One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-Two. The Light of a Grain of Rice Also Shines

Using "lost" to describe this season's championship, Paul George's inner pride is beyond words.

However, what he said made his teammates feel uneasy.

To be honest, they really thought that this year's championship was theirs, so they didn't think there was any problem with Paul George's "losing" the championship, but they never thought about the consequences of losing.

In the year when Nowitzki was eliminated in the black eight, in fact, being eliminated in the black eight itself was nothing, the key point was that they were the first in history with 67 wins!

In NBA history, up to that time, there had never been a team that won 67 wins or more but didn't win the championship. The Mavericks not only didn't win the championship but also were eliminated in the black eight. This is the key to Nowitzki being criticized so badly. His elimination in the black eight is the most special elimination in NBA history.

For example, Payton and Kemp, who were also eliminated in the black eight in the 93-94 season, people remembered Mutombo, the star player of the black eight team, and when the Mavericks were eliminated in the black eight, people remembered Nowitzki's elimination in the black eight.

The Grizzlies have now secured 73 wins. If they don't win the championship, the public opinion bombardment they will encounter will be 100% worse than that of Nowitzki back then!

Paul George's words sounded a wake-up call to his teammates who were a little bit arrogant after winning 73 wins.

It really put pressure on his teammates, and the more they think about it, the greater the pressure!

However, at this time, Sun Ce and Coach Hollins did not think that the pressure was a problem, but they needed it now.

73 wins, and even a chance to win 74 or 75. This record is too exaggerated. After playing 80 games, they have only lost 7 games. Only the Hawks, Suns, Warriors, Heat, Thunder, 76ers, and Mavericks have defeated them.

Such an achievement will definitely lead to a proud mentality. If Sun Ce hadn't seen the 73-win runner-up, he would have been arrogant.

But he knows and understands that because of the appearance of the 73-win runner-up, the Warriors, who won 3 championships in 4 years, have not been truly respected by the media or even many fans.

In the original time and space, the three consecutive championships, two consecutive championships of the Lakers, and the two consecutive championships of the Heat were criticized, but no one thought they were unworthy of the championship. Even the black fans would give them enough respect for these champions... pure trolls are not fans.

But the Warriors, who won three championships in four years, did not get the corresponding respect.

The most critical link, Sun Ce believes, is not Durant's joining,

but that they failed to win the championship with 73 wins, and everything was caused by it.

Sun Ce does not want to become such a tragedy, so he talked with Coach Hollins for half a game. When he flew to New Orleans this morning, he also communicated with several teammates with strong leadership ability.

Paul George, Pierce, Blake, Tony Allen, Richard Jefferson, these teammates with strong leadership ability, felt incredible when they first heard Sun Ce express his concerns. As the MVP of last season, Sun Ce could lock in the MVP this season. Unexpectedly, after winning 73 games, the calmest one was actually Sun Ce! He seemed to have never regarded breaking the Bulls' historical record as something extremely important. Just as he said after the game, the record was broken, and he had been preparing for the playoffs since the record was broken.

This made Paul George and others sigh that players who can be as successful as Sun Ce are indeed different!

They believe that perhaps, it is precisely because of these differences that Sun Ce can be distinguished from ordinary superstars, surpass ordinary superstars, and become a superstar among superstars like O'Neal, Duncan, and Kobe!

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When Paul George conveyed Sun Ce's concerns to his teammates in the team meeting, the Grizzlies players also showed the same tension.

Really, if they lose in the playoffs, it will be a big loss of face!

How much praise and cheers they get now, how badly they will be trampled at that time!

However, this will not hit their self-confidence, because they are really strong, and what they are worried about is a capsize in the gutter.

With the idea of ​​worrying about a capsize in the gutter, naturally, the proud mentality is balanced.

This is what Sun Ce decided to do after discussing with several teammates with leadership ability. This is the effect they want.

After winning 73 games, you should be proud, but you have to put your pride aside in time. After completing the final goal of this season, you can regain your pride and spend the offseason happily after the end of the season.

In the afternoon, Sun Ce and his teammates began to study the next two opponents carefully. These two opponents are strong and will most likely play against each other in the playoffs. In the last game, they have to find out the strength of the opponent approaching the playoffs.

In the last two games of the regular season, the opponent should have reached the state of the playoffs.

They, the Grizzlies, also have to take these two opponents, take a good look at their own strength, understand their current state, and try to adjust their state to the best to prepare for the playoffs!

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A day passed quickly. At 6:40 in the evening of April 14, after warming up, Sun Ce and his teammates entered the court together.

New Orleans has always been a major tourist city. Now that its infrastructure has been gradually repaired and the number of tourists has increased, it has become one of the most popular tourist cities on the South Coast. The basketball market here was already very good, and now that the Pelicans are playing against the Grizzlies, who already have 73 wins, the basketball market has become extremely hot, and many celebrities have come to watch the game.

Especially those celebrities who like basketball, they definitely don't want to miss such a game.

Although it's not as exaggerated as the last game where the front row tickets of the Grizzlies' home game were sold for 150,000 US dollars by scalpers, it's enough for the Pelicans' owner to make a lot of money.

As long as the Grizzlies win, it will continue to create records. Moreover, the Grizzlies have won two games in the regular season. The last game against the Thunder is even more difficult. Perhaps this game will become the last victory of the highest single-season record in NBA history, and the attention will naturally explode.

When Sun Ce of the opposite team came out, the fans on the scene booed like a tsunami, and Irving in the home team's player channel felt very uncomfortable.

But there was no way, the opponent was Sun Ce!

Irving never thought that the most watched game in his career was a game where he could watch the opponent continue to create historical records.

In this game, even their home fans turned against them. Perhaps it was because most of the tickets were sold to fans from other places, and local fans only grabbed 40% of the reserved tickets, so there was a situation where the fans on the scene cheered for Sun Ce in unison.

However, Irving still didn't accept it!

As for Sun Ce's strength, seeing the 72-win record broken by the team led by Sun Ce, Irving clearly understood the gap between himself and Sun Ce this time. It is not as simple as the difference of two years in playing age. Irving knows that even if he devotes his whole life, it is difficult to achieve the achievements that Sun Ce has made now.

This is helpless. Like in the peak period of O'Neal and Jordan, opponents can hardly match them.

But give up just like that?

Irving will not.

Indeed, in the peak period of Jordan and O'Neal, and the era of Magic Bird Bad Boy, many stars gave up competing with these two, even including some superstars.

But when these people gave up, more people stood up to challenge these people who dominated the era.

Those who gave up eventually became the background of history, while those who still tried to compete with these people in the dominant era were truly recorded in the history of the NBA. Among them, there are not only those superstars, but also many role players who have had shining moments.

And they can leave their names, let old fans remember and talk about them to young fans, because they have not given up their competitive spirit.

Moreover, in this era, information and communication technology is becoming more and more advanced. In this era, any game has video archives, which will not be like the videotape era of the past, where even the game video cannot be found after a long time.

Deep in this era, Irving does not feel frustrated. There are rulers in every era. He has clearly known that he has nothing to do with the rulers, so he wants to compete with Sun Ce more... Compete with all the strong ones. Even if he cannot be the most dazzling one, he still wants to compete with the most dazzling one!

However, after the game started at 7 o'clock in the evening, although Irving also tried hard, he encountered the same experience as Jennings. He encountered the Grizzlies who went all out to play the game as a playoff. He really couldn't beat them!

The Grizzlies have had enough experience in the previous few games against the Pelicans. In the past 11 consecutive victories, they have experienced a cold hand and an adjustment period, and then played out their form by playing against the three weaker teams of the Timberwolves, Kings, and Pistons. Up to now, the Grizzlies have gradually entered the best state!

With Sun Ce's 33 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 blocks and 3 steals, Paul George's 17 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, Randolph's 14 points, Klay Thompson's 16 points, and the efforts of other players, the Grizzlies beat the Pelicans, led by Irving with 29 points and 7 assists and Anthony Davis with 24 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, with a score of 103 to 95, winning 12 consecutive games!

74 wins! The Grizzlies once again raised the highest single-season win record in NBA history by 1 game!

On the other hand, after the Pelicans lost to the Grizzlies, their record became 50 wins and 31 losses, and they lost the competition with the Jazz for the seventh place in the West, and they needed to win the last game to have a chance to compete with the Trail Blazers for the eighth place in the West.

Moreover, the Blazers have to lose the last game of the regular season for the Pelicans to surpass the Blazers, who also have 50 wins and 31 losses, because they only won one game against the Blazers in the regular season, and they are at a disadvantage in the head-to-head match.

On Sun Ce's side, the final whistle sounded, and seeing his team's record become 74 wins and 7 losses, it would be a lie to say that he was not excited, but at this moment, the system prompt came again!

"The host came to the end of this season's regular season with 12 consecutive wins, and will play the final game of this season's regular season with the Thunder at home. The final event of the S-level event bully is triggered..."

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