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Just as Jiang Hao was eating and watching, an old voice came.

Spurs coach Popovich appeared in the middle of the manor and told everyone that he was retired and officially handed the head coach baton to Messina.

"Tomorrow, Messina will be officially announced as the official head coach of the Spurs. Congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

"Congratulations!"

Jiang Hao applauded the European coach. Messina is absolutely suitable to be the head coach of the Spurs now. He has momentum and tactics. If Popovich really lets him continue to coach, he has won 4 championships and will not fight so hard.

People with the two characters Messi sound smart.

Seeing that everyone is convinced by Messi, Popovich turned around and left with satisfaction, leaving everyone with only a back view.

He saw that the record this year was good, and the team was also in the process of changing from old to new. Messina has also been with him for five years. He is a master of European basketball and Spurs basketball tactics, so he directly announced his retirement to accompany his wife and children.

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The next day, the Spurs official website officially announced that the old coach Popovich officially retired.

Chief assistant coach and acting head coach Messina officially took over the position of head coach, which received a lot of praise in the Spurs fan circle.

Moreover, RC directly gave the previous head coach a 5-year 10 million head coach contract extension. Messina will coach the Spurs for the next five years! !

Because Messina has led the Spurs for half a season, his ability has been seen by all.

There is no objection from the management and fans.

The players have no objection. If there is any objection, they would have publicly asked Popovich to return.

The official announcement of the Spurs can be regarded as unity before the start of the playoffs, mainly for the coaching staff to see.

Otherwise, it is not appropriate to introduce Messina as the acting head coach every time the commentator always introduces him as the head coach. In this way, he is confirmed to be the boss of the coaching staff, and the contract is guaranteed, and the other members of the coaching staff will be more convinced.

"The Spurs are getting younger from top to bottom!"

"The Spurs have a lot of fresh blood this year, they won't really win the championship, will they?"

"Heat fans upstairs? Anyway, the Spurs will definitely beat LeBron, you guys just have fun in the East for a while."

"You Spurs can't save yourself, you will be defeated by the Mavericks in the first round, haha."

"Meet the fans of all the playoff teams at the top!"

At the same time, the NBA also officially announced the playoff schedule and time, and all the tickets and vacant seat sponsorships were sold out in seconds. This is the super traffic that belongs only to the playoffs!

Eastern ranking:

Bulls

Heat

Celtics

Pacers

Hawks

Magic

Knicks

76ers

Western ranking:

Thunder

Spurs

Lakers

Clippers

Nuggets

Grizzlies

Mavericks

Jazz

After Jiang Hao had a day of rest in the villa, he looked at the final ranking. It was really painful. No wonder no one mentioned it at the dinner.

It was like Duncan and his team calculated for the Pacers. They didn't expect that they would be so miserable!

In the first round, the Spurs met the defending champion Mavericks, who fell to the seventh place in the Western Conference. The skinny Mavericks are bigger than horses. This is the defending champion who defeated the Big Three. No one will not pay attention to it. The battle between the Mavericks and the Grizzlies will always be a hot topic. It is a Texas civil war that neither side wants to see.

And if they pass the first round, they will meet the winner of the Lakers and the Grizzlies in the second round. Both teams are very difficult to deal with, and they are the kind that will lose a layer of skin. The Lakers will not be too weak in the playoffs with Kobe as a basic base. The Black Mamba in the playoffs will give all opponents a headache.

Not to mention the Grizzlies. The hatred of being eliminated in the eighth place last year is still vivid in the minds of the Spurs players, so they are even more reluctant to mention it. If they meet them, they will definitely kill them! However, only the players think about it privately, and Jiang Hao will never communicate this with others.

After all, the first round has not started yet and they are thinking about the semifinals. The arrogant will be defeated. Let's talk about it first.

There is a high probability that they will meet the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, because the Thunder's schedule is much simpler in comparison, which is why the Spurs have been rushing to the first place in the Western Conference.

Because the eighth in the West is not in the same league as the top seven. Whether it is the Jazz or the Rockets who almost made it, they are both civilian teams, which is a little bit different.

The Thunder had an easy time playing against the Jazz in the first round. This is not a matter of carelessness. The Thunder played against the Jazz easily without any injuries.

In the second round, they will face the winner of the new Clippers and Nuggets, which have only formed this year. This is not the same level as the opponents that the second-placed Spurs in the West will face, the Lakers and Grizzlies.

Whether it is the Clippers or the Nuggets, their playoff defense level is not as good as the super giants, the 10-year champion Lakers and the old defensive Grizzlies.

"It's a headache just looking at the matchup."

Bojan also sent a message to Jiang Hao:

"I can only wish you good luck with this devilish schedule, come on!"

Even Jeremy Lin sent a message to Jiang Hao:

"Brother, you guys got the second place in the West with such difficulty, the first round feels like the finals"

Jaylen Williams kept muttering what the Mavericks were doing, looking down on the Spurs so much, and finally dropped to seventh place. No one would ignore Nowitzki who was able to beat the Heat Big Three last year with a high fever of 40 degrees. People in the circle also know what level of coach Carlisle is, and how Cuban is a boss who can win people's hearts!

The Spurs met the defending champions that no team in the West wanted to meet in the first round!

This is also why Heat fans are also mocking the Spurs.

If the Spurs can break out of the Western Conference, they must first defeat last year's champion, then the previous year's champion, and finally defeat Durant's team that ranks first in the Western Conference and the current season's scoring leader.

So if the Spurs really want to break out of the West and meet the Heat, they will lose their skin if they don't die! !

"If we win the championship, wouldn't it be an exaggeration to say that we are the most valuable championship in history?"

Jiang Hao "spoke wildly" among the players.

Because just now, the league announced the MVP candidate. LeBron James was elected the regular season MVP. He was separated by Rose last year. Otherwise, the little emperor would have won the MVP for 4 consecutive years and made history.

And Jiang Hao knew that it would also be LeBron next season. He was thinking, if he won so many MVPs and still couldn't win the championship, would it also set a record?

The 4-time MVP in the regular season has yet to win a championship. It would be an absolute joke to tell the truth!

Other regular season honors and awards have nothing to do with Jiang Hao, but are closely related to the Thunder, the Spurs' strongest opponent in the Western Conference.

Scoring leader Kevin Durant averages 28 points per game.

Rookie of the Year: Irving

Sixth Man of the Year: Harden

Best Coach: Thunder Head Coach Brooks

Most Improved Player: Ryan Anderson

Rebounding leader: Howard averaged 14.5 rebounds per game

Assist leader: Rondo averages 11.6 assists per game

Steals leader: Paul averages 2.5 steals per game

Block leader: Serge Ibaka averages 3.7 blocks per game

The scoring leader, shot blocking leader, and Sixth Man of the Year are all in the Thunder, and they are all different players.

The best coach also belongs to the Thunder, and the Thunder this year are indeed brilliant.

Coupled with this, the No. 1 team in the Western Conference has a comfortable schedule.

NBA playoff posters all feature Durant and James in the background, which seems to indicate that the two will eventually face off.

But the reason why the NBA is the NBA is because it is full of too many uncertainties.

The Mavericks definitely did not intentionally fall to the seventh place against their old friends in Texas, the Spurs. This final result can only show:

There are so many powerful people in the West! ! !

Because Jiang Hao, who came from his previous life, clearly knows that the defending champion Mavericks this season are not very strong. In the first round, they were swept by the Thunder 4:0 and their reputation was ruined.

The Mavericks were only stronger when they met the Spurs in the first round of 2014, and were the only team to reach the tiebreaker with the champion Spurs.

And he won’t be overwhelmed in the playoffs, right?

Because the system also gives a reward bonus related to playoff psychology!