Before last season, Durant once mentioned to Lin Ying that he wanted to win 75 games, but in the end the Nets' record unfortunately settled on 74 wins.

I thought that if I lost that kind of opportunity, I would never have a chance to come back again, but I never thought that the Nets would break their previous regular season record of 74 wins after just one season!

Take the next step forward, it’s that simple!

This record finally shocked the alliance.

Because the Bulls were not as strong as before, and after setting a record of 72 wins, their record in the second season also declined.

But the Nets are not just breaking records again, their record has been improving for three consecutive seasons!

And because of their previous experience of losing three consecutive championships, they made a lot of conclusions, and they just kept playing in the regular season.

You can imagine the strength of the team behind this sentence. If they really go all out, they may even touch the 80 wins that sounds unrealistic.

But raising this possibility is enough to illustrate how terrifying the Nets' dominance has been over the past three years.

Statistically speaking, Lin Ying averaged 30.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game this season, and his shooting percentage and three-point shooting percentage were 53.2% and 39.8% respectively.

This data is inferior to those in the Western Conference, and even compared to Lin Ying's career, it is not the best.

Especially since the league adjusted the second attack time from 24 seconds to 14 seconds, resulting in an overall increase in data, this performance can only be described as mediocre.

But fans who have watched the Nets games this season will definitely not feel that Lin Ying's condition has declined, because data can lie.

Although the Nets also had difficult games this season, many times, or even most of the time, they won easily without Lin Ying having to exert too much effort.

Combined with this background, you will find that Lin Ying's data is not ordinary, but a bit scary.

With 75 wins, plus this data, Lin Ying is not only a favorite for MVP, he should be the most popular one.

However, compared to the West, there are obviously fewer candidates in the East who can participate in MVP.

Because in terms of record, the Raptors are second with 58 wins and the Hornets are third with 54 wins, but the core statistics of these two teams are much inferior.

Therefore, this season's MVP will most likely be chosen between Lin Ying, Curry, James, Harden and Westbrook.

Of course, it's still too early to discuss MVP. Right now, the focus is still on the rankings of the Eastern and Western Conferences and the matchup in the first round.

On the Western side, first to eighth are: Warriors, Lakers, Timberwolves, Trail Blazers, Pelicans, Thunder, Jazz, Spurs;

On the Eastern side, first to eighth are: Nets, Raptors, Hornets, 76ers, Bucks, Pacers, Heat, Celtics;

With the ranking also determined by the matchup between the East and the West, the Nets will face the Celtics in the first round.

In history, the Nets and Celtics became rivals because of Billy King's crazy trade.

That thing has not happened now. This matchup will be a matchup between the former kings who are making a comeback and facing off against the current rulers of the alliance.

From the perspective of Green Army fans, they are full of expectations for the Celtics to return to the playoffs after many years.

But just like the original Hornets, they have to accept more beatings this season.

Let's talk about the Celtics. At the same time in history, they were a team with two top picks as the framework. But now that Brown has gone to the Pelicans, there is only a team with Tatum as the core.

This is also the reason why their record is worse than the same period in history.

The playoff matchups are confirmed and the curtain is about to begin. At this time, the league announced the first batch of awards for the season.

Most Improved Award, Best Sixth Man Award and Best Head Coach.

The Most Improved Award belongs to Oladipo of the Pacers. It is worth mentioning that Zhou Qi also received votes in this selection and ranked fifth.

It can be seen from this that his progress this season has been recognized.

In the selection of the best sixth man, Lou Williams received an overwhelming number of votes.

Then in the selection of the best head coach, Lue failed to win the best head coach because of the unspoken rule that "the best coach generally does not win the title again".

In the end, the award went to McMillan of the Lakers.

The Lakers' lineup underwent huge changes in the summer, and they encountered a bad start to the season. The record at the beginning of the season also fluctuated greatly. However, under the coaching of McMillan, the Lakers improved steadily in the second half of the season. From this perspective, McMillan did his part.

Then, after these awards were announced, a new term "Sloan Series" began to appear on social media.

Before this, the alliance already had the Bobo series, Riley series, etc.

As the name suggests, this is a coaching system that emanates from a tactical system, or to put it in a simpler way, this is a story of a head coach under a head coach who went to become the head coach of other teams and successively achieved success.

This is also the reason why there is no Phil Jackson department, because apart from Jackson himself, none of his assistant coaches have ever made it in the NBA.

Even Rambis, who was famous before, finally proved to be too embarrassed to hold the position.

But now, Sloan's assistants at the time were the ones who taught him his basketball philosophy, including Cole, Lue, and now McMillan.

This system has actually already come out.

After these awards are announced, the NBA playoffs will officially begin.

The game between the Nets and Celtics will serve as the opening game of this year's playoffs and is also the focus of the game.

According to ESPN's predictions, this game will become the most watched game in the first round of this year's playoffs.

After all, as the opening game, fans also want to see how well this Nets can perform in the playoffs.

However, just one day before the opening game was about to start, Celtics player Marcus Smart’s remarks continued to circulate on social media.

That cannot be said to be his remarks, it can only be said to be a recording.

That was a recording of him and his brother discussing Kobe.

At the beginning of the recording, Smart's brother thought it was great to see Kobe play and was looking forward to Kobe's performance.

Smart didn't say anything at first.

But this brother also seems to be a loyal Komi. When the topic continued, he also said that Smart should put some slack when defending Kobe.

This sentence made Smart feel a little offended.

After all, he is just a role player in the Celtics, and he has to work hard to get his playing time.

If he doesn't try his best on defense, he will get less playing time, which may even affect his career.

However, the other party was a good friend after all. He did not directly complain about the other party, but discussed a very sensitive topic: the degree of feelings.

There is no doubt that Kobe is the youth of many people. This is a wave of great sentiment.

But feelings have limits.

There are some things you can do with your emotions, but there are some things you can't do, and if you go too far, it will make people feel sick.

He didn't say anything, but he was obviously referring to his brother.

That brother might not have reacted at first, but when he reacted, he felt disgusted as Komit.

Then, his recording "accidentally" appeared on social media.

In the United States, don't think this kind of thing is nonsense.

There was a very famous "basketball recording scandal" in history, which was about Nick Young sharing his cheating experience with Russell in the locker room.

Every NBA player is rich, and with the American way of thinking, it is common for people to mess around outside when they have money.

Even like Nick Young did, it was a kind of bragging rights.

Of course, this kind of thing is definitely not something you brag about when you see someone, but you have a certain amount of trust in the other person, and you even regard the other person as, yes, a "brother" in the American language.

But what I never expected was that Russell somehow got into the habit of recording, and the recording was forgotten and spread on the Internet.

As a result, Nick Young's real girlfriend at the time, a famous singer, broke up with her directly.

From this incident, we can see that American "brothers" are often unreliable.

Smart instantly became the target of criticism from the media and fans.

However, many people on social media also stood up to speak out for Smart. They felt that Smart did not say anything wrong.

If you have to sacrifice everything for the so-called feelings, then this really makes people feel uncomfortable.

…

Brooklyn, Barclays Center.

The Nets are doing their final training for the playoffs.

Lin Ying noticed that Kobe came to training earlier than before and was more involved in training than before.

Even after training, he needs to practice longer.

Lin Ying doesn't always follow social media like Durant, but this time Smart's incident is so big that he will know passively if he doesn't want to take the initiative to find out.

Of course, Kobe must be the same.

Therefore, Lin Ying does not think that Kobe is acting like this because the playoffs are about to come, but it is also affected to some extent by the Smart incident.

After practicing together, he sat down and chatted with Kobe.

At first we just talked about injuries and other physical issues, then we talked about the playoffs with the Celtics, and finally we talked about Smart.

"I know him, he's a very hard-working player."

To Lin Ying's surprise, Kobe actually knew about Smart.

If you say that Kobe knew Tatum, it would be easier to say. After all, Tatum had a photo with Kobe for a long time, and he also called himself a Mamba disciple.
To be continued...