Chapter 887: East-West War

The evening of May 15, 2002
The sixth round of the Western Conference semifinals started at the Staples Center.
O'Neal is absent, and the Lakers have only Kobe to rely on. Los Angeles fans expect him to save the team.
Over the past year, Kobe Bryant, a diligent and more playful player, has enveloped many fans. O'Neill's big mouth and defeat by Mo Mengchen in the finals for two consecutive years have disappointed the fans. They need a brand new hero.
Is someone more suitable than Kobe?
Young and extremely aggressive, just like Michael Jordan at the beginning.
You know, Michael Jordan is the only player who has defeated Mo Mengchen for two consecutive years. If Kobe can become Jordan, they can beat the Pistons.
The Lakers fans have big dreams, but reality finally makes them wake up from their dreams.
The final whistle sounded.
108 to 95
The Lakers at home lost 13 points to the Kings.
Although Kobe scored a game-high 42 points, but Nowitzki and Tracy McGrady joined forces. When the feeling blossomed, the King was unstoppable.
Champion dream broken. The insiders of the Lakers are loose, as if the champion should be sent to them. O'Neal was injured, Kobe Bryant could not stand alone, and role players were thinking about each other.
Kobe's three heads and six arms could not break through the layers. The king was finally ashamed and defeated the Ok Lakers, which for them was comparable to crossing Mount Everest.
At the end of the game, McGrady took off his jersey fiercely. It felt as exciting as if they won the finals.
Kobe sat on the bench, tears bursting out of his eyes, and the photographer clearly recorded the shot. This is the first time Kobe is crying in public on the field.
Is he crying for this failure?
Maybe, but not all.
Can't lead the team to win, he and O'Neill's boss can not end the battle, he missed the opportunity to prove himself, and wasted this year's efforts.
For him, this is really unacceptable.
In another Western Conference semifinal match, the Spurs and the Blazers reached the end, winning by 2 points and successfully advanced to the Western Conference finals.
Unlike the suffocating atmosphere of the west, the east has already decided against the team in the division finals.
The Pistons and 76ers are the two highest mountains in the east.
Before the division finals began, the league announced the winners of the major awards this season.
Mo Mengchen is the biggest winner.
The scoring leader, assisting king, annual team and annual secondary defense.
This is the third consecutive year he has been selected for the annual squad and the first time he has been selected for the best defensive lineup in his career. Although it is the second squad, it is also an affirmation of him.
The team's Hill squeezed Kevin Garnett into the annual squad, but lost to Garnett and Duncan in the annual first defense competition and was selected into the annual second defense.
A team has two outside giants with both offense and defense, which is the configuration of the Bulls in the 1990s.
In addition to Mo Mengchen and Hill, the appearance of one person caused Joe Dumas to suffer huge criticism.
Ben Wallace was strongly elected the best defensive player of the year, the first defense of the year and the fastest improving player.
In other words, Big Ben is recognized as the first defensive player in the 2001-2002 season. The Pistons released the best defensive player in the nba without any gains.
Just for the sake of it, a large sum of luxury tax.
Wallace has always wanted to stay in the Pistons, but he wants to pay the contract, which is an affirmation of his ability. The Pistons don’t want to give it. The outside world interprets this behavior as saving money-in fact because it wants to change to Princeton-but in Other people think that the Pistons don’t need to save money. They have made a lot of money in advertising and sponsorship in recent years, and they have signed a record broadcast contract. At that time, the Pistons had to pay a sum of money to help those losing teams.
Obviously rich, but give up the defensive player of the year for luxury tax?
Joe Dumas was in a good mood, happily drinking water in the office, looking at the documents that are not bad, the flattering compliments listened, carefree, his life was so comfortable that he once thought he lived in a dream In the middle of the day, complaining about doing things is not challenging, hoping to be a little exciting.
No, the stimulus is coming.
Dumas was ridiculed collectively by media outside Detroit. As for their own media, they don't ridicule. They say things more seriously than ridicule. They politely scold Dumas for keeping money and greet the IQ directly.
Dumas couldn't tell.
What can he say? Can only endure in silence, waiting to call Mo Mengchen to complain at night.
The release of Wallace was the unanimous decision of Dumas and Mo Mengchen. Now it also proves that this decision is not wrong. It seems that the Pistons are losing. If Wallace stays, he will definitely not find a role under the Princeton system. And the indirect rebounding system in the Pistons will shrink his data by half, and he will no longer have the opportunity to let the world know how good his defense is.
If he stays in the Pistons, he can't get these honors.
Let him go, it can be said that it is a win-win situation, but the Pistons seem a little lost, after all, they did not get anything.
Mo Mengchen expressed deep sympathy for Dumas, and after hanging up the phone, he couldn't help laughing.
After that, the Western Conference finals started first.
The king's running and running against the Spurs' twin towers. The king played the style of the running and running team. It was a running and running different from the Pistons. It was quite free. The superstars wanted to play as they wanted.
However, the outside world generally believes that Bruce Bowen's stepping on Arenas is a key point to change the game.
That was the third quarter of the game. After Arenas made two consecutive three-pointers, Bowen defended him.
His defense has been done to the extreme, Arenas made a strong three-pointer, this time, bad things.
At the moment of landing, Arenas stepped on Bowen's foot.
Bowen behaved innocently, and the Spurs were very angry.
"If I can play, I will interrupt his foot! I promise I will!" Popovich couldn't control his temper and spurted Bowen's dirty movements after the game.
"Popovich has always been a coach I respect very much. It's regrettable to hear him say this. I didn't do it on purpose. The video of the game can testify. Can't the referee fail to add a penalty to me to explain the problem?" Povici's response angered all San Antonio's fat people.
A scolding battle between Sacramento and San Antonio kicked off.
What could be more ironic than this scene? The previous life of Bole and Maxima have now become enemies.
The western part opened the story as soon as it opened, how can the eastern part fall behind?
May 19
The curtain opened in Detroit.
Empire Axis Arena
The Pistons and 76ers have been in the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years.
Mo Mengchen and Hill walked to the midfield, stepping on the team logo defended by death, shaking hands with Duncan and Iverson.
"I hope I can see your tears forming a bridge when I finish the game." Iverson said to Mo Mengchen.
"If I can cry, it's for you too." Mo Mengchen held Iverson's palm tightly. "You are a group of opponents who can cry and cry."
Hearing that, Hill almost couldn't hold back the laughter.
After all, the two men and women turned back.
The All-Stars finished the last game with the Pistons before the weekend. The 76ers realized that the lineup was insufficient and sought reinforcement on the 1st position.
Because apart from Duncan and Iverson, their book lineups are scarcely talented, and there is simply no sought-after goods that other teams want, and naturally they can’t do business~EbookFREE.me~ Now, they must use obviously defective lineups and pistons hit.
Iverson, Snow, Mark Haplin, Coleman and Duncan against the Pistons Momon Chen, Ginobili, Hill, Rashid and Curry.
Duncan is responsible for jumping the ball.
Curry stood in front of the stone Buddha and suddenly found a strange smile on his face-a superstar like Tim Duncan would never laugh for no reason, is there any deep meaning?
Curry frowned, just as he wandered around the sky, the referee threw the ball into the air, and Duncan shot the ball away.
"What are you doing?" Mo Mengchen shouted.
When Curry reacted, the 76ers' attack had hit his own three-point line. Iverson shook his left and right, simply neat. Although Mo Mengchen's pace was fast but he could not keep up with his straight line acceleration, the space was too small To make it easier for the party holding the ball to attack.
In a flash, the fierce flame turned into an offensive blade. Iverson made a layup and scored the first goal of the Eastern Conference Finals.