This season's NBA regular season has entered the end, the team's record ranking has basically been settled, according to the NBA official schedule, this season's NBA regular season will end on April 9, Beijing time, that is to say, in the next schedule, each team has about 6-8 games to play.
Yesterday, the Phoenix Suns beat the Denver Nuggets 140-130 to secure the team's 60th win of the season and lock up the season's regular season title ahead of schedule. The playoffs will enjoy home-court advantage throughout the playoffs. It was the first time since 2005 that the Suns had won the league top spot. It was also the third time in the Suns' history that they had won the league, and another time in the 1992–93 season, when they were led by Charles Barkley. With eight games left, the Suns have great hopes of breaking their all-time record of 62 wins in a single season.
This is very nice for the sun. A few seasons ago they were a Fish belly team in the West, and after winning DeAndre Ayton and Chris Paul in succession, the Phoenix Suns are finally on the right track.
Last season's Suns made it all the way to the Finals after 50 years, and although they lost 2-4 to the more powerful Milwaukee Bucks, the Suns had already shown their true colors. This season, they maintained last season's roster, constantly reinforcing the original foundation, and their ranking has been at the top of the league since the beginning of the season, but they are still not optimistic, and after the Nets' Kyrie Irving was allowed to participate in the home game, the Suns' probability of winning the championship plummeted.
So why aren't the Phoenix Suns optimistic? As for the Phoenix Suns' record, former NBA player Shaquille O'Neal talked about it in a show, O'Neal said: "First of all, congratulations to the Suns for winning the league number one, but their lineup is not intimidating, the Suns, like the Jazz, they have a lot of good players on their team, but they will collapse after entering the playoffs." Devon Booker doesn't have that kind of dominance, he looks like a "brush", all his scoring ability will be questioned, he is difficult to remember, even the MVP ranking China does not have him. ”
Their squad didn't make people feel intimidated, and O'Neal used this phrase to wake up the fans. Indeed, in a way, the suns players don't seem to be very famous, and they haven't shown enough dominance. Judging from the Suns' games last season and this season, they have behaved more like a team, they have played team basketball to the extreme, but the players in their team are indeed less well-known than the players in other teams outside.
Compared with teams such as the Nets, Lakers and Warriors, they have top players such as Durant, Irving, Curry, and James, who combine strength and fame, and they leave too much impression on fans. Paul and Booker in the solar array are indeed a little inferior to them, which is also a reason why the sun is often ignored.