won the other three games.

But Finley was injured while playing against the Hawks and is expected to miss 2-4 weeks.

In the words of the reporters, although Finley is the least important point in the Magic's starting lineup, and his scoring average is not even as good as Horry on the bench, this still casts a shadow over the Magic's playoff journey.

However, someone in the Magic team has almost exploded with patience.

And this season, the Magic almost lost their No. 73 position in the league. . .They are 9-72, while the Bulls are 10-[-].

On April 4, the regular season of the 21-95 season was settled.

The top eight teams in the Eastern Conference are: Orlando Magic, Chicago Bulls, Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat and Atlanta Hawks.

Because the Eagles finally won the Magic game, they were lucky to catch the last train of the playoffs.

The West has changed a lot. The Mavericks led by Hill and Hardaway successfully surpassed the Houston Rockets at the end of the season and reached the top of the West. Their record is 62 wins and 20 losses.

The Rockets are second behind the Mavericks by half a game.

Next are the Utah Jazz, San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Phoenix Suns.

The Suns led by Barkley and Johnson were only ranked eighth in the West with a record of 41 wins and 41 losses due to a series of factors such as coaching changes midway and team injuries.

The first round of the playoffs has already been determined. In the East, the Magic's opponent in the first round is the Atlanta Hawks who just won them. The Bulls face the Heat, the Pacers face the Celtics, and the Knicks face the Cleveland Cavaliers.

In the west, the league's cutting-edge Dallas Mavericks will play against the veteran team Phoenix Suns, the Houston Rockets will play against the newly transformed Timberwolves, the Jazz will play against the Nuggets, and the Spurs will play against the Trail Blazers.

On April 4, the Magic ushered in Game 26 of their first-round series at home against the Atlanta Hawks.

"I think we have a chance, after all, didn't we just beat them?" Coach Lenny Wilkens said to the media reporters with a confident look before the game.

"But that was the only game you won when their main lineup was rotated. In the regular season, your record against the Magic was only 1 win and 3 losses." The reporters refused to stop and asked Wilkens.

"I think we have figured out their tactics, and I believe we have a way to deal with them." Wilkens refused to lose, but still responded bluntly.

However, Wilkens' eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets when he got the Magic's starting roster.

The other members of the Eagles also looked like hell.

On the magic team's roster, it is clearly written, No. 1, Michael Davis,

"Hell, isn't he reimbursed for the season? How can he show up on time for our first game?"

Wilkens quickly understood that the news that Davis hadn't recovered from his injury must be a smoke bomb released by the Magic. It's just that the Magic's performance was too strong this season, and everyone ignored Davis intentionally or unintentionally.

At the same time, as soon as the Magic's starting roster was confirmed, the news of Davis' comeback spread to every corner of the league.

The tactics that Wilkens carefully formulated before the game to make a fuss about the poor cooperation between Iverson and O'Neal immediately became useless.

Wilkens, who was thinking hard and didn't think of any good solution, finally had no choice but to explain to the players some points that the players need to pay attention to on the court, and put the bewildered players on the court.

In the first game of the playoffs, the Magic showed their sharpest fangs.

DeWeese, who hadn't played an official game for nearly a year, jumped up and down excitedly after entering the field, completely ignoring the tangled expressions of the facing Eagles players.

The reason why the Eagles players struggled was that they were considering whether to resist for a while before surrendering, or to just lie down and admit defeat after coming up?

In the end, based on the basic professionalism of professional players, the Eagles decided to resist first.

O'Neal, Garnett, Klay, Iverson and DeWeese, five people stood on the court, and a reporter took a group photo of the five of them, which became a classic commemoration of the Magic's lineup this year.

O'Neill easily jumped the ball over Langley's head.

Langley was traded from the Bulls in the middle of the season. In order to fill the weakness of the Eagles inside, he played well.

After the Bulls owned Gugliotta, their internal strength has overflowed, so the Bulls did not hesitate to trade away Langley, who had been on the bench for three years by accident.

This season he can average 10 points and 8 rebounds per game, but facing O'Neal. . .Langley clearly remembered the painful memories that O'Neill brought to him every time he played against him.

DeWeese easily controlled the ball to face the Eagles' point guard, the 1.8-meter-three Mookie Brolake.

Brolake and Langley had the same expressions. . .

Davis leaned against Brolake from beyond the three-point line, observed the situation on the court, and then turned around suddenly. . . .

Brolake didn't expect that Davis hadn't played a game for a year, and he was in such a good state. He didn't react at all, and was wiped out by Davis.

　Well, it's still five o'clock, I said~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)