Fans watching the NBA are just a joy, a passion, and maybe an inspiration, they are new to the NBA, but they are attracted by this fierce confrontational sport. When the minds of the fans are sublimated, they will become fans of a certain player, and then they will identify with a team, which is the hardcore fans that every team needs.

How to cultivate die-hard fans? The Greenshirts have the most say in this regard, and they can write a book called "How Hardcore Fans Are Made," just as Kobe Bryant is said to be writing the autobiographical novel "How Steel Is Made." Boston's North Shore Garden Arena used to be the most popular stadium for die-hard fans, so why is this happening? Because of the honor, because of the brilliant career of the Green Shirts.

Therefore, for the professional league, the most important thing is not money, but honor, when you get more honors, you will naturally gain more fans, and you will naturally make more money.

Why do players tend to play hardest in the playoffs when they don't have a salary? It's just to fight for honors.

The regular season is over, and the NBA's awards ceremony begins.

The Warriors are very happy because in the early hours of April 21, the NBA officially announced the first major award of the 2008/09 regular season today, that is, the coach of the year, and the elder Nelson has once again been recognized by sports reporters and commentators for the fourth time in his career.

The trophy was presented at the end of the third game between the Warriors and the Thunder, and the old man accepted the trophy with a smile on his face, and Stern smiled and congratulated him on becoming a winner in life.

Nelson Sr. is one of the few players to have a great deal of accolades as a player and a manager, averaging 10 per game in his first season in 75 games. 2 points and 5. 4 rebounds, and was later taken to the Green Shirts by Cardinal Auerbach, who helped the Celtics win the 1966 NBA championship that season, and then spent nine seasons with the Green Shirts, maintaining an average of more than 10 points per game, helping the team win the 1968, 1969, 1974, and 1976 championships, and in the 1974-1975 season, he shot first in the league and was considered one of the best sixth men in Celtics history.

Yes, the crazy old man used to be a super marksman, and until now, he will still play shooting games with his players when he is in good spirits, but with the arrival of Curry, this event is rarely held, and that kid will not do anything, as long as he starts shooting, no one will let him.

The elder Nelson is best known for his 1969 Finals, when the Celtics played Game 7 against the Lakers, and he threw a great shot to win the Celtics' championship, which became a huge boost in the retirement of his No. 19 jersey at Boston Garden.

His accolades were even more glorious in his head coach era, when Nelson Sr. took over the Bucks in 1976, with only a 3-15 record. Subsequently, Nelson Sr. began the first major overhaul of his coaching career, sending away the number one star Sven Nate and poaching or selecting a group of outstanding non-superstar players such as Marquis and Plessy. In the decade since, the Bucks have made the playoffs nine times, winning over 50 seven times and reaching the Eastern Conference Finals three times.

The Bucks did not have the league's premier superstar at that time, but they became the spoiler that no one dared to underestimate in the "black and white" era of the Lakers' Green Army.

In addition, what you must not expect is that the old Nelson, who has been criticized for never defending, was actually an iron coach who emphasized defense and started by defense during the Bucks period. It was also during the Bucks time that Nelson Sr. won Coach of the Year honors in 1983 and 1985.

Perhaps it was really the spell that worked, and in 1987, the Bucks fell again at the feet of the rising Celtics, and the elder Nelson had no choice but to leave office. However, the next season, the elder Nelson immediately began his crazy experiments with the Warriors, not only completely overturning his defensive style with the Bucks, but even expanding the concept of "point forward" to running and shooting. At that time, combined with the three muskets of Richmond, Tim Hardaway and Mullin, the Warriors' attack power was terrifying, and people could never have imagined that basketball could still be played like this. Nelson Sr. also won Best Coach for the third time in '92 for his insane tactics.

However, the Warriors never made it to the Finals due to a lack of perfect point forwards. In the 1992-93 season, the Warriors selected Chris Webber with the top pick, and the old Nelson also invited Popovich, who was then an assistant coach of the Spurs, to be the assistant coach of the Warriors, and the Warriors entered the playoffs again with 50 wins and 32 losses, but then the old Nelson and Webb The conflict worsened, and the Warriors failed again. The following season, Webb left for Washington, D.C., and Nelson Sr. had to resign due to poor results.

After four years of tossing and turning, the 1997-1998 season saw Nelson Sr. once again in the Dallas Mavericks. In the 98-99 season, the old Nelson completed perhaps the most brilliant trade of his career, he traded the option of Robert Taylor for the then unknown Nowitzki and the young Nash, so far, the Mavericks three musketeers were formed, and the running storm swept the league again, and the old Nelson became the third thousand-win coach in NBA history in 01, and reached the Western Conference Finals in 02, but nowitzki was injured, and the Mavericks finally lost to the Spurs led by Popovich.

Victory and defeat, forward and backward, this is what the old Nelson's head coach career has repeatedly seen, he is the coach with the highest winning percentage in the league, but he has never led the team to win the championship, although the old man usually does not mention this, in fact, Chamberlain and others know that this is his reverse scale, don't say this to him.

This season, the old Nelson has drastically changed the lineup, and since the arrival of Chamberlain, the Warriors' starting lineup has almost completely changed, the reason is that he has to fight, he wants to win a championship to make a name for himself! For this, he almost went crazy.

Nelson Sr.'s efforts paid off, earning the admiration of 122 sports journalists and commentators in a stellar season, scoring a total of 355 points in the best coach poll, including 55 first-place votes.

The rules for the selection of the best coach are that each voter chooses three coaches in order, with 5 points for the first choice, 3 points for the second choice and 1 point for the third choice. The elder Nelson received a total of 55 first-place votes, 21 second-place votes and 17 third-place votes, for a total of 355 points. In second place was Cavaliers head coach Brown, who received a total of 13 first-choice votes, 24 second-place votes and 14 third-place votes for a total of 151 points. The third-highest scorer was Adelman of the Rockets with 150 points, just one less than Brown.

In fact, before this result, fans also debated who was the best coach this season, and the main area of contention was between Nelson Sr. and Brown.

Brown is the Eastern Conference All-Star coach this season, and he led the Cavaliers to a 65-17 record, the 12th team in history to score 65 wins in a single season. The Cavaliers have been on a winning streak at home this season, starting the season with a 23-game winning streak and finishing with the league's best home record of the season at 39-2.

The Cavaliers were also the first team to win 39 at home after the 1996/97 season, the sixth in NBA history, the last being the Bulls, the king of the Michael Jordan era. Compared to last season's 45-37, the Cavaliers have won 21 more games this year.

In addition, Brown has won the Coach of the Month award three times this season, in December 2008 and in February and March this year. In the All-Star offseason, the Cavaliers led the East (36-9, 80 percent win rate), giving Brown the honor of being the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Star team. It was Brown's first All-Star head coach and the second in Cavaliers history, after Lennie Wilkins in 1989.

Brown has scored at least 45 wins in his first three full seasons in charge of the Cavaliers, the second-best period in the franchise's history, the last time being between 1991 and 1994. At that time, the Cavaliers had a four-season overall record of 211-117 and a winning percentage of (64. 3%), while Brown has a higher win rate, ranking first among any Cavaliers coach. Brown led the Cavaliers to the playoffs in three seasons with a total of 26 wins and 20 losses (56 win percentage). 5%), which is also the best in team history. In 2007, he also led the Cavaliers all the way to the Finals.

Compared to the imposing Brown, the old Nelson has been much more bland this season, and there seems to be no comparison.

But this is only in the eyes of fans, in the eyes of true experts, old Nelson is the best coach this season! This season, the Cavaliers' roster has remained almost unchanged, and they have only made simple additions, but what about the Warriors? The lineup has changed! The team has almost half of its players, Alice, Harrington, Azubuike, and other giants have been replaced, and Iverson and many rookies have been brought in, and in this case, the Warriors have won 15 more games than last season!

Some people may want to say that Nelson Sr. won with Chamberlain's super combat power, so Brown has nothing to say, is he still relying on James? The main thing is that connoisseurs can see the tactics that Nelson Sr. constantly arranges, many of the Warriors' games rely on tactical rationality rather than player toughness, the Cavaliers are different, and one of the things Brown needs to do is remind everyone to always remember to pass the ball to James.

In the eyes of ordinary fans, this is nothing, they do not see the change of tactics, but in the eyes of connoisseurs, the gap is huge.

There are also fans who are not convinced, the Cavaliers have the best record, why not award him the honor of the best coach? Lakers' Zen master Jackson is second in record and hasn't even been nominated, and the top four rankings of this honor are: Nelson Sr., Brown, Adelman, Stan Van Gundy, and the Zen master doesn't even have hair.

The honour is controversial in the eyes of the fans, but there is no doubt about it in the eyes of the manager, and Popovich laughed: "That guy will come back sooner or later, I know, he is coming back too late to be more than I expected." ”

Stern's citation to Nelson Sr. was: "He's a great head coach who always makes the average rookie player grow into a star, and he has this magical ability to turn a stone into gold, Tim Hardaway, Hill, Sprewell, Richmond, Penny Hardaway, Biedrins, Ibaka, Curry, and our favorite Z, all of the eight rookies outside of the draft who have grown into All-Star caliber players." In addition, he is also good at discovering and cultivating foreign players, including Wang Zhizhi, Nahura and other foreign players were brought to the NBA by him, and Nowitzki has become one of the best forwards in the current NBA under his guidance, of course, and now with a Z. ”

Nelson Sr. finally smiled at the reporters who attended the press conference: "I was going to retire and find a successor to manage this team, you know, I always seem to make a mess of the game." Now that this accolade has changed my plans, I think there are still people who like my coaching style, and if that's the case, I'll have to do it for a few more years. ”

The old man announced his retirement in 2005, but just a year later, he returned to the Warriors and led the team to the Black Eight Miracle.