Chapter 1440 1439. Heat No. 1 Pick, Perfect Future Plan (Asking for Monthly Votes)
Two consecutive rounds of Game 7s...
David Stern is a little annoyed.
However, Oden is going to enter the NBA, and David Stern seems to have seen a super big man who can break the existing center pattern.
Yao Ming is great now, and he is an important part of the NBA's development of the Asian market, but there are too few centers in the NBA who can compete with Yao Ming.
Especially when Yao Ming is in the Lakers and Los Angeles, the Lakers' performance in the next few years cannot be bad. As long as Yao Ming's data is acceptable, it will be easy for him to get the first and second teams.
It is true that David Stern wants to use Yao Ming to expand the market, but he does not want Yao Ming to have such a dominant position.
Only competition can create topics.
The Great Emperor Oden is the super genius who can break the center pattern.
From Oden's performance in March Madness, when he beat Horford and Noah, two of the top five picks, alone, there is no need to consider that Oden will be out of the game. Oden, who is still a sophomore, already has the strength to become the core center of an NBA team.
So, this season, those teams that tanked were quite crazy. Five teams won 60+ games, which is inseparable from the efforts of these teams.
The bottom ranking of the regular season record this season, that is, the probability ranking of the lottery zone to draw the first pick: 1. Celtics, 2. Hornets, 3. Timberwolves, 4. Heat, 5. Bucks, 6. Grizzlies, 7. 76ers, 8. Pacers, 9. Knicks, 10. Bobcats, 11. Kings, 12. Trail Blazers, 13. Supersonics, 14. Clippers.
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Liu Mang came to Chicago again, and he suddenly fell in love with this city a little bit…
He felt weird that he played better here than at home.
But the mentality is very important in the seventh game, and it must not collapse.
There is no game on the 16th. The seventh game between the Hawks and the Bulls is on the 18th, and the 17th is the sixth game of the other two groups of the semifinals, but the Hawks still came to Chicago at noon the next day after being dragged into the seventh game.
The Eagles are now focusing on studying the opponent's offense. They have already thought about being horizontal. Just defend the opponent to death, and leave the offense to the three eagles.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, the lottery ceremony broadcast live across the United States was held at Madison Square Garden.
The 15th to 30th picks were directly displayed on the big screen, and the second-round draft picks were ranked according to the record. The better the record, the lower the ranking.
"Draw the lottery"!
In a sealed transparent box, 14 balls are marked with numbers 1 to 14. Each time 4 balls are randomly rolled out, there will be a total of 1001 permutations and combinations. After the 1001st situation, 11, 12, 13, and 14 combinations are excluded, there are 1000 possibilities left. Before the draw, the computer will randomly assign different number combinations. The worst record has 250 combinations. Except for the top five teams in the record, other teams that did not draw the top three picks will directly be ranked in the bottom of the record. There is also a situation where a team with a lower probability than this team gets the top three picks, then the team's pick position will be postponed.
The Clippers, who have only a 0.5% chance of getting the No. 1 pick and a 2.5% chance of getting the top three picks, have only 30 combinations that can get the top three picks...
There is no doubt that this probability is too low. After the Clippers drew the lottery, their team name appeared at the 14th pick on the huge LED screen.
The Clippers are out...
In fact, from the Clippers, who are 14th from the bottom, to the 76ers, who are 8th from the bottom, the probability of winning the first pick is less than 1%, and the probability of winning the top three picks is less than 6%.
The draft lottery does not start with the highest probability, but with the lowest probability. Otherwise, the draft lottery will be meaningless, and there will be no magical situation like the Rockets getting Yao Ming.
It is precisely because of this that the annual draft lottery has a high degree of attention. What if a team gets the top three picks with a low probability?
However, this year, there was no upset until the Pacers, who are 7th from the bottom, finished the lottery.
When it came to the Grizzlies' lottery, the surprise came...
The Grizzlies took the first lottery prize with a probability of 15.6%, and got the third pick in the 2007 draft.
The Bucks did not win the lottery. They were originally the fifth from the bottom, and their ranking dropped one place to sixth.
Then... the situation that made the Celtics management want to cry appeared...
The Heat drew the No. 1 pick in the 2007 draft with a 13% probability...
After the Timberwolves desperately failed to get the final No. 2 pick and fell to the fifth pick, the Hornets, the second-to-last team in the league, just met their ranking and got the No. 2 pick.
And the Celtics... fell to the fourth pick!
After the draw, people felt that the Celtics were too unlucky when they saw the ranking situation!
But...the Celtics are so unlucky...
In the original time and space, they ranked last in the Eastern Conference and second to last in the league this season. They had a 64% chance of getting the top three picks, a 19% chance of getting the No. 1 pick, a 28% chance of getting the fourth pick, and only an 8% chance of falling to the fifth pick. Of course, that is, 100% of the top five picks. The fifth pick is the lowest pick that the team ranked second to last in the league can get, and the Celtics are so unlucky that they got the fifth pick...
This time... the record is the last, which means they are 100% in the top four picks. It just so happens that they got the fourth pick... and the probability of them falling out of the top three picks is less than 10%... …
The Heat are No. 1, the Hornets are No. 2, the Grizzlies are No. 3, the Celtics are No. 4...
Seeing this final result, Liu Mang got excited!
The Heat got the No. 1 pick and the Hornets got the No. 2 pick, which is very important for Liu Mang's future opportunities!
Fortunately, San Niu did not follow Liu Mang to Chicago this time, and there was no one else in Liu Mang's room. The draft lottery... many people paid attention, but the Eagles players did not pay attention at all. They did not have a single draft pick this summer.
So no one noticed Liu Mang's excited cheers when he saw the Heat getting the No. 1 pick.
Liu Mang's excitement felt like the Eagles had won the No. 1 pick.
But Liu Mang's excitement was understandable. The second round seemed to be out of control, from the beginning to now, and finally something went smoothly.
In Liu Mang's view, playing basketball is like playing chess. You can't just look at the front and plan a few more steps later, which will be of great help in winning the big game of NBA!
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"Ace, you seem very happy today?" McGrady asked when he saw Liu Mang practicing his waist and abdominal exercises while humming a song.
"Of course, we will win the series tomorrow and enter the Eastern Conference Finals. Of course we are happy." Liu Mang said with a smile. Naturally, he couldn't tell the real reason.
"Ace, you are really too confident, but you are so confident, and I am even more confident." Maddie shook her head with a wry smile.
No matter how long he has been partnered with Liu Mang, McGrady will always be surprised by Liu Mang's confidence.
This kind of thing cannot be learned, especially for a person like Tracy McGrady who does not have a strong desire to win. "Not fighting", from a certain perspective, is also a manifestation of lack of confidence.
"Isn't it just to enter the Eastern Conference Finals? I play in the Eastern Conference Finals every year. It's nothing. It's very simple." Liu Mang looked down on the Eastern Conference Finals.
McGrady thought about what Liu Mang said before he and Liu Mang played in the playoffs for the first time when he was worried that he would not pass the first round...
Not far away, Grant Hill, who was doing aerobic exercise to relieve muscle fatigue from the past six games, was embarrassed to interrupt when he heard Liu Mang's words. McGrady had never played in the second round before partnering with Liu Mang. Grant - Same goes for Hill...
Today is the 17th, the second day of two rest days for the Eagles, and the tiebreaker will be played tomorrow.
In the evening, before the residual heat of yesterday's draft lottery had dissipated, Game 6 of the two-group series between the Cavaliers and Magic, Lakers and Suns began.
41 points, 16 rebounds, 15 assists.
These three statistics are the key to the Cavaliers' victory today.
Peja scored 41 points and made 8 three-pointers, setting a new career playoff scoring record.
Although Chandler only scored 4 points, he had 16 rebounds.
James' 21 points and 6 rebounds are not outstanding, but 15 assists allowed the Cavaliers' outside shooters to take off.
Relying on the league's "walks" to survive the crisis of being eliminated 4-1, and after the score was tied at 2-3, the Cavaliers, who came to the away court, defeated the morale-damaged Magic 115-101 and evened the score. !
In this game, the Magic didn't dare to make any big moves on the defensive end. The sense of crisis when they were fouled at the first touch in the last game was too strong.
Although Rahim and Howard both scored 20+10, they were unable to compete with the connection between James and Peja.
The Cavaliers will return to Cleveland to play Game 7 with the Magic after a day off.
Between the Lakers and the Suns, the two-day rest period is very important for the Lakers. After relying on Barnes' tip-in to win the battle at Tianwangshan, the Lakers' morale was greatly boosted, and the Suns obviously Morale was dampened.
In Game 6, the Suns collapsed.
109 to 87, the Lakers defeated the Suns in the away game with a 22-point difference, advanced with a big score of 4 to 2, and will meet the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals.
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The two sets of matches in the West have come out. Since both sets of series in the East will play tiebreakers, the schedule has been determined. The schedule for the Eastern and Western finals will also be announced on May 18, the morning of the tiebreak between the Hawks and Bulls. .
The first game of the Western Conference Finals will start on May 20.
In terms of the Eastern Conference Finals, the winner between the Hawks and Bulls tonight will meet the Cavaliers and Magic, who will decide the winner on May 21st, on May 21st after two days of rest.
Liu Mang also watched the two games last night. The Suns still failed to do anything big, while the Cavaliers have now become the focus of public criticism.
If the Cavaliers' opponent is the Hawks, the league may still favor the Cavaliers, but it won't be so exaggerated.
In order to praise James, he has done whatever it takes.
If the Eagles and Cavaliers play in the second round, the degree of whistle bias in the league will be much smaller. If Liu Mang has a chance to win four consecutive championships and loses because of whistle issues, he will definitely offend many Chinese fans.
But if it's the Magic...the league wouldn't mind letting Raheem be a stepping stone to James' first appearance in the Finals.
And 23VS24 is so topical.
However, Liu Mang was not surprised by this incident. James was already in his fourth year. If he hadn't made it to the Eastern Conference Finals once, the league's long-standing support would be slapped in the face.
The league is very experienced in doing this. All they need to do is to have a regular season-level whistle when James is attacking. They don’t need to do anything else. In this way, the Magic will have little chance of winning.
Liu Mang estimated that the Cavaliers have been "sent" to the Eastern Conference Finals, although it is a bit regrettable that they can't play against Rahim in the Eastern Conference Finals...
But Liu Mang still has to take care of himself first...
Game 7 is coming!
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