The older superstars of the NBA

After the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the New York Knicks quickly ushered in the second game of their series.

Perhaps it was the morale brought by the big win in the first game, but the Knicks easily won the second game with almost no effort.

For the Milwaukee Bucks, Antetokounmpo Giannis, as the super core, was in a very confused state in this game.

Facing the double-team defense of Andre Drummond and Tristan Thompson, his state was up and down. In the first half, he was fashionable and able to maintain the situation. In the second half, he failed to score in various singles and even quickly failed. There were also mistakes that shouldn't be made in attack.

In this case, the Bucks naturally beat the Knicks.

In this game, Zhao Feiyang scored 27 points, Zach LaVine scored 18 points, Derrick Rose scored 16 points, and Adrian Ennis, as the starting player on the wing, both on the offensive end On the defensive end, his performance is better than Andrew Wiggins.

He has scored in double figures in two consecutive games, and this time he posted 17 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks.

Drummond and Thompson in the paint didn't score much. Although their statistics were unremarkable, their restrictions on Antetokounmpo and Giannis were obvious.

Without them, the Knicks would just have a harder time winning games.

In the end, the score between the two sides was fixed at 130 to 120, and the Knicks won the game by 10 points.

After winning two games in a row, the outside world began to discuss the strength of the two teams.

In the eyes of many fans, the Knicks seem more likely to win the game. Before the game, many fans who supported the Bucks also turned to support the Knicks.

At the same time, the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets also played two games in the West.

What no one expected was that the Lakers, who originally looked very strong, actually lost the first two games.

Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

The Lakers were invincible at the beginning of this game. LeBron James, as the super core, even drove the ball into the Nuggets' basket for dunks several times.

As a 36-year-old veteran, LeBron has exploded with surprising abilities when other players are either retiring or starting to retire.

Not only can he run and jump all over the court, but he can even chase down big shots. This kind of physical fitness simply made the fans at the Staples Center Arena look stupid!

Although everyone can see that LeBron's current physical condition is not as good as when he was young, but in terms of horizontal comparison, at the age of 36, there are probably not many players in the entire NBA history who can match him.

What's even more terrifying is that even at the age of 36, LeBron's physical fitness has not declined that exaggeratedly. No one knows when he will be completely unbeatable in his current state!

With his indiscriminate bombardment in the first half and the outstanding performance of a group of young Lakers players, the Lakers completely crushed the Nuggets in the first half.

However, no one expected that after the second half, the Nuggets began to counterattack with the help of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.

Jokic frequently looked for opportunities to score inside, while players such as Murray had great touch and hit several consecutive three-pointers from the outside.

This style of play also allowed the Nuggets to reverse the situation in the last quarter. The two sides fought hard until there were only 20 seconds left in the game and failed to widen the gap.

In the last 20 seconds, Jokic scored a two-plus-one at a critical moment.

After the lead, the Lakers tried to chase points and counterattack. Unfortunately, LeBron failed to receive the pass at the last moment, and Rajon Rondo, who got the ball, also failed to hit the ball at the last moment.

The Lakers narrowly defeated their opponents and eventually lost the game by 2 points.

After the first game, the Lakers made adjustments in the second game of the Western Conference. LeBron seemed to have a minor ankle problem, so he did not play in the first quarter.

The Nuggets are still prepared, sending core players such as Jokic and Murray onto the court from the beginning.

In the first quarter of the two sides, the Lakers played very poorly without LeBron, feeling a bit headless from the inside out.

If it weren't for Anthony Davis, the thick-browed brother, who had a good touch, I'm afraid the Lakers would have been opened up by a double-digit point difference.

By the second quarter, LeBron finally got on the court.

Although he had a minor ankle condition, he had no intention of playing healthy basketball after coming up. Once you seize the opportunity, break through to the basket or take a long shot from the outside.

With his stable output, the Lakers finally recovered the points they lost before.

At the end of the first half of the two sides, the Lakers once again relied on LeBron's performance to widen the point difference. Although it was only a pitiful 3 points, for the Lakers, this result was already considered good.

After the second quarter, the two sides came to the second half.

The main lineups of both sides are on stage again.

This time LeBron enjoyed the opponent's double-team treatment. Although as a superstar, he did not mind such double-teams, but in this way, his physical energy consumption also increased. By the second half of the third quarter, LeBron He could only be put on the team bench to rest by head coach Frank Vogel.

After he came off the court, the other players of the Lakers did not perform well enough. Brother Nongmei struggled to support himself and took the opportunity to score a few goals in the paint. However, the young players of the Lakers were unable to share his worries, which made Brother Nongmei unable to do anything behind him. Facing severe double-team pressure.

In this way, the two sides fought until the fourth quarter, and the Lakers fell behind again under this situation.

Jokic and Murray had good luck again. Not only did the two have good three-point shooting skills, Jokic even cooperated with Murray in a pick-and-roll and entered the basket to receive two 2+1s.

When there was only one minute left in the game, the score between the Lakers and the Nuggets was 1 to 109.

The Lakers are 2 points behind.

As the core, LeBron must personally stand up and lead the team in this situation. Paul Millsap, who was guarding him in singles on the outside, swung away and suddenly took a step back. Millsap thought LeBron was about to lift the basketball and swooped forward to try to block the shot.

Unexpectedly, LeBron seized the opportunity to throw him away and rushed towards the two zones. Millsap found that he had been fooled and used the fastest reaction to make up for it and planned to pursue the defense.

Unfortunately, he still underestimated LeBron's ability. After shaking continuously, LeBron suddenly pulled the ball back, stood on the three-point line and suddenly jumped up and threw the ball.

Swish.

A three-pointer hit the basket steadily.

After scoring this goal, the Nuggets began to panic. Murray was targeted when he wanted to hold the ball, and Jokic was interfered with when he wanted to catch the ball. When both were restricted, the Nuggets made a mistake this time.

Jerami Grant was intercepted while dribbling.

After the basketball fell into the hands of the Lakers, the Lakers gave the ball to Danny Green. Danny accelerated across the half court. When he was approaching the basket, he looked back and found that LeBron followed up and threw the ball directly to In mid-air behind him.

LeBron jumped high and dunked the ball with two hands in front of countless shocked eyes.

After getting a 3-point lead, everyone in the Lakers team seemed extremely happy. In the eyes of many players, they should basically be safe in this game.

However, no one expected that in the last 40 seconds, the Nuggets' Kalami Gary Harris made a contribution.

He first picked up the ball in the chaos, and without even a teammate covering for him, the guy picked up the basketball and threw it toward the basket.

I thought it was a random shot, but I didn't expect that the shot actually went in!

After scoring this goal, with 13 seconds left in the game, Harris received a pass from his teammate during a fast break.

Jokic originally asked him for the ball, but Jokic's action successfully misled the Lakers players to fill the position. Harris took the opportunity to rush to the basket for a single, and unexpectedly scored a two-plus-one. .

The entire Staples Center was shocked by this guy's goal!

After Harris stood on the free throw line, the boos from the Staples Center Arena came out like a wave.

Harris, a previously unknown role player, actually withstood the pressure and scored the free throw this time.

Swish.

When the basketball hit the basket steadily, Harris helped the Nuggets score 3 points.

In the last few seconds, the Lakers tried to counterattack to tie the score. Unfortunately, Kyle Kuzma, who was holding the ball at the last moment, accidentally fell and the basketball fell out.

When the Lakers players picked it up again, the sound of the courtside timer had already sounded.

competition is over.

The Lakers lost the game by 3 points.

Losing two consecutive series to the Nuggets is undoubtedly a serious blow to Los Angeles! It is also the destruction of superstars like LeBron!

At the end of the game, LeBron walked through both sides of the tunnel. The fans who had cheered before stopped cheering for him, and a few extreme fans even booed him.

Such a scene fell into LeBron's eyes, and he began to doubt the significance of his move to Los Angeles.

“Should I really have come to Los Angeles in the first place?”

"If I can't win the championship this season, does everything I have done before mean anything? I am now 36 years old, and my career is counting down every day. If I can't win the championship, then all my efforts now will be in vain. ..."

LeBron felt extremely melancholy.

Thinking about how he has maintained self-discipline for so many years, never eating things he shouldn't eat, and even bringing a special nutritionist with him to the China Tour games and eating specially customized recipes, LeBron felt a little confused in his heart.

After working hard for so long, paying so much, and even not willing to bear the infamy, in the final analysis, isn’t it just for the championship?

Don’t you just hope that you can have a few more championship rings in your hands after your career is over? At that time, if someone compares me with a basketball god like Michael Jordan, I will have a little more leverage, so won't it be too ugly to have no honor?

"I hope I can win the championship this season! If not, maybe this is not the right place for me to stay..."

LeBron thought so.