The next day, the news of Sun Yi's consecutive 40+ points did not make the front page headlines, but the headlines were a punishment news released by the league's official website.
"The Spurs will be fined $25,000 for violating the league's rest regulations."
After seeing his headline news being snatched away, Sun Yi couldn't laugh or cry.
"I asked you, an old guy, to take turns to rest. Now you will be punished!" Sun Yi complained with gloating.
He raised his hands and feet to support the league's punishment.
The Spurs disrespected the fans watching the game and the audience in front of the TV so much that they should be severely punished.
In fact, the league has been very loose in its management of rest rotations before, and has not issued any fines.
But last night, league commissioner David Stern watched the live broadcast of the Warriors-Spurs game and was absolutely furious.
So many resources were spent to promote this national live broadcast, but it was ruined because the Spurs rested.
In order to prevent something like this from happening again, Stern planned to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.
So he convened a meeting with league executives overnight to formulate a series of rest terms and discuss how to punish the Spurs.
The league was very efficient and took just one night to work out a series of terms and make a penalty against the Spurs.
When the rest policy and penalties were announced, it immediately caused an uproar in the league.
Some people support it, and some people oppose it.
As the person who was punished, Spurs coach Popovich was naturally the focus of interviews by media reporters.
When asked about this penalty, Spurs coach Popovich replied nonchalantly: "I am not surprised at all by the league's decision. I do not regret this result. I understand what the league did. Reason. But my players needed a break, so I gave them a rest."
Sun Yi was not surprised by Popovich's answer.
Even if a rest policy is introduced, the Spurs will find ways to find loopholes to avoid penalties.
After Sun Yi finished reading the news, he quickly finished his breakfast, packed his luggage and went to the hotel lobby to meet the team.
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On March 12, the Warriors returned to Oakland to face the Trail Blazers at home.
The Trail Blazers are currently ranked seventh in the Western Conference, two games ahead of the eighth-placed Grizzlies.
In such a fiercely competitive environment in the Western Conference, if you are not careful, you will fall out of eighth place in the Western Conference.
Therefore, the Trail Blazers do not want to lose this game.
After the game started, both sides skipped the trial stage and went straight to the real fight!
Luo Yin, the core player of the Trail Blazers, was absent due to injury, and Aldridge served as the main attack point.
For the Warriors, Sun Yi serves as the main offensive point and uses his containment to drive his teammates to score.
In order to limit Sun Yi's scoring, the Trail Blazers sent defensive hero Gerald Wallace to defend, but the effect was still not good.
Due to a previous lung injury, Gerald Wallace not only suffered a serious decline in strength, but also had a certain psychological shadow on back-up play.
When Sun Yi hit from the low post, Gerald Wallace saw Sun Yi's strong arms and felt a little scared. He did not dare to carry it hard for fear of suffering another injury.
Sun Yi didn't expect that playing from behind would be so easy. It was just like usual training, and the efficiency was very high.
Seeing that Sun Yi was in such good form, the Warriors players naturally gave him the ball to play.
With their big brother carrying them, it would be great to lead them to victory.
On the Trail Blazers bench, head coach McMillan saw the situation on the court and naturally discovered a problem.
Immediately, he requested a substitution adjustment, replaced Batum, and asked Camby to double-team Sun Yi.
After substitutions and adjustments, the effect is still not good.
Batum's defense is even worse than Gerard Wallace, and he can't withstand Sun Yi's back attack.
And Camby is a scammer, and it's hard to change his bad habit of raking in statistics even after entering the league for many years.
After seeing Sun Yi rushing to the basket, the guy couldn't help but jump up and try to block the shot.
Sun Yi used his superb inside moves to make Camby spin around and score a layup easily.
On the Trail Blazers bench, McMillan couldn't help but hold his forehead after seeing his players' poor defensive performance.
Fortunately for him, the Trail Blazers' offense was not affected and they were still able to score points without allowing the Warriors to widen the point difference.
In the following game, the Warriors chose the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water, constantly providing physical confrontation and consuming the Blazers' physical energy.
The Trail Blazers also had the same plan and continued to consume Sun Yi's physical energy.
They believe that if Sun Yi is the only one who can't beat him, the Warriors will definitely lose.
In this way, the two teams battled with wits and courage, and the game was very intense and anxious.
When the game entered the fourth quarter, the Warriors suddenly showed strength.
After the high-intensity confrontation in the first three quarters, the defensive intensity of both teams declined.
Sun Yi's physical fitness is still strong, and he once again killed everyone on the offensive end, helping the Warriors maintain their lead.
On the other hand, the Trail Blazers' scoring core Aldridge's physical strength has declined, and his shooting percentage has been affected.
The Warriors seized the opportunity to widen the point difference in one fell swoop, and then strengthened their defense to deny the Trail Blazers a chance to come back.
Relying on Sun Yi's outstanding performance, the Warriors maintained their lead until the end.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Trail Blazers 112-102 and won four consecutive games.
In terms of statistics, Sun Yi once again won the honor of the best player of this competition.
In the 44 minutes he played, he scored 45 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks.
After the game, Sun Yi, who was in charge of traffic, was naturally surrounded by media reporters.
Sun Yi answered according to the standard given by the press officer and easily handled the post-match interviews with media reporters.
After returning to the locker room, he said hello to his teammates, then changed into a training uniform and went to the training hall for additional training.
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The next day, the news that Sun Yi scored 40 points again finally made the front page of the sports section.
Regarding this topic, fans are very active in discussions on the Internet, and they all speculate that Sun Yi can play 40+ games in a row.
With the independent publicity of fans and the promotion of the league, the topic of Sun Yi's continuous 40+ points quickly heated up, and even attracted the attention of gambling companies, and they opened special betting odds.
After the Warriors players heard the news, they were very happy to help Sun Yi improve his statistics.
After all, Sun Yi scored high points, the Warriors were able to win easily, and they also played easily and happily.
Just when everyone was paying attention to Sun Yi's impact of scoring 40+ points in 6 consecutive games, he encountered trouble.
In the home game against the Nuggets, the Warriors played too smoothly, leading the Nuggets by 25 points after three quarters.
At this time, Sun Yi only scored 32 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.
The score gap was too big, and the fourth quarter turned into garbage time.
Stars like Sun Yi naturally disdain to play to collect statistics.
If you are labeled as data swiping, your reputation will be seriously affected.
Warriors head coach Nelson specifically asked Sun Yi what he thought.
If Sun Yi wants to continue to play, he will also let him play to gain points.
Sun Yi shook his head and said that there will be many opportunities to hit the record in the future, and he does not want to be labeled as a data brush by the outside world.
After the game started in the fourth quarter, the fans who supported the Warriors did not see Sun Yi, and they felt a little disappointed and lucky.
Just when the fans thought that Sun Yi's consecutive 40+ points were over, there was a turning point.
The talented youngster Jr. Smith suddenly broke out and hit three three-pointers from the outside, narrowing the point difference to only 10 points.
At this time, there were about 5 minutes left before the end of the game, and the game was in suspense again.
Nelson immediately requested a timeout and sent all the main players up.
Seeing Sun Yi on the stage again, the fans cheered and even shouted the MVP slogan.
After Sun Yi came on the court, he naturally lived up to the fans' expectations. He scored 8 points in a row, stabilizing the situation on the court.
Relying on Sun Yi's own efforts, the Warriors maintained their lead until the end.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Nuggets 116-102 and won five consecutive games.
In terms of statistics, Sun Yi scored 44 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks.
After the game, in the on-site commentary box, Kenny Smith and Barkley were making post-game summaries.
"Charles, this is Sun Yi's sixth consecutive game with 40+ points. Do you have anything to say?"
"It seems that Sun Yi really wants to hit the record of nine consecutive games with 40+ points jointly held by Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant!" Barkley said firmly.
"I also think he has a good chance of doing it."
Kenny Smith has also noticed it. Now the entire Warriors team is helping Sun Yi improve his statistics.
As long as he doesn't encounter the situation of clocking out in the third quarter, Sun Yi still has great hope of hitting the record of 9 consecutive games of 40+ points jointly held by Jordan and Kobe.
