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Chapter 309 The Ultimate Showdown

Regarding whether there was an inside story about the 1985 draft lottery, Stern's response was pale: "If people want to think this way, if there is something else hidden, let's think so. The world welcomes imagination."

Hawks general manager Stan Kasten shared what happened while watching college games in Hawaii in the months leading up to the lottery.

"I was sitting with a couple of NBA people," Carsten said. "I remember an insider who didn't want to be named convinced of what was going to happen. He kept saying, ''He's going to the Knicks. It's all set up.'"

A day later, a New York tabloid reported the curious fact that Jack Wagner, the worker responsible for the globe that turned the device's envelope, worked for Ernst & Whinney.This firm is also the head office of the Madison Square Garden Company to which the Knicks belong.

An Indianapolis television station used freeze-frame footage to point out that the corners of the Knicks' envelope were crooked.Other reports followed, suggesting an alternative hypothesis that the envelope had been placed in the refrigerator, making it colder to the touch and easier for Stern to find.

No matter how the conspiracy theorists analyze it, it is an unchangeable fact that Ewing was selected by the Knicks.

Within an hour of the Knicks picking the No. [-] pick, Madison Gardens sold out season tickets for the next few years.

Also this week, on the cover of the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, Ewing put on a Knicks jersey.

Louie took a day off for himself.

On this day, he doesn't want to worry about the No. [-] pick.

Don't want to worry about who to pick in next month's draft, don't want to worry about the Knicks' agenda, like hiring a new team doctor.But the last thing is very important. If it is really decided to choose Ewing, Louis hopes that he will be healthy.

Health is the cornerstone for a player to reach the upper limit.

The Bill Walton tragedy should never happen again.

Louis is on vacation at work, but at home, it can't be considered a vacation.

He has to take care of the children. Apart from taking care of the children, Lorraine is preparing for school at the end of the year.

Now she is reading a book on child psychology.

"The book says that Michael (Lu Wuxia) is in a critical developmental period." Lorraine watched while observing his child, "It says that his brain will focus on a certain function."

Michael is Lu Wuxia's English name. The reason for taking this name is very simple. There are many great people named Michael.

But the reason Lorraine chose Michael was not so that he would collide with many celebrities, but because she liked "The Godfather" and Al Pacino's Michael Corleone so much.

Louis responded, "Oh, really?"

"The book also says that each child has a different focus on development. Some children learn to speak first, and some children learn to use their limbs first. Very few little geniuses understand the meaning of 'I' and 'you' at a very young age."

Louie has already changed his son's diapers a few times today.

He was a little delirious: "So, you mean every child has their own talents?"

"It's okay if you understand it that way."

"Like Patrick is destined to be the No. [-] pick?"

"Well, that's understandable."

Louis cleaned up the diaper and the poop on it: "Then what is this kid's talent?"

The child fell asleep peacefully.

Lorraine's maternal love flooded: "Obviously, he is good at sleeping."

Louis was silent for a few seconds.

"Well, very good at Lazard."

"This is not a talent!" Lorraine reminded him dissatisfied.

Louis was silent again: "Then this kid is too disappointing, he is useless."

"What nonsense!" Lorraine was even more unhappy.

"If you admit that sleeping and lazing frequently are part of talent, but if this kid is so 'innately talented', isn't he born to lose at the starting line? I don't know what will happen in the future!"

Lorraine decided to take the child away from Louis.

"I'm going to take Michael into your mother's arms and then the poor kid won't have to listen to his dad's nonsense!"

"You dote on him too much. If you don't believe me, ask my mother how fierce she was to me when I was a child. She beat me once a month on average."

Louis followed and blurted out his son's resentment: "Actually, I think his talent should be reflected in torturing his parents, so he always sleeps during the day, because he never has a quiet night."

"Did you eat too much recently and feel restless?" Li Xuanbing was pampering his grandson, "Hurry up and give me what I should do!"

"I'm on vacation today."

"Then give me what I should do! Do you look like a father?"

"Then what else can I do when I'm on vacation?"

Louis was very disappointed, the old mother was very close to her grandson.

"roll!"

Lorraine gleefully stuck out her tongue and made faces.

"Marlena, let's go back to the room and 'talk about something'." After speaking, Louis dragged Lorraine back to the room, locked it, and then explored the possibility of a second child indescribably on the bed.

While Louis was enjoying his vacation, the NBA playoffs were in full swing.

In the civil war between the East and the West, the Celtics swept the East with an absolute advantage.

The Pistons, which introduced Maxwell, met the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals.

This is a grievance game. Maxwell is a legacy of the Havlicek era. He should have been the same as everyone in the history of the Green Kais.

As a result, he got into a fight with the team, and Auerbach would rather send him out at a disadvantage.

Unfortunately, the Pistons only won one game against the Celtics.

4 to 1, in the fifth game, the Celtics Big Three scored 102 points and beat the Pistons to nothing.

At the end of that game, Chuck Daly remembered Louie's words.

The Pistons currently have only a few players who can adapt to the intensity of the game against the Celtics. If they want to become a real competitor, they need a comprehensive change of blood.

In the West, the Trail Blazers led by rookie Michael Jordan went straight to the conference finals and played six games against the Lakers.

新秀乔丹场均29分8篮板5助攻，52%的命中率，德拉克斯勒场均17分6篮板4助攻。

The embryonic form of the golden twin stars has been formed.

Now, what the Blazers need most is actually to strengthen the depth and thickness of their lineup.

Only a super team can fight a super team.

The Blazers now have a level gap with both the Lakers and Celtics.

In the finals, the Celtics and the Lakers ushered in a second battle.

It is also the third round of the black and white duo confrontation.

However, there was an own goal before the start of the finals.

Byrd broke his hand in a fight at a local Boston bar trying to stand out for a friend.

This led to his poor form in the final.

The No.1 state of the league is completely gone, and all the members of the Lakers look like they want revenge.

At Celtic's home court, they played two games in a row, and their 2-0 start was unexpected.

Bird played poorly and received great criticism. How the media ridiculed the magician last year will be returned to him this year.

But Bird is not a person who is close to the media and cares about the words and deeds of the media.Public opinion has very little influence on him. He knows that his state has brought trouble to the team, so he took the initiative to ask KC Jones to transfer him from the position of the core of the offense.He served as a deputy, supporting Thomas and Sampson.

This is a simple truth.

If you are asked to choose the most difficult player among Kobe, James, and Durant, most people will choose the latter two based on efficiency.However, most NBA players will choose Kobe.Because of Durant, you can start with the catch and his lower body.The standard configuration for defending against James is the outside line lock + basket protection inside line.

And Kobe, no matter what configuration you give, whether he hits 20 for 20 or 20 for 1 tonight, he will continue to shoot in various ways you can't think of.He's just a player who's so confident and selfish that you can't help guarding him.

Bird used himself as a bait. As long as he got the ball, he was no less attractive than Kobe.But his ability and willingness to pass the ball and drive his teammates are clearly better than Kobe.

In two games in Los Angeles, the Celtics came back with wins.

In the battle of Tianwangshan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 38 points in front of Sampson at the age of 40, Wilkins followed up with 39 points, and Magician's great 21+15+19 assists in a large triple-double, leaving the Lakers only one step away from revenge.

"We're going to play the full seven."

Sampson, who was blown up by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the fifth game, rarely put down harsh words through the media.

As a result, in the sixth game, Sampson frantically attacked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with the ball as if he had been taken away by another person.He is a furious beast, with speed, range, and athletic ability, all surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, like a creature from outer space.

Thomas showed his attributes as the Celtics' second most difficult player for the Lakers to guard.

His ball-holding threat is the biggest for the Celtics. The Louis era has proved that if he lets go of his hands and feet to attack, no one in the Lakers can match him.

Dennis Johnson's speed is not enough to see in front of him.

In the fourth quarter, if the magician scored three three-pointers with divine help, he forcibly dragged the game into overtime.

The confrontation between Wilkins and Bird brought the game into the second overtime.

Abdul-Jabbar fought Sampson while inhaling oxygen, and was finally called for his sixth foul.

The two sides came to the third overtime.

Without Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Lakers have no one inside, and the Celtics' Big Three are watching.

The 11-1 overtime scoring ratio made the Lakers fall short and was chased by the Celtics to a 3-3 tie.

Sampson played a masterpiece in the finals, with a triple-double of 39 points, 22 rebounds, 6 assists and 11 blocks in a single game.

The tiebreaker came to the garden, and last year's fear fell on the Lakers.

This was Bird's only touchable game in the finals, and it was also the only game in which Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pulled his hips in the finals.

At the age of 38, he is no longer young, but there are always people who are young, such as Sampson on the opposite side.

No one expected that the tiebreaker, which was supposed to be the final decisive battle, would turn into a unilateral massacre by the Celtics.

148 is better than 114
凯尔特人在主场狂胜湖人34分，达成两连冠，桑普森在这七场比赛里场均31分16篮板4助攻6盖帽，命中率59%。

No one can compete with him for FMVP.

And he thanked another person in front of the reporter: "I have to thank Coach Lu, I couldn't have come this far without him, so this is not just my victory with the Celtics, but also his victory. I think, I did what he wanted me to do."

The reporter also asked about Ewing's possible trip to New York.

Sampson said with a smile: "This is the best result for Patrick. There is no coach in the league who is more suitable to guide him than Little Lu."

What Sampson didn't know was that after watching the seven-game series between the Celtics and the Lakers, Louie asked himself: "Is there any chance for Ewing to reach 80% of Sampson's level in the future?"

It is no exaggeration to say that he has no confidence.

(End of this chapter)