Guoshu basketball

Chapter 347 The Curse of the Lakers
Yao Ming's leg injury has begun to make it difficult for him to persevere, so Yao Ming decided to retire after this season. If the Warriors can still win the championship this season, it will be the Warriors Dynasty. Yao Ming can be regarded as retired. This is his idea.

Smiling and shaking his head, Yao Ming said casually: "No, Xiao Du, seeing that you are so strong now, I let go of my last worries. I was worried that after I retired, the inside line of the Warriors would become weak. Now that I see you, I believe that you can solve this problem yourself. I will retire with all my achievements, and I will leave a good story behind."

Li Du sighed and said, "Brother Yao, in fact, this is the peak I can reach in my life. It is almost impossible to go any further."

"Hahahaha, you kid, you are so dissatisfied!" Yao Ming laughed and patted Li Du and said, "Think about it, in the century-old history of basketball, in the same position, who else can be better than you? If you can continue to lead the Warriors to championships and make their contemporaries despair like Michael Jordan and Bill Russell, you will surely go down in history!"

"That's right." Li Du smiled slightly. With his current ability and the overall strength of the Warriors, the only teams that can stand in his way to the dynasty are the Spurs and the Heat, and they can only stop them for a while. When it comes to defeating the Warriors , They probably don't have this strength.

The current Warriors just need a few young players to grow up. Once they grow up, Li Du even has the confidence to compete with the 72-win Bulls back then!
When the Warriors were actively preparing for the game, in late October, after months of negotiations between the players union and the team league, they finally reached an agreement.In the new labor agreement, the interests of players are fully protected, and the salary level is much higher than before, especially for top players in the league like Li Du.

So Pelinka helped Li Du win a sky-high contract, 5 million in 2.3 years!In other words, Li Du's annual salary is as high as 4600 million US dollars, which is more than the sum of his previous salary in all years!When this sky-high contract was placed in front of Li Du, he couldn't believe it.

Six years ago, Li Du was just an ordinary Chinese student who had just entered university, and he was still worrying about his brother’s treatment fee of more than 1000 million US dollars. $4600 million superstar!The changes in life are really unpredictable.

I don't know if it was stimulated by the Warriors and Li Du, but the large-scale trade that happened to the Lakers before the start of the game increased the strength of the Lakers' lineup to a terrifying level.The Lakers traded away Bynum and some substitute players, but in exchange for the joining of Nash and "Warcraft" Howard, forming the new four kings.

The outside world is turbulent, all the media, fans, and even the head coaches of various teams have speculated that the Lakers will compete with the Warriors for the Western Conference championship this season, and this time the Western Conference championship is likely to be the championship!When Old Nelson told Li Du the news, Li Du just smiled lightly, "Boss Kobe's competitive spirit is still so strong, but his memory is not very good."

Li Du said this because the Lakers seem to be under a curse. Every time they gather stars and want to overwhelm everything with the absolute strength of stars, there will always be some inexplicable problems with the team or players.

For example, in 2003, when Malone and Payton cut their salaries to join, the Lakers formed a terrible "F4" combination.But it was also in that year that the conflict between Kobe and O'Neal broke out, causing serious divisions within the Lakers. They eventually lost to the Pistons with the "Five Tigers" in the finals.

Later, the Lakers were in a slump for many years, and they didn't get better until Li Du joined, and it was after Gasol joined to win the championship again.

Now the Lakers have gathered four superstars again, among which Kobe and Nash can be called superstars, but what will the result be this time?To be honest, Li Du was not optimistic about them.And even if they can really integrate, the current Warriors are not weaker than them.

Sure enough, the Lakers did not go well this time from the very beginning of the season. Howard lost his "Warcraft" demeanor after arriving in the Lakers, and became an ordinary center with good physical fitness.Nash is similar, "Son of the Wind" is old and has lost the Sun's whirlwind system. He has become a pure point guard, and he is still a defensive black hole.The Lakers still can only rely on Kobe and Gasol to fight!

The unfavorable situation of the Lakers makes it difficult for many people to understand. They don't know what's wrong internally, so there are endless rumors about the Lakers, but Li Du understands that the biggest problem for the Lakers now is not the players, but the coaches. aspect!

After the end of last season, Zen Master announced his retirement from the ranks of coaches and no longer served as the head coach of the Lakers.So the Lakers chose James' coach in the Cavaliers, Brown.Li Du didn't have any influence on this coach Brown. He only remembered that he seemed to have a good relationship with James.

There is no comparison between Brown and Zen Master's coaching level at all, and he can't restrain the great masters of the Lakers, so the Lakers' tactics are extremely chaotic, making it difficult for Nash to adapt, let alone the simple-minded Howard.

So at the beginning of the season, the Lakers did not compete with the Warriors who ranked first in the league as people imagined. Instead, they saw who lost and ranked third from the bottom in the West!You know, the Lakers were the fourth strong team in the Western Conference last season, and now they have suddenly fallen to the third from the bottom. This result is really unacceptable.

As if it was a punishment for the Lakers' insistence on letting the stars get together, the Lakers' nightmare is not over yet!
In December 2011, the Lakers and the Clippers had a derby in the same city. This season, the Clippers have acquired Chris Paul and a new generation of violent dunkers Griffin and Jordan. Now the Clippers are no longer weak. The Lakers It takes all the effort.It was in this game that Kobe tore the deltoid ligament in his right wrist and needed a three-month truce.

Next, Nash's back injury recurred during team training and required at least four months of truce.The Lakers, who had a strong lineup before the season, turned into a weak team that everyone can bully almost overnight!
Regarding these, Li Du could only sigh and shook his head. Kobe's competitive spirit was already so strong that it was almost distorted. Li Du persuaded him several times, hoping that Kobe would change his style of play and try to minimize breakthroughs and physical contact like Jordan did. But Kobe couldn't listen.

In Li Du's view, the current injury was caused by excessive fighting and training.The human body has a limit, and when you exceed this limit, it will cause inestimable damage to the body.

The Lakers' season is over, and the Spurs can't support it in this shrinking season. After all, their core players are relatively old and their physical fitness can't keep up.

Now it seems that only the Heat stand in front of the Warriors. It seems that the Warriors' championship has become a certainty.

(End of this chapter)