20. The opponent in the finals
The Cleveland Cavaliers became the Eastern Conference champion, which is the biggest news and focus in the NBA league in the past two days. After all, before this year's playoffs kicked off, no one expected that a team like the Cleveland Cavaliers could win the Eastern Conference championship.
However, regardless of the outside world's surprise, it is a foregone conclusion that the Cleveland Cavaliers advance to this year's finals. What the Cavaliers need to do now is to return from Chicago to Cleveland, where the team is located, and then wait for the Western Conference championship to emerge.
Although the situation in the West seemed a little anxious at the beginning of this round of series, after the Eastern Conference championship was produced, the situation in the West has gradually become clearer. The Dallas Mavericks are leading the Oklahoma City Thunder, who is also a youth guard, with a big score of 3:2.
This year, the four teams that entered the East and West finals circle, three of which are core players are between 2023, and only the core player of the Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki, is over thirty years old.
Such an age class has many meanings. The biggest thing is that it makes people feel that this league has begun to enter the era of players in the new era!?
If such a statement is born, it will undoubtedly make the 2003 Golden Year led by LeBron James, Cameron Anthony, players who have gradually entered the Mesozoic generation feel that they are dull.
Especially when LeBron James, who ran from Cleveland to Miami this season, not only achieved his dream of joining a group with good friends, James lost MVP this season, but he had not even played in the first round.
When the Cleveland Cavaliers took a special plane back to Cleveland with the East District League championship trophy in their hands. When the plane landed at Hopkins International Airport and the moment the players walked out of the cabin door, they once again saw the cheers of crowds.
Such a scenario. In this playoff journey, the Cleveland Cavaliers players have experienced two times. The first time was to eliminate the Miami Heat led by LeBron James 4-1, and the second game was to eliminate the Cleveland Cavaliers' Nightmare Boston Celtics in recent years.
While the Cavaliers kept surprise to the outside world this season, Cleveland fans seemed to have endless enthusiasm to offer the hottest cheers for every outstanding performance of the Cavaliers!
However, the Cavaliers did not parade because this was not the championship trophy, and the Cavaliers had also won the East District championship trophy. Once again, the players finally squeezed into the bus under the enthusiasm of Cleveland fans.
Although they are also excited to share such joy with Cleveland fans, the players who just finished the game last night are still in a relatively exhausted state now. And these days will be a rare opportunity for the Cleveland Cavaliers to rest in this year's playoffs.
Because they became the first team to advance to the opponent for the first time, after the winner of the Western Conference Finals was decided, the league still needs to arrange the finals schedule. This period of time can be about 4 days, and these 4 days are definitely the opportunity for Cavaliers players to wait for their time.
Naturally, the focus of public opinion will shift to the finals of the West where the winners and losses are not yet decided. However, in Cleveland, the remaining news about Wu Dawei and the Cleveland Cavaliers are all about articles praising their performance this season.
These days are the most relaxing and enjoyable days for the Cleveland Cavaliers players, although they still have to gather training every day to ensure their condition. After all, the season is not over. They still have the last and most important series to complete.
However, the players did not complain about this. Everyone is now enjoying this hard-earned leisure time after the victory. Without the game, there will be no pressure. Although the game will come soon, it will happen a few days later.
At this stage, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are waiting for their finals, obviously have no news hot spots to dig. The reporters who are still in Cleveland at this time undoubtedly want to find news from Wu Dawei.
Compared to the fact that the Cavaliers surprisingly won the East District championship, the most popular thing is undoubtedly Wu Dawei's stay and stay this summer. Although the season has not ended, it is not far away.
The question of Wu Dawei's stay or not has been brought up by countless people, but Wu Dawei himself did not respond to this. This attitude is because Wu Dawei doesn't want to worry too much about what he needs to consider in the future. After all, he is now fully focused on the sixth game of the upcoming Western Conference Finals.
At this time, the attention to basketball was basically focused on the Ford Center Stadium, the home court of the Oklahoma City Thunder. June 5th was the day when the Mavericks and the Thunder played sixth game.
At this time, the Mavericks were leading the Thunder with a total score of 3:2. They only needed one victory to complete the promotion smoothly.
Of course, both sides attach great importance to such a critical battle. Of course, the Mavericks are going to win this game by any means. They are now in an advantage position, but this advantage is not big. If they lose tonight's game, then their so-called advantage will be gone.
The Thunder also has the same idea. As long as they win this home game, they can drag the final decisive battle into Game 7.
The game was very intense from the beginning, completely different from the situation in the Eastern Conference Finals between the Cavaliers and the Bulls. The young Oklahoma City Thunder already had super powerful strength, and the Mavericks were in their peak state at this time.
The two sides played very fiercely from the beginning of the game, and the situation of not giving in to each other made the game smell some gunpowder smell. The fierce physical collision made the game whistle sounds, and the whole game gave people a very inconsistent feeling.
The frequent sound of the referee's whistle sounded a little sad about the last battle between the Cavaliers and the Bulls, which was like a contest between gentlemen...
Of course, Wu Dawei also saw this critical battle in the West on TV. The live broadcast across the United States allows Wu Dawei to watch the game even if he sits at home. Although there are many time zones in the United States and the span is quite large, the start time of this game is quite appropriate.
From the first second to the end of the game, Wu Dawei felt a fierce body collision and Dirk Nowitzki's super-god shooting feel. Especially at the last moment of the game, when the scores of the two teams were very stalemate, Nowitzki stood up bravely. He carried the team on his shoulders and made a continuous high-difficulty back jump shot, which made the Thunder request several timeouts and not stop.
Although Sergi Ibaka is already an excellent defensive player, many experts predict that he will become the league's most premier defensive champion in the future. However, that night, in front of Dirk Nowitzki, Sergi Ibaka had no more eye-catching performances except for a few fly caps to make up for defense.
What people see most in the game is Sergi Ibaka's helpless frustration expression when facing the Novis Fund Chicken's independent backward jump shot. Time and again, Nowitzki used his shot to destroy the young man's confidence on the defensive end.
At the end of the shooting, no one in the Thunder could stop Dirk Nowitzki from asking for points at the last moment of the game. Although Kevin Durant, the core of the Thunder, is also a star who is very good at shooting, compared with Nowitzki, the latter's performance in this year's playoffs is completely a shooting artist!
The soft feel and exaggerated posture make people lean back curves beyond the reach. Every time Nowitzki makes a move, it seems that people can't help but feel desperate.
When the whistle sounded, Nowitzki scored a high score of 40 points in this game tonight! Similarly, the Dallas Mavericks also won away, defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder who played at home with 120:113.
At the same time, the Dallas Mavericks, who won the victory, also defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder with a total score of 4:2 in the West Division finals and completed the feat of advancing to the finals!
At this point, the Cavaliers' opponent in the finals is freshly released. The Dallas Mavericks, led by "German King" Dirk Nowitzki, will represent the Western Conference to compete in the finals.
The Cavaliers are not unfamiliar with an opponent like the Mavericks. After all, the two sides have met twice in the regular season, and the record between the two sides is one win and one lose, and the difference is equal.
However, after reading some information about the Dallas Mavericks in this year's playoffs, Wu Dawei felt that the current Dallas Mavericks seemed to have become different when they fought with him in the regular season. To be more precise, their core Dirk Nowitzki has become different.
He seems to have become even more buggy!
Chapter completed!