"I'm not criticizing the All-Team selection rules, don't you think it's a bit unreasonable for the Thunder to be the second-best team in the regular season that season, but not a single player was selected to the All-Star team?"

On May 5, 2013, just after the NBA league announced the best team for the 12-13 season and the list of winners of various awards, Scott Brooks, as the head coach of the Thunder, vaguely expressed his dissatisfaction with the league's selection rules in an interview with reporters.

The Thunder, who have a 60-22 record as the second-best team this season, are undoubtedly the favorites for several regular season awards, such as Best Coach, which won 13 more games than last season, but the Best Coach award went to George Karl, who was defeated in the first round of the playoffs. Another example is the regular season MVP, although LeBron James, who won the best record in the regular season, is also eligible to be elected as this season's regular season MVP, but considering that the Heat is a group of three superstars, and in the past four years, LeBron James has won three regular season MVPs, so Kevin Durant, as the star of the Thunder, is very popular for being elected as this season's regular season MVP, but the final voting result is that LeBron James defeated Kevin Durant with an absolute advantage, He was voted the MVP of the regular season this season.

If you miss the above two awards, you will miss it, after all, whether it is LeBron James or George Carr, there are rich reasons to be elected, but the selection results of the best team make Scott Brooks a little unacceptable, in the case of the team's record and personal data are all superior, the two leading stars of the Thunder, but none of them were selected to the best team for a while, no best coach, no MVP, and now there is not even the best team for a while, such a result undoubtedly represents the Thunder, which has the second best record in the regular season. At the time of the regular season, the big four were empty.

Kevin Durant, who averaged 28.1 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game, lost to Meng Xu, who averaged 25.5 points, 7 rebounds, and 6.3 assists per game, Russell Westbrook, who averaged 23.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 7.4 assists per game, and lost to Chris Paul, who averaged 16.9 points, 9.7 assists, and 3.7 rebounds per game.

The results of this year's best team selection are indeed quite controversial, and the best team composed of Tim Duncan, Meng Xu, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Chris Paul has not only been questioned by Scott Brooks, but even Dwight Howard, who is Kobe's teammate, is also dissatisfied with the selection results of the best team. That's how Howard, who has been selected for five seasons in a row, can accept it.

Although after his comeback, Meng Xu's condition has always been very good, and even in the second month of the new season, Meng Xu also played 30+10+10 data, and won the best player of the month, but after the All-Star weekend, when the Spurs' large-scale rotation began, Meng Xu's playing time and average data began to plummet, and there was even an embarrassing situation of not scoring doubles in three consecutive games, so when the honors of the regular season began to be selected, Meng Xu was still fully mentally prepared, but the final result made Meng Xu a little incredible, because Meng Xu was not only selected for the best team for a while, but also for the best defensive team for a while, and Meng Xu was also ranked in the top three in the regular season MVP and best defensive player selection.

After missing the All-NBA team for two consecutive seasons, Tim Duncan was selected for the All-NBA team at the age of 37 this season, and the All-Defensive Team for the second team, and in addition to Meng Xu and Tim Duncan, Tony Parker was selected for the All-NBA team for three times, Kawhi Leonard was selected for the All-Defensive Team for the second team, two main players were selected for the first-team team, and three players were selected for the All-NBA and the All-Defensive team. The Spurs are arguably the biggest winners of this season's Team of the Year selection.

While the controversy caused by the selection of the best team was still spreading, the Spurs, as the biggest beneficiaries, were steadily preparing for the Western Conference semifinals that were about to start with the Warriors.

Although the Warriors' record this season is only sixth in the West, the Spurs have not been careless, but treat the Warriors as a strong rival, because the Warriors have just blackened the Clippers, who are third in the West, and their strength is absolutely not to be underestimated.

As for the Warriors' last trip to the playoffs, it was the time when they completed the Black Eight Miracle on the Mavericks, in front of such a team that wants black people as soon as they shoot, no team dares to hold it up, especially the Spurs, who are hacked professionally, and they have to be even more cautious when they encounter the Warriors.

The Warriors' Black Eight Miracle seemed to have exhausted the luck that the Warriors had accumulated over the years, and the Warriors have been teetering on the edge of the playoffs ever since. And after missing out on the playoffs for many seasons in a row, the exhausted old Nelson chose to retire.

And Mark Jackson, who took over the Warriors after the retirement of the old Nelson, chose to break the big stand very simply, directly sent away the team's boss Monta Ellis, corrected Steve Curry hand-picked by the old Nelson, and entrusted Klay Thompson, who had just entered the league, to the playoffs, but the Warriors played a 47-35 record under the leadership of Steve Curry and Klay Thompson, helping the Warriors return to the playoffs after five years. And in the first round of the playoffs, they once again performed the miracle of the following grams, sending the Clippers, who are third in the West, back to fishing after six big games.

Before the start of the Western Conference semifinals, both the Spurs and the Warriors were very cautious, the Spurs were naturally cautious because they had overturned in the gutter too many times, while the Warriors were purely afraid of the Spurs' strong strength, most of the players in the Warriors team were raw melons and eggs who entered the playoffs for the first time, and the experience of the tournament was basically zero, while the Spurs were a team that had reached the playoffs for 15 consecutive seasons and won three championships, so in front of the Spurs, From head coach Mark Jackson to the team's core Stephen Curry, they are all extra cautious.