lakers championship

Chapter 197

The Lakers defeated the defending champion Cavaliers in two days and two away games. Although there are objective factors for Irving and JR's poor performance, such a big victory still greatly encourages the Lakers players.

Coupled with the previous victory over Invincible Universe Yong, the mental outlook of the whole team has been raised to a higher level.

To put it bluntly, the Lakers are more confident!
They are like the bottom two or three classmates all the year round. After working hard in the summer vacation and the pain of the new semester, they gradually beat the No.1 and No.2 in the class in the monthly quiz, and suddenly gained a new understanding of their own strength. .

With the joy of defeating the Cavaliers, the Lakers team rushed to Charlotte day and night.

Originally, the match between the two teams was normal, but Joe’s gang leader personally supervised the match and went to the training center ahead of time to encourage the Hornets players to win the match. The media took the opportunity to revisit the original recruiting incident and played up the match between the two teams with extremely exaggerated headlines.

"Shocked! The No.1 player in NBA history personally went off to deal with Kobe's successor!"

"The ban was lifted for the first time! Jordan was actually the main reason why Nike failed to recruit SkyOcean!"

"The entire United States is watching, the love and hatred between Tianyang and Jordan!"

Perhaps affected by this, after the game between the two teams, Hornets fans' "defense" shouts resounded through the Time Warner Center, and the Hornets players also worked extremely hard.

Unfortunately, in the last 5 seconds of the game, Tianyang caught the ball on the right sideline, stood in front of Jordan, and killed the Hornets!

After the game, the 'Jordan in tears' meme spread across social networks.

After winning the Hornets, the entire Lakers team did not take a rest, and boarded the plane directly to Miami after washing.

In the battle against the Heat, Hassan, who had just signed a big contract in the summer, performed well. In addition, the Lakers' 7-game 6th game, the physical strength was a bit worse, and Hassan completely dominated the inside throughout the first half.

The Lakers trailed by 20 points at halftime, and just when most fans thought the Lakers were cool, West, who was "better for life", stood up. He used 6 consecutive three-pointers to force the Lakers to increase the chances of chasing points.

After three quarters, the Lakers narrowed the point difference to 4 points.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Lu Wei and Nick Young played well, and the two teamed up to score 9 points in a row to overtake the Heat.

Afterwards, Tianyang played to control the ball and assisted Nick Young four times in 3 minutes, taking away the Heat in one wave and winning 8 consecutive victories.

The Lakers were not satisfied with this. On the next day, when they went to Florida next door to Miami to play against the Magic, the whole team mustered their momentum to win the game.

It's a pity that things backfired. The 7 consecutive away games included two back-to-back schedules, which completely emptied the Lakers of energy.

After three quarters of frenzy, the Lakers' shooting movements were somewhat deformed in the fourth quarter.

In the end, the Lakers lost to the Magic 99 to 109, and the winning streak came to an end.Tianyang, who lacks physical strength, only scored 22 points and 6 assists under the combined strangulation of Meeks, Jeff Green and Aaron Gordon.

The game was lost, but the Lakers fans did not blame the players for their actions.

After all, the 7-game away schedule is so terrifying, and it is really commendable to win 6 games. What kind of bicycle is needed.

There were even dozens of fans who spontaneously went to Los Angeles International Airport to pick up the entire Lakers team.

Among them was Tianyang's girlfriend Celine Farage.

The two haven't seen each other for many days, and the daily video connection can't comfort the pain of lovesickness at all.

Back in El Gondo, the two could be described as a raging fire, out of control.

Even after the second round of the 150 battle, there is still more to say.

……

When Tianyang woke up from his dream, the sun was already on his head.

In order not to wake Farage, who was still soundly asleep, he got up carefully.

After washing and dressing up, Tianyang left a note, called Cui Ren, and drove to Staples.

The NBA official and the Lakers jointly organized the 'Christmas Eve Caring Action' at Staples.

There are many children waiting to hear the story of how Tianyang became an NBA player.

When they arrived at the place, led by John Black, Tianyang met James Worthy.

As usual, Time Warner, which is covering the event, will do an interview.

If it were someone else, they might say some polite words, but one of the two is the current face of the Lakers, and the other is a celebrity of the Lakers SHOWTIME era, and the venue is Staples. Worthy went straight to the point.

"Tomorrow's Christmas game, against the Clippers, the rival in the same city, how many points are you going to score?"

Tianyang scratched his head when he heard the words, "It's hard to say, the pace of the Clippers' game fluctuates from fast to slow..."

Before the words finished, Worthy sighed, "Griffin even said that he will win 12 consecutive victories, are you still cowardly?"

Tianyang scratched his head again, and fell asleep the whole morning, completely unclear about what happened.

Seeing his puzzled eyes, Worthy gave a brief explanation.

Every Christmas Eve in the past few years, NBA officials and the Clippers will hold a caring event at Staples.

The Lakers also held it, but it was scheduled on Christmas Day, and the effect was mediocre.

This year, the NBA officially switched the order of the two teams, which obviously gave the Lakers a bigger roster.

There happened to be a little boy. On Twitter, Art Griffin said that he would go to the scene to participate in the event today, but Griffin could only reply to express regret, and took the opportunity to say that he would use 12 consecutive victories to prove the value of the Clippers.

The 12-game winning streak is the Clippers' 12-game winning streak against the Lakers.

Because before this, the Clippers have won 11 consecutive victories against the Lakers. The last time the Lakers won the Clippers, it will be traced back to October 2013, 10, and they have not won for almost 30 years and 3 months.

The next match between the two teams is tomorrow, so Worthy has this question.

Tianyang thought about it carefully, and said seriously: "Score at least 30 points and try your best to win the game!"

"I am very relieved to have your words. It is best to hit them until they dare not block my jersey!"

Worthy's tone was full of anger, and Tianyang knew a thing or two about it.

Since Doc Rivers took over the Clippers in 13, every time the Clippers play at home, they will use huge photos of players to cover the championship flag and retired jersey flag that the Lakers hang in Staples.

For this reason, O'Neal publicly criticized, saying that the Clippers are outsiders and have no right to cover them.

The Clippers have been relocated many times until 1984, when the former owner Sterling forcibly moved to Los Angeles despite the prohibition of then-NBA commissioner David Stern.

Such an approach violated the basic rules of the NBA, one city, one team. If the relationship between Old Buss and Sterling was not good, the Clippers would definitely be kicked out of Staples.

Regarding what O'Neal said, Rivers said that he only wanted to see huge photos of the players, and there was no disrespect.

This kind of words can also deceive a three-year-old child.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the Clippers want to gradually remove the influence that the Lakers have built up in Los Angeles for decades. Covering the jersey is only the first step.

"After you have won 8 consecutive victories, your record is the same as the Clippers' 22 wins and 11 losses. Tomorrow's game is very important. The Clippers will definitely go all out, and it is very likely to determine the home court advantage in the playoffs. Although they are all in the Staples But the logo on the floor is different, and the things hanging above the arena are different, you understand?"

Tianyang nodded silently, and Worthy took advantage of the situation to end the informal interview, asked the director to cut out irrelevant content, and then began to ask some questions related to Christmas.

After accepting the interview, Tianyang participated in caring activities under the guidance of John Black.

He had lunch with young fans and told stories about how to become an NBA player.

After all the activities were over, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, Tianyang got into the car driven by Cui Ren and rushed back to El Gondo.

Just arrived home, before taking off his shoes, the phone rang, and Kobe called.

"Tomorrow's game, you must lead the team to win!"

When Tianyang heard this, his heart skipped a beat, Kobe had given the order to die.

(End of this chapter)