Chapter 367: The Playoffs Are Coming (10/10)
If he wants to make a big splash in his third season, this must also be taken into account.
The season is fast and fast forward to mid-April, the regular season is about to fall, and the playoffs are just around the corner.
The Spurs travel to Los Angeles for the day, where they will take on the Lakers on the road for the third and final meeting between the two sides this season.
The Lakers' trade at the trade deadline was a great success.
Sean Livingston and CJ Myers provide the Lakers with a very scarce defense.
D'Antoni also took Kobe's advice to put Gasol on the bench and successfully accelerated the team with a lineup of one big and four small.
Thanks to these changes, the Lakers have a very impressive record after the All-Star break, and have locked up fifth place in the West with one game remaining.
A small trade took the team from eighth to fifth, and Kupchak was once again canonized by Lakers fans.
"I owe you a great favor."
But only Bryant knows why this change happened.
He really owed Tang Tian a big favor.
Counting the previous Vasani, the two of them are together, and Tang Tian has become the great benefactor of Kobe and his wife.
But Tang Tian didn't care too much.
For him, it's just a matter of moving his mouth.
And this kind of thing like human favor may come in handy in the future.
When he arrived in Los Angeles, before the game started, he unexpectedly received a call from Ridley Scott.
"The Martian" was a huge success, and in addition to Olsen's eyebrows, Scott also made a lot of money.
He was busy promoting the movie before, and this time Tang Tian came to Los Angeles, he would invite Tang Tian to have a meal anyway.
Tang Tian did not refuse, and after the training, he took a taxi directly to the hotel.
A very high-end western restaurant.
However, after Tang Tian entered, he found that Scott was not the only one inside, there was also a middle-aged man with a bulging belly and head, looking at a middle-aged man in his fifties.
"David, this is Don, he's a basketball celebrity."
"Don, this is David Yates, my fellow Englishman."
Scott helped the two of them make introductions.
Tang Tian smiled and shook hands with Yates, but he didn't know why Scott would find a stranger on such an occasion.
It wasn't until he sat down and chatted for a while that Tang Tian knew what Scott's intentions were.
David Yates, like Scott, is a British film director.
Scott undoubtedly said in the chat that Tang Tian knew that he was the director of the fifth to seventh parts of "Harry Potter".
Olsen is Tang Tian's girlfriend, and Scott knows about it, and the purpose of introducing Yates to him at this time is obvious.
This is to find a new film opportunity for Olson.
Scott is returning the favor.
Although Tang Tian didn't want Olsen to continue making movies, if Olsen wanted to continue making movies in the future, this would be a good connection.
"I've seen Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I think it's the most successful Harry Potter film in the series."
Tang Tian said to Yates with a smile.
He's still very good at communicating, and he's actually okay with what he says.
The progress of film technology, the direction of the Harry Potter series, including the success of filming, and many factors, the fifth part of the Order of the Phoenix is currently a movie with good reputation and box office.
"In fact, I really appreciate Elizabeth's acting skills, she will be the best new actor of the year."
Yates also came at the right time for a wave of commercial blowing.
However, like Tang Tian's words, this wave of mutual blowing is also based on reality, "The Martian" was a fire, and Olsen did become famous in the film and television industry.
When the meal was almost over, Scott also said that he could always come to him if things were in the movie.
Tang Tian nodded.
With Scott's connections, Yates is just the beginning.
In the long run, even if Tang Tian wants to make a basketball series movie in the future, it will be a very easy thing.
The last regular season game has nothing to do with the rankings, and the main players of both sides basically didn't play much.
After this game is over, the regular season of the 2012~2013 season has officially come to an end.
The Spurs' final record was fixed at 64-18, which also broke the team's 63 wins in 05~06 and set the best record in the history of the regular season.
Even if it weren't for those games that deliberately compressed Tang Tian's playing time, the Spurs' record could have been added to one more.
Tang Tian also ended his rookie second year journey.
Compared to his rookie season, his stats have improved a lot.
That year, he played in all 82 games, starting 81 of them.
He averaged 30.8 minutes per game, scoring 17.8 points, 2.1 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 2.3 steals and 2.1 blocks, shooting 48% from the field and 50% from three-point range.
He averaged more points per game than Duncan's 17.5 points per game and second only to Parker's 20.3 points, making him the team's second-leading scorer.
It's no exaggeration to say that in his second year as a rookie, he played the pinnacle of a role player.
Elsewhere in the West, the Thunder are in second place with a 60-22 record.
Durant averaged 32 points, 7.4 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game this season, averaging a career-high points per game and becoming the league's leading scorer for the fourth time in his career.
After Harden left, he had a pretty crazy season.
The Nuggets are third with a 57-25 record.
This record is also the best record in the history of the Nuggets.
They were the fourth in ESPN's pre-season predictions, which was met with a lot of complaints from fans, but in the end, they managed to correct their name, which was impressive.
The Clippers are 56-26 and a one-game gap to fourth.
The Lakers' final record is 53-29.
This result is a far cry from what fans predicted at the start of the season.
But after missing out on the playoffs in the first half of the season, it's a good result.
And more importantly, F4 is fully fit to go into the playoffs, which will make them competitive in the playoffs.
The Warriors ended up in sixth place with a 47-35 record.
Their record has doubled from last year (23-59), and the difference Mark Jackson has made to this team is palpable.
The Grizzlies are seventh with a 46-36 record.
They suffered an injury to Gasol Jr. after the All-Star break, and their record went up and down.
For the Memphis, Gasol Jr.'s return and return to form before the end of the regular season is the best news for them.
The Rockets finished in eighth place in the West with a 44-38 record, avoiding an embarrassing third straight slate in the West.
At the same time, this is also the first time they have returned to the playoffs since the end of the MM era since the 08~09 season.
The Jazz (43-39) and Mavericks (42-40) were out of the tournament.
With the Western Conference standings determined, the playoff matchups are also out.
The Spurs will face the Rockets in the first round.
The Thunder will face a challenge from the Grizzlies.
The Nuggets and Warriors are two upstarts that will go head-to-head.
And the Clippers and Lakers, the same city team, will decide who is the real king of Los Angeles.
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