The Trail Blazers have reached the Finals for two consecutive years!

Since entering the modern basketball era in 1976, Western teams have been able to reach the finals for two consecutive years. Before that, only two teams have done so, the Lakers, Rockets and Trail Blazers have become the third team, which is also the third time they have reached the finals in 10 years.

O'Neal performed well in the first three games. Although he lost the first game, he won the fifth single game of 40+ in the playoffs this season, with 41 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks.

In the second game, he scored 23 points, 21 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 blocks, and in the third game, he scored 31 points, 16 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 blocks.

But in the fourth game, O'Neal only scored 21 points and 9 rebounds. Although he had 6 assists, he did not block once.

In the fifth game, O'Neal scored 18 points and 8 rebounds, and in the sixth game, O'Neal scored 17 points and 12 rebounds...

Facing Rashid Wallace, Sabonis, and Brian Grant's inside rotation, O'Neal opened high and closed low, and failed to have a crazy C game in 7 consecutive games like he did when he played against the Suns.

Compared with the second round, O'Neilsea's average of 25.1 points per game is indeed not very good.

What brought the decisive change to the Western Conference Finals was the Trail Blazers' substitute power forward Brian Grant.

He played a very strong role in defending O'Neal.

When O'Neal's performance was blocked, like in the second round, Payton and Pierce found it difficult to provide too strong support. First of all, it was difficult for them to deal with Nash, Rashid Wallace, Steve Smith and others. The key point was that Pierce was too young. In the G5 Tianwang Mountain battle, he committed 4 fouls at the halftime, and the Lakers lost 92-99, missing the opportunity to regain the initiative.

As a result, in G6, the Lakers lost 77 to 103, and did not rush back in one breath, and then it went wild.

After the Lakers were eliminated, on June 5, the Eastern Conference Final tiebreaker battle was even more crazy!

The Trail Blazers are not easy to deal with, but obviously O'Neal is not easy to deal with. The Trail Blazers have handled the Lakers, which is beneficial to the Eastern Conference team!

At 7:56 pm on June 5, Reggie Miller, who was bitten by Iverson in the whole game and had no chance of making a phone call, received the ball and forced a three-pointer against Iverson, hitting a single shot!

85-81, the Pacers relied on Reggie Miller's key three-pointer to widen the gap to 4 points.

With the timeout back, Iverson missed a three-pointer with a strong shot, Duncan made a tactical foul on Rick Schmitz, and Rick Schmitz made both free throws and the game ended.

With Reggie Miller's 24 points, Jaylen Rose's 20 points, Ratliff's 7 points, 10 rebounds and 6 blocks, the Pacers defeated the 76ers 87-81 and advanced to the finals 4-3!

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Zhang Hao and his family gathered together to watch the live broadcast of the Eastern Conference Final Ticket 7th Battle.

"I didn't expect that the Trail Blazers and Pacers will play in the finals in the end, and I thought it would be the first center battle between O'Neal and Duncan...

Not bad, Miller and Nash always win the championship."

Hearing Zhang Hao's murmuring, Britney asked, "Brother, do you seem to admire Miller and Nash very much?"

April, Britney, Lelin, and the three of them learned Chinese very early, but the time of the greatest progress was that after the two babies were born, they were not afraid that Tiga and Anne would not be able to learn English. On the contrary, April was worried that the two babies were not good at Chinese, so when there were no outsiders at home, they all used Chinese to create an environment that spoke Chinese.

April knew that it would be fine for the children to make a career by themselves in the future, but they could decide what they wanted to do.

But if some of the children don’t have much talent and are very ordinary, they can only return to China to inherit the family business and sell sneakers with their grandfather when they grow up.

April's Chinese has also made rapid progress in the past few months. Britney and Lelin often come to Zhang Hao's house. Over time, their progress has also improved rapidly.

Zhang Hao replied: "Yes, their physical fitness is compared with other NBA players. Except for their natural soft feel and excellent ball feel, everything else is very ordinary, but they can become top players, which is worthy of admiration."

"That's it... Actually, I prefer watching the game between the Trail Blazers and the Pacers. Compared with the Lakers and the 76ers, the team style of these two teams is more attractive to me."

"Lelin also prefers to see the Trail Blazers and the Pacers play the finals!"

"Lelin, why are you?"

"In this way, O'Neal and Duncan won't win the championship! O'Neal won no more championships than brothers, and Duncan won't catch up with his brothers!"

“It makes sense!”

Zhang Hao and the little loli clapped their high fives and expressed their agreement.

The East-West Finals are over, and the finals will start on June 8th.

The post-match news after the live broadcast of the Pacers and the 76ers tiebreaker game ended, reporting an interesting thing...

"A player who averages 7.4 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in the regular season and 5.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in the playoffs, is worth tens of millions? Pippen will cry to death!"

Zhang Hao really couldn't help but complain this time.

In the post-match news at T Sports Station, the host revealed that some teams are preparing to give Trail Blazers free agent Hores Grant an average annual salary of 10 million yuan after the end of this season!

"Lelin saw this news in the morning, and it seemed to be the Kings!"

"The Kings... They now have three rookie contracts with Little Zhizhi, Bibi and Peja. Webber's salary next season is 12 million. The second highest-paid player is Pollard, 3.98 million. They do have room to give such a big contract."

"Brother, should our team compete with them for people!"

"We can't get it, we don't have space, and there's no need."

"Why?"

"We have Jordan!"

"What!" Lelin and Britney's eyes widened.

Britney asked, "Is it the Jordan named Michael?"

"Yes... Lelin, why don't you know... Oh, by the way, this matter is kept secret. Your father didn't tell you, and April didn't tell you, don't tell you, we're going to wait until the end to sign Jordan."

Le Lin asked, "What will happen if it spreads?"

Le Lin seemed eager to try and wanted to cheat her father.

Zhang Hao replied: "It's nothing. Sooner or later, we may be jealous of other teams. If we want to trade in the summer, we will just encounter more obstacles."

"Hey... it's true, Lelin is still thinking about showing off to her classmates. Jordan is an employee of Lelin's family!"

"...What are you doing in your daily life? Could it be that you say everywhere that I often arrears rent?"

"Brother, you always arrears your rent!"

"..." Zhang Hao knew that this answer must be something like this.

But this topic cannot be continued, otherwise I will live in the little loli's house when I come to Los Angeles, and this little rich woman will definitely want to collect rent in multiple ways!

"Britney, are you really not going to be a singer?"

"Yes! When I finish college... I've been under too much pressure in those years, work pressure, and family pressure. If it weren't for my brother and sister, I would feel like I'd be schizophrenia... It would be better now, let go of my job and live like a normal person."

"Okay, you can play songs when you want to play songs, and study hard when you don't want to play songs. Robert said that your music copyright income is pretty good. When you become an adult, he has changed his remittance account to your account, and you won't be short of money."

"Hey, thank you brother!"

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The finals that Duncan, Iverson, and O'Neal did not have, from the perspective of the star showdown, this year's finals have become much dimmed.

But the ratings booking situation is still very good. Reggie Miller once again reached the finals, which attracted widespread attention.

Reggie Miller is a special player. He has never been regarded as a superstar, nor has he never been. In his 13-year career, he has only had three best teams, and he has been in the third team. He has performed best in his career, averaging 24.6 points per game, making it one of his rare seasons to be among the top scorers.

Most of the time, he averages below 20 points per game.

Even Reggie Miller doesn't even have the attribute of being all-around.

In terms of All-Stars, it has only been selected for All-Stars in 13 years.

But he is special, and always mentions his name when it comes to the league's best shooting guard.

On June 8, 2000, Nash, Rashid Wallace, Steve Smith, and Sabonis fought against Reggie Miller, Jaylen Ross, Mark Jackson and Ratliff in the Finals.

The competition is better than many people expected.

Unlike the finals in the previous few years, the main themes of the finals in the past nine years were the main themes of the stars.

Duncan in 1999, Zhang Hao in 1998 and 1997, Jordan in 1996 and 1991-93, Olajuwon in 1994 and 1995, has a star who has led the team to win for nine consecutive years with his super-performance.

This year, it is a very rare team battle!

For Star Mi, this finals are not interesting, but it attracted more passers-by and fans to watch the live broadcast.

A simple and intense and exciting final.

In the first game, the Pacers won 96-89, and in the second game, the Trail Blazers won the home advantage, 103-99, and in the fourth game of the third game, the Pacers won two consecutive games, first 103-99, and then defeated the Trail Blazers again 115-103. In the fifth game, the Trail Blazers finally defended their last home game, defeating the Pacers 125-103.

On June 19, the Trail Blazers, who played away, won two consecutive games 108-99, and tied the big score 3-3!

However, on June 22, in the tiebreak battle, the Pacers finally woke up from the decline of losing two consecutive games. They led by 14 points in the first quarter, 26-28 in the second quarter, and 26-23 in the third quarter. The Pacers performed stably and strongly, leading the Trail Blazers 15 points after the third quarter.

The Pacers entered the final quarter with an 88-73 lead. Although the Pacers were crazy about the Trail Blazers, they only scored 17 points in the final quarter, and the Trail Blazers scored 25 points in a single quarter.

But relying on the advantage ahead, the Pacers steadily defeated the Trail Blazers 105-98, and won the championship 4-3!

Mark Jackson, currently ranked fourth in the NBA's historical assists list, won the MVP in the Finals with his average of 14.4 points, 3.7 rebounds, 10.3 assists and 1.1 steals per game in the 7 games in the Finals!

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The Pacers' players' carnival and the Trail Blazers' once again gave a footnote to this season.

Larry Bird became a winner in life, becoming a player, as a general manager and as head coach, and they all won the championship!

Reggie Miller finally realized his dream of winning the championship at the age of 35. Many old fans, including Jordan and Knicks fans, also expressed their congratulations.
To be continued...