722. Take down Thompson!
"I said boss, you're not injured enough to be a wheelchair, don't you just need pressure shoes, and boss, what are you buying these basketballs and hoops for? And to be shipped back, Cleveland's ball is better than our Los Angeles ball? Nick Young said and started driving.
"It's your business, give me a good look, and I'll find you to train for one more day when my feet are better." Liu Ren was upset when he heard about these basketballs and hoops.
He was ready, and during his injury, he practiced at Cleveland Central Hospital, rented an empty warehouse, and then installed the basket, even if he couldn't move his feet, he could practice shooting in a wheelchair to keep his hand.
Then when it was time to make a comeback, it was almost exactly the seventh tiebreaker, and then Liu Ren came out to turn the tide, won the championship, won the O'Brien Cup, and was crowned the MVP of the championship.
How touching, how beautiful, how dedicated, how ...... Thinking too much.
Originally, Liu Ren wanted to create an inspirational myth, you see, he still has to practice shooting when he has a foot injury.
Who knew that Corbett still completed that miracle after all, and it was the number of games in the Finals to eliminate opponents, and then snatched the championship MVP away like that.
Now these things that Liu Ren bought are simply eye-catching, but fortunately, other people don't know what the reason is, Liu Ren's reason is that these are bought by the little Lori who came to play when she went to the supermarket, and the others didn't care about the excitement of the two consecutive championships, Liu Ren was not so embarrassed......
However, there are still those who are not long-sighted, such as Nick Young.
Seeing Liu Ren so fierce, Nick Young thought that Liu Ren was still in the grief of losing the championship MVP, so he quickly shut up, it was not a good thing to offend the boss at this time.
In fact, in fact, Liu Ren just said that he was very shy and afraid of losing face and then picked a little bit, he bought all these things and asked him to throw them away, and he was reluctant to do it, and then he came back.
Liu Ren watched his teammates talking about tonight's celebration banquet and the two-day championship parade, Liu Ren said: "Xiao Ai, let's go home first." ”
Big Lori asked suspiciously, "Didn't the host have a celebration banquet at night?" We're not going? ”
Liu Ren rolled his eyes: "I'm lame, how can I go to drink with them, and it's not me as the protagonist, I don't want to go." ”
Big Lori glanced at Kobe Bryant, who was surrounded by reporters at the exit of the airport, this time Kobe Bryant won the second playoff 60+ in modern basketball at the age of 38, and at the same time the first finals 60+ in modern basketball, and also won the championship MVP, once again reached the top, so dazzling, it is too much to attract the media than someone in a wheelchair.
"Oh...... Don't give up, master, next time it will definitely be your turn master! Big Lori seems to be cheering Liu Ren up.
"......" Liu Ren was speechless, the uncle was just too unlucky to be injured, okay! Originally, I saw that I could win the MVP in the fourth game casually, but who knew that I would not be able to play if I was injured!
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The 2016 championship celebration banquet belongs entirely to Kobe Bryant.
This is the same as Howard, who used to be the popular king in the East, but after coming to Los Angeles, he felt completely unvalued, but he had to bear the pressure of Los Angeles, and finally chose to flee, when Kobe Bryant played a dazzling state, everyone else was a foil.
This is the popularity accumulated in 20 years, even the current Liu Ren can't be compared, and no one even found out that Liu Ren was not there.
After drinking laps and laps, Bryant finally coped with the celebration banquet that was all fired at him.
Early the next morning, Bryant came to the honor exhibition room at his home.
There are a total of six huge exhibition cases.
The first is the endless number of honors he received when he returned to the United States and went to high school, which was the starting point of a glorious career.
The second cabinet is the focus of Kobe Bryant's completely different career trajectory from the other three quarterbacks, and inside is a bunch of trophies for the All-Defensive Team.
The third cabinet is a testament to Kobe's great and long prime, with a new table on it that holds the trophy for the All-NBA Third Team that he has won in his 20th season.
The fourth cabinet is the All-Star trophy, a 20-year career with 18 All-Star Weekend selections.
The fifth cabinet is a bunch of MVP trophies, of which the All-Star MVP trophy is the most, with a full five, the championship MVP has three, and the regular season MVP is one.
And then the innermost cabinet is very different from the other honor display cabinets, completely different.
Because inside...... It's an imitation, in other words, a knockoff.
Inside, Kobe Bryant asked Lakers management to help him find someone to copy the championship trophies of all the years he won the championship.
Seven O'Brien Cups, seven overall titles.
Kobe Bryant looked at all this and thought of what Liu Ren had said to him: You have been wearing No. 8 for 10 years and No. 24 for 10 years, don't you want to do something special?
Kobe Bryant thinks about it now, both jerseys have been worn for ten years......
After Kobe Bryant won the championship, he has surpassed Jordan in the number of championships, Jordan has won four consecutive championships, he has also won four consecutive championships, and other MVPs don't need to think about surpassing them, it should be said that everything that can be done has been done.
At this time, people's biggest question is that after the end of this year, will Kobe Bryant still play?
At last night's celebration party, those old friends and some celebrities in Los Angeles also asked the same question.
"Will you retire?"
"Your career is perfect now, you won't fight next! Don't get abused next season. ”
"It's already over Jordan! In my mind, Kobe Bryant, you have indeed surpassed Jordan, are you going to rest? ”
“……”
Most of them are questions like these, and some people are very familiar with them, and they are also very sympathetic.
Kobe Bryant looked at the No. 23 Bulls jersey hanging on the strong, and the No. 23 Wizards jersey that almost no Jordan fan would choose to collect......
Bryant made a decision......
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On June 11, 2016, the Lakers officially announced that the team's two-time champion meritorious head coach Mike D'Antoni chose to resign for personal reasons, Jenny Buss said that Mike D'Antoni is one of the greatest coaches in the history of the Lakers, and he has accomplished great achievements in his four-year coaching career with the Lakers, but the management respects his opinion and agrees to his resignation.
The news came a little suddenly, D'Antoni just won two consecutive championships and left the Lakers? Don't hit a wave of three consecutive championships?
If D'Antoni says he wants to stay, the Lakers can only offer a new contract, and it won't be low.
D'Antoni also said that the Lakers are the most perfect place he has ever stayed in his coaching career, and the management has never interfered with his coaching, no matter whether the record is good or bad, he still has full control, which has never been done in his career, but now he has a new desire to do, although he is very reluctant, but he still chose to leave the Lakers.
Immediately after the Lakers announced that former Warriors assistant coach Luke Wharton returned to the Lakers as the head coach of the Lakers, signing a four-year, $24 million contract.
Then Bernie Bickerstaff signed a four-year contract extension with the Lakers for a total of 4 years and 20 million, continuing to serve as the Lakers' No. 1 assistant coach.
The salary of the Lakers' coaching staff is also intoxicating, Luke Wharton is 24 million for 4 years, which is a good rookie coach's salary, which is bigger than the 4-year 20 million signed by Steve Kerr two years ago, and then the 4-year 20 million of Old Bickerstaff...... This is a teaching assistant! are higher than the salaries of the head coaches of most teams in the league.
Look at the normal assistant coach, Mark Madsen of the Lakers who is in charge of player training reviews and all kinds of odd jobs, and his salary is 500,000 US dollars......
Mark Madsen saw the salary of his colleague, the old Bickerstaff of the same status as himself, and said that what a big deal, isn't it ten times his salary...... Let me go to the toilet and cry for a while.
The Lakers were quick to find a new head coach, and then D'Antoni was quick to find his next home.
On June 13, the Rockets officially announced that they would not implement the current team coach Bickerstaff Jr.'s team option for next season, and at the same time thanked Bickerstaff Jr. for accompanying the team in the most difficult time for the team, and then announced that he would sign Mike D'Antoni, who had just led the Lakers to two consecutive championships, with a super contract of 50 million in 5 years and ranking in the top three on the coach's salary list!
And then...... The Rockets compensated the Lakers again......
The Rockets have compensated the Lakers for their habit, and the Rockets and the Lakers made a deal to send Corey Brewer and the No. 12 pick in the first round this year to the Lakers in exchange for the Lakers' two-way contract veteran Ci Shiping.
Then the Rockets and Ci Shiping terminated the contract, Ci Shiping slipped around, no team claimed, and then he went back to Los Angeles to play......
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The shaking of the coaching staff of the Lakers and Rockets has just caused a huge buzz, and then another trade that has long been discussed by people from the first game of the Western Conference finals to the present finally happened.
The Lakers made a trade with the Warriors, and the Warriors sent Klay Thompson in exchange for the Lakers' CJ McCollum, Bismarck Biyombo, Larry Nance Jr., and the Lakers' first-round picks this year and 2016!
For this deal, people all thought it was a win-win.
The Lakers are too crowded inside, Biyombo and Blake both have the ability to rush to the basket and rebound and the deterrent ability to block under the basket.
Although McCollum's data this year is far inferior to Thompson, he has shown All-Star level potential, and even when he rotated to the starting position in one of the few times, the airport starters scored more than 20 points, and he also has the ability to organize and score with the ball that Thompson does not have, but he can't play this in the Lakers, because the three point guards all want the ball, the small forward also wants the ball, the big forward and the backup center Gasol want the ball, and the Lakers' style of play is also the overall style of play, He can only be an off-ball shooter who is not good at it, but the Warriors happen to be a scoring guard who can score on his own to help Curry release Curry's ability to receive and shoot.
So the Lakers traded McCollum and Biyombo for Thompson, and people didn't think the Warriors were at a loss.
As for Nance Jr. and the two first-rounders, those two first-rounders were promised by the Magic to the Warriors a long time ago, and Nance Jr. was a malicious request from Bob Myers, who made him a victim of being yin, and the Magic could only reluctantly give Nance Jr., who performed very well off the bench, to the Warriors.
There's no way, take away other people's All-Stars and All-Star players, the Lakers will make money after all, send a little Nance as compensation.
Thompson is so important to the way the Lakers play right now, and Luke Walton has made it clear when he comes to the Lakers that he wants to continue D'Antoni's successful style of play, and of course there will be a five-man lineup, but that is in the second lineup.
Therefore, after Kobe Bryant has developed a scoring guard no-ball first style of play for the Lakers, McCollum is extremely unsuitable to replace Kobe Bryant as a starter, and Thompson's arrival is completely a strengthened version of the current Kobe, which is a perfect upgrade for the Lakers!
And Thompson's defensive ability is what makes the Lakers salivate, McCollum is strong on the offensive end, and he has better offensive talent than Thompson...... In addition to his three-point shooting talent, Thompson is a real defender with the ability to make the All-Defensive Team! It makes up for the weakness of Kobe Bryant's opponent who can only defend the ball alone.
Just when people were screaming that the two strongest teams were further upgraded by the Warriors and Lakers both upgrading their weaknesses, a trade that left the league confused happened!