One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-Four. The Most Anticipated Final Battle

At 3:50 am on April 16, 2015, Sun Ce woke up, went out for a morning run for half an hour, returned to the bedroom to take a shower, and came to the sofa to check the news on his mobile phone.

Looking at today's date, Sun Ce felt that time passed too quickly!

Six months have passed just like that!

Sun Ce felt as if he had been away for a lifetime, as if it was just yesterday that he reunited with his teammates to start training camp.

But today, it is already the curtain call of the regular season!

At this moment, Sun Ce's mind was not thinking about those magnificent scenes. They had experienced too many incredible things this season. Now, he thought more about those simpler but more meaningful things to them.

All the way to now, this regular season that made Sun Ce completely unconfident that he could play the same performance again is about to end. Yesterday, because of the painful incident in the last game tonight, Sun Ce woke up and didn't think there was anything painful about it.

Although they have a good record this season, they have suffered a lot of torture. However, they have survived, even when they were extremely afraid of the end of the 27-game winning streak and were exhausted, they survived, even when they could not adapt to the normal state after the winning streak ended and played very badly, they survived.

They have achieved such outstanding results in the regular season this season, and even played the best regular season in NBA history. In the last game, they just need to play well. Sun Ce estimated that the opponent would want to end their winning streak to boost morale. Indeed, he also knew that if a team could win a game against them now, it would definitely boost the team's confidence. However, he also wanted to win, so he just needed to show his true strength on the court!

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Today is not only the game day of the Grizzlies' regular season opener, but also the last game day of the NBA regular season this season.

Yesterday, 14 teams ended their regular season journey this season. There are still 8 games today. After they are played, the regular season of this season will end.

There were several focus games yesterday and today. Yesterday, the regular season curtain call between the Heat and the Bulls, the regular season curtain call between the Spurs and the Mavericks, and the regular season curtain call between the Lakers and the Warriors received the most attention.

After returning to Memphis yesterday, Sun Ce didn't care about any news related to basketball at all. He was emptying his mind and relieving stress.

When Ge You was slumped and browsing the news, Sun Ce saw that the Warriors fell to fifth in the West at the last moment!

"Zanrenko is awesome..."

Last night,

The Warriors and the Lakers, both with 60 wins, happened to play against each other in the regular season curtain call. The Lakers narrowly defeated the Warriors, and Curry's key three-point buzzer beater didn't go in.

The Warriors had played against the Lakers 3 times before, with a record of 2 wins and 1 loss. Both teams lost before this game, with the fifth-placed Spurs losing, and the Warriors had a record of 1 win and 2 losses when they played against the Spurs.

Last night, the Warriors lost to the Lakers and the Spurs beat the Mavericks. As a result, the Warriors, who were ranked second in the West and maintained the second place in the West for the entire season, were beaten to fifth in the West at the last moment!

Currently, the Grizzlies are ranked first in the West, the Lakers lost in second, the Spurs lost in third, the Thunder lost in fourth, the Warriors lost in fifth, the Mavericks lost in sixth, the Jazz lost in seventh, the Trail Blazers lost in eighth, and the Pelicans lost in ninth.

Currently, the top six of the top eight teams in the West have already determined their rankings. No matter if the Thunder win or lose, as long as they are the top of the Northwest Division, they will definitely be in the top four in the West.

The seventh-placed Jazz and the eighth-placed Trail Blazers will play directly tonight to compete for the seventh place. The ninth-placed Pelicans are on the verge of winning the lottery. It will be difficult for them to play against the Timberwolves in the last game. They must win, and the Trail Blazers must lose the last game before they can enter the playoffs, because they had 3 wins and 1 loss against the Trail Blazers, but they were swept by the Jazz in the regular season. If the Jazz lose, even if they have the same record as the Jazz, they will not be able to enter the playoffs. Their fate is entirely in the hands of the Jazz.

Watching the Warriors fall to fifth in the West with 60 wins... Sun Ce felt the pressure of the playoffs!

The Warriors' record in the early season was once comparable to that of the Grizzlies, and they have always been second in the West. They only fell after losing the last game, and they fell directly to fifth. This means that the Lakers and Spurs played better than the Warriors after the All-Star Weekend! After the All-Star Weekend, all teams began to adjust to the playoffs, which means that the Lakers and Spurs may be stronger in the playoffs than the Warriors!

Thinking of this, Sun Ce found himself inexplicably excited.

In the second round, they will definitely meet one of the Warriors and Thunder. In the Western Conference Finals, they may meet one of the Lakers, Mavericks and Bulls!

It's still the Lakers, Mavericks and Bulls! How many years have passed! Sun Ce clearly remembers that after he entered the NBA, starting from his rookie year, he would meet at least one of the Lakers, Mavericks and Bulls in the playoffs! Even when he won the championship for the first time, the Mavericks, Lakers and Spurs took turns to play.

In the East, the Hawks lost to the first team in the East, the Bulls lost to the second, the Raptors lost to the third, lost to the fourth, the Knicks lost to the fifth, the Heat lost to the sixth, the Celtics lost to the seventh, and the Pistons lost to the eighth.

The top eight in the East have been locked, and the ninth Bucks have only lost, and they have only 1 win and 3 losses against the Pistons, losing the chance to enter the playoffs.

The only suspense in the East right now is the ranking of the Raptors and the 76ers. The 76ers are a natural nemesis against the Raptors! The Raptors had no way to deal with Evans' breakthrough, and DeRozan was suppressed by Evans on the defensive end. The 76ers swept the Raptors in the regular season. As long as the Raptors lost the last game, the 76ers would enter the playoffs as the third in the West, avoiding the stronger Knicks and playing against the Heat.

The Raptors' last game opponent is the Hawks.

On the last day of the regular season, the pattern of the first round of the playoffs has been very clear. The only suspense is who will enter the playoffs between the Pelicans and the Trail Blazers, and the final ranking of the Raptors and the 76ers.

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At 8 o'clock in the morning, Sun Ce sent Zu Ge to school and asked the driver to pick her up in the afternoon. Then, he came to the FedEx Arena with anticipation and excitement to prepare for the game.

When his teammates came to the arena and saw that Sun Ce was so excited, they couldn't help but sigh-as expected, there was nothing Sun Ce was afraid of in basketball.

Since they have the pressure of winning the championship, although they may still break the regular season record, they are more focused on the playoffs.

Sun Ce felt the huge pressure of the Western Conference Finals when the Lakers and Spurs rushed into the top four again and pulled down the Warriors at the last moment.

No matter which of the Lakers and the Lakers advances, even if the sixth Mavericks make it all the way to the Western Conference Finals, it will be difficult to play! And relatively speaking, if the Mavericks rush to the Western Conference Finals as the sixth in the West, it will be even more difficult, extremely difficult!

After breaking the historical record, the better the record, the more nervous Sun Ce's teammates feel, which has played a neutralizing role with the overly proud mentality that was about to float up before.

But it's just neutralization, there is still pressure, but they see that Sun Ce reveals a feeling of excitement... Don't say it, the teammates feel a lot more stable.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Grizzlies coaching staff held a pre-match meeting to prepare for the game.

The last game, of course we have to win if we can!

No one wants to miss this opportunity to turn the single-season win record they have now into a record that will definitely not be broken in the future.

After a day of preparation, at 4 pm, they started to warm up. At 6:40 pm, the two teams entered the stadium after warming up.

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After entering the stadium, listening to the cheers of the fans, seeing that the sidelines were almost full of retired players, artists, socialites, and celebrities from all walks of life, and seeing Robert Pera's expression behind the bench, which seemed to be painful and happy, Sun Ce guessed that the heart of the generous boss of his own team was bleeding.

This situation on the sidelines was almost equivalent to giving away all the tickets for free to the celebrities who came to watch the game.

However, he also asked for a few tickets. His two girls, Yao Ming and Ye Li and Nash, all had tickets that he helped to get.

There were hundreds of people in the first and second rows on the sidelines, and millions of US dollars, and his boss just gave them away.

But Robert Pera is known for his wealth. Thinking of the 5-year, 150 million contract that Conley had been given in the original time and space, Sun Ce didn't find it strange.

On the other side, Durant looked at the other side, which had already won 74 games... Is it so exaggerated!

Who would have thought that the Grizzlies could play a 12-game winning streak at the end of the regular season when the league competition was so fierce and there were many strong teams at the end of the season in their schedule!

This is the third time that the Grizzlies have won more than 10 games this season. It is the first time in NBA history that a team has won at least 10 games in a single season.

What the Grizzlies have done this season is something that no team in the history of the NBA has ever done.

However, although Durant has been criticized in many places, there is no doubt that he is a strong man with a strong heart. Like Sun Ce, he became extremely excited when he saw the other side, and he had only one thought-to kill the other side!

There is no suspense on Westbrook's side. He is extremely eager to win back at the last moment of this season!

Sun Ce, after marveling at the popularity of tonight's game, looked at the latest situation of the opponent who is about to play in the playoffs.

Westbrook, who averaged .3 rebounds and 10.8 assists per game, has averaged a triple-double for two consecutive seasons! He has already got 36 triple-doubles this season, and the number of triple-doubles in a single season has reached the second place in history! In addition to these data, there are 1.6 steals, and he is also doing well on the defensive end.

He makes the Thunder team at least at the playoff level, with Ibaka who has changed his style of play, probably guaranteed to play in the second round, plus Durant... The Thunder is undoubtedly a favorite for the championship!