Chapter 119: Broom Star

After losing to the Grizzlies, the Lakers suffered a two-game losing streak.

This brings their record to 32-10, and needless to say, the Bulls' 96-year record is not to be considered.

In fact, now the Lakers don't think about breaking the record anymore, and their top priority is to stay healthy.

The All-Star Game will begin in mid-February, and after the All-Star Game, the league's best teams will be in a sprint.

At present, the Lakers have fallen behind the Oklahoma City Thunder in terms of record, falling to second place in the West.

The previous wave of four consecutive defeats was really too hurtful.

At the same time, the Los Angeles Clippers, San Antonio Spurs, and Miami Heat are also chasing after them, and they are only 1 or 2 wins away from the Lakers.

The pressure on Mike Brown is on again.

However, the team's fitness is not encouraging.

Howard's back injury has been repeated, and Gasol's knee injury is also under observation.

Now we can only hope that Kobe Bryant must not get injured, and Kobe Bryant has been in bad form recently.

His ankle, finger and elbow injuries have not healed.

Nash, on the other hand, has been recovering well since he was injured in the last game against the Trail Blazers.

Mike Brown even intends to add a little bit of playing time to Nash.

As for Li Liang, he was jumping around like a monkey, and he didn't have anything to do at all.

And he is playing more and more inside, and he is almost really playing himself into a No. 4 or No. 5 position.

Mike Brown even wondered, wondering what Li Liang was like when he first entered the Lakers?

How do you feel like a few months have passed and so much has changed?

Look at his arms, his shoulders, his ass... What are you doing looking at people's asses... Anyway, they're a lot stronger.

There are comparison pictures on the Internet, and the makeup photos taken by Li Liang at the end of the draft are really different from the photos of Li Liang during the game now.

The problem is that this kid is not usually very active in training, especially lately, he is often late, and sometimes he doesn't come.

But the Los Angeles media has never taken photos of Li Liang going to nightclubs, soaking horses, or going out with female stars.

Brown asked Li Liang, and Li Liang said that he was sleeping at home.

Brown thought, this Australian koala is just a little sleepy for you.

I guess he has his own gym at home, and he secretly trains crazy behind his back.

Otherwise, how could he eat so much in one meal and his strength rose so fast.

Therefore, Brown is not particularly worried about Li Liang, the only thing he is worried about is his socks.

Oh my god, his socks stink and tend to get worse and worse.

Once in the locker room, he took off his shoes, and everyone thought there were dead rats in the locker closet, but after looking for a long time, they found out that it was the smell of his socks.

Brown was really worried that one day when he was playing on the court, if he accidentally cut his shoes or kicked them out, he would be whistled for a technical foul by the referee and be investigated by the Security Bureau.

The reason is that weapons of mass destruction may be hidden, and a bag of laundry detergent can't be cleaned.

In addition, Li Liang is Mike Brown's most reassuring player, let him go, do whatever he likes.

After losing two games in a row, Li Liang was not in a good mood and returned to Los Angeles with the team.

On the 24th, after the team's training was over, Li Liang went to a Hollywood studio to shoot his first Under Armour commercial.

The content of the ad is simple, first take a flat photo, then do a few actions in front of the green screen, shooting, dribbling, and dunking.

After doing this according to the director's requirements, coupled with the game footage when he was with the Lakers, a promotional commercial was filmed.

After filming, Li Liang was slightly disappointed, how did he feel like such a grass stage team?

He was alone from beginning to end, there was no continuous plot, even a heroine!

It's boring, it's too boring.

Li Liang put forward his views to the director of the Under Armour commercial.

He thinks that he needs some plots, and he can shoot the second and third episodes in the future.

The director said that he was helpless, saying that the budget was insufficient and that he could only do so for the time being.

Li Liang sighed, sure enough, it is still a small company, let's talk about it when they become bigger in the future.

In fact, Under Armour also wants to shoot a good advertisement, but unfortunately just signing Li Liang has far exceeded their capital budget, so there is no choice but to make it simpler.

However, the effect of signing Li Liang is obvious, and on the day the contract is signed, Under Armour's stock price has increased significantly.

Under Armour's stock price has been rising since it went public in 2005, and the acquisition of Bruce Lee has injected a shot in the arm for their capital market.

After filming the commercial, Li Liang returned home, and before going to sleep at night, he took out his computer and watched the 1977 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Trail Blazers again.

This year's game video is relatively difficult to find, and Wei Dazhi helped him get the second and fourth game videos.

After repeated observations, Li Liang took a deep breath, lay down and fell asleep, and entered the system.

It's been more than a month since the last mission to do the City of Angels book.

After getting the [Golden Shield Fragment], Li Liang didn't use it once.

Not only because each use costs rage points, but also because the 5% increase is not obvious, Li Liang's defensive base is still not high enough.

After Li Liang wanted to complete the second task, take another shield fragment, and the improvement would be even more obvious.

Open the City of Angels book, and the second item [Portland Red Jellyfish's Broom Star] is still shining.

clicked into this task, and another golden light special effect sucked Li Liang into the book.

When he opened his eyes, he had already arrived at the familiar Great Western Forum Arena, which was nothing more than the Great Western Forum in 1977.

[Mission, Portland Red Jellyfish's Broom Star, Time: May 8, 1977, Location: Great Western Forum Arena, Los Angeles, USA, Mission Requirements: Replace Kormit Washington, help the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Portland Trail Blazers, turn the momentum, avoid being swept away, Mission Reward: Golden Shield Fragment, Mission Difficulty: Star]

Li Liang saw that the difficulty of this task had been raised to a star.

But it's normal to think about it, he's an all-star now, and he shouldn't be doing a star-level mission.

Li Liang looked at the jersey he was wearing, it turned out to be the No. 24 jersey?!

Damn, Kormit Washington turned out to be No. 24, and Corvo actually inherited the mantle of the Lakers' "savage blow".

Washington's "name in history" for boxing Tomjanovic in the regular season game with the Rockets in December 1977 is nothing more than a dark stroke.

That punch nearly killed Tomjanovich, and he tasted brains in his mouth.

Later, because of this incident, the NBA began to vigorously rectify the violence on the court, pulling the NBA in the 70s out of the quagmire of violence and drugs, and only then did the NBA have today.

So it's pretty typical, but he's going to happen almost half a year after this fight.

In the 1977 playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers were first in the West, and they reached the Western Conference Finals, including regular season MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The entire Lakers team has reached its best form since Abdul-Jabbar was traded to the Lakers.

But one big regret is that that that season, Abdul-Jabbar's bodyguard Comit Washington missed the playoffs due to injury.

As a result, the Lakers were blown out by Morris Lucas at the power forward position.

The power forward who replaced Washington was Don Ford, a white forward who could be an opponent of the ferocious "enforcer" Lucas.

Lucas later got into a big fight with the 76ers' Dawkins after reaching the Finals, which led to two results:

1. When the Trail Blazers fell behind 0:2, they were boosted by Lucas's courage and won the championship in four consecutive games.

Second, because of the violence, CBS TV station gave up broadcasting the final game of the Finals, causing immeasurable loss of ratings and NBA influence.

And the Lakers saw that they had wasted another year of Abdul-Jabbar's peak after being swept miserably, and they could have competed with the Trail Blazers if they had Washington, at least not to be swept.

In the 78 season, because of Washington's fist, the 78 and 79 seasons were unsuccessful, until the Magic was ushered in in the 80s.

It can be said that 1977 was a turning point for the Los Angeles Lakers in the '70s.

They lost some, they lost Washington, they lost Abdul-Jabbar's peak MVP season, they lost their chance to make it to the Finals.

They also got some, the first-round pick they traded from the Jazz at the beginning of the 1976-1977 season — which later became Magic.

In short, the Lakers could have achieved much more in the late '70s, before the Magic came.

The championship in '78 and '79 was finally divided between two slightly mediocre teams, the Washington Bullets (the one who was killed five times by the Knicks) and the Seattle SuperSonics (the one with the most team).

Then the NBA ushered in the golden 80s.

What Li Liang has to do now is to help the Lakers win the game, not only to avoid a sweep, but also to help the Lakers regain the momentum of the series.

In fact, in terms of strength, the Lakers were the first in the West that year, and the lineup was not inferior to the Trail Blazers.

It's just that the power forward position is too dead, Lucas averages 23 points per game, and when he breaks through the Lakers, he will be out of control in the back.

In those days, the position of center and power forward was very important, there was no three-point line, and those who had the interior line won the world.

Li Liang has already understood these histories thoroughly.

He lifted his skinny shorts and stood near the center ring, ready to start the race.

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