The Thunder official website also gave a passage after the game: "We were reversed 1:3, but we don't want such a thing to happen for the second consecutive year, and we don't want to be reversed twice by the same team. We succeeded, the Thunder Kingdom, and strive for the championship!"

The Thunder eliminated the Warriors 4:2, and their finals opponent will be the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers swept the Celtics early and have been waiting for a long time. Both sides are the Big Three, and the attention in the finals is no less than that in the Western Conference Finals.

Xiao Hua and his team are naturally happy to see such a situation. Whether the Thunder or the Warriors advance, the ratings of the finals are unsatisfactory.

The NBA is a commercial league after all. Without attention, how can the cake be made? The finals of the Spurs played against the Pistons, which were particularly fierce, and the final difference in victory or defeat was extremely small. However, the attention hit a new low. Fans are unwilling to watch such constipation defensive battles, nor do they want to watch teams without popular superstars playing in the finals.

The ratings of this finals are absolutely guaranteed. Xie Kai and James are the second most popular players in the NBA today. With them, there will never be a very low attention span of the Spurs and the Pistons back then.

The first game of the finals will be played at the Thunder's home Ford Center Arena on the evening of June 2. As long as you don't play with the Warriors, the Thunder, which ranks second in the league in the regular season, will have a home advantage.

The two teams fought twice in the regular season, one win and one lose, and there was no way to tell anything. The Big Three against the Big Three is like Mars hitting the Earth.

Media people are already warming up for the finals, and there are both optimistic about the Thunder and the Cavaliers. Overall, there will be more optimistic about the Thunder. After all, they eliminated the Golden State Warriors, who were boasted by the media as "the number one combat force of the season."

However, the Cavaliers are the defending champion after all, and with the support of full strength in the playoffs, they may not necessarily be the finals.

This is the Thunder once again entered the finals in 2011. The same as in 2011 is that the opponent is still James' team, but it was the Heat at that time and now the Cavaliers.

The reason why the outside world is more optimistic about the Thunder is not that Xie Kai is much better than James, but because of the defense of the two teams.

In fact, judging from the regular season data, the Cavaliers' offensive efficiency is second only to the Warriors, and it is also a historically powerful, while the Thunder are inferior.

In the playoffs, the Cavaliers were in a state of great success, but there was no team in the East that could stop them, so the outside world did not think that their unsolvable promotion in the East had too much reference value.

The Thunder's playoff reference value is very valuable, and the Warriors' strength is there. This Warriors team is no longer the same team last season. With Durant, it was even called a team that was unsolvable before the season.

But in fact, there has never been no team in this league, only powerful teams and stronger teams.

This is the first time the Thunder and the Cavaliers meet in the Finals, and their players have fought in the playoffs more than once.

When Xie Kai was still with the Grizzlies, he fought against James's team many times. In the 2014-15 season, the Grizzlies he led won the championship by defeating the Cavaliers in the finals.

As for Westbrook, he once lost to the Heat led by James in 2011 with Durant and Harden. Pickled Pepper met the Heat led by James many times in the playoffs at the Pacers.

Love, one of the three Cavaliers' giants, played in UCLA with Westbrook in college. He once trained with Xie Kai and was very familiar with each other.

The core players of both sides are not unfamiliar with it. This gives more topics to talk before the game begins.

The finals are particularly attractive to players who have never won the championship. In this Thunder team, no one has a ring except Xie Kai. Even if there is experience in the finals, only a few people including Xie Kai have it, which is a disadvantage for them.

But on the other hand, without the ring, the Thunder's hunger is obviously better than the defending champions because they want to make history and wear the ring.

The finals are coming, and the number of K honey in Ox City is increasing. In order to prevent some social problems, Ox City government has also increased its police force. Although there have not been a large-scale fan trouble here, being cautious is not a bad thing.

Xie Kai is so popular that his number of fans is not comparable to other superstars. He has a large number of fans wherever he goes, which surprised the Thunder fans.

The attention of this game is too high, so high that it reminds people of the just-concluded Western Conference Finals. This continuous focus battle is a blessing for fans.

On the evening of June 2, 2016-17 season finals G1.

The Ford Center Arena is full.

The players have not entered the venue yet, and the scene is already very noisy.

Home team locker room.

Xie Kai is the only player in the team with a ring and a few players with experience in the finals, so it is most appropriate for him to mobilize pre-match in the locker room.

Xie Kai shouted in the locker room: "Brothers, we worked hard for a season and defeated the Warriors of the Universe and came here. Are we just trying to win a runner-up? Of course not, we want to win the championship! Don't put too much pressure on ourselves, everyone just needs to be themselves, we will definitely win! Don't be afraid of losing. The responsibility for failure is ours. If you win, it is everyone's credit! Let's work together!"

Xie Kai's words made the Thunder soldiers more confident. This man has never disappointed since he came to this team. In the series with Universe, this man has never lost the chain or even performed normally. They are unconditionally willing to bind their future with this man. You must know that this man has the most active FMVPs.

Westbrook was very grateful to Xie Kai for saying these things. He was not as convincing as Xie Kai said these words because of the ring.

Although it is cliché, it is true. In competitive sports, people are indeed more willing to believe the words of successful people, and Xie Kai is the most successful player in the Thunder.

Players from both sides play and practice, and the relationship between the players on both sides is pretty good, at least much better than the tension in the Western Conference Finals.

The Cavaliers play in the finals continuously, and their players consume a lot, and the biggest tests on players in the continuous finals are the body and the psychology.

Except for historically-level stars like James who pursue personal honors, rings will decline for ordinary character players, especially when you already have rings. There is actually no essential difference between 1 ring and two rings for character players.
Chapter completed!