The opening three-pointer in basketball

The New York Times is the most influential newspaper in the United States, following the footsteps of The Sun and The Times.

It is a comprehensive news media.

Not only social news, political news, overseas news, entertainment news, but also sports news.

And just like the Sun, the New York Times also likes to dig up tidbits about entertainment and sports stars.

But at the same time they also have very professional sports commentators.

The audience of newspapers can not only see some interesting news, but also some articles with very reference value.

Just yesterday, after the Timberwolves defeated the Grizzlies, John Favors, a special sports expert for the New York Times, published an article titled "Choose One of Three Championships Between Timberwolves, Thunder, and Heat."

This article is mainly about predicting who will win the NBA championship this season.

Before the start of the second round, in fact, the vast majority of the league's media and fans were not optimistic about the Timberwolves. They felt that the Timberwolves were already brilliant enough this season.

But the Timberwolves' poor team lineup will hinder their further development.

When the first game of the second round started, Morris Jr. was injured.

Everything went in the direction that many fans and media expected.

At this time, more media and fans feel that the Timberwolves' playoff journey will end here.

But then the Grizzlies were 2-0 and 3-0. It can be said that the Grizzlies were unable to fight back in the three games.

Facts have proved that even without Morris Jr., the Timberwolves are not a team that everyone can bully. On the contrary, they have very strong strength.

Now more and more fans feel that the Timberwolves may create a miracle.

A legend who went from last place to directly winning the championship a year later.

This article by Favors analyzes the advantages of the Heat, Timberwolves, and Thunder.

Needless to say about the Heat, the Heat's three giants can attack and defend, can fight in positions, and can break fast.

And James definitely has a historical level of offensive strength. He is an outside player who can attack the inside.

If nothing else goes wrong, no matter who the Heat encounters in the end, James can attack with a strong force and directly destroy the Thunder or Timberwolves inside.

Because compared to the Pacers' inside line, these two are really not good enough.

The Thunder's three young men have a historical level of super offensive talent. Although the three of them are not good at defense, their attitudes are very bad.

But the three of them together averaged 80 points per game in the playoffs, which is really impressive.

These three people are almost the score of a team.

Harden, Westbrook, and Durant can't stop him at all.

Although the Timberwolves are missing Morris Jr., Bai Yi has also shown his strength. He can average 50 points per game by himself.

The Timberwolves averaged 122 points per game in the playoffs, ranking first in the league.

Under such circumstances, although you can say that the Timberwolves have such and such problems.

But the Grizzlies are a well-known defensive team in the league. The Grizzlies can't stop the Timberwolves. Why do other teams think they can stop the Timberwolves?

As soon as Favors' article was published, it immediately attracted a lot of discussion.

Many fans left messages below the New York Times official website.

Many fans agree with Favors's view and want to see who among these three teams he is more optimistic about next.

Favors is actually still researching this point.

He is the NBA columnist and sports expert of the New York Times, specializing in writing NBA-related news. His last article was well received and brought him an income of US$5,000.

It is roughly equivalent to twice the monthly salary of an ordinary blue-collar worker.

And he also has his own Twitter and Facebook accounts.

He attached great importance to this prediction.

Just as he was thinking, his cell phone rang and someone called.

Favors paused, then picked up the phone and found that it was his boss, the sports editor of the New York Times, calling.

"Favors, I read your article and I have some ideas. I think it might be helpful to you."

My immediate supervisor called me and said he had some ideas.

This is not an idea, it is clearly Favors who wanted to write an article based on his idea.

The boss called and asked Favors to directly write in the next column that he was optimistic that the Thunder could win the championship.

Although Favors is not a real New York Times employee, he knows something about the situation.

A big newspaper like this must have close ties with each team.

It is completely reasonable for people to want public relations.

As for the Thunder's public relations, it is naturally to build momentum.

This momentum is not just for the fans, but also for the league.

The league has always liked teams with high traffic, because in this case the ratings will be higher and they can get more advertising shares.

Instead of teams like the Spurs and Pistons playing in the Finals and achieving the lowest ratings in history.

It is completely understandable that the Thunder want to create a reputation for the outside world as the most popular team.

Favors put down the phone and couldn't help but want to curse.

He hoped that he had deduced it carefully by himself, rather than obtained the result through this method.

He deduced it himself, that is, he listed the advantages and disadvantages one by one and deduced who is most likely to be the championship.

The editor's approach was to let him presuppose that the Thunder were the championship, and then look for the Thunder's strengths.

As long as you are not a fool, it is easy to distinguish articles like this.

This can easily damage your reputation.

Of course he wanted to refuse.

At this moment, he received another call, this time from the editor-in-chief of the New York Times.

The editor-in-chief of the New York Times is already considered a high-level executive in this media.

Such a big shot actually paid attention to him, and called him to ask him to research whether he could clarify in the next article that the Heat are most likely to win the league championship.

Good guy.

The editor-in-chief also did this for this reason.

Although he had known for a long time that James had good media connections, the fact that he was able to contact the editor-in-chief still gave Favors a big shock.

However, the purpose of the editor-in-chief is undoubtedly the same as that of the editor.

They all want Favors to support their team.

The Heat and Thunder are determined to win, and both teams are now starting to use off-court moves.

Favors was not sure whether the Timberwolves would have such a method, but he had to say that such behavior made him very disgusted.

Favors feels that word of mouth is not easy to come by. The more important the competition is, the more cautious he must be.

After hanging up the phone from the editor-in-chief, he thought for a while and still didn't write.

Instead, he found the previous draft paper and planned to list it out one by one to see which team would win the league championship based on his previous ideas.

"Ring! Ring! Ring!"

The phone rang again. Favors looked at the caller ID and then hung up.