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The West can train people, 4 teams in the East and West have 8 cores, 7 of which have been honed in the West

8:39am, 20 May 2025【Basketball】

The second round of the NBA playoffs has ended, and the following four teams were finally promoted to the East-West Finals:

Pacers eliminated the Cavaliers 4-1, the Knicks eliminated the Celtics 4-2;

Timberwolves eliminated the Warriors 4-1, and the Thunder eliminated the Nuggets 4-3.

Eastern Conference Finals are Pacers vs. Knicks, who have a home advantage.

The Western Conference Finals are Timberwolves vs Thunder, and the Thunder has a home advantage.

It is worth mentioning that 4 teams in the East and West have 8 core cores, and 7 of them have been honed in the West.

West, Edwards, the core of the Timberwolves, started at the Timberwolves, and grew at the Timberwolves; Randall started at the Lakers, and after the Pelicans' training, he was selected as the All-Star in the Knicks and returned to the West.

The Thunder core Alexander started in the Clippers and grew up in the Thunder; Jaylen Williams and Chetholmgren both grew up by the Thunder rookies.

In the east, the Knicks core Brunson started at the Mavericks, and then went to the Knicks after the Mavericks entered the Western Conference Finals; Towns started at the Timberwolves, and then went to the Knicks after the Timberwolves entered the Western Conference Finals. On the side of the Pacers, Halliburton also traded from the King of the West. Only the second and third leaders of the Pacers have always been in the east.

NBA has been strong in the West and weak in the East for more than one or two years. It is much harder to enter the playoffs, enter the second round, enter the Western Conference Finals, and even rush out of the Western Conference than to rush out of the Western Conference. Therefore, some players who have experienced the playoffs in the Western Conference will grow very quickly as long as their mentality is strong enough, such as Edwards.

Brunson, Edwards, Alexander and Halliburton, who will win the championship first this year?

In fact, not only that, in the 8 Eastern Conference playoffs, the Pacers, Knicks, and Cavaliers who had played in the West, 2 teams entered the Eastern Conference Finals, and 1 team stopped in the second round; while the remaining Magic, Heat, Celtics, Bucks, and Pistons, the core has never played in the West, 1 team stopped in the second round, and the others were eliminated in the first round.

The Eastern Conference star went to the West, James was hacked 6 in the Lakers in the first round, Jimmy Butler stopped in the second round, but Butler was already a very strong star in the East, leading the Heat to the Finals twice, and one time he almost reached the Finals, but he couldn't stand it in the West.

This is the difference between the West and the East. Many times, if the Western star goes to the Eastern Conference, it will be a dimensional reduction blow, especially the Knicks, especially the classic Knicks. Brunson joined the Knicks after the Western Conference Finals, and Towns joined the Knicks after the Western Conference Finals. Both cores were poached by the Knicks just after the Western Conference Finals.

Since the 21st century, Kidd has joined the Lotto team Nets and led the team to the finals for two consecutive years; O'Neal/Garnett also won the championship in the East, of course Garnett is the Big Three, O'Neal can also win the championship in the West; Leonard joined the Raptors and won the championship in one year.

of course cannot represent everything. Durant and Harden walked around the east but did not gain anything, although it was due to the impact of Irving's injury.

, and James in the east was obviously inferior to the east in the west. George made a series of Eastern Conference Finals in the east, and at most he was the second round in the west.

to test the quality of the stars, you can really try it in the West.