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The regular season ended, and after three days of the playoffs, the Warriors were busy, everyone was in a hurry and busy with the work at hand.

The staff are now busy deploying the Oracle Center Arena, and many slogans have to be replaced to playoff titles. The players are not relaxed. After playing against the Pistons, they have no rest time and have to directly conduct club activities before the playoffs, aiming to help the team sell more tickets.

In the playoff publicity, the players are very active because they have no salary when playing playoff games. The money they get comes from two parts. One is that the company rewards the team and then the team deducts operating costs and pays them some; the other is that it comes from tickets, so the ratings of the playoffs are proportional to the money they can get.

Chamberlain came to the stadium early and found someone in the stadium debugging the basket ring, unloading the original basket and replacing it.

This surprised him and said in surprise: "The uniformed team attaches so much importance to the playoffs? They actually changed to a new ring? Isn't it enough to just change the Nets? No, the Nets don't need to change them. Are they all new?"

Billups and Chamberlain have become best friends, and he also loves training and charity activities, so he came very early today. After Chamberlain came, the two of them swayed around together.

After hearing Chamberlain's words, Billups burst into laughter. He blinked mysteriously and said, "Do you think the team changed the ring because they valued the game behind?"

Chamberlain shrugged for no reason and asked, "Isn't it?"

Looking at Billups' expression, he knew that there might be something wrong with it. After joining the NBA, he realized that the league is not as positive as it is publicized to the outside world. Such as ‘i-believe-i-can-fly’, ‘whereamazinghappens’, ‘no brothers, no basketball’, in fact there are many twists and turns inside.

Sure enough, Billups pointed to the ring and said, "This is a different ring. One is tightly tuned and the other is loose. Do you understand what's going on?"

Chamberlain suddenly realized that he really understood what was going on. The NBA's rims are different from those of the rubber rims on the street court, because they have to withstand the violent dunks and other damages of the NBA monsters. These rims have special texture and can adjust the looseness. If the rim is adjusted too tightly, the rim will be bounced out very high once it hits, and when it is loose, it is easier to hit long shots. In this way, when facing the tight frame, the team is suitable for the main positional battle, and when facing the loose frame, it will increase the three-point long shots and other shots.

"The team is too sinister, right?" Chamberlain smiled excitedly, as if he had seen the unlucky Jazz players slamming irons in the Oracle Arena.

Ellis, who walked over with his waist guard, sneered when he heard Chamberlain's words, and said, "Is this considered sinister? Damn, you have never been to the Utah Plateau, what those bastards do is meant sinister!"

"What did they do?" Chamberlain likes to listen to this kind of gossip because he can tell Li Qun, who can post some interesting but less important information, which can increase her work performance.

Ellis has been recuperating recently, and has been full of resentment and anger. When Chamberlain asked, he had nothing to do, and he poured beans into the bamboo tube, and began to tell the injustice he had encountered: "Aren't our opponents in the Western Conference semi-finals last season? Damn, those beasts are really bastards, do you know why we lost?"

Chamberlain smiled and said, "Of course I don't know, isn't it because your inside line was beaten into shit?"

Ellis' expression froze for a moment, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, that's one reason, but the more important reason is that we were humbled by the damn Utah!"

As Ellis told her, Chamberlain knew what had happened at that time. The night before the first fight between the two sides, the hotel where the Warriors players stayed suddenly had a fire in the middle of the night. The sleeping players panicked and thought that a fire had occurred, and they all ran out in a hurry. After a big chaos, they realized that it was a prank by the fans. This trick took more than two hours, and the players were exhausted by the tossing.

"The Utah has a bad reputation, even Michael Jordan has been beaten. It's normal for you to have an experience like this." Billups shrugged.

Chamberlain knew about this. Some time ago, the news caused a lot of controversy in the sports circle. The incident originated from a complaint by Jordan's personal trainer when interviewed by a reporter. He said that Jordan's 1997 flu battle was actually poisoned.

As Jordan's personal trainer, Tim Glover's poisoning theory is credible. And at that time, many reporters speculated that this was a poisoning incident, but no one dared to be as sure as Glover. The reason why everyone suspected that Jordan was poisoned was largely because some extreme fans always like to use black tricks on the visiting players, especially Jazz fans.

At that time, it was precisely because of the fanaticism of Jazz fans that one night before the fifth game of the 1997 Finals, when Jordan was a little hungry, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble when going out, he chose to order food. As a result, he was still hit. However, Chamberlain was still depressed. Isn’t ordering food easier? As long as someone intercepted the deliveryman outside, it would be fine. Why don’t you send someone to buy it yourself?

Therefore, you should not be too lazy in life.

What's even more strange is that when the pizza came, five people came to deliver the meal together. Glover felt a little strange. He said to the people around him: "I have an ominous premonition." In the end, only Jordan ate the pizza, but no one else ate it. As a result, at 2 a.m., Jordan called Glover and said he was sick.

Glover said that Jordan curled up in bed like a baby, and Jordan later said in his autobiography: "I woke up in the early morning and couldn't fall asleep again. I was in a bad mood and had severe stomach discomfort. I took some medicine, but the symptoms worsened." Jordan's fever continued. The doctor believed that it was because of eating unclean food, which caused the flu, while Glover believed that this was a food poisoning caused by poisoning.

"This is definitely true, because Jazz fans are so extreme. It's the finals, but it's already reasonable for them to not poison Jordan." Ellis muttered unjustly, "It was very difficult when we went upstairs. The door numbers in the room were replaced by those damn fans. Damn, I was so angry."

Hearing Ellis's news broke, Billups also began to get excited and said, "What are your West? The guys in our East are cruel, especially the damn Celtics. Damn, I don't know who can become the Western Conference champion this year. If it were us, then you have to be careful."

"In the 2005 playoffs, we were second in the East that year, and our opponent was the seventh in the East. We lived in a hotel in Cambridge after we arrived in Boston. When we finished training and went to the hotel's Alibi Leisure Center, the damn boss asked the bartender to add double alcohol to the drink we ordered. As a result, we went back drunk. The next day, we had a split headache and lost a game, otherwise we would definitely sweep the damn Celtics 4-0."

After Billups finished speaking, the players began to criticize the Celtics. At this point, the Celtics' actions were the best in the league, which was almost their tradition, especially in the era when "Cardinal" Auerbach was in power, and he liked to use his home court advantages to make big fuss and use all his tricks.

The Celtics Garden Arena is the oldest stadium in the NBA and the home court with the most "traps". From the visiting team room to the floor of the field, from the drinks on the sidelines to the lighting angles of the stadium ceiling, the most well-known of the Garden Arena is the floor. In the early 1980s, NBC had a movie about the glory of sports, and one story involved the mystery of the floor.

The Magician suffered a secret loss on the floor when he was playing for the first time in the rookie season. When he was forced to a certain area by the defensive player, the floor suddenly became soft. He was not used to the ball, and the height of the ball bounced also changed drastically. The defensive player who had been waiting on the side immediately snatched the ball.

In addition to the floor of the field, the visiting team room is also designed to be very small, while the bathroom is always blocked and dirty water flows all over the floor.

In addition, the Garden Stadium often talks about the temperature. When the visiting team players come to the Garden Stadium for training classes, the venue always adjusts the air conditioner temperature very low; and when the game comes, they will deliberately adjust the temperature in the visiting team room to be so high that many players are drowsy.

The Celtics once claimed to never lose in the seventh game at home, and this myth has not been broken until this season. The players believe that a large part of the reason why this situation occurs is that they have a lot of home mechanisms, which makes many players who have suffered losses discouraged the stadium.

When the Magicians first went to the Celtics in the Finals in 1984, Jerry West, then general manager of the Lakers, refused to go away with the team. This unlucky guy was defeated by the Celtics seven times in the Finals, three of which failed in tiebreaks. The Garden Arena and the city left a shadow on him for a lifetime.

On May 26, 1984, the Lakers had just arrived at the Logan Airport and got off their sensation. They waited for an hour and a half before they came to their checked luggage, and all the boxes were opened, but the things inside were there, which was undoubtedly a demonstration and warning. When the Lakers checked in the hotel, they saw green and Celtic signs, and even the Magician's bedroom curtains were green.

The Lakers tied 2-2 in the first four games of the finals. When the Lakers returned in the fifth game, it was in high temperatures. The visiting room was extremely small and the temperature reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The Lakers were told that the air conditioner was broken. Although the Lakers temporarily purchased several fans, it was useless. The Lakers eventually lost that game, the Lakers' top scorer, Jabbar, made 7 of 25 shots. He was 37 years old at the time and could only use the oxygen mask to inhale oxygen.

After the Lakers finally lost the championship in Game 7, the whole game fell into a madness. After the game, a group of Celtic fans celebrating the championship lost the water and kept throwing debris. The players hid in the car and did not dare to move. After being surrounded for an hour, the belated police dispersed the fans.

Blocking the visiting team bus, making food and tricking the players, and making trouble in the hotel where the visiting team stays. This is the habitual arrangement of many diehard fans in the playoffs. Generally speaking, it is believed that these slightly extreme fan behaviors originated from Auerbach.

The old bishop is very good at playing the edge of home advantage. Many teams often scold him while secretly stealing his skills. For example, the Warriors now adjust the basket ring is the experience learned from the Celtics. In the past few years, when the Celtics are in important events such as the opening game or the Christmas game, they will deliberately adjust the basket tightly, so that the rebound will rebound far when they fail to make a shot. As we all know, before Garnett went, the Celtics lacked strong inside lines in recent years. They have strong mobility but poor inside dominance.
Chapter completed!