The older superstars of the NBA

After the New York Knicks finished the first round of the playoffs, the other two teams in the Eastern Conference quickly advanced smoothly.

The two teams are the Milwaukee Bucks and the Toronto Raptors.

The former's opponent is the eighth-ranked Indiana Pacers.

There is really nothing to say about the match between the two sides. Under the leadership of Antetokounmpo Giannis, the Pacers were completely crushed.

Their record this season was not very good. They finally managed to reach eighth place in the middle and late stages of the season. It was already not easy to enter the playoffs. How could they have the strength to compete with the top-ranked Bucks?

So the Bucks also swept the Pacers 4-0.

The Toronto Raptors' opponent is the sixth-ranked Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons' situation is similar. The playoff teams in the Eastern Conference are really not comparable to those in the Western Conference. Therefore, the Raptors succeeded with little effort due to the outstanding performance of Kawhi Leonard and Kyle Lowry. End the battle.

Another wave of 4-0.

The Pistons didn't even have a chance to struggle against the Raptors.

The three promoted teams have all shown their super strength, but the records of the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers look very anxious.

After four games, the two sides were tied at 2-2. Neither the Celtics nor the 76ers showed the ability to crush their opponents.

The Celtics' young players performed well, and they also have Kyrie Irving, who has superb singles skills. However, their internal problems still exist, and the internal fighting between them has not weakened due to the game situation, so they cannot bring the team together to the greatest extent.

There is no internal fighting problem on the 76ers' side, but their young core doesn't seem to have much fighting spirit at critical moments.

Ben Simmons is too young, Joel Embiid agrees to take the lead at critical moments, and as a striker, he always likes to run outside and throw three-pointers.

The only one who is powerful is undoubtedly the "toughest man in the league" Jimmy Butler.

He has performed steadily in several games, but unfortunately he has not been reused, and the ball rights he has cannot help him lead the 76ers to a victory.

In this way, the two teams with problems were deadlocked in a wonderful way.

Until Game 76 came, the ers finally defeated the Celtics by a narrow margin to win the series.

After this battle, Kyrie Irving's contract officially expired.

He was so dissatisfied with the team that he couldn't even wait until the next day. When interviewed by the media after the game, he stated that he would not renew his contract with the Celtics and would directly enter the free market and look forward to offers from other teams.

This approach also aroused the dissatisfaction of many Celtics fans.

In order to attack Irving, these fans put all the blame for the loss on him, and many even deliberately set Irving's jersey on fire to mock what he did.

"Boston doesn't need Irving!"

When Celtics fans who didn't know where they came from hung this banner in the square outside the North Shore Garden Arena, Irving had already packed his bags and was about to leave.

For him, the second part of his career was terrible.

Compared with the east, the situation in the west is obviously much more complicated.

In the first round of the matchup, the Golden State Warriors, ranked first in the Western Conference, met the Los Angeles Clippers, ranked eighth in the Western Conference.

The Clippers have no particularly outstanding stars, and there seems to be a gap compared with the Warriors. But with a lineup like theirs, they defeated the invincible Warriors in the first game.

The score between the two sides was 135 to 131, and it was still an away game. A wave of team chemistry stunned Warriors fans, and finally made the Warriors players, who had been overconfident before, come to their senses.

What is particularly eye-catching is Draymond Green. Before he officially played against the Clippers, he believed that the opponent was vulnerable, and even boasted about sweeping the opponent. As a result, he lost to his opponent at home in the first game. This kind of slap in the face was really well received. Too fast.

After reacting, the Warriors immediately made targeted adjustments.

Their form returned in the second game. The team, led by Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant, simply used a wave of outside output to kill the Clippers.

After the score was tied at 1-1, the Warriors continued their efforts and defeated the Clippers in the next two games.

When everyone thought that the Warriors, who had won the match point 3-1, would end the series, unexpectedly, the Clippers would come back in Game at the Warriors' home court.

This slap in the face simply made Warriors fans furious.

After the score was tied at 2-3, the Warriors no longer dared to slack off. When the sixth game came, they tried their best to kill the Clippers and maintained their title as a championship team with a big score of 129-110. dignity.

The Denver Nuggets, ranked second in the Western Conference, face the seventh-ranked San Antonio Spurs.

The Spurs are not easy to deal with. Even if the Nuggets have players such as Nikola Jokic, the Spurs still won two of the first three games.

In the next few battles, the Nuggets counterattacked against the wind and once chased the score to 3-3.

In the crucial seventh game between the two sides, the Spurs missed a key ball at the last moment and lost to the Nuggets by 4 points.

The Rockets, ranked third in the Western Conference, faced off against the Oklahoma City Thunder, ranked sixth.

The battle between the two sides was quite fierce. The Rockets won two games at first, and then the Thunder pulled back two games. In Game 5, the Rockets won the victory with James Harden's buzzer-beater.

After the score was tied at 3-2, Harden's condition suddenly deteriorated. By the sixth game, he had no touch at all and was completely sleepwalking throughout the game.

Therefore, the Thunder also seized the opportunity to get the score back to 3-3.

In the final battle between the two sides, Chris Paul relied on his organization to put the Rockets in the lead for a time. At the next critical moment, Harden finally returned to his normal state. He also hit an unexpected two-plus-one under the interference of the Thunder, and finally helped the team win with this goal.

The Rockets defeated the Thunder 4-3 to advance to the second round of the playoffs.

Ranked fourth is the Minnesota Timberwolves. The opponent they have to face is not an easy one. They are the Portland Trail Blazers led by Damian Lillard.

There is not much difference in strength between the two sides.

The Trail Blazers won the first game. Lillard scored a game-high 36 points. Although Derrick Rose continued to score in the later stages, his poor long-range shooting rate at critical moments still failed. Can help the team save the defeat.

In the second game, the Timberwolves tried their best to restrict Lillard from the beginning. After this method worked, Serge Ibaka continued to exert force in the interior. With his cooperation with Gorgui Dieng, the two once helped the team open the score to double digits.

After the second half arrived, Lillard led the team in pursuit, and the Trail Blazers almost took the lead. Unfortunately, they ran out of time in the end and lost the game with a narrow gap of 1 point.

After a 1-1 tie, the Timberwolves lost two games in a row.

After the score reached 1-3, the fans in Minneapolis all thought of Zhao Feiyang. Many people held banners about Zhao Feiyang at the scene, and also left official messages for the Timberwolves on the Internet, criticizing their stupid move of trading away Zhao Feiyang.

Under such pressure, the Timberwolves barely regained a victory, but in the crucial sixth game for both sides, the Timberwolves still lost to the Trail Blazers.

Lillard's super long three-pointer at the last moment completely ended them! It also allowed the Timberwolves to fall in the first round for the first time after advancing to the second round for three consecutive seasons.