You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 623 One dollar for 1 cents
After the Asian Championships, Wei Xia was embarrassed to find that everyone in the league was still arguing.

The conflict of interests between labor and management seems to be an endless loop with no way out. The preseason training camp has been cancelled, the preseason game has been cancelled, and David Stern clamored to cancel the entire season.

Wei Xia doesn't care much about the conflict of interests of those people. For him, the money he earns now is enough for him to have no worries for a lifetime.

Perhaps this is the gap in the realm of thought.

Even if he lived through the 60s every day in the old days, he couldn't learn the best from the great Cousy, Heinsohn, Robertson and others-that is to leave a glorious record in the history of the league's player empowerment movement.

In fact, the significance of the existence of the current players' association is completely different from that of the 60s.

The players association in the 60s was really fighting for the rights of the players.

But now, it's just a wrangling between the top-paid players and the management, and the final result will not have a great impact on the bottom players.

In other words, there are not many opportunities for Derek Fishers to be famous in history.

The eternal achievement of abolishing the reservation clause like Robertson needs the background of the times.

The trees planted by the predecessors have grown taller, but the descendants are not full to enjoy the shade, and want more.

The commercialization process of the league is accelerating every day, and the players who have worked hard should also be paid more. Their proposals are reasonable, but to compete with the capitalists, it requires not only wisdom, but also the suffering of a large amount of daily economic losses.If you can't bear the pressure, you can only be slaughtered like the lockout in 1999.

After the national team's game mission, Wei Xia received an invitation from the CBA.

The wealthy Shanxi boss also sent invitations to him and Kobe to sign them at a price of 1 million US dollars for one year, and the contract contained an NBA opt-out clause.That is to say, when the league will end the lockout and when they can leave.

Regarding the matter of joining forces in the CBA, Wei Xia and Kobe both refused after careful consideration.

The level of CBA is really low for them.

It is no exaggeration to say that they found a team for special training, and their level is higher than that of CBA.

Wei Xia decided to put the game aside, since the holiday is long, he will train with peace of mind.

In addition, in the old days, John Havlicek's career was also at the crossroads of drastic changes.

In the 1966-67 season, Bill Russell officially took charge of the Celtics coach.

The year 1967 K.C. retired and another cut veteran—future Hall of Famer Bailey Howell PF—joined the Sixers, Russell struggled in his first year as player-coach.

Moreover, from the first day of this season, it has been a year for Philadelphia: It took about a second for Chamberlain to suddenly realize that he didn't necessarily need to score to help the team win.It was the perfect burst for Chamberlain -- his teammate's best year met Boston's weakest.

Many people thought that the Celtics' rule was over, and the league was about to usher in Chamberlain's era.

However, entering the 1967-68 season, the Celtics returned.

Chamberlain, who has tasted the sweetness of passing, continues to lead the league in assists. The 76ers, who have a better team lineup, won 8 more games than the Celtics in the regular season.

This is Wei Xia's uncomfortable point. As a Lakers player, he wants to ravage his real team in the old days.

When the 76ers were players, the 76ers rose up again and became the Celtics' deadly enemies.

He felt that if he went on like this, sooner or later he would have a schizophrenia.

In the playoffs that year, the Celtics, full of old men, spent six games struggling to eliminate the Detroit Pistons.

In the Eastern Conference finals, facing the 76ers with four superstars in their prime, do the Celtics, who are all old, weak and sick except Havlicek, have a chance of winning?
Just before the start of the divisional finals, a big event outside the arena almost put the series on hold.

Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis.

As soon as the incident happened, black people rioted across the United States. Both the 76ers and the Celtics had black players who proposed a strike to protest.

After an internal vote by both parties, the series went on as scheduled.

In the first game, Chamberlain was like a god of war, as if he wanted to show that he was in high spirits and was not indignant over the death of Dr. King. He forgot the epiphany of last season, scored 24 points, 33 rebounds and 25 assists in 5 shots, completely suppressing Russell's 11 points, 22 rebounds and 4 assists.

Perhaps this is the curse.

The more Chamberlain concentrates the ball to attack, the more difficult it is to win. He returned to his former ball dominance in a game and ended in failure.

Havlicek began to take over the gun from Sam Jones and became the number one output point of the Celtics. He scored 35 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists. In this battle, Wesha also played in the arena, and his performance was not as good as Havlicek. His data was 29 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists.

After the opener, the series was postponed for three days.

Because Dr. King's funeral was held in Atlanta, Russell and Chamberlain, as one of the most powerful black stars at the time, had to attend.

Therefore, the league set aside three days for them to attend Dr. King's funeral.

Rumor has it that after the funeral, Russell and Chamberlain returned to Philadelphia on the same plane.

On the plane, Russell said to Chamberlain: "You can't beat us if you keep attacking."

After that, Chamberlain really reduced his shots. The number of shots in the three games was 11, 19, and 14 respectively. Philadelphia played three consecutive games and led Boston 3-1, pushing the Celtics to the edge of the cliff again.

You know, in the NBA in 1968, no team in history has been able to make a big comeback when it fell behind 1 to 3.

In the fifth game, Boston's battle of life and death, Chamberlain was determined to eliminate the Celtics. He took 21 shots and scored 28 points, 30 rebounds and 7 assists. Russell's curse was once again fulfilled.

Havlicek's mainstay performance of 29+9+8 is the basic set for the Celtics to win, while Sam Jones made 27 of 15 shots and scored 37 points, which is the key to the Celtics' victory over the 76ers.

In the sixth game, Chamberlain "obsessed" made another 21 shots. This time, he didn't feel good and only scored 20 points. Russell usually doesn't bite, and he can bite blood with his mouth. He made 13 of 6 shots, 17 points, 31 rebounds and 5 assists.

The suspense was pushed to the tiebreaker.

Wei Xia did not play this game.

He felt that it was most appropriate to enjoy the game from the best position.

Judging from the final results, 100 to 96, the Celtics narrowly won by 4 points and pulled three games in a row, making the 76ers the first team in history to be reversed in three consecutive games.

On closer inspection, there are too many things worth mentioning.

Russell is the same, he is indeed the most qualified person to say "you can't win if you keep attacking".

He is indeed not a monster like Chamberlain, who can't rule the data list at will and win most games.If the Celtics need his offense to support the scene, they will not be far from losing.

Russell still "only" scored 12 points in a critical Game [-].

However, he just has a special ability.

This special ability is called "turning Chamberlain into a player at his level in a life-and-death battle."

In this battle, Russell made 6 shots, 12 points, 26 rebounds and 5 assists. In terms of shooting rights, the team ranked last among players who played more than 10 minutes.

Chamberlain made 9 shots with 14 points, 34 rebounds and 5 assists, a very typical life-and-death battle "exit".This is the normal state of the Big Dipper facing life and death battles until 1968.He just has this kind of inexplicable diving, which makes you understand and puzzling.

He really listened to Russell's bullshit, so he tried not to attack?You know, the 76ers have watched him take 20 wild shots in several consecutive games. The whole team is used to him controlling the game, but in the seventh game, he retracted his head, scored 14 points that were on par with Russell, and then lost.

In the previous playoffs, Chamberlain averaged 25 points per game.

In the previous six games, Chamberlain averaged 23 points per game.

14 points in the life-and-death battle, only 9 shots, which shows that it has nothing to do with Russell's defense, but he doesn't want to shoot.Moreover, the most outrageous thing is that in the entire second half, he only took one shot.After a few mighty games, he thought of being selfless and trusting his teammates in the most critical games. Even if you don’t look at his record of only 1 of 15 free throws, as the strongest player in the league, he only shot 6 goal in the second half of such an important game. Is it reasonable?

Wei Xia couldn't imagine reaching the tiebreaker in the finals. In the second half, Bird, Magician, Sharks, Kobe, and Jordan only took one shot against the enemy of their lives, and then called it selfless.

For core players, it's not about selfishness or selflessness, it's about responsibility.

Of course, this does not affect Chamberlain in the slightest after the game, criticizing his teammates, criticizing the coach, criticizing the management, and then let the management dump him to Los Angeles.It doesn't affect the self-promotion of his old man's autobiography of "as long as I want", "if I want", "actually I don't contribute much", and it doesn't affect the fans who are addicted to the shocking statistics and blindly promote his greatness.

After the 76ers, the Celtics once again buried the Lakers who lacked insiders in the finals, won the tenth championship, and restored the dynasty.

After the end of the season, Chamberlain complained like a complaining woman, causing the 76ers to throw him to the West.

That deal was ironically titled by the Philadelphia Inquirer: "We're 1 Cents on the Dollar, But Worth It."

(But worth it? You guys can't imagine how much I laughed out loud when I first saw this)

This is a story that happened in the old days in the past two years.

Now, before the opening of the 1968-69 season.

It is Wei Xia's current timeline. He knows that the Celtics dynasty will collapse after the season, and the two elders of Xuan Ming, Russell and Jones, will use their last dance to make a perfect end to the most dominant decade in history.

As for the Western District, Chamberlain, who got the Big Dipper, had the most powerful center, the most powerful guard and the most powerful forward of that era.

They are considered the strongest team in history, a cosmic group that wants to bring the NBA to the finale.

Wei Xia, who comes from the future, knows that this kind of cosmic grouping usually does not have good results in the first year.

Well, who let him come from the future.

　The reason why 627 disappeared is simple, I confused the timing of 627 and 628.But fortunately, it was a transitional chapter. The content was that the 76ers lost to the Bulls in the semifinals. They simply blacked out James' final performance and subsequent impact in the narration, so there will be no reissue.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)