On January 25, while the Grizzlies defeated the Rockets, the Warriors also beat the Charlotte Hornets away.

As a team with a winning rate of just over half, the Hornets are naturally not the Warriors' opponent. Facing Batum, whose strength has declined severely, Durant also scored an excellent 33-pointer.

Although they were playing two completely different games, fans still felt that Link and Durant were competing with each other.

Link said that the Warriors would lose first than the Grizzlies, but Durant said disdainfully that let's see. Just as Link beat the Rockets, Durant slaughtered the Hornets.

Even when Durant joined the Warriors in his first year last season, the two were not so hostile to each other.

After all, Durant did not have much confidence last season. He just joined the Warriors and has not yet won the O'Brien Cup.

But now it’s different. As the defending champion, Durant certainly doesn’t want to see everything he finally has, and was snatched back by Link.

Therefore, we are already in a state of disagreement with each other and want to let go, and the degree of hostility has soared this season.

As the season continues, the battle between the two sides will only become more and more intense.

The day after both sides won the game, on January 26, NBA officially announced the complete list of participating in this year's All-Star Game.

In the West, Curry, Harden, Link, Durant and Anthony Davis formed the All-Star lineup.

Front lines like Leonard can only be substituted, which shows how fierce the competition in the West is.

But even in the fiercely competitive West, Link still became the All-Star vote king.

Speaking of which, this is the fifth consecutive year that Link has become the All-Star vote king.

Compared with three consecutive championships, it seems nothing great to be the voter leader for five consecutive years.

However, in fact, there was only one player who could become the All-Star vote king for five consecutive years before Link.

As the most popular star in the world, Jordan has become the All-Star vote king nine times in his career! Among them, 7 times he has been ranked the vote king for consecutive times.

This record seems incredible now. Because in NBA history, except for Link and Jordan, only Carter and Julius and Irving were able to become voters for three consecutive years. The others were not even able to do so for three consecutive years.

Link's five consecutive times are already the second most in history.

Obviously, Link will be the most likely player to break Jordan's record of winning the vote for seven consecutive years.

Although Link is the vote leader, the Warriors are not completely defeated in the All-Star lineup.

On the Grizzlies, only Link, the vote king, has entered the All-Star lineup. However, the Warriors, including the substitute, have a total of four people selected for the All-Star team!

Curry, Clay, Green and Durant are all selected!

At this point, the Warriors have an overwhelming advantage.

Therefore, fans of both sides also had a very fierce quarrel on the Internet.

Some people say that it is greater for the voter to be ranked first for five consecutive years, while others say that four people in a team were selected as All-Stars.

Both sides have different opinions and are having a lot of quarrels on major basketball forums.

The hostility between Link and Durant, the Grizzlies and the Warriors, undoubtedly also infected fans on both sides.

But in Link's view, it is not great to be the top voter and four of them selected as All-Stars for five consecutive years, and victory is great.

Although the Grizzlies were stalwarts and passed the Rockets, their challenge was not over yet.

Just one day after the Rockets' battle, the Grizzlies welcomed another rival, Portland Trail Blazers, who were not easy to mess with.

The Trail Blazers and the Grizzlies have also had two encounters this season, one of which was Link's final victory and the other was the Grizzlies' big victory.

Currently, the Grizzlies are leading 2-0 in total.

Today's game against the Trail Blazers is similar to that of the Rockets, because the opponent also had an x ​​factor, which made the game progress very elusive.

In the last game, the Rockets' x factor was Decker. Today, the x factor for the Trail Blazers was 2013 second round pick Allen Crabb.

Crab entered the industry in 2013 and averaged only 5 points per game in the first two seasons of his career, without any sense of existence. Just like most second-round picks, he seemed destined to leave this league silently.

But since 2015, Crab has become a major rotation member of the Trail Blazers, and can contribute about 10 points per game.

As a substitute for the Trail Blazers' "double backcourt guns", this data is already excellent enough.

Today, Crab also made a substitute, but shot a shooting percentage that made both Lillard and McCollum ashamed.

Crab made 6 goals with 8 shots outside the three-point line, with a three-point shooting percentage of up to 75%!

This terrible hit rate made the Grizzlies unable to completely throw the Trail Blazers behind.

However, at the critical moment, Link's excellent defense made Crab lose his temper.

In the last three minutes of the game, Link scored Crab cleanly, directly blocking his magical performance.

At the same time, Old Carter came out and shot two key goals to completely accept the game.

115 to 109, the Grizzlies encountered "unexpected surprises" in two consecutive games, but in the end they were suppressed with their hard strength.

After the game, Lillard shook his head helplessly.

From the bottom of my heart, Lillard is confident of competing with the Golden State Warriors. But forget about it, he has never won once with the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies won again without any danger, and the last two strongest opponents in January were already done.

Their winning streak has also accumulated 10 consecutive victories.

Now, all the pressure has reached Durant's side. Because the day after tomorrow, the Warriors' opponent is the Trail Blazers!

If the Grizzlies beat the Trail Blazers and the Warriors failed to do it, it would be equivalent to Durant losing to Link again.

On January 28, after the Grizzlies continued the Trail Blazers and Rockets, they killed the Jazz in a back-to-back game.

People were surprised to find that the Grizzlies seemed to have become even more terrifying after experiencing a hard battle with the Raptors!

Their dominance, cohesion and tacit understanding seem to be even better than the first half of the season.

Grizzlies players are like a group of Saiyans. Every time they are on the verge of death means a significant increase in their strength!

Now, the Grizzlies have won three of their last four games in January. The only remaining opponent, the Suns, does not seem to pose any threat to the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies' victory in the last four games in January is almost a foregone conclusion. Now, it depends on Durant and the Warriors.

Unfortunately, on January 29, the Warriors overturned their car at Moda Center!

"C.j. McCollum made another three-pointer, which was his fifth three-pointer in this game! This number is the sum of Curry, Thompson and Durant!"

After McCollum made a three-pointer on Clay's head, the live commentator cheered.

Today, the Warriors' three-pointers feel very bad. Durant made 1 of 7, Clay made 2 of 6, but only Curry made 2 of 4, which is more normal.

On the other hand, the Trail Blazers may have made them very unwilling to lose to the Grizzlies in the last game. So today, they vented all their grievances on the Warriors.

McCollum broke out completely outside the three-point line, and Lillard also broke Curry into a sieve full of holes.

Although the Warriors are in the lead most of the time, the Trail Blazers are tenacious and unwilling to give in.

Finally, at the last moment of the game, McCollum's three-pointer allowed the Trail Blazers to overtake the Warriors by 2 points in the last 3.4 seconds.

Fans at the Moda Center are standing up and cheering for their players. They failed to defeat the Grizzlies, but they must defeat the Warriors!

In the end, Durant executed the final shot, but his three-point shot hit the box and failed to hit.

113 to 111, McCollum beat the Warriors literally, ending the Warriors' winning streak!

"Fuck!" Durant cursed at the moment of the game.

He failed to seize the last chance, and he let a team that had just lost to the Grizzlies defeat him and ruined everything with his own hands!

He and the Warriors lost the game first, and also lost this battle with Link!

At the moment the game ended, several reporters immediately appeared around Lillard and McCollum.

Lillard was very proud, and his grievances after losing to the Grizzlies finally disappeared.

Facing the camera, he smiled and said, "I always think that the Warriors are not invincible. Compared to the Grizzlies, the chance of winning against the Warriors is greater. Of course, the Warriors are not easy to play, but if the probability of winning against the Warriors is 10%, the probability of winning against the Grizzlies is only 1%. I'm very happy that we seized this 10% opportunity today."

Lillard's hand-tread after the game made the Warriors extremely embarrassed.

After the game, Durant missed the press conference.

Although the Warriors official did not give an explanation, all reporters knew the reason for Durant's absence.
Chapter completed!