NBA: Magic Johnson opens the season, crowned MOP

On April 20, the NBA 12-13 season playoffs officially started.

The first day's games were:

Western Conference: Thunder vs. Rockets (Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City), Nuggets vs. Warriors (Pepsi Center);

Eastern Conference: Knicks vs. Celtics (Madison Square Garden), Pacers vs. Hawks (Bankers Life Fieldhouse); the situation in the first round this year was a bit"complicated", unlike last year when the first day of the playoffs was almost always won by the teams in the upper half.

After the first four playoff games on the 20th, people were surprised to find that the teams in the lower half of the East and West were like"chicken blood", and they won the first victory of the series on the road!

Especially the Golden State Warriors in the West!

Led by the"Splash Brothers", the two outside guns overcame the"plateau effect" of 1,800 meters above sea level. The Warriors played away and made 21 of 41 three-pointers. The whole team showed amazing fighting spirit and won the first victory of the series with a score of 126:97, a nearly 30-point victory!

As expected by Popovich and other famous coaches in the league, Warriors coach Mark Jackson went for the Nuggets in the upper half of the division - this game also confirmed this. Once the Warriors'"Splash Brothers" opened up the situation and forced the Nuggets to adopt a double-team strategy, the Warriors'"three-point shooters" who had been holding back for most of the season would all open fire and shoot the Nuggets' proud and hard-built outside iron barrel into slag!

In the end, Curry scored 31 points and 10 assists in the first game of the series, Thompson scored 24 points with 6 of 12 three-pointers, and 6 Warriors scored in double figures, defeating the Denver Nuggets, which were"full of young talents".

Unfortunately, the big brother Iguodala contributed a triple-double of 19+11+15 throughout the game, but he failed to lead this"talented" Denver running and jumping team to win! In another round of the Western Conference series, the Thunder played against the Rockets, and the big brother and the second brother joined hands to fight the third brother, and the scene was also"bloody".

In his first playoff game with his new team, Deng scored 35 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, setting career records in points, free throws and rebounds.

In the end, the Rockets narrowly defeated their old team, the Thunder, 105:103.

But to be honest, the Rockets' victory was really due to luck, and the most critical last attack of the Thunder was actually arranged by Brooks to the second brother, the sewer turtle...

The reason was that everyone must have thought that the last attack of the Thunder would be given to Durant, so this gave other players the opportunity to make a buzzer-beater! As expected, the turtle missed the long-range three-pointer, the Thunder failed to make a buzzer-beater, and the Houston Rockets"stole" a victory from the home court in Oklahoma City.

If the frequent occurrence of"the underdog" in the West is mostly due to"reasonable" reasons such as long-term planning and grievances, then the East is a bit"outrageous"...

The two veterans, the old Wolf King and the old man, who are over 36 or 37 years old, led the Green Army to show an amazing"desire to win".

Relying on a watertight defense system, they actually limited the Knicks, the third offensive team in the league with an average of 105.

6 points in the regular season, to less than 80 points in Madison Square Garden!

Can you believe this?!

TMD Anthony made 6 of 24 shots in this game and barely scored 16 points. JR failed to switch to the"Jordan Experience Card" and switched to"Jordan Farmar", turning into an ice shooter, making 1 of 11 three-pointers. The two"brothers in distress" of the Knicks outside line, Shumpert and Felton, made a total of 9 of 34 shots...

Damn, James Dolan (Knicks owner) called 911 overnight to report fraud!

New York fans who watched the entire game took to the streets and cursed Anthony as a"data fraudster" in front of the camera"，""Little Bully" is a"contract fraudster", JR is a psychopath who escaped from"Arkham Asylum"...

The Celtics are playing away, and the old wolf king still has gas in the tank. The abnormal speed of assisting defense and the range of the defense sweeping the restricted area, there is still a little bit left...

19 points, 13 rebounds, 4 blocks and 2 steals, helping the team to win 85:79!

Although Uncle Pi failed to stage an"offensive kaleidoscope" battle with Angua at the small forward position, he put a lot of pressure on Angua on the defensive end. The old Celtics with 42 wins and 39 losses actually beat the Knicks, a 54-28-loss offensive team in the league's top three?

Well, we can only say that everything is possible in competitive sports!

In the first series between the Pacers and the Hawks, to be honest, George, who played in the peak season of his career, broke out within Joey's expectations; the Atlanta Five-Pointed Stars, known as the"Eastern Spurs", are all soldiers (a metaphor for the Hawks' five positions on the field without too many shortcomings)...

Joey can also think that the Hawks will"fight to the last" fiercely; but George broke out, the Hawks also The Pacers lost by 17 points despite playing a game with the same level of tacit understanding and coordination as the Spurs.

Joey did not expect that the Atlanta Hawks this season are indeed worthy of the title of"Little Spurs of the East".

Their head coach Larry Drew is a master at playing the game of playing the pig and eating the tiger!

The

Hawks, whose team has no players who have been selected for the All-Star Game, are indeed worthy of the word"civilian".

Jeff Teague scored 21 points and 7 assists in the first game of the series, Josh Smith scored 19 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 blocks, and Al Horford scored 14 points. 11 rebounds, Devin Harris 16 points, Kyler Korver 11 points...

All five starters scored in double figures, and DeShawn Stevens, who was voted third in the best sixth man last season, also contributed 16 points.

He led the Hawks bench to a 17:8 offensive and defensive transition round in the third quarter when the Pacers were trying to catch up, successfully curbing the Pacers' momentum. On the other hand, the Pacers team, except for Paul George's explosion, made 11 of 19 shots, with a shooting percentage of nearly 58%. Except for the 31 points scored by the 3-point shooting percentage, almost all the players were not in good shape.

This is also the important reason why the Pacers were defeated by the underdogs in this game!

For a time, the first round of the East and West was in full swing, and the enthusiasm of fans and the media was getting higher and higher. Stern sat in the office of the league headquarters, looking at the"triumphant" ratings reports, and smiled so hard that tears came out of his eyes...

This represents countless green US dollars!

One of the most profitable sports leagues in the United States, the"stock market" of the basketball world, has just started!