pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 622 Champion Ball
This is already the second consecutive season that the Miami Heat have entered the finals. They failed in the finals last season. This season they made a comeback and came back again.

After three consecutive rounds of "sweeping" promotion, the Heat showed the appearance of a champion. They rank first in the probability of winning the championship, and they are the favorites in people's minds.

At the championship award ceremony of the Eastern Conference finals, Mu Chenfeng held up the trophy that symbolized the division championship, but this was not what he and the Heat behind him wanted. Their goal has always been the golden "O'Brien Cup".

After winning the division championship, the Heat also experienced some subtle changes. Since many players in the team won the division championship for the first time, they were very excited and made some "inappropriate" remarks after the game. These remarks reached the ears of head coach Rondo.

The post-match summary meeting was supposed to be a "celebration", but Rondo called the players together to enjoy the 1-hour and 25-minute video clips. The content of the clips is not some wonderful pictures or tactical analysis, but the pictures of the favorites who won the championship over the years in the finals.

Rondo did this just to remind individual players that the division championship doesn't mean anything. He just means that this team is the strongest in the East so far, not the strongest in the league.

In the NBA, there has been a saying that "the west is strong and the east is weak" since ancient times, which means that the teams in the west are higher than the east in terms of overall strength, and the number of championships and gold content are also higher in the west.

Therefore, Rondo hit "inappropriately" when the players should have celebrated.

And such a blow seems so just right to the outside world.

In the West, the Lakers bloodbathed the Mavericks in Dallas with a score of 133:99. Both Oscar and Felix scored "30+" points, which was the primary contributor to the Lakers' escape from Dallas.

James clocked in for another three quarters and got a quasi triple-double of 16+8+11 in 9 minutes of playing. 8 points is also his lowest score this season. James, who has the lowest score of "Xi Ti", was happy after the game and praised his two younger brothers.

"It seems that our opponent in the finals is the Lakers." Barrett looked at the eye-catching and dazzling point difference, and said slowly.

The offensive firepower of the Lakers is indeed fierce, and the scores in the four quarters are very even. It can be seen that their physical distribution is very reasonable. Next, they need to return to Los Angeles to G5. As long as they maintain the momentum of the fourth game, there will be a high probability of ending the series in the fifth game.

"They have always been our imaginary enemies." Wade said slowly, not surprised by this result.

James' data in the 4 games has reached an average of "20+10+10" triple-double data per game. This kind of performance can be called terrifying, and it also makes Mu Chenfeng feel extremely excited.

James has always been the "League's No. [-] Superstar", and he is also attacking his third career championship.

"He can't be our opponent." Instead, Mu Chenfeng was extremely excited about facing James. As an athlete, he should "challenge" the strongest and defeat him.

"Same." Both Barrett and Wade expressed the same idea. James can be said to be the common "enemy" of all the stars in the league, and everyone wants to pull him from the league's No. [-] position.

The strength of a team, cohesion is the most intuitive manifestation, and a multi-giant team like the Heat often does not have too strong cohesion, and the reason why the Heat can maintain such a strong cohesion after recruiting so many stars is that they have a common goal.

The fortune teller Pat Riley's abacus is really getting better and better, and the Heat are expected to win the championship in the first season of reconstruction.

In order to cheer for the players and let them play their best performance in the finals, the Heat also specially arranged a meeting between the current Heat players and the Heat's famous players, hoping to let them bring back a championship trophy for the Heat in this way.

The famous Heat include "Emperor" LeBron James, "Heat Soul" Dwyane Wade, "Dragon King" Chris Bosh, "Tough Guy" Jimmy Butler, "Big Shark" Shaquille O'Neal, "Captain" Haslem. When these former Heat heroes gathered again at the American Airlines Center in Miami, people couldn't help but bring their thoughts back to those times that belonged to the Heat.

In the American Airlines Center arena, more than 10000 fans went to welcome the Heat's victory that day. On behalf of the team, Wade placed the Eastern Conference championship trophy in the center of the arena, and the audience immediately burst into thunderous applause.

"This is just our ticket to the finals. We will bring the final trophy back to Miami." Wade used the microphone to express the team's determination and desire to win the championship to the fans on behalf of the team.

The Heat celebrities off the court also gave warm applause to the juniors, and gave a short speech as an encouragement to each celebrity.

When Dwyane Wade, the eternal team soul of the Heat, "The Flash" entered the court, the applause was the most enthusiastic. He is the most outstanding player in the history of the Heat, and now his son Bruce Wade is also playing for the Heat. This kind of father-son plot is envied by everyone in the entire NBA.

As the soul of the team, Wade certainly wouldn't just give some speeches and end with a basketball in his hand with some players' signatures written on it.

"This is the ball we used in the finals when we won the championship in the 2013 season. On it are the names of everyone on our team. Now I want to give this basketball to you. I hope you will add another championship to Miami like us." Wade stepped forward and handed the basketball to the person he most wanted to give it to.

"Hold it." Wade didn't give the ball to his son, but gave it to Mu Chenfeng, a first-year rookie.

Suddenly, Mu Chenfeng's head was a little dazed. Looking at the familiar and great names on the basketball, he felt that the weight of this basketball was very heavy.

"We haven't won the championship for many years. We just missed the chance to win the championship last year. This season, we don't want to leave any regrets."

Jimmy Butler specifically named Mu Chenfeng. This is the reunion of the "master and apprentice" after a long separation. Back then, Jimmy Butler won the championship in the second season after missing the championship in the first year. It is very similar to the current situation of the Heat.

(End of this chapter)