Chapter 899: The Beginning of Making the World Silent!

June 4, 2009, night, Key Arena, Seattle.

Amid the cheers of more than 25,000 Seattle SuperSonics fans, the most watched NBA Finals of the 2008-2009 season is about to begin!

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Feeling the deafening madness of the Seattle SuperSonics fans at the scene, David Stern was very excited.

Yes vs James!

Seattle SuperSonics vs Heat!

This is really the picture he has dreamed of!

After the formation of the Heat's Big Five is completed.

He thought he would have to wait a long time to see such a duel.

Unexpectedly, in the first season of the Heat's Big Five, he would be able to see this group play against each other in the finals!

This really feels like a blessing from heaven.

"God really favors me and the NBA!"

Feeling the incredible atmosphere of Key Arena, David Stern always feels like this.

He's well aware of what he and his teammates are trying to do in the NBA.

In order for the NBA to develop better, he and his partners have sacrificed almost everything.

Overcoming obstacles and constantly reforming under pressure.

In order for the NBA to be more exciting, we are under pressure to reform the draft lottery.

Not only the bad teams in the NBA are opposed to changing the draft lottery from the top three picks to the top five picks, most teams are instinctively opposed!

Who among the NBA teams can say that they will not fail in the future?

Needless to say, failure is the laziest and least bad strategy for a team to rebuild!

Not every team is headed by Jerry West or some other powerful figure!

In his reform of the draft lottery, the guaranteed number of picks to be ranked last was changed from the fourth pick to the sixth pick, which means that it is almost meaningless to be ranked first in last place.

Even if the sixth pick is in a big year of the draft, at most, a player with good quasi-All-Star potential will be selected. Such a player cannot bear the heavy responsibility of rebuilding the team.

So what's the point of showing it off?

It can be said that this reform is good for the league, but it is really unfriendly to all NBA teams.

Cutting off their simple path to reconstruction!

Moreover, changing the top three picks from lottery selection to the top five picks from lottery selection also increases the shady power of David Stern and the league.

If someone else serves as the president of the NBA, it will be clear that the reform that centralizes power in the league and suppresses other teams in the entire league is impossible to pass.

It was David Stern who forcibly passed this reform under tremendous pressure.

In addition, in order to make the finals more exciting, David Stern also made reforms in the finals format.

Before this year, the NBA Finals format was a 2-3-2 format. This format has been criticized as not being a 'home advantage' but an 'away advantage'.

For teams with home field advantage, the four games are divided into two, one after the other. If the finals are played within five games, the home field advantage in the next two games will be lost.

At the same time, a team without home field advantage actually has three consecutive home games, while a team with home field advantage has to be divided into two. This is a bit unreasonable no matter how you look at it, right?

In fact, the emergence of the 2-3-2 format is to take care of relatively weak teams that do not have home field advantage, so that the finals can be more exciting.

But it's obvious that this competition system can't keep up with the times. No one could have imagined that the Western Conference would become so brutal!

Teams with poor records in the Western Conference are generally stronger than teams with good records in the Eastern Conference!

The Eastern Conference teams have a good record, but are weak. They have home court advantage, but this home court advantage is to take care of teams without home court advantage.

They are not as strong as their opponents, and the competition system still takes care of their opponents. How can the teams in the Eastern Conference play in the finals?

After last year's finals, the Celtics, as the strongest team in the Eastern Conference, were swept by the SuperSonics in the finals. David Stern was thinking of ways to change this situation.

Finally, thanks to the efforts of David Stern, starting from this year, the NBA Finals format will be 2-3-1-1.

2-2-1-1-1 is actually the most neutral, but it’s too busy. He has to switch four times in seven games. In the end, David Stern decided to sacrifice neutrality. Since the home field advantage, then give it to Home field.

In the future, the Eastern teams with better records are more likely to get home court advantage. The Eastern teams are weak and the Western teams are strong. The real home court advantage can make the league's finals more exciting.

According to his plan, everything would be pretty good. If the team with the home court advantage is weak, it would be no problem to give the advantage to the team with the home court advantage. But he really never dreamed that the Heat would form the Big Five.

The Eastern Conference is indeed not as strong as the Western Conference, but the Heat's strength suppressed all the teams in the Western Conference at once!

This directly turned his reform into an aid to evil!

It can be said that the formation of the Heat's Big Five gave David Stern a very strong sense of crisis from the beginning.

I always think that the NBA will be ruined by the Heat and James!

The attention this season is likely to drop significantly!

But the final result really made David Stern feel incredible to the extreme.

Yes continued to perform magic in the regular season and kept the attention of the NBA!

Yes' continuous magic in the playoffs has also kept the attention of the NBA playoffs!

In the end, the NBA was not destroyed because of the Heat's Big Five and James, but was said to have entered its prime in this year's playoffs!

Here, now, what else could he say?

All I can say is thank God!

Now David Stern realizes one sentence more.

That is, personal efforts are important, but the historical process is even more important!

If God hadn't given Yes to him and the NBA, just James and the Heat's Big Five would have made all the efforts of him and his partners come to nothing!

The prosperous era of the NBA and the successive ratings miracles do not exist. I am afraid that there are only ruins!

And he will regretfully leave the NBA in ruins!

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Listening to this magical cheer, watching that Supersonic Nine come out as these magical cheers were heard from the players.

David Stern was excited, as was the Coconut SuperSonics fan next to him.

Meanwhile, David Stern is mortified.

Yes, this journey is saving him and the NBA.

But his reforms after last year's finals were a trap for Yes!

If the finals format is not reformed, Yes, who enters the finals eighth in the Western Conference, will have the advantage of the format.

After his reforms, the Heat not only have stronger strength, but the competition system is also on the Heat's side.

Yes and the Seattle SuperSonics seemed to have directly entered the hell level of difficulty!

It is said that Yes is the most unlucky player in NBA history.

David Stern didn't want to believe it before.

But now, he really believes it.

In the three years since Yes arrived in the NBA, almost every bad thing has happened to him.

"This finals matchup between the SuperSonics and the Heat is the most special finals matchup I have ever experienced in the NBA!"

"Kenny, it's really hard to imagine that before the start of a finals showdown, the strength would be so one-sided, with one side having no chance of winning at all."

Kenny Smith looked at his rhythm partner next to him, and the smile on his face was calm.

This fat guy is still pretending to be here!

"Charles, I agree with what you said. In the history of the NBA, 49 of the 50 states in the United States believe that the Seattle SuperSonics can win. ESPN100 is the expert, and 99 experts believe that the Seattle SuperSonics can sweep the Heat. This is This is the first time in NBA history that the Seattle SuperSonics seem to have an overwhelming advantage. It is difficult for Yes and the SuperSonics to lose to the Heat. According to these public opinions, there will not be a fifth game in this series. "

Barkley, who was still leading the rhythm, was shocked!

"Kenny, that's not what I meant..."

"Charles, of course I know you don't mean this, but no matter what, the finals are the finals. No matter what the finals is like, the winner of the finals cannot be the champion, even if Yes won the championship last season. Great, it’s just one championship, there’s no way it can become two.”

"..."

Buckley had nothing to say.

Because what Kenny Smith said makes so much sense.

To be fair, if the Seattle SuperSonics he supported had an overwhelming advantage, he could also make the same point as Kenny.

But unfortunately, the Sonics do not have such an advantage, or even an absolute disadvantage.

In terms of strength, it is at an absolute disadvantage, and in terms of public opinion, it is at an absolute advantage.

And this is definitely the scariest!

Maybe after the finals, the media that supports the Heat will say: "Look, Yes is at this level and has such a huge advantage. It actually lost the finals and was swept. Under the leadership of James, the Heat The lower dog defeated the upper dog!”

This is ridiculous, it's simply confusing a deer with a horse, confusing right and wrong!

And I can't refute it because the public opinion is completely on the side of Yes and the SuperSonics!

But there is no point in public opinion siding with Yes and the Sonics!

Public opinion is useless now and will be liquidated in the future!

Therefore, as more and more coconut fans understand this, coconut fans are really feeling uncomfortable now, and they are using their own abilities to change such public opinion.

But the power of the media is too great, and most coconut fans have not noticed this, thinking that these media are really well-intentioned to support Yes and the Sonics, and are still adding fuel to the flames.

These people have absolutely no idea that whether it is the coconut media or the media that supports Yes, the media is bloodthirsty!

Now these media are verbally supporting the Sonics sweeping the Heat, but in their hearts they are really looking forward to the carnival after the Sonics are swept by the Heat!

In fact, people like Kenneth who support James and the Heat are actually partying!

The description is not optimistic...

Barkley was worried, but on the court, after the two teams warmed up, the starting players were already standing on the court.

The Seattle SuperSonics' starting lineup for this game is Milicic, Millsap, Durant, Leafs and Rondo.

As for the Heat, the starting players are Chandler, Chris Bosh, James, Ben Gordon and Wade.

The luxury of the Heat's starting players is simply jaw-dropping.

In addition to the Big Five in the starting lineup, the bench also includes strong players such as O'Neal Jr. and Grant Hill.

Compared with the almost invincible lineup of the Heat, the Sonics look a bit shabby.

The Heat are all famous stars, and these stars are the kind of talented players who have been talented and prestigious since childhood.

On the Sonics side, there are very few geniuses, only Yes, Milicic and Durant can be regarded as geniuses. Durant and Milicic even played for a while, and they still think they are ordinary players.

In addition, the other players of the Sonics are civilian players!

"Before this round of finals, many people said that the Seattle SuperSonics were the most civilian team in the history of the finals stage, and there was a reason why they were more civilian than the Pistons in 2004."

"Only Yes, Milicic, Durant, Harden, and Nick Collison entered the league as lottery picks in the entire SuperSonics, and some of these five people are recognized to have their rankings raised for various reasons, and their rankings are controversial."

"And what about the Miami Heat?"

"James is the No. 1 pick, Chandler is the No. 2 pick, Chris Bosh is the No. 4 pick, Wade is the No. 5 pick, and Ben Gordon is the No. 3 pick. Not counting the bench, the Heat's talent and strength almost crush the SuperSonics!"

"Although the team we support is the Seattle SuperSonics, this is before the game starts. After the game starts, we need to face reality."

"Before the game starts, our bragging is over. The reality is not that the Seattle SuperSonics will sweep the Heat, but that the Heat will sweep the SuperSonics!"

"I hope everyone in front of the TV can face this reality!"

This year's finals is once again known as the most watched finals in history.

Commentators and media from all over the world made James, who was on the stage of the finals for the first time, feel that every cell in his body was as excited as if it was exploding!

"This is my stage!"

"This is my stage!"

"Now, I can finally take everything back from you!"

James now had no sight of Durant standing with him. Instead, he had sight of Yes standing with Ben Gordon.

Durant?

This was just air!

"The 2009 NBA Finals, the game has begun!"

When Bavetta threw the basketball in his hand high up, James' excitement reached its peak.

He didn't want to miss every second of this year's finals!

Because every second was the joy of beating Yes!

However, after Chandler, who jumped high, lost the kick to Milicic, James, who was extremely excited, instantly turned black.

The Sonics got the first ball!

They couldn't beat Yes from the beginning!

The Sonics succeeded in the jump ball, and the white and green fast break torrent quickly rushed to the Heat's half.

James and the Heat players did not dare to neglect and hurried back to defense.

Watching Yes pushing Ben Gordon away and advancing with the ball.

James wanted to rush forward, but before he got the team's full trust, the team would never let him appear in front of Yes.

He could only bear it.

He could only defend Durant, who he disdained next to him.

He could only temporarily be a supporting role and watch Yes who was still in the center of the stage!

"Yes is going to attack the basket!"

No!

Yes is not attacking the basket!

"LeBron, be careful!"

What? !

Pass? !

James looked at the iconic high, fast and biased basketball flying over his head, with an incredible look on his face.

Such a good performance opportunity, Yes actually gave up? !

And when James came to his senses, this basketball that ordinary people could not pass or receive had appeared in Durant's hands.

Watching Durant receive the basketball outside the three-point line in the right corner and prepare to aim, James rushed out excitedly!

Durant could not score easily in front of him!

Before defeating Yes, he wants to devour Durant!

He is LeBron James, he is definitely not Kobe Bryant!

James's impact is too terrifying!

Seeing the scene of James rushing towards Durant, the Yes Supersonics fans who had been shouting on the sidelines were stunned.

"KD, be careful!"

James is really going to devour KD!

James Harden and other substitutes on the sidelines were even scared and jumped up.

However, just when the Seattle Supersonics substitutes on the sidelines were about to be scared by James' fierce defense, what happened next on the court made the entire KeyArena fall into complete silence.

In one move!

A shake!

Instant breakthrough, two-step dunk!

With a clang!

In the silence of the whole audience, Durant hung on the basket!

And James, who was as ferocious as a beast just now, had dull eyes and slipped to the ground behind Durant unbelievably...

2 to 0!

Watching the score jump on TV, the whole world seemed to be silent...