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Chapter 1190 The meaning of life is to climb the peak
In Game [-] of the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers fought hard for two overtimes, until Ostertag and Garnett were fouled, and the tragic division topped the fifth position, but they still lost the game.

122 is better than 116
The Blazers won the teeth-sucking game with a 6-point advantage, and eliminated the Lakers 4-2 with a big score, advancing to the Finals for five consecutive years.

At the end of the game, Jordan kicked the basketball on the ground toward the audience.

It was the first time in his career that he beat Benjamin Wilson!
It was also Pat Riley's first victory over Louie.

Riley was so excited that she shed tears on the field, and her emotions could hardly be calmed down.

"I'm proud of my players. They have tried their best." Louis gave the opponent his due praise, "The Blazers are the better team."

In the first season of Louie's comeback, he won 64 games in the regular season, led the team to the Western Conference finals and lost six games with the Trail Blazers.

Judging from the results, the West is still ruled by the Blazers.

But Angelenos have reason to be optimistic about the future.

Looking at the lineup alone, the Lakers should neither be a 64-win team, nor should they reach the conference finals.

Louis pushed all the credit to Wilson.

"Without Benj, we're just a playoff team and mission accomplished."

This is the truth of Louis.

Because he has to test his new system, there are bound to be many mistakes and setbacks in the process. Without Wilson's violent output of 34 points per game, the Lakers would not have won 64 wins.

Wilson couldn't be happier, he lost to the player he least wanted to lose.

This is his second season leading the team alone. Compared with last year, they have made a step forward, but it is impossible to stop the Western Conference Finals to make this ultimate winner with seven rings happy.

For Jordan, Wilson has no blessings: "I hope they lose completely in the finals."

He also did not lose confidence in the future: "We will become stronger next year."

Back in the locker room, Wilson was annoyed by the gloomy atmosphere. He stood up and said, "Training starts tomorrow!"

Louie walks in and doesn't turn into a fire-breathing ear dragon and burn everyone like Wilson did.

"Don't listen to Benj, he just doesn't want to lose to MJ, but losing is losing. We have to admit that we are not as good as Portland now." Louie said objectively, "Because we have a group of young people and some old guys who can't run. We are still a rebuilding team. Don't put pressure on yourself, stay hungry and keep improving. I hope to see your growth when the training camp starts!"

Louie then tapped Wilson to join him at the press conference.

Louis was asked the most about the difference between coaching the Lakers and the Knicks.

Most of these questions come from reporters in the Midwest.

They want Louie back, but it's a done deal.

Louis has quietly taken root in Los Angeles, and New York is destined to become only a memory.

"This is a completely different challenge." Louis dismissed the reporter with only this sentence.

Later, a reporter asked who was more optimistic about the Knicks and the Heat, who were fighting fiercely in the East.

"It's hard to say. If you ask me who I support, of course I will support New York." Louis paused, "However, I heard that they are in a bad situation."

As Louis said, the Knicks are in a very bad situation. They have a wave of injuries during training.

Stockton had a thigh strain, Houston had a sprained ankle and Pippen had back discomfort.
The Knicks, ranked first in the league, faced the ununited Heat at their home court with a remnant team.

Due to injuries, they are extremely dependent on Reggie Miller and Shawn Kemp.

Miller lived up to expectations, scoring 11 three-pointers at home, and Kemp also thrived, scoring 32 points and 10 rebounds.

But that wasn't enough to give the Knicks a win.

In Miami, Petrovich blasted the Knicks' backline and led the team with 35 points, while Sampson and Manning also had obvious advantages.

You know, these are two people who obviously have conflicts with each other.

Scottie Pippen limited Drexler and Reggie Lewis with injuries, but he couldn't bring the offensive firepower the Knicks needed.

"We want Benj!"

The Madison Garden audience roared.

For Pippen, it was like a slap in the face.

Failure is inevitable.

118 is better than 108
The Heat beat the Knicks by 10 points, leading 3-1.

"Now, we can say that the era of the Knicks dynasty is over." - "Sports Illustrated".

Dave Anderson, lead writer for The New York Times, said in the article: "Why do we pretend that the dynasty hasn't been toppled yet? Accept it, fans, when the Messiah walked into the arms of the 'Madonna,' when the Conqueror chose to follow his God, the dynasty fell. The result at this moment is nothing more than a long sword piercing the heart. The heart that stops beating is just a repeated reminder of the fact that it is indeed dead."

The Los Angeles press, noticing the New Yorkers' overreaction, mocked them for their Martin Lawrence-like nervous breakdown.

⑴ Not so well-known famous actor, in May 1996, because of emotional breakdown, he cursed on the street.

Before Game 5, the Knicks held an internal meeting.

It was a candid, emotional conversation, Tomjanovich said later.

From here, the interior of the Knicks has undergone a qualitative change.

For the Heat, it wasn't a decisive fifth game. Danny Manning wanted to send the Knicks away with a perfect closing show.

But the Knicks escalated the intensity of the game in vain in the fifth game.As a result, Manning hit the iron continuously, and Donovan wanted Sampson to hold the ball, and then use the point of Mr. One to activate the whole team. This is how they played before.But the conflict between Manning and Sampson has become more and more open. He doesn't want to continue to focus on the other party, so he does his own way and monopolizes the ball. He took 29 shots and scored 40 points and 11 rebounds. However, the Heat were defeated by the Knicks and lost 22 points.

After the game, Sampson said that the excessive concentration of the ball was the reason they lost the game.

Manning said directly: "I took 40+10, I don't think I should be responsible for the loss."

The Heat's lineup is very strong, but Sampson is one year older than last year. The most important thing is that he and Manning are no longer the kind of brotherly relationship.

The current Sanman is more like the relationship after O'Neal slapped Kobe, who was exposed for allegedly stabbing out Shaq in the game even though the woman was involved.I know those two things are not next to each other, but you know what that means.

Sampson couldn't understand Manning's hostility towards him.

He is already a veteran, and he won't be able to play for a few years, but Manning feels that if he is still in the team, the boss of the Heat will always have the same surname as Sang and not Man.

Sampson tolerated everything, but Manning had no idea what satisfaction was.

When Sampson called Louie for help, Louie simply asked him, "What do you think?"

"I just want to play well."

"Then tell him, this is his team, and you will leave after this year."

"what?"

Sampson asked in astonishment, "Let's go?"

"Stabilize him first and let him play well." Louis said, "First finish this season well before we talk about it."

"What about after the fight?"

"Go to Lewis," said Lewis. "Tell him, you and Danny Manning, he can only keep one."

Sampson froze for a moment, "Then I still have to go."

Sampson is 36 years old this year, and Manning just turned 30.

Who is more valuable, needless to say.

"If I were Lewis, Manning would be the one who left."

Louis was not trying to comfort Sampson. Although he had no contact with Manning, but through the rumors and other people’s dictation, it can be seen that this man was a selfish egoist. At first, he clamored to hug Sampson’s thigh, but after he finished hugging, he wanted to be his own thigh. Now that he has become a thigh, he still wants to remove the original thigh.
"Coach, does this really work?"

"Whether it works or not, it's the only way."

What Sampson thought was, if he did leave the team, where would he go?

But it is more important to play well in the current game.

So, Sampson agreed.

Before hanging up the phone, Sampson said: "Coach, why do I think you care more about the Eastern Conference Finals than I do?"

Nonsense, how can that bastard Ewing take advantage of the Heat's internal strife to advance, if he wants to win, he must defeat the Heat head-on, this is the gold content.
It seemed that Louis hated Ewing very much, but he really didn't.

This is an extension of arrogance as a time traveler trying to control the fate of others.

Because of his existence, the NBA has changed beyond recognition since 1984.

But if you want to completely change this history, you have to do one thing.

Let the biggest winner of this era, the GOAT Jordan recognized by Louis in his previous life, become the number one loser in the modern NBA.

The winner between the two teams in the Eastern Conference finals will eventually challenge the Trail Blazers or the Lakers in the Finals. The Lakers were already behind 2-3 at the time. Louis felt that with their strength, there was little chance of defeating the Trail Blazers in two consecutive games.

The Heat eliminated the Knicks and then had infighting in the Finals, or the Knicks, who suffered from injury problems, took advantage of the Heat’s infighting to enter the Finals to give the Trail Blazers a kill. Even Jordan should want to beat a cosmic team that has no other distractions, concentrates on it, and goes all out.
right?

Mr. Joe will appreciate him, right?
Isn't the most important thing in life is to climb the peak bravely?
Game6, the Heat also organized an internal meeting before the game to unify their thinking.

But, tonight, a monster named Reggie Miller spewed flames from hell into Miami.

Sampson has suppressed Ewing in the paint, Manning and Kemp have also formed a mutual explosion trend. Drexler's personal ability as a small forward is better than Pippen, and he played better tonight. Petrovic hit the injured Stockton as easily as hitting a child. The Knicks trailed by 20 points at halftime. ,

Then, Tomjanovich replaced Sam Cassell.After the aliens came on the field, they used tough defense to limit Petrovic. During a rotation counterattack, Miller made a chasing three-pointer. From this moment, he became a savior, just like the sixth game of the Eastern Conference finals in 1993. He kept hitting three-pointers like a god.

In the end, Miller used a super long three-pointer to widen the point difference to 6 points, helping the Knicks to seal the victory.

3 is better than 3
With a tenacity that outsiders can't understand, the Knicks stubbornly dragged the Eastern Conference Finals to Game [-].

In this campaign, Miller scored all his points from outside the three-point line. He made 24 shots, including 20 three-point shots, and hit 13 of them. Not only did he create a single-game three-point shooting record in NBA history, but he also set a personal three-point shooting record in NBA history.

According to the "Bible", Noah built a huge ship called the Ark according to God's entrustment. The purpose of the construction was to allow Noah, his family, and various land creatures in the world to escape a flood caused by God's punishment.

The meaning of Miller's nickname refers to that when the Knicks encounter a major crisis, he can always burst out with terrifying energy and use the iconic three-pointer to get the team over the hump.

Tiebreaker
The tiebreaker between the Knicks and the Heat attracted 1800 million TV viewers.

This is a first in history for a basketball game at the conference finals level.

For both sides, there is no secret anymore, their cards are on the table, and the seventh match is about will, faith, and determination.

And this is exactly what the Heat lack the most. Sampson is haggard, Manning is arrogant, and a group of players assembled for honor quickly lost their fighting spirit after winning the honor. Especially at this moment, the Heat, which once took a 3-1 lead, are now the weak side. They were intimidated by the momentum of the Knicks.

In the seventh game, there was no fierce strangulation that people imagined. From the first quarter, it was a one-sided situation.

Kemp broke out and used a personal show that crushed Manning to complete his revenge on the latter.

Ewing, the cornerstone of the Knicks, scored 18 points, 18 rebounds and 7 blocks. He is not the most watched point of the Knicks, but without him, the Knicks would have fallen.

The hero Miller in Game [-] was heavily marked by the Heat, but his performance is no longer important because his teammates are blooming across the board.

125 is better than 102
The Knicks overturned the Heat by 23 points, completed a 1-3 reversal, and returned to the finals after a year.

After watching the entire Eastern Conference finals, Louie believes that no team can beat the Knicks in this state. The only chance for the Blazers to win is Jordan. If he plays a round of finals with an average of 50 points, the Blazers may still have a chance.

Due to the large gap between the two sides, Louis' attention turned to this year's NBA draft lottery.

Because there are already many freshman stars participating in the draft, even Kobe, the No. 1996 high school student in the [-] class, decided to follow Garnett's footsteps and bring his talents to the NBA.

Therefore, the talent pool in this year's draft is rare in recent years, deep and thick.

After a tense round of draws, the results were announced.

The San Antonio Spurs won the lottery and won the No. 1996 pick in [-].

Although the Rockets won the No. [-] pick last year, the situation has not improved. This year, they returned to the lottery again with the bottom score and won the second pick.

The third pick went to the Toronto Raptors.

The fourth pick went to the Vancouver Grizzlies.

The Sacramento Kings took the fifth pick.

During the period, Lu Wuxia's unintentional complaint made Louis laugh: "Why do you feel like there are them (kings) every year?"

The Timberwolves drew the sixth overall pick. It is worth mentioning that Louie's rival Jerry Krause was laid off again after the regular season.

As for the reason, of course, it is because there has been almost no achievements in the few years since he took office.

Predictably, Krause's management career was over.

According to the inside story obtained by the Timberwolves and team reporters, Knicks star Kevin McHale will take over the stick and become the top leader of the Timberwolves management.

The Detroit Pistons got the seventh overall pick.

The Atlanta Hawks, who became the laughing stock of the league because of Liu Yuqing, got the eighth pick, the Chicago Bulls got the ninth pick, the Seattle SuperSonics got the tenth pick, the Philadelphia 76ers got the No.11 pick, and the Boston Celtics got the No.12 pick.

At this point, the lottery draw ended, and Louis looked at the teams with the lottery, thinking about who to trade with to get the draft right to capture Kobe.

However, before that, a big drama arranged by Louis in advance was staged.

Jerry Buss invites Louie to a party at the Playboy Mansion.

Louis, who knew what was going to happen, had to pretend he didn't know anything and went to the meeting alone.

(End of this chapter)