"I'm really happy to be able to meet Meng in the finals, it's a really good feeling, and I can't wait to test the strength of Larry's successor." When the Pacers eliminated the Knicks and entered the Finals in a historic way, Reggie Miller, the star of the Pacers, also expressed his excitement to the media for the first time, seeing that he was about to top the highest stage in the NBA to compete for the final honor, and he was only on the body of a mortal enemy, how could this feeling not be exciting. In an interview with reporters, Reggie Miller completely ignored the Knicks, as if the team that had just been eliminated by himself did not exist at all.

"Yes, I've always been very bullish on Meng, I've been following him since he entered the league, and his progress has been amazing, especially in this year's playoffs, where he has put up fantastic numbers, and I think it's time for the whole league to revisit him, he's already a superstar." Larry Bird did not hesitate to praise Meng Xu at the post-game press conference, because this appreciation is not only for Meng Xu, but also for himself.

"Will you bring him in? Of course, I don't think any team would turn down a player as good as Meng, and if Mr. Popovich wanted to, I would trade any player from the Pacers. Although Reggie Miller was sitting next to him, Larry Bird's unabashed, seemingly true and false jokes, still shocked the group of reporters in the audience speechless.

As a famous legend of the Celts, the former king of the Celts, after being forced to leave after a losing struggle, what the arrogant Larry Bird has always wanted is to prove himself in front of those old stubborns, to prove that no matter what he does, no matter where he is, he will be better than them, and he will succeed before them. Now, in his third year with the Pacers, he led the Pacers to the Finals, and the Celtics are still trapped in boundless darkness, unable to extricate themselves, this thrill of revenge makes Larry Bird deeply happy, but at the same time, he also feels sad for his parent team that has played for more than 10 years, a group of inflexible diehards, destined to be unable to lead the Celtics back to glory.

"The San Antonio Spurs are a very good team, they have the best power forward in the whole league, Tim Duncan, and they also have one of the best small forwards in the league, Meng Xu, in addition to having a lot of good players, such as Sean Elliott, Mario Ely, they have been very good in the playoffs, and the absence of David Robinson may not be good news for the Spurs, but for us, it means that we will be much less difficult in the game."

"Even though we were swept by the Spurs in the regular season, that doesn't mean we're going to give up on resisting, every team that goes to the Finals wants to be the winner, and we're no exception. And the regular season record is not representative of the playoffs, otherwise we would have awarded the championship directly to the Lakers. "Larry Bird, who has always been used to being big-mouthed, has become humble after entering the Finals, because Larry Bird also knows in his heart that his Pacers' chances of winning against the Spurs are really not big, although this season's Pacers are the first in the East, but they have won two fewer games than the Spurs in the fourth place in the West, and the two teams met in the regular season, the Pacers were swept by the Spurs, and the Pacers lost a little temper, and Larry Bird continued to adjust the team in the two games, But he was never able to control the situation on the court, because in Larry Bird's opinion, the Spurs' Popovich was a more difficult opponent than Phil Jackson. It's just that I don't know how Phil Jackson, who is lying down for no reason, will feel when he sees Larry Bird's words.

And the Spurs' Tim Duncan, like the Lakers' O'Neal, is a very scary player, and with the Pacers' current few interior lines, there is no suspense about being blown up by Duncan. And the outside line, which the Pacers are proud of, can't take any advantage when facing the Spurs, and is even at a disadvantage. Let's not talk about the Spurs' outside defense, which has been criticized on the offensive end of the regular season, and is nicknamed the Spurs by the Spurs' own fans as the outside four of the Spurs, Avery Johnson, Mario Ely, Meng Xu, Sean Elliott, after the four of them entered the playoffs, their average points per game almost doubled, which is quite a terrifying data, you must know that the total score of these four people in the regular season is only about 30 points, and in the 15 games in the playoffs, their average points per game soared to 58 points, Especially in the series between the Lakers and the Pacers, the increase is the most obvious, which is why David Robinson is absent and the Spurs are stronger, if you add Tim Duncan, the starting 5 of the Spurs in the playoffs have averaged an astonishing 82 points per game, and you must know that the Pacers average total points per game after entering the playoffs is only 95 points.

What surprised Larry Bird even more was Meng Xu, the little guy who was handpicked as his successor, was just a defensive titan in the regular season, and the offensive end was just a low-match and low-match Reggie Miller, but after entering the future game, Larry Bird was surprised to find that this little guy turned out to be a player with his own system, and it was precisely by relying on his system that Sean Elliott and Mario Eli, two players who were already on the verge of retirement, actually played close to the peak of their careers. For the Pacers, one of the few good news now, I'm afraid that David Robinson has been determined not to participate in the Finals, and Popovich has not yet found a way to integrate Meng Xu's Duncan.

After Larry Bird blew on the Spurs in the clouds, Spurs head coach Popovich was surprisingly very modest when he was interviewed by reporters, starting from Larry Bird's playing career and blowing until the reporter who interviewed Popovich was about to vomit.

Unlike the saber-rattling before the start of the playoffs series, the two teams in this year's Finals, the Spurs and the Pacers, surprised everyone that both the head coach and the players are constantly touting their opponents, you must know that both the Spurs and the Pacers have a bunch of big mouths, especially Larry Bird and Reggie Miller, which can shut up these big mouths and tout their opponents, which is certainly not a good thing in the eyes of the media.