After the semi-finals, the two teams that reached the finals were also announced. In addition to the Xinjiang men's basketball team, which was the first to advance to the finals, the other team is the defending champion Liaoning men's basketball team. This is the first time in the history of the CBA that the Xinjiang men's basketball team and the Liaoning men's basketball team will meet in the finals. Now, the schedule of the CBA finals is coming, and the Liaoning men's basketball team has a big advantage, and the first game of the finals will start on May 15, see who can get off to a good start.
The Xinjiang men's basketball team was the first to reach the finals. Qiu Biao's team finished second in the regular season and eliminated the Guangzhou men's basketball team 3-1 in the 8-4 game in the playoffs. In the semifinals, the Xinjiang men's basketball team won 2 games in a row away after losing a home court, thus eliminating the Zhejiang team with a big score of 3-1 and successfully reaching the finals. This is also the seventh time in the history of the Xinjiang men's basketball team that it has reached the finals.
In history, the Xinjiang men's basketball team has reached the finals 6 times in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2017 and 2019, of which except for the 2014 against the Beijing men's basketball team, the other 5 times were against the Guangdong men's basketball team. However, it is regrettable that in the first 6 finals, the Xinjiang team won 5 runners-up, and only won the championship once in 2017 by relying on Zhou Qi.
The Liaoning men's basketball team is the second team to reach the finals. Liaoning men's basketball team won the first place in the regular season, easily swept the Shenzhen team 3-0 in the playoffs 8 into 4, and fought hard with the Guangdong team in the semifinals for 5 games, only in the absence of Zhou Qi, through the five battles, the thrilling elimination of the opponent 3-2, reached the finals. This is the 12th time in the history of the Liaoning men's basketball team that it has reached the finals.
This is also the fifth consecutive year that the Liaoning men's basketball team has entered the finals, and in the first 11 finals trips, the Liaoning men's basketball team has won 3 championships and 8 overall runners-up, and the 3 championships are in 2018, 2022 and 2023. In the past two seasons, the Liaoning men's basketball team has won two consecutive championships, and this season is aiming to hit three consecutive championships.
Now, the two teams with the best performance in the regular season will meet in the finals for the first time in history, which is still full of expectations. The Liaoning men's basketball team is strong, Yang Ming holds Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin, Han Dejun and other national players, plus strong reinforcement Fergumoreland Cooper, which can be described as menacing, especially after the baptism of 5 fierce battles in the semifinals, which makes this team's desire to fight even stronger.
On the other hand, the Xinjiang team, Qiu Biao also has a number of national players such as Abdul Salamu Zhao Rui, and also has super foreign aid like Jones, so it can be said that in terms of strength on paper, he is not at a disadvantage at all. We have the ideal belief that the two teams will definitely give us a wonderful match.
Unlike the previous games, the finals will be played in a best-of-7 format of 2-2-1-1-1, and the Liaoning men's basketball team, as the regular season champion, has a home-court advantage.
The schedule of the finals is like this, the first game will be played on May 15, and it is worth looking forward to who will get off to a good start in Shenyang. After a day of rest, the second race was played on May 17. After that, the two teams moved to Urumqi and played two more games on May 20 and 22. If there is still no winner or loser, then, on May 25, the two teams will return to Shenyang again to play the fifth match. Still unable to decide the championship, he returned to Urumqi on May 28 and played the sixth game. If you really want to fight the seven battles, it will be on May 31, and return to Shenyang to carry it out.
In terms of schedule, the Liaoning men's basketball team has a big advantage, that is, one more home court. Judging from this group of series, I Menglan is very optimistic about the Liaoning team, if nothing else, there is a high probability that it will win the championship 4-1, what do you think?
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