nba championship predators

Chapter 49 The Son of Philadelphia
Who is the son of Philadelphia, Kobe or Iverson?

Bryant was born in Philadelphia and moved to Italy with his family not long after.However, Kobe later returned to Philadelphia to study high school, studied at Lower Merion High School, and led the team to win the first state championship in 50 years in his senior year, becoming the hero and pride of the Philadelphians.

At this time, Kobe is the real "Son of Philadelphia"!
After graduating from high school, Kobe declared for the NBA draft.

After Kobe announced his participation in the NBA draft, the media in Philadelphia criticized him wildly, thinking that he was too arrogant and did not have the strength to play in the NBA.

However, what really made Kobe and his hometown have a bad relationship was this year's finals.

At that time, Iverson led the 76ers to a beautiful 0:2 against the Lakers in Los Angeles, and the next three games would be moved to Philadelphia. Kobe told the media that he would go to Philadelphia to "cut off their hearts."

This made Philadelphia fans unable to let go. One fan said: I have always liked Kobe until he said he would cut off our hearts.He's so cocky and conceited that all he needs to say is that he wants to win.

But Kobe has always refused to apologize for this, and this has also made Philadelphia fans completely hostile to Kobe.In the three finals in Philadelphia, once Kobe held the ball, the [-] fans in the audience booed him frantically.

In the 1996 NBA draft, Philadelphia selected Allen Iverson with the No. [-] pick in his hand. He is the proud son of heaven, carrying all the hope of Philadelphia's revival, and writing the brave and fearless with his youth.

Iverson once said: "I hope to win a championship for Philadelphia, but also for myself."

he made it!

Iverson, who made a key goal in the first overtime game of the finals, crossed over Tyronn Lue, with a deadpan expression on his face, so cool that it exploded. From that moment on, how many fans were devoted to Iverson and loyal to Ai for the rest of his life.

On the timeline that Zhao Ke is familiar with, Iverson’s peak was in the 2001 Finals against the Lakers, and then his state began to decline due to too many injuries. Regardless of his popularity or his body, when Kobe reached his peak, Iverson had no ball to play!

But before 2001, Iverson easily crushed Kobe!
For example: rookie season 1996-1997 season
贵为1996年状元秀的艾弗森新秀赛季场均就能砍下23.5分4.1个篮板7.5次助攻和2.1次抢断，已经达到联盟顶级后卫水准，斩获最佳新秀。

1997年4月8日对阵芝加哥公牛、10日对阵亚特兰大老鹰、12日对阵密尔沃基雄鹿，艾弗森分别飙下44分、40分和44分。

4月13日客场挑战骑士，狂轰50分5个篮板6次助攻和2次抢断，延续了自己连续40+的场次。

This is the first time in Iverson's career that he scored 50+ points in a single game. In the game, he staged countless wonderful shots of small and big: continuously feinting, changing direction, and turning around on the outside, entering the inside fearlessly like a member of the Death Squad.

After scoring 50+ for the first time in his career, Iverson still did not stop scoring points.

4月15日主场迎战华盛顿子弹的比赛中，艾弗森在45分钟内29投15中，再轰40分6个篮板和5次助攻。

In this way, the "answer" has reached 40 consecutive 5+ games, and the rookie season has written its own chapter in NBA history.

With such an astonishing performance, the crazy media has even compared him with Zhang Erwan, Qiao Gangzhu and others.

At this time, Kobe was still struggling on the bench: he played 71 games this season, only started 6 times, averaged 15.5 points in 7.6 minutes per game, and was a proper role player.The absolute core of the Lakers at this time is and only "that damn, 20 shots per game", signed a 7-year super contract of 1 million US dollars, and came to the Lakers as a savior, a dead fat man who is loved by thousands of people.

Another example: the second season 1997-1998 season
艾弗森打了80场比赛，场均22.0分3.7个篮板6.2次助攻和2.2次抢断。二年级的艾弗森卓越的表现，已经让76人队的管理层下定决心以他为核心开始清洗和重建球队。

而科比整个赛季79场比赛，只首发了一次，进步仅仅只是每场比赛多打了10分钟而以，场均15.4分3.1个篮板2.5次助攻和2.2次抢断。

Also: The third season 1998-1999 season
Kobe's "three-year daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law", started all 50 games, averaged more than 15 shots per game, and scored 19.9 points.

But Iverson has averaged 26.8 points per game and won the first scoring title in his career, and led the team back to the playoffs after 8 years.

What else: The fourth season 1999-2000
Kobe finally got the championship ring one step ahead of Iverson.But people just say that this season Kobe "followed" O'Neal to get the championship ring!
The fat man who won the scoring title, the regular season MVP, and was undisputedly crowned the Finals MVP with averages of 38 points, 16.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.7 blocks per game was undisputed.

Under the dazzling halo of the Sharks, Kobe, who played 66 games in the regular season and started 62 games, averaged 22.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game, was ignored by people.

In all fairness, this season Kobe has already stepped towards the league's top shooting guard.But there is still a long way to go from Iverson. In the same year, Iverson averaged 28.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 2.1 steals per game. The scoring champion was snatched by O'Neal.

This year: fifth season 2000-2001 season
This is Iverson's peak season, with 17 times of 40+, he averaged 31.1 points per game to win the second career scoring leader, and at the same time won the first steals leader with an average of 2.5 steals per game!

What's even more rare is that the single-core team achieved the first record in the Eastern Conference with 56 wins and 26 losses, and undisputedly won the first regular season MVP in his career. He is also the fifth player in NBA history to win the MVP as a guard, and he is also the shortest MVP!

Iverson also won the AMVP in this year's All-Star Game!

MVP grand slam + scoring leader + steals leader! !

Iverson averaged 40.2 points per game in the finals, second only to Joe's 1992 points in the 1993-41 season in NBA history!
He averaged 34.5 points per game throughout the playoffs, the same as Joe's leader!

In contrast, Kobe Bryant participated in 68 regular season games, started 68 games, averaged 40.9 points, 28.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists in 5 minutes per game, and surpassed O'Neal for the first time in terms of shooting rights with an average of 22.2 per game...

Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, but be afraid of comparing goods!
Kobe's statistics this season are already very impressive, but they are completely incomparable with Iverson!

Although, on that correct timeline, Iverson lost the finals of this season, and Iverson began to fall since then. He went to Longtan alone one after another and gave his all for the team, but in the end he could only leave with regret, winner and loser!
However, in this world, for many years to come, only the legend of Iverson's super grand slam will exist in the league!

In Philadelphia, there is one and only one city hero - Allen Iverson!

(End of this chapter)