Chapter 574: A Spectacle that Attracts the World’s Attention!

April 8, 2008, Dallas, American Airlines Center.

Since the Dallas Mavericks and Thunder failed to compete for eighth place in the playoffs this year, and the subsequent trade of Deron Williams also failed, this team's home court has not been as lively as it is now for a long time.

The American Airlines Center in Dallas has always been one of the most welcoming arenas in the league, and Dallas has always been one of the best cities in the NBA.

Once upon a time, in Dallas, the attendance rate at the American Airlines Center Arena has always been above 100%. However, recently, fans of the Dallas Mavericks seem to have lost their support for the team. Although the attendance rate at the American Airlines Center Arena The performance rate is still quite outstanding, but the atmosphere of the stadium is quite unflattering.

Even the maverick owner of Dallas seems to have lost all fighting spirit in the American Airlines Center recently, which is quite rare.

Now the entire league is marveling at the magical situation in the Western Conference this season. The Rockets, Suns, SuperSonics, Spurs, Lakers, Nuggets, Grizzlies, and even the Thunder have risen this season.

And what about Mavericks?

As the league's No. 1 team in the regular season last season, this year, like the Bobcats, they got nothing.

How could this be so easy to accept?

What kind of team are the Bobcats and what kind of team are the Mavericks?

Even though the caliber of Mavericks fans is very high and they are not the kind of fans who only care about results, they really want to pursue something this season by inviting Yes terminator Rick Carlisle.

Even if you just make it to the playoffs, that's still an opportunity!

In last season's playoffs, before the match between the eighth-place SuperSonics in the Western Conference and the first-place Mavericks in the Western Conference, no one thought the SuperSonics could beat the Mavericks.

But in the end, the Sonics not only defeated the Mavericks, but also swept them!

If the Mavericks can enter the playoffs with an eighth record, they will have expectations whether they face the Rockets or the Suns.

These two opponents can be considered old rivals. It's not like they have never been defeated in the playoffs.

The chances are better than when the Sonics beat the Mavericks.

But unfortunately, the team gave up on this season before it was completely over and chose to participate in the Deron Williams deal.

Of the teams that originally wanted to trade Deron Williams, which team was pursuing him?

Mavericks fans are very unhappy about the team giving up this season to pursue Deron Williams.

Deron Williams' reputation in the league is very controversial now. The team's management covets such a powerful young player, but many fans have very reservations about such a player.

To put it simply, many Mavericks fans don't want Deron Williams to come to the Mavericks and 'pollute' the Mavericks' reputation.

It is precisely because of such differences that when the Mavericks' management chooses to go against the public opinion of the Mavericks fans, the Mavericks fans are hurt.

How can injured Dallas Mavericks fans support the team so hard when the team has no hope this season and is being hurt by the team.

If this game wasn't against the Sonics, Dallas Mavericks fans would still be hurting right now.

The Seattle SuperSonics are Dallas' current rivals.

After the Sonics swept the Mavericks last season, the relationship between the Mavericks and the SuperSonics became rivals.

Since they are old enemies and mortal enemies, the more prosperous the Sonics become, the more uncomfortable it will be for Mavericks fans.

And this season is exactly when the SuperSonics and Yes are at their most prosperous.

Fortunately, just when Dallas Mavericks fans thought this season was over, they didn't expect that the season was almost over and the Seattle SuperSonics were on the verge of collapse!

They lost both games against the Rockets, which means that the SuperSonics' 64-13 record lags behind the Spurs' 65-12, and is only one win-loss behind the Lakers and Nuggets' 63-14.

Under such circumstances, even if the Sonics are still ranked third in the Western Conference, but their record is already fourth, as long as they lose one more game, the Nuggets, who are second in the Northwest Division, will have the same record. If they lose two games, Then the SuperSonics will be surpassed by the Nuggets, who are second in the northwest, in terms of record.

When the Nuggets surpass the SuperSonics and become first in the Northwest, the SuperSonics' ranking will drop directly from third to sixth!

What a joy this is!

After the game between the SuperSonics and the Mavericks, there are four remaining games: the Mavericks on April 9, the Warriors on April 11, the Spurs on April 14, and the Nuggets on April 16. .

In these four games, both the Spurs and the Nuggets are in good shape now, and they are now ready to pounce like hungry wolves. The Seattle SuperSonics are very likely to fail in these two games.

As long as the Seattle SuperSonics fail in these two games, the Seattle SuperSonics will lose the first place in the Northwest Division and the third place in the Western Conference!

What an exciting thing!

"Mavericks fans cheering! Huge cheers!"

"They are not frustrated at all because the team is lagging behind. They are mocking the Sonics players on the court to their heart's content!"

"The fans of the Dallas Mavericks are singing loudly. They are using their singing to tell the Seattle SuperSonics that even if the SuperSonics beat the Mavericks in this game, the Sonics can beat the Mavericks in the next game. There is no way for the Seattle SuperSonics to change the current situation. situation!"

"Now, the whole world knows that the SuperSonics, which lost to the Rockets in two consecutive games, has reached the edge of despair!"

The Dallas fans at the American Airlines Center were wild, but the Leafs and Sonics players on the court were calm.

Losing both games against the Rockets is hard to accept, but no matter how hard you can't accept it, you have to accept it.

After losing to the Rockets, the Sonics, like other Western Conference teams, cannot lose any more games, especially the game against the Mavericks.

No matter how loud the Mavericks fans laugh and cheer now, the Seattle SuperSonics can only swallow it.

Before the game against the Spurs and Nuggets, the Seattle SuperSonics absolutely cannot lose again.

"The Seattle SuperSonics players performed very calmly in this game, and they did not receive any interference from the Mavericks fans!"

"This is a very mature young team!"

Facing the madness and ridicule of Mavericks fans in this game, it is really difficult for ordinary young teams to persevere.

Especially in the past two games, the Sonics were beaten like that by the Rockets.

But facing the Mavericks in this game, the performance of the Sonics players surprised Kenny Smith.

There is no sadness at all, no underestimation at all. As long as you stand on the court, everyone is giving their best. This kind of experience and situation that only experienced teams can have appears in a young team like the SuperSonics. It really makes people feel magical.

The Sonics lost two consecutive games to the Rockets at such a critical time. It is considered that their confidence has received a huge blow and may have collapsed.

Even if they don't collapse, as long as these young players in the Sonics are even a little bit frustrated, this game and this season will be really dangerous.

As a die-hard coconut fan, Barkley was quite worried when the game started.

As one of the greatest players in league history, Barkley has seen too many young teams collapse for such reasons.

It's just obvious that whether it's others or himself, they have underestimated Yes' influence on the SuperSonics and Yes' leadership ability!

In the first quarter of the game between the SuperSonics and the Mavericks, the SuperSonics led 33 to 25 by 8 points in a single quarter!

In the second quarter of the game, the SuperSonics led 30 to 24 by 6 points in a single quarter.

At the end of the third quarter, the score between the SuperSonics and the Mavericks had become 95 to 75. At the end of the third quarter, the Seattle SuperSonics already led by 20 points!

From the beginning of this game, the SuperSonics never fell behind. From the beginning of this game, the SuperSonics players showed no tendency to decline or collapse.

From the first second of this game, the Mavericks were under the iron heel of the SuperSonics.

Such a game, such a score, such dominance, is this something a team that is about to collapse can have?

The results of these two games between the Rockets and the SuperSonics were naturally a huge blow to the SuperSonics.

After finishing third in the season, with five games left, they were surpassed by the Spurs.

Although the Sonics used the current NBA ranking rules to maintain the third position, this position is no longer so safe.

It should be said that it is already within reach of the Nuggets!

The Nuggets themselves didn't expect that they were originally worried that the Grizzlies would take away the sixth position.

They really didn't expect that they, who had no hope for third place, could actually see hope for third place in the end!

We are only one and a half games away from the SuperSonics. This is really a palpable gap!

After the Rockets defeated the Sonics in two consecutive games, there were a lot of gossips in the league.

Including Spurs coach Popovich yelled at home for most of the day, including the Nuggets players. After the second game between the SuperSonics and the Rockets, the Nuggets players were unwilling to turn off the TV for a long time. They started singing and dancing.

Now, after the competitive situation in the Western Conference tiebreaker has taken a turn for the worse, the whole world is watching the excitement.

Only the SuperSonics can only grit their teeth and move forward.

The two wolves, the Spurs and Nuggets, are just ahead.

All fools know that in these two games, both the Spurs and the Nuggets will go all out to deal with the Sonics.

Especially if the Spurs defeat the SuperSonics, the Nuggets may not only go all out, but may also use everything they have multiplied by two to deal with the SuperSonics!

This is the third chance!

It is important that the Nuggets can get the chance to be third in the Western Conference. This season will be a huge success.

Now the whole world is ready to see how the Sonics face the Spurs and Nuggets.

Only the Sonics players themselves know that the more dangerous the situation, the more calm they need!

"Yes, when the Sonics lost to the Lakers, you said it didn't matter. If you lose to the Rockets two games in a row, will you still say it doesn't matter?"

"meeting."

This is what Yes said in an interview after the second game against the Rockets.

It doesn't matter if they lose to the Rockets. The Sonics need to defeat the Spurs or Nuggets.

Facing the current Spurs and Nuggets, even the Suns have failed before.

It can be said that after Yes said that 'yes', the coconut black in the United States went crazy.

Just waiting for the SuperSonics to be taught a lesson by the Spurs, they will use all their firepower to face Yes!

Now that the public opinion created by the black media is so strong, how could other Seattle SuperSonics players not know about it.

Facing strong teams like the Spurs and Nuggets, it is difficult for them to say that they can help Yes well.

But facing the Mavericks and Warriors, they must not let anything hold them back!

Beating the Spurs and Nuggets, that's Yes.

And even if they can't really help Yes, they can't stab him in the back.

125 to 100!

Facing the crazy taunts of Mavericks fans at AmericanAirlines Arena, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Dallas Mavericks on the road with a score of 25 points.

On April 9, 2008, the two teams moved to compete again.

In the second game between the two teams, the atmosphere at Key Arena was completely different from that at American Airlines Arena.

If the Seattle SuperSonics faced the most dangerous competition environment at the American Airlines Arena, then the Seattle SuperSonics faced the absolute best competition environment at the Key Arena.

For Sonics fans, the team is in terrible shape right now.

65 wins and 13 losses, such a magical record, it is likely to be ranked sixth in the Western Conference at the end of the season, without even a home court advantage.

Of course this would be quite uncomfortable.

Normally, with such a record, let alone the home court advantage in the playoffs, there would be no problem even if he were ranked first in the league!

However, no matter where the Seattle SuperSonics are ranked in the Western Conference after this year's regular season, the current record of the Seattle SuperSonics can illustrate how well this team has performed this season under the leadership of Yes. outstanding.

From one of the weakest teams in history to now a team that can win more than 60 games in such a strong and competitive Western Conference.

Seriously, for Sonics fans, they really couldn't ask for more.

Perhaps the only thing that makes them uncomfortable is that if the Sonics are sixth in the Western Conference, the regular season MVP that Yes holds in hand may be gone again!

In today's NBA, the sixth team in the conference cannot win the MVP, even if the sixth team in the conference is sixth in the league, after all, there are still two teams with more than 70 wins this season.

It's because Sonics fans are so supportive and conflicted.

The Seattle SuperSonics once again defeated the Dallas Mavericks at home with a score of 118-105.

Two days after defeating the Mavericks, on April 11, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Golden State Warriors on the road with a score of 126-121.

With Yes's 44 points, 13 rebounds and 14 assists and Durant's 42 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Golden State Warriors with difficulty.

After the game against the Golden State Warriors, the Sonics have just played 80 games this season, and their current record is 67 wins and 13 losses!

A team that had 67 wins and 13 losses in the first 80 games may actually fall out of the top five in the Western Conference after two games. This is an incredible spectacle in the history of the NBA!

Now, the whole world is paying attention to the birth of this miracle!