Chapter 807: Closing One
In the closing game, the Oracle Arena was packed.
The Warriors have already locked up a playoff spot this year and will compete for the title as the first seed, while the SuperSonics, who are out of the final eight playoff ranks, can only come back next year.
In the previous game, the SuperSonics team did not win against the Warriors, and there is still a clear gap between the two teams in terms of strength.
The Warriors locked up the No. 1 position in the league, and Yang Di was almost the first in every installment of the MVP rankings.
At the end of the season, the Warriors will still be the team with the most gains.
In the closing game of the day, Yang Di played 24 minutes, cut 18 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks, and the Warriors had 7 double-doubles, defeating the Unintentional SuperSonics and winning the 68th victory of the season, and the Warriors ranked first in team history with a record of 68 wins and 14 losses.
There's no doubt that when the Warriors achieve such a record, it is enough to shock the league.
At the beginning of the season, people were shocked by the newly formed Lakers and Celtics superteams, but at the end of the season, it was the Warriors who won the best record quietly.
In the last game, the Warriors said they didn't care about winning or losing, but in fact they still hoped to make history, and Yang Di's double-double data in only 24 minutes of the game is the best proof of this, you know, 5 of his 10 rebounds are frontcourt rebounds, and Aldridge can't prevent him at all.
The Warriors' 68-14 record ranks in the NBA for joint fifth.
Chris Mullin, the general manager of the Warriors, said that this Warriors team is a stronger team than the Lakers during the "shotime" period, with a balanced offense and defense, and is almost invincible.
Such remarks have been countered by some celebrities.
So the Warriors, who have such a super record, are still criticized as inferior to the three teams after the closing game.
One is the Bulls, who won the championship after a 72-10 record in the regular season. Pippen said directly: "If you play a series against the Warriors, the Bulls can win four games, and they won't get a win from us at all." ”
Rodman couldn't agree with Pippen's sentiments: "Even if they go 81-1, it doesn't matter to me, our Bulls team is certainly better than the current Warriors, and the league was 110% stronger than the current league." ”
Harper said: "Our record of 72 wins in the regular season was meant to be broken, and unfortunately they didn't break our record, but I can be sure that there is no doubt that we can sweep this Warriors." ”
Not to be outdone, Kukoc, the sixth man of the year, said: "I don't want to say we're a lot better than them, but we have more weapons on both ends of the floor. In the playoffs, we can beat them 4-1 or 4-2. ”
Two of the team's substitutes, Randy Brown and Winnington, were also involved. Randy Brown said, "Jordan could have stayed at the free-throw line if he played now. ”
Yang Di and others don't want to go to war with the famous network, which doesn't do any good for the Warriors.
However, head coach Montgomery said with a smile in an interview: "If they play each other now, they may play for six hours, and there may be no way to tell the winner." ”
And the Lakers during the "shotime" period. In 1979, when Magic Johnson joined the league, and in 1989, when Abdul-Jabbar retired, the Lakers relied on the iron triangle formed by Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar and Worthy, supplemented by Byron Scott, AC Green and others, to play a pleasing combination that has never been seen in NBA history.
During that time, the Lakers won a total of five championships, taking the 1986-1987 season when the Lakers won the championship, for example, they had a 65-17 record and averaged 117.8 points per game.
The third team is the Lakers who won 33 consecutive games in the 1971-1972 season, the Lakers in the 1971-1972 season, which happened to be the last season of Elgin Baylor's career, Baylor announced his retirement after 9 games, but the addition of Chamberlain made the Lakers' offense more three-dimensional and diverse. From November 5, 1971 to January 7, 1972, the Lakers won all 33 games, and this is the only time they have done so in a single season. They ended up with 69 wins that season. The Lakers easily defeated the Knicks 4-1 in the finals to win a championship.
As soon as the closing battle was over, as soon as the final results were released, the entire alliance exploded.
Meanwhile, the teams in the East and West are completely frozen, with the Warriors leading the West, the Los Angeles Lakers at 59-23, the San Antonio Spurs at 56-26 in third, the Utah Jazz at 54-28 in fourth, the Houston Rockets at 55-27 in fifth, the Phoenix Suns at 55-27 in sixth, the Dallas Mavericks at 53-28 in seventh, and the New Orleans Hornets in 51-31 in eighth.
The East is led by the Boston Celtics, who have a 60-22 record and are in first place in the East.
Then followed by the Pistons, Magic, Cavaliers, Wizards, Raptors, 76ers and Atlanta Hawks, the overall winning percentage is one notch lower than that of the West.
The eighth-place New Orleans Hornets in the West can finish fourth in the East, and Denver, who didn't make the playoffs, also has a 50-win record, losing to the Hornets by a narrow margin, and finally being squeezed out of the playoff ranks by a new team.
The worst record in the league is actually the Heat, the Heat fell apart, and they were still the favorites to win the championship two years ago, but this year not only traded O'Neal, who thought it was a thigh, but also injured Dwyane Wade, and finally had to be a fish belly, with a 15-67 record, which looks particularly bleak.
The Chicago Bulls have changed the most coaches, with a total of three head coaches in one season, and the team is in turmoil and can't look good.
The worst in the West is the Timberwolves, with the Seattle SuperSonics and Portland Trail Blazers in 10th and 11th place, respectively, and look promising.
The most embarrassing thing is that it belongs to the Diggers, and in the middle of the season, Iverson was caught in trade rumors, and the whole team was in turmoil, and the golden duo proved to be able to score rather than win, and Iverson also asked the team to trade him to a more championship-winning team.
But in the end, there was no suitable buyer, and the two sides had a very stiff quarrel, Iverson and Anthony were still superstar stats, and the Nuggets and Camby, JR Smith and others were also statistically bursting, but in the end they went home early to fish.
As soon as the regular season finale ended, the Nuggets became the first team to fall into the trade rumor board, and it seemed that everyone but Carmelo Anthony could be traded.